It’s late winter in Southern California with spring just around the corner. Our record rainfall over the past two years has restored our reservoirs, lakes, aquifers, and our rain barrels have been spilling over. In this video, I’ll take you on a tour of our container garden and harvest some veggies. I’ll also being doing the following chores, 1) planting sweet potato slips in grow bags. 2) amending the soil in some containers with compost and organic fertilizer. 3) planting dwarf pak choi and kale seedlings, and 4) planting turnip and carrot seeds.
Related Rye & Gin Videos:
Protecting Vegetables from Rats in the Garden | Step by Step How to Make Protective Cages https://youtu.be/jkg-GnnlnI0
Starting & Planting Sweet Potato Slips in Grow Bags https://youtu.be/fSTFWB3-AoE
Direct Sowing Veggies Seeds with Burlap https://youtu.be/cRFF-zg1klI
Growing Sweet Potatoes Slips https://youtube.com/shorts/teJPd-yS_4Q?feature=share
Harvesting Carrots https://youtube.com/shorts/HsCpV4cxhpY?feature=share
Harvesting Sweet Potatoes https://youtu.be/tgt1myZXN1o
Harvesting Sweet Potatoes from Grow Bag https://youtu.be/v08XLb41cG4shorts/hCsS4-zDIfs?feature=share
Planting Sweet Potatoes in Grow Bags https://youtube.com/shorts/Ha82beRYKxI?feature=share
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:01 Brussels Sprouts & Rat Update
1:27 Kale “Lacinato”
1:51 Planting Kale Transplants
2:48 Planting Pak Choi Transplants
3:39 Romaine Lettuce & Corvair Spinach
4:23 Beets – Detroit Red, Bull’s Blood, Golden Boy
4:51 Harvesting Turnips “Tokyo Cross”
5:26 Sowing Turnip Seeds
6:33 Planting Sweet Potatoes in Grow Bags
8:22 Harvesting Daikon Radishes
9:14 Amending Soil with Compost & Fertilizer
10:33 Tendersweet Carrots
11:09 Sowing Carrot Seeds
12:43 Planting Pak Choi
15:02 Red Norland Potatoes
15:25 Herbs – Cilantro, Parsley, Thyme, Mint
15:37 Today’s Harvest & Conclusion
Hi everyone it’s late winter here in Southern California I’m in zone 10B it’s a great feeling knowing that our record rainfall over the past 2 years is filling up our reservoirs Lakes aquifers and our rain barrels have been spilling over in today’s video I’ll be taking you
On a tour of our rain soaked container garden and harvest some veggies I’ll also be doing some chores I’ll show you how I start sweet potato slips and I’ll be planting the slips in growbags I’ll prepare some containers with compost and organic fertilizer I’ll be transplanting dwarf pochoy and kale seedlings I’ll be
Sewing carrot turnup and radish seeds and I’ll give you an update on my battle with the rats please stay tuned in these three pots we have brussels sprouts about two months ago we had a setback because rats were eating the leaves of these brussels sprouts So I
Placed a protective cage over them and they’ve recovered very nicely this is the first time we’re growing brussels sprouts so this is really kind of cool could see those brussels sprouts developing along the stem we have three pots of lado kale there’s one here’s a second pot and a third pot
Of kale and I just planted another kale plant and I interplanted it with dwarf P Choy so let me go ahead and show you how I planted the kale and po jooy let’s take this one right Here all right so let’s take a look at the roots here so you you see a really nice root system on this kale I’m going to make a hole here right in the center and add a little organic fertilizer this is a balanced 444 organic fertilizer let’s go and drop this in
Okay there’s one okay I’m going to go ahead and return the mulch to the pot to keep these plants insulated keep that soil from drying Out that’s the dwarf pop Choy and this is the kale all right in these two pots I have Roma lettuce and as you can see the Roma is looking really nice and interplanted with Romine lettuce I have this corver spinach and it is also looking really good so let’s go ahead and pick
Some of this Roma and spinach In addition to these Detroit dark red beats I also have these Bulls blood beads pick these up at the Garden Center I also have this beat which is called Golden Boy and I think there you can see a couple of them forming still early but they’re looking
Good in this pot I have turnips this variety is called Tokyo cross so I’m going to go ahead and harvest the rest of these and plant some more from seed so again we’re going to be planting Tokyo cross okay I’m going to go ahead and broadcast these I always sew more
Seeds than I need because the germination rate isn’t always 100% it’s usually high but I just like to sew extra seeds and thin out those seedlings to give the stronger seedlings more room to grow so I’m going to go ahead and put some screen compost over the top of that have this nice
Fine compost on top of the seeds then I’m going to place this burlap over the top in this grow bag I have sweet potatoes to grow sweet potatoes you have to use slips click on the link in the description that shows how I started this slip indoors now let me show you
How I planted the slip okay let’s go ahead and plant this slip I’m going to lay the slip on this steak to determine how deep to make a hole so I’m going to go to there so let me take the slip off set it aside and I’m going to make a
Hole with the steak to the depth of that slip which is right about there okay so I’m going to go ahead and just make a hole there okay okay let’s go ahead and place this slip into the hole that looks good I’m going to bury it to that first Leaf so I’ll need
To move the soil into the hole to bury it and just lightly Tamp it down Okay I think we’re good to go in this grow bag I have dcode radishes so you can see I have this um wire mesh hardware cloth wrapped around the outside and that’s to train the greens upward so I’m going to go ahead and pull this one here there two I might
Go ahead and pull both of Them this scow bag previously had daon radishes in it so I’m going to go ahead and amend this with compost and an organic fertilizer so I’m going to grab some of this compost drop it into the bag and I will add about a/4 cup of this Dr Pete’s organic fertilizer this is a
Balanced blend of nitrogen phosphorus and potassium mpk I have this tool that I like using to gently till the compost and the fertilizer in and the purpose of this is to reintroduce mpk as well as any macro and micronutrients that may have been depleted from the previous crop so I’m
Not going to go too hard with this tilling I’m just going to go gently into the top four to six inches and that should do it okay this row bag is ready to go take a look at this pot of carrots you really get um a lot of bang for your
Buck with these carrots so I’m going to go ahead and harvest a few of these there’s you know I’m going to try to get the bigger ones and these are just for snacking Okay into this pot I am going to sew carrot seeds this variety is called tender sweet and if you’ve ever grown carrots you know that they are very small so I’m going to broadcast these I have one pot of carrots going right now so I’m growing these in succession and I’m just
Going to broadcast them over the soil surface and what I will likely do is when after they germinate and they grow out a little bit I’ll go back in and Thim them out okay so those are broadcast all right so carrots have been planted and what I like doing is
Put a piece of burlap over the top of that and then just take some clothes pins and secure it in place all right and lastly here’s the label and let set that on top until after they germinate and I take that burlap off and I’ll place it in the soil okay carrots
Have been sewn in this pot I’m going to transplant these baby bok choy also called po Choy uh that I started from seed so let’s take a look at the seed packet okay so let’s go ahead and uh gently remove these seedlings from the cells I like to go down with a a
Knife Garden knife that I use just an old serrated kitchen knife that I’ve repurposed for um for the garden so I’m going to just pull on that and okay so here you see some really nicely developed Roots I’m going to plant three in this
Pot and three may seem like a lot but it really isn’t these only get about 5 in tall and they do quite well in uh Nursery pots so let’s go and pull that out gently all right all right so let’s go ahead and plant these and I’m going to add a little
Organic fertilizer into these holes so I have a organic fertilizer here that in and drop this in there okay okay those are now planted okay let’s go ahead and water this in In this Grill bag I have a red potato called red Norland which is a determinant variety I planted these sea potatoes at different depths deep middle and high because they will grow horizontally because they are a determinant variety and here you see that they have leafed out very
Nicely and on the herb table I have cilantro Italian parsley Thyme and mint so there you have it this is our late Winter Garden update I hope you enjoyed the tour let’s take a look at what we harvested today we have these beautiful greens romae lettuce kale and
Corver spinach and in this basket turnips da radishes carrots and beets please take a look at the links in the description for more videos about this garden please consider liking and sharing this video with people that you know please consider subscribing to our Channel we would really appreciate your
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