Full Day of Gardening - Winter prep

As you can see the greenhouse is pretty empty. That's because I'm in the middle of winter preparation and today is day two. Yesterday, day one, I took all of the plants from the greenhouse and the garden that I want to grow indoors over the colder months and I put them indoors across various rooms of my house just trying to squeeze in as many plants as possible so that they don't have to suffer any cold shock. But I have way more plants than I have space indoors so not all plants were able to go inside. Today we're going to look at all of the plants that are going to stay out here over the colder months and we are, oh hello, and we are preparing them for that or we are preparing the garden for that. There's a few things that I need to do as part of winter preparation and I want to bring you along so we can spend a full day getting my garden ready for winter. What are you doing, huh? You have never been able to get on this shelf before, huh? There were so many plants here. Yours, do you like it in here? Maybe the greenhouse could be your little playground over winter, hmm? Can you be trusted? Totally not. Hello and welcome back to our YouTube channel. Yes, it's very much your YouTube channel as well. Well I suppose I said it all in the intro. Today we really need to get on top of winter preparation. Yes, I am still in shorts because yes today is going to be a nice day. I think it's going up to about 20 degrees and it's not raining until the afternoon. The last three to four days have been very very rainy so it has been a little struggle to get on top of all of my winter preparation and the next three to four days will be very rainy yet again. By the end of the week we're going down to 13 degrees celsius at night time so we're kind of breaking that 15 degree barrier that I don't necessarily love breaking or that I don't love breaking for the sake of my plants. I personally don't like to break the 20 degree barrier. So as I mentioned in part one already I need to learn from my own mistakes and last year I was a bit late in getting plants inside so this year I'm a little more on top of my winter preparation and I do my winter preparation before it's actually winter. In case you haven't watched the previous video I will also put the temperatures for Sydney on the side again. It is not freezing cold. We will not experience frost so I'm not super super concerned about any of my plants but we can go down to like 2, 3, 4 degrees at night time. It's going to be an abnormality. It's not going to be the norm that it goes down to 2, 3, 4 degrees every night. You can see by the average it's more likely to be around 8 or 9 degrees average at night time but all it really takes is one cool snap for a plant to pretty much die from shock and frost and cold issues and cold damage or whatever. But at the end of the day you know that is also part of this process. This is the second winter that I'm going into with this garden and last year I've already made a few learnings so hopefully I can learn from those and do better this year. But not all learnings were bad last year. I also learned which plants were actually able to survive out here. Now there were like none of the plants were thriving out here trust me. I tried to grow tropical plants and it's certainly not tropical in Sydney's winter but I certainly learned which plants can handle the temperatures and then bounce back in spring and those are the plants that I'm going to keep. So today we're looking at those plants and we're looking at what do I do with them to prepare them for winter. So for example lift things off the ground because the ground is a little bit cooler. Maybe bring some more plants into the greenhouse so I have more control over watering. I can't control the temperature in here because I have no power outlet but I can control the watering in here versus outdoors I can't do that. Cleaning the greenhouse roof for example so that I get a little bit more light in here. We have less sunlight hours anyway so I really want to get all of that sun in here that I can. And also I want to cut back a few trees so that I have less tree coverage so I get more direct light into my garden so that it stays warmer. And then also maybe even a few extensions or repots and so on kind of the last little repots or extensions before we take a bit of a break over the winter months. Lots to do today we better get started. What I want to do is I want to actually clean the greenhouse a little bit and I need to rearrange anyway so maybe it's a good opportunity to just take all of these plants outside. This one was out year round in the greenhouse. This is the red syngonium. It had aphids last year though so I actually cut it back completely this spring. You can still see the old aphid damage over here and then this all has grown over the growing season. I have no ambition with this plant. It's a really beautiful plant but it's definitely a bit of a filler so I'm happy for it to just grow very slowly. I don't even mind dormancy as long as it's not completely dying or even if it would be completely dying I can bring it back. As long as the roots don't die let's say. My Monstera Peru. I'm not too sure if this was already out here last season or if this is a new addition. I feel like it might be a new addition but I also feel like this might be a new learning. What I'll do is I'll try and like if I have you know like a shoot like that I want this to touch the substrate so it can root into it and build a plant rather than just being this long vine trailing around. There you go. This is a begonia. I don't remember the variety but look it even had flowers recently. It's kind of cute. Still has some flowers there. Cute. And I still don't remember this plant. Oh by the way they were both out last year as well. Allocasia cuprea that also was outside year round last year so it's going to stay. Ripsalis number one. It's looking lush. Not bad. I think one day I might want to divide this one up. I have some ideas. Bradley don't you even think about jumping that fence. There are a few dead ones hidden in there and at the top it's like a fern so it's kind of double the impact. You've got the lush Ripsalis down below and the lush fern at the top. Not bad. My maiden her fern. I forgot to water her but she was out last year and they don't mind it being a fern. I'm actually confident that they will grow back. And this is my jewel orchid. I'm pretty sure she was also out last year. I've never grown her not in the greenhouse. So yeah my independent also survived out there year round. It's already reshooting over here. So she'll grow but she's a bit of a mess at the moment. She had a lot of spring growth. All the pitches are really starting to decline. So I think I'm just going to chop her back a little bit. Yeah she also just finished flowering three times. But you can see all of these new shoots. So she's still actively growing. I just need to kind of maybe manage her a little bit. But maybe I'll let her do her own thing for now and then I'll manage her in spring. Here's my other Nepenthes. But this Nepenthes has never given me a single pitcher. So I'm not too sure what I'm doing wrong with it. But maybe. Maybe it's like maybe she'll appreciate the winter. But she was already here last winter. But last winter she didn't have that many leaves. But maybe I can manage her growth a little bit as well. And something needs to happen huh. Alrighty this is my lush pot of Monstera siltapicana. We are getting a few yellow leaves. But I don't think that's necessarily cold related. But the mother plant has been climbing on my fence. The mother plant has been outside. So I'm confident that the this version will also survive. But you saw that maybe like they've all been on the ground in the greenhouse because the walls were all taken up by poles and so on. And the shelf was taken up by anthurium. So I just popped them off the ground because the ground obviously you know hot air rises. So the higher up the warmer the air will be. But also the floor in itself is quite cold. My autumn queen has done nothing in over a year. Like this is the most growth it's oopsie. Well now it has not the most growth it's ever had anymore. Honestly she's just really challenged and that's okay. Maybe I should take her inside actually. I think I'll take her inside because she's not a big space commitment. Yeah actually I have room for her upstairs. So I'll take her inside actually. Actually now that I take them out one by one there's more plants in here than I remembered. Beautiful. This is my Rhapsalis Pacheco. Oh I didn't even know that there was a label in there. Great. Well first time reading that clearly. Here is a Monstera atensonia subspecies Laniata. I contemplated selling this one but actually somebody left a nice comment and it really made sense. It's like don't sell it. This one is a project not a duplicate and that makes sense and I think it really describes my dilemma when it comes to selling my plants. So many of my plants are actually projects. Yes I might have the same DNA two three times but I have different projects that I'm working on with that plant and usually a project turns into a piece of content which is my job. So I'm going to keep this project. Here's a Monstera. This is the third Monstera. Also a project. I'm running out of grow vertical poles the ones with the green backing and they don't make the ones with the green backing anymore so I don't want to give away a plant that already has two of my green backed grow verticals because they're my favorite ones. I actually like that green color. They're also recycled so I feel good about them. And also somebody else left a comment which I totally kind of underestimated but if you think about it for sure if I sell a plant on a pole there's actually a decent cost involved in the pole and the substrate that I fill it with and the pot and so on. It's not actually just about the plant. The plant in itself to me doesn't have much worth because I have so many of them and they can always die but the materials I definitely put a lot of money into getting this set up in the first place so I need to factor that in when I make the pricing. But actually a few people asked me what do you sell your plants for? I have no idea. I just gave them to AJ. I never sell plants. I hardly even buy plants these days. By the way sorry for the noise. The construction is still happening. I hardly ever sell my plants. I haven't sold any of my plants in I think two and a half years now and I hardly buy plants as well and when I buy plants I buy the teeny tiny tissue culture plants so I have no idea about what like what a plant is worth. But it's not about like selling them for much money. It's really about getting rid of them and hopefully somebody else having a good time with it. Fully forgot about talking about this one. This is my Emedrium Medium Silver and I have to say it took me a little bit of thinking whether or not I want to put this inside or if it's going to overwinter outside. It overwintered last year so I feel like why fix what's not broken. It's definitely my favorite in there so I feel like oh hang on shouldn't I make room for this one indoors. I just don't know if I'm going to be able to give this a spot indoors that it actually really likes. Actually I have one spot in mind that could look stunning. Let's park it on the side. Let's park it on the side and see how we go because I do actually have a... oh it looks so good. I would hide for that to deteriorate. But then I would also hide to just have a completely empty greenhouse overwinter. This is my Monstera saponata. That will definitely stay outside but I would love to give it an extension today so that she has something else to grow on and then we're gonna have a big something happening with her in spring. But I think she's really nice and she was out here last year already. Just had to cut her back a bit. Oh I'm getting a delivery. One moment. Yeah I was just saying she already stayed out here last year and I do want to have a nice looking greenhouse year-round as well. I don't know if I'm parking these like very inconveniently. This is my coccinianum. Really loving it but it has decreased in leaf size a little bit and I think that's because I changed its position. I'm not going to give it an extension. I'm just going to top it up with a little bit more medium but also it survived outside year-round so it was a trooper last year. It's good. I mean did it grow like the most beautiful leaves over winter? No. Are the summer leaves prettier? Yes but that's okay. So I've just got this hoia left up here. She's gonna stay and over here I have a global green pothos. Now have a look because the light comes from the back these shoots always want to find their way to the back. What I want to do is I want to repot her, give her a larger pot, give her another extension as well and then I want to pop her on my fence with all the other plants because I think over there she'll actually get more light, more consistent light from one side and actually it will size up a little bit nicer because it's been like three years of growing this plant and it's never grown a larger leaf than this and I think there could be much more potential here. It's a pothos ultimately so I'm not worried about it not surviving. It's part of that I might also have to chop off these leggy growth points but yeah I think she's actually going to move out of the greenhouse. It's so nice that it's not raining today. Okay let me show you the greenhouse. Already here it is looking nice and empty. Shit! Guys look I sat on the shelf. Okay let me get new pants. The corner of the shelf was very sharp I have to say. Alrighty we're back. I acknowledge that that will not be the cleanest the window will ever be and so on. There's just a whole lot of algae. I would probably have to clean this pad a little more frequently than rather than just kind of smearing the dirt around. But look it's just a greenhouse. It's gonna get really filthy again anyway. It's just really about optimizing the light that can come in and make it look less messy. So it's a compromise between how much time I spend on it and what I get out of it. I don't want to spend too much time on cleaning something when it's just gonna get rained on again in five hours. It's just it's not a spring clean it's a winter clean. Just a little bit you know. Good enough for my liking. Now let's see how dirty the inside is. Dirty. I should really do that with all of the plastic paints as well. So let me do that. I just don't want to bring out the gurney now because I'll make everything in here so wet. It's not warm enough for the water to evaporate. So much rain. I'm sick of everything being wet. I want things to dry out a little bit. Talking about things drying out a little bit. I have already stopped misting about a month ago. Okay we can't ruin another pair of pants so I'm not gonna try and sit on the shelf again. I stopped misting because the misting obviously keeps the humidity high in here but it also helps me cool down the greenhouse in summer. In summer when the sun hits it and I hope it's not too noisy for you in the background. But in summer when the sun hits it it can get really really hot through the glass. So the misting helps keep the humidity up and cool the greenhouse. But at the moment it is not that hot. It's not really going above 24 anymore during daytime and then even with direct sun 24 and direct sun it's not going to make it so unbearably hot in here that I would need to mist or at least for the plants. The plants prefer that probably. In summer I imagine it's a consistent 38 degrees in here. I'll never get on top of watering and while the misting helps with the humidity it's not going to do enough for the watering and so on. So in summer I mist a lot to you know keep the humidity up to cool down the greenhouse give these plants good condition so they can really thrive. I don't need to mist at the moment because it's quite humid as it is. I'm worried about too much moisture because cold and wet is not good and no misting also means less requirement for airflow. And in summer I have the misting system on a lot like almost every hour for like a few minutes. So then I obviously have the louvers open because hot air rises so that the hot air can escape from up there. That helps again cool down and then I have the fan over here circulating air so that water droplets from the misting aren't sitting on leaves and potentially causing issues but rather evaporate. I need more liquid. The fan requires power. I do not have a power outlet outside so that's an issue and every time I talk about it I know people suggest to just run a power cable from inside outside but I'm not too sure how to do that. If all of my windows are shut because it's cold outside and we want to keep the heat inside where's the... like how can I get the power cable through my window or my door? There's realistically just two doors over there. A sliding door and a normal door. If I would feed the cable through either of those I couldn't close the door anymore. I enjoy being able to close my door and keep insects, the cold, in summer the heat and intruders out you know. Heating my greenhouse should now not turn into a safety concern because I can never ever close my door again. Also I have a cute little animal. I have a gorgeous little cat. He's actually very smart. If I close the fly screen but I don't lock the fly screen he knows how to slide it open and escape. So basically in a nutshell I think I'm usually pretty good at creative problem solving and trust me if there was a creative way to solve this problem without creating an issue that's even bigger I would have already solved it, right? But in this instance the safety and well-being of me, my cat and my housemate is more important to me than having electricity out here. So I have electricity out here but it's not plugged in. It's not stable. It is just via a generator that is sitting there behind the greenhouse or it's like basically like a battery you know people would use it to go camping and I have a full video on that setup. Now that generator is charged by the solar panel that you see right above me over there and in summer that works quite okay. Unfortunately it doesn't charge enough to just rely on solar because there's quite a bit of tree coverage which is a good thing because if it wasn't for the tree coverage I would then need to have a shade cloth for my greenhouse and so on. So you win some you lose some. So I have natural shade cover but that means less solar for the actual solar panel or less charge for the solar panel. So in summer I still need to manually charge it every five days or so and then over the course of five days it slowly depletes but gets topped off by the solar panel and so on. So all summer long that worked a treat. Didn't bother me and all of that. Now in winter it pretty much gets no more sun plus the trees have grown too big. So at the moment it's hardly charging at all. So I actually didn't even plug it in anymore. So I will get rid of it. Oopsie. What happened here? Sorry. Oh I hope I didn't kill you. That would be tragic. Wouldn't it? I already stopped actually plugging in the solar. Now I need to kind of charge the battery every three days or so because it's not getting a solar top up. But because I'm not misting I don't actually have to have the fan on all too much. So I think I'm going to have to switch the schedule of the fan around so it only turns on for maybe a couple of hours a day rather than being on 24-7 and then the battery should last longer which means I need to charge it less often. But also in winter I'm less worried about it being off because I don't mist so I don't have the need for consistent airflow or not as much as I do in summer. So basically airflow is not going to be a concern for me over the winter months and because airflow is the only thing that I needed the electricity for, the solar charging is also not a concern for me over winter. So that's just something I'll set up again over spring and summer. Can you even still see me? I have no idea. Wow I feel like I took forever to basically tell you that I do nothing in here. Like literally nothing. No heating, no airflow, no misting. I mean a little bit of airflow whenever I can be asked to charge the battery or whenever it's maybe a nice warm day I'll just open the doors, I'll open the louvers, get a bit of airflow through and so on. But not consistently like not 24-7 like I do in summer. So it's actually a very low effort setup this greenhouse over the course of winter. But obviously with low effort you also need to have low expectations right. If I would put the effort of heating this greenhouse then I would obviously also have more expectations on growth but my bill would also be huge. I mean if I would have power I would definitely work on heating this for sure because it is ultimately my business. The more I can grow, the more content I can create. So I would if I have an option but again I mentioned it's just too much of an inconvenience for me and I think it's not worth it. There's an underlying concept over here that I used to never like that I now actually really appreciate. When I first gotten into this hobby I wanted all of my plants to thrive 24-7, 365 days of the year. And that's of course also because I had like three plants right. I obviously wanted my plants to look as good as possible at all times and I mean I kind of do that now as well like it's not like I purposely want my plants to look ugly. But I also don't mind working with the seasons. I don't think it needs to be a linear trajectory where a plant just keeps growing and growing and growing. I love a little circular growth journey right where I used to for example avoid plants that go dormant because to me it was so silly like why would you have a plant that is dormant for half the year. You get a plant, you spend money on the plant and you only get to appreciate it for 50% of the year. Makes no sense. Whereas now I'm like oh I'm actually excited about the journey of regrowth like if the same plant wouldn't have this dormant regrowth cycle it would be less interesting like my Discoria discolor. It's interesting because I induce dormancy and then I let it grow back. That would just look the same all the time. I'd be less interested in the plant and the same goes for my garden because the garden isn't looking the same year round. Because my plants in here aren't just going from strength to strength. I actually appreciate the growing season more because we've had winter. We fought for their survival and so on. So it's just a little bit more rewarding. Plus it keeps it interesting. It's not always the same plants thriving at the same time you know. It's like whereas in summer the garden is thriving. In winter I put a little bit more stress on the indoors and so on right. So I just appreciate the variety and that's that's what makes plants such a good hobby as well. There's endless variety. If you live in the desert you can grow cacti. If you live in the jungle you can grow tropical plants and so on. And of course you can also try growing tropical plants in the desert if you want to. Just be realistic and so on. But there's endless possibilities honestly. All right I know I know far from perfect but it's good enough for now. But yeah basically in winter the idea is that I have to do very very little in this greenhouse. I think maybe water every two weeks or so. But be very conservative with the watering because cold and wet is a tricky situation. Maybe charge the battery once a week or so. So then slowly the pleats over the course of the week. I'm not expecting crazy growth. I'm not expecting repots, extensions, monitoring the conditions. In summer when we go from 24 degrees in one day to suddenly 42 degrees on the other day I have to constantly adjust the schedule to make sure the schedule always works. And I don't introduce too much moisture via the misting. But I introduce enough moisture by the misting to cool it down accordingly and so on. So in summer this is a high effort setup, a high involvement. Not just a greenhouse, my entire garden. And it's a choice right. I love that. But in winter it is very low maintenance. I do very little and I just hope for the best. And that sort of gives me that little break to then be motivated to come back in spring and do all of the work again right. I think we have done enough cleaning in here for now. Let's move all of this out. Okay I'm going to open these windows wide. I'm going to regret this in a sec. But I'm going to put the fan on. Okay I have the fan on like super super super high speed. Get everything open just to air everything out. Everything is just a little bit moist. Actually we keep this open. Look at the baby. Hello. You've got a, hey you've got a mozzie on your nose. Hey you little, oh my god. Sorry mozzie but I will protect my baby at all costs. Yes daddy saved you. Okay let's look at some plants. Again I'll put this one on the side because I want to test something. This one nothing to do. Just topping this one up with a little bit more aeroid mix. Oh okay all of these ones we can just put on that shelf. I want to put them all on the higher shelf because the higher up the warmer. He says and then puts it on the lower shelf. Look at that big guy in the wind. Oh it's like a jet is taking off. Okay quick extension over here. Normally when I do an extension and I pop a third pole on top of this I would use a garden stake to give it stability. But because I'll be hooking it into the fence um I don't need that. Sorry not the fence into the wall. Okay now we fill it with aeroid mix. By the way these have already come off the pole too much. I'll chop them because winter growth is going to be quite laggy anyway. I don't need it to already have a laggy start and I can just propagate them. I can just put them in that big glass jar full of propagations that I'll never do anything with. Let's do that. Okay that's also good enough. I don't have that much aeroid mix at the moment. I think that's good enough for this plant for now. I'm not expecting amazing growth. Right and if you watched the video of day one you saw my whole wall of aeroids. We're gonna look at them in a sec as well. Basically just behind you. This is my Indonesian marble and I chopped that into lots and lots of little cuttings. So you can see they're all chopped up here. So they're all propagating but I don't really have the desire to put it inside. But I think I'll have better propagation success if I can avoid too much water over here. So I think it's a candidate to go in here because I can just control water more. This tenu has again kind of done nothing all year. I don't know. Over here I've got a Sibu Blue. It was on my wall of aeroids all of winter but it had a terrible comeback and then also did not enjoy my chopping. Has done pretty much nothing which is not ideal. So I don't know what to do. Yep the existing growth points have rotten away so I need to wait for new shoots. But I feel like while I wait for all of this it might be a bit safer to wait in there. Oh almost dropped it. Let's have a look at this. So what is this mess? This one is this. Okay and I already had a re-shoot here. This one is this. I'm not too sure if they are water propagatable. That's even a word. But I'm going to try and propagate this in water. What do you guys think? Should I google it now? Okay I googled and yes I can. So I will probably cut this one more time so I have a few propagations. Okay I'll just chop it twice. Actually no three times. Okay now we gotta hurry up. I'm worried that we're gonna get rained on in a sec or like not a sec but soon. We are officially done with the greenhouse. Well almost. Okay and there's also just somebody coming to help me. Can you hear this alarm in the background? Somebody's coming to look into that so I think they probably want to see me. But Timmy is also coming and he's going to help me with the trees above the greenhouse. But I think we're done with the inside of the greenhouse. Let's close that off. Actually I do really want to air this greenhouse out a little bit more. It smells very mossy in there. But we're going to operate above the greenhouse and I don't want anything to fall inside. So I closed everything off. Let's tackle that. I also wanted to repot this pothos. Let's I couldn't find a 20 centimeter pot so it's going to be 25. So this is the global green pothos and I've had this for so long but I feel like I'm not realizing its potential. So I'm just going to get a new pot. It's going to get an extension and then I'll show you where it's going to go. More propagations. Same principle overlap by two. This is my wall of aeroids and it's looking a bit empty now because I just moved a few plants. So it's going to go here. That's where you're going to live. I will probably rearrange them a little bit, space them out a little bit more, make sure they all get a little bit more sun. But that's a project that we're going to tackle in about 10 minutes. I need to go downstairs and see that guy looking at the alarm because if that alarm keeps going off all night, every night, I'm going to get really grumpy. Oh Timmy, look at you and your amazing tool there. It's actually bendable and it's on a long pole. So professional. Yeah I know. Wow okay. Well that's good because that's your job. So Timmy basically, hang on, you guys can't even see that high can you? So Timmy there's um I mean this tree is mine. This is my garden. Yeah I think we should definitely cut through there a little bit just so we get a little so the the goal is that we get a little bit more sun coming in into the greenhouse but obviously the sun moves this way so yeah cutting this tree isn't gonna change all too much but it's still gonna get just a little bit more light in the in the greenhouse. Then over there there's actually some dead branches there as well but I'm thinking if we cut this big one off that's already a large you know it's like a large cloud and there's a few dead ones in there as well see in the back and you know how one of them fell on my plants before and killed some of them so and then over here this tree also has a few dead branches and I would love for them for us to cut those off before the other branches lose their leaves because then we can't identify is it just dormant or is it dead and this dracaena we also want to cut off okay so that it encourages more growth down below. So we've got a bunch of things to do. So I'm thinking I'm better off with this side. I'll go from the back. Let's start there yeah let's start there first and I'll move this out of the way. Well we can't see anything because we're filming against the light. I want to take this off first because we don't need it anymore I have disconnected it. I was smart enough to do that we got this be careful That's a good one. Nice work. Do you want to do it? I can try. Remember let the saw do the work You want to pass the big tree? Jesus **** this is like a whole tree. Oh well oh ---- maybe we shouldn't have moved the banana back Anything else? The one above it? Yeah I don't think I can reach that far. Okay. Oh my god it's gonna rain I can see the rain coming. Yeah. But it looks so much better already right? It does. We're cutting this dead dracaena over there. It's coming. Okay can you push it over to my side? Yeah come on. Yeah it's got it Oh it's rotten look. It's rotten. Look at that So rotten. I can't believe it lasted for that long Much better thank you Well Timmy is doing that. I'm bringing in the cushions. It's gonna rain soon Thanks for your help Timmy. Have tools will travel. That's where you got the tools from huh? Still. Yeah it was my present to him. I always got to give myself credit where I can you know and nobody else is clearly. Such a big difference but it is getting a little actually now the sky is blue again it was getting really overcast for a minute and I was kind of worried and we just had to panic and Timmy also had to go back into a meeting so sorry filming wasn't a priority but we've definitely opened this up way more it feels so much brighter in here but there's also a mess on the floor and I have decided that the immediate medium will go inside. Am I doing that? Should I? I think. Clearly for today she's got to go inside and instead the ring of fire is going back outside after all but I think greenhouse would be a good option for her Oh it is actually much warmer in here. Next thing. We were stuck with this wall. That's what we're doing. Okay one thing at a time. Let's go. So ideally what I do is I want to lift things off or at least have them in a planter where possible. I think that should help with the roots not being exposed to too much cold because obviously these stones are much colder than the air. I might even consider going to Bunnings buying bubble wrap and covering the pot in bubble wrap. Apparently that also helps insulating the root system and then helping the plant survive but majority of the root system is also in the pole so I don't know. Anyway so where possible I'm going to put them in a pot. I'm just trying to space out all of these plants a little bit. I don't know if that's a stupid idea or not but I feel like this way at least they'll have increased airflow and they're all just hooked in the fence by the way. Okay so this one already has a pot So next up we have a few plants that will go dormant and if the plant isn't already suffering I'm not gonna like force dormancy now. I'm happy to wait until the plant naturally shows me that it wants to go dormant but this is my Heliconia yellow dancer and she has had spider mites over the last few months so I kind of chopped most of the plant back. Now if you want to desperately reshoot but this is never gonna really grow into something nice again before the end of this season. Does this have a hole in it? Yes. So what I'm going to do with this is I chopped it right back but I want to avoid oh my god I can't get this okay I can't get this out of its cash pot anymore but there's a hole in it. What I'm trying to avoid is too much water so that the Heliconia rhizomes will rot over winter. That's what happened to my Heliconias last year so I need to do better. So what I'm going to do is I take this and I put it in my greenhouse because in my greenhouse I can control the water okay I can just not water that. So this is a under bench greenhouse thing can be a dark corner. I'm not trying to make it grow over the next few months I'm just trying to not make it rot. The exact same goes for my Canna Stuttgart. Oh my god. In spring she'll get a repot she'll come back to life and I've learned my lesson this summer with her. I think I need to separate her out and repot her into multiple pots so she has a little bit more room but all of that is going to happen at the beginning of spring not now. So again I'm going to pop her in the greenhouse just for her to stay dry. Hi bird. The same will happen. I'm here with my Canna Cleopatra but she's still looking good and I'll do the same with my Caladium Frog in a blender but she also still looks good. So again I'm not forcing it but with a plant already naturally isn't the happiest due to spider mites or just being ugly or whatever I'm not mad at inducing dormancy rather sooner than later. I don't want to chop off too many leaves from my actual plants even if some of them aren't looking the best. That one was just hanging down because first of all these leaves won't be replaced as frequently anymore and secondly I have already filled the entire green bin and I probably have the same amount or more hiding behind the greenhouse and they just emptied the green bin on Sunday so I need to wait two weeks. So I think for the next month or so my green bin will be pretty packed so I don't need to produce more green waste where not absolutely needed. But before I move the couch back I'm going to quickly clean up the debris on the floor over here. I'm happy with that. Keep thinking it's going to rain on us really soon. Okay a couple more things we have got to get done before it rains because look ultimately I'm not mad if I get wet but the idea is that some of my plants are just too wet already. I don't want any more water. Okay over here I have my paludendron marcianum. Loves the highlight but I feel like it's not going to appreciate too much moisture during winter so I want to put it in the greenhouse but in a sunny spot. So right down here syngonium fantaseal, a white variegated one. I am doing a full video on it but again I think it would appreciate less moisture or controlled moisture. It's not about less moisture it's just about being able to control the moisture and I can't control the moisture out here. And then I have my syngonium mojito but I think she's going to be a little bit too big for the greenhouse plus I don't want her to be I don't want it to be completely empty in the garden. So her I will keep outside plus she has had more time to establish as well. So let's see which one does better. On this table I've got my little agaves and cacti again. I think I'm going to move them into the greenhouse so that they don't get too much water. That's their main issue right. Oh here comes the rain good timing huh. And the other thing is this one doesn't take up too much space or like doesn't shade the greenhouse too much but this one shades the greenhouse quite a lot. So I actually would love to move this over a little bit so I can hide the ugly corner but not shade the greenhouse. Okay I like this. You can still see it but it's not stealing the light from the greenhouse. It's crazy how much brighter the greenhouse looks and I haven't even cleaned the roof yet. Right so I'm pretty happy with what I've done so far. Last thing before I'm giving up for the day because I'm definitely not gonna. The only thing outstanding is really the gurney. I want a gurney that's a high pressure sprayer. The roof of the greenhouse to get rid of all of the dirt. As I mentioned I'm not gonna do all too much in this garden over winter. Most of the watering is going to be done by mother nature. I provide my nutrients via a liquid or I put liquid nutrients in my water. That's how I provide nutrients which means that for the next four to five months I will probably not provide any nutrients to this garden. Which is okay because it's also winter and so on but I am trying this new product and you'll hear all about it eventually. It's worm casting granulates. Basically worm castings but it's just easy to portion them out. So I was thinking and you probably can't see this but why don't I just put a little bit of worm castings in all of my poles at the top. You know where normally I have my water bottle where they fit because well I won't put a water bottle on there anytime soon. But then when it water when it rains and water seeps through the pole these worm castings will slowly be dissolved and there's some sort of nutrient provision for these plants. So that they can still maybe grow a little bit you know. They're not going to thrive but I think this way at least I give them the best possible option and now I'm not worried about like over fertilizing. See how that goes. I will actually sprinkle that on some of my other plants as well. I mean I'm just testing it out and to be honest like there's very little how am I supposed to know if it actually works or not you know what I mean. If these plants die it wouldn't be because of the worm castings it would be because of the rain. If they thrive it's then also means it's not a direct correlation to their to the worm castings. But anyway I'll sprinkle a few in the garden bed as well and I can't take you there because you're not I'll take you into the greenhouse with me actually. Actually you can be under this palm tree pretty dry under this palm tree. But I'll do the same with the plants in the greenhouse as well. Some worm castings for all of you because again I'll water very little over here. When I water I'll probably most likely going to hoist everything down rather than coming in here with liquid nutrients. You know what at the very least it's going to make me feel better about myself. At least it makes me feel like I'm trying you know. I love how convenient it is to just put it on top of the moss pile and then with watering it's going to just slowly dissolve. It's basically like an organic version of slow release fertilizer. I could have just put it in my air word mix huh. Oh well. But even then I think it's going to dissolve. That's also something I need to. Oh not on the carnivorous they don't like it. That's something I also need to learn obviously about it. Like how long is it going to take to dissolve. So when should I reapply and so on. It's a sample. It's a new product. It's not even available for purchase yet. So I'm just testing it out and they've asked me to provide them some feedback. So I obviously got to try it so I can provide feedback. Just a really really quick pan. The greenhouse is looking good. You can definitely see much more light coming through here. The seating area is still looking really good. So it's going to be quite interesting to see how that's going to cope over the course of winter. And then honestly you can hardly see that I've It's looking as lush as always. The tree above that area will however lose all of its leaves. So it's going to look significantly different soon. Anyway that's the little pan. Let's pan back. I'm pretty happy with our work. Yep. Here comes the storm. Perfect timing. Alrighty. It's getting a bit cold. I put my jacket back on. Everything is running out of battery out of storage which means that we've probably done enough work today. I think we've gotten a lot done. Not everything that I wanted to do but I think gurning the roof of the greenhouse is something I'll do one day. You don't need to come along you know. That's not the most interesting part anyway. But from a plant perspective we've gotten everything done that I wanted to get done. So basically the plants that are here now are the plants that will stay here over winter. So from tomorrow I'm gonna do a little survivor series where we are doing a bit of a stock take video and then we are going to follow these plants over the course of the next four months and see how they're coping with winter, if they're coping, if I'm having casualties and so on. And hopefully on the back of it we'll have lots and lots of learnings. Obviously you learn from success but you learn even more from failure. So I'll take it all and I'll just share it with you so that hopefully we can all learn something from the upcoming winter that I'm going into. But for today I think we've done plenty of work. Thank you so much for coming along. I know it wasn't the most like chatty plant care day today. I was pretty focused on just getting stuff done because I didn't want it to get rained on. Talking about getting rained on you are now getting rained on yet again so I better move you. If you watched all the way leave a sow emoji. I think there's a sow emoji. There better be. Something that helps us trim the trees. Leave that in comments down below. Make sure you give this video a thumbs up. Subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. Click the bell so you get a notification every time I upload and hopefully I'll see you in my next videos and hopefully you're going to come on that winter journey with me. Bye!