How do you know if your plants have enough water?

Added: 2026-05-23

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[00:00:53]>> Yeah. How are you? How are you? This is Miss Shirley, the OG gardener in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, zone 6B. And welcome, welcome, welcome. And for all you ones in the bushes, like, share, and subscribe. And please hit that like button and show me that you like me.

[00:01:12]Just a little bit will be greatly appreciated. Uh, as you come in this evening, drop your temps. Let's see what your weather is because today the highest was only 60 degrees and breezy.

[00:01:27]Uh it got cold, a little chilly in the house last night cuz I actually turned my heat off and I thought that was crazy cuz I don't normally take it turn it off until the 1 of June. But I was good. I was like I got sweaters, I got comforters, and I got socks. So I was all right. Joshua, I see you was the first one in here. Thank you for coming in this evening. Appreciate you, sweetheart. all the way from New York City.

[00:01:52]My Renaissance grandma, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for stopping in. Auntie, what's up? What's up? Nice to see you.

[00:01:59]Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike Mike. Mike, I like your before and after uh video videos of the yard. And those uh laundry tubs that you had gotten, they were only $3 here at our Wally World. And I tried to buy them all, but it wasn't that many. So, I bought what they had. So, I understand you. I got to go to a different Wally World to see if I can get some of them laundry tubs cuz I could use them. Hey Cece, I was enjoying you as well. Um, I got uh my blue pea the seeds you sent me. I'm dropping them already, too. I like the way you was wrapping around it to get them to climb.

[00:02:35]Yes, indeedy. Everybody saying hello to one another. So, yeah, I've been really enjoying watching folks harvesting uh veggies already. You know, they getting ready to get ready the spring stuff and into the summer stuff. Who else I was watching? Jamaica Life. How she was saying, you know, what she got growing out there now until the middle of June because that's when it'll start getting hot there in Texas where she's at. Ni, how are you, sweetheart? And good evening to you as well. Glad to see you. Uh, Auntie says, "North Carolina, 82 degrees, rainy raining finally."

[00:03:14]Okay. Yeah, that's why temperatures are so low here. Less than three days ago, it was 90°.

[00:03:22]Now it's all the way down to the 60 as the high. It's been dropping down into the 40s and early 30s here at night.

[00:03:30]Yeah, it's been a little chilly. I actually brought in some of my um plants. I had my watermelon seedlings out there and I was like I seen them wilting and I was like, "Yeah, y'all a little chilly." So, I brought them back inside and they they perked back up. So yeah, our our weather is so iffy here. I It's kind of hard to put stuff in the ground, you know? I don't want everything wiped up. Mike said it's 64.

[00:03:54]Mike, you warmer than us. Oh, Cece on the road to Mississippi. Oh, that's right. That's right. That's the the crawfish do that thing this weekend, huh? I had a girlfriend just flew her and her family just flew into I think she said South Carolina for the weekend.

[00:04:10]Everybody got out of town except me. Me and my running buddy. She She's recovering from carpal tunnel disease.

[00:04:17]She got a cast on from here to here.

[00:04:20]Yeah. So, everybody [clears throat] kind of staying close to home. Oh, dog.

[00:04:25]Hey, nice to see you. I enjoy you. Oh, dog. I actually had some uh cutings that actually did real good for my fig trees and I gave one to a friend today to stop by to get some um seedlings that I had started too many of them and I actually gave some away. So yeah, I was like my garden's not going to be as big this year as usual due to health reasons and lack of help. You know, I can't do some of this stuff by myself.

[00:04:54]I didn't quit trying to, you know, how do you say funk? Face the funk. Uh 77 degrees and cloudy where Ni is at. Okay, that's nice.

[00:05:07]My my husband surely say [laughter] everybody's killing that. Yeah. Uh but I still got to get that violet. Uh what's that? Dardo. Um that's that's the one I don't have. I have the uh what do I have? Italian honey. I had the Chicago hardy. I had the brown turkey. And I have a black mission. But I want that violet be darn boat. I do. I do. I do.

[00:05:34]Hi Ser. Thank you for stopping in this evening. Appreciate you. Yes. Glad to see you all in. And uh I took some friends over to look at the big lot today. And my honey crisp tree is loaded. I mean loaded. is so full. I just hope if I can get a third of those apples off of that from fighting the deer and the raccoons from crawling up in my tree. And also last year I had problem with them worms. I hope I don't have it this year. That's just the first time I had problem with worms in my apples. 83 and raining. Oo 83 though.

[00:06:11]That's nice. They said next week we supposed to have three days um back up again. And I was like, "Okay, we still doing this yo-yo thing cuz it's going to be cold for the next two or three days until next week.

[00:06:24]Yeah, it's going to get down to the 40s tonight." So, I'm like, "Yeah, okay.

[00:06:29]Whatever." Shice, what's up? Thank you for stopping in. I appreciate you. I do. I do. I do. Jigs J3J, what's up? Yep. Been checking you out, too. 86 now, but 90 was beating me down all day. I actually did a little weed pulling out in the yard today and long as I was in the sun, I wasn't bad. If you go in the shade, you I had a runny nose and it was cold. So, yeah.

[00:07:04]Who says 70? Cheryl says 70 and cloudy.

[00:07:07]Okay. Yeah, we got a little gust of wind to go with this uh coolness. So, it's hot how they said the wind chill factor brought the temps down a little little more. So, it's it's cold. [laughter] It's cold considering what it should be at this time of the year. Cassandra, what's up, lady? What's up? I know you're enjoying retirement.

[00:07:31]Uh, nope. Nope. Nope. I don't fertilize my fruit trees at all. I used to I used to put citrus food around like my lemon limes and other trees like that. But then I just add maybe um some slowrelease fertilizer like uh osmmaote sometimes I will sprinkle that around the base of it. So every time it rains it kind of slowly you know dissolve that uh the pellets and feed the tree. But for the most part, no. Because that tree is so big, that means it has sent its roots deep into the soil and has tapped into the the natural resources of the ground itself. So, no, I don't. And that tree has been out there going on maybe six or seven years. I kind of lost count. I would have to look back at my videos, but they told me it was a dwarf.

[00:08:27]And that tree got to be close to 20 25t tall already. I can't even reach the top. It's so big now. I would have to get a ladder. Hey, Sylvia, thank you for stopping in this evening.

[00:08:42]Yeah. So, I've been meaning to cut out that le stem and I know which one it is to slow the tree down, but I just have never done it and it's just took over.

[00:08:53]And now, uh, part of the garden beds that used to be full sun is now shady.

[00:08:59]So, they do get some sun, but not full sun like they used to. That's how big the tree has gotten. But I'm getting free food, you know. Uh, it gets bigger each year. It is giving me more and more produce. Like last year, even though it was full of worms, them deer ate every last one of them those apples. I couldn't eat them, but they didn't let them go to waste. But this year, it was awesome. I'm mad that I didn't take a picture of the apple tree cuz it was in full bloom and it looked like it was a giant white cloud. It was absolutely gorgeous. And I never went over there to take a picture. I took a picture, but half of the glory of it was gone. So, I was like, I just knew that it's full of fruit. And going over there looking at the branches, they are loaded. They are loaded. If I don't get smacked by that worm infestation, I'm going to have some serious honey crisp apples. And they weren't small apple. I This is not exaggerating.

[00:09:57]They're this big. I've actually did a video, a old video of me taking apples off the tree and holding them in my hand, showing you just how big those apples are on that Honey Crisp. Um I have a a pink lady and a red delicious over there that's got a few on there.

[00:10:15]So, I was like, "Okay, my peach tree got some on there." So, yeah, I'm looking to get some fruit this year.

[00:10:22]That's right. Make sure you hit that like button so you can show me that you like me just a little bit. Over said, "My honey Chris is a big bag, too. I'm going to cut her back some some pretty apples." Yeah.

[00:10:39]Yeah, she's a big girl over there. So, I know the the the deer. And you know what about animals? Animals know when fruit is ready or almost ready. They can smell cuz they don't mess with the tree until the fruit get to a certain size. They even know when it is the sweetest. Um one of the kids knocked over my peach tree. One of my new ones I had in the backyard and I had one peach on. They knocked it off and I'm like, "Oh man."

[00:11:11]The other one got about five or six of them on there. I got chicken wire wrapped around that. So, that one's okay for now. But the one peach that fell off the other one, I came out the next day cuz I didn't pick it up. I wanted to see and something nibbled on it and realized it wasn't ripe and left it there. But then when I came back the day after, it was gone. So, I was like, "Yeah, these animals are waking up out of hibernation and they're hungry." And [snorts] I wanted to plant some veggies over in the big lot, excuse me, [clears throat] where my apple tree is at. But I hear the clicking of the raccoons at night. And I was like, you know what?

[00:11:54]For now, I'mma stick to my flower and window boxes up here on the porch and a few in the backyard. And I just hear them. You can hear them clicking. And when they go over there, you can tell when they have surveyed the lot and they didn't find anything to click and stop.

[00:12:10]So, I've actually know the sound of the raccoons when they come out after the sunset. So, it's it's a little interesting to say the least. Um, I have kitty pools over there. I have five gallon buckets. I have two 55gon of rain barrels is in the lot that I collect my water in for my garden over in the big lot because there's no hose that goes over there. Hey Bamit, stop long enough to holl at you all. Yeah, I was wondering were you on your way if you weren't already there. Thank you. Uh if you're still on the road, please be safe.

[00:12:52]Do the squash bug climb to the second floor? Uh, no. But the aphits don't have a problem finding me. I have problems with aphits on my What was that I had out there? I had collards out there. I had mustards and I had I Yeah. One morning I was sitting out there drinking coffee and I saw that white moth flying all the way up here to lay eggs in it and I was like, "What?"

[00:13:22]So, actually, I got a squash plant. It did germinate and I I still don't know if it's a squash or or a melon from the leaves, but I'll find out shortly. I I found a mystery seed and I just throwed it in a pot. It bloomed. Uh I mean germinated and it's running, but I don't I'm not sure from the leaves what exactly it is, but I guess I'll find out shortly. Hey Harriet, thank you for stopping in this evening. Appreciate you. Yeah. Yeah, Dam. We'll be we be in Mississippi. Okay. [laughter] I had a girlfriend who just sent me a text. They flew into North Carolina. So, she said we're here. So, here you go. We be in Mississippi. Okay. [laughter] Rob in the garden.

[00:14:11]How are you, sweetheart? Thank you so much for stopping in this evening.

[00:14:14]What's your temps there, Rob? You in Florida, right?

[00:14:19]Yeah. Everybody that's going down to Mississippi.

[00:14:22]M I crooked letter crooked letter. I hump back. Hump back. I [gasps] I remember we used to say that as a kid trying to spell Mississippi.

[00:14:32]Yeah. We been We be in Tallahassee for now. Oh, driving break. Okay. All right.

[00:14:40]You be careful out there on the road.

[00:14:41]All of y'all, all of y'all that's going down to the crawfish uh event for the weekend, if you're driving, please be safe on the roads. Uh like man said, you know how you drive. You just have to watch everybody else. So, please be careful.

[00:14:58]Silia said, "Welcome to the sit." Okay, [laughter] [gasps] Rob said 82 degrees. That's nice. Oh my goodness.

[00:15:08]Bam. Telling you, Rob, he he waiting on you. So y'all do y'all a little fishing and jawjacking and jaw drinking and oh I know y'all going to have a good time.

[00:15:17]Maybe next year. Next year I'mma definitely make it down to Savannah.

[00:15:23]I'm putting my nickels and pennies to the side for that. So everybody saying hello to one another. Mike said, "Wow, unannounced storms looks brewing. I'm going to make sure everything's secure in the bushes of you." Okay, do what you need to do. take care your business. You know, if you gota tie down a garden, do what you need to do to keep everything in place. Yeah.

[00:15:49]So, yeah. So, I have um all kinds of containers. Um I live in a rental and I can't run up my land lady's water bill hosing down everything. So, I put all kinds of containers out and if my rain barrels is empty, I will take the time and dip into the five gallon buckets or pool and fill up the five gallon um I mean the 55gallon rain barrel. So, once it rains again, they can refill the, you know, the five gallon buckets in the kitty pool. So, that way I just keep a running supply cuz when it gets extremely hot, you might have to water your garden more than once a day.

[00:16:34]Oh, you going to Baytown, Texas. Never heard of that. Okay. Well, enjoy yourself and be careful. Hey, Jackie Cooper, thank you for stopping in. Hey, listener, I appreciate. And all you ones in the bushes, thank you so much. I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you.

[00:16:52]Thank you. Because you could be doing something else. I know, like I said, a lot of you guys is on the road or flying or whatever. So, you know, people got lives after the sun before the sun go down. Everybody's tuning in or tuning out or getting in from work and you know, families and what have you, checking in with the household or whatever. So, I do understand. Yes, I do. Yes, I do.

[00:17:17]Ro, where you been? Long time no see.

[00:17:20]Thank you for stopping in. Hello. Hello.

[00:17:23]Hello. Yes, it's it's a couple of you guys that I miss on a regular that y'all used to come in. I miss my Texas LA for singing for her and my and my sassy sassy. Miss Sassy, you know, and Ro.

[00:17:37]Yeah. And Riri and a couple of you guys, you know, I miss you guys. I do. Um, every now and then I send out texts. Uh, I call them a wellness check on a few like my girl Whole new perspective Crystal. I really enjoyed meeting her when I went down to Savannah, you know, and uh, well, the gentleman we used to call Farmer Q. Yeah. meeting him and at that time it was his fiance. Now she is his wife, which is fantastic. You know, it's a lot of folks, you know, like Nancy beat the scratcher. There's quite a few guys that I haven't seen in a while or talked to. Um, but you're popping up occasionally and glad to see you, you know. Um, so yeah, I do. I miss you guys. Um, I'm the type of person that once I get to know you and I like you, I always like to check on your well-being, whether we see each other or or not hear from one another. After a while, uh, I like Spoon and Sunshine, you know, checking in on Spoon because we know Spoon has some health issues and every now and then I see Sunshine dropping a video either in the garden or in the car. So, it's just nice to know that, you know, you guys are still around, still active, you know, cuz we deal with everything, you know, whether it's health issues or financial or just burnout, you know, like sometimes you just get tired, you know. You used to see certain people on here and then they just disappear altogether. You don't hear or see on any other channels, you know, and you just wonder if they're okay. And by us not having phone numbers of some of these individuals, you just wonder if um if prayers or anything that you can do on their behalf, you know, in regards to what they're going through.

[00:19:41]Like I I miss my girl Harvey container Ursula but you know the job sometimes get in the way of things that you want to do. So you know best yet journey used to see her with whoop whoop and you know it's just a lot of you guys that's in our community that if I don't see you if I have an email or a phone number where I can call and check on you I will do so.

[00:20:05]So Oh there you go. What's up? Uh D cropper David Corrop. Hello. If I miss you and I didn't see you, please don't charge me with it. I running my mouth and not watching the chat. But I appreciate you coming in tonight and saying hello to me. And please hit that like button and show me that you like me. Yes, a little bit will be greatly appreciated. Hey, there go Urban. How are you? Urban Garden Chronicles. Thank you for stopping in.

[00:20:37]All the way from where you at? You up in Canada?

[00:20:41]Yes. You come a long way to say hi to this old lady. And I do appreciate that that you take time out your day. Ah. Oh, dog.

[00:20:51]Thank you.

[00:20:53]Money in the chat. Oh my goodness.

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[00:21:14]Oh, hey, Kenneth Wilson. How are you?

[00:21:17]Thank you for stopping in this evening.

[00:21:19]I appreciate you. And yeah, so I know that everyone has their own way of watering their garden. I've told you a few of the ways that I try to save my water uh to conserve. Um, I do have access to a water hose, but I try not to use it unless we have had an extreme drought, so to speak. Um, what happens is that when I run water in my sink, I have tons of empty containers and if I'm waiting for the hot water to warm up, I will run that water into one of the containers and put it to the side. So that's not water that's being wasted.

[00:22:05]And then later on I can use it for either watering my house plants or plants that's out on my balcony. So um thank you David. So yeah, so that's what I do in regards to uh watering for myself. And also like I showed you the water jars that I have and I pierce a small hole in them and then I fill them up for my plants in the big garden so that the water goes directly to the root of the plant instead of trying to go from the surface down to the root of the plant so that the plant will always stay moist and I have layers of mulch on top to keep the soil from being baked so hard by the sun. As long as the roots are cool and wet, the plant will thrive.

[00:22:54]So, um, you know, everybody got their own way of watering their plants. And even if they go out of town, they have some kind of setup if they don't have someone in the family or neighbor that can do it for them. Um, sure, Autumn, I would love that. I would. I would. I would. You're your Okay. It went shot by so quick I didn't get it. I said a strawberry birthday fix to Mississippi. Oh, wow.

[00:23:30]All right, David.

[00:23:33]Yeah, I seen somebody saying official. I don't know if that's official Jia or official something else. [laughter] Yeah. So, I I do I do appreciate you guys coming in this this evening. And I do appreciate you guys that um the videos you're putting out. The videos are awesome for a lot of you folks.

[00:23:58]You're already, you know, harvesting tomatoes and peppers and what have you.

[00:24:02]And I'm just not getting stuff. Oh, it's Jia. Uh Jamie. Yeah, thank you. Um, so yeah, some of you guys got a head start on me.

[00:24:15]I put like this. A lot of you guys got a head start on me. [laughter] But I did I just did a video and released it today in regards to all my seedlings and stuff. So, they're just about hardened off and I'm ready to actually um prep up my um my window boxes. And thanks to my dear brother Bamit from all the uh gift cards I won on his live, I was able to go out and purchase some black cow, some potting soil, um what else did I get? Bone meal, blood meal, and I found out I had a huge bag of chicken manure in the basement that I hadn't even opened yet. Plus, I got some chicken salad from a neighbor who has real chickens that needs to age. I'll probably put it out in the garden in the fall so that it'll be ready come spring of next year. So, I'm getting ready to My landlord um gave me a huge taupe. He cleaned out the basement. I told him, "Can I have that taupe?" He emptied this taupe out and it's huge. And I'm going to dump all that in there and mix it up real good and take half of the soil out my window boxes and refresh the soil with that along with the slowrelease fertilizer. And that way as the plants get watered, there'll always have some kind of nutrients in them. And quit growing so many flowers. I got a few hanging baskets I can put up there for flowers, but all the rest of those window boxes is going to be food. It's going to be food. You know, I want to grow some more bush beans like I did last year. That worked out fabulously.

[00:25:57]All right, so I got a couple of three gallon I got some three gallon buckets up here. Some other pots where I can put plants that might get a little bigger, like maybe one or two heads of cabbage.

[00:26:09]I want to grow Brussels sprouts. That's what I couldn't think of early, the Brussels sprouts and maybe uh a broccoli or two. But I also have pots that I'm putting mint in. So yeah, I I've already got a game plan. I just need somebody to help me bring all this stuff up and I hope to get my nephew on Sunday cuz he came last week and got me four cases of water. He know I can't pick up that stuff and he brought it up. So well, he took me to actually get the potting soil and stuff, but it was raining that day and I didn't have him bring it upstairs.

[00:26:40]So, I'll see if I can get him to bring it up Sunday and I make my concoction and get this party started. Right now, I'm just trying to keep everything watered cuz I done found out on windy days, your plants will dry out faster than on a sunny day cuz it will seem to extract the moisture out of plants cuz I know I watered those plants yesterday and when I looked out there this morning, they were all drooping and when I went out there, they were bone dry and I was like, "Wow." Wow. So, yeah, you got to be careful. Wind will dry your plants out just as fast as a hot sunny day. Just little FYI, y'all. For the ones who don't know, some of y'all know, wind will take just like wind will whip you and dry your skin out, it do the same thing for a plant. It'll dehydrate them in a in a heartbeat.

[00:27:32]Everybody saying hello to one another.

[00:27:36]Yeah. So, um I know I've seen a lot of you guys with a water hole. Some of you guys jerry uh sprinklers and what have you. Um some people who live further out in rural areas you might use well water. Uh well water can have um can be quite refreshing, but it also can be high in iron and potassium. Um, I was at a friend's farm up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and I couldn't drink the water. We had to go into town to get bottled water because that iron was was so thick in that water.

[00:28:16]It will run through you. Literally, it will run through you. And y'all know what I mean when I say run through. The people who live there, they were used to it. They can handle it. A city folks, Miss JK Gardener, good evening.

[00:28:32]>> Yeah. Thank you for stopping in. Ah, there go my internet son. GT Junior, what's up? Driving ballist GT, you always driving, [laughter] man. You should have more miles on that car than Oh, Carter got pills. Yes, indeedy. You be careful out there on that road. Keep your eyes on the road, dear. Get to your destination safely, please. It would be greatly appreciated.

[00:28:58]So, yeah. And I like that little haircut you got. you can cut all your hair off looking like a little boy. I thought that was so cute. [snorts] But yeah, so we all find ways of uh saving water cuz I know in Alaska with GT as he melts uh that snow can be a source of water. Yes, it can. And watering your plants as well. Just like we look for God's water for it to rain. Well, snow's same thing.

[00:29:26]It once it melts, it becomes water. So yeah, it's and there's a lot of way that you could do it. You can actually put cheesecloth over your rain barrels or buckets and as it rained that helps filter out debris and it also keeps the mosquitoes out from um laying eggs in your water so you wouldn't have problems with larvy. But I go to the pet store and get about a $1.50 worth of feeders and that's what a lot of people feed their turtles and lizards and stuff like that and drop it in the water. You're getting three fo. You're getting fish emotion from the fish.

[00:30:08]Um second they are stirring up the water. The water is not stale. It's not just sitting water. And third, if there's any mosquitoes that comes in there, they will eat the mosquitoes or their larve. So, you're getting free 511 and and a agitation, you know, and in the winter time, you can either bring them inside and put them in an aquarium in your house and save them till next year, or you can let them die and let them turn totally disintegrate into fish water. So, um, another little FYI for some of you guys who are having problems with standing water. You know, a lot of people say, "Oh, you know, when you got standing water, you got problems with mosquitoes." Well, if you don't buy those little dunking things, donuts like to put into the water to help with mosquitoes, then that's the next best thing. And I think that actually comes out a little cheaper and a and a little more cost effective when you add the little minnow. They look like miniature minnows, but they're called feeders at the pet store. So, if you got a pet store near you, or if you got a river or stream that might have minnows or whatever in it, same thing. Put them in your rain barrels or whatever ponds you might have where you have to worry about standing water and you will acquire, you know, those free items. Won't cost you nothing but a buck 50, but you'll get $100 worth of savings in the long run.

[00:31:38]Yeah.

[00:31:42]So true. All right, everybody say hello to one another. I don't know what the conversation was, but GT laughing.

[00:31:52]Okay, [snorts] but yeah. So, um, everybody's got their own way of saving water, you know, whether it's in rain barrels, kitty pools, sometimes I've seen people leave, uh, out a a wheelbarrow to collect water in um, near gutters or they have the gutter system set up. I'm seeing some elaborate setups with water jugs or they taking um uh PVC pipe and make tubes coming down the drain system and hook it up to barrels and then the barrels like stacked on top of each other or either standing side by side. So, as one barrel fill up, um, if it's a heavy storm, it will transer down to the last barrel, fill that up first, then then the second barrel, then the third barrel or whatever. Uh, and you try to divert the water um from rain gutters into whatever containers that you might have to save on water, you know. So, it's a lot of ways that you can try to scavenge water cuz in some states it's actually illegal to save rainwater, which I think is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. That's free.

[00:33:10]That's free. And to me, that's less taxing on that city water supply if you collect rainwater.

[00:33:20]I don't understand the logic behind penalizing people for not being able to salvage water. Like in certain parts of California, it don't rain. And so when it does and people collect the water, they can be charged actually charged for saving rainwater.

[00:33:44]Wow. You know, go figure.

[00:33:48]I'm glad we don't have that problem here, but it's it just, you know, boggles my mind in regards to why not because there's less water going down the drain system, less pressure on that.

[00:33:59]It's just crazy. This an OG teaching about feeder fish. [laughter] Ah, David, I've been around a little longer, you know. I know a little something something. Not be a whole lot.

[00:34:11]I know a little bit about everything, you know. Yeah. wear many hats, so to speak. No pun intended. But yeah, sorry to catch the most high water is illegal.

[00:34:23]And so that's what I'm talking about.

[00:34:25]Crooked Page, what's up? Hey G mama, I'm seeing people say hello. Hey T, how are you? I was listening to you earlier while I was talking to Dolores.

[00:34:34][laughter] Heard I heard you in the background.

[00:34:38][laughter] G mama girl h in the garden. My girl crooked peach say, "Oh, the reason why it's because they already written up."

[00:34:49]All right, that just took off. I didn't see all of that. Hey, the wicked wicked sh project haven't seen you. Thank you, Dolores. Oh, the reason why is because they don't want you collecting rainwater that can become groundwater because they already written up contracts to gigantic data center corporations. Okay, that's one way for looking at it.

[00:35:12]the Wicked Shire Project. Thank you for stopping in. I I hadn't seen you pop up in my chat before, but I appreciate you coming in tonight. I'm sure we just got in from our first of the year harvest.

[00:35:23]Zucchini, sugar snap peas, and green pole beans, herbs, oregano, and holy mammoth and lemon bomb dry make teas from. Also, why BB bomb?

[00:35:36]Nice. And I was looking at my BB bomb today. It's coming back twice as big.

[00:35:40]Thank you, Dolores. Than what it was last year. With all this rain, my yard has exploded with all kinds of stuff. My echgonatia, my lavender, shasta daisies. And I saw my first little plant about this big of my giant hibiscus. Now, this was on a baby plant from a seed that dropped from the mother plant and it's coming up already. My granddaughter mad at me cuz I accidentally dug up the ones I gave her last year. So I I got to start her two more of the hibiscus cuz she really liked it and the baby thought it WAS COOL TOO. BACKYARD Garden Flo, what's up? Thank you for stopping in. Yes, indeedy. Yes, yes, yes. I was thinking at 10. I was thinking about that music because I asked the Loris. I said, "You can't copyright anything."

[00:36:32]Hey Harvey, what's your ears burning girl? I was talking about you. Hi, pretty girl. Thank you for stopping in.

[00:36:39]Yes, Ursula. Yeah, I know. You be working all the time. You be working too hard. I was like, oh, we don't see our girl no more. Wicker Shire Project said, "My wife Sharon is building up an apoc.

[00:36:53]I can say it, but right now I asked her if she wanted a witch's head broom broom, and she said she beat me. I I beat you, too. Especially with that broom. [laughter] [gasps] Nothing wrong with that. A little stir and bubble. Stir and bubble.

[00:37:10]Yeah. And that's what I want to do. Um my niece is going to show me how cuz I always give her my lavender out the yard and she makes lavender ice cream. She makes satchels. She makes um soap and all kinds of stuff. So she said, "Auntie, I'mma show you how to do that."

[00:37:27]Hey Tag, thank you for saying hello, saying hi to everybody.

[00:37:32]Yeah, I am sorry. Um, big way and little way peach. Yeah, I'm trying to build up my They took I lost 51 subscribers when I did after I did my 18 anniversary party. All of a sudden, I lost 51 subscribers overnight.

[00:37:53]I think I've gained maybe about 15 of them back so far, but they just disappeared.

[00:38:00]that we are learning to grow more than tomatoes. It's always nice to grow more than tomatoes.

[00:38:07]Yeah. So, um, everybody's going from one live to another. Yeah. For the one the skinny one is not the one you want on the regular.

[00:38:17]You want the big one [laughter] to see me. So, yeah. Um, yeah. So, I'm I'm learning to to build that up as well because I grow a lot of flowers that has medicinal uses that I've never tried to put uh into play. I have roses. You know, you can have rose hip water. Um you can use that for um a few other things. I was like, I knew about rose petals because my grandmother used to put rose petals in some lenoline and make like an oil for your skin when we were kids, but all the other stuff I didn't know nothing about.

[00:39:05]Yeah. So, yeah, you live and learn. You do. You live and learn. It's raining here and it is such a blessing. Yeah. It been raining here for the last three weeks on and off. That's why we so cold. We went from 90° to now it's like 60. And the other day it was 54. We had dropped in the same day. It was 90 that morning. By 12:00 it's 90°. By 6:00 it was 54.

[00:39:32]It was cold. After being sweating all day, I had the ceiling fan going, windows open, ready to get my nephew to put my air conditioner in the window.

[00:39:42]And then it dropped all the way down to 54 degrees. I said, "Ho, hold up.

[00:39:46]>> [laughter] >> Hold up. Wait a minute. No, it's cold.

[00:39:52]You got Oh, I got her a dehydrator. No longer will I close line indoors in the tiny hole we half loaded with herbs. I think it's a good thing. Sort of. Smells great. No matter how we dry them. Hey, I bet you don't have any problem with bugs though up in there. And you know what?

[00:40:08]You can use brown paper bags to do the same thing. If you don't want to tie them up and string them up, you can do the same thing in a brown paper bag.

[00:40:16]That brown paper bag helps to wick some of the the liquid out of it and naturally dries it and actually uh it's a little stronger than dehydrating. Deh dehydrators are nice, but they can also break down the flavor in some of your your plants and food as well. So, think about that. Maybe not so much in an orange, but maybe in uh some lemon balm or something like that. So, I naturally like to dry in the brown paper bags, old school. And you can write what's on the bag, you know, whether it's lemon bomb or whether it's uh a mullen or whatever that you might be drying in there. So, yeah.

[00:40:57]Uh oh. Okay. Dolores popped up in the chat and everybody saying hello to Dolores.

[00:41:03]Hold up on air conditioning if you give me one more week. Yeah. Yeah, it is cuz right now it's the wind chill got the windows ringing. It's a little windy out there. So, it's dropped the temperature even a little little more with all the dampness from the rain. It dropped it and the wind chill is not making it any better. So, yeah. Yeah, the school lunch bags are in good method, too. Yeah, it is. That's old school. So, yeah, it's it's a lot of things we can learn from one another if we're paying attention.

[00:41:32]You know, like not all people agree with some of the methods you may use, but then that's, you know, that's their choice. You know, I a song say different strokes for different folks. You know, uh what might work for you might not work for me or you might not like the method. Doesn't mean that it doesn't work and it's not good. It's just that that's not how you prefer. You know, like a lot of people were getting into the freeze dryers. I really like that.

[00:41:57]They're just a little steep for my pocket. But I like them because of the longevity of the product that it produces once it's finished.

[00:42:08]And uh but yeah, they say after, you know, a couple of months, it it really does pay for itself. I'm using a paper bag method at the moment. Yeah, it works. It works. I know one friend said she had went to the Dollar Tree and and got a pack of them. And I was like, I get meals on wheels every Tuesday and they give me two of those paper bags full of this, that, and the third and I just save them. I fold them up nice and neat and I put them in a pile. So when my herbs start to grow and I just pull one out, take my magic marker, write what's on there, fold it up, stick it on the shelf.

[00:42:48]Yep. After a couple weeks, take it, shake it here. You can hear if it's, you know, dry or not. And I save all kind of containers I sell my b my peel bottles like this. Rinse them out and take the old label off, put a new label on it, crumble them up, put them in there.

[00:43:09]Boom. I don't use up all I have plenty of mason jars, but I'm going to use up my mason jars for that. Little stuff like that. So, yeah.

[00:43:19]Oh, mile in the hydroponics, but you need to go outside for Oh, okay. Yeah, that's right, G. Mama, tell them hit that like button and show me that you like just a little bit will be greatly appreciated. I do. I do. I do.

[00:43:35]Mulling model. [laughter] [gasps] Yeah. So, yeah, because a lot of times when you start growing certain herbs and stuff, you don't always have enough to fill up a mason jar. you've you know you once you grind it up a lot of people use um old uh coffee grinder to make it almost like a powder but I didn't found out that I take a little more TLC with them once I dry them in a brown paper bag and I can tell that they're real crispy I will put them in my hand oldfashioned way and do it like this and it's the same thing. Same thing. If it's dry like it's supposed to be all the way through, when you take it and do it like that, it will crumble.

[00:44:26]And then too, it's your preference. You might like yours in a powder form or you might like them a little chunkier with a little more flakes in it. it. And it's according on how you use it, whether you sprinkling sprinkle them on a roast or in a soup or on your cereal or in a smoothie in regards to what size, you know, you want your final product to be.

[00:44:52]So, it's it's your choice in regards to how that ends up. So, I mean, a lot of people don't know that that you could do it that easy. A lot of people think you got to have all this fancy equipment to do this that and the third. No, the settlers didn't have it. The pioneers didn't have it. They had to go old school. It wasn't about no coffee grinder. They had a coffee grinder, but they wasn't putting herbs in them. They were you in a lot of the movies you see the cabins, they had them strung up and hanging around the house. It helped keep out mice, bugs, flies, and all kinds of other insects in there because they didn't like the smell. So, it's the difference.

[00:45:29]I need to use my dehydrator more. I used to do other fruits. Yeah, and you can slice up your own fruits. Oh, moringa.

[00:45:36]Oh, I'm glad you said that, Peach. I need to plant some mering. I got some seeds from somebody. I think I actually got them from um Tina.

[00:45:45]Uh there's roughly juicing with Jay. Oh, super sticker. Thank you. Why thank you.

[00:45:53]Money in the chat. Money in the chat.

[00:45:56]Money in the chat. Money in the chat.

[00:45:57]Chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat.

[00:45:59]Woohoo. Thank you so much. I appreciate you.

[00:46:04]Woohoo. Thank you. I do. Thank you, Jay.

[00:46:08]I appreciate you, sweetheart. Thank you.

[00:46:10]Thank you. Thank you. Tell me you joking. Uh oh.

[00:46:15]Yep. So yeah, auntie is crumbling in your hand. Same thing. So yeah. So like I said, we all can learn from one another how things happen. You know, we didn't have dehydrators back in the day.

[00:46:28]We didn't had the freeze dryers and all that stuff. We went old school. Either hung them, put them in a paper bag or you can leave them sitting out. They will naturally dry out. If you set them on a table on a brown paper bag or in a glass dish, eventually they will dry out and you can take them and do whatever you want with them. You know, I love the taste of celery and I love the taste of bell peppers. And they when you grow them yourself and break them down, they're a lot stronger than the of flavor than it is from the ones you buy at the store. Um, to me, sometimes even a little stronger than what you buy at the farmers market. And they might use the same method of of growing as you do, but it's up to you.

[00:47:19]So, yeah.

[00:47:21]Oh, everybody talking. I hang most of my herbs around the kitchen, but I use multiple at this Right. Right. And and that's true. Like I said, everybody has their own way of um doing their veggies and their and their herbs. Okay. Uh some of us might grow only one kind of basil.

[00:47:42]Might only grow sweet basil where somebody else might grow Thai basil and this kind of basil. Same way with kale.

[00:47:49]Some people like dinosaur kale better than they like lionado.

[00:47:54]It's according on to your taste buds on what you enjoy, what pleases your pallet in regards to what you grow and [clears throat] how much of it you grow.

[00:48:03]And when you get too much of it, then that's when you can, you know, start freeze drying all that other good stuff.

[00:48:09]Hey 70s plus gardener Dolores, can you catch what GT was just saying? I missed that. I will say thank you. I was supposed to remove the shelf off of the moringa before work. I will try to do it after work. I want moringa. So [laughter] yeah, [gasps] thank you Doris. Uh that's that super super vitamin super everything. Onions seem to be more pungent. Yeah. Right now I just went outside today in the backyard and my walking onions I had divided and put in a pot where they're like this on the side of the pot. They're looking to go to the ground so that they can attach themselves. I've had these walking onions in this backyard for over 25 years.

[00:48:52]When I moved here, they were here. I didn't know what they were. And I kept seeing them do like that. I'm like, "What is this?" And then I read up on it, found out they were walking onions.

[00:49:03]And now they got the scapes on them and the bulbs and they're bending over the pot towards the ground so that they can attach themselves and start a whole new group of walking onions. So uh I I live and learn uh way better than store. Of course they going to taste better cuz most of the stuff you buy in the stores is hot house. They're picked before they're ripen. They might ripen in the trucks and then some of them are sprayed with some type of agent to help speed up ripening and then they'll tell them how long they sit in the back. By the time they finally get out to the shelf for you to buy, you find out they're not juicy, they're not sweet, they're not meaty, they just nasty. They have no flavor at all. they're watery and you just like it just blows the dish that you trying to make because the flavor just isn't there than what it is if you can go outside your house in the backyard and pick what you wanted. Like I tell this story all the time that I was making spaghetti one day and I meant to get some bell peppers while I was at the store and I forgot and I went out there and I was like you got a big old tomato I mean a pepper plant growing at the side door. I went down and I had two nicesized green bell peppers. Took them bad boys upstairs and cut them up.

[00:50:23]Talking about good like to eat my fingers off. Yes indeedy. Hey Farmer Chaz. I was watching you on your grandma. She is so cute. I love your grandma. She getting ready to put a net over her her fig trees for the birds get tuna. She's already fussing about the meeting up her corn.

[00:50:44]Okay, y'all talking about food.

[00:50:47]Uh G Mama said, "My tree onions have finally showed up. They were slow, but my garlic chives have been up for weeks." Yeah, I went out there. My garlic chise is loaded. I'mma take all them flowers off the top of them because once they start turning the seeds, I have chives from here to China. Yeah.

[00:51:06]Everywhere.

[00:51:08]Yeah. Harvey is Ursula. You didn't know that?

[00:51:12][laughter] Now you know.

[00:51:16]Yeah. Your grandma's so cute. She tickle me out there. She be working that garden though. And I love that rosemary bush.

[00:51:23]I've never seen a rosemary bush that large.

[00:51:28]Yeah, that that was huge.

[00:51:34]Uh, anyone know why the leaves on the bottom of the moringa turns yellow? Do I need to harvest? The tree is only 5t tall. I know mine always turn yellow, too. As the tree gets taller, the bottom leaves always seem to turn yellow and fall off. I don't know if that's the nature of the beast or what. Can y'all answer Sylvar's question?

[00:51:54]Mine did the same thing. I just took it off and it kept getting taller and developing new leaves. So, I thought that was part of the nature of the tree.

[00:52:04]Might be the heat.

[00:52:06]Oh, there. There you go. They're giving you the answers in the chat.

[00:52:12]Excuse me. Me either. And we keep trimming it and it still stays bushy. I I I would like some cutings next time you go down there to visit grandma if she's still trimming and giving cutings away.

[00:52:26]But I like how you was naming the different tomatoes and you got to that one name and she said Uhhuh. [laughter] She couldn't pronounce it. She like [gasps] I love your grandmother. She's so cute.

[00:52:40]Oh, she's so cute. Oh, they love he Yeah. Yeah. I found that out cuz I actually started a moringa tree and I bought it inside [clears throat] for the winter cuz someone told me they don't like the cold.

[00:52:56]Oh no, David. Yeah, like and share the video. Yep. So yeah, um it's it's just amazing that as much as we love to garden, everybody has their own method.

[00:53:10]No two farmers or gardeners or growers or homesteaders, whatever name you give yourself, grow alike. There some things that you may have in common and [clears throat] what you grow, but when you get down to the dime a dozen, your methods is different in regards to what you add to your soil. Um, like I don't have a compost pile, even though I try to, but I do have plenty of super juice because all my rain barrels I throw all my excess potato peels and and celery sticks and and other stuff that I don't if I don't put it in the soil as a rooting part, I put it in my super juice and old banana peels and all that stuff.

[00:54:01]I just throw everything in it. And actually, I need to do a video cuz I didn't empty my rain barrel during the winter and it froze solid the water and all the particles you can see once you take the lid off sitting in the water and now it's in there and I had to cover it up because it rained so much. I didn't want all my nutrients from my super juice to get washed out. So, the two barrels, I put covers on them and um I took one cover off and I went, "Woo!

[00:54:32]Yeah, this this all right here." And uh the plants that I bought in from Wally World that was dry, I put some of that super juice straight didn't dilute it.

[00:54:42]Everything went less than five minutes after I poured it in there. Them plants was like this. When I went back five, 10 minutes, they was like, [laughter] "What was that?

[00:54:55]They was standing at attention and they were doing all right. And since then they didn't put on new leaves and pushing out roots at the bottom. So they getting root bound. So I need to get them out of those pots. But it's just funny. Super juice was named right.

[00:55:10]There go my boo. What's up the OCD chick? Hey Nikki. How are you darling? I was looking at some of your solar lights in your garden. I got some of them same solar lights in mine. I got mine from they had him on sale at Costco.

[00:55:27]He says, "Don't let that baby go to the upper room." Oh lord. I don't even know what that conversation about. So I ain't not even gonna say nothing. Put my hoodie back on. Yeah, that's what I was saying. Yeah, G mama. It's cold. I That's why I had my jacket and my hoodie over there, too. Like I said, that temperature has dropped. It's damp and the wind picked up.

[00:55:50]Hey, life with Tashara. How are you, sweetheart? Would you say hello? Hello.

[00:55:55]Hello.

[00:55:58]Yes. [laughter] And when I seen that, it made me think of that woman that just going, "Yeah, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

[00:56:09]Wait a minute." Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] Oh, everybody say hello to everybody.

[00:56:17]Texas T. Yeah, we got gold here, too. We got black gold here, too. Yeah, just mix it up.

[00:56:24]She just came back from the winter. She is about three years old. I'm thinking I may need to put it in the ground, but I'm scared to move her. Let me tell you, it's funny you should say that. Um, I had gotten a gift of a Orient pear tree that I got from Miss Fifi and it been in the basement all winter and I thought it wasn't going to make it. I I watered it sparingly cuz you're going to overwater real quick here. Temperature ain't no joke. I'm about to turn my heat back. I know. That's right. And um I was like, "Dang, I hope I didn't kill this.

[00:57:00]This is a gift from Fifi." Well, I went down there today cuz I'm getting ready.

[00:57:04]I was doing a survey on what plants were ready to go outside. And then when I looked over at my pear tree, I seen a sprig here, a sprig here, and a sprig D.

[00:57:13]I was going, "Yes, I didn't kill it.

[00:57:17]>> [screaming] >> So, thank you Fifi from Orient Pear. I hope once I put it in the ground, it it makes it because I'm I'm really looking forward to this. Hey, L Triple J, what's up? Thank you for stopping in this city.

[00:57:30]I appreciate you.

[00:57:33]Yeah, this this weather that's why everybody can't get rid of these coes and runny noses and all this other stuff cuz this weather keep changing up. Yep.

[00:57:41]I seen you, Chance, out there working in your garden with your hoodie on and your hat. It's cold out there, a little windy.

[00:57:49]I said, "My plants been outside so long, they're good and hardened off." So, they're ready to go into the window boxes. But, I want to take some of that.

[00:57:56]I always take out the top inch and a half to two inches of soil and I mix it and then I'll pour whatever amendments I'm going to put in there and mix that all up again and add the other soil back and fill it up. And then I start planting there because each year when you grow in pots, you always have to refresh the soil because the plants that was in there before, you don't know exactly what all they absorbed out of that soil. So then they're going to need the same nutrients in order for them to grow to what you're looking forward to.

[00:58:30]So yeah.

[00:58:33]Yeah. So, I I'm just happy to have the soil thanks to my brother Bamit with the gift cards. And so, now I can go ahead and do it. I just need my nephew to bring them bags up these stairs cuz I can't do it.

[00:58:49]Yeah, [clears throat] I wasn't trying to get sick either, Miss Peach. But let me tell you something. I can be around an adult Peach that got the bubonic plague. Won't get sick. Get me around my great granddaughter after she didn't came home from a day a day at daycare and she got a runny nose. Two days later I'm on death store.

[00:59:13]Daycare kids germs is like jackhammers.

[00:59:16]If you put them up under a petri dish, you going to see them doing this.

[00:59:22]I dag on near die after being around my great granddaughter after her dad's daycare.

[00:59:28]I ain't kidding. I could be around the dough with the booonic play. Won't get to sniffles, nothing. Let me get around my great grandbaby from a day after daycare. And if one kid sneezed on you and they didn't did one of these or up one of these and then they want to get up in your face and kiss you like one dad was holding them. We was playing and she just said she sneezed straight in my face and I'm saying to myself, I can't get mad at this baby. But I was like, I'm gonna die in two days. And sure enough, I came home. I tried to take everything I had just about in my medicine cabin to kind of lessen the smackdown like I'm at the www.

[01:00:13]two days later I dag on near died. I was like yeah yeah you're right. Them daycare germs they hit different. They like jackhammers. Oh my god.

[01:00:29]Yeah. Yeah they will. Them daycare cooties will take you out. And I'm older. I I can't bounce back like I'm 20, 25 years old. I normally am a healthy person for the most part. For a woman my age, I'm in fair shape.

[01:00:45]Put me around them them little when my grandfather used to call us crumb snatches.

[01:00:52]It's like having one foot in the grave or hammer. And it takes me more almost two to three weeks to bounce back. I'm pumping every kind of vitamin C. I'm taking everything I can to try to build my system back up because them daycare cooties ain't no joke. If I if I see my granddaughter, she got a running. I'll be like, uhuh.

[01:01:15]No, I can't watch her tonight. I can't I said, I got things to do next week. I can't be sick.

[01:01:21]I already know. I'll be like, I'm sorry.

[01:01:23]I love you, but no. Nana can't do it.

[01:01:26]Not this week.

[01:01:28]Yep. Hey, Karen Moore. Thank you for stopping in. I appreciate you. Nice seeing you in my chat. Interesting.

[01:01:34]Their biological chemistry is similar enough to use to create. And you know what I said about that, Karen? I was like, if they wanted to stop a war, send a bomb full of daycare cooties and drop it. Everybody be too sick to fight. They couldn't even have they couldn't even put their finger in the trigger to pull because they would be so weak and suck dry. You want to stop a war? They call it what they germ germicide or genocide or whatever.

[01:02:02]Drop a bomb of daycare cooties over there. I guarantee it. It'll stop all of that. That's that's that's a that's a guarantee. That's money you can take to the bank. Drop a bomb of daycare cooties on another country if you want to fight without bullets and bombs and all that other stuff. I guarantee they be too sick to do anything. Yep.

[01:02:24]>> [snorts] >> I tea bags made up of mullen, oranginga, hibiscus, ready to add, elderberry syrup, lemon, and honey. I'm taking elderberry peels. I have here I have my own arsenal of vitamin D, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, zinc, calcium, potassium.

[01:02:46]Oh, I got my arsenal of stuff. But I tell you, I don't care how much that stuff you take. When them daycare kids come around you, that stuff don't mean jack. That's like taking a baby aspirin being around them. Like I said, I'm I'm pretty good in fair health and my body ain't working like it should. But as far as healthwise, I'm okay.

[01:03:09]Can't blame you. No. No. It ain't no fun being sick. Can't afford to get sick.

[01:03:14]I'm, you know, my mom ain't here to make chicken soup for me. I I'm I'm dragging my own butt on the floor trying to [laughter] trying to get it together. Okay. Uh I'm so grateful to not get sick too often. I Sylvia at one time I never got sick. I could go years without being sick. But when I got sick, I was bedritten. It was like it was playing catchup for all the time that I wasn't sick.

[01:03:46]it caught up to say, "Hello, remember me from way back when? I didn't call for you. I didn't send for you. I didn't write a letter. I didn't send you an email. I didn't send you a text. I ain't even send you the a message through somebody else. But you showed up anyway.

[01:04:05]So [laughter] now I got to deal with you because you here."

[01:04:11]That's the way I look at it.

[01:04:14]Yeah. Now the weather in Ohio will have you jacked up. Yeah.

[01:04:19]All the way jacked up. Ohio plus 63. All G mom is currently partly cloudy. The wind is blowing from 10 miles an hour.

[01:04:28]No, it's a little more than 10 miles an hour over here. These these trees are shaking and rocking. Hey Dale, how are you?

[01:04:37]I'm so glad to see you. I enjoyed your little picture. You and your family, your hubby taking a break. I understand.

[01:04:45]How you doing, sweetheart? I'mma send you a air hug and cuz that's my dancing partner. For the ones who don't know me and deal every time we hook up in Savannah, we had to we have the dance floor to ourselves.

[01:05:01]That's for you, Ann. Thank you so much, sweetheart. I miss you. Love you, too.

[01:05:08]Yes.

[01:05:11][snorts] Yes. Got to have chicken. I'mma start making chicken soup in my big quart pots and start freezing it like so when I get sick and there's nobody here to help me, I can, you know, defrost it or throw it in the microwave and have it. Cuz when when you have dead in the house and you can't even get up dragging yourself to the bathroom or whatever, that ain't no fun. That ain't no fun. When you feel like somebody put a sponge on your chest and said sucked out all your energy, that is not good. Air hugs right back.

[01:05:52]Yeah, I'll miss you, honey. I do.

[01:05:55]Hopefully next year we can see each other in Savannah.

[01:06:02]These trees ain't as stronger than That's what I'm saying. I'm looking out the window at my neighbor's tree next door and that bad boy is doing one of these. That is not 10 miles an hour.

[01:06:12]Yeah, that's a lot more than 10.

[01:06:15]Ooh, thunderstorms in the vicinity.

[01:06:18]Light rain, mist.

[01:06:23]Yeah, be careful, Sylvia. Please be careful. I know they you you guys were talking about that cuz they said uh what's that? the crawfish uh is in Mississippi this weekend and that you know the bad weather was hanging that way. So I don't know if it'll pass through where you guys going to be at or bypass you another part of Mississippi or whatever but I just hope everybody will be all right however it goes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That humidity 91% it makes it and it was like that the other day when it was 90 degrees it was humid. It doesn't normally get humid here, but that humidity along with that heat, everything just felt sticky. It just man, you want to just go and take a shower, just stand in the water cuz it was just yuck.

[01:07:12]Excuse [clears throat] me. Yuck. So, yeah, that humidity get it every time. That rain is not light.

[01:07:22]Nope. Excuse me.

[01:07:30]I had this at my granddaughter's house and I had it full of um Arnold Palmer was that tea and lemonade. So I let my great grandbaby I I put it over to her for a hot minute. She put her lips over the straw like this.

[01:07:47]That girl was taking long draws. I had I literally had to fight a twoyear-old to get my drink back. I mean, that girl had a death grip on this thing. This thing is big. It's heavy. I have had to fight my great grandbaby. I WAS LIKE, "COME IN my door."

[01:08:09]Do you know that girl had sucked it down to here? I had it all the way to the top.

[01:08:15]I started calling her deep throat. I was like, "Girl, no. You'll never get a straw again. Just finished harvesting some bamboo that was on the side of my road. Oh, I got a neighbor in my granddaughter's neighborhood that's got a a fence like between two houses that's all bamboo. I was like, "Oh, I want a piece of that. That's that bunching bamboo. That ain't the runner kind. I would like some of that cuz I could cut that back and make fences and trelluses and anything else with it." So, it was nice size though. I was like, "Okay."

[01:08:48]So, I got to ask them about that.

[01:08:53][clears throat] We always have high humidity. Well, Sylvia, where are you? Aren't you in Florida? It's always that water down there. Yeah. G mama, that baby was deep throat. I ain't kidding. I mean, you can almost see her sucking up. You can see her jaws. She was like I was like, "Hey, hey, give me back my drink." She didn't even give me a side eye. She didn't even look up. She was just sucking and I just said, "Give me my [laughter] drink."

[01:09:23]I told her, "You'll never get my drink again." I like, "Yeah." Yeah, I did say deep throat. My granddaughter, she could suck up a drink. I was like, "You'll never get it again." So, every time I get a drink now, I give her her own and she be looking over. I say, "Don't be side eyeing my drink. I ain't gave you yours.

[01:09:43]You ain't going to drink yours and mine, too." No.

[01:09:51]trick.

[01:09:53]Yeah, she was trying to finish. She would have finished it if I didn't suck.

[01:09:58]If I just sn I mean I had to That two-year-old had a grip on my jar like as if it was permanently glued to her fingers. I literally I couldn't even peel them off. I was struggling with a twoyear-old. She is strong. Even her mom and daddy said she has done them the same way about the dream. I had to literally grab that and put a death grip on my and snatch that thing away from and she looked at me like I was like, "Oh no, you ain't staring at me like you mad. That's my drink." [laughter] So yeah, these kids. Yeah, they This is a different generation of children.

[01:10:39]Okay, this a whole different generation of kids. Hey Forging and Urban, how are you sweetheart? Thank you for stopping in.

[01:10:47]This rain is sounding so good. I may have to go to bed early. Yeah, it'll rock you to sleep and keep you to sleep, too. Get your own straw, Miss Shirley, when she comes from daycare with the sneeze. Uh-uh. She don't drink nothing when Uhuh. When she at the daycare, she don't have to. Like I said, I was holding and playing with. She sneezed in my face and was just smiling, was not running out of nose. And I'm just saying to myself, "Oh, I love her. I can't hit her. I can't be mad, but I'm going to be sick as a dog in two days.

[01:11:19]I don't eat or drink behind her. No, it's just that she sneeze straight in my face. And you you know when they cough, you tell them to you know you know how to do like [clears throat] Well, they like she too. Yeah, she learning. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:11:37]Them germs don't play. Yeah. Them youngas don't play. want to come to food and she is she come over like if I have a candy bar all of a sudden she leaning up against me nana what nana what no you ain't getting none of my candy bar and she'll go please I'll be like no please nana no I love you nana no [laughter] these kids is a whole different breed of kids out here now. And I'm getting ready to teach her how to garden, too. I I told her I said once I get my little pennies together, I would like to get her one of the three tiers of uh the green stock for herself, not for her mama, for her. And teach her how to start gardening.

[01:12:30]Yeah, their ground over there got too many roots in it for inground. They would have to have raised beds or green stock. So yeah, I would like to give her get her one by the fall. I think I'll have enough pennies by then.

[01:12:45]I want to be GG. Yeah. Yeah. She's spoiled to my grandbaby. I mean ah. Okay. Well, this is my great grandbaby. It's my granddaughter's daughter. And baby number two is due next month. And check this out. All right. While [clears throat] I'm thinking about it, how many of y'all in the chat ever heard of a baby sprinkler?

[01:13:09]Baby sprinkle.

[01:13:11]I got an invitation to my granddaughter's baby sprinkle. Now, she had a baby shower for the first one, but for the second one, she's calling it a baby sprinkle. And it's not family or friends who are giving it. is her and her husband is hosting a baby sprinkle.

[01:13:33]I was like, is this something new? Like the gender gender reveals, they come up with new stuff.

[01:13:49]Okay.

[01:13:53]Yes, it's a thing sprinkled all over. I heard of it.

[01:14:01]Okay.

[01:14:02]Yeah. I I I didn't know what it was either till I got the invitation and I was like, I'm am I coming over early?

[01:14:10]It's like on a Sunday, so I guess I'll be over there Friday night to help her see. But [gasps] cuz she due next month and she just as round as she want to be.

[01:14:22]Yeah. So I'm trying to figure her and her husband is giving this. So, I was like, I've never heard of a baby sprinkler. Sprinkle sprinkler sprinkle whatever. So, this is going to be interesting. She got a nice little list of folks. I was like, "Okay."

[01:14:38]So, I'll give y'all the details or pictures afterwards cuz it's going to be interesting. I ain't never heard of one.

[01:14:46]Baby showers I've heard all day long.

[01:14:48]Sprinkles, not so much. But anyway, getting back to the subject of water.

[01:14:54][clears throat] I know a lot of people right now are saying in the chat, storms is coming through, water's coming through. So, do you have items to collect that rainwater or it's just water in the yard? You don't have any catch containers. Do you have any kind of containers whatsoever or a water system hooked up to your drain pipes that goes directly from your gutters down the drain pipes where you can actually catch and save the water? Some people have sistrums to uh catch the water. Some people put them in the 55gallon or or you know IBC totes.

[01:15:36]How do you collect your rain water or how do you collect your water period in order to uh water your plants? Because not everybody can take a hose and go out there and water their plants cuz they're going to repurpose stuff from the first.

[01:15:51]Yeah. And I I said that too cuz she's having another girl. So, she's going to repurpose a lot of the clothes from the first one. But, um she said she got a baby registry. So, you can see what she's lacking. And most likely it's like, you know, the t-shirts and stuff, onesies or whatever because, you know, babies can blow out onesies. So you you'll never have too many onesies. News to me. I think I may be adding another G to my name at the end of the year. My first G mama G G mama grandmama.

[01:16:27]Go ahead, girl. I've already moved over to the next generation. There's five generations left. my mom's baby sister, then it's myself, then it's my son, then it's my granddaughter, and then it's my greatg granddaughter, Gigi. So, yeah, it's five generations of us right now.

[01:16:46]50. Oh, all right. All right, LG. GG, you got a 50 gallon. Okay, I'm getting another rain barrel soon to hook up to my existing barrel, I think, next month.

[01:16:55]Yeah, you can never have too much rain water. Never. I don't care what you say.

[01:17:00]I've seen people farmers or [clears throat] people who are out way out and don't have the setup system to like the city water. They bury these big, you know, tankers like in ground and they hook it up to their um gutter system and as it rains when they had these monsoons, it can fill them up.

[01:17:25]And I know one guy, he put one in the ground. It it held like like 2500 gallons of water and he never worried about water in his garden. And I think he was out in the desert, you know, like out in the desert, it only rain once in a while, but when it rains though, it's like a monsoon. You know, you have rivers that become trens and fast moving water and stuff. So, uh, lakes that fill up that's been dry where the ground was even cracked and then when they have those rains like that, you know, then the ground is so hard it takes a while to absorb it because it comes down so hard and so fast. So, but if you have the the right water set up, you can catch that water and store it and then use it at a slow pace. So yeah, I got a IBC tote out there that holds over 250 gallons, but when the guys used to come over and cut the weeds down, one of the guys broke the spot and I and I have to replace the sp. And I know I'm losing a lot of precious rainwater because of that spot being broke. So soon as I can find someone to fix it, then I can start storing up water and I wouldn't have to worry as much about trying to water my plants over in the lot because I would have a reserve.

[01:18:57]Yeah. Uh I remember who is that? Um Jud hers collapsed. Yeah. She had to start all over again. Yeah. And I was uh when I was in Savannah and I was staying at Presbyterians uh she had rain barrels outside and totes and stuff for water.

[01:19:17]We was out there watering the garden and stuff.

[01:19:21]Yeah. So I would like to get another IBC tote. I see a lot of them in a lot of these construction sites. Uh but they keep using them. So I've left notes that you know if you ever want if you don't want to take that back with you, you don't want to haul it. I got a garden. I told them where they could put it if they ever decide to drop it off. So, I hope one day I walk over there and uh be surprised if somebody drop me off a nice IBC tote. So, and I think once I saw these sites was likeund maybe 150 gallons of water, which is not bad considering I don't have to drag any of it. You know, I can hook a hose up to it and still water my garden, fill my water buckets up or whatever I need to.

[01:20:07]It's on my gutter. Okay. Backyard garden flow. That's nice. I have 50 gallon water tanks, 365 gallon garbage in containers just for water. I placed them all over the garden to save the walk back and forth. Yeah.

[01:20:29]I do that, too. Oh, yeah. Say it's on your water bill. Anytime you water anything in your garden, whether it's grow baskets or whether it's five gallon buckets or three gallon buckets or two gallon buckets or pots or uh window boxes, um anytime you can water that without having to turn your hose on, it's a blessing and your plant still getting what it needs.

[01:20:56]Um, I like using the super juice for my green stock because it seems, for some reason or another, it seems to be a little more absorbent than using the hose. I only use the hose in extreme cases. If it's been really hot, like hitting 85 to 90 degrees more than two or three days, and I need to water it at least twice a day, once in the morning or once in the evening, uh, and then I'm using up a lot of my water inside my rain barrels. But other than that, I I'm pretty good at it. But with all this rain, you would think that the whales in my green stock would be wet, but they're not. And that's what amazes me how that how is that happening where I took the top off so the rain could come down but it's only the top layer that's wet the layers underneath is still dry. So yeah they they can dry out real quick real quick. So uh instead of just regular potting soil I will get the potting soil that holds moisture with moisture. Uh, so and I found out that works a little better in the plants. And um, a lot of people don't like it, but it's Miracle Grow. I'm going to call it what it is. And it has some moisture control and it actually works better than just plain potting soil. It is something in it that does keep it from the soil from not drying out as fast. So that's what I need cuz [clears throat] sometimes every day I can't go down those stairs to water. You know, my aid here is Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

[01:22:39]So Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I'm on my own if I want to order my water my green stocks. And I'm teaching my aid how to garden. She wants to learn how to garden. So I'm helping her out.

[01:22:52]Yeah. Can't stop. I saw him some the other day on somebody's live.

[01:22:57]Yeah, he's still around acting crazy.

[01:23:00]Hey, Serena, I didn't see you pop up in the chat. I see everybody saying hello to you. Nice to see you, sweetheart.

[01:23:08]So, yeah, I'm just saying that when it comes to making sure that your plants get helped out, um, a lot of people will add um, perlite or vermiculite or cocoa core to help hold moisture in their plants. Um, so once they water them, they don't dry out as fast. So, everybody has their own method on how they take care of their plants. We know that a lot of people have been using the oil cans, oil containers, basins or kitty pools to put their grow bags in cuz they do dry out fast. So yeah, baby showers are for the first child. Sprinkles are for the second or any additional child. Yeah, I didn't find that out. I understood about baby showers, but I never been to a sprinkle.

[01:23:57]Well, this will be my first sprinkle and it's in my own family, so this is going to be interesting.

[01:24:03]Yeah. So, [clears throat] um, like I said, everybody has their own way, not only of how they contain their water, but how they use it. Like some people have gimmicks where they set up that as they go. They might have a cotton rope going from a big container of water and going into different plants so that they can wick this water up while they're going on vacation or if they have one of those what they call oils where they can put it in the ground and fill it full of water and it can slowly leech out to water plants. So, everybody has their own method on how they save water, how they use water. Um, I saw that one tip where the guy had the water bottle and he had a Q-tip put in there and put a little hole in it and put a Q-tip in and the Q-tip would absorb the water and it would drip a little at a time in the plant so it's not totally at a fast pace but a pace where the plant will not totally dry out. And I was like, "Oh, that's cool. That's something I would like to try." And it was the kind of Q-tip that had the hollow the plastic hollow, not the not the cotton ones cuz they don't always absorb, but the hollow plastic tube and the cotton on the tip and that they put it in there and the it would drip slowly off the tip. So, I saw a little, you know, quite a few little tips that was nice to learn about how you can um keep your plants watered if you're going to be away for an extended period of time and how to store the water, too. Cuz you're going to need the right size container to hold the water because if it's during the heat of the summer, that water will still evaporate before it can get totally out of that container. So, it's it's nice to know how you set things up. Uh, Sylvia said, "I can't believe my neighbor is growing a tomato plant and asked for help with leafooted bugs. I was so happy to help her." [laughter] Maybe she saw your yard and say, "Oh, I could do that." I am a commercial queen over here. Hey, I hear you. LG, you you'll figure it out. Oh, Jun said, "I'm so confused. It looks like you live, but you're not." Yeah, I am. I am live.

[01:26:28]I'm just on two different setup platforms.

[01:26:31]I glitched there for a hot minute. Yeah, I'm live. I'm all the way live.

[01:26:40][laughter] Okay. All right. I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. I'm live.

[01:26:47]Do assassin bugs kill leafooted bugs?

[01:26:49]All right, y'all. There go a question Serena asking. I don't know. I never had the problem with either one of them, so I I couldn't tell you.

[01:27:00]I want to hear you miss your uh [laughter] [gasps] I haven't had a problem with assassin bugs or the kill leaf footy bugs. I never heard of the um lot of bugs that are in in a lot of states. I never heard about them here in Cleveland. Now, I've heard uh Jean, I have a a hissy fit about the the the the tomato vine worm, and I was cracking up cuz Litty B helped her on that, but they haven't I have never seen them in my garden. Not saying that they haven't existed in Cleveland, they just hadn't existed in my garden. I hadn't seen the the footed bug or whatever.

[01:27:48]Uh all right. A lot of you bugs y'all talk about I never seen here. And all my years I've been gardening. I've been guarding a long time. And a lot of these bugs I haven't seen or heard of until I'm hearing and seeing them in the chat.

[01:28:02]And I'm just like or seeing them in the video showing, you know, what they look like. I even know what to look for once if they did hit my garden. I didn't know what to look for, but I do know what to look for now if they ever hit my garden.

[01:28:15]So, I'm just saying it's just funny. Uh, assassin bugs will kill any bug, good and bad. Okay, still.

[01:28:25]Oh, wow. After three commercials, I had to skip. What? Well, I hope I'm getting paid after all of that. Thank you, LG G.

[01:28:33]I hope so. They ain't showing that many commercials. I hope I'm getting paid cuz I mama's broke.

[01:28:40]Oh, yeah. Those dang leafooted things.

[01:28:44]Okay. I've never seen I I put I put like this. I've seen them now since y'all showed them in the gardens. Who is that?

[01:28:51]Tag. Yeah.

[01:28:53]Tag was showing all the bugs that was hitting her fruit trees and plants and whatever. And I was like, "Dad, girlfriend got an invasion over there of all kinds of stuff." I'm just like, "Woo! I'm so glad I don't have that issue." Now, we do have problems with aphits at times, okay? But that's pretty much the extent I go to. I haven't seen the rest of mother bugs. Hope to never see them. Uh, who is that showing? Uh, Todd was showing an army worm. I never seen one of those here. Not just saying that they don't exist here. Right now, we have the invasion and I hate them.

[01:29:29]It's that lantern fly that is ugly and they are vicious. They will fly at you.

[01:29:34]They ain't scared of you. They They're taking over the trees and a lot of shrubs. They killing the west side.

[01:29:39]There's one area that is so infested, it's horrible. Now at the nurseries now they actually have a spray form. They had to invent a spray form because they gotten so bad. So that's that's our newest nemesis is that uh lantern fly which is ugly. It's pink and black and it is big and it flies at you. It ain't scared of you. and it will get up in your tree and they and they make little sacks, little pouches that you can see on your tree and inside, I guess, is where the babies are at.

[01:30:14]And they drop this sticky sap like all over your plants. I had to move my plants out from under the tree because it was coating the leaves on my plants and I was hosing them down trying to get the sticky stuff off. I was like, "Uh-uh. I don't know if this is gonna suffocate my plant or or turn into some kind of disease or some kind of crazy stuff, but yeah.

[01:30:37]Uh I'm not scared of the hornworm anymore. Okay. Yeah.

[01:30:42]Right. Thank you all for this evening.

[01:30:45]I'm getting ready to get off of here. Uh I want y'all to say a little prayer for me. Yeah, I'm having other problems.

[01:30:55]Um, I went into the doctor the other day. They stuck me in my thyroid. My thyroid is going to have to come out.

[01:31:04][clears throat] The problems of having this swallowing and air shortage. So, um, they took biopsy to see make sure it's not cancerous. [clears throat] But I might have to have my thyroid taken out.

[01:31:22]Oh yeah, there go tag. I was just talking about you and all your invasions and all your bugs. You keep them over there, tag. Nothing personal, but yeah, you keep them.

[01:31:31]And so I sound like Barry White and I got this rough voice now, but once they take my thyroid out, I might sound like Manny Rippleton.

[01:31:39][snorts and clears throat] So I will keep y'all a breast as things go because it's going to be at one point once they take that out, I'm not going to be talking for a minute.

[01:31:49]So yeah.

[01:31:51]So, thank you for all your prayers.

[01:31:52]Thank y'all for coming in this chat this evening. I love y'all all.

[01:31:58]I will see y'all in these YouTube streets. And this is Miss Shirley, the OG gardener in Cleveland Hikes, Ohio, zone 6B. And I want you to like, share, and subscribe. And hit that like button and show me that you like me just a little bit will be greatly appreciated.

[01:32:19]I will see y'all in the other chats.

[01:32:20]I'll see y'all in other places in these YouTube streets. Please come back next Thursday, 7 o'clock Eastern Standard Time here to see this old lady where we got to discuss and what I can throw your way. Hopefully I learned something from you. Hopefully you learned something from me. As I always say, enjoy your day and y'all come back now. You here.

[01:32:47]love and light to [music] you. [singing] Keep your hands in the soil. Let your spirit [music] bloom.

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