February Garden Tour - Winter Garden Harvest and my Backyard Orchard in Austin Texas
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Greetings, I hope you enjoy this February garden tour of my backyard here in Austin Texas Zone 8B. Spring is the most exciting time of the gardening season, and there are all sorts of things to grow. I hope this update on my raised bed and fruit trees is entertaining, informative, and inspiring!
Here in Austin Texas, I am working with some really dense clay soil, because of this, I've decided to grow fruits and veggies in a large raised bed, and build a french drain for my peach and fig trees.
My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, this spring I'm growing parsley, cilantro, basil, cabbage, romaine lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, strawberries, radishes, and a fig tree. I'm also doing a little zone pushing by growing pineapples and an avocado tree in containers, which are about to leave the garage for some natural sunlight and tropical weather.
I hope this garden tour is entertaining, educational, and inspiring. Good luck with all your gardening projects this fall!
Video Chapter Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:29 Raised Bed Garden Tour and Winter Garden Harvest - growing parsley, cilantro, basil, cabbage, romaine lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, strawberries, radishes, and a fig tree
15:42 Backyard Orchard - This garden tour will be focusing on my Peach trees, as the Olives and Figs are dormant
23:58 Bluebonnet meadow and Closing Thoughts
Thanks again for watching Austin Texas Gardening!
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Parsley or Cilantro, tasting will tell!😄😄Any harvest is a good harvest!TFS! "Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy, INSPIRATION and Abundance!" - Hope( & Mark)!
I appreciate yalls support!
It’s so ironic that you’ve gone to many lengths to get rid of the fire ants and in the end they did something good for your garden. How nice and forgiving of them 🐜🐜🐜🐜
Haha theyre my lil spicy friends now
Fireants are killers to people who are allergic and u can be fine one bite and dead the next...happened to my brother..
Finally found an austin area gardener! I'm in Georgetown! YAY! We've had our garden for a few years but I've been trying to find more local-ish gardeners on here!
Glad you found us, if you’re curious about other local gardeners you probably already know about “central texas gardener” also look up: “seed to plate” and “suburbangrower4050”
So good to have come across your channel and someone who has the same garden zone as me, 8b. Loved your video.
Glad you found my channel, appreciate your support!
This is so exciting to me thank you for going in great deep details.. I want a house just so I can plant a garden….
I’m also in Texas as well , I’m not far from you.. i’ve been waiting on the day and it’s been some years for me to find someone to be a great teacher… Yes Teacher…❤
Glad you enjoyed the video! There are many unique challenges depending on where you are and what you’re trying to grow. Hope my videos help!
So happy do have come across your channel! I’m also in the Austin area and very new to gardening, so I’m still learning all the things!
Thanks for joining us Allie!
Looks great!!
Yep its been a warm winter (minus the freezing rain two weeks ago)
For my carrots i usually harvest them young, and that’s my thinning process
There you go! As long as I pull them before May I think they’ll be fine
@@AustinTexasGardening I left one all summer long and got a bunch of seeds
U wanna get miners lettuce in asap..and plant your beans...if i knew where u lived id give u tomatoes peppers egplant as once again i grew more than our entire town could grow
I did major major brocolli but somehow got about 30 brussel sprouts and i have never bought those seeds!! I also got bumper crop of spinach thats about ready to bolt. I planted carrots 5 times because of squirrels and dogs...now they ate eating what is left....
Haha sorry to hear that, it’s taken quite a bit of training to get my dog Sugar to leave our strawberries alone
I'm trying my best to veggie garden here in Texas I am so used to growing in Florida and it's so difficult to garden here for me. Please help. Could you do a video for what to plant now in January and February of 2024?
Yes its very difficult here with the heat, drought, and cold. This time of year, I've planted cucumber seeds, and tomato starters. Dont expect them to live year round, the summer heat will usually kill them by july. Also, a great thing to grow in texas are Jalapeno peppers, they will do great all summer, but will die off in the november cold.
Nothing really does well year round here, I've had a lot of success with peach trees though. Now is a great time to plant them, and they are dormant all winter, but under the right conditions, they will come back in the spring
4k square foot should all be garden..lol...im expanding mine another two beds..when i get over the ccp virus
Hi
How big is your garden? I'm dieing taking care of 2,2 k square feet of pure garden.
Haha yes, I’m thinking about putting in a few more raised beds, but I want my kids to have a sandbox, trampoline, swings, fire ring, patio, etc
are you going to harvest the bluebonnet seeds?
Probably not, I let the bluebonnets drop the seeds into the soil naturally for next year
U can fey the radishes in oil..some people add oil..never ate it..i dont like em at all.
We cooked them in oil, I’ll post a short about it next week
10/10 on your French Drain rant, you've got to be careful here in the warm-south as some of these counties don't properly manage OSSFs so up to 30% of the children come into contact with pathogens & parasites from the ignored health-hazards in backyards.
I definitely think $2k is what the average YT DIY backyard garden costs, especially if you're setup to auto-water daily. I'm trying to comprehend proton exchanges in soil as one Cubic-yard of Leaf-mold compost costs $174 delivered in a huge-sack, where wood-mulch is only $58 making a huge price difference for just 2 years of cooking/composting. I don't have a developed graph of the nutrient exchanges pictured in my mind yet but those protons must have some value.
Salvation is a tricky subject as Citizen-Audits show most of us don't have access to Government. There is a problem with cultures of chosen/privileged-people. I have born-disabled adults in my neighborhood who have work-health-insurance from 80 hour-work-weeks yet if I send them to the doctor without an interpreter the office will stop answering phone-calls for these lifelong-disabled-adults to get the health access they deserve. The ones with no family have no chance.
Always appreciate your thoughts Bob! I’m sorry to hear about the challenges your neighbors have faced in getting basic medical support. I faced a similar issue about two years ago when a family member who is on the spectrum couldn’t get basic services from Austin integral care and his doctor. Legally speaking, they expected him to be functional in order to get care for being non-functional. It was a very frustrating situation, but it’s been resolved now, and he’s doing a lot better!
@@AustinTexasGardening Exactly, I can drop my dogs off & they'll offer a dozen pages of medical-detail but an adult with a lifelong disability who can literally txt in English will be denied phone calls for followups. It's a civil rights violation but he also need to sue his neighbors over an illegal fence, illegal OSSF, illegal burning, illegal gunfire, illegal floodplain fill.... There is no government for them here in the Birthplace of the Texas Flag.