A look at the new California garden some harvests we made this month some things
for you to do in your garden this month and a lot more and today's episode of
California gardening we will begin with a garden tour we will look at all the
harvests we made this month will then look at some things to do we have the
recipe section where we will show you a cool recipe so let's begin with the
garden tour of the new California garden our backyards almost completed and you
can see we have a lot of space now the patio area is set up the bench area is
set up and best of all the gardening area or the raised bed area now we have
kept about three feet distance between the beds and that's enough space for us
to walk around and work around the beds and at the corner there's some storage
area the fruit trees are planted along the sides we have the patio area as well
the paver area here and fruit trees are all dwarf fruit trees they are all short
growing trees and you can see that they're all along the sides and this
area the raised bed area does get plenty of sunlight as you can see there are
five raised beds in the first one we've just started planting some miscellaneous
vegetables followed by tomatoes in the second bed as you can see we planted
eight Tomatoes as of now we have some peppers lot of pepper varieties and it's
still some space available to add on some more plants we have okra the okra
seedlings are also now emerging and finally we have onions in the first bed
and half of the bed is still empty so all in all you can see the layout I
think this layout worked out the best we had a good combination of growing area
as well as some area for the kids to play and while still having some good
amount of area for doing our vegetable gardening and here you can take another
aerial view of how the backyard looks like in the side yard as well so there's
still a lot of work to be done we will continue to plant more plants more
vegetables in the garden in the upcoming months but that's how the garden looks
like as April 2020 and this is how the garden
looks like during the nighttime
and now let's look at all the harvests we made this month beginning with
peppers we had our bird's eye chili peppers growing under the grow lights
inside the house till now but now that we have some space we decided to move
this pepper plant outdoors and you can see that this plant is now eating us a
lot of chili peppers moving on to the husky cherry red tomatoes this plant was
a very small plant when it was growing indoors and after we transplanted it
into this container outdoors it's now grown to a very huge plant and the Husky
cherry red tomato is an excellent cherry tomato variety as you can see it's
loaded with fruits right now loaded with tomatoes and we're gonna start
harvesting these Tomatoes we have been getting a few tomatoes off and on every
few days but here you can see we did harvest a lot of tomatoes this month in
the month of April and I'm still waiting for all the other tomato plants to grow
and these cherry tomatoes will hide from you
they'll be hidden inside so just make sure you look around the plant very well
and get all the tomatoes that have ripened and these Tomatoes taste
excellent when they ripen on the plant and as you can see the plant is also
loaded with flowers so we should be getting a lot of tomatoes very soon and
here you can see some more cherry tomatoes and this is growing in this
visca barrel container in a very simple potting medium of a mix of peat moss
perlite and compost and you can see the harvest here looks
beautiful now let's look at the things to do in your garden this month the
first thing we will look at is spraying citrus plants now we use horticultural
oil or mineral oil as you can see to spray our citrus plants and all you do
is just add a tablespoon of this oil in a gallon of water and then spray your
plants and get spraying our kishu mandarin tree here and remember that
this is an organic product it can be safely used in organic gardening which
is why I love this product it doesn't contain any chemicals all it does it it
smothers the insects with the oil that's present in the product and this is a
sprayer that we using I'll provide a link to this excellent sprayer I've been
using this for quite some time now and you can buy it on Amazon it's an
excellent qualities player it has a lot of force or a lot of pressure that can
be very beneficial when spraying plants and this is our Washington navel orange
tree which also is being sprayed the next thing we will look at is preparing
your raised beds now if we do have new raised beds and it will take us quite
some time to build up the soil and as you can see here the soil is quite dry
so all we are really doing is we're raking up the soil breaking up the top
surface of the soil and we'll be adding some worm castings now other than
compost which also retains a lot of moisture worm castings is excellent for
retaining moisture in the soil and as you can see here this soil is quite
sandy and just need some compost or some worm castings to hold moisture in this
case we are using the VermisTerra standard worm castings and about one bag
of these worm castings is enough for half a raised bed and what we will do
now is just rake this into the soil the top part of the soil now there are two
ways to mix this in one way is to use a cultivator like you're seeing here and
mix it into the first few inches of the soil now this helps if the top layer of
the soil is dry and you are trying to add some moisture retention properties
and you can also rake it into the soil as you can see here you're using a
garden fork to take the soil in and what this does is
it helps improve the nutrient quality of the soil by pushing the vermicompost
further to the soil where it's available to the plant roots so depending on what
you want to achieve the earthworm castings are an excellent way to add
good quality organic nutrients to your garden as well as improve microbial
activity improve the quality of your soil and as I mentioned several times in
my previous videos as well you will need to add compost or organic amendments to
your garden continuously over a period of time to build your soil so this soil
is just beginning to build up and eventually it will build up into very
good quality soil another form of nutrition that you can provide to your
plants is using worm tea now we are using the worm tea solution as you can
see we just eyeball it and put it into the 2 gallon container I usually put
about a cup or so approximately for two gallons and that's a good amount of worm
tea for most of your plants so all we really do is take the worm tea and then
mix it with water I just fill up the watering can and then drench my plants
completely these are the tomato plants and pepper plants as well and most of
the plants do very well they respond very well to worm tea and what worm tea
does it helps your plants absorb all the nutrients in the soil so for example
your soil may have a lot of nutrients you really don't need to add any
nutrients in the soil but they are just not available to your plants because
your plants cannot uptake those nutrients in that case worm tea
definitely helps it helps your plants not only uptake all the nutrients but
also build a lot of disease resistance in a lot of vigor and a lot of strength
so adding worm tea to your plants every 15 days or so is highly recommended
composting this is something that every gardener should be doing on an ongoing
basis make sure you have equal quantities of
the dry matter in your compost like leaves dried leaves etc as well as wet
matter like kitchen scraps or grass clippings
and the way to mix this into your soil is to just dig up your soil a little bit
and just mix in the compost every few months
so composting should be a continuous process you should continuously compost
things like grass clippings and dry leaves and kitchen scraps to make sure
that you're getting good quality compost on an ongoing basis in your garden and
in the recipe section of the video today just a quick tip on how to make your own
turmeric powder at home so we were drying this turmeric in the Sun this is the
turmeric that was left over after making our turmeric shots and all we are really
doing is drying it in the Sun and then blending it in this blender and although
you can buy turmeric powder in the store homemade turmeric powder is really good
it's extremely fresh extremely nice you need a good quality blender though and
I'll provide a link to this blender in the video description and you can see
the turmeric powder it's very fresh it's almost orange in color not really bright
yellow like you get in the grocery stores so this is the true color of
turmeric powder and this is what you should be consuming and here is the
bonus section we spoke about the hyacinth bean seed giveaway and all you
really need to do is subscribe to us on our youtube channel like us on our
Facebook page and give us one suggestion one
suggestion on what you think can be improved in our backyard in the new
California garden we will choose the best responses and the hyacinth bean
seeds will be sent to those winners so put in a comment below with your
response and keep your responses creative and if we find your response
creative or helpful you will be chosen as a winner so there we have it folks
that was a tour of the new California garden I hope you liked all our garden
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