The Cold Spring Delay - What NOT to Do Now - LIVE TALK

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:06]Okay, my friends, here it is. The Saturday morning live stream at the Garden of Viking headquarters, zone 5/6, northern Indiana, and I need to see, can you guys see me here? Because it shows that there's zero. Uh, but I see some people in the chat, so let me know if you can see and hear me. Uh anyways guys, it is a super cold spring. I mean just feels like the middle, well not the middle, but I mean it feels like the very beginning of spring. I mean it is last frost day is Mother's Day. You know, everyone's like, "Oh, Mother's Day is when you put everything out."

[00:00:43]Mother's Day is tomorrow and uh the soil is wet and cold and uh it's been foggy and rainy, which I love that. Uh but for growing things, o guys uh the only things that we have planted uh and I posted this in the tribe on the forum is uh celery, parsley, green onions. Okay. Uh and some yodfa.

[00:01:11]Those are the only things that we have actually in the ground right now because we are waiting on everything else, you know. And we got to find a place now. We got to find a place for these cabbages.

[00:01:21]Look at these nice little cabbages. The uh Gloria vine kusen. Nice looking little transplant there. Uh we've got to because now we have three whole beds of onions. Okay. So guys, and then I want to ask your opinion. Uh so it's my first time growing this plant. Camille really likes it. It is a caster bean. Uh give me some tips. What are the advice? Do you guys grow this plant? What do you think? We're going to address it here in a little bit later. I want to ask you again, but also I want to ask you uh if you're watching this after the fact, leave your advice in the comments. Does it like super rich soil, full sun? Does it need a lot of water? How big does it get? Uh all of that. Also, I have these from last year, which are giant elephant ear uh like bulbs. You know, I started with two things that look like coconuts and then they got massive huge leaves. Was so cool looking. Uh then at the end of the year I dug them up and there was like 10 bulbs now. So um what is the deal? Do last year I started it like eight weeks before last frost. I started them up indoors even though the seed is literally the size of a coconut. I started them in like two and a half gallon pots under the grow lights. Uh so but this year I didn't really mess with all that. So I think I'm just going to put them out into the ground. Is that right? I'm just going to put them back out into the ground. So guys, let me know. um your advice on those giant elephant ears. Okay, so um let us see who is here. I saw Val talking about something up there as soon as I came in about the $90 for 300 ft that she doesn't need that much. Uh what are you talking about? What are you talking about? Are you talking about the uh fabric? Because um that's actually a pretty good deal.

[00:03:16]$90 for 300 ft. And yeah, they usually come in 300 foot rolls. Uh but yes, it will last a long time. Definitely.

[00:03:25]What's up, Big Will Dog? Good to see you here.

[00:03:31]And uh Don Celtic, yes, good to see you here. Muddy Paws, colorblind gardener says, "Good morning from central Indiana. We had 15 hours straight rain overnight just and two and a half just a few days ago. another month I'll be asking for rain. Yeah, I know. Um I'm really hoping even though that doesn't do anything, but I'm really hoping that uh it's not one of those summers like it was for like four or five summers in a row several years ago. um where we went 10 or 12 weeks without a drop of rain and all the grass turned brown and hard and even the trees started dropping their leaves and stuff, you know, in September and things. So, um I really hope that we don't have one of those. Okay. I hope that we have uh the type of summer where it was last year where it rains periodically and it's really nice. Okay. What are you doing?

[00:04:33]>> Want to say hi?

[00:04:34]>> Hi. What are you out there doing?

[00:04:36]>> Nothing.

[00:04:37]>> Nothing?

[00:04:37]>> No, >> it doesn't sound like nothing.

[00:04:39]>> Well, swinging on a tree.

[00:04:41]>> Oh, what were you doing on the front porch that sounded like a bunch of elephants stomping around?

[00:04:46]>> Oh, we were doing a Skip It.

[00:04:48]>> Oh, the Skip It, huh? Nice. Who is this?

[00:04:51]You want to introduce yourself? You can say hi if you want. Just say hi. Okay.

[00:04:56]She's a little bit shy. Tegan has a lot more experience on the camera, but say hi. Say hi, guys.

[00:05:05]>> Hi.

[00:05:06]>> What's your name?

[00:05:08]>> Leah.

[00:05:09]>> Leah. Yes. Tan's got a lot of friends in the neighborhood now. It's pretty cool.

[00:05:15]So, um, what are you doing now?

[00:05:18]>> You're about to go out and work in the garden.

[00:05:21]>> No.

[00:05:21]>> You're going to weed. Is that what you said? You're going to weed the garden?

[00:05:24]>> No.

[00:05:24]>> I think that is what she said, isn't it?

[00:05:26]No, no, no, no, no.

[00:05:27]>> You're going to get all your friends together and weed the garden.

[00:05:30]>> Yes.

[00:05:31]>> No, >> no. That would actually be I would have to be out there supervising that >> because what's a weed and what's a young plant?

[00:05:38]>> I know. I know.

[00:05:39]>> Do you?

[00:05:39]>> Yeah.

[00:05:40]>> Oh, okay. Nice.

[00:05:42]>> But no, I'm not waiting for you.

[00:05:43]>> Oh, okay. For us, you mean? For us?

[00:05:45]>> Yeah. We don't even really have weeds.

[00:05:47]>> I know. Exactly. Because we have the Viking growing system. Is >> that right?

[00:05:51]>> Yeah.

[00:05:52]>> Good. Very good. Anything else to say?

[00:05:55]Anything else to say?

[00:05:59]>> Goodbye.

[00:06:01]>> Okay.

[00:06:03]>> Goodbye. See you maybe another time. I don't know when, but yeah.

[00:06:07]>> So, yeah, that's what we uh don't be all that loud.

[00:06:15]Yeah. So, uh let's see here. What were we talking about?

[00:06:21]Yeah. Colorblind says, um, "Two weeks past my last frost date, keeping them peppers and tomatoes in the house." Yes, guys, that is why uh I got a couple of people that um emailed me from the free seed starting calendar and was like, "Total rubbish. I would never buy your course because your your uh knowledge is incomplete and and uh downright wrong.

[00:06:46]You need to start peppers 10 to 12 weeks before your last frost date, not six weeks. six or seven weeks. And so, you know what I did? I didn't even respond because who cares? They obviously uh don't know. They just obviously don't know. It says on the back of the seed packet 12 weeks before your last man, even se So, I started 7 weeks th this this year, and that's too much. These are already too big. I mean it it's already because we're not going to you know Mother's Day is tomorrow so last frost is pretty much it's not going to frost but that soil is wet and cold and not not wet is not a problem but cold and wet is a big problem. Okay. So uh we have this these pepper plants that are looking good right now. Uh but you put them in cold wet soil and they're just going to sit there for two 3 weeks and do nothing and it will stunt them all season long. instead of just keeping them under the nice warm grow lights.

[00:07:44]That's what we're going to do. Keep them under the nice warm grow lights and plant them out um at the appropriate time. Okay. So, uh so you taking pass me a note. Okay. Taking I I can't be you know doing that when I'm live streaming. into um No, absolutely not. No, sorry. Uh but thanks for asking.

[00:08:20]So, uh these pepper plants are going to go out about 2 weeks after and I will show you guys why this is super important because um we have here is our forecast. Okay. So, today, look here.

[00:08:37]Today is uh 70 and sunny. Okay. Tomorrow, but look at the lows. All right. 40 45 38 30 or 47. You know, that is not good for um for peppers. I mean, yeah, it's not frosting. So, tomatoes would be fine.

[00:08:54]Tomatoes will be fine out there.

[00:08:56]Tomatoes can just sit in the ground and they'll just do nothing for weeks until it gets warm enough and then they will uh it will not stunt them all all season long like it does peppers. Peppers are totally different in that regard. But look see about so about a week two weeks after our last frost. Look, it's going to actually become summertime. 80 85 lows in the 60s. That's going to be warm enough after after about three or four days of that. Uh four or five days of that, that's going to be warm enough to plant the the tomatoes.

[00:09:30]So guys, you start them six weeks before your last frost. You got eight weeks, six, seven weeks, 8, nine weeks of total growth and they go out in the the nice warm soil like that's going to be. It's going to be because that soil is going to be warm by then.

[00:09:45]So, uh, so that's a a, you know, response to that person. You don't know what you're talking about. Well, okay, then just keep doing what you're doing and keep getting what you're getting. You're the one trying to get a free seed starting calendar, not me. Okay. So, anyways, uh, that's what my thoughts on that. Okay.

[00:10:08]So, yes.

[00:10:19]Mhm.

[00:10:22]Okay, good. Don says, "Okay, I'm ready."

[00:10:24]Yes, guys, those fly traps. Yes, Tit uh made a post in the uh community, the Viking the private community uh offering up the plants and super cool. You just pay shipping and stuff or whatever the deal was. And my um fly traps have already sprung back, already dripping with dew, and they're already catching um because the ginger because it takes so long and it has to be so warm and there's so much exposed surface area to the light. Um definitely has the um little bit of fungus on top, which is not really a problem. Okay, a fungus is not the same as like molds or damping off just that green algae kind of thing. That's what I'm talking about. The green algae is not a problem. Anytime you have nutrients and intense light and water, you're going to have that. So, um, but there is some fruit flies in there. And so, I just moved and these are in the tent. So, I just moved those four plants in there and immediately they got to work. there's some kind of thing that that attracts them, some kind of smell, some kind of pheromone or something, but they all just start going right to that plants. Right to those plants. They prefer the sundue. I I think at least I can't tell if they're going down into the the pictures of the big pitcher plants, but they probably are. Um because the pitcher plants are getting big and perking up. And now I can see all those hairs pointing inwards. They look like teeth, you know. Um, all good signs of growth. And so for a small tent like that, I mean, for a seed starting tent, they work really well.

[00:12:09]Really well.

[00:12:26]Yes. So, if anybody um has any advice on these on these caster beans, let me know.

[00:12:36]Remember, if you guys know anything about this, how to grow them and stuff.

[00:12:41]Um and we got it from the the old man whose house we went to, you know, he's been selling those plants for years and years. And um he does a little he's got a small greenhouse. And this is in a straightup residential area. You know, he's got a small greenhouse in the back.

[00:13:00]Um, and his garage is all decked out.

[00:13:02]You can tell he built this stuff like 40 years ago and it's still the same exact stuff. He's just, you know, he's a tinkerer, you know. Every little thing has got like patching on it and stuff.

[00:13:13]It's all made by him and stuff. He doesn't just go out and buy a new thing.

[00:13:16]He he makes it work and stuff. That kind of old school, you know, mentality, which is great. Uh and so we go there uh last year and we got a big flat of tomatoes, you know, he just kept giving us stuff and um even though he's selling them, you know, he just kept, "Oh, here here, try these two." And then it got all, you know, they're super topheavy and stuff cuz they're from his greenhouse.

[00:13:40]And uh they blew over and some of the things the um tags fell out and stuff and then we transplanted some. So, we lost track of of what all of them were, you know, um except the watermelon beef steak. We knew that that was the one that that that was what it was. Uh but the rest of them was kind of a crapshoot. And so, we found the Viking what we call the Viking tomato. Probably my favorite ever tomato and plant tomato plant. Super productive. Uh one of the best. Super meaty. Just all meat. Not a lot of just water that runs off and stuff. lot lot of just juicy meat. So good. Um and he had no idea which one it was. He's like, "Yeah, it could be anything." And I'm and I've got a bunch of different kinds this year, you know, that I'm that I'm doing. So, uh he really had no idea what it what it is, but he ended up giving us a bunch more, you know, well, we bought them and stuff, but he ended up um so we have a whole tray of bunch of different kinds of tomatoes we're going to grow at the Viking North plot here. We only have room for about four tomatoes. And so I think that we're going to do two Viking and two Brandy wine. I think that's probably it cuz we go and during the season we'll be we'll be going out to the Viking North every Monday. And so we'll be able to harvest and get, you know, tomatoes if we want, you know, cherry tomatoes or or um purple bumblebees, stuff like that. So we'll grow most of them there. But as far as the high octane, like we want fresh, you know, and group like on top of stuff.

[00:15:17]We're going to do the um we're going to do the uh two of the Viking and two of the Brandy wine. So delicious. Super different flavor. Totally different ballgame of flavor. Um that's why we're doing it like that. But between those four tomatoes, if they grow properly, which of course they will, then that we're going to just going to have loads of them.

[00:15:40]What's up, bushcraft Baron?

[00:15:44]Uh, Stewart, I don't think you eat the elephant ears. We don't eat the elephant ears. No, out front is mostly decoration. I mean, and pollinator stuff, but those aren't pollinators.

[00:15:56]Yeah.

[00:16:01]Wow. That must have been So, digging through my fermentss in the fridge, I came across some fermented cherry tomatoes. What a treat. They still pop in the mouth. Yes, that is awesome. Uh we got I don't know why we didn't do those last year. I I can't remember, but we need to do them again absolutely this upcoming year. Super delicious. We just We have so many ferments. We eat them basically every meal. You know, have small dish of various types of fermentss. We're still eating them. Um it's awesome. We bought a whole separate refrigerator, a small one from Costco, from Costco. not not tiny, you know, but like a about the height of me and like that, you know, like five, six feet tall or something and uh big enough that we can put like 21 half gallons of um fermentss in there in the half gallon jars. So, super good.

[00:17:13]It's been chilly in South Louisiana.

[00:17:16]That's insane.

[00:17:27]Yes. No way. Says, "My pepper plants are about 5 in tall. I think they'll be perfect in a week or two." Yeah. Like I said, honestly, you don't want them this big. I mean, this this should go in the ground right now, you know, instead of being all still inside and stuff. So, if I see some of the flowers, you know, you got to pinch them off.

[00:17:46]Which part of it is because I'm using the Mars Hydro 3000 lights designed specifically for heavy flowering, if you know what I mean, way back in the day. Uh, and so these are getting hit with that spectrum of light that is going to help sort of nurture flowering as opposed to just vegetative growth.

[00:18:12]Like back in the day, you know, the metal hallides, they used to be more about the vegetative growth and then you'd switch to the high pressure sodiums for the flowering, you know, and they kick on and all the lights in the neighborhood dim when your stuff kick on. a just draw on huge amounts of power. They got 10 lights in there. It's like the sun. I mean, just like 10 suns in there and just go up under the light and just I I would get sunburn under the light trying to work with the plants just get all sunburn, you know? I have to put my hat on and my sunglasses and just oh crazy amount of heat. Crazy. The huge air conditioners and those, you know, and now they just got LEDs that run super cool. You can touch them. I mean, it's just crazy. Technology is so different. But, uh, yeah. See the with the roots coming out the bottom. That's just too much. That's just about too much, you know. Um, that's but they're good looking. They look healthy and nice and big. But, um, and they're stout, so there won't be any problems. They got another 10 days. It's not going to be a problem.

[00:19:23]Oh, yeah. Absolutely. They pick the flowers off. In effin Fargle, I heard that name before. Um, but yeah, definitely pick the flowers off. That will encourage it to maintain its vegetative hormones, which you want. So, as soon as I see the little flowers, you definitely pick pick them off. But be careful that you don't pick off the growing tip of the plant because um I I've done ex extensive experiments over the years with topping pepper plants and I never found an increase in yield at all. All I found was that the plant is much more squat. It's it's bushier and shorter, but they have the same amount of peppers on them really, you know. So, it it doesn't doesn't do anything. Maybe slightly less on the ones that we top.

[00:20:07]It's it's not like the other plants that I learned all about topping on where I top them aggressively. If this were those plants, I would top the thing. I would literally cut the whole plant off right here and it would become a bush with tons of different flowers on it instead of just like one long stem. You know, peppers are not the same. I've tried. You know, it doesn't work like that. Not Not all plants do like that.

[00:20:35]Mhm.

[00:20:47]Interesting. Eddie says, "Advice for giant elephant ears. I use giant mustard leaves for water catchment. I drape the leaves over the bucket edge and they fill quickly." Nice. Uh, ours are going to be in the ground. Actually, ours will be in the ground.

[00:21:07]So, we use the Viking system. um even out front for all the flowers as well.

[00:21:13]And the elephant ears grew massive. I mean, the ears were like this big. I'm not exaggerating. They were the full size of my whole torso. And it looked super lush out there and uh really Jurassic and sort of, you know, jungle like. And uh we planted them too close though to the aisle to to the walkway that by the end of the summer there was just like a little tiny, you know, you had to squeeze between them and stuff.

[00:21:39]And I think I told you guys the mailman stops delivering mail to me like mid to late summer for like two months. It's a big battle, you know.

[00:21:48]He writes on my mail. Overgrown with bees. Bees. And then he throws my mail onto the porch like that. He just throws it on there, you know. Overgrown with bees.

[00:22:00]Okay.

[00:22:06]Mhm.

[00:22:14]Yeah, that's a really good idea, Dusty.

[00:22:19]The the uh fast growers, definitely make notes of them. Some of them are real slow growers, but once your system gets dialed in, nothing is a slow grower really, except ginger, you know, and even that is already pretty tall and stuff. Um, one thing we did not have good um, germination rates with this year was turmeric. So, that's very unfortunate.

[00:22:42]We wanted more turmeric, but so far we've got one little sprout like that big out of probably 30 um, ryomes planted. So, we'll have to see. And I can see in some of the areas where the soil is depressed now, it that the it just rotted away. So, we'll see.

[00:23:01]But, uh, these look pretty good, huh?

[00:23:05]That's about ideal. That a little bit big. The roots coming out the bottom.

[00:23:10]You don't really actually want that.

[00:23:11]That means that they're too big for in inside the pot.

[00:23:24]I know. I could I could do the heater outside if we needed to, but it's better to just wait. I mean, last year I did it because well, like I told you, Camille was all like, "Oh, yeah." She told me she loves peppers, you know, and I mean, she would eat them all the time. And I was like, "Oh, yeah." And she hadn't been with me for for the previous year.

[00:23:48]And well, no, she was here the previous year. And so and the pepper production was horrible because I put them out too soon and they got hit with the cold spell and they just didn't do anything all all season long. They just stayed like this big like miniature all season, you know, and that's what they do when they get hit with that cold spell into cold wet soil. My timing was all off and everything. And I was like, "No, I swear I can grow pepper plants, you know, really good." And she's like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I'm I'm sure you can. Yeah, I know." I'm like, "No, no, you don't know. You I'm going to show you." Okay.

[00:24:26]And so I made sure that we were growing peppers, lots of them. And so when I started them too early and I was like, "Oh man, you know, sweating bullets like they got to go outside." But it's still 40° at night. That's not going to work.

[00:24:42]So I was like, you know, okay. Giving me flashbacks in Northern California, you know, super high pressure. had to make it work, you know, like, okay, so what can I do? So then I looked up these little greenhouse heaters and stuff. And then so I covered the uh the the um thankfully I had those uh little hoop houses, those metal ones from the Bootstrap Farmer ones, which I highly recommend for everybody. It's super useful. Um, and I covered them with multiple layers of like frost fabric and plastic and then put the heater inside with the thermostat and ran the power cord out there and it was just crazy.

[00:25:20]But it worked. It kept it never dropped below 60 in there. I mean, it was good.

[00:25:25]It kept it good. It was super cool. uh worked really good, but um uh not something I want to do again this year.

[00:25:40]Andre, do I see guys? Andre Pusca says, "Guys, I became the dad of a baby girl.

[00:25:46]I'm so Oh, what is the I can't see there. Let's see here. Here we go. Put them up there." Whoops.

[00:25:55]Became the dad of a baby girl. So, I'm literally planting tomatoes right now before they get discharged from the maternity hospital. Super cool.

[00:26:03]Congratulations. That is awesome. Glad to hear it. I wish you guys very good health.

[00:26:11]That's super cool.

[00:26:23]Um, what's what's up, Dava?

[00:26:34]Yes. Uh, Teeth says, "I love my old school grow light. It takes me back." I know. Yeah, there's definitely something nostalgic about that. I mean, I don't see high pressure sodiums in my life anymore, but if I did, I'd put them in a butterfly hood, you know, and just tan under them. Just get a sunburn under it just because and just roast under the heat of it, you know, and and watch and then I'd go right outside and just for old times sake, I would look at the power meter just screaming, you know, and just watch that energy just draining. Ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, ting. That would bring it back, you know. you get 20 of those running or 40 of those running, it's a lot. It's a serious power consumption, you know. Uh so that would take me back, you know.

[00:27:25]Guys, it it's so crazy the the the extent we went to there in the mountains and stuff had these massive turbo Cumins diesels. The same engines that you the same that go inside of a fully blown like Peterbuilt, you know, semi hauling 40,000 lbs of steel coils, you know, going up a mountain.

[00:27:49]You heard the the turbos are and that's what it was like day after day. I mean, and then we would have to get, you know, uh like black market um diesel brought in, you know, like all right, back it up back up into there and fill up the the diesel tank that we have buried underground and stuff. Just so crazy.

[00:28:10]Thousand gallons a week.

[00:28:13]Yeah, it now just seems so insane. But that's why I'm like, man, these guys now got it easy. They just hook up to the grid in San Francisco and or wherever and they just pull from the grid. They don't have no idea about back in the day.

[00:28:36]So, yeah, there's no update yet. We It's going to be a blood bath. I know it.

[00:28:43]It's going to be a blood bath uh on our plants part. Not I mean the vos if if there was something I could do I would but there's literally not I I don't not on that scale. I don't know what's caused the infestation, you know, everywhere I check and ask and I and I even went in depth with the AIS and stuff, Grock and Chatty G and that I'm like really trying to go deep with it.

[00:29:11]And the best they got is you're going to have to set traps. You're going to have to physically trap them.

[00:29:18]That doesn't make any sense. Okay, we're we're not How are we going to do that on on a 3 acres of of grassland where they're just totally infested everything? You know, everywhere you walk, the whole thing is just soft sponge. Now, I don't know what happened, but that's going to suck. So, we'll see.

[00:29:46]Yeah. Shooting the soil. I know. That's what everybody says. And that's probably the case. You know, he's probably allergic to bees. But at the same time, why are you a mailman? Why are you literally walking up to people's front porches in their flower beds? I mean, if you're that allergic to bees, then work in like an office or something. I I don't know. But either way, then wear long sleeves or something. I don't know.

[00:30:11]I guess I'm not in his situation, but it's because of it's it's the carpenter bees, the big bumblebees. You know, if if you're like most people, you think that they sting. And so you think that like the big old bumblebee, the bigger the bee, the bigger the stinger, the bigger the pain. So you, and it's true.

[00:30:30]I mean, they'll be on the maragolds and stuff that are right up on the walkway and you'll walk up against them and they'll and it sounds like a drone taking off. I mean, the And so it probably does freak him out.

[00:30:44]But I I have enough experience with them now to know that they don't do anything.

[00:30:48]I I don't even think they can sting. Um you know, maybe they bite or something if they're forced into it, but you can just don't pay them any mind. The worst of all are the yellow jackets. Those are the worst cuz they all they want to do is eat you. They just want to kill you and eat you is all that they want to do.

[00:31:08]They're meat eaters and so they just in one wrong move and boom, they'll sting you and then that's it. Fly away.

[00:31:17]Then you all swollen for three days in your hand. It's just terrible. But anyways, I know I would like to um but that's not a good way to get your mail delivered properly.

[00:31:52]Ginger, guys, for most people, I strongly suggest ginger in grow bags.

[00:31:58]Unless you are in the tropics where it's its native environment, you're going to have much better luck and success in grow bags. I I grew in the ground, you know, many times and it just doesn't take as much. The ground doesn't get as hot, you know, and it just it's just more dense. I mean, I'm sure that you could. I just growing ginger even at all in northern Indiana and getting huge fat juicy thick plump stuff is like is like a really awesome feat actually.

[00:32:31]It's it's not easy to do. Most people if they're growing ginger, they're getting that tiny little little nibblets, gingerettes, you know, them little tiny things after all season of growing. But no, we get them huge fat juicy clo um ryomes.

[00:32:48]And it's only once we switch to the grow bags with the Viking soil blend with the Viking blend of nutrients for the heavy feeders, that's what you need. and water it every day or every couple days, but keep the water. The grow bags allow for perfect saturation. So long as you mix it with the right amount of things, you have perfect water holding capabilities.

[00:33:13]So it's always moist but breathable and super rich. That's how you do ginger.

[00:33:18]Believe me.

[00:33:29]No way. Says, "I was very successful with ginger in the ground. It needs afternoon shade." Where are you located?

[00:33:36]What are the summers like? And what do you mean by very successful?

[00:33:42]Celtic. That's perfect size. 6 to 7 in tall.

[00:33:52]Yeah. Big dog. not a terrible idea. Uh throw the ginger throw the ginger in the green stalk because it it does get roasting hot. Uh and it can't really grow a whole lot else except then you take it up for the whole season. And so in the in the spring and the fall, the green stock works, you know, for leafy greens.

[00:34:11]Um aka Froggy. Honestly, you'd be better off scrapping those and putting them because they their root system is totally different. The sunflowers will be stunted. You want to just just direct sew them. It'll be so much faster and easier.

[00:34:49]Yeah, guys. So, I'm going to make a video uh titled The Worst Seed Company I've Ever Experienced. I think that's next week's video. Um, and I'm going to talk directly uh call out Pepper Joe's because I started two packs of their guilo seeds and not one of them have sprouted. Not one. And I bought like six packs because I wanted to I was going to long-term save some in Myar so that I could always have them. uh because they're not super easy to find. I mean, I'm sure you could, but I thought Pepper Joe's is going to be a nice place. I never bought anything from them, but not a single one sprouted. And so, we don't have any guilos this year. So, we went to the old man and saw if he had them, and no, he doesn't. He didn't do them this year. I said, "Okay, great." Well, that's unfortunate because they make an amazing smoked paprika.

[00:35:52]So, how much did your electric bill go up from keeping it 60° in the tunnel?

[00:36:05]Um, not really noticeable. Not really noticeable.

[00:36:11]I mean, it goes up, you know, during seed starting time and stuff, it probably goes up 40 bucks, 50 bucks a month, you know, and I got all them lights downstairs and the heat mass and the fans and all that stuff. So, it goes up about 50 60 bucks from that. Um but that's nothing compared to when the um air conditioner has to kick on, you know, and then the house is so drafty and loose that it's it will be um you know several hundred uh a month for that. So mom computer says Nate not typing all that again. Yeah, you must have said something. See this this software kind of sucks in the sense that once I jumped ahead to um see Andre's um congratulate him. It doesn't allow me to go back up anymore. So I can't see anything beyond um Dava saying good morning first live comment. That's as high up as I can go.

[00:37:15]So but anyways Viking Uncle sends me the transcripts of these so I will look at it then believe me. Uh, so thank you.

[00:37:25]Oh, good. Looks like you said it again.

[00:37:27]I'll see it here in a moment.

[00:37:48]Yep. Yep. Dusty Flats knows. Hey, you got anything you want to say to the truck?

[00:37:53]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:37:54]>> Yeah.

[00:37:55]>> Just say hi.

[00:37:56]>> Well, hi guys. I just got back from a walk and >> What were you doing out there?

[00:38:01]>> Well, I was laying down in the sun for a little bit on the porch.

[00:38:05]>> Wow. What's our number one arch nemesis?

[00:38:08]What's the devil's plant?

[00:38:10]>> These. Yeah. Morning glories.

[00:38:13]>> And who planted those?

[00:38:15]>> Well, whose job is it to weed them? Wow.

[00:38:17]Who keeps me >> number one job is to weed them.

[00:38:21]>> Yes, guys. The morning glories are a nightmare. They're just everywhere.

[00:38:26]>> Yeah.

[00:38:26]>> And they'll just suffocate all your stuff. It's the worst plant. I can't believe it's not illegal. I seriously It should be totally outlawed that that plant.

[00:38:34]>> It's insane.

[00:38:35]>> Yeah. It's there's I I there's no way I could keep up with it.

[00:38:38]>> No. And if you don't experience it, you would never believe it. You me just saying that you go, "Oh, what?" No. It's It's the most unbelievable plant I've ever experienced.

[00:38:48]>> I mean, and they just grow up and suffocate all your stuff and then produce thousands and thousands of seeds that that sprinkle all over the place. I just saw a comment from Viking Uncle says, "No transcript this week."

[00:39:03]Oh well, I guess I'll hopefully you repost it.

[00:39:07]>> Mhm. But >> anyways, are you out of here?

[00:39:10]>> She will be shortly.

[00:39:11]>> Okay.

[00:39:12]>> In like five minutes, I think. That's what she said.

[00:39:14]>> Mhm. Yep.

[00:39:17]>> All right. Pretty good.

[00:39:19]>> If he wants those morning glories weeded, then he better just like count me out of everything else.

[00:39:26]>> No, she has one job. I say that about every job. You have one job. Making sourdough. You have one job. Morning, Glories.

[00:39:35]>> Mine. That's not my job.

[00:39:37]>> No.

[00:39:40]>> Yes. So anyways, um the uh yeah, Dusty Flats knows watch the meter run around, kick on the lights, or you can go outside and watch your meter and then when your timer clicks and all your lights kick on, if you don't have them staged, especially, you know, five come on now, then few minutes later, five more. If they all come on at once, and the thing almost takes off. It's like a propeller, you know. Um, so I think I already told you, you know, about the watermelons and stuff, but I just wanted to tell you, uh, if you guys are still looking, man, these things turned out to be one of the most amazing things we grew last year. Amazingly sweet if it's at the right time. You basically have to let it fall off the vine. You have to get to the point where it's basically almost rotting. Not quite, though. It just has to fall off the vine. And oh my gosh, so amazingly delicious. It's um you'll never anything from the store again, any kind of honeydew or whatever the orange one is, you will just be like, "What is this?" These were also good. Very, very sweet. Like dripping with honey, they felt like. And you can eat them like an apple. Yeah.

[00:41:04]So, we're planting these again, but we're doing it at the Viking North because uh we just can't we just don't have 15 ft of garden bed space to consume with one plant. You know, they just get so gigantor and produce so many.

[00:41:24]Each plant easily produces over the course of its life probably a hundred of these squash cuz we pick them when they're like this. You know, I don't wait till they're like this. if they're any bigger than that, they're a bit watery, you know, but um yeah, we'll talk about those things here later. Um just wanted to show you guys that. So, I I just would highly recommend and these will vine. These will vine. Oh, they all vine, but these will grow. They will climb a trellis. Um these, however, did not really want to climb the trellis that they they wanted to sprawl along the ground. They kind of wanted to to climb, but they didn't really. So, don't expect these to climb up a trellis. These definitely will, though. And that's how we're going to grow them this year is um up a cattle panel. Yep. We're going to grow a bunch of them because they were amazing. And then, of course, we're growing these beyond any doubt.

[00:42:25]And I found some more seeds of the triple gold seedless variety last year.

[00:42:29]Loved it. But you got to have the pollinators. If you're growing seedless varieties, you got to have pollinators.

[00:42:35]And Alibaba is a pollinator, but it's a late bloomer. But a early bloomer is the sugar baby. Also pretty good itself, the sugar baby, but uh mostly for pollination. That's why we do that.

[00:43:02]Merlin says, "Back in the real day, they had free energy."

[00:43:06]I bet they did. And that you know what they called it? The sun.

[00:43:10]And anyone can use it free of charge.

[00:43:27]Mhm.

[00:43:37]Yeah. See, I am rude. Uh it would be good. Uh but the thing is how you going to rototail your entire lawn, you know, and this the Viking North plot is um you know, several acres. It's it's a lot of there's just way obviously way too much.

[00:43:52]You know, that would not be an option.

[00:43:55]It's got to be something with their food source, though. Okay. So, I'm thinking that my my best thinking at this point is that there's been an explosion of grubs of some variety. Something happened where their food source multiplied because it's not just our garden plants. And so if the food source is not there, they're not gonna m the animals cannot be there. So um something had to have happened with their food source. So there's probably some kind of maybe every so many years grub cycle explosion or some kind of larvae of some kind of flying thing or whatever um that exploded, you know, and so their their food source exploded. And therefore, like most animals, they will fill to capacity the carrying capabilities of their environment just like we do, just like all the animals do. If there's more food and more ability to support more creatures, they will fill that to the maximum of its capabilities. Pretty much all the animals are like that. And so we So I don't know how we can take their food source away, you know. Also, I heard a thing, well, get some of the grub be gone or whatever and sprinkle the grub be gone in in the lawn and take away their food source.

[00:45:16]There might be some validity to that. We don't know yet.

[00:45:24]Yeah. AK Froggy says, "Maybe deploy a platoon of hungry cats." There was that for a couple of years and that is one thing that went away. Okay. Um they all became indoor cats now. So there's no hunting going on outside. But I just don't think that's the only factor. I really don't because how are they getting to the vos? Squirrels I can see and mice and stuff, but vos are really pretty protected. And I never saw the cats out there like deep in our roof stout patches, you know, jumping, hunting down on those thing on those animals. They pretty much just hung out by the door waiting to get fed, you know, all the time. So that they weren't like patrolling the place looking to, you know, wipe out the vos and stuff. I mean, it just I don't know. Or maybe just the smell. I I It has to be something with their food source.

[00:46:26]Beneficial nematodes.

[00:46:29]Maybe we will look into something like that. Super ridiculously expensive. I can tell you that. Beneficial nematodes.

[00:46:36]It'll be several hundred to do the whole prop to do the whole place if if there's even something that can do that.

[00:46:45]Yeah. No way. says, "Fox get them." Did they kill the foxes and coyotes? Guys, we're talking Indiana farmland. Okay, but there's a little tiny patch of woods in the property, little bit of woods over here, and then just utter environmental devastation, habitat devastation as far as the eye can see. I mean, with little tiny patches of woods here and there way off in the distance and then just hundreds of acres of just wiped out, you know, dirt, just dirt, not even soil, you know, and for farmland just waiting to be farmed. So, no, there's people are like, "Build a bat h or build an owl house, you know, and bring back the predators and stuff."

[00:47:25]I mean, that's a lovely thought, you know, but they don't live here. They don't live in where there's no hope for bringing back any kind of pre where are they going to live? The habitat is 95% destroyed. I mean obliterated. So where's the old growth forest and the whole ecosystem from these forests for thousands of years where the predators lived and the owls and everything keeps itself relatively in check. That's all gone. I mean totally gone. And so now we're just left with these little tiny little patches of woods like that.

[00:48:03]Couple woods here. But but if the farmer thinks they can get one more row, wipe out the woods. You know, got to do away with it.

[00:48:11]So no, that's that's also not trying to bring back predators for it is not also not going to work. You know, that's not really a thing.

[00:48:20]So it's a tricky it's tricky, but it will be devastating to the whole to the whole thing, unfortunately.

[00:48:32]Yeah, that's probably right. Exactly. My computer, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm trying to tell everybody. They look all like, oh, a horrible hornets, but they don't. I've never I mean, they're they're no problem.

[00:48:44]And yeah, that's probably the thing, you know, especially Well, I don't want to Yes, Melina. Definitely totally normal.

[00:49:07]My potatoes are still sitting there right where they have been for months now. Just in a state of suspended animation.

[00:49:30]Yes. Um Jerry, what's up? My friend says, "I had to plow up 20 acres to get rid of vos.

[00:49:40]The plan was worth it." Oldfashioned plowing. So that did it. The plant was worth it. Oldfashioned plowing.

[00:49:50]Yes. So, well, that's still just not an option for our for our place. Um, and you're talking about like deep, like flipping the flipping the earth over, right? Cuz they're only in that top like couple inches of soil. I'm sure that our tiller does get down that deep, but it's not like an actual tractor flipping over the whole earth like that.

[00:50:25]Yes, maybe I will put a uh maybe I will put another mailbox a little bit out further because I mean I don't need him coming all the way up on the porch right to the clear to the front door just to put the mail in it, you know, but then I don't want the Amazon people to think just leave it by the mailbox, you know, not in this area.

[00:50:51]Are you sure, Don?

[00:50:53]Juicy Fruit gumsticks wrapped in cheap dollar store aluminum foil will kill the moles, ground squirrels, etc. They can't pass the aluminum.

[00:51:04]So, I'm trying to think how would that work? Why would they eat the aluminum foil?

[00:51:10]because I mean we can get a lot of that.

[00:51:17]Okay. Mom computer says Nate caster beans will grow almost anywhere. Don't let the children play with the beans though. Ryson they are also said to reduce the mole population because of the of the ryson in the soil in the roots. Okay. Yeah. Well, they will definitely not be playing with the beans or the plants at all. the the kids. I'm making a point, but I really hope that they are sturdy enough because we get high winds out out front. It's just really exposed, you know, and so um I hope that they're sturdy enough that they can do their thing.

[00:51:58]That's good to know, though. Ryson.

[00:52:01]Yeah, that's right. That's the name of it.

[00:52:10]What's up, Taylor? Good to see you here.

[00:52:20]Oh, Shaunie says, "Planted 24 celery.

[00:52:23]What are you doing with that? You're starting a celery factory. Uh, three types of grapes. A joosta berry, ya bberry, black currant, plus watered all the potatoes, onions, carrots, lettuce, spinach, pea, radish, and peas. Haven't had rain. Wow. Uh, that sounds pretty nice, Terry. Yes. Um, a really unique type of smoked paprika and it's not that spicy, so you can put a decent amount in there.

[00:52:58]Um they're a really good for Mexican dishes or southwest if you're making like cowboy um pork and beans with cornbread or something. Put some of that in there. Wow.

[00:53:19]Yeah. I believe that. No way. is that uh and I tell people if we if if if we just vanished, you know, if people just vanished entirely right now, like this year, the whole entire property would be nothing but morning glories. And the following year, all you would see is a carpet of morning glories all over everything. That's all that there would be. No other plants can survive by it.

[00:53:42]It would just bring down everything.

[00:53:44]It's insane.

[00:53:47]I mean, we're out there just ripping them out. ripping them out of the grasses. 30 foot long vines and they're just seeds are going everywhere, exploding and sprinkling all over.

[00:53:58]There's thousands of seeds back there in the garden right now, you know, from last year because we missed one plant and it climbed all over the thing and flowered real fast and it's just insane.

[00:54:09]So, yeah.

[00:54:13]Nice. Big Will says, "I've had cold crops out for a month and haven't had to worry about pest yet. put tomatoes out yesterday. Peppers are anxious. Yeah, definitely anxious. See, the problem is though, in my experience, trying to get them out too early is that you're just asking for them to to um to bolt. You're just asking for them to bolt, you know, but we'll see. And still, I bet that they look probably like they did a month ago, don't they? Cuz they're just not growing that fast.

[00:54:42]They just don't like that soil.

[00:54:48]You got to let me know. How are we doing that? What's up?

[00:54:51]>> I made a double-sided spear.

[00:54:54]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:54:56]>> It's so sharp. What' you make it with?

[00:54:59]>> My knife.

[00:54:59]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:55:00]>> A wood.

[00:55:00]>> What knife?

[00:55:02]>> My what?

[00:55:05]>> The Swiss Army.

[00:55:06]>> Yeah, the Swiss Army knife.

[00:55:07]>> Oh, your multi-tool.

[00:55:08]>> Yeah.

[00:55:09]>> Very good. Yeah. Nice. We'll fire harden that later >> cuz they say in stores you can't have guns or knives. This is neither. It's a stick.

[00:55:17]>> Oh, good one. Prison thinking, huh? It's a shank.

[00:55:20]>> A what?

[00:55:21]>> All right, go.

[00:55:23]>> Goodbye.

[00:55:24]>> Are you leaving right now?

[00:55:25]>> No.

[00:55:26]>> Okay.

[00:55:26]>> All right.

[00:55:28]Yeah. No, they're super pretty. The morning glories for sure.

[00:55:32]But um Yes. Let's see. I'm trying to see about this morning glory.

[00:55:57]Melvina, do I direct sew all of the melons and watermelons? Uh, you know, here I start some just about two weeks.

[00:56:05]I haven't even started them yet cuz we're not going to plant them out till like June 1st when it's nice and hot. Uh I'm going to put some transplants out, but also direct sew some because it's kind of hit or miss.

[00:56:40]Oh, really? Milky spore. And that is for the uh the larvae for the Japanese beetles, right?

[00:56:48]Maybe we will try that. We have to do something. So, if it's something we can broadcast into the soil, that would be really nice.

[00:56:56]Yeah.

[00:56:59]So, all right, guys. It's been real. I appreciate it. Um, if you guys want the um, uh, introductory price for the Viking Rescue System, the link is in the description. You can get that uh, and then just get the little products in the course. I made a little template for the products you can get. Just have them on hand. All the products together are maybe 50 bucks or something like that, if that. Uh, or well, the back u, I don't know, 50 70 bucks, something like that. But then you've got the arsenal all season long. Okay. and the products will last several years. And so that way, as soon as you see it, you got to take care of it. Don't just wait until it becomes a big, you know, infestation.

[00:57:41]Okay? Other than that, when you do your shopping on Amazon, do it through the Viking storefront. Also, I highly recommend getting these sprayers if you're using the um the uh Viking Garden Rescue System or if you just want to folure your spray some good stuff on the plants, maybe some uh fish amino acids or something.

[00:58:00]I'm in love with these prayers.

[00:58:02]Definitely. Okay, so we will see you guys next time.