it's getting cool and cloudy here in Southern California in today's episode
we look at some harvests some things to do in your garden some great deals on
gardening products and a lot more so sit back and enjoy this episode to get
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the subscribe button we will take a tour of the California garden we will look at
the harvests we made this month we have some cool things for you to do and
finally we look at some deals on gardening products
so let's begin with the garden tour starting with the raised beds we have
the black Cobra pepper that's growing and I'm trying to overwinter it and
right next to that we have some brassicas basically this means cabbages
cauliflowers broccoli and some other plants and as you can see here we
started these from seeds and they're growing pretty well
right next to the cauliflower and cabbages we have one bean plant this is
the hyacinth bean plant and I've sowed some radish seeds that you can see here
that have germinated now some radish and beets that are growing there and then we
have some okra plants that I still kept though it's late in the season and you
can see the pole bean plant it's become quite big quite tall and it's growing on
the easy trellis on the other side we have some pea
plants as you can see here some broccoli plants that are growing
they have little holes in their leaves due to the caterpillars or worms but I
usually just hand-picked them and next to the broccoli plants we have
some more radish some white radish varieties as well as some carrots that
we sowed and on the first bed we removed all our
eggplants and planted these onions these are the white onions that produce
smaller bulbs right next to the onions we have the
cauliflower plants these are some more cauliflower plants that we were growing
and you can see it there are some chili plants that I'm trying to overwinter as
well and that concludes the tour of the raised beds let's now move on to the
containers in the containers we have the Swiss
chard plant as you can see here followed by some more cauliflower plants and I'm
gonna take a moment and zoom in to this plant and you can see the worms the
caterpillars that are sitting along the leaf there's one right there
and you can just hand pick it and remove it I do see a lot of these worms or
these caterpillars sitting on the leaves and they hide pretty well but you can
just handpick them and remove them you can see there are a couple more on the
plant and right next to that we have our eggplant this is the container little
prince eggplant and I'll soon have a plant profile video on this variety it's
a pretty good variety to grow in your garden and we have some more brassicas
cabbages cauliflowers and in this container we have some radish plants
growing this is a tomato plant and as you can see here end of the season it's
beginning to die now and we sowed some more radish seeds in this container and
there's a cabbage plant right there
we have some carrots that are growing these were grown from seeds and finally
we have the mint plant at the end and this has been growing pretty well on
the other side we have some Ivy gourd plants there are two pots now with Ivy
gourds and we transplanted our mulberry tree into this container followed by the
curry leaf plant the Golden Nugget orange plant the orange tree that you
can see here producing oranges now and the pineapple plant which produced a lot
of pineapples this season and that concludes the tour of our containers
let's now move on to the tour of our fruit trees
we have the Dancy tangerine that's loaded with tangerines as you can see
here and right next to that we have the Mexican guava tree that's producing a
lot of guavas the Bears lime or the Persian lime tree that's loaded with
limes and we have the Washington navel oranges the Washington navel oranges are
growing pretty well and producing a lot of oranges we have the raja puri banana
plant which has a lot of bananas growing and we also have the kishu mandarin
plant the kishu mandarin plant has grown well this year and finally we have
the grape plant now we did prune on a grape plant last season so it's not
producing any grapes this year but hopefully we'll get grapes in the next
season we also have a gem avocado tree once again pruned very heavily this year
so hopefully we will get a bigger harvest next season
so let's now look at the harvest we made this month beginning with pole beans now
we put our easy trellis to good use by growing the pole beans over it and as
you can see here the pole beans is an amazing producer this is the Kentucky
wonder pole bean plant
and it produces a lot of beans now we were harvesting beans from this
plant almost every day and as you can see here great looking good quality
beans and compared to bush beans the pole beans not only produces good
looking pods nicely sized pods but also a lot of beans so I think if you can
grow vertically on a trellis the pole beans is a good plant to grow in your
garden let's now look at cluster beans now this is one of my gardening failures
at least in this zone here in Southern California
and I've tried to grow cluster beans for at least 3 seasons now
and all three times I got a very poor yield as you can see here the beans look
pretty good the cluster beans are very difficult to grow in this zone so I
don't think I'll be continuing to grow cluster beans in the future
cucumbers we were growing the bush cucumber
variety as some of you already know we have been sharing our pictures for
harvest on Instagram as well
and as you can see here this yielded a lot of cucumbers and it's a pretty good
variety to grow in your garden we also harvested a lot of eggplants
from our container prince eggplant which is an excellent variety of eggplant it's
very compact and it produces these eggplants that are relatively small in
size but extremely delicious I think this is one of the tastiest eggplants
and I have eaten and as you can see here the eggplants look very nice and it's
such a compact plant it doesn't produce a lot of leaves
a pretty compact plant with less foliage and a lot of eggplants that it produces
see here the harvest looks pretty good we are still harvesting eggplants in
October so this is a very productive variety
the other eggplant variety we were growing was the listada
de Gandia eggplant and we were able to harvest a lot of eggplants from this
plant as you can see here the eggplants are
quite large and in October they were abundant we got a lot of eggplants from
this plant in October because the plant was pretty well established and
was producing these lovely eggplants as you can see here
now quality wise and taste-wise the listada de gandia eggplant is okay after
the entire season i can conclude that it's not the best eggplant that i have
grown but if you're looking for an abundantly producing plant yes this is
a good eggplant variety but next year I might try out growing the purple
eggplant the Black Beauty eggplant and here you can see a perspective of how
tall these eggplants get and they reach to over six feet in height and as you
can see here producing a lot of eggplants
we were also getting a lot of guavas from our white Arabian guava plant as
you can see here lot of ripe guavas very ripe guavas in fact and you can
generally harvest guavas before it gets to this stage but at this stage they are
extremely sweet very nice tasting you can see here one of these guavas is
slightly green and this is a fully ripe guava
we also got some harvests from our Mexican guava variety and we have a lot
of Mexican guavas growing in this plant and we've begun harvesting it now our
Moringa plant is full of life and as you can see here completely loaded with
flowers and a lot of pods our Moringa plant produced a lot of moringa pods as
you can see here and we are harvesting those pods and it was almost every day
that we were harvesting our moringa pods and they just kept growing as you can
see here the smaller pods will fatten up and become pores that you see here so
they start out as flowers then produce small pods and then finally they swell
up to this size and as you can see here beautiful
looking pods and you can google and find some good recipes for moringa pods there
are a lot of things you can do with moringa pods and for those of you who
do not know about Moringa it is called The Tree of Life it is an extremely
nutritious plant its leaves are nutritious it produces flowers that can
be eaten it also produces pods that you see here that are edible so overall a
great plant to grow okra we harvested a lot of okra from our okra plants in the
raised bed and since it was October and it was beginning to cool down
we added some mulch on the bed and as you can see here beautiful looking okra
we were growing a lot of okra varieties and as you can see here this month was a
month where we got a lot of okras now the production has definitely slowed
down and this will probably be the last month for our okras but overall I was
pretty happy with the way the okra grew and we were able to harvest a lot of
okras Swiss chard this plant which can almost
grow perennially in places like Southern California in zone 10 which means that
you can just plant it once and then keep harvesting this plant
they did produce a lot of good leaves as you can see here it's a little bit
shaken up because of the winds that we had we had some extremely strong Santa Ana
winds last week but we're harvesting both the ruby Swiss chard as well as
the green Swiss chard as you can see here both excellent varieties of Swiss
chard that have great nutritional value tomatoes now since it's the end of
summer the tomato plant has started to become brown and started to die which is
quite normal if you did harvest too last run of tomatoes these are the juliet
tomatoes and the Juliet tomatoes are pretty amazing they can even grow when
the weather is cold even the ones that we had on the raised bed the Juliet
tomato was the only tomato variety that we could harvest
now let's look at the things to do in your garden you can start pruning some
of your fruit trees but only the ones that have finished producing fruits
since they will be dormant going into the winters this is a good time but if
your plant is still bearing fruits please do not prune them now just wait
till the fruit production completes so that the plant is not in shock
so to prune your plant or your tree make sure that there are no suckers growing
from the sides and the bottom as you can see here the guava plant is known to
have these suckers that grow from the bottom and you need to get rid of that
you can also start planting some vegetables like radish we are planting
some radish seeds in this whiskey barrel container and hopefully will thin this
after they have grown but it's a good time to start your winter vegetables we
are also sowing some peas along the other side of the raised bed
right next to the trellis so just like we formed the easy trellis on the other
side on the other raised bed for the beans we also created this other trellis
on the other side it's also an easy trellis with just a different cattle
panel that we had and we just reused that one and it made a great trellis now
one of our YouTube viewer asked a question about the Jasmine plant that
they saw in the video so here is a picture of the Jasmine plant and it's
actually our neighbor's jasmine plant and it's quite beautiful
now as far as gardening products go you can find a great deal on gardening
products at your local Osh or Orchard Supply Hardware since the store is
closing they have a discount of 50 to 80 percent on all their products and I did
go there last weekend and I was able to get some good deals and some gardening
products so what did I end up with well just a few things here and there but if
you're looking to buy a lot of items that you want to keep a spare or going
into the future things like fertilizers insecticides
it's a good place to buy we wish all our viewers a very happy Halloween have fun
so there we have it folks that was our episode on the California garden for the
month of October if you like this video don't forget to give us a thumbs up and
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again soon happy gardening