I was so excited about all the things I wanted to accomplish on this Thursday
workday, that I couldn't fall asleep last night. And so now it's 9:30 and I'm
just getting out here. Eric has already harvested the tomatoes.
I've got him busy taking the leaves off the tomatoes and then he's going to
spray. Meanwhile. you and I are gonna have a chat.
If you're new to my channel. I have a small, edible, cottage garden, mainly in my
front yard in Los Angeles. I converted the bushes and grass, aka weeds, in 2012,
and I haven't looked back. I created 100 episodes of the award-winning series
"Late Bloomer." Once everyone started vlogging, so did I.
Since the 100th episode of Late Bloomer, which was the Desert Super Bloom last
year, I have created another 200 and something videos. These cover not only my
growth as a gardener, because I started from scratch 2012, didn't know anything,
not only covers the growth of my garden, the development of my garden into a
jungle, but also other gardens in Southern California, the country, and in
Europe. I have so much varied content, I'm sure you'll find something you like and
you will want to subscribe. Now, eric has been very busy since he got here and he
has harvested the tomatoes for the week, and there is a small basket of
passionfruit. Now if you've never grown passionfruit, and this is my first time,
so I'm just learning, the vines produce copious amounts of these little oval
hard fruit that are kind of plum colored. When they turn this color, they fall onto
the ground and you take them inside and you leave them on your counter for a few
days until they kind of shrivel up, and then you cut it open and scoop it out
and put it in a all sorts of various foods, like smoothies or desserts. My
friend Chris Towerton in Sydney Australia
says he could eat 20 of those in a sitting, just... I've yet to try it this
year. I've given all the ones that have fallen off away so far. If you've been
following my channel for at least the last seven months you know that I had a
bad accident last Christmas Eve trying to have a little fun, crazy idea, and
broke my arm, my first broken bone in my life, which i think is saying a lot
considering I've been very active and played basketball in high school. So as
soon as I felt better, which was in June I took off to see my mother. I hadn't
seen my mother since last September. I had to see my mother. And you know as
long as I'm in Tennessee, Virginia is just five hours away, so might as well
see my other brother. I have two brothers, one is in Nashville where my mother is
and the other ones up in Abington, and has a very active outdoor life there. He's
a biologist for the state of Virginia and he spent most of his career on the
water, or studying the waters, and what's in the waters, and what's growing around
the waters. Well as I've mentioned in the last couple of videos, I picked up a
pinched nerve in my back from all that driving, which just hasn't gotten better,
because I have a tendency the moment I feel better, to jump in and do work and
cannot sit around. Ironically the thing I need to be doing most is editing and
that's what hurts the worst. So I've got to take it easy and please be patient
while I recover and I will roll all of this content out as I'm able to get it
edited. Every now and then I answer a viewer question.
I've had a few questions about Eric's garden. Now, Eric is my garden helper and
he works here on Thursday, so I created a series called Thursday Workday which you
will see in my playlist has been changed to garden workday, because Thursday
Workday is not as good a term for search engines and for YouTube to know what to
do with this playlist, so, but you and I know that's what this is,
Thursday Workday. Eric lives in an apartment with his wife and three
children and he works six days a week in other people's gardens and ranches and
does a variety of kinds of work. I am the only property where it's a micro-farm
and he gets to work with vegetables on a weekly basis and I just think he loves
that. So he doesn't have time or space for a garden. Now, he's been invaluable
especially since Christmas, because there have been weeks I haven't been able to
do anything with my injury. I have to refer to my notes because there are
pages here. The lemon verbena is the most outstanding plant in my garden right now
and if I had a half an acre I would let it get as big as it wants to get, but
because we're cramped for space and it's a tiny little, biodiverse, compact cottage
garden, densely planted, it has to be cut back. You know with this string of health
issues that I've had it kind of is a daunting prospect to think about more
traveling. I came back from Europe last August and I could barely walk on my
knee. I went, I got a steroid injection, which had to be the most painful shot
I've ever had in my life, I levitated up off of the bed...
and I think I screamed, but it went away, I mean it calmed down, and I have been
able to function. And I'm just kind of watching that knee, not dipping too deep,
not lifting too, whatever... But then there was the injury at Christmas. This was a
major derailment. In both of these instances, I'm very grateful for Western
medicine,
but Western medicine has its limits. It can diagnose, it can prescribe medicine,
it can prescribe physical therapy, order tests, give injections, but beyond that
it's a little limiting. So I'm very grateful that there are alternative
forms of medicine. Because the spine is like a highway from the brain to every part
of your body and it sends all the signals and it really needs to be in
alignment for you to be functioning well.
So for my spine, I am seeing a chiropractor, because no doubt, those weeks,
months in a sling, probably messed up my back and I just
didn't know how badly out of alignment I was until I was driving on that windy,
coalminers highway, with no shoulder, two lanes, through the mountains, oh yeah. I
was a little tensed when I got to Ashland. All right, well, we need to get
busy. I talked long enough...
(folk music, banjo)
Oh, that smells so good!
Do you need more containers like this? (pumping sound) One more time?
So, this is my lemon verbena bush and Eric cut
this back here... Can you see where the cuts were? I think this was about...
Right, right here. Is that the cut? See?
The old cut was not even three
feet tall and all of this jumped out of all of that pruning. You see what it does
is, it puts out a branch like this and then it puts up branches all along the
branch, so then you've got ten more branches. And it smells incredible, it
smells so beautiful, but it's just it's too, it's too much.
It's taking, it's covering up everything. I really hate to cut it back when it's
blooming, but it blooms a lot.
We keep it for,.. Yeah we can keep...
..couple of... Keep some small branches, some tender branches for tea.
(crows squawk)
Okay if you want to planting this you, can cut it an angle, 45, like that. You can
take all the leaves out and just stick it in the, in the ground. Just stick it
like this. Okay? And it'll grow? And they'll grow, easy, easy way.
The crimson clover must be breathing a sigh of relief. Can you take five minutes and
clean up those bean leaves? Yep, sure. These are the purple burgundy beans that
I got from Redwood Seeds and they produced probably four or five pounds out of this
raised bed, this 3x6' raised bed already. They're supposed to produce all
summer, but now the leaves look terrible and I think there's a lot of bug damage.
It's still blooming, and there's still beans on there, so I'm keeping it for now.
Just gonna clean up the worst-looking leaves. I prefer to cut these off to keep
from damaging the vines.
Just couldn't get it in here before with the lemon verbena.
That is the green southern stinkbug,
the adult version. You just saw the
juvenile version on my hand before. It's all black. It's basically that black
section right there becomes bigger and greener. And here we have a caterpillar.
Eric and I have cleaned up the bean bed and when you take the leaves away you
see a lot more beans. That's probably a couple pounds.
Oh, good, you start to see the
walkways. Sometimes leaves are good as mulch and sometimes all they're doing is
dropping fungus down into the soil to come back. It's really hard to believe
that we cut all that back three months ago.
And now this big branch is kind of in a
way. Maybe we need to stake this up. Look, maybe you can tie it up, just tie it up
higher. You're going to need to tie it in two places, I think, cuz that's really heavy.
You have more tape, right? We'll put it here. Yeah, can you get more tape? Much
better. Yes. This. Okay. Well. we can do that because those tomatoes are almost done.
Oh, it's always something. Well. I hate to tie that one. because that one's never
had a chance to spread out. We just need to clean up those Tomatoes. See if that
Tomatoes ripe. I bet it's ripe. It's probably a green tomato. Looks good, see
it's splitting. Oh.
That's good. You think? Too late. That one over there, too. I think these are the green
tomatoes. Is that one bad, too? Bad. that one there?
Oh, yeah, this is ready. This is a corner you don't usually see,
because we couldn't get in here. Now we've done a lot of cleaning out. Over
here we have the Pequin pepper, and still have the... problem, but there's a lot of
new growth on here, because I chopped it back two feet. see
See? All ready. Great! What about that one down there? Yeah, okay. What about, oh my
goodness, what about that other one hanging down low over there? Yeah, yeah.
Okay, good for today, beautiful. And I think you should take all these 4 O'Clocks
out of here, yeah. And that way we have this whole huge bed to plant something in.
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