Hi. I’m Patti Moreno the garden girl and I am here in my main garden where summer is coming to an end but that doesn’t mean that my growing season has to end. I’m here by my Chinese kitchen garden where I’ve had so many fresh vegetables from here all summer long, but now I am going to extend the growing season so that I can have some fresh Asian veggies this fall and winter. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to clear this bed and plant some fresh Asian veggies so that I can enjoy them this fall and winter. I’m going to go through and just take my cultivator right here and just hack away at everything.
Of course I’m not going to let any of these greens go to waste. I’m going to take it, put it in my big pot here and share it with my chickens and my rabbits. Look at all of these cucumbers that I was able to harvest from the trellis here. All right now, this trellis is totally still usable, it withstood the summer so I’m just going to put it in my shed so that I can use it next year. So I’m just going through my Chinese kitchen garden raised bed here, and with my pitchfork I’m just loosening the soil. It’s going to make it so much easier to turn over the soil if it’s loose and I have tons of worms that are just coming to the surface as I am doing this.
So I’ve gone through here and I’ve loosen the soil and now I’ve got my shovel and I’m just going down to the bottom and bringing the soil up on top and turning it. Basically, you really want to turn your beds because what you’re doing is you’re also aerating the soil. My soil is turned over and it is nice and airy and fluffy and loosened. I’m just going through here with my cultivator and I’m creating a trench with it and I’m just going through and little by little making a straight line ,and in this little trench, what I’m going to do is, I, am going to plant my seeds.
Now right now is the perfect temperature to actually start new seeds. Still summertime so I’ve got that great warm climate and when you’re germinating seeds, you want to make sure that the climate is warm. There are very few seeds that actually can germinate when the temperature is really cold. There are a lot of different varieties of vegetables out there that thrive in cooler climates and a lot of them if you plant enough, a lot of them will still be around throughout the winter and let me tell you it is so joyous to be able to come out and have my coop house over here of course as it gets deeper and deeper into winter I am going to cover this raised bed with the coop house so that I can control the climate inside and around the plants directly. I have got my rose beautifully laid out here and I’ve just taken a bunch of the Siamese dragon stir fried mix seeds which is so delicious. It’s got some “bok-choi”. Just a bunch of different things that look amazing on a plate, taste fresh and are great when you stir fry them.
You know I love growing my own food because I grow unique varieties of lettuces and vegetables, things that you can’t get at the supermarket. Got my gloves on and now I’m just lightly covering the trench with soil. It’s really important that you not compact the soil ground, because what that’s going to do is , it’s going to make it more difficult when that seed germinates to actually start poking through the soil so you want to make sure that that soil is really loose. The seeds are covered over and I’m just going to mulch and water this raised bed and prove in a couple of days. I’m going to see the little sprouts come up and in a few short weeks, I’m going to have fresh Asian greens back in my garden that I can enjoy throughout the fall and winter.
I’m Patti Moreno the garden girl, thanks for watching.