- Good misty morning, my friends. It's been a while since
you've been here on the vlog. But today, we are taking
this back bed here, this really long back bed,
and planting some garlic. As per usual there's a
jackhammer in the background. So let's just take a little quick montage of raking this flat so we
can get our garlic cloves in. (upbeat music) Okay, let's hit those cloves. Well here are the varieties
that we've got, quite a few. Right now, the Garden Hermit and I have to just start splitting cloves. Okay, you start there, I'll start here. - Yep. - We're just cracking the
bulbs, that's all we're doing. You just wanna be careful not
to remove the papery skin. Some of it is okay
- Yeah. - but all of it is not okay, it would rot away if you did
that so let's start going. - Right away, I can already
tell that this is a hard night. - Yeah, yeah, this one, look at that, that's actually sprout already. - Oh nice!
- The bask, this'll do well. - You know what we should
do is, guys if you have a prediction for how many
cloves we're gonna end up with, definitely drop it in the comments. 'Cause I can't even estimate. (Jack laughing)
We have at least 30 bulbs. So you gotta imagine we've
got at least 150 cloves. - I'd say we're probably
gonna break 200 for sure. Cause I've planted 200
and this looks like more. - This looks like more yeah. So a friend of ours Ann, she
puts this bulk garlic buy-in and I went down the list and
just ordered a quarter pound of every single thing just
to see if it would work. So we're gonna have
quite the crop this year and our methods have improved. So I would say we should have our best year of garlic
yet by a long shot. (upbeat music) We've popped all the cloves. We're gonna do a little bit of filtration, pulling out some of the smaller ones and those weaker looking mushy ones. But now he's gotta
kinda sort these all out and get them on over to that back plot. I've got my Hori Hori. I've got the bulbs Italian, the one with the nice thick bulbs just
to show you how to plant. We've shown you before, but why not a little bit of a reminder? So what's nice about the Hori is you can just stab down
about four inches or so. I went deeper last season because
I was planting them later. So I'm only go about four inches down and we may put some mulch on, we may not. But the easy thing to do is just come in, pull this to the side, pop the clove down and
obviously pointy side up. Just kind of shove it down in there. Boom, cover back up and you're good to go. And then you want to go spacing
wise, something like this, about six inches, and then you can do
diagonal for the next row. So you bias like this like little, making little triangle grids. So I'm gonna put these in and Jack's help out let's get into it. (upbeat music) (animated sound)
(Jack laughing) - Ooh I was close, a little scary. - That was a cleanup right there. - Yeah. This is so short it
would actually curve you. - Yeah, it's actually just sharp. - So we got to thinking about the fact that you use so
many of these labels here and I wanted to come up with a label that you actually never
have to throw away again. So this is the prototype, it's
obviously very simplistic. There's a cool little
technique that I wanna do, but tell me what you guys
think it's stainless steel. It should never, never,
ever wear out, never rust. And it's just a metal Forever Plants Tags. So we're call these the
Epic Forever Plant Tags. (upbeat music) We're all done. We've got this wild contraption
that Jack rigged up. So it uses the Hoselink Quick Connect so. (water splashing) Why is coming out like crazy? All you got to do is quick
connect it up down here. If I can find that connection point, which is hard to do upside
down, search for it here. Come on, where are you?
(cameraman laughing) There we go, alright
we're in connect to that. And as soon as you flip this now, it's go out to all these little 360 degree adjustable sprayers (Kevin laughing)
(Camera man laughing) Hold on, hold on.
(beeping sound) There we go.
(water splashing) Oh! Really easy way to meet out water. I would say this setup is
probably a little more complicated and weird, but you can do
it with standard drip line and a hose the way we did it, you don't have to copy
that power post method 'cause these tools aren't
really even available. But the basic idea is you
wanna wet a large area over a longer period of time
let it actually soak in. You can just use these adjustable sprayers and it'll just kind of plop
a nice amount of water down. So now we have to go on over there. There's three more beds in our eight grid, the front eight as we call it that we need to plan out
with some root crops. - Can't help it. - I love flipping stuff so much. My mom used to get so mad at me 'cause I'd flipped like glasses
while I'm talking to her. Never in my whole life,
never dropped a single thing. (Jack laughing) She's gonna protest that, but
never dropped a single thing. And I can just flip things
all day long I'd be happy. - I wouldn't try it on this one that one is a little bit risky. - Are you challenging me?
- You sure? (Jack laughing)
Sure, went double. (Kevin whooshing)
Life's easy. Alright.
(Jack laughing) We're planting some carrots,
we're planting some carrots. So I've got the Chantenay here. Carrots best planted direct and also best planted sort of in a furrow, which is why we have these tools instead of poking our fingers in the soil. (warning sound) - Problem solved right there. - Right there.
- Problem solved. So I'm just, the thing
I'm gonna do here is I am gonna smooth the surface
out so it's nice and level. But besides that, you just want to throw a furrow down sprinkle them in generously and then you'll just
thin them out later on. And you're good to go. - We have a couple of
different varieties here. - Yeah why don't you talk
about what you're doing? - So I've got Tendersweet,
Jamie got it for me but they are apparently
tender and they are sweet. - Yep.
- So that's a good call. What do you have? - I've got, ooh what is this? Weird flower kinda guess.
(Jack laughing) So I got the Chantenay to start. - That's a great one. - Which is great because they
don't grow that, that big. They're great for containers,
they're sort of stubby. So if you are a container grower, you don't even need one more
than about six inches deep to grow Chanetay pretty well as long as you've got the right soil. - Yeah, - It was nice as we built these beds up pretty significantly I would say. So we've got about six inches
above ground and we loosened below the ground as well
when we did that big till. So we're be totally fine for carrots. Actually I'm gonna make a prediction, I think we might have our
best season of carrots that I've personally ever had
right in this bed right here. - I think it's definitely gonna work. - It's on, it's on like it's looking good. - Yeah. - Crystal ball says it's looking good. - The biggest challenges with carrots is, making sure that they stay
wide enough to germinate. And we had some rain and we're
gonna have more rain soon so it's pretty ideal. - Nice time to plant them. I make, they say like plant carrots about a 16th of an inch deep. I don't stress about that, I
think they'll still come up just fine if you don't do that. And so I'm leave my furrows
uncovered for now though. - Okay.
- So I know where they are. - Oh, I see.
- Just so I know. Alright next going in is the
Nantes Coreless Carrots says, "long storing carrot,
high yielding, reliable." Coreless I would assume means, it does not have that
central core where you cut in and you see that little
centrifical circle going on. That's not the right
word, but that's fine. (Jack and Kevin laughing) Just tryna sound fancy. - Should we detour? - I was thinking about it
'cause we might have the space. - Yeah. - I think we say, I think we say yes. - Alright. - I want as many carrots as I can get. - Alright. - It's easily my favorite root crop. - It's so good.
- My country mile. I was in over sprinkle. (Jack laughing)
Christmas just came early. - Yeah, sometimes I like
think maybe I should try this space them properly. Other times I'm like, "
Can't come back and thin it." But the question is, are
you going to come back? - And actually the answer
for me is I actually will. I actually do do it, which
you probably are surprised by. (Jack laughing)
- I didn't say it like that. - But no, well your
face said it all though. (Jack and Kevin laughing) - No, I do come back and thin because the reason why is 'cause
if I go out in the garden, I'd just kind of look
around and I'm enjoying it. It's actually enjoyable to come - Yeah, it's true.
- grab a small one and then eat it and then,
you're good to go for the day. - Juwarot?
(Kevin laughing) - What?
- We have try that. Juwarot. - Yeah, yeah, Juwarot.
- Juwarot. I don't know, I don't know, we don't know. - Juwarot. - Says it's a flavorful heirloom carrot. - Yeah. - So all of these are from
San Diego Seed, I think. - That is correct, yeah. Virginia has really expanded
her carrot selection and her root crop selection
I noticed this year. - Yeah, for sure. - Way more of those. Which is great for the start of the year. - Yep, yeah the best thing
about growing carrots this time of year is that you, if you grow them in the
summer you'll get carrots and you will be able to eat them. - But they won't bulb fast. - They won't bulb fast and
they won't be as tasty. They won't be a sweet. - You know what? I'm throwing two rows down and that's exactly the perfect
amount to just use a pack. - Oh yeah? - Yeah unless I'm going a little
heavy and I be going heavy. (Jack laughing) I'm go a little deep on
that, but that's yeah. - I'm also not complaining at all 'cause I'm tryna go around the garlic and then I'll get on the other side. - Yeah. - A couple of volunteers
here, who are we to say no? (Kevin laughing) - When you get a treat
from the garden guys, you don't deny them. Okay, Little Finger is this one here. So this guy, super sweet
baby carrot, fast maturing, great for container gardening. So all these, I mean all the
ones I planted should be good if you're a patio or a balcony gardner. Don't think you can't grow carrots just cause you don't have
like a foot deep soil. You definitely still can.
- Oh Yeah. So we're not gonna. - We gotta get the other one ready. - I say, let's throw another
variety in the middle. - Just do it.
- Just thinning out. - Be right back.
- Yep. - What you got? - There is not much than that. - Danvers, you can't go
wrong with the Danvers. It's a classic, good for heavy soils, resistant to cracks and splits. - It's gonna look really
nice when they all come out. - Oh dude! it's gonna look
so good, little carrot stew. (Kevin laughing)
Or carrot soup. I've never actually had like, I normally try to jam my
carrots into like weird places. - Yeah, you have planted a full bed? I don't know that I have either. - I've always seen pictures
and it just looks so good, - I've seen them. - I have always wanted to do it - when I went on a seed tour in 2019 of a bunch of these seed companies, I saw a huge a hundred,
200 foot rows of carrots and I'm talking like fully mature - And it looks good.
- It looked so good, yeah. Cool thing about carrots is
they need to be sown so shallow that you don't need to obsess
about maybe if you're moving these around when you're
covering up the furrows, 'cause chances are, they're not gonna go deep enough no need to worry about it. (upbeat music) - It's gonna be a really nice bed. Might come over and harvest a couple. This is what this guy does, (Jack laughing)
just comes over. He thinks he's got free
reign in the garden. Alright, we're gonna put in
some radishes in the next bed. Jack has convinced me
to do it the hermit way, which is as you know, if
you go watch his channel or watch our tour a little
bit more unkempt and natural. I don't mean unkempt in a bad way, by the way, I really don't. (Jack laughing) So instead of doing it in
this mechanical way like I tend to garden and part
of that is for you guys, part of that is just because
my brain works that way. What we're gonna do here is
kind of just scatter them and then I'm just gonna leaf
rake agitate the soil to cover them up and maybe 10% of
them get covered, it's fine. So I'm ready.
- You wanna scatter? - No, no, I'm gonna leaf rake. - Oh Okay. 'cause you're the guy who wants
it on camp, so we're gonna - Alright let's... - let you live your best life here. - I mean, this is kind of
like a very loose idea, so should we try to do it in
that area or just everything - This is you, this is Jack's plot, - Alright.
- at the Epic Homes. - I don't know what's gonna happen then. (seeds shuffling) - How does it feel? - Let's say it.
- How do you feel? - Good.
- Feel good, yeah. - It feels right, I'm gonna just scatter - You are not putting that many on. - Well, I'm gonna do all the beds. Okay, okay, whatever. (Jack giggling) I've been wanting to scatter that. Chinese watermelon radish red, red meat. This one is fat, I mean
this is a fatty radish. Quite nice.
(seeds shuffling) - This will be like a little salad bar. - Oh yeah. - Those seeds are definitely... - Make it rain.
(Jack laughing) Okay, what do we wanna do next? Chinese Chavo fruit. So this is a green radish and it's long. So it actually kind of at first glance looks
like a cucumber almost, - Yeah it does.
- but it is not. (Jack laughing) It's like you're feeding the birds. (Jack laughing) You're gonna throw a couple
little sprinkling out here. - Feel like with radishes like - Never heard anyone.
- this might work. - I don't know, hundred percent will work, the radish is so hardy. - And the cool thing is that a lot of these are gonna
grow at different rates. - Yeah, you wanna do more? - So pour as you need,
yeah let's get in there. - So all we're gonna do then
is just scrape up the soil and then just water it in. Even if some of these
are still on the surface, I think it's fine, I think
they'll still germinate, but I guess we'll have to find out. (Jack laughing) The one thing I want to
make sure I don't do is like hold them all to one side. So I'm gonna go back and forth. - And I will just put in
some on top of wherever you're are going.
- Distribute them, yeah. Another smarter way to
do this probably would be to grab some soil or
compost and just top dress, we're just sort of running low right now. (playful beats) (Jack laughing) - That should work, man.
- Yeah. - That should work?
- Awesome. - And that was way
faster than the carrots. (Jack laughing)
- Way faster. - Although the carrots
are gonna look nice. And I actually wanna know
where the carrots are. - Yeah, that one is actually, these are all gonna look
different, so it's like... - Okay, this is the last set. - [Kevin] Last a bit of planting here. We've got the beets, so this
is the speed way to do it. Just pull the furrows,
same as the carrots, but beets are hardier cause
their seed is compound. And so you don't have to even
care if it's gonna germinate 'cause it's almost guaranteed
to in fact more than one will. So yeah, just pull the
furrows and throw them in. Let's talk about these. We've got the Badger
Flame Beet at row seven. This is a classic
actually quite beautiful. Sometimes I've noticed that
it's a little more finicky. I don't know if you have. - I haven't really grown that one yet. - Yeah, but it's quite a nice one. It's in the Golden Beet category, which if I had to pick a beat to grow, I would definitely pick golden over a non. - Golden is for sure my favorite, 'cause they're really good raw. - Yeah, and in a new release from my organizational tendencies,
(Jack laughing) we're actually not labeling these seeds. It's very easy for us to
tell what's a Badger Flame and what are you planting over there? - I'm doing Golden on the opposite side. - Yeah so... - And they form a different size. - Exactly, the other thing to remember is, remember it's a compound seed. So you don't have to stress
too much about your spacing. You can actually space
them quite aggressively and just thin them out,
it's not a big deal at all. - Yep. - So out over here on four
rows or maybe five rows. - Oh wow! I'll pick up pace. - Well, I think I might just be a little more heavy handed than yours. (Jack laughing) I think I might just be a
little too agro on my seeding. Honestly looks good though. - Here you go then.
- What else you got? - I'm gonna do the Early Wonder... - Little pop of those,
little pop of color. (seeds shuffling)
(jack and Kevin laughing) So the final three of
these little micro plots as well as most of the
garlic are planted out. That means almost all
of the garden is planted except for that little section back there which we'll probably save for another time still
deciding what to do. For now, I'm gonna get some lunch, I'll see you guys in a second. Well I sent Jack home for the day, you might see something on
his channel coming up in the next few days. But man, I'm just kinda
looking at this background here and this is crazy. It's been a little over a
year since I moved in here at the Epic homestead and I
can't believe everything that's gotten done when you
actually look back at something and you see your progress, that whole saying of brick by brick, eventually you build the wall,
I think that's the saying. Either way, it is incredible to see this. These incredible, I got
to say, I love these beds. I may sucker for a geometric structure. And then you've got these,
what's this, what's this? Custom painted Birdies Beds my friends, this giveaway runs until
the end of the year 2021. So make sure that you enter
this just a way to give back to you guys because I can't express how much, just being able to share
the gardening journey and connecting with all of you
has changed my life for the better and also change the lives
of people like Jack, Chris, some of the other
members of the Epic team, and there will be many
more coming up in 2022. We're actually gonna be actively hiring for about 20 to 25 different
roles here at Epic Gardening. So stay tuned for that. But let me show you a
little bit of sneak peeks on what's coming up next
year at the homestead. So our garlic is in, actually
this is also allium as well. It's mostly leaks and there's
some onions right here. The cabbage is doing quite quite well. We finally got cold enough
where the cabbage worms aren't really propagating too much. And so yeah, there is some damage, but as you can see right now, there's no no bugs or no pests, not even any eggs on the
undersides of these leaves, which is exactly what I wanna see. 'Cause I always have a
problem with brassica. Over here this is sort of
a random crop of potatoes but coming in quite healthfully. These look amazing, amazing, amazing. And then over here I did a
little bit of Dill and Fennel. So Fennel up front and
then Dill right here. These were transplanted in, but they're coming in
quite strong and we'll see. I think I should get quite
a good harvest there. Over here, this is the Irv bed. Probably need to do a
little bit of clearing out. I don't use this rue a whole lot, I may end up taking that out. But this is getting nice and bushy. I want to show you a quick
five second sneak peek of something that I haven't even
shown on the main channel yet. Ooh, what could that be guys? What could that be?
Can't hold it too long. Okay, then over here
we have the Epic sink, the Epic outdoor shower. And as we go out front,
there's no pathway here because we're putting in the Epic pathway. Check out these artichokes,
these things are going off. What's really cool about it is they'll propagate themselves right? As you can see, there are two right there, but if you wanted to, you could separate those
out or thin them out. I actually lost one right here
when we were doing some of the digging for this
area, but that's okay, I have plenty up here. And then as we get up here in the front, some of you will remember
San Juan Capistrano, the giant cabbage, well this, this is his progeny, this
is San Juan Capistrano Jr. I have actually three of them right now. We're protecting them with
the chicken close here to make sure that we
actually have a chance to grow these bad boys. Up here we have more brassica. This is cauliflower, a little lemon grass hanging out up there. And then it's mostly just
leafy greens, Bok Choy, more leafy greens, mustard, carrots, and then another sneak peek
of some new products coming to the store quite soon are
the coat steel Birdies Beds. So these have a protective rust coating that gets even darker over time. Sort of has this nice sort of
copper esque looking patina, but it's stainless steel. So these are coming pretty soon. Gonna have these open for
pre-order on the source soon. We've got the short round,
we've got the short six in one, the tall six in one
style models right there. Well, that's it for today's blog. We'll see you guys soon. Happy holidays, good luck in
the garden and keep on growing. (soft upbeat music)
