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Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:10]Hello family. It's quite a beautiful morning. I brought with me some water bottles which I've cut into halves and I've made holes on them. This is what you do when you want to plant anything in a container. Plants need to breathe and drainage is also important. So, I've drilled holes at the bottom and on the sides, and we are going to use these containers to plant strawberries.

[00:00:38]At the beginning of the season, I had just three suckers of strawberries, which I planted in one of the beds just to multiply them. And currently, there are so many suckers. So, that's what I'll be transferring into the containers, but I will still keep the ones on the bed.

[00:00:57]I'm moving into the villa soon and I'll be so glad to wake up and pick some strawberries for my breakfast every morning. Strawberries thrive in direct sunlight. So, I'm going to place the containers in an area of the garden that gets at least 8 hours of sunshine every day.

[00:01:24]For the bottom part of the water bottles, I will just place them on the ground, but then they're the tops that have the protruding part. So, I'm going to dig just tiny holes and then I will be inserting the top of the bottles there so that I just left with the container bit of it.

[00:01:45]Strawberries also love very fertile soil. So, I brought with me a lot of compost. The compost has lots of cow manure in it. So, I hope it will be a good environment for the strawberries to thrive in.

[00:03:15]So, next I'm going to fill up the containers with the compost I brought And I will be leaving a small space at the top so that we can replenish compost in the future.

[00:06:47]This is the strawberry patch.

[00:06:48]Unfortunately, I planted tomatoes on the other side. So, it's kind of giving lots of shade on this other side. But this is the mother plant and there are lots of suckers on the side. So, I'm just going to dig out the suckers and leave the mother plant. And I'm going to plant them in the containers I just prepared.

[00:07:09]I also have to cut the runners that connect the mother plant to the circus.

[00:07:15]There's no harm in doing that. In fact, it makes the mother plant concentrate on fruiting. When the mother plant focuses on fruiting, then we get bigger and healthier fruits and they grow faster than when it's focusing on runners.

[00:07:35]So, this is what a strawberry sucker looks like and this is what we're going to be planting.

[00:11:36]So, that's just about it. That's how you plant strawberries, and we will revisit in a few weeks to see its progress. I have more manure here which I'm going to add to the other beds which have other vegetables. It is always important to keep your beds healthy by adding fertilizer from time to time.

[00:12:00]Yesterday was a bad day in gardening. We had a really serious storm that has destroyed lots of my crops.

[00:12:08]I walked in today and I'm really really disappointed though. So these are things you expect as a gardener or a farmer.

[00:12:16]There are always days like this. Most of the plants that are affected are those that stand tall in the garden. Though some of them fell on the lower plants and have really damaged them.

[00:12:32]All the cucumber releases are down.

[00:12:36]They seem uprooted. So I'm really not sure if they're going to survive beyond this. So, I'm going to try to put them back into their right position, though. I don't know if they're going to hold.

[00:12:55]They're just lots of little cucumbers that would have been ready in the coming week that seem destroyed. Some of them have fallen.

[00:13:07]I've really been enjoying cucumber in the past few weeks and this is really really sad for me. It looks like this will be the end of my cucumbers.

[00:13:20]But I'm one person who doesn't lose hope. So if this doesn't hold, then I'll just plant new kai cucumbers since they don't even take long to fruit.

[00:14:15]It is my first time growing garlic and I've been really excited about my garlic patch because they were really thriving.

[00:14:23]Unfortunately, the cucumbers fell on them. So, they stayed on them the entire night. Some of them have broken necks.

[00:14:32]I'm honestly not sure what's going to happen from this point. So, I'm just going to try to keep them upright.

[00:14:40]And just a little weeding to see if that will help.

[00:14:46]If I lose my garlic, I'll feel really, really bad. I've been looking forward to harvesting from this patch.

[00:15:39]The cayenne pepper patch wasn't spared.

[00:15:43]They're all leaning on one side. And I'm just going to try to also get them upright by heaping soil on the side that they've fallen on. That might help them get back.

[00:16:02]Sadly enough, the can pepper was already fruing. There are lots of fruit. There are lots of damaged branches and this is going to affect my yield.

[00:16:15]But if they can get back up and not dry, then that won't be a problem.

[00:16:22]Peppers have a way of bouncing back after stress.

[00:17:46]This is what is left of the cassava patch. This time I was really expecting a good harvest from cava. If you remember a few weeks ago, I harvested just one of the trees and we got lots of cassava.

[00:18:03]So, experts in cassava farming can help.

[00:18:07]Let me know if I cut the tree into half, will it still fruit or will it make it to maturity?

[00:18:16]I'm also trying to heap soil at the base of the plant to see if it can get back upright, but honestly, I don't think it will hold for long. So, let me know if they will still uh stick around to maturity if I cut them into halves.

[00:19:30]Now maze is our staple food here. So when you see your crops lying on the ground like this, it is just so so painful. It pains my heart to see my crops like this.

[00:19:46]Many of them are broken along the stem.

[00:19:48]So, those fans are just done with.

[00:19:53]I don't know if what's left is going to get back up or even make it. So, surprisingly, the tomato trellises have survived. Probably because they are much shorter.

[00:20:06]And we have some beautiful tomatoes coming up.

[00:20:15]These ones look really, really big and healthy.

[00:20:19]So our tomato patch hasn't been affected.

[00:20:26]Other survivors are the onions. So basically the shorter uh vegetables have survived the spinach though you can see some rust rust like uh things on the leaves. This is because of the heavy rains we're currently experiencing. So that means we have a lot of water in the soil which is not good for them. So it's the reason you see lots of that rusty stuff on them. Otherwise our onions are intact.

[00:21:10]Uh they are approaching maturity. So that's why you see some of them bending over.

[00:21:16]When they fall like that, they're just approaching maturity.

[00:21:21]So that patch is not affected.

[00:21:25]Uh this is what our carrots look like.

[00:21:29]Uh they are a bit fallen, but I don't think that will affect them. I know as soon as the sun is out, they will all rise up.

[00:21:43]When tarot leaves starts to yellow like that, that means they're ready to harvest.

[00:21:49]And this patch too wasn't affected.

[00:21:52]They're standing tall. They're standing firm.

[00:21:55]I really fear for the beans. Beans and lots of rain at this point is just not a good thing.

[00:22:06]There's some good news today.

[00:22:18]My loquat is finally fruing after 3 years. This is the third year since I planted it.

[00:22:26]And finally, we have some flowers. So, we're going to have some fruit pretty soon.

[00:22:45]Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed the video and until the next one, it is bye-bye.