November Garden Tour - Austin Texas - Fall Gardening, Winter Garden Prep, and the Backyard Orchard
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- Greetings, I hope you enjoy this November garden tour of my backyard here in Austin Texas Zone 8B. As we prepare for storms, a cold front, and maybe even the first frost of the season, there are still all sorts of things to grow. I hope this update on my raised bed and fruit trees is entertaining, informative, and inspiring!
Here in Austin Texas, I am working with some really dense clay soil, because of this, I've decided to grow fruits and veggies in a large raised bed, and build a french drain for my peach and fig trees.
My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, this fall I'm growing dill, cabbage, eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, and a fig tree. I'm also doing a little zone pushing by growing pineapples and an avocado tree in containers, which are moving into my garage under grow lamps for the winter.
I hope this garden tour is entertaining, educational, and inspiring. Good luck with all your gardening projects this fall!
Video Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Intro, Life Update, and my Neglected Raised Bed
6:26 Revitalizing the Raised Bed
8:59 Raised Bed Garden Tour - Dill, Basil, Eggplant, Cabbage, Carrots, Tomatoes, Jalapeños, Strawberries, Blackberries, and Radishes
21:25 Backyard Orchard - Peaches, Olives, Figs, and a Granny Smith Apple Tree
31:03 Closing Thoughts and a Zone Pusher's Winter Garden Preparation for Tropicals and Ornamentals
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Heck ya at work glad you uploaded so I can watch while I wrap my day up.
Thanks for tuning in
My potted plants during the winter go indoors and that's it. Your garage, which I've seen in past videos, is quite more elaborate
Appreciate your affirmation, I’m gonna do a grow light setup video at some point in the next few weeks
@@AustinTexasGardening the other thing is that, as long as I'm home and daytime temp is above freezing, I take out my plants in the morning and bring them in evenings... And when I leave for holiday vacation I say "let it be god's will" lol
Great job with this video babe. Looking forward to those fall veggies 😊
Exciting!
I bought an olive tree and it came with purslane growing under it too! Nice
Its a colorful and helpful addition, unless you have pets
Great video.. good to see you!
Thanks for watching!
I got into Fire Ants three times this summer...had to go to the doctor. Used Diatomaceous Earth to take care of them.
Very cool, while I dont like fireants, I guess they keep the spider mites away
I think you will find you will need to add about 3 to 4 inches every year to the raised beds. The organic matter will burn up and cause the level to shrink. Nor really anything to do with compaction. Also, the strawberries should survive just fine. Many people in zone 8 or higher plant them in the fall and try for a spring crop. You might also try to vary your varieties of peach trees. Try to get ones with different ripening dates to extend the harvest. My first 2 peach trees were the same variety and really one tree is enough for one family as they ripen. Most varieties ripen over a 2 to 3 week period. Pick one variety that ripens in late May, one in Mid June and a third in late June , early July. That way you have peaches for 3 months instead of 3 weeks.
Hard freezes and freezing rain have killed off my strawberries in the past, but if they pull through until this spring, that would be great! The suggestion with the peaches is a good one, I have four varieties that will ripen in june and july, what are your favorite may varieties?
@@AustinTexasGardening I think the variety I have for early production is Floridacrest. It ripens in May. Florida king ripens about a week earlier but tends to be a little dry. You might try and find a book called Growing Fruits and Nuts in the south. It was written by William Adams and Thomas Leroy that worked as extension experts in the Houston area. It usually can be found used for under $10. Earligrande is even earlier but has a pretty low chill hours requirement, which means it may bloom too early. It can produce in early May.
Ants love my potted purslane. I can’t bring it inside so I’m going to propagate some cuttings instead
I had the same issue with my pineapple plants, if you mix 2oz of orange oil and a gallon of water, apply it to the purslane container and you wont have ant issues in that pot anymore
Do you have a preferred place that I might share pictures? I don't know if I will but I think I can impress you. Today is the last warm day of growth for the season with the first cold storm here now.
Howdy Bob, you can send them to matthew.wottrich@gmail.com - and good luck with this cold front
@@AustinTexasGardening I finally sent those pictures of my plant growth. The PH availability chart was the most interesting thing I was trying to share. I've stared at it for hours daydreaming about chemistry.
Do you think your tomato plant will make it with the cold front coming? Im hoping mine will be ok but it seems this cold front is going to be around for about 2 weeks. ugh! And of course it'll be back in the 80's after our plants die. lol!
I've had tomatoes survive everything except freezing
I’ve found 30/31 to be the dividing line on whether the tomatoes will survive, but any amount of freezing rain will kill them for sure. I don’t bet on tomatoes making it more than 2 weeks from this point