- Good morning, everyone.
Today is gonna be a big day.
We have some resetting to do in a couple
of these beds up here.
We're gonna plant some corn in these beds.
We're gonna plant a ton of trees
and then just all sorts of random chores we have to do.
Jacques probably coming around the street right now
so let's get to it.
(soft upbeat music)
So the first thing we want to do
is clear out these radishes.
They actually look incredible.
Look at these bunches of radishes.
They're looking gorgeous, they're actually quite sweet.
I'll kind of show you,
but they're all coming to fruition at the same time.
So we're gonna clear this out and reset this bed.
(soft upbeat music)
So we found all these grubs in the radish bed.
I'm gonna see if the chickies like them or not.
I'm just gonna put this in there.
See if you guys like that at all.
(chickens clucking)
Oh Gucci is already like,
"I don't know what you just tried to serve me
but I don't want it."
They are very curious.
Curious, but uninterested I think.
So we're back here in the outdoor sink zone
and this is what I mean.
You wanna come through.
It's not really for rinsing, we'll do that later.
But these were just in the sun.
And what I want to do is preserve them
before I actually have to process them.
So I'm just gonna come through
it's called taking the field heat off
and just cool them down a little bit.
So we'll give them a rinse,
we'll put them in the shade.
I've got other stuff to do right now at the homestead.
I can't really deal with these radishes right now
but if I had left them out in the sun,
I would've deleted about a month of proper growth.
And so I'm just going through and cooling these down a bit.
And then we'll come back
and we'll do something with these pretty soon.
So we planted out some beans
in this front bed, actually on succession.
So direct sowed to the left side
and then transplanted in some starts from the right side
to replace the radishes.
Now we are just checking and actually the soil here
if you take a look at it, it's quite nice.
It's nice and moist.
We added some worm castings in this one as well
but this is the bed that last fall I believe Jacque,
we cover cropped.
- Yep.
- And it's kind of interesting to see
how the texture of the soil in my opinion is better.
- It's really nice.
- It's definitely better.
And so all we're doing is just mixing in
some of those warm castings.
And then I think we'll probably end up
putting tomatoes here.
- Yeah, let's do it. - Yeah.
It's the middle of the day.
There's a couple beds here
in the front yard that still need to get planted in.
I'm gonna show you it's that one right there
with the trellises and then also this low one
which I'm gonna put Blue Jade Sweet Corn in, a cool variety.
We actually grew last year in this spot that
San Juan Cabbagestrano was in
but I'm also gonna show you what we actually have planted
in the front yard.
Okay, in this front bed, on the other side of this trellis-
I'm actually not gonna use the trellis at all
'cause there's squash in the other side
which will take it over more or less completely.
So I'm gonna go low here
with an interesting combo of lettuce and beans.
So I have some sort of speckled lettuce here.
We'll pop these ones out.
We didn't start too much lettuce
at least not into mid-spring into summer.
So these are some starts
and I'm just gonna intermingle them.
I mean, it's nothing too crazy here.
Lettuce, beans, this is a Blue Lake variety of Bush Bean.
What I could have done is grabbed pole beans
and had them come up the trellis,
but I'd rather grow the pole beans in the backyard
and not have them get all crazy.
Plus you're blocking a lot
of the back of the front bed garden here,
if you were to do pole beans.
Sometimes what I like to do,
just pop them all out at once get that part of the job done.
And then we'll go ahead and pop these up.
- Oh, it looks like you could use another row lettuces here.
- Oh, look who it is.
- Oh, surprise gift.
- The hermit came through.
- (chuckles)
All right, that's done.
It's on to the low, urban, round bed
which we're gonna put something really random in,
Blue Jade corn.
Before we actually get to the corn,
these go carrots have been in here for way too long.
In fact, if you look at this one
which we just harvested-
let me find it for you real quick,
you can actually see it was starting to produce a seed head.
So I decided to pull it.
This one might be a little woody.
I guess we'll find out when we crunch into it
after we process this in the back.
But I think it's time to take all the carrots out.
Jacques' got the
handy snow shovel in San Diego, California.
Let's just start cranking on these.
- Sure.
- And, you know Jacque,
we struggled to germ these a couple times.
But now I have to say the low and slow carrot method
seem to work 'cause these are kind of old.
- Yeah. - They're kind of old
- Yeah actually is true
that's why some of them are bolting.
- Yep.
- They think they've lived for two years
so they're starting to produce seed.
- Yeah, yeah, I mean, I wanna say we put these
in the fall for sure, right?
- Yeah no, we definitely put them in around fall.
- And look, I mean you're not gonna get perfect ones
every time, you can actually still eat this,
but there's plenty of fantastic carrots here.
- Maybe I'll take some of these home?
- Maybe, you know, you might need to.
Honestly this time you might actually need to.
- I gotta say I really like the smell.
- Fresh carrot - Smells like carrots.
- Oh yeah. - Smells so good.
- And it's like, it was almost like a perfume in the air.
- Yeah.
- You could be five feet away
you could still smell it.
- (laughs)
Oh, I knew that would be a good one.
I knew that would be a good one.
- I'm gonna pull the ones that have that long stock.
That's like on the way of bolting.
It's just not gonna be as good.
- Bets on this one.
- That's gonna be this big.
- Okay. Oh, how wrong you are my friend.
This guy's just such a hater of my growing
- (laughs) such a hater, right?
Oh!
Honestly, I don't know how to feel.
I actually don't know how to feel about this one.
The shape is a little disconcerting.
Whoa!
- That's organic.
Don't panic.
It's organic.
Look at this.
- Yeah, I'm gonna do a little-
- Oh, you're gonna throw it over the back
like a bindle?
Hold on, hold on.
- You gotta look over your shoulder.
- Hold on, the bindle boys will be back later.
See you on the flip side, bro.
- (laughs)
Eyes up here.
- [Jacques And Cameraman] (laughs)
- Eyes up here.
- (laughs)
- So the carrot harvest is in the backyard.
It's cooling off, put a little water on it
get the field heat off.
But now I've got this really interesting corn.
We planted it last year and I think we had medium success,
medium to good success with it.
It's Blue Jade sweet corn.
So this one, I'm gonna read you the label
'cause it's kind of funny.
'This petite sweet corn can be grown in small spaces
including containers planted in blocks.'
So that's exactly what we're gonna do here.
And this is from Hudson Valley seed.
So as far as a circular bed
this is the Birdies urban short round.
It's this corten steel bed.
I really like the look of it.
The corten steel patina is kind of
like a different look than this corrugation.
But what we're gonna do here is try to space it
about six to eight inches apart.
It's kind of hard in a circular container
but I'm just gonna go kind of in a spiral around.
So we'll start off with one of the middle here
and we can space it eight inches off
from this central point.
So in goes about two per hole.
So I'm gonna go here
and then I'm gonna come out to about here
and start to just make my holes first.
And from there I will get on with the rest of the planting.
And I think we can probably come in a little bit here
and then I'm gonna bisect the distance here
and coming out to here, right?
So this is kind of a good way to cram a lot
into a circular planting design.
Do one there, we'll do one there.
You want enough of corn
that you actually get the cross-pollination
or the wind pollination effects that corn is known for.
So corn is a wind pollinated plant.
The tassels up top need to be jostled by the wind.
The pollen falls down onto the silks.
So that's why you need a lot of corn in one spot.
So in this goes, Jacque, you're back there.
- You're gonna top this off and then amend it a little bit.
- Rounding out that bed.
And these are really the last two beds that we need to
plant in this front yard for spring into summer.
We'll probably do some swapping here and there
but I'm pretty stoked.
We've got a good mix of like classic summer stuff.
- Yeah. - We have some spring stuff
we're pushing.
We have some flowers and it should be a really
- I'm pumped.
- productive season in the front yard here.
The front area is now mostly planted out over here
of course the Blue Jade corn.
Over here is tomatoes, basil, and alyssum.
And then we have direct sown beans
and transplanted beans, lettuce and beans,
nothing in this one quite yet.
Over here, we have the Alaska nasturtium and sunflowers.
This, I've got a summer cauliflower.
So that should be pretty interesting.
We'll see if that one works out.
We have some squash right here.
We put some potatoes in, but they got dug up by raccoons.
So I have to swap that out.
I've got cucumbers, borage, and basil there.
Here's our strawberry bed.
You guys saw pretty recently.
We've got tomatillos, alyssum, and Dark Opal basil,
as well as a little borage.
And then I've got squash and sunflowers right here.
The only thing that you haven't seen in a bit,
first of all our mint bed is really coming into its own.
San Juan Cabbagestrano,
we're gonna have to hold a funeral for, it died.
(flute cover of 'My Heart Will Go On')
And I'll do that in a different video,
emotionally, I can't, I can't handle that right now.
And then over here, I've got potatoes, lettuce,
and spinach.
Front yard is more or less done for the day.
There's some trees to plant.
There's this asparagus bed to put in.
We gotta level this soil.
We actually had a huge pile of soil here
that we just moved right there.
'Cause we really want the asparagus bed here.
Bobca's showing off her a little booty.
So that's gonna be for another episode guys
say goodbye to Bobca.
Good luck in the garden and keep on growing.