Today, we see what is growing in the raised planters and harvest a couple of Ping Tung Long heirloom eggplants in the process. At the end of the video, we look at what seeds were received in our largest seed order to date.
I have been working off camera to knock off some of the work mentioned in the previous video. In addition, the cold and wet season has finally arrived. We saw a good amount of rain with forecasts for weekly rains.
Finally, the cool weather we had been anxiously waiting on has arrived. Day time lows are in the mid 40F and highs are in the 70s.
After a week of this weather, we are seeing lots of hopeful new growth.
A home and garden episode briefly covering the prospect of using landscape to help with heating and cooling of the home. Landscape can be utilized differently depending on season and location to have either a cooling or warming affect on the temperatures inside the house. Or man made structures can be built to be used in conjunction.
Radishes grow quickly and with relative ease; making them one of the more fun vegetables to grow. Of the different types of radishes, the ‘French Breakfast’ variety is probably the fastest to mature.
Radishes form best during the cooler months of the year. Warm months, on the other hand, tend to encourage leafy growth and seed production at the cost of tuber formation.
Still trying our hand at growing ginger and its cousins. Curious about how the rhizomes will look, we go digging for them. Today, we dig up ginger and galangal. We will also look at some turmeric and cardamom plants.
Traveling along the Pacific Coast Highway between Monterey Bay and Cupertino, a native plant nursery sign was spotted. A u-turn was made and a long dirt road was traversed to reach the nursery in hopes of finding a rare-to-nursery plant. Though it was not found, we did not walk away empty-handed.
In this video, we’ll see our collection of Manzanita plants.
‘Howard McMillan’
‘Pacific Mist’
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Elkhorn Native Plant Nursery
http://www.elkhornnursery.com/
1957B Highway 1, Moss Landing CA 95039
We are at the beginning of cold and flu season. Who would have thought that I would be first one hit. Time to hit back with some tried and true remedies. Today, we forage for chicken noodle soup ingredients and take a look at what’s growing on in the raised planters.
We’ll also talk a little bit about Utah Tall celery and how to blanch them.
Strawberry plants seem a lot more tolerable than they are. Once it is discovered what they like, they will produce year after year. We are putting more effort in making them happy in hopes of being able to achieving perpetual strawberry growth.
One of the things that strawberries like is well draining soil. Today, we will build a raised planter to improve drainage and move them in.
Our “pumpkin patch” did not turn over very big nor many pumpkins. However, we did get a small one to carve nonetheless. Today, we help our homegrown pumpkin fulfill its destiny.
8:01 Pumpkin carving tool review for:
Warren Cutlery Pro Pumpkin Carving Set (http://amzn.to/2e30TTp)
