Gloria introduces Junt to her fairy garden, and Nina's garden has had another year with major updates, including her fight against the groundhogs, addition of wineberries, and future plans for squashes.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redcowentertainment
Merch: https://redcowentertainment.com/store/
✅ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYvgalxiHFL3uHANR0BC4Xg?sub_confirmation=1
Website: https://www.redcowentertainment.com
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@redcowentertainment
Twitter: https://twitter.com/redcowent
Instagram: https://instagram.com/redcowentertainment
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedCowEntertainment
️ Red Cow Arcade: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWaXzdM3BHjg3UYi-hyOPg
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redcowentertainment
Merch: https://redcowentertainment.com/store/
✅ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYvgalxiHFL3uHANR0BC4Xg?sub_confirmation=1
Website: https://www.redcowentertainment.com
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@redcowentertainment
Twitter: https://twitter.com/redcowent
Instagram: https://instagram.com/redcowentertainment
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedCowEntertainment
️ Red Cow Arcade: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWaXzdM3BHjg3UYi-hyOPg
Category
😹
FunTranscript
00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Gloria, in the past, we've shown John mom's garden.
00:08 This time, we're gonna show him your garden.
00:10 Tell John what you might be looking for today.
00:13 - Fairy things for my fairy garden.
00:15 - You're gonna have a fairy garden?
00:16 You guys have been clearing out back here.
00:18 - It's madness.
00:19 Look, they put a fence up.
00:20 - We're putting a farmer's market in.
00:22 - I just put this farmer's market on the other side.
00:25 - We found another fairy machine.
00:27 - You did?
00:28 - A farmer's market.
00:30 - Welcome to farmer's market, apple pears.
00:32 - What do you think the fairies use as currency?
00:34 - Actual fairies.
00:34 - Look, fairies.
00:35 - That's so beautiful.
00:36 - This is the fairy queen, okay?
00:38 - A queen?
00:39 - Fairy queen.
00:40 - That's so cool.
00:41 - But, I see spider at night.
00:42 It's supposed to be at night.
00:43 - Lopter wings off like a Ben Affleck in Dogma.
00:46 - John, I put it back on.
00:47 - A fairy door to the fairy tree house.
00:49 And a fairy mailbox.
00:51 - See that it's not handicap accessible.
00:52 - Ooh, I spy a fairy right there.
00:55 - That's the fairy princess.
00:56 - The princess?
00:57 - When you enter, you can village.
00:59 - There was poison ivy, but Nina got rid of it.
01:01 - What technique did you use to remove it, Nina?
01:02 - Just repeatedly cutting it down.
01:04 - Recently, my mom and dad were cutting down a tree
01:06 in their yard, and they both touched some ivy.
01:09 And they both got it.
01:10 But my mom gets some kind of a reaction.
01:12 It completely just swelled her entire body
01:14 for like three weeks.
01:15 Some of the most miserable I've ever seen.
01:17 - I would mow the lawn on a Ryder mower,
01:19 and that's all it took.
01:20 - I love your little selection of trees here.
01:22 This is a real white oak.
01:23 - Do you want to give John a tour?
01:25 - An updated garden tour.
01:26 So this year, we actually had our wine berries come in.
01:29 Over here, we put in the blackberry.
01:30 I wanted something to trellis them,
01:32 so we put in the split rail.
01:34 And then the raspberries are over there.
01:36 You're supposed to plant them 100 feet apart.
01:39 - Really?
01:40 - The blackberries are very invasive,
01:41 but also the raspberries are prone to root rot.
01:44 So we've got wine berries, blackberries, raspberries.
01:48 The strawberries are in the raised bed.
01:50 Blueberries are down on the end,
01:51 so they have to build an enclosure first.
01:53 - That's amazing.
01:54 - That's amazing.
01:55 - So here's all the normal squash, peppers, beans.
01:59 I tried doing some cucumbers in grow bags.
02:01 I didn't water enough.
02:03 Lesson learned from the cucumbers.
02:04 - Yep, yeah, they need a lot of water,
02:06 even though it was a very rainy year here.
02:08 - Cabbage once decimated the broccoli.
02:11 I had to pull all the brussels.
02:12 - Oh, geez.
02:13 - I didn't do row covers.
02:14 I'll do that next year.
02:15 Broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts,
02:18 cabbages really need row covers.
02:20 They don't need to be pollinated.
02:21 - What do you have got here, Deanna?
02:22 - Eddcord squash.
02:23 - Cantaloupe.
02:24 - Oh, wow, cantaloupe.
02:25 - They need fertilizer, and these guys,
02:27 now that I've pulled all the brussels sprouts,
02:29 are gonna go into the raised beds.
02:30 - Okay, they're struggling a little.
02:31 You can tell by the leaf color.
02:32 - Yeah, what does that mean when they're yellow?
02:33 - They're not getting enough calcium.
02:35 They don't have enough water to absorb the calcium.
02:37 I planted mint on the ground.
02:38 You're not supposed to do it.
02:39 It's gonna take over.
02:40 - That's a beautiful variegated mint, though.
02:42 - The groundhog hated it.
02:43 - Yeah, it keeps awakening.
02:44 Is it spearmint, or is it just regular mint?
02:46 - I got some spearmint, some peppermint.
02:49 So the groundhog was last year
02:50 that decimated everything we fought against.
02:52 Under all the structures, mesh bedding.
02:55 - Yeah, it's a big project.
02:56 - Metal mesh put in so they couldn't dig burrows.
02:58 - Yep.
02:59 - And I haven't had any groundhog issues.
03:01 - That's great.
03:02 - It was thousands of dollars.
03:03 - Yeah, it's a major expense.
03:05 - 'Cause what happens is they have lots of babies,
03:07 and then every year,
03:08 the babies find their way back to the home den.
03:10 - I didn't know the difference
03:11 between determinate and indeterminate tomatoes,
03:13 so all of mine became this big overgrown butt.
03:16 - I'm not sure that I know the difference either.
03:18 Tell me.
03:19 - So determinate kind of grow straight up,
03:20 and they're the ones that you think of
03:21 that stay in cages, and indeterminate become like bushes.
03:24 - Oh, big bushes.
03:25 - I didn't know the difference,
03:26 so I threw them all in together.
03:27 - It just makes them hard to harvest,
03:28 and it makes it hard to pick off tomato slugs,
03:32 or what are they called, if you have those.
03:32 - Oh, corn worms.
03:33 - So you got some blueberries coming in there,
03:35 or I don't know if they're a little bi.
03:36 - Yeah, those are a little bi.
03:37 You have to make the soil acidic,
03:39 so I'll have to keep up on that pH soil tester
03:42 for the first time.
03:43 - Wow, Nia, you're beyond my level.
03:45 - This is a plum tree.
03:47 - Plums!
03:47 - Cherry tree, a few Portland apple trees.
03:50 - Yeah.
03:51 - A little tree on the end,
03:51 and then three different types of apple trees
03:53 to hopefully cross-pollinate the Courtland,
03:56 'cause they don't self-pollinate.
03:57 These are all pretty healthy.
03:58 These were like late season discount from Lowe's.
04:01 I don't know if they're gonna survive.
04:02 - How do you feel about tree growing?
04:03 - Oh, I love it.
04:04 A favorite saying of mine,
04:05 the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
04:08 The second best time is right now.
04:09 - I wish we had moved in 14 years ago,
04:12 that I had planted a row of trees
04:14 for privacy along the deck.
04:15 Like, we would have had a beautiful privacy wall.
04:18 And I say it every year, and I still don't plant them.
04:20 - You could though, Nina.
04:21 - But you don't feel like you have enough privacy
04:23 with the bees?
04:24 - Like on the deck.
04:25 Like if we're sitting on the deck,
04:26 anyone in the neighborhood or driveway can see us.
04:28 - I can't go throw something out nude.
04:30 - These are razzler.
04:31 - Yeah.
04:32 - Really, you would want them in the spring.
04:33 - Yeah.
04:33 - So we're gonna see if we can keep them alive
04:35 and make them work.
04:36 We've got acorn squash, butternut squash.
04:39 I planted them so close together,
04:40 I'll probably get like mystery cross-pollination.
04:42 - Oh yeah.
04:43 - I'm just...
04:44 - Nina, you have really,
04:45 you've got an incredible garden growing.
04:46 - Really embraced the vegan lifestyle.
04:48 - Have you considered growing corn, Nina?
04:50 - Yeah.
04:51 - I was like, it is so delicious, fresh off the cob.
04:53 - I wanna grow corn and I wanna do potato.
04:55 I've got the milky spore to fight the Japanese beetle.
04:58 - Yeah.
04:59 - You put down the milky spore in the fall,
05:00 they eat it and it destroys their reproductive cycle.
05:03 - That's some second round strawberries coming in even.
05:05 You get a good crop of wine berries too.
05:07 - I ate so many.
05:08 - Oh, they're so good.
05:08 - Every time I was out here.
05:09 - One time I had enough at my house to make a wine berry pie,
05:12 which was amazing.
05:13 - Had we not installed the playground,
05:15 do you think you would have been less likely to do this?
05:16 Like once we were using the yard,
05:18 where you're like, well, hell.
05:19 - Once I kind of thought about the raised beds
05:23 because my stepfather used to have
05:25 kind of a little hobby garden here
05:26 and he would like till the whole space
05:28 and it didn't have a fence.
05:29 Like most of the stuff got eaten and trampled.
05:32 We actually used to get trampled by deer mainly.
05:34 - There is a small vegetable garden behind there.
05:36 - This year I'm putting in some picket fencing around it.
05:39 - Yeah.
05:40 - And I'm gonna put in some raised beds.
05:41 Once the raised beds went in, I was like,
05:43 oh, I can do this.
05:44 And then the groundhog almost ruined it.
05:45 'Cause I was like, I'm not gonna fight.
05:47 - Yeah, that's a vital.
05:48 My father has with deer now,
05:50 anytime he tries to grow anything, it ruins it,
05:51 which is really sad.
05:52 'Cause that's like one of his main hobbies.
05:54 - I'm telling you, put me to work
05:55 and I will put up a fence with you guys.
05:56 - Even starting small and picking like a small area
05:59 that you put up a fence.
06:00 - We did, and they just jumped over it.
06:01 The fence we put in five foot was not.
06:03 - Oh yeah, it's gotta be.
06:04 - Is this top soil?
06:06 - So this is compost.
06:07 - Did you make all this?
06:08 - No, no, I had this delivered.
06:09 This was meant to go there.
06:11 That's gonna be an ornamental squash patch.
06:13 - Okay.
06:14 - Where I grow like gourds and pumpkins and stuff.
06:16 - Nina, can I get you into hosta?
06:18 - This year I got really excited about hosta.
06:20 - Hosta.
06:21 - Hosta is the correct pronunciation.
06:23 Hosta would be perfect under those trees.
06:25 It would look so beautiful.
06:26 - But will it attract deer?
06:27 'Cause the deer like to eat the hosta, right?
06:29 - She's got you there.
06:30 - Yeah, she does.
06:30 She's gotta make ferns.
06:32 Beautiful local, natural, organic ferns.
06:34 They're beautiful, deer don't eat them.
06:36 - Yeah, in the fairy garden they would do well.
06:38 The cabbage moths just destroyed.
06:40 Like I had some really nice Brussels sprouts
06:42 like this fall I would have had
06:43 like a great Brussels sprout crop.
06:45 - That's too bad.
06:46 I was making some chocolate zucchini bread last weekend.
06:48 - Ooh, that sounds incredible.
06:49 - Lots of zucchini, lots of squash, lots of cucumbers.
06:52 Lots of peppers that weren't supposed to be spicy, but are.
06:54 - I'm noticing this is all food.
06:56 How do you feel about planting flowers?
06:58 - I really only plant the flowers
07:00 in to attract the pollinators.
07:01 - More of a prepper.
07:02 - Very practical.
07:03 - Yeah, this is where you're like,
07:04 when it hits the fan, we're done.
07:05 - Is this the thing that you bought
07:06 that won Black Friday?
07:07 - Yeah, this is a Scoopy Scoop.
07:09 - You've got your Scoopy Scoop?
07:11 - So I considered buying a wheelbarrow for a long time now.
07:14 And my projects really aren't that intensive.
07:17 But this, I can get my head around.
07:19 - You could move small plants.
07:20 You could move yard waste.
07:21 - I love it.
07:22 It's now too small for my purposes,
07:24 but it got me through.
07:25 - How long did it?
07:26 - Did you ever think Lena
07:27 would make an industrial sized garden?
07:28 - Well, I could kind of see the sparkings
07:30 in the last couple of years.
07:32 As I saw your increased passion
07:33 for solving the groundhog problem aggressively
07:36 instead of just kind of giving up.
07:37 - I know she's gotten a little bit snobbier
07:39 about good produce in the supermarket.
07:41 And honestly, she's been like,
07:42 Stop and Shop's got the best produce.
07:43 - Really?
07:44 - I would be stuck putting that store in.
07:45 - Yeah.
07:46 - Why?
07:47 - It's outrageous.
07:48 - It might be cheaper to grow them yourself.
07:49 - My guess is that the total value of the labor,
07:52 probably we're 20,000 in.
07:53 - It's getting less expensive every year.
07:55 And I'm having to put in,
07:57 the fruit trees are gonna really kill that ratio
07:59 because the fruit trees take so much with pruning.
08:01 But this really, I've only put in like an hour a day.
08:05 Like there's days that I haven't gotten out here.
08:07 But yeah, the first couple of years
08:08 required a lot of money and time.
08:11 (dramatic music)
08:13 (upbeat music)
08:16 (dramatic music)