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morning ladies and gentlemen welcome back to Sandy Bottom Homestead it’s another very dry very warm beautiful day in the coastal North Carolina and I want to just take today take some time and show you everything that we’ve got going on in the garden um it’s been a little while and I like to do these kind of towards the end of a season and we’re getting there and I got some stuff that’s kind of cropped up so it’s going to work out really good um the garden is in half transition mode so um there’s a lot going on and we’re going to be harvesting even more soon so that’s really good news but um I think we’re just GNA start in the back corner and then we’re just going to work our way all the way around all 11 beds the first one is going to be our pepper bed this year um we’ve got multiple peppers in here I’ve got Peach Peppers lemon Peppers mango Peppers um I’ve got a solid row of bell peppers and even um my jalapenos are in here somewhere now the thing is I kind of forgot where everything is so that’s always fun but like here’s the peach peppers growing so you can see we’re starting to get them and I haven’t tried one yet let’s try one to see how hot it is so every year when I grow a hot pepper the first one I pick I always try and I’m going to share that with you this year one I want to see how hot it is so I can prepare my family if they’re going to eat any but um this should be a peach pepper oh boy it legit tastes like peaches but man she’s spicy one more bite yep so we’ll be making hot sauce with this boy boy it’s hot just so you know when you grow hot peppers at home they’re hotter than they are at the store because we don’t water as much and so it causes a stress reaction which makes them even hotter so like your jalapenos and stuff they’re always going to be hotter when you grow them and um that lives up to the to the hype so here’s our squash bed I know you’ve seen a bunch of it but one new development is Boom our desie squash are just about ready so we’re super excited about that uh because it’s been so dry we have been able to treat and and then our cucumbers are bringing in another pest so we’re going to need to treat again but our cucumbers are in the back here we’ll get to those and we have been look do you see that that’s the squash of ir Bor moth there it is ladies and gentlemen you just witnessed it live there he is again going in there if I can get my hands on them see look see it going for the yellow flowers uh-oh egg laid there it is you see that right there that’s where it’s going to lay the egg what can I say you saw it live here uh today’s date is June 3rd and it is 11:30 in the morning and we have a squash Vine bore in the garden laying eggs on it on the squash there it is been telling you guys anyways cucumbers are doing well um I saw the resemblance of a cucumber yesterday somewhere it’s hard to tell it is not hard to tell that we have a squash vinor egg on the Cucumber which is sad but I don’t think that really matters somewhere on here there is one so they’re doing good our green beans are coming up it is almost um Japanese beetle season so we will be spraying these as well very shortly in my experience the Japanese beetles do not start to really hit these until they reached the top and then they like to hang out up top where you can’t reach them so we’re going to try and stay ahead of them I’ve been seeing a couple in other places so they will be around but we will be treating um these are Ace Bush 55 tomatoes and um you know what they live up to their name they are way more bushier than I thought but they also have good siiz tomatoes which is exactly what we were looking for so we’re extremely happy about that matter of fact they’re so bushy that I just kind of decided that I wasn’t really going to concern myself with trimming them at all because I just feel like I I can’t fight nature can’t fight the path that it’s going to take so we’re just going to let it be I mean what can you do uh we came out here recently and planted our black ey peas you can see we’ve got some seedlings here and seedlings there uh these need to come out so we’ll be pulling these up uh these are coming out next week and then we’re going to put another round of black ey peas in the back right here um we’ve got our seminal pumpkins that we’re training up they’re really start once they start reaching like this then it’s on they don’t naturally climb I found so what I do is yesterday I actually started winding them so I wait till they get about that long and since yesterday it grew from here to here they grow really fast so I will just do that and what I’m plan to do for these since we’re putting our black IPS back here we need the sun I’m only going to allow these to grow till about right here and then I’m just going to let them go that way that’s the plan this is our Solstice corn which is doing well now uh we had to redo Reed so we definitely had to Reed we didn’t have enough to where we could just make it work um it’s been so dry that I’m having to come out and like individually heal these like this just to give them some more structure so we’re doing that as well but you can see is this one yeah so we’ve receded and we had so many skips this year that we just receded the rest of the bed because there was just not enough to really let it grow the way it was just going to let it do its thing um so these the bigger ones are about 2 weeks old and then the little ones are a week old in about a week and we’re going to harvest this garlic and weed this bed and what we’re doing for the garlic well I see some that have started laying down is we are waiting for them to se show us some separation which we’re starting to get and that just means where the bulbs you know the cloves are separating from the bulb so you can break them off so we’re just letting those finish out they should be this week and then we’re going to have to weed this whole bed shouldn’t take long reberry the lines and we’re going to put our popcorn in this bed so I’ve did a little bit of research like I said I’m corn is is what I’m focusing on this year for the summer this is something that I really just kind of want to just grow um and when you grow multiple varieties they need to be seated 14 days apart so they don’t cross-pollinate so this way this will be going and then we can get this one and then we can have them going so if you cross-pollinate them now then they will not be they’ll be kind of they’ll give you a funky corn whereas like tomatoes and stuff if you cross pollum you don’t find out until the next year if you save the seed so we don’t want to do that this is our potato bed we’ve got some buckwheat seeds coming we’re going to plant those and just cover crop this for the rest of the season until I think about August and what we’ll do is we’ll let the buckwheat flour let the bees enjoy it then we’ll cut it drop it right in the garden green manure it turn it back over and then we’re going to put our um brussels sprouts in this bed and we come over here so we’ve got our our um sweet potatoes which are doing fairly well looks like something’s trying to get into my bed which is okay so we’ve got plenty of plants in here they’re just doing their thing uh what we need to do is come out we’re right about time to give it another feeding which would be the final feeding of the year and then we will put the mulch down just to help retain the water because we’re not going to water this bed as much once they get up and going and they start coming out of of the bed we’re going to leave them if you water your sweet potatoes too much you end up getting dry flesh in your sweet potatoes and we’ve done that for a couple years so this year we’re just kind of testing out less watering and really just watering when we really need to we Reed this bed with more zucchini so you can see they’re starting to pop up and we also put some watermelons in here so we’re just letting those go uh these are other bed of tomatoes now this bed gets less Sun so we’re not expecting a whole whole lot but we’re still getting tomatoes so this front row which we did the Florida weave with is uh the hind 57 tomatoes and then these in the back are the red snappers and you can see like this plant just gets shaded out so it’s not going to do a whole lot but we’re going to get some pretty good slicers which is what we wanted that was our goal for this year so we’re going to hit those pretty good uh this bed over here has two cantaloupes and I believe that’s a honey nut squash I believe at this point we’re going to have to go off of faith and then over here is our carrots so we’ve got our winter carrots which are taking forever let’s see well yep just as I suspected I knew this would happen with this bed but that’s okay so this bed has been compacted so so we’re going to get some funky looking carrots nevertheless we’re going to get carrots and typically so the back row are winter carrots and the front row are uh spring carrots and we typically would Harvest those right around the middle to end of July so we’re right on schedule I don’t know why the I got a spider web all wrapped up in my leg feels weird um I don’t know why it’s being slow but not I don’t care what’s what does it matter to me if one row empties and the other one doesn’t but these carrots right here if you’ve never grown a carrot you should definitely grow them and rule is you pull it out wipe the dirt off of it and just go ahead and gritty but sweet I mean if we didn’t eat candy bars and drink sodas and stuff this would legit be candy it’s crazy when you think about it Greenhouse is done for the year we’re just going to clear it out at some point and then move on you can see where our tomato hornworm started and just ate everything and to be exact there he is get this guy off there you go so there rer tomato hornworm I got to get out of this greenhouse but that is my preferred method for removing them as gross as it is has got to go and just pulling them off by hand and getting rid of them works every time so yeah the garden is going very well it is um you know we’re transitioning for the final time into a summer garden and then after that we’re going to be starting seed soon so um you know I started the year off talking about planting earlier and I’m going to finish off talking about planting earlier so get ready here we go goodbye [Music] [Applause] [Music]