hey I'm Travis with Hoss Tools and this is a weekly video series we do called
garden goodies it's just a short compilation of some small shorter videos we've filmed
throughout the week as we've been in our gardens maintaining them weeding them
harvesting things and even planting new crops so I hope you enjoy it if you have any questions about
any of the clips always feel free to put those in the comments and we'll be glad to help you
out
I want to give you a little update on our okra plot here where we did some trials comparing the
jambalaya to some of these open pollinated heirloom varieties
and it's been kind of a strange I won't say strange year but uh it's unusual how
short this okra has stayed this year especially this jambalaya here you can see still producing
lots of good pods there but usually I have to plant about two sometimes three rounds of
okra because it just gets too tall to pick but this year this stuff has all stayed relatively
short for me you see most of these are about four and a half to six foot tall anywhere
they just haven't gotten real tall which has been nice I don't really know can't pinpoint what I've
done different this year I haven't fertilized them at all just put some good compost in here
when we planted but it's been really nice you know I've been working off this same
four rows of okra of jambalaya here since the spring and I haven't got too tall to pick yet
it doesn't look like they're going to get too tall so it's been nice just to have to
you know go with one round of okra instead of several to have production all throughout the
warm growing season one thing I like about the jambalaya is it stays shorter than most other
varieties we showed you on a previous video where we had that star of david right there where it got
too tall fell over we had to cut it down we can see here some of this red burgundy is getting too
tall i can't reach up there and grab those some of it is falling in there so those will be the
next to get chopped down this cow horn over here has just kind of stopped producing uh for whatever
reason it was a great producer early on was just kind of slacked off as it's got real tall probably
my number one variety as far as the op variety goes is the silver queen right here it just stayed
shorter than any of the other op varieties and the production on it has been really really good
almost to that of the jambalaya so this is my new favorite op variety the jambalaya will always be
my favorite hybrid variety because it just makes so much stay short and manageable throughout a
long growing season so if y'all watch a whole lot of our videos you know we love our tomatoes
around here now we didn't grow these here and I'm going to tell you about them in just a minute
we love tomatoes and the problem with being down here in the south is it can be tough to
grow tomatoes and a lot of times we have to grow the hybrid determinate type tomatoes because uh we
have all you know kind of a short tomato growing season down here because it gets hot so quick
and we need those hybrids with the disease resistance that can handle our
uh humidity and disease pressure down here and we have lots of good hybrid disease resistant
tomatoes on our website in addition to lots of good heirlooms if you like growing heirlooms but
today I want to show you these two new varieties now I can't tell you the name of them yet
but uh we try to stay on top of things as far as what's up and coming in the tomato world as far as
good hybrids with disease resistance that also taste really really awesome so one of our uh
tomato breeders sent us this seed excuse me these tomatoes right here set them in the
mail they held up pretty good in the mail and we got two varieties here we've got one which is a
determinate slicer and I really like the size on this one it's not massive it's just a good round
kind of perfect size tomato it's just never seen one that was just so uniform
kind of perfectly round like this one is here so this one has some really good disease resistance
I've already took a bite out of several of those slices there it's really really tasty and then
right here we have a grape tomato and I wish I could but i just can't tell you the name of it yet
until we confirm we'll be able to get some seeds but i will tell you this is the best tasting grape
tomato I have ever had look at the color on that guy right there it's like a dark red
almost crimson color and so unlike most of your cherry or grape varieties this is a determinant
which is awesome for us we like determinants because they're easier to trellis easier
to handle and they make a lot at one time so a determinate disease resistant
grape tomato variety I'm telling you you won't find a better tasting grape or cherry tomato than
that puppy right there these guys are absolutely delicious they sent us a lot more in this bowl
right here but this little bowl is all that's left we've been snacking on them pretty hard so
hopefully everything will pan out well and we can get our hands on some of these seeds and offer
them to you guys and you can grow them in your garden next year because we definitely plan on
growing them as well we'll see you next time well our second cover crop of sunflowers is up
as you can see here I was out of town for a few days came home and it was nice to see
these guys have sprouted and put a little overhead water on them
to uh you know feed them a little bit they were a little bit thirsty after being gone for a few days
as you can see we've got eight rows in here and let's just say we didn't do too bad considering
we didn't lay off the roWs and we didn't measure them or nothing some of them were a little wobbly
but we didn't do too bad as far as getting them fairly equally spaced there so we've got
three varieties of dwarf sunflowers here and on the back side there those last two rows are
taller sunflowers now I got to get in here with my wheel hoe this afternoon and a little light
cultivation between these roads I got some bermuda grass trying to creep in right there
get my oscillating hole in my wheel hoe and take care of that and got a few
weeds popping in there a little morning glory here and there and a few of them volunteer south anna
butternuts trying to grow but for the most part we got really good germination everything looks
pretty nice and consistent there the dwarf sunflowers looks like we had our seed plate
dialed in really well with those I won't have to thin those or do nothing with them
these other ones these taller ones here we got the uh santa fe sunset I believe on this
um second to last row planted them pretty thick our seed plate was putting them down
pretty thick because those seeds were a little bit smaller and then our chocolate cherry here
those are pretty thick there that'll be all right we've planted them like that before and
they'll get up and they'll do just fine so a nice fall cover crop of sunflowers here we'll uh
take our wheel hoe and keep this lightly cultivated about once or twice a week until these
sunflowers get up get some nice foliage on them then they'll shade out this area and we'll just
sit back and enjoy all the nice pretty blooms and our bees and beneficial insects will enjoy them as
well so this is a big old plot here about 25 foot wide 60 foot long and I have a lot of sunflowers
in here for fall so we just put some fall pole beans in the ground here where we had our
buckwheat cover crop planted and we got a youtube video coming soon on this show and the entire
process we got some of these uh rattlesnake beans christmas pole lima beans and scarlet emperor
runner beans down a row of each of those and I want to talk to you a minute about direct seeding
with drip tape so you can see our main line tubing there and it's feeding
these drip lines here and on the drip tape the emitters are located every foot
along the row and you can see where the emitters are you see those water spots there
now if we're planting transplants we just usually put the transplants on top of each or beside
each emitter depending on what our desired spacing is you know if it's something like uh
say lettuce we'll just put one transplant on top of each emitter if it's tomatoes we want a
two foot spacing we'll put a plant beside every other emitter or on top of every other emitter
if we're direct seeding now you can't see the beans that I've direct seeded in here
the beans we want them closer than one foot and so some people ask well how are those seeds in
between the emitters going to get watered well these things put out plenty of water and over time
you'll see that little dark spot get bigger and bigger and bigger and after an hour or two you'll
just see this continuous kind of dark wet path here along the row where it's covered those gaps
so no worries there you can direct seed along here same thing with corn you know you put your seeds
six inches apart or four inches apart or whatever these things put out plenty enough water to cover
those gaps you won't notice any difference in germination or or growth between those that are
right beside the emitters and those are that are between the emitters because like I said they put
out plenty of water and as always say this is the most effective and efficient way to water
saves water you know conserves water gets it where your plants need it and because you're not
feeding these blank areas between the rows you don't have to worry about as much weed pressure
so on one of our youtube videos a week or so ago we talked about how we were doing a little
experiment planting some fall taters and it's kind of hard to see where those rows are at there
I can kind of tell where a little hill is there so we got two rows of red norlands that we kind
of recycled from our spring harvest and planted in here now there's a lot of volunteer canary
melons popping up in here I'll run through here the wheel hoe and knock those out
pretty quick um I just wanted to check on some of these taters right here and see if
they actually made it you know it sometimes it takes a little while for them to start emerging
from the ground and you kind of get a little nervous and you wonder if they've rotted in
the ground or if they're gonna come up or not so let's scratch around and see if we can um
find one here along this roW let's just uh start right here and see
there we go there's one right there look at that guy we got roots forming there
got a sprout coming up so looks like we might have a few potato plants
along this row here I'm gonna nestle this guy back down in here covering back up
that's always a good sign to see I haven't watered these any since we put them in the ground and uh
they get a little water if we get a little rain not a big deal they might get a little water from
me uh I need to put a little bit of overhead water on their zinnias they might get a little water
from there but try to keep the water to a minimum until they sprout or start getting those roots
so they don't rot in the ground still don't have any of them popping up through the ground yet but
um good to know we got some root development going on there and uh even if every single seed piece we
planted doesn't make it we should still get a decent little spread on these two rows here but
you