welcome to the California Garden in the month of December from bountiful
harvests to things to do in your garden this month and what you can buy in the
gardening stores we have it all for you in today's episode
so let's begin with the garden tour starting with the raised beds we still
have the black Cobra peppers that are growing these were the ones that we
overwintered from last season and you can see right next to that we have a lot
of cauliflower plants that are growing well now and right next to the
cauliflower plants we have the radishes these are the winter radishes these
produce long white radishes and they're a great crop to grow in the cooler
season and right next to that we have the beets the beet plants have now
started growing well and they still have some more time to really start growing
the beets you can still harvest the greens if you want but I'm gonna wait
till they produce larger beets and you can see the bean plants these are the
pole bean plants that have been producing a lot of beans in the past
couple of months and you can see here now they're almost dying they've become
yellow and this is quite expected as the bean plants will not survive the cooler
winter days and on the other side you can see the pea plants that are growing
they have been growing on this trellis and producing some peas and right next
to that we have this new broccoli variety that we were trying and the
broccoli plants have grown very well as you can see here they're producing large
broccoli heads that will be ready for harvest very soon
and right next to the broccoli plants we have the radishes these are again the
winter radishes they are growing very well we will have some radishes very
soon and right next to the radishes we have some more cauliflower and cabbage
plants these have been growing well and will start producing very soon
and in the next bed we have some onion plants as you can see here the onion
plants have grown quite well and behind that you can see the cayenne pepper
plants that we overwintered and are growing well and right next to that we
have our cauliflower plants now the cauliflower plants yielded a lot of
cauliflower this month and we will soon see the harvest
now let's look at the harvests we made this month starting with beans now these
are the pole beans and they have been growing on this easy trellis for the
past few months and we got one last harvest of these beans as you can see
here great looking beans
and once this harvest is done this plant will be dormant so I will probably
remove this plant from the trellis now that the season is over but overall I
was very happy with the way the pole beans grew and it yielded a lot of beans
we also harvested a lot of cauliflower now there are two types of cauliflower
that you can get from your plants there will be the one which is slightly more
crispy looking as you can see here this one and what I came to know is that this
kind of cauliflower the one that you see on your screen here that we just
harvested is actually more sought-after compared to the regular cauliflower
because it's crispy and it produces great stir fries the regular cauliflower
is what you expect to harvest from your plants like the one you see here it's a
great looking cauliflower head all our cauliflower plants grew very well and as
you can see here the cauliflower heads are pretty nice we harvested a lot of
cauliflower from just one bed that we had here and overall I was very happy
with our cauliflower harvest
and as you can see here great looking cauliflower head that we harvested
moving on to eggplants this is the container little prince'
eggplant which is one of my favorite eggplant varieties now and this yielded
a few eggplants in December and the plant is pretty much dormant now now
that the cool season has set in I will try to overwinter this plant and see how
it produces eggplants in the next season
moving on to guavas we have the Mexican guava plant that was producing a lot of
Mexican guavas and we harvested a lot of guavas from this plant and as you can
see here the guavas are quite large in size what we got guavas of all shapes and
sizes but most of them were large guavas and as you can see here beautiful
looking harvest these guavas are extremely delicious crispy and although
they are not very sweet they are excellent in taste
mandarins we were growing our kishu Mandarin tree in this container and the
Kishu Mandarin is so sweet so delicious and a seedless as well it has become one
of my favorite Mandarin varieties now so these tangerines are extremely sweet
they peel off very easily the kids love it they will be able to peel this
Mandarin tangerine very easily and I think this has become one of my
favorites because of its taste this tangerine tastes extremely nice it's
small in size it tastes really good and is seedless as well so there are
different kinds of tangerines you can grow or mandarins that you can grow and
they are like the Golden Nugget the Satsuma the kishu that you see here so
it all depends on what kind of tangerines you like you can grow several
varieties and then see which one you like
I highly recommend this kishu Mandarin variety this is an excellent tasting
mandarin tangerine moving on to peas our pea plants were growing along this
trellis as you can see here and producing a lot of pea pods and we grew
about four or five plants as you can see and this produced a decently sized
harvest I think I would need several more plants for getting a larger harvest
but we did start harvesting the pea pods you can just feel around the pea pods
and see which ones have the peas that have developed inside it and this is how
your pea pod looks like it has the peas inside it and since we did not grow a
lot of plants this was great for snacking I usually just go out in the
garden harvest a few pea pods and then have it as a snack so all in all we
really enjoyed growing peas in our garden and it's really a joy to just
harvest these shelling type peas and then just eat them as a snack they're
absolutely delicious and very sweet so next season I'll probably grow some more
pea plants because I think this is not enough for average to a larger harvest
so I will try to grow some more plants in the future but if you haven't tried
growing peas in your garden do try it out the peas are extremely delicious
very sweet and very fresh peas that you can harvest from your garden now let's
look at the peppers the Chili Peppers we were growing this cayenne pepper we were
growing this from the last season and it produced a few peppers that we harvested
radish we were growing both the white radish variety as well as the french
breakfast radish variety which is a red one that you see here and we
harvested the French breakfast radish as you can see here beautiful looking
radish and this was almost growing on the top of the compost now we added a
lot of compost to this bed and I was happy to see that the radish actually
was growing just over the top of the compost just enough to send out its
roots and gather all the nutrients it needs and the French breakfast is a nice
radish variety it grows pretty quickly not as quick as the thirty-day variety
but still grows quite fast and now let's look at the tangerines
we had the dancy tangerines growing in our tree and as you might have seen
in our previous months the tangerines had started ripening and we harvested a
lot of tangerines almost every day from this tangerine tree now the Dancy
tangerine has a classic tangerine taste it is not seedless it does have seeds if
you are looking to grow a tangerine variety that's like a class a tangerine
variety try the Dancy tangerine it will give you really good quality tangerines
and just look at how loaded this plant is we have hundreds of tangerines on
this plant and even after harvesting almost every day we ended up with a lot
of tangerines so on Christmas Day we just harvested a lot of these tangerines
from the tree and it's very obvious that we cannot eat that many tangerines
so all this went to our friends we did meet a lot of friends on Christmas day
and it was really nice to share the produce from our garden the fruits from
our garden with our friends and the dancy tangerines are one of the perfect
fruits you can share with your friends they're extremely sweet delicious
and our Juliet tomato is also producing the final tomatoes and we harvested a
couple of tomatoes from this plant and now let's look at the things to do in
your garden this month you can start pruning your dormant plants like mint as
you can see here the mint will have a lot of dead stems which you can remove
and prune it will give some room for the plants to grow well and this is our mint
plant that was growing in the small container that we are pruning and you
can remove a lot of stems the dead stems from this plant because it will get very
crowded now you can do the same thing with the basil plant we had this thai
basil plant as you can see here growing very well but it was time to prune this
plant so we removed all the dead stems so in general it's a good time to look
around your plants and see which plants have dead stems and that leaves and just
remove them so that the plant has more room to grow during the dormant season
one of my friends actually gave me this Madagascar Jasmine plant and I like to
grow different varieties of jasmine so the Madagascar Jasmine is one variety
that I really wanted to try out so if you are growing this jasmine variety do
put in a comment below and tell me how you find this jasmine variety this is
the first time I am growing this plant I have a lot of good quality potting mix
inside this 16 inch wide container and I'm gonna be growing this plant here now
this plant loves warm weather so I'm expecting it to remain a little dormant
during the winter season and then grow back up once it becomes a little warm
now what are your plant very well after you plant it and I'm really excited to
see how this plant grows and I will provide you future updates on when this
plant starts flowering this is also time to start your second batch of seeds
so I'm starting some more cabbages and cauliflower plants that I will
eventually be planting now depending on your zone you can also start warm season
crops like tomatoes peppers and eggplants I usually wait till January to
start these plants because it takes about six to eight weeks for them to
grow in the seed starting cells so I usually start my plant and the first
week of January the warm and summer crops that is so I start them in the
first week of January to be transplanted around early spring now let's look at
the things you can buy at your local gardening stores it's Christmas season
all around but you can also get some vegetable plants and although they've
started selling a lot of the summer vegetables it's a good idea not to buy
them now because they are not ready to be transplanted yet however you can buy
some herbs some cool season crops like cabbages and cauliflower and you can
also buy onions which are available for sale now other than that we have bare
rooted roses that you can buy for planting in your garden they will be
available in December and January along with other bare rooted fruit trees so
it's a good time to start bare rooted trees in your garden now so there we
have it folks that was our episode on the California Garden for the month of
December from all of us here at California gardening we wish you a Merry
Christmas and a very happy new year if you like this video do give us a thumbs
up and if you have any questions do put them in the comments box below we'll see
you again soon happy gardening
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