Hey friends welcome Gardening with Creekside we have the potting machine up and going I wanted
to hop on here really fast to get this because I just heard him say that they're almost out of
soil out of the hopper so before they took a break to get things refilled I wanted to show
you what is happening now right now we're in a little bit of a modified position we
are obviously still learning this we just turn it on a couple of hours ago we are in the fill only
mode so you can see we are using the 10 count premium winter trays that are coming through
depending on what size container you're using these arms here adjust so if it's a wider pot
obviously you're going to swing it out some you can also we've got some fine tuning to do because
there's a little bit too much soil right here on the side we should not have all this soil this is
too much so we've got some fine tuning to do like I said um but it is really fun it is working it is
saving us like crazy and I'm not editing out any sound so you can hear how quiet this machine is
extremely quiet and just working like a charm and down here that's where all the extra goes
and if you can see that auger then it recirculates it back up into the hopper
we uh we're having a great success this morning we were getting an assembly line down doing really
well we've we're in that in between time right now with our workers and so we don't have enough hands
to really be oh that's Brenna we don't really have enough hands right now to be plugging plants as it
goes along but we did this this morning and it was moving super fast the next crew is coming in later
on in just I don't know an hour or so but we were doing great we're probably going to get all of
them potted up today really nice super exciting so what I'm going to do is we're going to go down to
the retail Garden Center and show you what we've already got potted up all right my friends it is
the end of the day it's about six o'clock and we got all of the annuals potted up today fantastic
it we would not have been able to do what we did today if we had not had that potty machine and
it just made an absolute world of difference of course like with any new machine right that takes
a little bit of getting used to there is a whole system to it as far as not only everybody in the
machine but then getting your folks in place and figuring out how to best put people in different
places so good news is all of the annuals that arrive this this week are nice and potted up and
here we are in the retail greenhouse and we only have this is the only empty space right over here
all the other tables are filled with these beautiful little white Grande pots with their
sweet little friends in there so we're going to go through and just show you some of the plants
that we have I know we've talked about just a little bit before but there's also a lot that
we haven't shown you and so now that they have the tags it makes a whole lot easier so you can
see the name and the picture and I'm not going to go through every single one because we would
be here for forever um but I'm going to show you some of my favorites or some that I think that
you would be excited about so here we have is the Carolee petite pink guara and this is we sell it
as an annual but it will actually be a wonderful perennial for us and we like the Carolee petite
pink because it really is a nice petite guara it will not get as large as other guaras only about
14 to 20 inches and it does those really nice soft kind of pastel baby doll pink blooms on it
The Violet Knight is a relatively new one it was out last year for the first time this is
that of course that sweet alyssum 8 to 12 inches tall this is definitely going to be a trailer so
it's not tall but it does Trail down you can use it as a trailer like a Spiller in your pot
or your hanging basket it also makes a gorgeous ground cover so if you need something low and
maybe you have an area that's a little damp then this will do really well I have found
where we live in North Carolina that our problem is is that if you let it dry out it listens in
general then they struggle so they definitely like to have lots of consistent moisture to do really
well then we have the new this will be new for this year this is the aeromance Mulberry this is
uh namesia and really nice we grew this last year beautiful plant has a nice sweet little fragrance
to it gives them a little bit of height to it but it's not certainly going to be very tall at all
gorgeous colors on it for sure we've talked about the we had the goldilock the bidens we have two
different kinds right here it is the Goldilocks rocks which is a really nice beautiful yellow nice
soft yellow but the flowers seem really full and then campfire flame is a beautiful orange
pollinators love both of these so if you were looking to bring pollinators into your garden
you really might want to consider bidens because they are great and I like their fragrance they
have a really nice sweet smell to them and they just do really really nice and then of
course down here we have the Beloved lemon Coral Sedum it was really fun after you know potting
up petunias and and different things then we got back to oh good old lemon coral and it just had
such a fun brightness to it nice little different kind of texture we were talking about how it just
stands out and it's so different than other other plants but lemon Coral is great it will also be a
perennial for us here in a Zone 7B because on the tag and if you're like well how do I know what the
zones are we sell all of these as annuals but one of the a big attraction for us to Growing proven
Winters is that they come with these fantastic tags and on the back is all sorts of great
information so it will tell you what zones the plant is Hardy in even if it's an annual because
this is the Hardy end zones 7A to 11b so my friends who were in a zone five know this is
not going to be a perennial for you but for us and warmer it sure will be so that's nice and then we
have the Azure items last year we did the artist blue I don't think we did the artist Pearl which
is obviously a nice beautiful white so we've got both of those this year really popular they sold
out super fast but we're excited to have these back early on in the season and that artist blue
is a nice really kind of Rich purple color over here is the secret corner of the new introductions
for 2024 so they are potted up the reason that they're down here right now is because this will
be a heated Greenhouse we have obviously the most plants in here right now so we're going to keep
this heated the other two do not have plants that will be consistently warm and there are certain
plants in here that need to be consistently warm so that's why they're down here they will be moved
before will be open uh so just because I know somebody's going to say well how are you going
to have those down here well that's how we did it so both of the same plants are on the same
side so just like we talked about campfire flame was on over there it's right here and we do that
on purpose so when we have customers they can if I'm shopping with my friend and she's over there
we're both looking at the same plant together so that works really nicely so all of these are the
same ones that we just went over over right here and then down here we've got uh this is a really
fun one this is new this year this is Laguna compact blue with eye and it is a Lobelia really
nice this was a nice good one for uh like if you have cool temperatures so early spring beautiful
blue flowers it's a very delicate looking plant it's in the flowers and the foliage itself but
it's really nice and tough did great for me up until really the big Heat hit and then I may have
forgotten to water it because it was in a pot in a spot I didn't normally see that's my fault
um but it is gorgeous especially if you're looking for blue now let's come over here because on this
side and you can see clearly we're not ready to open yet we still have like paint supplies
Construction Supplies in here this whole table all the way down is nothing but super bells and
super Tunas there's a little bit more supertunions on the other side but everything here is either a
super Bell or a supertunion we are going to have loads of color we're going to have a lot of the
classics that we always love love right so the Blue Moon punch this is such a really nice one
I did this I think this is the one maybe that I did in the wheelbarrow last year and people were
just clamoring for it and it's just a beautiful super belt with that great color so we've got
that the of course over easy I do love this plant and of course you know you can see how it got its
name over easy creamy outside with that yellow eye just like an egg that is cooked over easy really
nice soft delicate so if you have containers or a garden where you need those really soft light
Airy colors that is a great one and then the brand new one for this year is the super Bells
prism pink lemonade if you watch that recent video of the part one of the 2023 introductions then I
shared this one with you so we have the first round available here so if you just can't you
just can't handle it and when you get here in February early March we will have them ready
for you but what's so fun about pink lemonade is that the the flowers on the plant actually
change color so they'll start out like a nice soft yellow then they'll go to a pale pink and
then they end and then really intense pink so you get all these colors within that same plant
similar to that that does not change colors but it's in that same color palette is honey berry
now we have not grown honey berry before but it is such a beautiful plant we're giving it a try this
year excited to try honey berry that light little bit of that pink on the outside with a little bit
of yellow gorgeous we've got black currant punch which is really fun deep dark colors super tenure
Royal Velvet deep rich purple we've got of course the classic super Bells yellow but remember this
is the yellow improved that we talked about on the video so this is going to be nice good root
system nice and vigorous as far as growing in the root system so that will be great beautiful
love that one and then some of our Vistas we have Vista Silverberry very much a classic then we have
the Picasso and purple always a winner winner we're doing the Super Junior black cherry For
the First Time by itself we grow it in a combo basket but it is such a beautiful nice rich deep
red that we decided this year we wanted to try it just solo by itself as we're having honey
you know if you've ever noticed this they uh a lot of The Proven Winters have a lot of uh
food names you know so we had black cherry now we're going to honey honey will also shift in
some color with that yellow and orange so you'll get a lot of variation on your plant that way
the new one the supertunion mini midnight so we've got midnight I've got my girls of
course huge Taylor fan Taylor Swift fans so they love that it's called Midnight in fact
they want us to do a Taylor Swift inspired bed with all sorts of midnight and lavender and all
sorts of fun things and then we have Jazz Berry this was new last year that is the New Vista the
newest Vista was last year the new introduction did really great and then of course bubble gum
you can't go wrong with the classic bubble gum it's in my opinion it's like the industry standard
for petunias gorgeous super tuned to mini white this is I love this plant it is a classic Pure
White Bloom I say there's nothing fancy about it but that's not true it is just that Pure White
classic Bloom this plant is an absolute rock star I use it around my patio I'm going to use it in
Mass around my patio in those beds because I want the flower power and I want it to spill over the
edge of my raised beds at the deck but I don't want the huge Vigor of snow drift so that's why I
go with the mini that's still white because I get all the perks that I love without because in that
space it is confined I don't have to then battle the plant throughout the growing season then we
have mini Vista hot pink and mini Vista Indigo many Vistas all their colors their habits are
just fantastic they're spectacular I absolutely adore them for sure and then there's some more
of the supertunias down the middle of the other path but lots of fun things happening I think it's
Jerry how long is it till we get our next arrival so yeah so it's about two weeks before we get our
next arrival and this will be a huge shipment of annuals this was just it's probably going to be
one of our smallest deliveries that we have just kind of get us started so with that we'll put just
a couple more things in here kind of fill up a little bit and then everything else will go into
production one and then no production two and then it will go into production one and it will
probably fill up that one Greenhouse so that'll be I mean thousands upon thousands of plants that
we will be getting but with the putting machine it makes life so much easier takes out the labor
force and we can just rock and roll you get into a rhythm and man you just boom bada bing
today was not the best day since it was the first day of getting everything going
and we were all trying to figure out what we were doing to actually video it and show you the whole
process we will do that I just gave you hopefully enough to kind of so you could understand how the
machine works today but like I said once we get our system down I will certainly put up a camera
and exactly walk you through so you can see how many people it takes to to work that machine
and so we can be so efficient but as always we appreciate your love and support we appreciate
you thank you as always thanks for going to the Creekside we'll see on the next video bye friends