Backyard Summer Reset! Moving Tropical Plants Outside

Oh, it's so nice out. Starting to warm up. We had a chilly week. Gonna be up into the 70s for a few days and then moving into May. It's gonna get nice and toasty. It's gonna be time to get the annuals planted and start messing with the tropicals. Messing with, you know what I meant. Hey, what's up garden friends? Jeff here. How's everybody doing? I'm doing well. I'm great. It's time. Time to get it all fixed up and put back together. Doing things differently this week. So normally I have my longer videos on Saturdays but uh this week I decided I'm gonna go ahead and release the long video here on Wednesday and then Saturday will be a garden tour. It gets conflicting because I want to do the vlogging stuff where I'm out here doing things and you get to follow me along but then what would happen would be Wednesday, it's the last day of the month, would be the garden tour and you'd see everything finished and then the video after that you'd see me doing everything before the garden tour. It just doesn't make sense. So you're gonna get two fairly long videos this week. Some of y'all love that. Some of y'all hate it. Turbo's gonna be excited. Needs extra time outside, right? All right, so just get everybody caught up here. Get you up to speed. Pardon my hand. Had to put something in my pocket. All right, up until just a day or so ago I had a big greenhouse set up out here. I would call it more of a cold frame sort of situation. It was great. Used it from November until basically now overwintered a lot of plants including these great big beautiful Chinese fan palms. They did wonderfully. It's not a garden tour which is set for Saturday. We're gonna be doing work this video and the video after this we can walk around and talk about how things are doing, how they're growing. Anyways, lots and lots of junk collected here. Where that greenhouse was, you can see I still have it over there. I've been flipping it and rinsing it and drying and flipping and rinsing and drying it so I can pack it away. The table became a gathering place for just all kinds of debris and junk and projects. Umbrella's broken. I have a new pole. I need to fix that and replace it. So I think the main thing to do here is to just to start getting things going where they need to go. This area over here is Colby's garden, my tortoise. That's where he hangs out during the summer and it's also where I put plants that are yet to be planted or maybe even potentially all the plants I keep over here in this seating area for wintertime. I'll try and make them look nice over there during the summer and then in the wintertime they'll move back over to that seating area. If you want to, you can go. I don't think it's very warm but you can go. You can do it. You can go swim if you want. Yeah, I mean it. You can do it. All right, just made his day. Over here, as long as you just look at it like this, like this. Oh, everything looks so pretty minus the tripod with my rags drying on it over here. Oh, it's so nice. It's the seating area and it's just become beautiful. It's basically like my little nursery at this point. I buy the plants that are going to be planted up in May or basically now that things are warm and I've just been trying to set them over here and make them look nice. I have some larger plants over here. I would like to get things, you know, spread around better but first, as I was mentioning, I need to handle all of this. I think we'll bring some of the tropicals out from the growth space too. The garage is full of tropicals and I have a couple big palms that go in these containers and I'll probably take these palms, move them down to the Miami planters. The palms are in the Miami planters or the front porch for the front porch planters. I should do the spindle palms in the front to send high turbs. How you doing? That's worth a screenshot. What a good boy. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, thanks for that, Turbo. God, that water is cold. You're a maniac. Get away from me. Go swim. Yeah, go, go. Go do it. Go swim. All right. Is he going to go to the fountain? Gonna do his thing. Gotta get that water. Self-inflicted water torture. Yep, yep. That's his favorite thing. Just go out there, just torture yourself. Okay, well, that was fun. Expect more of that. He's having a great time, so am I. Yeah, I'm just gonna start picking up. Need to put the greenhouse away. I have a barrel here. No, not this one. Barrel right there with yard waste. Pot right here for recycling, which is mostly just empty seltzer waters or topo chicos, whatever you want to call them. I cannot wait to get in here with the blower and get all this stuff cleaned up and pull the table back. The table's all the way up in the middle of the patio right now. I don't like it there. Things are starting to feel claustrophobic with all the plants rolling in and everything. Oh, I got that plywood, too, and you can do something with that. So take this. This might be a two-person job. It's definitely not an on-camera job. You hear that? That's obnoxious. I'm gonna handle this, clear this space out, start working on the table and moving some plants around. I have to fill that hole in. So over here is where I... What is this? People just leaving their trash around out here? Burger King? Where'd that even come from? I don't eat at Burger King. Nice. I have a big hole here. Big Queen Palm sits in there during the summertime. I'm putting that somewhere else this year, so that means I need to come in here and pull the ground back to get that hull felt in. You know, we'll get to this area when we get to this area. I started... It doesn't look like the wind messed everything up, but I've been compiling my pots and things. Yeah, I don't know. First things first, this is gonna be more than enough work, right? I can't find my shovel. I know. It probably seems like a neither here nor there thing. I've been looking for it for about five days. I had it just a few days ago. I was filming a video potting up a banana tree. It was in the gorilla cart and it was right here, but it's not there anymore and it's not that. That's the root. So I'm kind of like my shovel shovel with a big scoop on it. I know. Don't you have more than one shovel? I used to. Over time, they break and the ones I have left, I'm not really crazy about, but I guess I could resort to using them if I want to. I want to use my good one. I want to use the one that's nice and sharp. I'm hoping that it's in here somewhere. I got all this picked up. Gorilla cart is loaded up with its first round of stuff to go back to the garage for storage and recycling. You know, stuff I was using for the greenhouse. And I'm saying I want to get this blown off, but the problem is, even though I say this is gonna be a problem for later, I really don't want to blow the deck off and then just have everything go right here into this hole. Yes, I am going to be filling in the hole, but I don't want to have a layer of leaves and debris at the bottom of it because then as the ground fills, it's just gonna, it's gonna collapse down. There's a Christmas tree over here. I suppose I could go back to the garage. Not really using this out here anymore. I'll let that box sit out here while I'm working so I have a place to put any recycling or trash or anything that I find. It's been a good system so far. Yeah, I don't know. I'm going, shoot, I just, if I, if I knew where that freaking shovel was, I could fill the hole in and get that blown off. I don't want to start putting the furniture back where it goes when there's all that junk to clear off. Turbo, being the big helper he always is, brought me an ice cream cone. Nice of him. It's sopping wet. Hmm. Oh, I can get the foxtail pump put over here. That's for later. We'll start moving plants and placing plants once, you know, this has been handled. Oh, I'm sorry, Turbo. There you go. Left-handed. Over there. Oh, that was a really bad throw. I wasn't even looking where it was going with it. I'm not throwing that in the pool. We don't throw plushy toys in the pool. Turbo, I put it over here. It's over here, I said. I put it. As if it was something intentional. Use your nose. Use your nose. Go get it. Go get it. I'm going to have to go get it for him, aren't I? Hell, I am. Turbo, Labrador, retrieve. Get your toy. Use that nose. Use that nose. You can find it. I mean, you're not really that close, but you're closer than you were 30 seconds ago. Keep going. Keep going. He's not big on using his nose. I've been working on him with that. There we go. Good boy. You got it. He believes us. How things have changed. Three years ago, it was just keep him out of the garden. Whereas now I'm like, yeah, he's gentle. He knows not to step on the plants unless there's a toy in them. Okay. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Good boy. Stay here. Some kind of baby animal making noise over here. Let's go ahead and get this toy out of here. I don't know what the heck that was. Rabbit? Maybe. What did baby rabbit sound like? I'm not going to disturb anything. I just want to have a peek. I want to make sure Turbo didn't step on or squish anything. I don't have to make any runs to a nature rehabilitation center or anything like that. I don't see anything from where he was. Oh, all right. I'm just going to leave it alone. Let nature be nature. Yeah. I just looked up. That was a hundred percent sound of a baby bunny. So I should make sure he didn't step on something. I don't want to disturb it either. I think the best thing to do is just leave things alone, right? Oh, hey, look at that. There's a set of cresses coming up. Tradescantia. Nice. They don't always make it through the winter because, you know, it's cold. Zone 6B. But there they are. There's some here. There's some here. There's probably some over there. That's a weird shot. Right through the crotch. That was the ADD. I think we're okay. That noise wasn't very prolonged. Like I said, I'd rather leave it alone. I'm going to go drop this load off and keep my eyes peeled for that shovel, which is all I've done for the last five days. I don't know where it went. Okay. Hole is filled in. Well, for the most part. I'll be adding to it. I don't want to go up too high because I really, I think it'd be a good idea at some point, probably not in this video, but at some point I'm going to come in here and clear out this corner and take out that drainage ditch some more. And this would give me a place to put the excess gravel that's built up over there and to just pick up the rest of the things. Spread this one out and turn it to one big knot. That's not good. I guess I may as well pick this up and move it too. Get out of there. Jeez. Freaking pine trees, man. Pine trees are so messy. There's a lot more than just pine, but those needles go everywhere. I've been trying so hard to make sure that turbo doesn't come running through here and get anything all wet. Then it wouldn't blow. That wouldn't work. Oh, that's probably obnoxiously loud. So that's all you're going to get. Satisfying though, right? There's still plenty to do though. All right. The past, what? Maybe the last 15, 20 minutes have just been a nonstop game of scoot and blow, scoot and blow. Move the table, find more junk, blow it. Move the table, find more junk, blow it. Opening things back up though. All right. That's, that's what it's all about. I suppose the next thing, I don't have to, it would be nice to get this umbrella thing fixed, but I feel like that's a finishing detail, you know, to get the table looking good again. Come on. There you go. Oh, this feels so good. So good to have things back where they're supposed to go or, well, pretty close. I actually think I took this too far that direction as you can see from the rug that doesn't fit, that's supposed to fit. Yeah. Things were where they were supposed to be in that rug. Wouldn't be all pulled up on top of turbo, would it? Substantial recycling, trying to get that all organized here. So the, one of the reasons that there's so much freaking debris down here every spring is that, I don't know if any of you have also experienced this, if you live in the bottom of the hill with neighbors above you, all their junk falls in your backyard. Not as much during the summer because the vegetation kind of holds it back, but things are more bare in the winter and the winds are stronger too. So I'm finding all kinds of fun stuff. I found a bag of, what was it? I think it may have gone out to the bigger recycling bin. No, here it is. Mighty Time Nutty Puffs. What's a Mighty Time Nutty Puff? Oh, actually, that could have been something my sister left out here for her baby. Things with the word puff in them, usually mean they're for babies. All right. So really, now that that's moved, I can start moving some plants. A little torn on that. Let's sit and talk about it for a moment. Not too many moments. I'd rather be moving than talking. My conflicts. I don't really know where to start. So I'm really enjoying the seeding area, but in a few weeks, the big tropicals will be back from their greenhouse. My really, really large tropical plants get stored in a greenhouse during the wintertime. The ones that no longer fit in the house. Those guys. They'll be back here in a few weeks. Cool. It's going to be a change, but I've actually, I've really started to like this vibe. I love it when the tropicals are here too. I'm just saying, should I go ahead and start? No, I don't need to do that. I'm just going to focus on the tropicals because the problem is with all these hibiscuses, these are tropicals that I've gotten so far. Can't do a lot with some of these until the rest of the plants are moved out, but I need to get them out of the way. So I think the best thing to do would be to start putting them over there in the tortoise garden along that wall. It's usually where I put things before I'm going to have them planted up, you know, where they're just going to sit for a couple of weeks and that'll just help kind of declutter, get some of these guys off the patio and maybe sort out what I want to go to the front because that'll free up some space too. Okay. That's the plan. I don't know if I'm going to remember it. You know, I'll probably see something shiny and or hear a rabbit squeak. Who knows what's going to happen, but we'll see. Yeah, actually, I think it makes more sense to take all the wintry things that are over here, move them over there first, that way I don't have to move tropicals to move those over there, and then plants that need some TLC or attention, these are coming out of the grow space, get them cleaned up, those go to the tortoise garden, and then the things that are waiting to be planted, those can come over here. Does that make sense? Probably not. I'm sorry. I just get all over the place sometimes. This Washingtonia did pretty well last It was just a seedling. I wasn't expecting much out of it. Yeah, that looks pretty good. I was thinking that I might pop this up into a larger container because I'm sure it's ready for it. It's got roots coming out the bottom, but I was also toying with the idea of sticking this guy in the ground, which I should probably use a larger one if I'm going to do that, but I don't want to sacrifice it in my larger ones. I'd rather experiment with a smaller one so I have options either grow it out for another year or so, or just, you know, say screw it and try it in the ground and see how it does. I don't imagine it would do very well, but people have grown them here. You have to cover them up and heat them during the winter time. You can't just, like, throw some insulation around them. You actually have to put a heater in with them. They fully defoliate, which is okay. Not a big deal. They can defoliate. That all comes back when it gets warm outside. Okay, still not crazy about this plant. It's the Xanthosoma Mickey Mouse. I caved to the pressures of people saying, you gotta try it. You know, I don't like it. Looks like it has a virus, but we'll grow it out some more this year, get it to a larger size, and maybe I will like it more when it has a larger size on it because I have seen bigger ones and I didn't dislike them as much. The thing with the Xanthosomas is that they are spider mite magnets. I should be using scissors for this. Pruners don't usually work all that well on the shredded banana parts. They're spider mite magnets, so they're a pain to overwinter in that regard. Otherwise, they're fairly simple. Not all that demanding. If there's any green left on them, they'll say this is a Musa florida. Overwintered in the gross space. Try to get that brown stuff off. These are outside for about maybe two weeks or so. Actually, a little bit longer than that. It's gotten stable again. You saw how there were some leaves that were dropping off of this guy. Those are nice and solid now. Okay, so now I have that taken care of. I don't know why that just felt like it needed to be done. It was bugging me. I have everything over here. That's what was bothering me. I think it's gonna start to move some plants around. I'm gonna take these guys and get a lot of what you're seeing over here put over into there. I don't know. Just want them to be ready to move. Lots to you. See that? See that? For you. It happens. They're kind of like arbs. Once you've had them for a few years, solid. But that first few years, every now and then, they just kind of, you lose, seems like one out of every, I don't know, 15 or 20. Whereas with an arb, I feel like you lose one out of every, I don't know, six or seven. It just depends. All right, we're gonna before and after this because there's plenty of stuff to be doing. So here it is now and then we'll have a look at it after. Actually, I'm not gonna do a before and after because I want to walk and talk while I'm doing these things. Helps kill some time. It's this guy right here and it helps me keep things straight in my head too. Talking these things out. So it's gonna come over here because that's getting planted up in the front yard. This guy, this is a sting arborvitae and it's just an extra. I had ordered a few last year. Planted them up. One survived. The other two did not because, well, it was just too wet where I put them apparently during the winter time. I was thinking it might be kind of fun and just ridiculous to just put a random sting up here on the hill and just have one great big, you know, 18 foot tall exclamation point. So I'm gonna set this over here with my allocasius so I can remember that's gonna get planted up there on the hill. Wello, that is going to have to go into a larger container so I'm a little hesitant to move it over here. Apparently I'm gonna forget. I don't think I will because I have a whole bunch of guys right here waiting to be repotted. The sound of music, hosta. I love this guy. Those are little hosta roots that I potted up. The weeds are coming up in. Always lots of weeds. You'd think the tortoise would mow this down but go figure, I have the pickiest tortoise to ever exist. Did you know there's some green in there? That should be flushed out by now though. Bald cypress. And these actually need to be moved. They need to be repotted. These are my tracheocarpus fortunii, the tessin ones, and they're ready for new containers. It's getting hard to keep them hydrated. They will go to the wall where they will get afternoon shade. I think they'll do a lot better here. They've only been on the patio for like, what, 48 hours? They're in the adversity. These are yuccas. I don't really want to put those over there because it's a lot shadier over there. The sable. Yeah, I bet this is ready for a repot. Don't ever want to wait too long to repot the sables. They don't like having their roots mess with you. Break a root, it's like a whole root dies with just a little tip. Just break a piece of it, that whole entire piece of root dies. So it's kind of smart to not let them get too root bound. Yeah, you can go back and forth on that though, right? If you... Bug just flew in my mouth right into my throat. If you repot them too soon and the soil is loose, then that falls and breaks the roots. So it's really just a matter of timing, making sure you're doing it on time. Which one are you? Oh yeah, this is the one from Plantilites. Quick grower. Really quick. This thing's put on a lot of size in the last year. They really like scorching, scorching sun. So I'm gonna let that sit right there for right now. I just need to get it out of the way. These guys are empty. Yeah, got a few Sempervivums left down in there. Yeah, see I need to do this anyways because I got to get all this debris blown out from around everything. Hey, more beach balls. I find these everywhere. I think this rose needs to be fully pruned back, which I am not doing without my gloves. So there's just useless information for you. Okay, I've talked enough now. I just want to get things moved. I'll come back in just a moment for y'all and there will be more color over here. Really looking forward to it. Maybe I can bring the Eureka Pump out. I'll wait till the end to do that. Nah, just kidding. Fooled you again. Side quest. Well, it's not really a side quest. I just realized that this is all worth talking about because y'all may not know some of these things. Not that's really all that important. Nothing's really important, right? Very few things are actually important in the grand scheme of life, right? Sorry, don't need to go down that rabbit hole right now. So I started to move the plants over here. Things need to be pruned, cut back, or tossed up there on the hill just because it makes it easier for me to just stand there and cut them and prune them and inspect them. This wall right here, this is movable. So I went ahead and I opened this up. I had a pile of old soils here, ones that I didn't really care for. They were too wet or too just, I don't know, soggy. They're just gross soils. I didn't want them. Those over here, they will get spread. I'm going to try and dry them out and try and sift some of the perlite out, but they'll end up spreading to the garden bed. They're compost sitting up there. Basically, as we walk around here, we're going, I don't, I don't know where my patio ends and the gravel starts. I'm not going to clean all this up right now. I'll probably just like rent a goat or something to handle all that. Kidding, but maybe. Anyone want to lend me a goat? I only need it for like 20 minutes. No, not really. That can be pulled and then dead burrow on top of it for a few weeks and it should stop coming up. All this lava, this part of a wall that goes here to keep the tortoise in. He's not out right now. It's not really warm enough for him right now, but what I can do is take these guys, take my lava boulders and move them, get them out of the way and start to get this area cleaned up because I need to blow all this stuff in this corner out through there back down into the yard. And then I will also, I guess since I'm at it, may as well dig out that part like I was talking about earlier, was foreshadowing and I didn't even know it. These lava rocks, these were such a good deal. I got these, I don't even know, probably back in like 2007, 2008, long time ago. They were in a bin at the Home Depot and they were like, I don't remember, they were crazy cheap. They're just a few bucks a pop. They weren't charging them by weight. It was just, hey, just grab a stone and it costs as much money. It was very bizarre. I remember it vividly though because they also had Chinese fan palms, real big ones, 10 inch pots, but they're really tall. For seven dollars, it was such a good deal. It was a really good bargain day. I think that was like 2000, sometime between 2007 and 2010. I can remember that, the great deal on Chinese fan palms and lava stones, but don't ask me what I did for breakfast this morning because I don't eat breakfast. That was a bad comparison. Yeah, anyways, this should be satisfying. Oh, that pot's not supposed to stay out. Well, it looks like it survived okay. All right, hey, good for you pot. Look at that. I'm sure it's in perfect condition. The heck? Oh, the crab. Still finding things out here from my nephew's birthday party. I'm holding on to him because we're gonna be doing that again this year. He doesn't know if we've reused the plastic crabs and I guess he, I don't think he would care is what I was about to say. Yeah. All right, there's a few things left to move. These are nice shells. I want to be careful with these shells. They're nice. Then go over here for the parrot. Here we go. Looks like I see a plant down here. Oh, yep. That'll go up there. Frisbee? Look at that turbo. We found a frisbee. Let me, please let me wash it. We'll just put it right there for now, okay? Hey, I'm one of last year's alpinias. Pinas de rumba. Marigata. There we go. I never mind peeling up the gingers. Even when they're this old, they still smell so nice. Ah, mulch. Not really. I'll try and cut away at that some more later. It's gonna take a while, but it's gonna be worth it. Well, the amount of garbage that was in there, it was gross. Garbage, probably not quite the right term. You know, it's leaves. I couldn't even see the patio from like right, right around here, all the way up. Just solid leaves and junk. Maybe you can see down here, right over there. See that right there? That's all high. Why don't we think low? It's one of those things to be able to come down over here and drain down against that side of that wall right there. This one, that wall. This is pretty much just routine stuff. I have to do this every few years. Is this gonna be too loud to do on camera? Is that hurting your ears? I'm sorry. I hope not. Oh, wrong way. This way. That's right. Fill in the hole. See? Pretty quick and easy. That is an old drip light. Where are my clippers? I'm gonna cut that out. That thing has been in my way for the last few years. All I have to do is make one little cut. It took me so long to get around to doing all that. All right, yeah. That's why it's so much easier. It's gonna be so, so, so much easier to power wash with that dugout, which I'm not gonna be doing for a little while. I feel like that's like, you know, that's an uphill swim. There's a lot going on out here right now. I'm gonna wait to do any power washing. Just trying to, you know, well, you know what I'm doing here. It doesn't look like much. Cameras don't really show depth very well, but I got down there to the old liner that was put underneath the gravel, which is a good probably six, eight inches down. Took it down real deep over on that end and trenched it out over to there. So, um, there's an update on something nobody's wondering about and nobody cares about. There you go. All right. Hey, what do we think? Looks better, right? Remove all this mess. Things are somewhat more organized. Blown over. It is incredibly windy. I need to water. I'm gonna hold off on that. I would like to do it, but there's still some more stuff I'd like to do and I don't want just wet dirt over here and I'm gonna come in with a shovel. Not this is dry. If I can scrape it all back, put these things back where they go and then I can work on the table and then this pile right here. So we move the olive tree as part of the green stock. And then I have my two different containers when organizing everything. And then this is the new umbrella frame. Yeah. Making a lot of progress here. Now I would like to bring the Eureka pump out here, but it is so freaking windy. This is where that goes. It goes right here. Dirt marks the spot. Last year, what I did with the Eureka pump was I just piled up sandbags around it and that worked fairly well. Before I had done that, it had blown over. I think it still blew over once. There's a small tornado that blew through nearby, not directly into this backyard and that knocked it over, but it landed on top of the sandbags. So it was okay. I could bring the Eureka pump out and put the foxtail over it, but I got to finish with this first. That's the finishing detail. Sounds like fun. I'd like to do it now, but nope. Move on to this right here. This olive tree. It's such a nice looking plant and so easy. Such a wonderful, easy plant. Whenever I look at this, I'm tempted to plant a eucalyptus. I miss having a eucalyptus. I had one a long time ago. See if I can remember. I know where I got it from, so I don't remember how long ago it was, but it's from a place called Frank's. It's like Frank's Crafts, maybe. Something like that. I don't know. They went out during the 2008 recession, even a little bit before that, but they had a great plant selection at that store. It's cool. It's kind of like Michael's blended with Ace Hardware and then a really small but good nursery department. Now, I had a eucalyptus tree from there and I loved it. It was the, what kind was it? Just the Neglecta, the one with the round, like the silver dollar one. It was such a pretty tree and a really, really, really easy house plant. I would think it'd be even easier now that I have this greenhouse to keep them during the winter too. That's something to think about. And there are actually, there are some that are pretty cold hardy that you can try in zone six. So that might be something to think about too. Not really here nor there with what's going on, but fun to discuss these things. This thing looks like garbage. In fact, both of these, I'd like to go ahead and plant out. So I'm just going to go set them over here where I would like to have them planted. Are you cold? Me too. It's getting chilly in the house. It's like, oh, I need to come back outside. We took a break. The sun was just too strong. I wanted to put this dianthus over here, but I don't know. Am I still on board with that early spring thought that is usually incorrect when summer comes around? I'm talking about you're out at the nurseries in the springtime, really, really early spring and you see a plant and you go, oh, that's what I have a perfect spot for that. But then summer comes around and you're like, no, I don't want to put that there. I'm going to add that to my front yard pile. All right. So now I'm going to handle these, get these plants organized and not just, you know, strung about the green stocks. That's a whole nother project. I'm not done with that right now. Then I'll do the table. I think when we come back, things are going to be looking pretty different out here. Still probably messy because I'm not breaking out the power washer just yet, but I'm going to be looking different. Look at that. It looks better before the rug got all messed up. It's going to take a while. That's all stuff that can wait. The power washing and stuff going to hold off on that. Changed out the umbrella. It was just a frame. So took the thing down, pulled the old frame out, took the canvas off, put that on, consolidated my piles. That might be nice tomorrow morning to sit out here with a tote or two and sort through some things over there and got things looking much better over here. I don't know what to do with my nephew's tic-tac-toe. So that's where it's going right now. Everything over here probably looking a little bit different. Yeah. Yeah. The petunias, the way petunias. Oh, and I took them down to the other end. I set them down near the hydrangeas where I would like to get some planted up. It makes sense to keep them down there. I'm going to plant them up pretty soon. Heck, could happen in this video, but I doubt it. I still need to round up what goes to the front, which is really just dianthus, all these dianthus. I think they'll do better on the front porch. They haven't been doing bad back here, but once it gets really hot out, they will not do well in this patio. Oh, found my shovel. The one I was using before I was digging over there is fine until it's the Fiskar one, but I don't like the handle on it. This is my preferred shovel. It's all falling apart. Steel. I think I got from Lowe's. Home Depot, maybe. It had fallen down between the iguana enclosure and the water tank, which makes sense. That's where I was using it last. Figured that out. Look at that gross rag. I found it underneath one of the piles of bags over there, and I think this is the last form. Great. Trying my best to consolidate, move things to where they need to go. That's really the best way to free up space out here. It was fun having my little flower paradise over there, but, you know, we have approached the time. It's safe to go ahead and get everything planted up. The dianthus I could have planted up a while ago. I just didn't. I was enjoying having them over here. This dogwood, I screwed up with this dogwood. I got that one from my front yard. I think it was variegated. It was shipped to me when it was dormant, so I never knew, and now it's leafed out, and it's not variegated. A really pretty one. It's called Cardinal, so it's a yellow. It's a yellow twig that kind of starts yellow and goes into an orange. It's a really pretty one, but I really wanted a variegated one, so it's going to be going in a pretty deep shaded spot, and I just, oh, I love the way a variegated dogwood looks tucked away into the, into the shadows, so I don't know what to do with this one now. We'll figure it out. Always a spot for a dogwood. Luckily, I have plenty of shade around here, so no shortage of spots to tuck that thing. Pretty much anywhere up here along this hillside, it would do okay. Thing is, though, it's very difficult to dig up there, so it's, you know, I'm not saying juice has got to be worth the squeeze. I don't know if it's worth it for just a, you know, a little dogwood, and it is, but again, I would like something that brightens things up. Sergeant Pepper dogwood. That would be a great one to have out front, but not a very easy one to find for sale for some odd reason. In fact, let's go have a look at that real quick. I want to see how that's doing. Oh, yeah. Isn't it beautiful? Doesn't have the tricolor variegation so much as it did last year. That's disappointing, but maybe as the season goes on, typically it's with cooler temperatures, but the year I planted it, and then last year, this will be its third year, in the ground, it had the hints of pinks. This one's supposed to be, you can kind of see a little bit. I mean, not really, but you can kind of see that right on the edge where there's some pink there. It's supposed to have the white and white, green, and pink on it, so I don't know. Is that getting the sun? I don't know. You can see how nice that is in the shade. Yeah, there are others of these cornice, the dogwoods, that I think have a better growth habit to them, though, so I don't know if that's this, maybe not, the direction I want to go in the front yard. The deviation, not even supposed to be doing those things. Save that for the garden tour. It's supposed to be working and talking or in the wind. Not bad for a day's work. I mean, it's split up throughout the day. Maybe two hours of work, just moving things and reorganizing and pulling through leaves and whatnot. I should probably trim up those Chinese fan pumps. I'm thinking about it. I'll work on that tomorrow, probably, and then, yeah, maybe move some plants out. I'm tempted to do it now, but I'm like, you know what? It's getting late. Maybe you should just chill, and it's incredibly windy, so not really the smartest time to be moving plants outside. Oh, look at that. Not in focus, but can you tell? Let me put my hand back there. See them? How cute. Little olives popping up. I would think there'd be a whole bunch on this. This thing flowered like crazy. I made absolutely no effort to pollinate it, though, so maybe nothing will happen. Oh, hey, guess what? Voiceover Jeff here. Technical difficulties. I'm just going to speed through this clip. This is just me walking around saying, hey, I wish I had done more today, so let me move a few more things. I'm feeling restless. I'm not ready to call it a day. Move the cotoneaster. Talk about my roses. Talk about where I have my annuals sitting. Telling Turbo, don't drink that fountain. I need to clean it, and then looking at this oleander. I need to move that oleander. It leans. It's weird. I'm pretty sure I decided to take it over to where the iguana enclosure is. Yep, it's going over to where the iguana enclosure is, which I will move later. That thing looks totally different. I'll just wait for next week's video. That's the metonella. Scooted that around. Now I'm talking about, oh, I need to get that rosebush out of there so that I can put the foxtail palm in there. All right. Okay. Which one of you, or how about all of you? Who of you didn't think to say something to me when I put a heavy spiky plant down inside of a container where I'd have to reach down, wrap my body around it to lift it out last winter? Pronounce foliage as foliage. Everybody has something to say. If I do something stupid like that, nothing. Anyways, got that out of there. It was spiky, but it's up. And it's done. More dirt. See, this is why I was like, there's no point in power washing eggs. I got to get everything moving around. I'm just going to keep excavating more and more and more. Normal this time of year, just, you know, all this stuff from all winter long just settled and washes and moves around and ends up in places. I think it would be fine to go ahead and put the foxtail palm over here. And then I would be okay with calling it a night. I think. Oh gosh, it is so freaking pretty. That can be the grand finale for tonight's projects. And then tomorrow I can get up and I can look forward to, to uh, what's going on? Why is this so complicated? Just go in there. That's better. Moving some plants out. And really it's probably just going to be the Eureka palm. Maybe the gaseous. We will see. I'm going this way to get to the dolly. Spiromans will take the stuff that goes to the front yard that direction too. All right. So now that foxtail palm, we're going to cut and it's going to be over there on the hot tub. Gonna look cool. Maybe. Not maybe. It's definitely going to look nice. The way I had this set up right now, I just have it chained up here to the fence. And uh, that's been working. But every little gust of wind and it pulls on, that can't be good on the trunk long term, right? Yeah, I can get that moved. Camera just went really wacky on me. I recorded. Had about two minutes of stuff here and went to look at it. No audio. I don't know why. I had a phone call and then I missed it. And then I called the person back, rang once and the phone just turned off. Huh? Well, here's what you missed. I picked the plant up. I set it in the pot. Pot went crunch. That happened. Then I said, why? And I got really sad. And I said, you know, it's really not that big a deal. It's a nice clean break and it'll glue back together for right now. I'm going to leave it alone because the plant needed water. So I gave the plant a drink and I can get that glued back together later. I don't know what I said it in there very gently. So that shouldn't have happened, but it did. I don't actually know how clean a break it is. It looks like I might need to pull the plant out and like really maybe shake the whole thing onto something soft and let it fall apart and glue it back together. Had this pot since 2007. So it has held up very well. I didn't think it would just crumble just from setting a plant in it. That's never been a problem. It's always been really sturdy. I don't know if these things happen. Anyways, that's done. I feel good about it. I set that long planter in front of it because, you know, I'm worried about the... Well, actually at this point, it's really just to hold the thing together. But initially it was thinking, oh, well, that's nice and heavy. That'll help keep this from blowing over. But that doesn't matter. I think at this point it's not going to blow over. It's just going to, you know, explode. Yeah, we'll pick up in the morning, move some more stuff out or do something. Well, that was supposed to be a cute view of pumpkin going down the stairs, but I feel like it was just blurry and a whole bunch of butthole. Turbo do the dishes and you have your food. Supposed to be a beautiful morning. I'm going to feed the farm and get outside and probably move some plants around. I'm going to check that extended forecast one more time though. Nope, that didn't take long. You have a good morning, aren't you, Turbo? What was it stuck on? The zoom's stuck. That's better. It is such a nice morning. I think the high is 80 today. So I checked the forecast and it's looking like come early May, which I guess it's going to be like, you know, within a few days after this video comes out, that might get pretty chilly, which makes sense. I know some of y'all who are over in California has been messaging me from, uh, OC and LA saying it's very unseasonably cool there. So obviously it's going to move its way over here by next week. Maybe some lows in the forties, possibly upper thirties, but I say we just do it. Let's just bring the plants out. A little water. I see that there are some thirsty plants out. I also, for today, would like to get some things pruned up. These Chinese fan palms. And then I got to make some, oh my gosh, these freaking carpenter bees. One that's just been zooming around my head. Every time I go over there, they're harmless. They don't sting, but it's annoying. Nobody likes to have that buzzing right around their ears. This is going to be a day of miscellaneous things, but ultimately I'd like to move some plants out. I think I'm just going to set this in here on a nice low trickle. How's that? That's a little too high. Real low, low, low drip. Okay. Let that run for a while. Oh, I want to grab a sponge and clean that fountain up too. All right. Go inside and grab a sponge and, uh, maybe do that. He's so distracting. I love him. Adorable. I need to the stuff that goes to the front yard, to the front yard, so I can get the wheelbarrow freed up, move the curtain. There's just, there's so much. Lord, why does it smell like a fart in here? What did you do? What did you do, little stinky? Mm-hmm. That's her other name. Her name is Poppy. I mostly call her Kitten, or I call her Floof, or little stinky. We thought there was an electrical fire once. Turned out, nope. Cat had just blown up the water box. Sorry. Did I leave you for like 45 seconds? Poor turbo. A quick check on Flower. How's she doing? Hey, Flower. She's good. That bird is so chill. I'm not concerned about her getting scared of that mess, but man, when those eggs hatch, I'm actually moving through that door really, really quietly. Been looking over here, and I was thinking that it might be time to take these panels and adjust them down and take... Nope, nope. That's garden tour stuff. I can wait for the next video. It's fun talking to everybody and thinking about all the various projects that can be done, but also we need to actually do the projects. All right, just got to handle this area before I start moving anything out. So front yard, that ended up taking like 45 minutes. I got out there and realized, oh, I need a water, and I don't have a dripper, anything hooked up. So here's what I'm doing, chlorophytum. That's gonna go somewhere else. Holy crap. Oh, that is... Oh, and it smells horrible. Why wasn't it draining? It was just sitting on top of glass. I'm gonna just lay that on its side. That's weird. So that was full of rotten water. Good thing it's a chlorophytum. They can handle that. It's not ideal, but they can handle it temporarily. All right, another wood mill palm that needs to be re-potted. You need to come outside with, I don't know, like my, what is it called? Clipboard? Yeah, come outside with the clipboard and write down everything that needs to be re-potted. Not just what needs to be re-potted, but like write down wood mill palm, five gallons. Maybe I need to bump it up to a five gallon container. I should probably write down wood mill palm 10 inch dash five, right? So like a three to a five, something like that. Not quite a three gallon, you know what I mean? I think it would just help me keep my head on straight with all the re-pots that I have that I need to do this year. There's a lot of them. I don't know if y'all remember back in, let's see, it was 2021 maybe? I went ahead and I just did like a re-pot on almost everything. And that was cool because it meant for a couple years I didn't need to do any other re-pots. But, you know, what was that? Five years ago? It said it's over. I have to start doing them again. So last year I did a ton of re-pots, probably about half. And then this year I'll be doing half instead of doing them all in one year. It's just easier that way. So a lot of the pothos and, you know, ficus, those got new containers. Just seen I got a new pot last year. Let's see, how easy is that? That's not too bad. That's kind of funny about that spider plant because just the other day I was saying I was like I haven't had to water that thing at all because it was just full of goo. I don't know how that happens. So yeah, that's just something I've been thinking about. Might be smart to just come out and spend 15-20 minutes walking around writing things down. Could just, you know, add them to the notes app. You know, same difference. Gosh, it smells so bad. I'm just leaving that. I'm not touching that. It needs to do its thing and drain. So all these pothos, what I usually do with them is I, well not usually, as of last year. So what I did with them last year, and I really liked, was to stack them up around the base of this dracaena. However, they all got re-potted last fall into 12-inch baskets. They were in 10-inch baskets. They got upgraded and had some die off after they got cut back, but overall they did well. They did some growing during the winter time. The other pots, they sit like I could squeeze them in there. These aren't. I don't think these are going to sit. Yeah, that's not going to work. I'm going to have to figure out something different with the pothos this year. This one did not take being re-potted all that well, but it'll come around. I guess for right now I'll just let them hang out over here. Would have been nice to put them away. That's the whole reason I was over here because I thought, oh I should put those up there, and then I brought them up from the garage and went, eh, no, I don't think that's going to work. I also need to do some pruning on this thrynix right here. It's a thrynix radiata. I got this one a couple of years ago. This will be its third summer that I've had it. I filmed a video on it. I don't think that ever came out, so I'm going to have to remember that. I have it somewhere. It's edited and everything. At this point, I think it makes sense to try and find the original from that video and then cut out the end and edit a new one saying, hey, two years later, here's how it's been doing. I think that that might be interesting and helpful to people. I'm cutting this elastica back pretty severely. Cutting it back. Look, hold on. It was necessary. I can... I don't think this is necessary. I'm not going to go to any lengths, but I will stab them down here just because there are people who get upset when I throw away things that couldn't be propagated, so there we go. We'll give them a chance. This is not the proper way to do it. I would normally cut them shorter than that, cut them down to just like three leaves or so, just a little bit up top, and probably use a rooting hormone on them. We'll see what happens. Has to stay in the shade, though, so I'm keeping that tucked away back there for probably a month if those are going to have any chance of regrowing. At the same time, if I want this to have a nice growth habit from everything I just cut back, I want to have more sun. Things are conflicting. For a couple of weeks, it'll stay right there. Okay, that's better. I know you're probably wondering, hey, what are you doing? Well, I'm going to move some of the plants out. I'm thinking the gossiapoms should probably hang out over here. They haven't had a ton of exposure to strong air or sun, so I just think if I were to pop them down those containers, which I would love to do, they'd probably just go bleh, right? Although the whole reason I overwintered them instead of sending them away to their greenhouse was to see what, like, how they would do. And what I've always done with them when they come back from the greenhouse is just stick them in the pot. All right, well, if we're going to do things that way, that means I need to clear out these pots, because I'm going to put some spindles in these, and these go to the front porch. I think that'll look pretty cool. I want to see what the spindle palms look like in these Miami planters. I thought about maybe putting the spindle palms on the front porch this year, but I don't know. I kind of like the idea of just putting these there. You could probably tell from looking at those bamboo palms that they were getting a bit too much sun over there anyways. I don't think I'm gonna be able to fit two in each one of those, so I'm just gonna have to pick one. So probably ones that match. This one has a longer trunk on it. So does that other one. Crown shaft, really. The trunk's down there. Okay, that's gonna look weird because, you know, they're all the way down to the bottom of their containers. But, you know, get an idea. Oh yeah, I like that. I love the way the, I talked about this earlier, right? It's the orange, kind of a yellowy-orange, how that goes with the blue. That's so nice. Don't think they would be all that thrilled here long term, but it might be an option. Just to add an idea is that normally going these containers, if they're off at the greenhouse and come back looking like garbage or something, this would work. I'd be happy with this. I'd like to get this put away down there, but I still have to re-film a video about this. I think I talked about that. I filmed a video on these inset bananas. No audio. So I have to redo all that. I don't want to film it down there on that side of the yard. I want to do it over here. I've been focused on all this. Oh good, making messes. What's that from? Is that indentation? Is that how, I thought the gasea palms, I thought their pots were the same size as these containers. No? Take this one out too. It's a Livistona. Not one of my favorite palms, but it survives somehow. I'll probably end up just taking all this. The two gaseas have the Dracaena right there. They can take some cold. And the Eureka. I'd like to just get this area cleared out, and I think that Eureka's got spider mites all the way up in the top, and I can't spray it in here. Forgot, this is not a Livistona. It's got moved to a cerebus. Cerebus? Something like that. I got this palm around the same time I got that Thrinax. So same deal. Video hadn't come out because I really, this one was intentional. I wanted to spend some time growing it. And all I have to say about it is that I don't, I don't like it. I've talked about it before. It just, it always looks sickly. Which, you know, that's a me thing. Just something about my climate, or my soil, my water, something. It always has a deficiency. Yet it keeps growing. So I mean, I'm getting lots of brownie points for that. I literally, with that palm, I just reached a point where I was like, I'm just gonna set you down. If you live, you live. You don't? Okay. Kind of dreading actually pulling these out. Because I saw the spider mites down low, and usually when you see them down low, they've already done a lot up top. It's just, it's so hard to spray in here because you got the pond right there. So even neems and soaps and all those things, you can't get that in that water. I run carbon on it, just in case. You know, otherwise I don't really use carbon, but in this situation I do. But yeah, I don't know. You know what I'm talking about? Carbon. Something you use in your aquariums, in your ponds, and it removes inorganic materials. So, you know, metals and toxins, those kinds of things. It doesn't remove everything. You know, it has a capacity. It exhausts itself sometimes, but it just, you know, seems smart when occasionally I'm using those super soaps and neems out here to have something in there just in case it gets in that water. I just can't, when it's up that high, it's hard to control the spray. I guess I'm just letting y'all know that it might not be pretty. Gonna need that. Fungicide. One of the trunks is rotting out on one of the spindle palms. It's gonna need to grab that anyways because that chlorophyte on the spider plant needs to be treated. Yeah, with the third trunk on this one. Rot. I don't know. Everything else seems fine. They actually look really good. Better than they do when I get them back from the greenhouse where I was paying to store them. A little bit of brown up there, but not bad. They're such weird looking pumps. We'll talk about more when I get them over there. I'll take care of that. There we go. Last one. I usually dread moving this. I still do. Not usually. Even this year. I dread it. I don't like moving this one. It's a huge pain moving this palm tree. It's just hard because, you know, it's the same height as the ceiling. I see a spear that's opening up up there. It's brown. That's not good. Don't want brown spears. Yeah, I mean, eventually this isn't going to sit in here. I just keep pushing. Every year I'm like, oh, you know, maybe this year I have to put it in the house or something like that. No, no, no. Keep squishing up against the ceiling. Get it out of here and see how it looks. I don't. Well, we'll talk about when I get to that. Oh, my gosh. Light as a feather. Not so bad. Now, that's a it's a good thing and a bad thing. So I intentionally haven't watered these, everything I just moved for the last several days. I wanted them to be light so I could move them. But there are some drawbacks to that, too. You know, the structure of the plants. That's probably really a lot. I'm sorry. The structures of these trunks are more delicate when they don't have water in them. I had to have my entire face in there while I was doing that and know that that's got bugs in it. Maybe it's not actually that bad. Definitely need some water. I need to do some spraying or just squish. I can just squish. I'd like to pull these out, too, but I may as well wait a little while, right? Plenty of other things to be done. Oh, gosh, I am sneezing up a storm today. I love this cart. I talk about it anytime I move this when I say, hey, get one of these carts. I don't know if I say that anymore because when I got this cart back in the day, it's made by Costco, not Costco, Costco. A long time ago, I got this thing. COSCO. I forgot to give you the proper spelling there. I think it's called the three in one hand truck, something like that. And it was like, I think it was 120 to 150, maybe. This is this cart several hundred dollars now. So, you know, I don't tend to recommend it as much because I feel like that's insane. But that is just how much the nice hand trucks cost. I know the ones that used in landscaping, the tree carts, those are, again, they're several hundred dollars. All right. So plan with this guy goes right here. It's where it's always going. And I will have sandbags packed in front of it to keep it from falling this way. And then, I don't know, maybe I'll just press it two by four from the gravel up against the back of it to keep it from falling out. You got the gnats. I'm getting eaten alive. This is what I needed all week. This is what I've been looking forward to. I can't turn it off. I know it's loud. I can't turn it off. It blows the gnats away. This time of year, between now and second week of June, there are these little gnats out. I think they're called buffalo gnats or midge flies, whatever they're called. They bite me and the bites swell up very, very large and they burn and itch for days. So, fan. I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but the only thing I can find that makes them not bite me is Windex. You know, I'm a big fat Greek wedding. The Windex saves everything, works on everything. I used to sit out here at the glass tables. There was always Windex on the table and they'd fly around me, try and bite me, and I'd go spray a cloud. Boom, they disappear. That's neither here nor there. The palm trees out. I'm giving this a very, very, very heavy soak. And then I'm going to grab a two by four. That's probably very loud. I'm right next to the fan. I'm so sorry. I am going to need to cut another one of these. I think it'd be smart to have two of them back here, don't you? Try and wedge it down. Put it down in there. Yeah, like that, except actually against the side of the pot. But yeah, two would be smart. Then I can't blow this way. I had old bags of potting mix piled up back there, but I'd rather not. That gets gross and swampy and I need to spread it. It's been a few years. The potting mix is gross. It needs to just get out of here. For the front, I have the sandbags over here, which works really well to stack them up. It's not the most attractive thing, though. Over here, last night with the foxtail palm, I popped the blue deck planter in front of it, and I don't hate how that looks. Those things are really heavy, so I think that that would keep it from blowing over. So, I don't know. Y'all let me know. Do you think that I should take this one? Because I have two. There's another deck planter back here behind this hibiscus. There it is. You see it? So I could take that and set it down in front of there. I'd feel more secure if the sand was over there, though. This guy's a lot bigger than the foxtail palm, so yeah. I'm just gonna do the sand. All right. Last, but definitely not least, croton. This thing is so ready to get over there into the shade. It's got some recovering to do. Not so much now as soon. I'm gonna repot this. This is, I think, the top one on my list for repots. It just hasn't... Nope. Garden tour stuff. We'll talk about it later. There. That's better. It needs to be repotted. That's the gist of it. Just isn't all that happy in this container. I mean, it's happier than a lot of crotons. It always has this die-off in the spring. Nope, nope, nope. Again, garden tour stuff. Literally 30 seconds from taking him inside and he gets in the pool. Come on, Turbo. He was almost dry. I think that that's part of the problem. Turbo doesn't want to be dry. Hey, you know what? We're done. This is good. Got a lot done. Didn't talk about this guy, but it's out here. Treated with fungicide. These can be repotted. That's why I haven't set them down into their containers, because I'm thinking about maybe bumping up to larger here. They're actually doing fine in their pots, but it's just something I have to think about. So I didn't bother digging them out to figure if I'm going to repot them, be easier to get them out if I don't drop them down all the way. I'll make sure. We'll do a garden tour. The video, right? I think when it comes out of this one. Yeah. Have a closer look at things. I'm going to do a lot more work off of camera because I just, this is a tricky time of year. I don't want things to be redundant and monotonous. So sometimes the garden tours this time of year can be tricky because the end of the month, but sometimes it overlaps with what I'm doing, major things in the vlog. So you watch the vlog and you see everything's going to be in the garden tour. So that's why I just, you know, I brought out some of the big plants, a lot of cleaning, and I will make sure that things look somewhat different in the garden tour, in the video after this one. And I have made it a point to not walk around and talk about the actual garden, anything that's growing, trying to avoid talking about plants, you know, all that stuff. Oh, look, you can barely even see the sandbags when you got the seashell in front of it and all the ginger. That hides it pretty well. All right. I still got a lot of work to do, but thanks for hanging out while I got a lot of it done. Hope everybody's doing well. What a great day, great night. Everything's going absolutely beautifully for you.