I can't believe this happened...

what's going on growers it's James  Prigioni coming to you live from   jersey it's august 28th today and me  and tuck want to bring you along for a   backyard garden tour the only thing  is there's a few things that like   i guess they're a little upsetting but we'll get  into that more as the video progresses let's go before i show you some of the issues that i'm  having in the pooh forest i want to show you some   of the great things that are going on like look  at this tomato this thing is insane i've shown you   the height of it before but i actually got to get  a tape measure out and a ladder to show you like   it's just crazy so i'm going to get up here  on this ladder we'll take this tape measure   drop it all the way down to the bottom  to get the actual height of this thing so   tape measures touching down there as i trail all  the way up this thing is over 11 feet already it's   so cool and even though this is really cool and it  looks cool it's definitely not convenient i mean   who wants to climb a ladder to get your tomatoes  one thing about it that i love is that it's saving   so much space because if we trail up 12 feet just  think about how much vine that would be if it was   sprawled all over the ground so we are getting a  lot of extra space by growing it really tall but   this isn't the ideal way to do it in this palette  raised bed this is i think the best way to do it   which i'm going to show you right here but before  i show you i want to take you back to the oranges   these are the trifoliate oranges these things  are getting pretty large and i'm in new jersey   throwing oranges this isn't like the typical  orange but it's just the fact that you can do it   it's so fun for me so orange is right here let me  show you nice the best set of them we've ever had   look at this back here bam one two three four  five or six just hidden up more down here   oh my gosh look at this little crust  there you gotta watch out though because   these things are super spiky so that is  really cool we'll make some orange juice   or some orange eight or something with this  thing because you can't necessarily eat these   fresh that's not the kind of orange they are but  it's really cool to have apples and oranges in   the same garden and you know almost growing right  next to each other this is how i think we should   be growing our really tall tomatoes notice this  thing's growing all the way to the top you'll see   and look at how full the sets are and as we trail  down you'll notice how this is bent at the bottom   that's because i did something called  lowering and leaning i lowered this vine   so to get that bend in it so that i can get  more easier access to the fruit so as we look   through here this thing is just absolutely loaded  this bed and this is a better way to do it in my   opinion because um you know it's more accessible  more convenient and just easier overall to do   i've got so many other things to show you and  not everything like i said has worked perfect   so i'm gonna you know show some of the things that  well they didn't go perfect so let's go there are   some things though that went even better than i  could have imagined and the apples are one of them   this honeycrisp apple has just done incredibly  well as well as some of the williams fried apples   that i have too i mean look how much fruit this  has and it has actually dropped a good amount of   fruit that i've been snacking on because it's been  like relatively windy lately look at under here   these just fell the other day look how big these  apples are look at the size of that this is honey   crisp nice and ripe i mean you don't get much  better than this in my opinion when you grow them   in the backyard so even though i have some big  issues that i'm going to get into this you know   kind of sweetens it up a little bit and makes it  easier to take i think let's check out these beds   next to us though that were starting to convert  the seasons are changing so with the change   of the season we got to change the face of the  forest so that's kind of what we're doing we're   switching from some of the uh summer stuff to our  brassicas and things which are doing pretty well   but we're still holding on to some of the summer  like these peppers right here so half the bed is   going towards fall half is still focused  on summer these peppers are looking massive   looking really good i can't wait to start eating  them we've got some ripe ones back here it looks   like the sweet apple pepper it's the first time  i'm growing that so i can't tell you how good   it's going to be until i really taste it it  looks like the boss wants a snack of pepper   so maybe this guy could try the first sweet  apple what do you think boy huh pretty good   this guy got a fresh haircut so throw some hearts  down in the comments if you love seeing them   he's 11 but i'll tell you in my opinion this guy  doesn't look a year over two right boy he's still   good so let me just grab this pepper and see  if he wants one we'll just twist it right off look at the color on that one boy not too bad huh   i don't think he knows how to get  into it let me let me bite it for him we'll let him play with that but i actually  want to try this one i've never had this good flavor not as good as the jimmy nardello in  my opinion more mild but still pretty good i don't   know if he's gonna eat it but he's at least gonna  probably find a place to bury it so we'll let him   go go work the cucumbers over here are doing real  nice too happy with the production especially even   this late into the season and we've got more  cucumbers in other sections so just really nice   prejude apple this is one of the things  i've definitely made a bit of a mistake on   i should have pruned i should have thinned this  a little more but there's so many apples so   sometimes it's a bit too thin i mean a bit hard to  thin overall though i think it'll do real well i   think we'll get a good harvest from it but this is  definitely a late producer when it comes to apples   that's what's great about gardening though you  got to have those early mid and late producers now   let me show you a section that's doing the best  probably ever has and these niagara grapes are   they're ripe they're ready to be taken and look  how many there are so i'm just about to grab some   not today but soon i'm going to be grabbing them  there's going to be an epic harvest so i'm this is   one thing that i'm definitely grateful as you just  trail through and see how many we have on here   well looks like the boss has been busy  and it looks like he's burying his pepper   so he's planting a pepper for next year  he probably didn't want it right now but   we'll make sure we eat some for next year  and right next to him here you'll notice   the chajuro pair it drops some of its pears with  the strong winds so this is the butterscotch pair   these things are taste so good and they've  got that coloration on them look at that   that's that coloration we want when it's ripe  so we'll just taste this real quick we have a   lot more fruit on there even though i did thin  pretty well i'm still not really happy with the   size of the pears and i actually think something  that's starting to come back to the fact that   it's getting a good amount of shade because these  hazelnuts have just gotten so large and they've   actually become you know they're where some of my  issues are so let's get into that after we taste   this jajiro butterscotch pear this is an asian  pear not like your typical european that's why it   almost looks like an apple and they're better in  my opinion than the european pears let's taste it doesn't taste like any other pear or any other  asian pear so sweet that's why they called the   butterscotch so now let's get into something that  well you know i'm upset over because well for a   few reasons one is because i've talked it up so  much this year so it's like i'm almost embarrassed   in a way even though this kind of i feel like  there's not that much i could have done about it   but these hazelnuts were absolutely loaded with  fruit i've showed you guys so many times i mean   we're talking buckets and buckets of nuts so i  had a high level of confidence thinking that i was   going to get a good harvest from them but that's  just not how things turned out the squirrels   really just went absolutely crazy on them and one  of the things that's been kind of like upsetting   and painful about it is that i like the hazelnuts  have grown so well and they produced so well and   i got a lot of nuts as you'll see here there's  still even some nuts on the ground so so basically   i watched the nutrient grow well i watched it  flower well i watched it um you know produce well   i saw all the nuts loaded on it i saw them har  uh ripening so i was so close to that harvest so   it just things to see that squirrels take all of  them i just couldn't do anything about it the hard   part was watching them because every day they were  coming out here stealing them and it was like what   can i do i couldn't cover the whole tree it got  so big so i'm kind of calling out to some of you   to give me some suggestions because i don't want  to trap and injure the squirrels i know they're a   part of the forest but i've got to find a better  way to balance them and deter them from stealing   all my nuts i can't complain too much though  because i've got so many other things right risty   so we're just gonna be thankful for the things we  do have try to learn from this lesson and then and   then just try to grow essentially and we're just  thankful for this opportunity overall though it is   a bit upsetting and it is a bit demoralizing we're  going to keep moving though and we're going to try   to focus on some of the lessons that we've learned  in the past and try to take something like this   and like one of my favorite sayings is that every  failure brings within the seed of an equivalent   success so we're going to hope that there's a seed  of success hidden in this failure and we're going   to try to strive for it let's pop into the young  food forest and check out how things are grown   in here we've got the keyhole raised bed it's  doing okay not as well as it was doing because   it's starting to like you know transition over to  fall so this stuff is slowing down a little bit   but notice in the back here look at this starting  to take over as some things are slowing down   this is the sweet potato so we've got some sweet  potato planted back here starting to really come   through as things are slowing but let me take  you to this birdie's raised bed where you've   got incredible level of production this year  right now it's puck's just going back there   like a crazy guy but right now it's thick with  cucumbers look at this big cucumbers in here another white one here but notice in here look  i started to plant some cabbages that are like   slowly growing in the shade of the cucumbers  and stuff so as these cucumbers start to finish   i'll just cut them out and the cabbages will  already be in there waiting to take over the   location but right now they can't take over the  location because the black king eggplant is just   raining supreme in here thing's a monster so it's  got small eggplants soon they'll be massive and   we'll be eating those because they're so good i've  got a lot of different eggplants i have planted   i want to show you two the sunflowers right  here i talked about how this sunflower was gonna   wash over the garden and it's done its job it's  just it's it's time to produce seed and slow down   a little bit that stinks because we love having  sunflowers in the garden because we love seeing   them so what we did was we just staggered another  sunflower behind us here is the sunflower that   i wanted to show you that's taking over it just  opened up its first head so this is just starting   and the other ones are going to produce as well  so this is the replacement sunflower this way we   always have that beauty watching over the garden  we love to see it and then here you'll notice it's   a bit windy today here we uh have the tomatoes  that i just planted and let's sprawl some of them   right directly into the ground they're doing  real well look at this side come over here   the suldaki that thing that'll make you smile look  at the level production on that and then look at   this down here i'm growing the cherokee purple  splitting a little bit getting good coloration   and look at all the fruit on it insane this is  what happens when you sprawl and i like sprawling   some of my varieties if they're disease resistant  and if i'm growing on wood chips because the wood   chips prevent some of the soil uh soil-borne  organisms and bacteria from getting into your   plants if you just do it on the dirt and let it  sprawl then you're gonna just invite a lot of   you know bad bacteria and fungus and stuff right  to your plant on the other side this one's staked   up a little better look at that fruit sets so  we're gonna have a lot of tomatoes and watch me   peel this back here oh beautiful absolutely  beautiful and our late fruit just like the   asians we've got the american pears this one's  doing okay the tree's not doing fantastic nothing   to write home about but i still think it's gonna  have a decent production on it on the other hand   this baby is this one's something to brag about  look at this thing i love to see it four years in   the su lee great production i'm really happy  with this one notice how less diseased the   leaves are and everything just overall a much  healthier looking tree so i really like this   trail to the left and look at the growth on the  on the blueberries this year even though they had   good production they had an incredible level of  growth so come winter what we're going to do is   prune out some of the old growth in these in these  blueberries allowing the new growth to take over   that's the stuff that's going to really produce  a lot of fruit for us so we'll move over here   time for some monster tomatoes a little sun scald  on the top ones but look at this thing oh this is   the pineapple bi-color man look at that i think  this one is yeah look at that nice coloration   i've got another one in a different section and  we're just waiting on these hungarian hearts   look at that holy this thing is going to be  a heavy tomato i can tell just by the weight   i love to see it let's go check out  another monster tomato right here   here's the mushroom baskets oh sprawled on the  ground too man look at those these are heavy   oh i love to see it and then as we trail up look  at all these looking real nice check out this   other pineapple bi-color i was talking about right  here this one's almost ripe look at that i like   that coloration on the bottom i haven't tasted  them yet but overall pretty cool looking tomatoes   i just love tomatoes so much like this  is jersey jersey if you guys don't know   we're known for jersey tomatoes and blueberries  so you notice i have a lot of those in my garden   it only makes sense to put some time into  those because when things happen like you know   it's not always going to work perfect sometimes  i heard it saying sometimes it's going to   uh hail on your crop sometimes it's going to rain  on your parade and that's just reality so we don't   want to be naive about that so we know that's  going to happen for some things like the hazelnuts   this year we just want to make sure we have other  things to replace that like it was terrible a   year for the hazelnuts but an incredible year for  the apples so there's always something kind of to   replace what doesn't do well which is exciting  and fun let me show you these eggplants look   at these babies the ping-tong i love this one an  incredibly productive asian eggplant really nice   some little peppers over here and then the  beauty on this eggplant is is crazy look at these   oh my gosh i've showed it before next  to the uh next to the dragon tongue   beans because the patterns are the same but  man that's like literally out of a magazine   i love to see it and it tastes good check out  these eggplants too you'll notice noticing we're   like nearing more towards fall when our eggplants  and our peppers take over some peppers look at   these eggplants in the back and look at this  one too i think this is the rosita no the rosa   bianca oh my gosh like these are so much cooler  than the black king in my opinion because the   the color is just so beautiful i want to  show you right here too look at this rosemary   you'll notice i have like maybe i don't show a lot  but i have herbs scattered throughout the garden   in locations that make sense so this rosemary is  in the middle of this bed because i grow a lot of   brassicas here bra rosemary is a great companion  for the brassicas so it makes sense to put it   next to the brassicas it just they grow well as we  look to the right here i have a lot of flowers and   stuff still in this section because there's  nothing better than having some flowers and   i'll show you a clip the butterflies  have really been coming onto the flowers   in the monarchs so it's really cool to see  them out here and just uh you know provide   a little food for them we both get a lot out of  it so let me bring you to this section over here   where we have another beautiful apple this is  the belmak this thing won't be ready till like   later in the season probably october time but i  did have one apple that kind of rotted a little   and fell to the ground so i just want to try  it and see i know it's not ready yet but i   just want to get a idea of what the flavor  could be sorry if the wind is getting a   little strong it's just uh it's just yeah  you can't fight the weather let's try it not perfectly ripe more of like a macintosh  you almost kind of flavor in my opinion   different than the williams pride does not have  the texture of the honey crisp but overall a   pretty good apple i'm sure they'll be better  when they're ripe but still pretty happy with   the flavor we'll put that down there for now and  then the um ground cherries i showed you there's   honestly too many to eat right now it's just  crazy but they are they are really good so this   is something you could put into your garden if  you want something productive quick easy fruiting   annual so over here you'll notice i ripped out  all the uh all the peas i meant all the cucumbers   and now we have peas all coming up you'll see  see the little heads on the piece the shoots   and then we're covering it with the insect  netting because the birds love stealing the   tops of our peas and snacking on those so we make  sure to keep that covered and i'll usually tie it   to the top but in this section it's kind of hard  let me show you over here where we have more peas   that are coming up and i'm and i'm caught in a  pickle trying to tie it to the top because you'll   notice we have the einstein grapes right above us  i don't want to i don't want to rot those out too   bad because the flavor on these grapes are so good  this is definitely like a less productive variety   than the american ones i have like the concord and  the niagara and the catawba but it's good to have   some of these i think because just the flavor is  so good they're really good let me just try one seedless a very grapey flavor not like foxy  like some of them are it's it's it's sweet um   definitely a better fresh eating grape than the  niagara's or the um or the concords in my opinion   good flavor though we want to keep them away  from tuck you can't eat these then to the left   of us here is an apple that's doing relatively  well too this is the bella i believe and this   is the trademark one for a rain tree i'm pretty  sure they're the only one that has this variety   so it's supposed to be a really late producer  we're talking like late october so this one   will help extend our season it's always good to  have apples like that just to you know give you a   longer harvest period then we can trail up on this  one too here's the cherry bomb another tomato that   decided it wants to try to grow is you know  maybe to the clouds i don't even have steaks   long enough i've talked about making sure your  steaks are like 10 foot tall because if you've   never grown tomatoes like this you'll just be  blown away on how big they actually get i mean   it's like i feel like i did that video about  willy wonka i honestly feel like that sometimes   i mean i'm walking around here grabbing  tomatoes from you know 12-foot tomato plants   i'm not going like this i'm going like this half  the time gotta get tomatoes from here apples so   being out here has just it's been a really great  experience and even though i didn't get everything   i wanted like from the hazelnuts that's not always  what it's about because it's not just about what   you get i think there's also about what you become  so i may not have got a lot from that hazelnuts   but through the process of learning and growing  this garden i think i've become a better gardener   which in the long run is gonna allow me to get  bigger harvest in the end that's today's video   growers thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed it  i hope you got something out of it this video was   like a little different how you know i showed  you some of my issues i showed you the other   side of the coin because that's always there  there's always this level of dualism where   you know some things go perfect but then some  things don't for everything we get we've got to   give something and i think that's a part of nature  too so it's never going to all work perfectly   one thing that's encouraging for me is it  seems like every year i have less issues   because i've learned from the issues in  the past and then all that knowledge and   that i've gained from all those issues i try to  take that from like seven eight nine years i take   all of it i assess it and i try to invest what  i've learned into the next year and i think that   makes a considerable considerable difference i  think you guys should try to do the same thing it   makes gardening more fun too because when you're  out there and you feel confident then it's just   more enjoyable so i want to thank joe wheeler for  your channel subscription thanks for being a part   of team grojo it's like it's cool of you to join  and me and tuck just wanted to send out a thank   you to you so we appreciate it we also want to  thank everyone who's giving this super thanks   in the channel that's just uh it's incredible to  know that you guys are just willing to give for   for me and tuck out here just playing having fun  in the garden so i wanted to thank you for that   too we also want to say that hit the like button  hit the subscribe button don't forget to check out   the merch down below and remember whenever you're  on amazon start your shopping with our amazon   affiliate link tuck look at him hanging out next  to the uh the herbs right there next to the thyme   just, in time boy and James Prigioni  we'll back at you again real soon we out!

Channel: The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni

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Keywords: epicgardening, garden answer, Logan paul, Jake paul, gardening, organic gardening, alaska homestead, raised bed, raised bed gardening, raised bed garden, garden tour, gardening tour, organic garden tour, James prigioni, food forest, David dobrik

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Length: 20min 35sec (1235 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 28 2021