Austin Texas Spring Garden Tour and Harvest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Here in Austin Texas Zone 8B, spring is the most exciting time of the gardening season. This easter I'm harvesting carrots, discussing my peach orchard, and planting my summer garden.
I'm 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 trees.
My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high. If you're curious about how I built it, I made a video on the process in fall 2021. This spring I'm growing parsley, cilantro, basil, cabbage, romaine lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, jalapeños, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, radishes, and a fig tree. I'm also doing a little zone pushing by growing pineapples and an avocado tree in containers.
I hope this garden tour is entertaining, educational, and inspiring. Good luck with all your gardening projects this spring, and thanks again for watching Austin Texas Gardening!
Also, a big thanks to / @acappellahymns for providing the acapella rendition of "The Spacious Firmament On High" for our intro highlight reel!
Video Chapter Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and Highlights from Garden Seasons Past
3:14 Backyard Peach Orchard
7:07 Growing Pineapples in Containers
8:31 Growing Sunflowers
9:20 Fire Ants, Spider Mites, and other Pests
10:13 Planning our Harvest
11:03 Cabbage Harvest
12:02 Carrot Harvest
17:32 Radish Harvest
20:43 Planting my Raised Bed Summer Garden
21:34 Growing Blueberries
22:29 Growing Strawberries
23:57 Growing Blackberries
24:28 Growing Jalapeños
25:56 Ornamentals - Petunias, Marigolds, Tulips, Bluebonnets
27:08 Growing Romaine Lettuce
28:13 Why I Use a Raised Bed
29:24 Growing Fig Trees
30:42 Growing Tomatoes
31:40 Regrowing Cabbage and Growing Eggplant
32:18 Growing Cucumbers
32:58 Cilantro, Parsley, and Green Onions Going to Seed
34:50 Thoughts on Budgeting and Building the Raised Bed
36:15 Growing Bluebonnets, Crepe Myrtles, and a Granny Smith Apple Tree
38:16 Growing Sweet Potato Vines, Zinnias, and a Sunflower
38:38 Closing Thoughts
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I think the ornamental flowers make the garden bed look so happy 😊
They do! Looking forward to all the cookouts and birthday parties!
I follow you because I live in Cedar park
Howdy neighbor, thanks for subscribing! I’d bet we have similar soil quality but maybe i’d be surprised, how’s the soil in Cedar Park?
Dude make more videos! I’m trying to start gardening in Austin too!
Glad you enjoyed the video, they are fun to make and I plan to keep making them
What an awesome video!!
Thanks for the affirmation, and for watching!
Very nice intro!
Thank you!
Beautiful looking lettuce and love seeing the growth!
Appreciate your support bro!
You might try spreading an entire large bag of animal-bedding diatomaceous-earth powder (a store that offers horse supplies) on your raised bed to see if it offers any changes to bug-types, the silica might also help your plants with the heat as it's sold as a plant-supplement(me assuming the products are similar).
The variety you have in the garden is impressive. All I have is some tomatoes & peppers so far this year.
Planes use lead in their fuel. There is no known save level of lead dust. Just saying.
Thanks for the info and compliments Bob, I’m proud of the variety too but I think I’m gonna build a couple more raised beds because this one is definitely very crowded
MY MOUTH WATERS LOOKING AT THOSE PEACHES. ❤
The peaches did great! I did a follow up peach harvest video this summer
Hey there, new gardener and new subscriber in NE Austin! In fact, I thought at first you might be in my neighborhood when you went out front because of the look of the homes. Was Ashton Woods your builder, too?
You mentioned something about getting dirt a better way than you did for your bed...what would you do differently for another bed? I know the phrase is "dirt cheap," but it adds up quickly, and I've just been working with a few pots and amending small patches of soil. Looking to make a big raised bed come fall for the strawberries! (That probably sounds weird to most outside of TX...)
Howdy neighbor! Our home is in presidential heights and it was built by Starlight.
I’m likewise thinking about making a few raised beds (smaller than my big one, maybe 10’x3’) just for strawberries. You can get soil delivered from a soil yard, several companies can bring you 3-5 cubic yards of soil, or whatever you need. The quality is usually higher, and the price is usually lower when you get your soil that way.
I just used bagged soil because I just bought my house and didn’t want to tango with my HOA right off the bat, with 6 foot high mounds of dirt in my driveway, and houses being shown next door.
Just had to say, everyone in southeast Texas eats blackberries and blueberries straight from the plants and do not have a problem with parasites. You may eat an occasion aphid or small worm, but that just provides extra protein. No, I do not knowingly eat bugs, but I am sure I have eaten my fair share. Let the kids each the berries, it will not hurt them. Just make sure they are ripe. Garden is looking good.
Appreciate your affirmation, I don’t really think it’s a big deal either but it doesn’t really hurt to wash them
New subscriber! I’m in Killeen. Hopefully I can learn from you how to grow in this climate….I’m really good with my summer & fall garden, but spring planting….I can’t seem to get the timing right. Looking forward to all of your videos!
Howdy neighbor, thanks for joining us, hope you enjoy these videos!
Great video!!!! I’m in Houston. How do you prevent animals like squirrels from eating all your fruit?!
Howdy! Its new construction without developed trees, so we dont have any squirrels. But the birds are a problem, and they got half of my peaches last year. The trick I found was just harvesting early, but this year I will be purchasing some decoy owls/hawks to scare them off.
did you grow those lettuces from seeds? if so, when did you sow the seeds?
Yep, I grow my lettuce from seed and I scatter the seed in the fall around late October early November.
How did your cabbage come to a head??? Mine never do!
Years ago I planted a whole bunch of cabbages which died because they didn’t have enough space, they were planted about 10” apart, but I should have done 24” apart. Eventually spider mites got to them.
I think my cabbage got ahead because fire ants in my raised bed would kill off the predators and it had a good amount of space
Why do u appreciate fire ants?
They aerate the soil, while killing other pests like spider mites