okay I don't know where to start today
because I have so much to do so I think
I'm just gonna bite the bullet and start
with this mess these are all the
leftover colored cherry tomatoes from
number two I have 76 of these and they
look tall spindly sad start Lee and get
a few yellow leaves which I'll pick off
when I transplant
so these 76 Tomatoes I'm not going to
waste that's for sure so what I'm going
to do is put them into these six inch
pots I've already filled them with soil
and I've soaked them and we're gonna
transplant these because and we'll get
$6 a piece for one so let's get on this
and I will show you how we do this
alright so I'm gonna start with my
yellow minis these ones oops
aren't as bad as the Indigo cherries are
the tall ones
let me aren't as bad but these are all
gonna look beautiful when I'm done so
what I'm gonna do is just pop off any
yellow yellowing leaves throw them on
the ground for now and then I'm gonna
dig right down plonk that down I'm not
gentle when I plant so make sure it's
planted down as far as you can possibly
get it and then I've got some bamboo
that I cut now when your bamboo inge
here's the thing tomatoes grow so fast
so it in no time this is going to be up
past this bamboo I don't know if you can
even see that can you see the top of
that no you can't so there's the top of
it right there that will be up above
that in no time so when we're doing it
for ourselves
we use taller bamboo you just have to
make sure that the bamboo isn't too tall
where it won't fit into the customers
car then we just take some old twine or
string whatever this was laying them
down in number three from last year's
plants and I just tie it knot tight
loosely under a nice solid branch so
that it won't slip up and then I do the
same on a second because you don't want
the wind catching these also when you
bamboo I don't like to I don't like to
go too close into the root you can go
into it just try not to get too close to
the stem and then I just kind of cut off
with my dull scissors because my snips
go missing every year at this time and
that's it and then you always take our
pots there we go yellow mini and I do
make sure I cake each one I put my tag
down as far as I can because they get
knocked out and then with people
customers are asking you what type or
what variety this is you have no idea
because you cannot tell the only ones
I'd be able to tell are the indigo
cherry because they're much different
looking but when I've only got a couple
of each left I still won't be able to
tell um so like I said these sell for
six dollars a lot of these are going to
the good food co-op in Huntsville so if
you're in that area stop in and buy one
of our tomato plants buy anything from
them they have great stuff they also buy
our our produce out of the lettuce house
our greens so I'm gonna carry on with
this so really the mess from here once
they're planted into these individual
pots look at how nice that is
so I'm going to carry on and I will show
you when I'm done and there we go I've
got all seventy-six planted the bottom
leaves cleaned up they look absolutely
fantastic and they're ready to sell
so with these 76 pots that were a
tangled mass now we have 450
six dollars worth of product waiting
here to be sold
and these sell like hotcakes so just
remember keep your bamboos tall I'm
gonna have to replace any that don't go
to the Huntsville co-op we are going to
have to remember into taller or with
taller bamboo sorry because they'll grow
super fast so that's it for the cherry
tomatoes for now for the ones that we're
going to retail what else do we have
so my grapes these are concord grapes
and we have in our orchard we have one
row of grapes in our raised bed and
we're gonna replace some of them with
these and then the others will sell I
think we only got 20 bare-root of these
but that look at you're starting to butt
out when you first get these they're
like a stick with the wax on the top
they they don't even look like they can
survive at all but they're coming along
well now this guy oh yeah he's got a
little bit of growth on the top but I
was a little concerned about him because
his bark is peeling all the way around
but looking good we have our rhubarb
which will bring to market these sell
for seven dollars I believe seven or
eight dollars I think it's seven dollars
at market we also grow rhubarb in our
field for our CSA and customers tomorrow
I was going to do this today but it's
the end of the day and I'm just pooped
but these I've got about a thousand of
my heirloom tomatoes and beefsteak
tomatoes to transplant tomorrow and as
you can see they're ready I've got a
nice root system on them these are going
to be easy because they're just plonk
plonk plonk into the six packs which
I'll show you
so those tomatoes will go into these
ones that I just transplanted
into the six inch pots they'll go into
the same container and the Daisy tray
and then these will go directly into our
raised beds so I've got a thousand of
them to do tomorrow I have another 600
of my beats to do because I do six
hundred beats actually six hundred and
thirty a week so you can see the
different stages here let's start from
the beginning with the first stage so
these ones here were planted around
March twentieth and these are going to
be transplanted out into our raised beds
in our in greenhouse number four on
Monday I'm gonna do them look at the
root on that it's perfect and these are
super easy to transplant as well they do
come in doubles and last year we were
separating them this year I'm not going
to I'm just going to plunk as is so
there's the first planting and then you
can see the second planting so there's
quite a difference so this is weekly I'd
do this and then there's different
stages here or whatever we harvest one
week we raid away plant what we've
harvested so it's just a constant
rotation the basal was planted just a
few days ago and it's starting to come
up nicely we put these into four and a
half inch pots and sell them at market
we also put them into our herb bowls
that we do now my bunching onions these
are also going to be planted into the
raised bed down in number four and I'm
just gonna pull one out to show you we
take these right out and then we
separate them and plant but you can see
it's got a bulb and we just plunk it
into the ground not deep just just into
the ground and they will grow fantastic
but first of all what I'm going to do
tomorrow is I'm going to give them the
haircut
once when you do that that just promotes
a better bulb later on so it worked very
well for us last year these are a
variety called candy these are the large
sweet onions and I'm gonna pull one of
these out actually no I'm not cuz we're
gonna plant these until we put them into
the ground down in the field which won't
be a while these are ready though they
could be transplanted now and again I'm
going to give them a haircut maybe I'll
do that tomorrow too and then we have
our leeks which were aren't quite ready
yet they're close I mean we could we
could do it but all of this I'm gonna
give haircuts too and this is something
except for the leeks and the large
onions all the bunching onions I plant
every single week so that's gonna be
transplanted out on Monday umm and then
we have some kale and kohlrabi here I do
the kale will be down in our field and
we also have some in the lettuce house
so we don't need a ton I planted 105 as
you can see a couple didn't germinate
but no big deal these will go into the
field and we don't harvest the whole
entire plant
we just harvest the this is going to be
the curly kale we just harvest the
larger leaves off the plant and they
just continue to grow all summer and it
makes it a lot less planting easy to do
they just basically break off the
kohlrabi we have the small planted now
and then I have the large kohlrabi got
lots of that coming and I have to plant
more we have all of our peppers our bell
peppers they're doing alright our
gourmet orange for some reason so these
are Islander which are the purple and
the gourmet orange didn't do so well and
I'm not sure why they're in those jiffy
pucks though but everything else seemed
to germinate fine and then these are red
ace and these are readies and then we
have our lunch box peppers and I'm going
to plant these into the six-packs as
well as soon as they're ready I'm gonna
give them a little bit more time they're
just starting to get their true leaves
and the lunch box are but it'll be a
little bit yet before I can transplant
them into the six-packs and then they
will go directly into the bags and then
we have some this is the celery now this
was a pelleted seed that we had from
last year generally pelleted seed is
only good for a year so i thought i'm
gonna try it because we had a lot left
and it did get germinated it all
germinated very happy about that we have
more beefsteak tomatoes which are the
rocky tops these were planted on April
2nd and there to my cukes which are
going to be going down into number 3 I
believe yes so I have lots of cubes
planted and we transplant these so of
course they're not ready yet anyhow and
number 3 isn't quite ready to transplant
in and I didn't want to fill up any more
4 cells so I just stuck a bunch into a
pot I put nine in there and they're all
up and these were the last planting of
beets from last week so this is what
happens is right now in Haley's not back
yet so in its I mean it's all good
but everything is like everything has to
be done now no everything has to start
being transplanted and there's only so
many hours in a day and you're
it's it starts getting hard hard but you
can't you can't just take a day off so
I'm gonna do what I can do um and I'll
catch up so anyhow that's all I'm going
to do for now and I'll bring you with me
when I start transplanting into number
four on Monday thanks guys bye