Composting, mini backyard orchard, front yard garden

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:05]Today I'm not going to bother. We have been getting a lot of rain and so pile is unquestly cool, but I had to routinely empty out the compost that we get. So, here we are at the compost pile.

[00:00:25]It's a little damp out here. You know what we're also going to do? I'm going to show you guys my how the pineapples are coming along, but in a second.

[00:00:35]Feel like they're rooting. These are the pineapples that I started from storebought pineapples. I'll show you guys in a little bit. But first things first, we're going to feed the compost and empty out the kitchen scraps.

[00:00:47]I am able to compost 365 days of kitchen scraps in my two 4 foot by two foot by two foot space. So excited to We're not going to be harvesting these uh compost yet. I did one maybe three weeks ago and today we're just feeding it. I'm out of I'm out of leaves.

[00:01:13]We are just going to use what we have. I do have a lot of other dried yard stuff that I could use, but for now, I'm going to open this up.

[00:01:30]Open it up. You guys remember I cover the stones to keep out the pests, but then I will also use and we'll also use plastic to keep out the moisture to the next.

[00:01:51]We're also going to take a look at the back of the room a little bit. See how things are growing right back down. All right.

[00:02:01]All right. It's nice and moist in here.

[00:02:04]I'm probably going to keep it open for the rest of the day. That way, the compost can breathe. And we're going to throw some more things out.

[00:02:12]Now, ideally, uh, we want to keep our pieces small when we compost. These are all of my greens that we're going to be throwing in today. I don't have any browns to add, at least not at the moment. I'll have to go dig some up from the front side of the garden where I do have a bunch of weeds that I want to compost.

[00:02:31]So, we'll use that. But for right now, we're going to make our kitchen scraps super small. These are all of our greens. Add them in more greens.

[00:02:42]Uh, I got these pineapples. We're going to break the pineapple into little pieces so it'll be easier for the black soldierfly larvy to break them down.

[00:02:51]break it down. And then I also have a rotting tomato that we are going to attempt to grow from. But in the meanwhile, we're going to compost everything else.

[00:03:04]Welcome. I am We are doing hot composting in my backyard.

[00:03:10]I've been hot composting for about a couple of years now and making my own compost to use in my garden soil.

[00:03:19]We're just breaking up the pineapple here. More carrots, avocado, eggs.

[00:03:27]I've got chicken bones to use today, too. First things first, try to make the little pieces a little bit smaller when adding to your pile.

[00:03:37]If you guys are into composting, I'm in North Texas and I hot compost.

[00:03:45]Black soldierfly lies are popular in the southeastern part of the United States.

[00:03:49]And I have na native black soldierfly libray that are inhibiting my compost pile and helping break down the food at twice the rate of a earthworm.

[00:04:02]Okay, more. We got cantaloupe, some cantaloupe too, cut up winter melon and some chicken bones. Usually my compost pile ends up getting to about 110 degrees. And I do see um I do put in some meat product to break down. Okay, I think that's it.

[00:04:25]I have a little bit of this. We got some peels and some more here. Throw these in. And then I'm going to save some of these um tomatoes.

[00:04:38]They're rotted. But we're gonna go ahead and try to grow these out in the front yard. All right, done. Now, we're gonna mix it up.

[00:04:52]Composting. I usually have browns to add in, but we are out of ground at the moment. I'll have to go get some from the front yard usually, and my pile is very moist right now. But this will break down nicely. I'm going to leave this to airate. We see a lot of uh black soldierfly larae crawling. I don't know if you guys can see them. I can see them moving in the screen. So, these are black soldierfly larvae that we have in here. That's helping break down all this delicious goodness so that we can use this back in my garden and the front yard and the backyard here.

[00:05:28]Okay. And with that, we're just going to let it air out.

[00:05:33]Beautiful.

[00:05:35]Yeah, they love it in here. Black social libraries like it warm and extremely and moist. So, this is great for that.

[00:05:48]All right.

[00:05:56]This air out today.

[00:05:58]Okay. Now, we're going to go take a look at the pineapple top. show you guys what it looks like. If you guys recall, I have some pineapple top that I started.

[00:06:10]Hello. I have pineapple tops that I started from storebought.

[00:06:16]I got some water bugs that I see here.

[00:06:18]And let's take a look. Let's see how the roots are coming along. They've been in here for about a couple weeks now. I can tell the plants are getting longer. I literally took a bunch of compost, the extra compost that I had emptied out and put the pineapple tops in here from pineapple.

[00:06:37]>> I'm pretty sure all of these have developed a really nice set of roots.

[00:06:41]And on a day like this, I think we're going to go ahead and move them into the front as well. So, let's take a look.

[00:06:54]Got rid of that one. This is This is the original pineapple. So, we got roots on that one.

[00:07:05]This one.

[00:07:07]This one did not have roots. We'll keep at it, though. At least it's green. At least it's green.

[00:07:14]This one looks really good, though. This one right here. Pull it up.

[00:07:18]Yeah, it's got some roots going on there. Roots going on. Super nice.

[00:07:24]And then the last one here.

[00:07:29]Okay, this one, no roots are developing yet. We'll keep at it, though.

[00:07:36]Last one.

[00:07:39]Okay. Okay. No, it's still alive. So, these are pineapple tops that we are pineapple kitchen scraps that we're growing. So, let's go. We're going to go and transplant these out in the garden.

[00:07:51]And meanwhile, go ahead and use this delicious compost that I have here because it's been tied up with my pineapple. So, we're gonna put this back in here. I'm gonna go plant this on the front.

[00:08:05]We're getting some good rain over the next couple of days. So, I want to get a little They've been growing in the shade of this plury tree here. And it is time to move out the front yard. We're going to take up take advantage of an overcast day like today and move them out to the front yard. Next couple of days are going to be cooler and that's the best time to do any sort of transplanting especially when it's cooler typically also means that it's going to be nice and steady and sun can be a source of stress especially.

[00:08:39]All right, so a few things that we're going to take the front yard before we get there. We're doing a mini backyard tour of some of the things that I have.

[00:08:50]What's this?

[00:08:56]We're going to take a look at my This is my fig tree here.

[00:09:00]We're just going to be pinching back here. That's typically what I do. Pinch back. I would say don't let the white stuff touch you. The white stuff can be an irritant for some people. This is like big tree that is growing out of hand. We're just pinching back here.

[00:09:15]And all of these I could add as compost to my to my um as compost. We're just going to pinch back here and toss them on the floor and then when I get a chance I'll move them into my compost. My fig tree that has not beared me figs yet. But nonetheless, we are keeping it small in size. It is growing very large this season. And if you don't continue to pinch back a fig tree, it will it will grow very large very quickly and be unmanageable. So stay on top of the pinching. I am pinching probably roughly once a week every every week of spring. So we got some of that.

[00:10:02]Step in here. Get these pinching back.

[00:10:07]This is also going to help your fig tree get bushy. So, that is why I'm doing this.

[00:10:14]Fig tree bushy.

[00:10:16]We're also going to take a look at my um other trees in here in a little. We got a peach tree that does have peaches on it. It's a peach tree I started from seed and we're in its fourth year.

[00:10:30]Pinching back.

[00:10:32]All right. One more.

[00:10:36]Oo, kind of chilly. Okay, done. All right, now we're going to go walk around to the Now we are walking around to the side and taking a look at how the blackberries are growing.

[00:10:57]Blackberries. Here's my blackberry section. Flowers are are happening.

[00:11:02]berries are starting to grow in.

[00:11:05]These are blackberries. They grow especially well in Texas. These are the one-year-old canes that you see me showing here. And then down below right here is the new canes that I'm going to step back a little bit where my Wi-Fi is a little better. Fakes can bear fruits in two years. Yes, Andrew. It's really easy. You take the pineapple top, you pick off the bottom uh leaves to kind of expose what looks like little stubs or little roots, and you put it I would put it snugly in some soil, or in my case, I just use straight up compost because that's what I had access to. And um I stuck them in there. I'd put them in an a protected area, a shaded area.

[00:11:55]So in my case, you saw that I have them in the shade of a plury tree or just another tree in general or you could do a shaded patio. You could even do indoors next to a sunny window.

[00:12:06]Basically, you don't want direct sun.

[00:12:07]Direct sun on a plant that doesn't have roots yet means death. So make sure you give it a little bit of you got to shelter it a little bit when it develops its roots kind of like I was showing there for the most part or pick an overcast day like today. You could or next couple of days you could then plant them out.

[00:12:26]Yes, figs can. I think I have my figs in a less than sunny spot. So, that to me is really easily the answer for me. Um, in the backyard, I'm still working on it. Let's see. I have garlic back here.

[00:12:37]I also have garlic in the front yard, too. But garlic is going to be ready in another two weeks. Uh, the blackberry, I've kind of let it do its own thing.

[00:12:45]And then I have stone fruits kind of throughout from fruits that I've been eating. Oh, my cucumbers are finally growing. I started with four and I have two left.

[00:12:55]Oh, we're getting our first flowers, too. Um, my cattle panel trelluses are eventually going to go in the front yard, but for now, um, they're still here and I haven't had a chance to get them set up in the front yard yet. I'm going to be using them as arches and that is what it is. I do need to get on top of my the trellis for my raspberries though. Look, there's our yellow raspberries. They are looking so good. And I need to give them the proper support. So, this year I did this silly thing where I cut back on my raspberries, not realizing that I was sacrificing the fruit. So, these are all new growth here.

[00:13:33]Um, and but at the same time, this means next year I should have a bunch of fruits. So, yeah, sacrificial year, I guess, is what you would call it.

[00:13:46]Um, I have a lot of What else you got?

[00:13:50]>> Yeah, the pear tree is pear tree is bearing fruit. Yep. This pear tree has been here longer than I have though or longer than we have. So, it's bearing fruit. This has probably been here for I don't know. It's like maybe since this the house was it may it must be a 20 year old pear tree.

[00:14:17]Usually it's more bountiful, but this year we had to cut it back a little bit because it was um getting a little bit too big.

[00:14:24]Stunning. Thank you. Growing. How are you? Oh, look like a peach tree. Another peach tree. Okay, so the west side of the peach tree. Super zoomed in.

[00:14:38]Okay, this one's this is so this is what some of the fruits are looking like unfortunately.

[00:14:44]And then I have those ones over there.

[00:14:46]We'll see how they do.

[00:14:48]Look how dense it is in here, though. It is very, very, very, very dense. Very dense in here. I look forwards to trimming this all back once the fruits Hopefully I'll be able to get some. Let me walk over to the fruit so we can see.

[00:15:03]Here are some of the ones that I tried to protect.

[00:15:07]Oh no. Did I do a good job? Something's still in there.

[00:15:12]Yeah, that's how the they're coming along. What's that one? That one fell off already. Okay. What What is that?

[00:15:19]What is that black thing? So yeah, this is why like should we even bother protecting our fruits?

[00:15:28]Like look, nature just kind of takes care of itself. And I don't even know what this is on here. I'm going to put this in my compost though. The fruits are kind of dropping on their own. Am I going to get fruit? I don't know. Let's go to the other side and see.

[00:15:46]Ah, my dill's coming in nicely. I planted a bunch of dill here. Looks like I at least got one plant, if not much.

[00:15:56]Got at least one dill plant.

[00:15:59]That's good.

[00:16:04]Looks unappetizing this here and put it in the compost.

[00:16:13]Okay, what else I got?

[00:16:21]This is another another stone fruit tree that I started from seed.

[00:16:27]Some of these are likely um what you call them are likely nectarines. But gosh, look how dense it is in here. Super dense.

[00:16:40]Super dense. Okay, I got to the other side.

[00:16:44]I don't know if these Anyway, so here are the peaches. This one already dropped, whichever it was.

[00:16:52]I don't think I'll be picking up peaches next year because like they're all they're all getting sick. Like look at this.

[00:17:00]I look nasty.

[00:17:04]Anyway, we'll see. We'll see. Maybe I'll at least get something. But they look they don't look like they're doing as well as they did in the beginning of the season.

[00:17:20]>> All right. Well, we will keep it up.

[00:17:22]We'll see. There's some fruits up there, too. We'll see. I do need to trim this back heavily, though. Gosh, I didn't realize it was going to get so thick.

[00:17:31]It's like a jungle back here. Jungle.

[00:17:35]It's a jungle back here.

[00:17:39]Okay, we're going to walk out to the front now and see and try to get some of those cherry tomatoes that I showed you guys started.

[00:17:55]Okay. Ew.

[00:17:58]Ew. I know. It looks like really nasty.

[00:18:01]It's like a gum. Are you guys curious?

[00:18:02]Let's see what's in here. Should we open it? Let's see what's in here.

[00:18:06]So, this is a peach that I picked off the peach tree. It really fallen off. It has, first of all, it had a twin and it naturally dropped on its own. It has a gum here. Gum is coming out of it which indicates I don't know some sort of damage or stress. Let's open up and see if there's anything like how is it developing? Clearly it's experiencing some sort of damage.

[00:18:36]Oh.

[00:18:47]Okay. Yeah, definitely exhibiting some degree of damage only on this side.

[00:18:54]Like so much so that I think it dropped the fruit because it was stressed.

[00:18:59]Anyway, oops.

[00:19:05]It's mostly just that section, but looks like it was enough.

[00:19:10]I feel like my peaches should be growing more. I feel like they haven't been doing a lot of growing in the last weeks or so.

[00:19:18]Nature is always an adventure. Cool to see your day full of peace and greasy.

[00:19:22]Thank you. Thank you. Growing. Okay.

[00:19:25]Okay. So, this is going to go in the compost. If anyone has any tips, I see others already harvesting their peaches.

[00:19:32]My peaches grow in a southern facing spot, so it could be that um with it growing so thick, it's not getting as much sun, which may mean that next year I need to prune back even more aggressively. Okay, we're going to take our items and move them to the front.

[00:19:49]Get these here.

[00:19:51]We're going to get these here.

[00:19:54]We have the cherry tomatoes, the moldy ones, storebought ones that I'm going to try to store.

[00:20:00]Then we also have the pineapples that I want to go ahead and move out into the garden. Taking advantage of I got distracted.

[00:20:22]Okay.

[00:20:25]And then conveniently, I've got compost in here. So, this will work really well.

[00:20:29]I This is from the last compost batch that we pulled and it was roughly um three weeks ago.

[00:20:42]tied up eating the pineapple tops here.

[00:20:46]Walk up to the front yard.

[00:20:49]Oops.

[00:20:53]I also have a grape vine, but it is in a spot that could probably get some more sun, so we'll we'll need a range for it.

[00:21:02]I'll show you the grapes, though. I literally have one grape, and it is time to harvest the pill. You guys see all this pilla? Pa is a Japanese basil. I need to go ahead and harvest all of those and I like to make a tea out of it.

[00:21:18]Thank you. Grow.

[00:21:22]Thank you. Growing. So, we got lots of um pill here. I'm actually wondering if I should do a harvest. I I am a little low on battery. So, we are going to we're going to come back and do that in a little bit. This is the tree though. I'm trying to move as slowly as possible so it's not dizzying for you guys.

[00:21:46]Um, I will say the reason why is because I heavily pruned it and I pruned the whole branch.

[00:21:54]I already had a branch that was growing up on top, but I pruned it off. Whoops.

[00:22:00]Anyway, so I've got another one trained up here this season. And for now, I've got some grapes. Hopefully, we're going to be able to eat those that you guys see there. Hopefully. Hopefully.

[00:22:11]Okay, we're going to move back out to those here.

[00:22:16]Grabbing a few things.

[00:22:21]I'm going to get lots of wildlife in the front yard. Lots of bunnies.

[00:22:31]You guys see bunny right there?

[00:22:36]Okay, we're going to sit down. I do also need to charge my phone, so I'll be able to sit down and chitchat here.

[00:22:58]Thank you. Growing. No, I No, I mean I like It It absolutely is a little scrappy, but that's I'm working on make it all beautiful.

[00:23:09]Okay, what are we going to do? We were going to get the getting the stand here so you guys can see it a little better. I'm going to get plugged in here.

[00:23:21]Sorry, this side is a little bit This is the lighting is not as good. Okay, but let me set this down here. growing.

[00:23:31]What's growing in your garden, by the way? It's a little dark over here.

[00:23:37]Okay. Um, but here were the tomatoes that we were going to try and start.

[00:23:45]Some of these don't even look bad anyway, cuz what happens when you open a tomato?

[00:23:53]I'm gonna actually get my I'm gonna get my charger really quickly and my battery charger. That way I don't have to sit in this dark corner and I'll be back. But I was just going to show you guys the pineapples are coming along. These are from storebought pineapples, right? Look at those roots.

[00:24:10]Look at those roots. So, give me a moment. I wanted to take advantage of this overcast day and go ahead and start plant things out. We actually have cooler weather. So, it got uh as you can tell by the way I'm dressed, we have rain and more rain coming all the way and it's feels like spring. Yesterday was 80 degrees. So, really thankful we're getting some cool weather. Give me a moment. I'm going to pause it so I can grab my battery and I can move to a better lit spot.

[00:24:40]The front door is locked. Okay.

[00:25:40]All right, got my battery charger. Okay, we're gonna hook this up. Holly, hello. Good to see you. Give me a moment. I I just need to switch.

[00:25:55]Yay. Today we started out with composting as I usually as I'm trying to do now. And then just putting eating the compost. And now we are in the front yard here. We took a look at some of the trees. The peach tree is a little sickly looking. Even some of the ripening peaches, so I don't know what to do there. But it is the first year that's given me a real crop. And the peaches actually don't seem to be growing much since the last time I saw it. The leaves are growing very thickly, though. I'm just going to move to a slightly sunnier spot here or a better lit spot.

[00:26:30]And then in the memo, I wanted to show off the pineapple tops and how they are growing. They're growing in really nicely.

[00:26:41]Let me just do it.

[00:26:44]You missed an amazing Thank you very much for doing a quick recap. Oh, yeah. No, it was just the backyard Polly. We haven't done the front yard yet. Um, we have some here are some of the these are from the compost, but I have some rotting cherry tomatoes from storebought. So, we're going to be opening this and starting from these seeds. We got lots of seeds in here, right? So, we're going be starting seeds these as well as these. It's a little bit late in my season to be starting it, but in general, cherry tomatoes grow pretty well even through the hot summer months. So, I am still going to be trying to grow these. Just opening that up. And then I wanted to show you guys the progress on the pineapple tops that I started from storebought pineapples.

[00:27:33]This was some compost that I had taken out of the compost roughly about a month ago. And since then, they've they're growing in really nicely. These are the roots. I wanted to take advantage of the overcast day that we have today and cool weather to actually move them out.

[00:27:51]I think I want to put them in the front yard. Actually need to move them on first. But look at the roots. They're coming in really nicely.

[00:27:59]I also have Oh, and then I also have some other ones that are they don't look like they're quite there yet, but maybe at least they're still green. At least they're still green. Like this one has a little baby sprout coming out of it.

[00:28:15]So, actually what I should do is I think I'm going to peel this back a little bit more to see if we can find the roots because this doesn't look like there are any roots on here. We're just going to peel it back because these outer leaves are like don't look good anymore, right?

[00:28:29]But at some point it is growing well because we got that green there. So, I'm just going to peel all the dead leaves back and we're going to try this one again. I think it's going to live.

[00:28:45]Okay. All right. So, that's moldy. That part's dead.

[00:28:50]Okay. I think from this we'll be able to grow something. Should I peel it back more? Yeah. From this. And then this one also not always successful. I think we're going to peel away the outer leaves here. Um, but it's still green on the inside, which is why I think it's can still be saved. I think we'll still be able to grow from it.

[00:29:11]Just peeling away the dead parts though, the dead leaves because those are just obstructing the roots at this point.

[00:29:21]All right, try that. I would say the most important thing about pineapples is they need to be snugly tucked in, right?

[00:29:29]So needs to be snugly tucked in. So that's one of the biggest things. And that they have really shallow roots. So if you can closely plant them, that is ideal. I know it sounds contradictory, but I guess what you could do over time is slowly uh transplant the plants into a bigger area, but it is important to kind of uh densely plant them. You could plant it with other uh pineapple plants or you could try to plant it with other plants that are going to be able to shade the soil around the pineapple. This is the other one. This is the fourth one that I have in here. This one is also developing nice roots. So, two successes and some and two other mediocre ones. These two are growing really nice in here. Oh, that's actually a weak root. But those are the actual roots of a pineapple.

[00:30:23]Yay. Growing. Okay. So, now we're going to I'm debating where I should put them in the front yard now.

[00:30:32]I'm debating. Or should I put Should I leave them? No, I want to put them in the front yard and then this winter I need to remember to take it in and protect them from the elements cuz my my pineapple plants from last year are doing well dropping real. Yay.

[00:30:54]Yay growing. And let me know if I'm not if I need to explain something a little bit more. Um but yeah. Yay. Look, I even left on the the labels here to see if you guys could see that. This is like Okay. Um, we are going to go plant these out because I want to be able to use the soil in here, which is a bunch of compost that I emptied from the compost bin three months ago. And see, I'm going to grab We're going to go over there. How are you guys doing? Happy Wednesday, by the way. I'm so thankful for this uh rainfall that we're getting. Like I said, are you guys You guys may have heard me talk about it. It's been a really dry spring so far. At least especially in the early It was a dry winter and it was a pretty dry spring, but finally like within the last three weeks, we're getting rain here. So, I'm so thankful for that. Paulie, I know you're in Colorado and you guys have been in a drought.

[00:31:55]Um, is it correcting itself yet? And how is Missouri? Are you guys getting good rain? I feel like you guys might be getting more rain.

[00:32:06]Kind of like me, right? You guys have been getting more rain. All right, I'm just trying to decide where I should plant the pineapples.

[00:32:16]I don't know where I don't know where I want to commit yet. Okay, I have flower bed here. I'm going to plant it in the flower beds because I have some empty space and I want them to fill in nicely.

[00:32:27]So, that's what we're going to do.

[00:32:28]Where's my shovel?

[00:32:30]Okay, my shovel's right there. Let me grab that.

[00:32:36]Sending the P. Thank you. We had to Oh, yes, that's right. Yeah, that's right.

[00:32:42]Okay, let me grab uh Are you guys doing okay? We have been having I mean, in North Texas, we often have tornado watches, so that is not uncommon.

[00:32:55]>> Holly, how are things growing in your indoor setup?

[00:33:02]Okay. I think what I'll do is I'm going to plant them here.

[00:33:08]Yes. Like here. Yes. Here. Perfect.

[00:33:11]Here. Okay.

[00:33:17]I have a lot of We have an onion in here. Think we need to harvest. We're going to harvest this.

[00:33:27]Okay. This is a super tiny onion, which is probably why it was stressed, but it's fallen over. We're going to harvest it no matter how small.

[00:33:37]What was it? Do you guys think it was?

[00:33:39]Oh, it looks like it's a white onion.

[00:33:41]Someone is it says it's done growing.

[00:33:46]Okay. Okay. Yeah. Small one. Small cute one.

[00:33:52]I planted too deeply again, which is why it has this. It's tricky for me. I planted in one inch of soil and I didn't realize that mulch also counts. So yeah, another tiny one. Um, okay. So in this in my flower bed here, I've got this dandelion that I want to get rid of. And we're going to plant the pineapple in its spot.

[00:34:14]Or actually, I'm going to plant them all here. Actually, uh, in this section, you got the figs right here. So the figs are coming in really nicely. That's probably my biggest bid right now. Like the one that you guys That's my biggest bid right now. And then did I get my shovel? I thought I grabbed my shovel. No, I'm not sure. What did I do with the shovel? Oh, here. Okay. So, those are the figs. I just pinched back yesterday. So, these are the figs growing. If you remember, figs grow on second on second year wood.

[00:34:47]So, this is wood that grew last year.

[00:34:49]And actually, you know what? This is first year. Is this sticking your leg?

[00:34:54]All the green trunks are the ones that are giving fruit. The older trunks like this one here, uh, no fruits off of that. So, just keep that in mind. A lot of fruing trees work the same way. They always give fruit on second year branches.

[00:35:10]So, when you start trimming, just be mindful of that. Okay. Have here.

[00:35:18]Move this to the side. I'm not going to plant them in a row here.

[00:35:22]This planting in a row here means it's going to face north south, which means for the most part that they'll get equal sun, somewhat equal sun. I mean, they're they're going to get some shade from the first sun. Oh, what is that? Oh, this is this is my um I forgot that I've got my watering system here. So, we got to go above this.

[00:35:48]And we're still right here. We plant two here, I think. Move it to another spot.

[00:35:53]I reached the soil already. Beautiful.

[00:35:55]We're going to Okay. When we plant the pineapples, remember, we want it snug around the base of it. So, I'm going to take the I'm going to take this one, the one that has roots on it.

[00:36:10]These are just blooming in compost. Look at the roots. Those look good.

[00:36:16]And I'm going to be planting it right here. Look at that. That's like red.

[00:36:21]Anyway, so these are the roots of pineapple. They're super shallow. And the most important thing for you to know is that they need to plant it snugly.

[00:36:28]I'm going to grab some of the compost that was in my bucket already just to give it a little bit more food. Oops.

[00:36:39]And then that in nicely.

[00:36:43]Tucking it in really nice. We want it really nicely tucked in. It needs to be snug. Those roots are really shallow and if they're not touching it, your little pineapple is going to die. So, make sure it's tucked in really nicely.

[00:37:02]I mean, like you should not you should not be able to pull up your plant. Okay.

[00:37:08]Good job.

[00:37:10]All right. And now we're going to cover back up the soil there. Beautiful.

[00:37:16]I'm going to plant another one. I feel like this is good. Actually, I might just put keep this one here. And over here, I've got I'll just plant another one next to it. Right here.

[00:37:28]Right here.

[00:37:30]I'm going to plant one of the lines that was not fully established yet. I think this is a good spot.

[00:37:41]Soil out. Loosen up the soil.

[00:37:44]I'm gonna add in some of that.

[00:37:47]>> Hi. Hi, Jonath Owl. Jonathan, did you change your name to Owl?

[00:37:58]Jonathan, my pineapple tops are growing roots. Not all of them, but two of them did. So, look. These are the pineapple tops from storebought that are growing roots. and I wanted to take advantage of the overcast day that we have today to go ahead and plant these out.

[00:38:14]One thing I'm learning about pineapples is that they have really shallow roots.

[00:38:18]So, it is important to to densely plant them with something else that's going to provide shade. And here, since I've got space in the flower bed, I'm getting some of the compost.

[00:38:29]This is one of the ones that is still green, but doesn't really have roots developed yet. So, let's see. I just try to pick away some of the older leaves.

[00:38:39]It's still alive. It's been alive. And we'll see how this this still has hope.

[00:38:44]So, I'm going to plant it here. I grass some of the compost. Most important thing at this point is just making sure it gets it is snugly planted.

[00:38:55]I'm going to get a little bit more compost.

[00:39:00]Make sure it's snugly planted in here.

[00:39:06]snugly planted. We want those little fella roots to along this one. We want them to develop. So, we want to we want the soil around it to be snugly placed so that those roots can be encroached up.

[00:39:21]>> I think that'll be the trick for this one. All right. So, we just planted those two right there. Exciting. We'll see how these grow in.

[00:39:35]I have this section here that also I think I'm also gonna fill it with pineapple, too. I need to get rid of this sunflower.

[00:39:47]This is in the bed, so might as well.

[00:39:53]Now that that's come up, that's going to make a perfect hole for my pineapple to go in. So, Beautiful.

[00:40:02]See, I just put that up. That's going to make a beautiful little hole for me to put in.

[00:40:13]Okay. Now, I'm going to grab one and some compost.

[00:40:26]This one doesn't have roots yet, but I think this will be a good spot for it.

[00:40:30]So, we're just going to tuck that in snugly. I'm going get some more compost and then watch it grow the compost. This is some of the compost from the compost bin. I'm in here.

[00:40:49]Tuck it in. Nice.

[00:40:56]all sides.

[00:40:59]Okay, let's see how this does here.

[00:41:02]Looks like a little loose, huh?

[00:41:05]Okay, let's try it again.

[00:41:13]Sometimes it works to even just go like this. That's also a good method. This is also a good method, too, because that way you know for sure it's going to be snug.

[00:41:25]And then we're going to be getting a bunch of rain on the next couple of babies. So, this will get well watered.

[00:41:31]Excited for that. Okay, perfect.

[00:41:38]And then one more. I'm just going to plant the other one here. I might as well just plant them all in this section.

[00:41:43]this side here. It also is also good. It the back in this side is the house. So, it'll get some sort of protection. And on top of that, they need um pineapples do need a little bit of shade or protection. So, this won't be I'm hoping this will be a good arrangement. And then in the winter time, I'll need to remember to bring them in so I can actually grow pineapples.

[00:42:15]Let me know what is what's growing you guys.

[00:42:21]See, good morning, Wickshshire. Lots of wild. Is that what it's called? I called it dandelions. Yeah, lots of wild lettuce.

[00:42:32]I oddly have female. Yay. How exciting.

[00:42:36]Been about 30 days.

[00:42:39]15 more to go till first.

[00:42:40]>> Yay. How exciting. Super exciting.

[00:42:43]Worksh.

[00:42:46]We're just planting some of the pineapples that I started.

[00:42:50]More pineapples that I started. Two of them have. The other two look like they could survive. Um, so we're just going to plant them. Here's the biggest one, though. I'll show you all. This one's growing in really nicely. So, this one evidence that it's still a pineapple top, right? These are all the roots.

[00:43:10]Look how big it's going on. It looks good.

[00:43:14]>> Okay, so we're going to plant this pineapple. Pineapple, I'm learning, has really shallow roots. So, make sure you plant with um some other plant that can provide us some sort of uh some sort of shade at least to the ground below it. And today I'm going to try the flower bed. flower bed pieces um sits on the north side of the house of the flower bed. So, I'm gonna try growing these here and see how they do.

[00:43:47]I usually have them out in the front yard and sometimes it gets a little too hot. So, we're going to try this and see how they grow in.

[00:43:54]When we plant them though, you want to make sure that you plant it in very snugly because all those roots should be protected and snugly um water. You saw how tiny the root system was, right?

[00:44:06]So, make sure you tuck it in nicely. Oops. Sorry. Lettuce blocking.

[00:44:16]And yeah, get a little bit more a little bit more compost to add. I'll put it on the outside here.

[00:44:31]All those bricks are getting moisture.

[00:44:35]More on the front side here.

[00:44:45]That's interesting. You're getting a lot of um female flowers first. That's interesting.

[00:44:53]Okay.

[00:44:57]I think that's going to do the trick.

[00:44:58]It's kind of growing.

[00:45:00]>> Um, it's fine. It'll figure it out. The plant will figure it out. I was going to say I kind of grew I tilted the leaves back a little bit.

[00:45:09]Okay.

[00:45:11]Snug. Yeah, pretty snug.

[00:45:14]So, this is the test. Is it pretty snug?

[00:45:16]Yeah, decently snug.

[00:45:23]Oh.

[00:45:25]Oh, okay.

[00:45:27]hairy on the underside. This was definitely hairy on Oh, let me flip it over so I can show you.

[00:45:35]Wild lettuce is definitely hairy on the underside.

[00:45:41]So, will it have a flower? That's what I want to know. Oh, I see.

[00:45:52]Okay, let's break it out. Let's see.

[00:46:01]cross section of it.

[00:46:08]Yep.

[00:46:11]Nice wild lettuce. It is good to know.

[00:46:15]Okay, I got one more.

[00:46:20]I accidentally stepped on the onion.

[00:46:24]Oops. I think I'm just going to pull this one up, too, because I accidentally stepped on it. And anyway, it has Yeah.

[00:46:31]Again, planted a little too deeply.

[00:46:34]I forget that.

[00:46:37]There's my other really tiny one. I'm going to do better about this. My onions could have been so much bigger had I not planted too deeply. And you know, I knew this. I just didn't realize that mulch counted as being growing material. That makes sense. Makes sense.

[00:46:58]Okay. Got a lot of weeding to do here, I guess. Okay.

[00:47:10]Nice. Okay. Thank you, Wigsh. That was fun to learn. Wild lettuce. So, this is wild. I've been calling it dandelion this entire time.

[00:47:20]This This is wild lettuce. And I have wild lettuce growing all in my yard. Thanks Sharp for sharing. And then you said triangle crosssection.

[00:47:33]Yep. And it leaks out like a light substance.

[00:47:38]Yep.

[00:47:40]I mean it smells like lettuce, too.

[00:47:48]Yeah, anytime whatever your growing material is, whatever your growing medium is, it needs to be an inch. So, what I did was I planted in soil an inch and then I put mulch on top, which inevitably makes it deeper, and then that's what caused me to have this.

[00:48:07]I've got other bulbs out there that are looking really good, though. So, you guys saw when I pulled these up, the soil was lit or the mulch was literally right here. When onions are getting ready to harvest. They should actually be showing exposed.

[00:48:22]And we'll go take we'll show you guys real quickly. I'm going to plant this last one in a little on my own in a little. But I'm going to go ahead and wrap soon though.

[00:48:35]Oh, I my beans are coming in. We're getting good rain. So, like these, maybe what I could do is um or maybe what I should do is I should just start doing this. I'll just start pull pushing the pulling the mulch back. That's probably going to help my onions. I think we're at a point though where most of them are starting to get ready, though. And I think this will at least help my situation.

[00:49:00]Um this is what they're supposed to look like. See? Like this. You want to see this? See how much bigger that bulb is?

[00:49:09]When you have it at the right depth, it can grow properly. Oops. Sorry. When you have that have it at the right depth, it's able to grow a proper size. We're going to try this again next year.

[00:49:20]Excited.

[00:49:22]I kind I wish I could redo it. But yeah, what what I can do now is just kind of pull back the bulbs a little bit, I guess. or not the bulbs, but pull back the mulch a little bit and that'll help.

[00:49:37]I don't know if it's too late, but there we go. Oh, this one's tipping over. This one's ready to come up.

[00:49:46]This one's ready to come up. I'll I'll pull that in a little bit. This one here, like, see how you can't see a bulb yet? This is what we're going to do.

[00:49:53]We're just going to We're going to expose the bulb. Undo what we did.

[00:50:00]Although it's already been three months now, so we're going to do our best to undo what we did. Undo the the mistake that we made earlier. See, this one's looking good as well. Oh, how look how this little too.

[00:50:32]Love onions though.

[00:50:35]Love onions. That's so fun to harvest.

[00:50:38]It's like Easter egg hunting but for adults gardening adults. So like this one. This one definitely could have been bigger.

[00:50:47]Well, I don't know. I guess that that might have been a nobody size.

[00:50:51]Basically, you want that squat round shape. And if you aren't getting it, make sure you aren't planting too deeply. So, yeah, these look good right here. See how they're all exposed? That That looks good.

[00:51:06]Best time to harvest wild lettuce is plant is under 12 in less than 1 foot height.

[00:51:13]Strong flavor raw butter garlic like sauté. Oh, I've been mute you guys.

[00:51:18]Sorry.

[00:51:19]>> Okay, good to know. Good to know.

[00:51:23]>> Yeah. All these wildl very very tall.

[00:51:28]Okay, we're going to go ahead and wrap today. Thank you guys so much and I'll catch you guys on Okay, so this week I'm not going to be live on Friday. No live this Friday, but I will see you guys live on Monday. Today's Wednesday. Okay, today's Wednesday. No live on Friday, but I'll catch you guys on Monday.

[00:51:48]Tall no good makes yet. That's what I'm going to be using it for.

[00:51:52]uh green mulch is what we're going to be doing.

[00:51:55]Yep. Compost.

[00:51:57]Excellent. Okay, everybody. Take care.

[00:51:59]Be well. Catch you guys on Monday. On Monday of next week. Have a great weekend. I'm going to say that in advance since I'm not going to be on Friday. And catch you guys soon.

[00:52:09]We done. We're done. Wickshshire. We're wrapping up. See you guys. Polly, good to see you. Bye everybody. Take care.

[00:52:16]See y'all soon. See you on Monday of next week.

[00:52:22]Oh, and and