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tv stands for flat screens that swivel
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them. click over right here to get yours today! alright! this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com!today we have another exciting episode for you! and i’m still visiting so next, we’re going to go ahead and setup the irrigation. and you guys might be thinking, “john, you know, setting up those raisedbeds, that’s super simple. you put out those frames and fill some dirt, hand mix it. yeahit’ll get you sweating a little bit, but it’s really easy. but i’m scared of theirrigation, man!†and people are needlessly scared about irrigation. irrigation in myopinion is easier than all the groundwork! i’d rather set up irrigations all day insteadof build raised beds all day. it’s a lot
less work, you know. super simple, super easy!any of you guys could do it. and i’m here to help and show you guys how to easily doit. so number one, what you’re going to need,i recommend anyways, is a watering timer, digital hose and watering timer. this basicallyhooks up to your hose bibb here, and it has a little computer in there. and it comes onand turn off at certain times. so what this allows you to do, this allows you to be free.this allows you to go to work and not worry about if your garden is going to get water.this allows you to travel to hawaii and sit on the beach. and while you’re sitting onthe beach, provided you got a good battery in here, your garden is going to be wateredwithout you, without having to ask a friend
to come over. because let me tell you, i’veasked friends to come over to my house and water. and they’ve forgotten. and my plantsdidn’t make it. and that wasn’t fun. and i don’t want you guys to lose your plants.and sometimes you get busy in your life. sometimes you got to take your kids to the emergencyroom, and you might forget to water in that 100 degree day. and if you forget that oneday, you’ve put all this money, energy and time into your garden to plant it out. andif you forget that one day, when you had to do something else you forgot to water, 100degrees, you know, the soil’s bone dry, your plants are going to be kaput. they’regone just because you forgot one day. they are that delicate. so that’s why i recommend,you know, get the best insurance, automatic
watering system, right. super simple. thesetimers depending on where you get it, they are about 30 bucks, you know. there’s severaldifferent options. we got this as the home depot. we got thedig brand. i specifically went with this brand was because what i did was i kind of wentonline and saw which models the home depot offered and lowe’s and target and otherstores. and then i googled, you know, the model number, found amazon reviews, otherreviews, read all the reviews. and this one kind of had the best reviews of them all.not all the reviews are positive, but overwhelmingly this had higher marks than other brands. ipersonally know the dig company that makes this, and this unit is designed and made inisrael, you know, for the extreme temperatures
over in israel. so i think that’s a littlebit higher quality, in many cases than maybe stuff coming out of china. the thing i don’tlike about this, it only has a 3 year warranty. whereas some of these timers have like a 7year warranty. the most likely part of the timer to fail is the valve mechanism thatturns on and off. and what you don’t want to do is leave them out in the cold wintermonths. you want to maybe, you know, cover it minimally. because if it gets too coldand the water expands inside when it’s frozen, it will break your valve. it will either bestuck open or stuck closed. being stuck closed is definitely a better thing to happen. the other thing we want to do regularly iscome by and check the little battery meter
on here and make sure it’s good. if it’sgetting anywhere near under maybe a quarter or getting close, replace the battery. don’twait till it’s fully out, right. because if you wait till it’s fully out, if it’sfully out one of two things may happen. it may be stuck open or may be stuck closed.being stuck closed is probably a better thing, that depends. one time my garden timer wasstuck open for like a month at a time without me knowing it. the water bill was expensive.that’s the bad news. the good news is my plants were alright because they got constantwater. and i, looking back at the situation, although my water bill was quite expensive,i’d rather have my timer stick open than stay closed. because then i would have lostall my plants. and my plants are more valuable
to me than, you know, i don’t know, a couplehundred or more bucks of a water bill. alright, so we’re going to set this guyup really super simple, super easy. open this guy up. nothing to be afraid about. if youguys use an iphone or android phone or smartphone, you guys could operate a water timer, seriously.it comes with instructions in here in the box. these are super simple to use. and ifyou’re kind of intuitive and stuff, you could figure it out yourself, which i’mgoing to do. on the bottom, first thing is you’re going to want to install a battery.so we’re going to go ahead and pull this apart. and this guy takes a 9 volt which ikind of like. it’s probably going to last longer than some of those units that take4 double a’s or even 2 double a’s on some
of them. always, make sure you always use a alkalinebattery in these guys. don’t ever use the carbon zinc ones. and try to get a good namebrand. they’re going to last you longer. your health of your garden is at stake. alright! so we put that guy in. and firedit on up. it basically has the time at 12:00 noon. i think the time is maybe 3:30. so we’rejust going to go ahead and do all the settings. i mean, we’ll set it later. we don’t needto show you guys all the settings. so basically on here the controls are prettyeasy. there’s a manual on and manual off. so if you want to just water your garden ortest your system, press the on, you could
hear it. can you hear the valve go click,there’s some kind of like valve that just in and out. then you press the off. you couldhear it close. and then there’s a couple different modes. you press the modes for thetimer and the days to water, the start time, the off time. and you have 4 different programs. so i do encourage you guys when you look fora water time, look for one that you could program up to 8 times a day. that’d be optimal.they have internet connected timers. you could spend a lot of money on a timer and all thiskind of stuff. 4 times a day would be minimum. don’t do any less than 4 times a day. whyyou want 4 times a day is specially in the middle of the summer time, what you want todo is you don’t want to do like one long
30 minute soak with the drip irrigation, youknow. maybe that might be good for like, you know, shrubs and trees and things like that.but for the gardening, what i prefer to do is actually short bursts of irrigation toget the root zone wet and to go a little bit deeper. so for example, in the summer timewhen it’s going to be getting hot, you know, i may water right in the morning, you know.plants are kind of awake enough, the sun’s coming out,yeah give them a squirt of water,right. i’ve been giving them maybe, i don’t know, 5 minutes. and this depends on yourweather conditions, your soil consistency, the plants you’re growing. there’s a lotof factors. and then maybe like, you know, the sun comes up at noon, your garden is thespace where it gets full sun like around noon.
so then maybe like, you know, your plantsare kind of getting hot. if you come out and you see their leaves drooping, then you knowyou should have actually already have been watering them. so then i might maybe wateraround 1 o’clock, 12:30, maybe another 5 minutes. hit them another 5 minutes, another3 minutes, depending on, you know, also the dripper volume, how much water flow you’vegot coming out the dripper. if it’s a 1 gallon per hour dripper, a half gallon, 2gallon per hour dripper, and/or your water pressure coming out. this is all going to,you know, play an influence on how long you need to, to do it. and then, and then maybelike, you know, if at 3 o’clock it’s still really burning up and your plants have burnedthrough the water, you watered for a couple
five minutes at once. so then you might wantto hit them again at 4. hit them at 4 for another 5 minutes. that’s your third timeof the day. and then maybe, you know, let them burn through that and maybe like, i don’tknow, 8 o’clock, 9 o’clock in the night, hit them for another 5 minutes, you know,or 3 minutes. i’m just pulling these numbers out of thin air. i don’t even know the schedule.what i’m going to do here is i’m going to check it out. but yeah, that’s kind oflike my general thing. and then in the winter, i dial it back, you know, because the sun’snot directly on it. i might do, you know, once a day 5 minutes. maybe twice a day. it’susually once a day in the winter time for me.
so yeah, so all you need to do, you want tomake sure there’s a screen installed in here. because any kind of particulate willdrop, clog up your emitters. and if your watering system is not working properly, you want tocheck this every few months and make sure there’s no gunk in there. you want to removethat and clean it out. so how easy this is just to install is youput this on your little spigot and you screw it on. i like screwing things on more thani like screwing things off. alright, so screw this guy on. make sure you have a nice tightfit. then crank this all the way up high. alright. and there’s no leaks. so that’show easy it is to install, right! now we’re just going to leave the spigoton, right. make sure you leave the spigot
on. i like to usually crank it up all theway to the full extension. i kind of like the ball valves that have levers instead ofthe, you know, these gate valves. i like to crank it all the way on because usually whenit’s halfway on, if you don’t have really good gaskets in there, it might be leaking.if it’s all the way on then it’s more likely to, you know, have a good seal i found.anyways. the one i have in my house is like that. and then what you’re going to do, the nextstep is you’re going to want to get out your kit. well you’ll want to program that.we won’t show that on the video to save time. you could read the instructions. butwe got a kit here. so, the cheapest way to
do this is by a kit. the kit will have manyof the parts you may need. if course, if i was doing it on my own, i might buy like separateparts because i don’t need some of the parts in the kit. but once again, this kit was amuch better value than buying all the parts separately. and i’ll be able to use allthese parts to plant my, the garden out here. so this has all the back flow preventer, thepressure regulator, swivel adaptor, the poly tubing, the micro tubing, compression couplings,drippers, all the different connectors, the hole puncher, the figure-8s. so definitelyreally good idea. and i do recommend, you know, i’ve experimented with a lot of differentbrands, rain drips, and all these different ones. and the dig brand is my favorite brand.they make generally higher quality products
than so many other brands out there. so, we’regoing to go ahead and open this up. so the one thing i should have told you guysbefore even starting this job, and i should have done already, is i should have took thismain tubing out. because it comes in a coil. i should have took this out and cut all these,the tape on it. and just like furl that out and put it out straight so that it wouldn’tbe in a nice curl, because it like to kind of conform in the shape it’s been in forthe last couple months in the box. and i’d lay it out in the sun so it’s nice and straight,so it’s easier to work with when you’re ready. i didn’t do that this time. let’s see here. so this is the main tubing.and then we got this smaller tubing, which
i may or may not use. i don’t generallylike to use this stuff. but due to the situation and the small budget, i couldn’t get likea hundred feet of this stuff, so we got the small stuff. and then we got all the differentpack. this may look intimidating with all these parts, but these parts are really simple.so let’s go ahead and dig in and get this set up and going. alright! first step, unfurl this guy. alright,got it all unfurled. it’s a nice big coily mess. next step, take your pack and you’regoing to want to find a certain part in there. and this is the adaptor that adapts your standardhose spigot to the tubing. so the next few parts you will need to do this are includedin the pack. number one, it’s your back
flow valve. so this is very important to installin any irrigation kind of setup. it allows water coming out of the house one directionto go into your garden. it doesn’t allow dirty garden water to go back up into theclean water supply if that were to happen by accident. so that’s the first thing we’llneed. that should also have a rubber gasket in there. we could go ahead and screw thison to the bottom of the timer. make sure it’s nice and tight but not over-tight. i knowsome of you guys are like strong and you’re like ‘man i can crank that on!’ don’tdo it, man, you’ll crack it. and if it doesn’t crack now, it will crack in the heat, trustme, i know because i’ve done it. like small man complex.
alright, so next step is you’re going towant to get this guy. and this is known as a pressure regulator. so this regulates thepressure to the proper pressure and psi, pounds per square inch, for the drip system. andonce again, this should have another gasket in there, make sure it’s installed there.and we’re just going to go ahead and screw that guy in. alright! once again, do not over tighten.next part you will need is the part right here. make sure this has another little gasketor washer in there. and then also it has another screen. very important, keep the screen inthere. the more screens, the better. of course this screen will probably get most of thedebris but you also want to check this one
as a secondary precautionary backup. so yeah,what you’re going to do is you’re going to go ahead and take this tubing here. andthis tubing is super simple to use, man. if you stuck like a straw in a glass of sodato drink out, not that i ever recommend drinking soda, you should be drinking fresh made juicefrom your garden, you could put these two together. so all you do is you take this tubing,you take this little thing here. look at that, it’s about the right size. you stick itin there and you kind of just wiggle this back and forth. and if you guys look closelyat that, it’s kind of just like going in. and it just, and then it finally goes in thereand it’s in there! that’s it, man! it’s not like you don’t have to cut anything,you don’t have to do anything, you don’t
need wrenches, pliers, you don’t need notools! this is a no tool install, remember. and then you’re good, right. and then you’rejust going to go ahead and screw this in! so well, once it comes out, you know, we’reat a nice elbow bend. and let me go ahead maybe back the camera up so you guys couldsee what we’re looking at. so now we’re looking at where it comes outof the water timer, goes through the one way valve, pressure regulator, converts into thedrip tubing. and then it kind of curls and has a nice curve. we could kind of make itover to the raised beds. but this is a little bit, you know, takes up a little bit of spaceand what not. so i want it to be cleaner. so what we’re going to use instead of justdragging this. and you can’t kink this tubing.
if you kink this tubing, it’s going to cutoff the flow. so you can’t do it. so what you need to do is invest in a 99 cent fittings.if you buy them individually, i do encourage you guys that are doing a big job buy themby the 25 pack. some home depots may sell it or go to a, you know, irrigation store.they sell them in 25 packs. you may get the price down to 50 cents, 75 cents each. a lotmore affordable that way. so what we’re going to do is we’re goingto go ahead and cut it up near here. and maybe we’ll do a close up on this for you. we’regoing to go ahead and let it come out just a little bit. then we’re just going to goahead and cut it. ‘oh man, john, you messed it up!’ no, man, i just cut it. then you’regoing to take this l fitting, and once again
you just put it on there. and just wiggleit a little bit. and it’s going to go in. just like so. and then now you got anotherfitting to put on. so now we’re just going to put this end on. and just wiggle it in.super simple, super easy. and then now we just space it over this way. so now we havea nice elbow. that’s directed this down to the garden so we could go along the edgeof the house or the wall. so it’s a nice and neat and tidy insulation.let’s go ahead and move this hose down to the garden beds and show you guys what i’mgoing to do there. alright, as you guys could see, i’m furlingthis cable out. oops, tripping over stuff as i’m walking backwards. furling this cableout. now it might be good to get some stakes
to stick this down into the ground. the budgetdidn’t allow that this time. that’s what i would do. and you guys could see now we’rejust going by raised bed number 1, and we got it by raised bed number 2 all the waydown. so now what we’re going to do is we’regoing to go ahead and take this single line and tie into it. so our first bed can getsome water. if we had a single bed, we would just use the line and have the end of thetube go into the bed. because we have the second bed, we’ve got to tie into that.and this is pretty easy as well. i mean, you guys all have had an outlet that has likeone outlet free. and you want to plug two things into it, like your christmas tree lightsand your cell phone charger. so what you get
is you get one of those multiple outlet adapters.you could plug one plug into the outlet and it gives you like 3 places to plug in morestuff. that’s easy, right? well, putting in one of these t adapters to go to one ofyour beds is just as simple as plugging it in, right? all you got to do is you’re goingto take some scissors and you’re going to cut your main line. and we’re probably gogoing to go about maybe, i don’t know, 6 inches or so into the bed and then we’regoing to go ahead and make a cut right here. and don’t worry man, if you guys cut inthe wrong place, they have connectors, you know, just couplers, to patch up what youdid wrong, you know. so you do want to pay attention when you’re cutting and try toget your cuts at the right point. i’m going
to go ahead and once again put this t fittingin there. once again, just presses on, no problem. and then we’re going to go aheadand press this guy in on the other side. so as you guys could see, we got an uprighthere. and that’s ready to go for when we come back to it. but now we’re going togo ahead and go down to the next bed and show you guys how we’re going to plumb the line,the end of the line. it’s kind of like the end of the line on the subway, up to the lastraised bed. oh and yeah in the kit luckily there are 3 stakes. there are 3 plastic stakes.i do not recommend buying the plastic stakes, they are pos’, doesn't stand for point ofsale. and i recommend the metal ones if you guys are buying them. but these ones werefree in there. so we’re just going to go
ahead and tack this down, you know, near wherei need it, so that it doesn’t move. alright! so you guys could see the line overthere from the first raised bed. then it comes down over here. and what we’re going todo is we’re going to go ahead and take this hose and we’re probably going to go aboutanother 6-8 inches in to the raised bed. probably about right here. and then we’re going todo another cut. alright, and double check to make sure you’re pretty good. and i plannedthis out on paper, you know, on how, the layout i was going to do before, you know, i’mdoing it now. so i could buy the proper fittings. and we’ll make one cut here. and then wegot a little elbow. now we’re going to go ahead and put that one in there. and now thisis going to go up to our second bed. and then
we’re going to go ahead and use one of theseplastic stakes, and see if we could beat the stake into submission with my hand. alright!pound in stake! alright! plant base tower. alright, now we’re just going to go aheadand angle that guy up. looks nice and neat. next step is we’re going to go ahead andtake our, our tubing. and we’re just going to go ahead and stick it in this elbow up.make sure there’s no kind of debris or anything in there. so if you’re working around, i’mworking on a lawn so it’s not too dusty, muddy, gravelly, whatever, dirty. if you are,you want to do kind of protect the fittings from getting dirt in there. and you will wantto flush the system before you start, you know, putting the drippers in. i’m beingcareful and we’re not really getting anything
in there today. and next step is we’re just going to goahead and once again put this tube in there. and just wiggle it. wiggle worm, wiggle worm!alright! there we go! and we have the tubing now going up. so now that we got the tubing going up tothe raised bed, what we’re going to do is we’re just going to go ahead and put anelbow to elbow it in the raised bed. you could kind of bed it over, you know, if you wantto like save a dollar. but you couldn’t just like bend it and crease it. if you bendit and crease it and bend it and kink it, water’s not going to flow. so that’s whyi got this, you know, bracket here, or the
elbow connector. and if we want it to kindof go right in like there, we’re going to kind of cut it right about here. and that’swhere we’re going to cut it. so we’re going to go ahead and cut it with the scissors.snip! i got snipped when i was less than 1 year old. it wasn’t fun. alright! then we’regoing to go ahead and put that on there. and get it right there like that. looks nice.next step is we’re going to go into the raised bed. so once again, wiggle this stuffin there. and normally what i like to do is make a gridsystem in the raised bed with maybe like in this size raised bed i’d do like 3 rows.like start at one end and go all the way down and three rows connected evenly to make like,like a letter h, but it’s like, you know,
it’s filled in on the top and the bottom.i don’t have enough tubing or the budget to buy a few extra connectors this time. soi kind of have to like, i’m going to make like a square in the middle, you know, whichis the nest best thing. and so what we’re going to do for that, we’re going to goahead and run this out. and try to get my square kind of even, a couple inches in fromeach side. so to do that we’re going to need another t connector. and let me go aheadand back up the camera. alright! so we got this tubing. we’re goingto go ahead and flop it over the top. and probably going to come in, i don’t know,maybe about this much. and that’s where i want this guy to go this direction. so we’llcut it probably right about here. and, you
know, you don’t have to be super anal aboutthis stuff. except you got to be anal about not getting dirt in the tube. about like,you know, where the rows are, i kind of like to have it evenly spaced out because i’mkind of like ocd like that. but it’s not really critical, man, as long as you got waterto your plants, you’re good. alright, so now we got this t connector inthere. and then we’re going to go ahead and put this guy on. and going to keep runningit toward the end of the wall. so that’s in. we’re going to let it run a little bitforward and we’re probably going to maybe go to right about here. and we’re goingto snip once again. and we’re going to go ahead and put an elbow connector on there.alright! then we’re going to do, so we’re
going to go ahead and start on this side.and shove this in there. and we’re going to elbow that up so that if it gets in thedirt it’s not going to swallow dirt. we’re going to go ahead and go over, i don’t know,probably maybe at about here. and once again, snip. and once again, get an elbow connector.get that in there and then we’re going to go ahead and unwind my tubing because it’sstuck into my cable. and we’re going to try to do it the same distance as this tubing.a little bit hard since it’s all kind of like bent. it can help to maybe use like astake a little bit. these stakes don’t really hold down in loose compost, loose packed compost.my best guess, right about here. alright! snip! make sure it’s clean. put this fittingon. last one. put this fitting here. alright!
and then we’re going to go ahead and, nextthing we’re going to do is we’re going to go ahead and run this irrigation line tomake like a hopefully a square. tomorrow this will look better because the sun will hitthe irrigation tubing and flatten it out and get it to conform to how it should be. ifi had a tape measure i might be measuring these to make sure i got even widths. buti ain’t got a tape measure today. so just eyeballing it. it’s alright. let’s see,we’ll probably snip right about here. alright! last snip. then we just got to pushthis guy in. alright. and that’s it! this would be a square if i had laid this out inthe sun, or a rectangle, sorry. and over time it should just kind of lay flat. now i getto do the other side.
alright, so i’m just about to finish theirrigation on the second bed. all i have to do is connect these two guys to make my littlebox here, like this. but we’re not going to connect it yet. because even if you thinkyou’re careful like i was or i think i was, you want to go ahead and flush your line.so we got the two ends kind of like headed off the bed so we don’t get the bed allmessed up. and we’re going to go ahead and simply turn on the irrigation controller realquick. and we’re going to run back and clean out the lines. and you’ve just got to dothis for maybe, i don’t know, 15 seconds. make sure you don’t have any dirt or debrisin there. then we could go ahead and turn them off.
alright, now they’re turned off and nowwe could connect this last fitting up. and now our irrigation system is completely installedand ready. the other thing also, it’s a bit heavier because it’s all full of waternow. so it might sit a little bit nicer. oh yeah, look at that. so yeah, optimally i would have liked to maybespace this out a little bit more towards the edge and have this closer to the edge andthen have like a middle bar running down. i wasn’t sure if i was going to have thetubing to do that. and then i would need extra fittings. i did have the tubing so i wouldjust need couple extra fittings. that was going to cost like 4 extra dollars and i wasalready over budget. so it didn’t happen
but it’s alright. we got enough parts inthe kit, so that we don’t really need to do that. but that’s what i would have ratherdone myself. so i guess now that we got all this set up, next thing we’re going to dois actually plant out the plants. and this is actually one of the easiest parts. alright so the next thing we’re going todo is we’re going to go ahead and get ready to plant out things. but before i do it iwant to go ahead and share with you guys the plants i got for this install today. and thething is, the owner here, she wants to, number one goal was to have an easy garden. a maintenancefree garden. she’s busy working and doing other stuff. and she doesn’t want to sithere and tend to her plants. and that’s
why i said, you know, get some herbs. herbsare the easiest thing to grow. and in most cases they’re going to require the leastamount of maintenance. so let’s go over the herbs we got for hertoday. she’s also a chef. so she likes cooking and making things fresh in the kitchen. andthis is where, you know, the whole variety of herbs that i got for her so she could dosome amazing culinary creations, you know, using fresh herbs instead of dried. becausethe flavors, tastes are so much better. so here we got some garlic chives. plant thoseout for her. we got next we got some mint. and one of the cool things is when you guysplant your garden, you guys just don’t get like peppermint, which is the standard mint.they have like 20 different kinds of mint
you could buy. at the place i got these, theyhad at least a half dozen. we got actually a really cool mint. they only had a coupleleft. it’s called mint berries and cream. and this has actually a unique flavor to it.and i tasted it before buying it, berries and cream mint. now normally i would recommendplanting mint like in it’s own container, own pot because it’s probably going to takeover. but hey if it takes over, it’s probably a good thing because i’ll have a lot ofmint and hopefully by then they’ll have new raised beds. alright, next we got some garlic chives insteadof the onion chives here. oh man, we got two garlic chives. i thought i had garlic chivesand onion chives. i picked up two garlic chives.
oops. alright, next we got rosemary. and thisis variety of rosemary called spice island, a special variety. i tried to pick out somereally cool varietals. next we have the coriander or cilantro. this is something i don’t necessarilyrecommend planting this time of the year. i do recommend growing this more in the fall,you know, fall/spring. and in some places like here you could probably get away withgrowing this even in the winter time. probably not going to last too long before it bolts,goes to flower and sets seed and then pretty much you won’t have any more. i do recommendinstead growing something known as culantro, which would do better in the heat throughthe summer and/or papalo, which has a similar flavor to cilantro but is going to do amazingin this climate.
next of course we got some curly parsley.next we got some basil. and one of the cool things is when you’re growing your own garden,you could choose a lot of different varieties of basil, you know. there’s probably atleast a dozen varieties at the nursery i went to. this is actually one known as the holybasil or tulsi. this is great for making teas and even using in cooking. and this is oneof my favorites. next we got some, this guy right here, which is already rooting out ofthe pot. and oh man, he doesn’t have a tag. but this is thyme. we got some thyme righthere. try to get tags on everything. next we got oregano. and this is a variety knownas hot and spicy, probably my favorite variety of oregano. next we got sage. so this is calledthe bur garden sage. and these guys could
get quite big. next we got some more basil.you know in every different variety of plant, like if you guys go and buy apples at thestore, they don’t just got the red delicious, they got red delicious, green delicious, gala,fuji, winesap, macintosh, they have all the different flavors. and just like basil, theyall have different flavors. and when you grow your own, you could choose like you know,hey i’m making a thai dish tonight, i’m going to use the thai basil, you know, inmy thai recipe i’m making. or maybe you’re, you know, cooking something like some spaghettisauce and then you want to get some standard italian sweet basil. hey you could do thatif you got a garden. but if you go to the store and you just buy dried basil, they justgot dried basil, man. so yeah, this is some
thai basil. one of the best ones that i liketo grow, specially in the heat they do quite well. all the basils do pretty good in theheat. and here’s the standard basil. we got a standard sweet italian style basil here. oh next, another really cool one. this issorrel. and sorrel is a nice kind of herby/vegetable, really unique flavor. i like this becauseit’s a perennial vegetable. even in the winter this will probably continue to growand make leaves. i love to eat the leaves. my favorite way to use these leaves is actuallyto take them out, a leaf, and then actually batter them up in like a kale chip style batter,dehydrate them and then they’re some of the best kale chips you could make with thered vein sorrel, also a very beautiful plant.
next we got some dill, some bouquet dill.now dill would not be the first choice that i would grow once again in the summer. thisis also like the cilantro and like maybe like fall/spring condition. summer may get toohot. for that reason i planted it against, you know, near the house with some afternoonshade. we’re going to go ahead and plant this to the back of the bed so it gets themost shade and maybe even behind something. oh let’s see, next we got another basil.and this to me look like pesto perpetual basil that’s what it has been sold to me beforeas out west. but here they’re calling it basil aussie sweet. and it’s a variegatedbasil, rarely goes to flower, should do really well through the whole growing season. soi’m interested to see how this does.
next, another basil. and this is probablyone of my favorite basils. i mean, i like all the basils i got. they’re some of mypersonal favorites that’s why i got them. but this is the dark opal basil. and lookat the colors on that. this is a nice purple basil. so i want to encourage you guys toeat your foods that are colored. don’t just get all green plants, right. get some plantswith some purple pigments. these purple pigments have high levels of anthocyanins. and theseare very healthy for us to eat on a regular basis, you know. one of my new favorite thingsnow is to eat purple carrots. alright! now we got a traditional one. eastindian lemongrass. so that guy will also probably do pretty good year round as well. next herewe got marjoram or marjoram, i don’t know
however you say that. another herb we’regoing to plant out. and then, those are all the herbs. i kind of had to like, you know,sneak in, don’t tell anybody, two vegetables to grow. you know, i had to get a tomato plant,man. if you got a garden, man, you got to have a tomato plant. so we got a super sweet100 tomato plant. we’re probably going to plant this at the front of the bed. that’sgoing to get the most sun. and maybe try to find something to stake it up or somethingbecause it’s probably going to get huge. and this will produce abundant amounts ofcherry tomatoes, that are going to blow away the taste from the ones form the store. and then let’s see, last plant we got today,had to get this one, it’s probably one of
my favorite leafy greens to grow in the hotclimate, whether that’s a hot desert climate or a hot humid tropical climate like we’rein. and this is known as the malabar spinach. this should also be grown up a trellis, youknow, up a stake, probably a big trellis actually. just this one little plant now could probablyfill like probably all the wall area you guys see behind me, if it had a nice trellis orsome like hog panel fencing or utility panel fencing to grow up on. i mean, this thingwill take over. looks small now and it grows, you know, slowly at first but once it getspretty big, man, then it like couple leaves a day. well it seems like it anyways. andthis will provide copious amounts of leafy greens to eat, one of my favorites.
and the last thing i got when i got my flatof plants, you’re thinking, ‘john, there’s nothing in there’. yeah man, look at thatall in there! i got some free soil! so i’m going to go ahead and tap that out. no soilwasted when i’m building a garden. alright, next step is to we’re going togo ahead and take, since we got about 20 plants, we’re going to go ahead and put 10 on thisside, 10 on this side. and i’ll come back and show you guys the layout when i got it. so now i want to share with you guys the layoutthat i decided to do in each of these raised beds. so as i said, we had 20 plants. so ikind of put 10 plants in one and 10 plants in the other. and i didn’t just haphazardlylike set them down and all this kind of stuff.
i kind of thought about it. and speciallyif you’re a new gardner you many not know exactly all the things i know about gardening,because i’ve been doing it for a number of years and kind of know how big a plantgets and how, how many seasons it’s going to last and all this kind of stuff. so, youknow, try to just get 2 categories, you know, like i’ve done here. one category is perennials,or whether that’s a perennial herb or perennial vegetable that will grow year round in yourclimate. in certain climates like up in alaska, right, some things ain’t going to grow yearround in the snow for half the year, right. so i know about climates where it’s more,you know, not as like cold on some of the years and there’s no snow on the ground.and that’s where i come from. so i know
which ones are going to do well. and that’swhy i got this bed here. this is the perennial bed. and i got some of the perennial cropsthat will pretty much grow year after year based on my experience and based on what theexperts say. so in this bed we got things like the oregano,the marjoram, the sage, the lemon grass, we got the red veined sorrel, we got the minthere in the center which i’m kind of having reservations about because this thing maytake over the whole bed. but you could always trim it back, it could be kind of a pain.but if you stay up on it should, it could be alright. but we’ll see. and yeah, soi got yeah all the different herbs here on the time. i think that’s all on this side.so these guys should grow year after year
and yeah i mean i got 10 plants in here inthis bed, you know. i could definitely fit more. i would like to have like 3 main rows.i could easily fit like probably like minimum 15 plants in here if i space them a littlebit tighter. you could probably even do 20. and here’s the thing. like when the plantsare small you could pack a lot in there. but the problem is once they get really big andstart crowding out the other one, you know, the strongest will survive. and that’s cool.i probably wouldn’t put any more than like 20 plants in this bed. that would be likepushing it. but as i said, i only had a budget for 10. i would probably maybe fit in, i couldfit in another 5, you know, fairly easily. like things i didn’t get. but that’s prettycool. so yeah, these are the ones that should
grow year round, based on my experience. and over on this side we have the annual beds.so if you guys are starting a garden, going to be growing like cucumbers and tomatoesand peppers, you know, in the continental us or most places in the continental unitedstates, those are going to be grown as annuals for you. and so on this side we got the basils,which are basically going to grow till the frost, you know. i got a lot of the basilson this side. we got a tomato on the end, you know, that i’m probably going to, youknow, bury deep. and then also we got in the back, you know, as i said some of these plantsdon’t like the sun or to get too hot like the cilantro and the dill here. so we gotthese in the back behind some maybe big plants,
which may protect them a little bit. and theni got the malabar spinach in the back. so, you know, when the dill and the cilantro probablywill go the way of the west, the malabar spinach will here be into vine and hopefully it willend up getting a trellis or something to grow up. but yeah, oh and i got the parsley overon this side. and, and at my place the parsley sometimes is an annual, you know, lasts along time, a long growing season even in to the winter. and yeah, it’s just almost aperennial. so i was debating putting it on this side, but hey i needed something to eventhem out. and this is what we came up with. and the plant spacing i chose, you know, itry to have like equal distance spacing between each one. so they have like enough space tospread their roots and grow out. but as i
said we could have fit more in there if wehad more plants. but i’m pretty much overall happy. i mean, i like to try to pack moreplants in because then you have more genetic diversity, you know. if the owner wanted tocome in later and like re-plant a few more things, you know, i’d probably buy anothermaybe 6 plants. fit 3 over here, 3 over here in some of the spaces where there’s, youknow, nothing. and you could easily do that. i guess the next step is we’re going togo ahead and get to plant these guys out. and then the final step after that is installthe drip emitters right at the plants so the water goes where it needs to go, so we don’twaste the precious resource of water. so now i’m going to go ahead and show youguys how i plant just 2 of the plants. pretty
much i’m just like doing one plant. andi’m going to do this same process for all the plants except for one that i’ll showyou guys next. just planting the plants out, this is super simple, super easy. it doesn’ttake rocket science. but you do need some gloves. well, just kidding. i like to wearsome gloves because i don’t like getting the dirt all underneath the fingernails. itcan get really hard to clean. so we’re preparing for operation here. now if you don’t wantto wear gloves and you hate getting the dirt underneath your fingernails, take a bar ofsoap and scratch the bar of soap and get it underneath your fingernails before you garden.so then when you’re done gardening, you won’t have dirt underneath your fingernails,you’ll have the soap that will easily wash
out. alright! yeah so to plant this guy, we’regoing to plant the parsley first. i’ll take the tag out, kind of stick it where it’sgoing. and then what we’re going to do is we’re going to go ahead and move the parsleyfrom where it is, which is right here. we’re going to dig a hole. and once again, we don’tgot no tools, we don’t got no trellis, we don’t got nothing like that. we’re justgoing to go ahead and dig a nice hole. we try to like make the hole the same size asthe pot. and so that will go in there. now the thing to remember when you’re planting,you want to get the soil depth that you plant at the same same depth of this. you don’twant to like put the plant down like too deep
and then bury it, right. it’s going to beburied alive. we wouldn’t like to be buried alive, neither do the plants. so bury it atthe same level, you know, as the current soil level. very important. there are a few exceptionsto this rule. i dug the hole a little bit deep because what we’re going to do nextis we’re going to go ahead and take some of the worm castings, some of the most valuablenutrients that i have today, and we’re probably going to take like a nice handful of the straightup worm castings, drop it right in there, and we’re going to mix it up with a littlebit of the soil. so the plants have nice mixture. now if i had a little bit more budget, whati would also get is the dr earth’s fruit and vegetable fertilizer or the vegetablefertilizer. they have that available at home
depot. and just take a pinch, put it intoeach hole as well as the rock dust. either the one i used earlier that i didn’t likeso much or more importantly the azomite. these are two critical things i like to do in theplanting hole. another thing, if you want to kind of go to the next level is get somemycorrhiza. the brite ideas hydro store here in the area had some mycorrhiza. i like theplant success brand. the mycorrhizae is what i personally use. and you would put that,you know, just on the root zone not in the hole. so next we’re going to go ahead and takethese plants out. and i like to just kind of squeeze it very gently and push down. andit’s just going to come out. and you guys
are going to see like all the roots on there.now like if the roots are like really wound up and you just see root balls and a rootmass , that’s not a good thing. sometimes when i select plants, i actually want to pullthem out and make sure the roots are not super impacted, and then choose a plant that theroots aren’t super impacted. because if the roots are growing in circles, it’s likeyour husband that’s trying to find, you know, your place to go for a christmas partyand they’re going in circles and they can’t find the place and they’re not looking ata map because they’re a guy, right. yeah, you need to kind of break up the monotony,break up from their pattern. get out that gps and say hey look maybe we should go thisway. but the roots here are kind of like been
entwined, so they’re kind of growing incircles and they’re really not going to grow out unless you kind of help it like yougive your husband the gps. so i just like to try to take my finger very carefully andjust kind of like tease it out, like you’re teasing out your hair if you were like werein the 80s and stuff. we’re just kind of teasing this out. and breaking them up, youknow. if it’s teasing out a little bit, if it ain’t breaking up a little bit theni’ll just like, you know, try to just, you know, rough them up a little bit and try toget some of these roots hairs like directed out. because otherwise this thing is justgoing to continue to grow in its own mass and not like, you know, reach into the good,good soil. so that’s probably pretty good.
just like that. and then once we got thatthat, that’s when i’d sprinkle on the mycorrhiza, which actually we don’t havetoday, and then i’d plant it out. that planting hole looks a little bit toodeep. so then i’d just kind of put in a little bit of the soil. i’ll like take alittle bit of the worm castings too, crush it in there, mix it up with some more soil,and it right about the soil level. then we’re just going to go ahead and take maybe anotherhandful of worm castings. i like to mix them with the soil i just dug out. and then we’lljust sprinkle this around to fill in the hole. i mean, gardening is really easy. this islike way easier than like operating on brains. unless you’re a brain surgeon and you nevergardened before.
alright! got that guy all planted out. lookspretty nice, pretty easy. i do encourage you guys to save your pots and re-use them. andif you’re not going to re-use them, take them back to the nursery you got them fromand then they will re-use them. you know, the pots are a valuable resource and i hateto see these guys go to the landfill. needless to say, i have a probably a collection ofpots that i need to cull through and give some back to the nursery. because i got alot. alright! next let’s go ahead and go overto the other plant that i want to show you guys how to plant, that’s going to be differentthan most of the plants. 99% of the plants that i’m planting today are just going togo in like this. super simple. except the
tomato. so let me show you guys what i’mgoing to do with the tomato next. alright! so now i’m ready to plant out thetomato. and this is the exception to the rule. i’ve also done this with peppers but it’snot as successful with peppers as it is with tomatoes. and what i’m going to do is actuallywe’re going to plant the tomato deeper than the soil level. i normally do not recommendthis except on things like tomatoes. you could get away with it on peppers. i don’t knowwhat other ones i have done like that. maybe like tomatillos. but otherwise i don’t normallydo this. because most plants don’t like their roots buried. when you do bury yourroots, specially on things like lettuce and cucumbers, if you bury them too deep theymay rot on you, which is not fun. so once
again, we’re going to take out the littletag there, put it right there. and what we’re going to do first on thistomato, because this is actually long and lanky, you know, i was kind of like that inhigh school, we’re going to go ahead and clip these guys off. so we’re going to goahead and these bottom set of leaves we’re just going to go ahead and pluck them off.you could use the scissors. i just have my finger nails, my finger tips. we’re goingto go ahead and pluck these guys off here. go ahead and pluck this guy off. and i thinkwe’re even going to go up so far to pluck this guy off. and what we’re going to dois actually we’re going to bury this guy, probably clear up to here. and maybe eveni’ll go up to here. because what’s going
to happen is this, this stem here and theselittle hairs coming out, all these will turn into roots. and the roots will actually absorbmore nutrients so that even though you’re burying this like halfway now, this will bea much more vibrant and stronger plant in the future. and so yeah, that’s why i amgoing to do this on tomatoes. so next we got to get digging. i feel like a dog. good thingmy dog doesn’t dig in my garden. alright, now that i got a nice, deep hole,look at that hole, really deep, we’re going to go ahead and take a nice handful of ourworm castings, mix it back in there. then go ahead and take our tomato, squeeze it,dump it outside down, pop the bottom out. now these roots look pretty good. they’renot super impacted like as bad as the parsley.
we’re going to just kind of try to likepull these guys out a little bit. knock them down. tease them out on the sides a littlebit. they look pretty good already. and then we’re going to go ahead and drop it in thehole. maybe we’ll dig the hole a little bit deeper. and i think i will knock off thisbranch right here. and very important you know, one of the things i like to do is likekind of like orient the plant, which i could do with plants but not people, to where iwant it to go. so i probably want to try to have them come up right here like this. andthen we’re just going to go ahead and back fill now. at the same time i’m back filling,i’m also putting in my soil mixture. today i’m just using the worm castings, but isaid i would use the dr earth’s veggie mix
as well as some other stuff. so putting afew handfuls in, mixing it up with all the soil as we bury this stem alive. ‘aaahhhdon’t bury me mr john!’ alright! so there we go. got this guy. nowwe don’t want to like pack down the soil like super hard. oh would check this out,we found a produce sticker in the compost. and it’s actually villita brand. avocadosfrom mexico, 4046 is the code number. shame on you villita brand avocados for having nonbio degradable labels. they suck. i have a lot in my compost that i need to pick out.it’s easy enough to have bio degradable paper labels on your produce. that’s the,that’s a shame on one hand. on the other hand, i’m glad that actually avocados andpeels are in one of the composts that i’m
using to grow this stuff. alright! so, you know, we’re just packingthis in. and we’re not like tapping it down super hard, you know. the thing to rememberis that the plants grow the roots, not into the soil but the space between the soil. andthat’s why it’s good to have a kind of nice fluffy mixture, specially in a raisedbed that you’re putting in like i did today. so, yeah, we’re going to go ahead and seeif we could get this guy going straight up, and level him all out. get the soil all leveledout. looks good, planting that tomato. now i’m going to go ahead and plant out therest of the herbs just like i did the parsley, and will be back at you when i’m done.
alright, so i’m just about done plantingeverything out. you guys could see i got 10 plants over on this side, got a whole bunchof empty pots now. and then over on this side, got 9 plants in, 1 plant left. and i got justa little bit of worm castings left. well i’m going to go ahead and plant this last oneout. maybe i’ll talk to you guys about some of the things that i’ve learned doing this. always when i’m gardening, you know, sometimesi’ll put the radio on, sometimes maybe play like, you know, audio books from audibles.com,to educate my brain. today i was just kind of like gardening in zen mode, right. andthat’s good! we really need to get back to nature, have a connection with nature.
one of the things i was thinking about isthat, you know, gardening is a lot about repetition. that’s why i didn’t show you planting20 plants. that would have been pretty boring, i’m sure. this video is already long enough,and already some of you guys are complaining it’s long and boring. i just do videos becausei want to teach you guys, you know, i don’t want to have a 3 or 4 minute video. you can’tteach somebody in 3 or 4 minutes like how to put in a full garden from front to end.all those little minutiae details, so that you guys aren’t scared to do this yourself.so that you guys can do it yourself. last one i’m planting is my red veined sorrel.this is one of my favorite plants actually. i like it a lot, i have been starting to growit maybe, i don’t know, 6 years ago, 4 or
5 years ago, i don’t know, a long time ago.and it consistently does well in many climates. let’s see here, drop it right in there,mix that guy up. drop it right in. oh, one of the things i like to do is i like to handlethe plants by the base stem instead of the leaves, they may break and that’s prettystrong. and also we got the roots teased out. make sure we’re at the right level and let’ssee we’ve got a little bit of worm castings left, so this guy is a lucky donor. like flipthe bag, get all those worm castings out and mix this up in the soil and carefully spreadit all around and back fill. tap this guy down a little bit. make sure all our soilis level. yeah gardening is about repetition, you know.and once you plant one plant, you could plant
them all. and it’s not hard to do this.it just takes a little bit of time. and the more you, the longer you go the better youget! the faster you get also, you know. i mean, this is a plant out with like 20 plants.this is nothing man, i’ll plant beds with like a hundred plants. now that could takesome time. but, yeah as you go you’ll learn little techniques. and i always want to encourageyou guys to think about like when you’re planting, how could i do this more efficiently,how could i save time? i mean the easiest way i just scoop out the dirt, take a scoopof this, mix it up a little bit, put it in, done, boom, you know. one of the favoritethings i like to do is use a bulb planter. i’ll put a bulb planter, boom, take a scoopout, boom, it’s done, i have a whole almost
a perfect size to put the plant start in,you know, shake all my stuff on the roots and put a, you know, dropper of some of themy mixture in, my rich mix, for the nutrients. and we’re done. and here it is. my finishedraised bed all planted out. but we’re not done yet. did you think this video is over?uh-uh-uh. i got to show you the most important thing! now that we’re planted out, go ahead andtake off my gloves here, we got the most important thing, and we got to put in the irrigation.we got the main irrigation tubing run but i didn’t want to put in the drip emittersthat will basically give each plant the water until i knew where the plants were. so inthat little kit here, you got a few things.
and i guess we’ll go ahead and do a closeup on you guys to show you guys how to put these in. so now that we got all the main irrigationline and the plants all planted, all we need to do is use this little tool. it’s a holepuncher. this punches the proper size hole in the irrigation tubing so you can put ina drip emitter here. and the tip on the drip emitters is that a certain color emittersmeans a certain flow rate. and that’s kind of an advanced topic for a beginner. but basicallythey gave me a couple different ones, and so i’ll probably i’m going to put likethe low flow rate dripper on plants that are more like desert dry plants and they don’tlike to get too wet. and then maybe like a
dripper with a higher flow rate on somethinglike tomatoes that can actually get quite thirsty in the summer time. anyways. so use this tool. all you’re goingto do is go, you know, near the plant, and i always like to have my dripper, speciallyfor new plantings, within a couple you know 2 inches, 3 inches max, from the plant. andthen also you should run the dripper for a nice amount of time so it actually gets anice, you know, spread of the water. so we’re just going to go ahead and take the tool hereand pop it in. and i like to kind of like rotate as i’m turning. if you’re doingthis on a hot day, it’s a little bit harder because the tubing is soft and it doesn’tlike pop in easily. and it’s better to do
it when it’s like a little bit cold out,like maybe in the evening. and once you do it, you could go ahead and snap this guy in.you guys hear that snap. make sure every one that you do snaps right in because if youdon’t hear it snap in, it may not make a good seal and that means when you turn yoursystem on it may fly out and then you’re going to have a leak. and it’s going tobe a pressure leak. so then maybe some of the other drippers may not operate properly.i’m going to go ahead and do the rest and maybe i want to do a close-up on one of theones that are in the center. because, you know, if you put a dripper here or here, it’spretty far away. so i’m going to show you what i do for that instead.
so now i’m going to show you guys what todo if you have like a plant in the middle, not near a main drip line. now the thing iwould like to do, you know, i would prefer to have like another main drip line go likeright across the center here line. so then i could easily put a dripper in the main lineand feed it to the plant. this is a lot more maintenance free, and in my opinion lookscleaner than what i’ll be doing next. and i’m only doing this because we’re shorton the budget. alright. so mainly what you’re going to do is you’regoing to go over to where the plant is that you want to water. and you’re going to basicallymake sure that the line is clean and has like the most closest and direct path, which isabout right here. so we’re going to go ahead
and once again we’re going to rotate andturn this as we’re pushing in. you could hear it kind of like make a little pop. it’sgoing to pop out a little plug. then what we’re going to do is we’re going to goahead and put this little coupler thing in. and this just sticks right in there. onceagain, make sure you hear that snap. then we’re going to take this smaller drip tubingstuff and stick that in there. make sure it’s, you know, all the way in there because thisstuff has been known to fall off, which also means, which may mean a leak. that’s anotherreason why i don’t like to do it. and i’m going to wiggle this on until it’s prettyfar down on the fitting. alright, i think that’s not going to come off.
then what we’re going to do is we’re goingto go ahead and take some scissors and say it’s going to come out to like right here.and we’re going to go pretty close to the plant and just snip. ouch! and once you snipthat off, then we’re going to go ahead and take a dripper and then put the dripper onthe end here. and wiggle that on till it’s tight. very important last step, speciallyimportant if you have a longer run. you’re going to go ahead and take a little stakeand stake this down, put it right on the drip tube. and stake this down to where you wantthe water to go. that way it stays in place and your plant gets all the water even ifit’s not right on the main drip line. you know this gets kind of messy and is a littlebit more difficult when you’re replanting
the following season. because then you’regoing to have all these things sticking out. what i prefer to do is just have the mainlines and then i pull this whole thing off. and then i’ll re-plant my bed for the newseason. and then lay it back down. as long as i have my lines and the rows marked.alright! i guess the next thing i got to put in about 18 drippers. i’ll come back atyou when i’m done. so as you guys could see, i pretty much gotboth beds planted out and i got all the drippers in. i know some of you guys are thinking,‘john, what if i make a hole in the wrong place, what happens?’ it’s alright man,even if you mess up man, you could always fix it. you could always fix your mistakesuntil you’re six feet under, then you can’t
fix them no more. so fix them now! but yeah,if you put a hole in the wrong place, they got these goof plugs that has a small sideand a big side. pop it in. that will plug your leak! wish you could do that with yourplumbing in your house, wish it was that easy. and the other thing you could do is if youput a hole in the wrong place and you don’t have a plug like this, because they cost extra,this kit came with two of them, just put a dripper there, man. water the soil, the microbeswill appreciate it. now i got a drippers on all the ones and imade sure i went around to every plant to make sure okay you got a dripper in this one,dripper in this one, dripper in. make sure you got a dripper in every plant so that theywill get water.
the last thing i’m going to do is let’sgo ahead and turn this system on. and make sure that all the dripper are functioningand water is coming out of each and every one of them. the other thing you’re goingto want to do is, you know, take out a stopwatch or a timer and see how long it takes so thatthe water percolates down and basically wets out the root zone. this is very importantbecause this will tell you how long to run your water timer; not me telling you hey runyour water timer for 5 minutes because it’s always 5 minutes no matter where you livein the whole world, no matter on your soil, no matter on how hot it is. at least if youknow if you’re running it for 5 minutes it gets the nice root ball wet, you’re inpretty good shape. and then, you know, of
course depending on how hot it is, it’sgoing to dry out that root ball, then you’re going to have to run another cycle for thesame amount of time. so that’s what i’m going to go ahead and do next. alright! so i just engaged the system andyou will hear all these air bubbles sounds and as the air clears out of the system. andthen you should see water dribbling out each and every one of the dripper and you’regoing to want to go around and make sure each and every dripper is dribbling water and isgetting to where it needs to be. sometimes on rare occasion you do have a defective dripper.it looks like all the ones on this bed is working. let’s go over on this side. thisguy is doing pretty good. i put drippers that
actually give a higher level of water on mymalabar spinach and the tomatoes, actually shooting up pretty good over there. but everyother drippers appears to be working. we’re just going to go ahead and let thisrun a few minutes and then see how long we need to water until we get to a good saturationlevel. and if you don’t know what that is, go out and buy yourself a moisture meter thatwill test the soil moisture for you guys. so after poking around in the soil just alittle bit, i kind of figured that about after 3 minutes, because the cycle time went onfor about 5 minutes total, and i counted down, and right when i was at like 2 minutes, thatmeans it ran for 3 minutes. you know, we had really good soil, you know, moisture level,you know. and i kind of dug out next to the
plant. it might be a good idea to put likea phantom dripper in to, you know, that’s not near a plant so you don’t have to digup a plant to see how the water is capillating out. i was very careful and dug around theplant to kind of check it out. i figured 3 minutes. so with that, we’re just goingto go ahead and hit the mode button once. and it basically flashes how many hours. we’renot going to do that, so we’re going to press the arrow button, go over the minutes.we’re just going to go ahead and set it to 3 minute cycles. and then we’re goingto go ahead and hit the mode button. that’s going to take us to how many days you wantto water. i’m going to go ahead and water every day at this point. because every day,unless it’s raining, it’s going to get
hot and sunny, the water is going to evaporateoff and it’s going to need water. and then it says what time do you want to start yourcycle? so i generally, you know, as i said earlier, i want to have a cycle in the morning,so maybe we’ll have a cycle starting at, maybe, why don’t we do like 9 am. then we’llgo to cycle number 2, and i think for now we’re going to go ahead and turn it off,you know. some plants don’t like too much water, including some of the herbs. you couldliterally rot out their roots. and actually i noticed on one of the plants, it had someroot rot where it was getting too much water at the nursery. and then let’s see, clickthe mode again. we’re going to go to cycle 3. we’re going to go ahead and turn thatoff too. and 4 is off as well. you click the
mode button again, it goes back to the timeand currently it’s 8 o’clock. and then we’re going to go ahead and close this sothe rain don’t get in there. and that’s pretty much it. i mean, we set our timer.you guys learned how to do that. we set up the raised beds. this is the whole processokay. so basically what happened is it took me 2days. first day went i was shopping. the second day pretty much installed the raised bed.i could have finished the end of the second day. i don’t know, maybe like 4 hours. andif you mix soil and you got some tools it would probably take you less time. but thisis a fun project, man! it’s not about how long it took you guys.let me go ahead and give you guys an overview
shot of the garden and share with you guysa few things i’ve learned along the way. so as you guys could see, this is the endof the job and the end of the video. as you guys just saw, i don’t know, how long itever took me to make the video. it’s probably like an hour video after editing. you guyssaw the, the program, the deals from start to finish, where i got the raised beds oncraigslist pre-built, you know. where i got the soil at the home depot, brite ideas hydroponicsand some at lowe’s. you learned about the best soil and what to look for and how tosave money buying bulk if you can. soil test before you buy things in bulk to make sureyou guys are getting a good mixture. and yeah, we were right in around $300. and i’m, youknow, i’m not going to say gardening is
cheap. you could surely just dig up your backyardwhere the grass, double dig it maybe buy a couple bags of compost and start plantingout, and do it that way. but i, the method i prefer is raised beds. it keeps things niceand simple, neat and tidy. and this is a nice little way for the home owner here to startgardening with minimal work. because i did plant all plants that have low maintenance. now the one thing she will need to do is maybecome out and see if she needs to do a second watering cycle. i’m only watering once aday. come in out at the evening, see if the plants are dropping their leave, see if thesoil around the plant is really dry and if it is, run it a second cycle. at this point,at this point in time in this season, i think
once a day is probably good. but, you know,i won’t be here to double check and see. otherwise everything’s going to pretty muchgrow on it’s own. most things are going to be pest resistant, you know, that’s whyall the herbs have their aromatics and essential oils to resist the pests so that they coulddo it naturally without any human intervention. they are going to soon have, you know, plentyof fresh herbs and even some veggies to eat in their cuisine. and this is the first forayinto, you know, getting herbs in. then maybe next get some fruit trees in. and then convertthe rest of this back yard to a whole back yard edible garden. and i’m glad that iwas able to play a part in getting them started easily.
and now you guys also could know how to doit, because i took you guys step by step. i haven’t done one of these step by stepvideos in a long time, so it’s kind of cool to have the opportunity to install a gardenstep by step, and even get back into the garden, you know, when i’m visiting my girlfriend.since i’m, you know, out of my garden i’m like a fish out of water. but i’m a fishback in water. so a few other things i’d like to add is,let’s see if it was me i’d probably add a few more plants in, get a few more dripemitters, maybe like no more than 5 plants max for each side, maybe some, where there’ssome big spaces. and run some more drippers to it. that would be really cool. other thanthat, i think this is pretty much a good setup
and i, you know, i did want to comment onthe price. i mean, i know for a lot of people $300, that’s a lot of money. but here’sthe thing, you guys buy a house it’s a lot of money. but you have to make the investmentin your house once. and once you got it paid off, pretty much you’re free and clear.and just like this, everything you guys see, 98% of all the money that was spent, i don’tknow, maybe 95 or 90%, whatever, i’m not good at math, is infrastructure. the raisedbeds aren’t going to go anywhere. they’re going to last 3 years. the soil, that’snever going to go away. that’s going to last indefinitely, right. the irrigation system,i mean, my irrigation system has lasted, i don’t know, 8+ years already. not goingto happen. so the only investment you guys
will make for next season is actually buyingsome new plants if they’re not perennials. and this whole side is perennials, this wholeside you’re probably going to have to replace. or buy some seeds and plant some new seeds.so much like you got the house there, it’s a one time investment, the garden is a onetime investment and in my opinion it’s one of the best investments you guys could make.and if you guys aren’t ready to put in a garden just yet, after watching this videoshowing you guys how easy it is so that you guys could do it, start making your own compostat home, you know. start composting your food scraps, your food waste that you don’t haveto buy as much soil, you know, when you do put in your garden, you know. you could compostyour food waste, get some wood chips, get
a delivery from the tree trimmers that arechipping up wood chips, you know. even if you don’t know how to compost, just startlaying wood chips on your property if you got a lot of property. lay it down as groundcover. and in a couple of or over 3 years it will rot down into some really nice richblack soil, better than all the crap that i bought, right. you guys could do it better.make your own compost. start now and even if you got a garden installed that’s a newgarden, put in a compost system as well so that next season you’re not having to, youknow, top off your beds with store bought compost. you will have your own compost thatyou guys made at home. let’s see, final thought before the sungoes down, and i got to go inside to eat dinner,
i think i just want to really teach you guyshow to do it yourself. i don’t want people saying, ‘hey john, come up to my house andput one in’. i just made this video to show you guys how to do it yourself! it’s reallythat easy! you guys don’t need me, right. teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime;feed a man a fish, feed him for a day, right. i want to teach you guys how to fish. it isreally that easy. you can’t mess up because you will always learn as you grow, right.and check, and you know, if you guys liked this format, liked this video, i haven’tdone one of these in a long time where i plant something out from scratch and start somethingnew. really fun for me because all my stuff is already existing. please like it and i’llmake more of this like this format for beginners
and for people just starting out. and i alwayshave all these little tidbits of knowledge that you guys learn along the way. and alsobe sure to check my past episodes. i have over 1100 episodes now to teach you guys allaspects of gardening, whether you want to grow fruits trees, vegetables, herbs, whetheryou’re starting out like this. i have a number of series like this where i go fromstart to finish including at my house myself. and be sure to click that subscribe buttonso you don’t miss out! i have videos coming out every 3 to 4 days, full of new content,full of fresh information that you probably won’t hear anywhere else on youtube. andi am the number one most watched youtube gardener with nearly 300,000 subscribers, which justboggles my mind! so thank you guys that are
all my subscribers and thank you guys thatcontinue to watch me. and enjoy my videos but more importantly, it’s most importantly,that i’m actually making a difference in this world and being the change that i wantto see in the world, as mahatma gandhi said. so well, once again my name is john kohlerwith growingyourgreens.com. we’ll see you next time, and until then remember- keepon growing.