MAY SEMI GARDEN TOUR

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:04]Hey y'all. Welcome to Cece's Texas Garden.

[00:00:07]Guys, we have been having flooding rains for a day and a half.

[00:00:14]And it's starting to go down some.

[00:00:18]But we're supposed to be getting some more rain um later this evening.

[00:00:24]But I kind of wanted to just show you what things are looking like as I look myself. I decided to put my dragon fruit right here in the front so it get that first sun that's coming up in the morning.

[00:00:39]And uh I don't know if I'm going to leave them there um permanently. But right now looks really nice. You come out here um and see the dragon fruit up. Um I'm going to have to put more wood chips, y'all.

[00:00:54]This definitely did some flooding in here.

[00:00:58]So we're going to go and look at things together.

[00:01:12]All right. As we come in, want to see how my corn doing.

[00:01:17]They kind of looking rough.

[00:01:21]But they're still standing.

[00:01:28]All righty.

[00:01:31]Trying to check anything that may have overflowed with water that needs to get poured out.

[00:01:38]Um my potatoes are looking rough cuz of all this rain.

[00:01:45]Let's look over here. And yes, it's water over here.

[00:01:49]So let's go on in the water path.

[00:01:54]I'm going to check on these flowers.

[00:01:58]I'm leaning.

[00:02:00]Sorry, I got you. I got you.

[00:02:02]So, these are like bottlenose rezekia rebequia or something.

[00:02:09]Um, but yeah, this is flowers. So, it does this and then it makes these long shoots and make these little comb nose type of flowers.

[00:02:19]That's pretty cool.

[00:02:21]My um cranberry hibiscus looking good.

[00:02:24]My lemongrass is getting bigger. My um pineapple um mint doing good. This is the whirling butterfly has those little white flowers that my bestie gave me this plant. It died back and came right back again.

[00:02:41]But, it has the little white um flowers on there that whirl like butterflies.

[00:02:47]Potatoes are not looking their best. Um it's almost time to take them out anyway.

[00:02:55]I've had these in here since I want to say February.

[00:03:00]So, look for a potato harvest uh not today, but I'm going to let everything dry out.

[00:03:08]Y'all, the lake is serious.

[00:03:11]I need to definitely put um wood chips in that area.

[00:03:16]The flower area is looking pretty good.

[00:03:18]Everything seems to be growing.

[00:03:22]Yep.

[00:03:24]It is It is slushy, but I mean I can stand up a little bit in here.

[00:03:31]Soggy though.

[00:03:33]All right, top tray is full of water.

[00:03:35]Bottom tray, these plants are looking okay.

[00:03:39]So, I'm not worried about them. Then these over here on this tray, so no none of the water stayed on them.

[00:03:48]Let's see.

[00:03:50]I need to get around.

[00:03:52]I have Chinese red noodle beans coming up.

[00:03:57]Trying to get all these ones to go.

[00:04:00]I need them the trellis. I have some more in there. I don't know what they're doing.

[00:04:05]Where are they at?

[00:04:07]They should be coming up this way, too.

[00:04:09]I'm going to have Chinese noodle beans coming across here, meeting up with the uh Taiwanese long beans that's coming up this way.

[00:04:21]Morning glories going up that way.

[00:04:24]More of the Thai um noodle beans going up that way.

[00:04:29]Let's see.

[00:04:31]We walk around here cuz I see that a noodle bean needs my help.

[00:04:37]All right.

[00:04:42]This one right here.

[00:04:44]Let's see. He was a little lost. I got you.

[00:04:48]There you go.

[00:04:49]So.

[00:04:51]Oh.

[00:04:52]This did not That cup didn't have good drainage, I guess.

[00:04:59]Everything else looks pretty good.

[00:05:02]I'm glad that these are finally looking better. They was looking so neon color, but you remember I scratched that um Epsom salt into the soil. They now are becoming green and not the neon yellow.

[00:05:19]Let's see.

[00:05:23]Look at those beautiful babies coming up. This cockscomb.

[00:05:28]Oop.

[00:05:30]Where's the nest right there? She's not in there. Look at my bachelor buttons.

[00:05:34]They are drinking water.

[00:05:37]Get out of there.

[00:05:38]That's the birds' water. Why are y'all drinking it?

[00:05:45]All right. We got marigolds. I need to pull up some more carrots.

[00:05:49]Look at them tomatoes.

[00:05:52]I'm getting tomatoes, y'all.

[00:05:54]Tomatoes. This is a moringa here.

[00:05:59]Tomato right here as well.

[00:06:03]The beds are looking pretty nice. I still got things I got to fill in, you know, some spaces. But as the plants get bigger, they'll fill out some spaces as well.

[00:06:15]Look at my yarrow.

[00:06:17]My yarrow is yarrowing.

[00:06:21]She is getting really, really big.

[00:06:25]I have Jimmy Nardello that's trying to I mean, this is really shading out my Jimmy.

[00:06:32]But look at those beautiful flowers of our yarrow.

[00:06:39]Water is in here as well, down this way.

[00:06:43]I didn't put any wood chips that way.

[00:06:46]I do have some tomatoes just ready, y'all.

[00:06:51]Let's get these.

[00:06:57]Let's get these tomatoes before they split. Come on.

[00:07:02]Come off of there.

[00:07:11]There we go.

[00:07:13]Got tomatoes.

[00:07:16]Um, I'm getting some flowers on my peppers. Look at that beautiful color.

[00:07:20]That is a golden golden pippin.

[00:07:28]Look at that.

[00:07:30]Purple flowers coming up on there.

[00:07:33]This yarrow here beautiful, too.

[00:07:38]I got some wild strawberries in there.

[00:07:41]My onions are not looking good. They don't like all this rain.

[00:07:45]So, hopefully it dry out pretty quick.

[00:07:47]My red ones are starting to bulb up a little more.

[00:07:52]Peanuts.

[00:07:54]I still got to put these um in a bed.

[00:07:57]Um pigeon pea.

[00:08:01]We got a cucumber that's ready.

[00:08:05]Then go and take that off of there.

[00:08:07]Nice. Look at that cucumber.

[00:08:12]And tomatoes. This is the quick snack cucumber.

[00:08:16]And we got some cherry tomatoes. So, people that likes just eating it raw from the garden, there you go.

[00:08:24]Beautiful, isn't it?

[00:08:26]When you can just eat fresh food from the garden.

[00:08:30]Ooh, I see that we're going to have to harvest these carrots soon. Look at those shoulders.

[00:08:36]Yeah, they're going to be ready to come out of there.

[00:08:39]We're going to move these over container so I can get over here. Look at these sunflowers, y'all.

[00:08:45]These sunflowers [laughter] are up there.

[00:08:48]Beautiful.

[00:08:50]They're up there. And this one is getting just as tall.

[00:08:54]We're definitely going to have sunflowers around the garden.

[00:09:01]All right. Let's see. We have tomatoes, peppers, um cucumbers.

[00:09:08]Plant is dying here. I think it's just going to need some nice sun. Look at this, y'all. We have a crawfish.

[00:09:15]I think he is no longer with us.

[00:09:19]Nope.

[00:09:20]He is gone.

[00:09:24]That That's the mud bug.

[00:09:26]Crawfish.

[00:09:28]Yep.

[00:09:30]He must have came up out the hole and I don't know. Deceased himself.

[00:09:35]Look at these red runner scarlet beans.

[00:09:39]Look at the flowers on that. The beans are not here yet, but the flowers are up and looking gorgeous.

[00:09:48]I mean, again, sunflowers up there.

[00:09:56]My area that I put sunflowers and zinnias, look at my gorgeous zinnias.

[00:10:03]Look at you.

[00:10:05]There's my babies.

[00:10:07]There's my zinnias.

[00:10:10]Yep, and then we got all down here um cockscombs and different things as well.

[00:10:17]Strawberries are starting to spread out.

[00:10:19]I'm noticing there's some strawberries coming on.

[00:10:26]More volunteer sunflowers.

[00:10:29]Mhm.

[00:10:31]This is where I have my uh Swiss chard.

[00:10:34]I still got that tray still need to put up of Swiss chard. I think I'm going to put it in that bed back there.

[00:10:43]Another volunteer sunflower.

[00:10:51]Let's see, we're getting some flowers on this plant. I don't know what that is.

[00:10:56]Mhm.

[00:10:58]We have ground cherries volunteer coming up.

[00:11:03]Cilantro, we got peppers.

[00:11:07]The two moringas, they're looking pretty good.

[00:11:12]Of course, our green stock.

[00:11:15]Here is our pumpkin.

[00:11:18]Y'all, this is our pumpkin.

[00:11:21]And um let's look in here.

[00:11:25]Because the squash vine bore, she got to Look at that. It's turning.

[00:11:33]My actually little pumpkin. The squash vine borer, let me show you. She She he whatever working hard.

[00:11:40]Look at that. You see the damage?

[00:11:44]But it's not stopping her. She just throwing out more babies. That's what I'm talking about, girl. Keep going.

[00:11:48]Keep going.

[00:11:50]So, that's one pumpkin there.

[00:11:54]There's some more. I mean, it's really trying to throw out the pumpkins.

[00:11:58]So, that's a good thing.

[00:12:02]Ground cherries, I never moved them, y'all.

[00:12:05]So, uh they're just coming on.

[00:12:09]Those, too. But I have I see I have okra popping up. Now, the okra going to be way taller than them.

[00:12:16]I may I mean, it was supposed to be okra all right here, too.

[00:12:21]Uh but the pumpkins there, but as soon as I got to remove that, then okra can come on up.

[00:12:28]This bed is starting to look really nice. It's filling out um with things from tomatoes, basils, um peppers, to um let's see, eddoes.

[00:12:42]Uh here.

[00:12:46]This bed is coming filling up, too. I have a squash in here, cucumbers.

[00:12:53]Of course, the sunflower. And I know they say don't put sunflowers with things, but it cuz it kills things around it, but it's been okay.

[00:13:03]Everything's been still doing fine. They still working together. So, I don't know.

[00:13:09]I'mma leave it alone.

[00:13:11]All right.

[00:13:13]We have some cosmos.

[00:13:15]Look at those cute cosmos that's up.

[00:13:20]Let's check this area here.

[00:13:25]Um it's a little soggy, but I had to take the things out the trellises. It rained hard. Look at that.

[00:13:33]It rained hard on some of these tomatoes.

[00:13:36]Eek.

[00:13:37]What is that?

[00:13:40]I'm mourning.

[00:13:43]I'm pulling you up, girl. Pull you up.

[00:13:45]Come on, you're okay. You're okay.

[00:13:49]But, the other ones are looking pretty good.

[00:13:53]Let's check in here.

[00:13:55]This is our moringa that we got from our trip. Uh, they're looking good.

[00:14:00]They're coming up.

[00:14:05]Yep.

[00:14:06]Moringas are coming up.

[00:14:13]Everything else just look like they got a good raining on.

[00:14:18]Yeah.

[00:14:19]Not too bad.

[00:14:21]Not too bad. I don't see any thing that uh really seem like it's suffering from all this rain. Now, y'all I put this handful of yellow peppers, orange peppers, and green peppers in this container. I just put the top of it in there.

[00:14:41]And we got things growing.

[00:14:47]I wouldn't suggest doing that cuz look how many pepper plants, y'all. I'm going to have like at least 20 20 29 orange bell pepper plants.

[00:15:00]And don't think I ain't going to save them.

[00:15:03]Oh, yes I am. Oh, yes I am. Okay. So, sogginess, but this bed is definitely filling out as well. Oh, I do got some extra stuff I threw in there cuz it was flooding.

[00:15:15]But, we got tomatoes, basil, eddoes, um, the squash is coming over here.

[00:15:24]The squash spaghetti squash, it wants to be in this bed. So, that's where it's coming over to. I have a spider web across my face. Okay, lovely.

[00:15:35]All right. So, overall, even though we had all this flooding in here, yes, it's a little slushy.

[00:15:43]I'mma have to put more wood chips in here. Um, it's looking good.

[00:15:50]We didn't really get over here on this side.

[00:15:53]I have these uh still got to put these around different tomatoes.

[00:15:58]But, our sweet potatoes are looking pretty good.

[00:16:03]This is our um yam. Our yam is going up this little ring thing that I put here.

[00:16:12]Uh, uh the um shampoo gingers have spreaded their wings.

[00:16:18]Nice. Bananas looking good.

[00:16:22]This this grape is gone, y'all. I'm going to use this pot for something else. This It's gone.

[00:16:28]There's some other flowers that are coming up.

[00:16:35]But, yeah. I'm I'm pleased that it I mean, it could have been worse.

[00:16:40]It could have been worse, but I think because I put I put eight wheelbarrows of wood chips in here before that next storm came through.

[00:16:49]So, um that definitely helped.

[00:16:55]And I see Y'all, why I see tons of these flowers?

[00:17:03]What is all over that? That look like flowers.

[00:17:11]That does. It look like a ton of flowers that's about to come up. I hope they're flowers, so they might be peppers. I don't know.

[00:17:20]Let [clears throat] me get up closer.

[00:17:24]Sunflowers? I I don't know.

[00:17:28]Green little dots all over my walkway in this area.

[00:17:34]Hmm.

[00:17:36]We'll see.

[00:17:37]We'll see what comes up. All right, guys. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please give me a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed to the channel, come on over here. We got We got things to do. And uh yeah, this garden is definitely a challenge, but I'm ready for it.