My April Garden Tour harvesting planting moving huge tree update Life in the countryside

Hey guys, I found this guava tree growing in my yard a while back. I've been nurturing it, and today I was so happy to walk in and find lots of fruit on it; I just can't wait to enjoy them in the coming This week my farmhand is working today on our drainage system; we are still receiving a lot of rain. and the trenches I've dug along the fences are somehow clogged—they've been Not serviced for a very long time, so we noticed water flowing back onto the yard. Whenever it rains heavily, this needs to be cleaned to allow the trenches to drain water properly. I have noticed that the soil we are excavating is quite fertile; there are many trees. that are shedding their leaves right here, and over time we have decomposed, and we have soil here that is more compost, and I'm going to use it to fill it up uneven areas in the yard, so this is what he's been doing for the last two days And this is our soil; it looks somewhat black, but it is loam soil and extremely rich. So we're going to use it to level up the sunken areas of the yard; it's quite a beautiful season. Even our bottle brush is in full bloom and looks quite beautiful against the wall. I wish... We already painted the walls white, so here's a little update on the fully grown tree that I moved from the backyard to this section of the yard; all the leaves have fallen, it is more of a skeleton right now I've been looking out for any sign of life on it, and I noticed the The branches are not dry, and you can already see the buds emerging—that is just a sign of life. In the coming months, we're going to have the leaves and the branches all come back to life. So this is just a confirmation that you can actually move a fully grown tree to wherever. you want it in the yard instead of killing it, so while my farmhand focuses on the drainage, I will I'm in the garden today and there's lots to do in the garden; I'll be giving you an update. Of everything in the garden, it's kind of a tour of my garden once again—it keeps improving. Every time I come here, we're going to do some harvesting, and I also have some planting to do. It's been about three months since I first planted the vegetables; they've grown really fast. Our Napa cabbage or Chinese cabbage has reached full maturity; there's no reason With them being here in the garden, they're just filling up the space, so I'm going to harvest the few that are ready. I'm removing everything and I will be replacing it with kale or collard greens. So let's harvest everything before we get into planting. That's what we have left. I have been harvesting them and taking them home for our meals, my farmhand has also been enjoying them My neighbors have also had the chance to taste Chinese cabbage; most of them were trying it for the first time. The first time, and they really loved it, so our chicken are never left out whenever I'm here. They get some garden treats, so you can see how anxiously they're waiting for me—it's time for I can't hide my excitement about my red onions—they look so pretty, and I just can't Wait to harvest, I guess I have to wait another about 40 days before harvesting, but they look so healthy, and this is going to be a really fast harvest of red onions—I'm going to do so, I'm just Crossing my fingers that they reach maturity safely, so now I'm going to work on the raised bed. beds from which I just harvested the napa cabbage, as well as the spring onions which do not look very healthy because napa cabbage has these bulky leaves that cover entire surface, so the spring onions have not been receiving adequate sunlight. The reason they They look so frail, so I'm just going to loosen the soil around them and give them some light weeding. And then we will grow; we will plant the kales in between them. At least the kale has a long stem that will allow sunlight through, so hopefully they are going to have a better company With the kale, many of you have been asking about my gardening tools and where I get them from. So if you live in Kenya, please check out China Square—they have lots of gardening tools; I go there. The light ones, which are very easy to use, extremely easy to handle, and work best for my raised beds and my flower beds, mine are mainly light-duty tools, but you can get the heavy-duty tools or anything that suits your needs, so these are the collard greens or the kale that I'm going to Today I realized they don't have roots—I'm actually propagating these from my mom's. my own collard greens, and this is the variety that lasts for many, many years—my mother's have I've been in the garden for two or three years, I guess, and they produce suckers, so I just harvested them. suckers, and I am going to plant those suckers, and for many years I'm going to have lots of kale or collard greens, which I won't have to replace until maybe I feel like I really should but they last for so many years in Kenya, we call them kale too, kumawiki, and you've probably seen them. kale that have grown so tall they're even taller than me or something, around my height This is the variety I'm planting today—it's those plant ones that harvest forever vegetables. And the beauty of this variety is that it is disease resistant—I don't see any pests in my mom's garden. Yet we do not spray them with any pesticides; she just sprinkles wood ash occasionally. And they keep growing—they're planted just the way you'd plant any other vegetable seedling. And after about two to three months, they will start producing suckers, which can be harvested. and propagated again, so it's a continuous cycle. My carrots took so long to sprout, I'd I somehow gave up on them, but in the past week I realized they are just full of life. and looking so beautiful, so I'm expecting a good carrot harvest, though I did not have A hundred percent germination, but whatever is there is looking really lush—the cucumber trellises. are now all filled up full of flowers and cucumbers and it's right behind me and I've harvested many cucumbers, I can't really tell how many cucumbers I've picked in total The past two or three weeks they've just kept producing and producing, and now I have way too much—I'm actually overwhelmed. giving what I'm harvesting now to the chickens because my fridge is full and I'm just trying To learn how to pickle, I've been eating them raw in salads; pickling isn't really a thing here. but now, since I have so many of them and I don't want to, I don't want them to go to waste I'm going to be pickling at the end of this video just to get started, and then I can do more of it. pickling in the coming weeks. Today's pickling will be more of an experiment because I haven't have done this before, so after one week I will check to see if it really worked. If it goes well, then I will I'll pickle everything so I don't waste my cucumbers—they grow so well in my garden, unfortunately. People in this region don't eat cucumbers; it's not something they grew up with, so I can't really sell it anywhere around here, so if I could get maybe a market somewhere, I would do acres. for cucumbers, so if you know where there's demand for cucumbers, please let me know. I'd really be Happy to grow cucumbers for sale since they do so well on our soil, even though nobody ever bothers. have you noticed how my soil has improved over the few months that I've been planting it? With the raised beds, I've definitely put a lot of work into the soil by adding compost. adding manure and anything else that can improve the quality and texture of the soil, and it is The tomatoes I planted two weeks ago are already bearing fruit, and this is one of the really Exciting things in my garden today—I get really happy even when I see a new flower on any of my plants. vegetables—that's just how satisfying gardening is when the ones in your garden are this healthy then you know you have very rich soil. Something I learned about cucumbers is when you grow them And when they start bearing fruit, you must keep harvesting whenever you see one that is ready. To harvest it, you just have to get it out immediately, that is because when you leave it here A message is sent to the mother plant indicating that it is getting old and should cease production. so when you keep harvesting it keeps producing; otherwise, you will notice the leaves turning yellow and the plant wilting, and the longer it stays in the garden, the harder it becomes The cover becomes so hard that the seeds also harden, making it very difficult to eat, so it is better to avoid it. to harvest them while they are still young, when the skin is still tender or not yet hardened It's been years since I planted avocado trees; I have five trees in my yard at different spots. And this year I'm really hopeful that I'll see some flowers on the avocado trees—honestly, I can't Wait until I have avocados from my home tree; it has grown quite tall and has so many new leaves. and it's getting taller and bigger, so I'm really, really expecting fruits or just flowers soon At the end of the year, maize is a staple food here, so every household has some maize on their farm. I don't grow it on a large scale here in my home; I just grow a small patch so that at least we get maize to Roast or boil during the harvesting season; otherwise, my large maize farms are far away from here. I told you guys I don't give up easily; this year again I tried the butternut squash. And this time I'm seeing amazing results—you won't believe how many butternuts I have. In my garden, I planted them between the banana trees, and they're just all over the place. and I'm spotting so many of them, quite excited about this one—if you can remember last year I had a zero butternut squash harvest, and I think it's because I planted them in an area that had a lot of water in the soil; I can see a few of them rotting, but I promise the good ones are fine Outweighs the bad—there are just lots of healthy butternuts in here. I also planted beans. And how I planted them together with the maize—if you look in my garden, you will see the maize. Standing together with the beans, and it is because the maize actually supports the beans. as they grow larger, my taro is ready for harvest; the only thing holding me back is because there's There's still a lot of rain; it's best to harvest taro when it's dry, but you can see many suckers. In between just means they're ready for harvest. I had a great harvest of cayenne pepper. Last year and this year I planted a lot more than last year; they are already flowering but What I noticed about the peppers is that in the first season, you don't get a lot of harvest. But from the second harvest you'll have plenty of peppers, so for now, I have lots of flowers on them. And I can already see a few of them have the chilies, but I'm not expecting a very large first one. Harvesting it improves as the plant grows bigger, and finally, the garlic is here, looking healthy. As they started, these ones never disappointed even once; they have remained healthy since then. I planted them; I'm going to try to pickle this cucumber from a recipe I got here on YouTube. So first, we're just going to slice them as I'm doing. Next, we're going to put them in the bowl. Sprinkle some salt on them, toss them a bit, and let them sit for about 20 minutes. and while they sit for 20 minutes, we're going to make this—should I call it a solution concoction, I don't know what it is, so we're using sugar, vinegar, and water They said you can also add your favorite spices; I've added my curry powder—I love curry. Or you can add any flavors you like after 20 minutes, then rinse off the salt. from the cucumbers and then put them in your jar. I cut the slices into halves because I have a very small jar, and then we are just going to add the liquid we made into the container and fill it I turn it up, and finally I add three cloves of garlic, then I will just close my container and keep it. for one week, and when we return I will tell you how it all went down, so from this we will be able To pickle more, thank you so much for watching, I really hope you enjoyed the video. Remember to like and subscribe, bye