hi everyone well I'm getting ready to
take my morning coffee walk around the
garden I really need this time to just
relax before I jump into the day
especially with all the craziness that's
going on in the world so I thought why
not bring you guys along ask CameraGuy
to film and I also want to take this
chance to introduce ourselves so camera
guy come on up from behind the camera
and let's introduce ourselves to all the
new subscribers that are here on our
channel so for those of you that are new
I'm CaliKim this is CameraGuy and you
want to say something about your name
and everything well years ago she called
me that out of a fluke and it kind of
stuck ever since so I've taken the name
CameraGuy so his real name is Jerry but
he films and edits our videos and we
have a lot of fun outdoors together so
camera guy head on back behind the
camera okay and we're doing it tours and
we're gonna do a tour and take a little
coffee walk at the same time and I
forgot to introduce a very important
part of our Channel and that is Mac our
garden dog he loves to be outdoors with
us likes to follow me around the garden
and somehow you guys he always knows
when the camera comes out so watch for
him in our videos now we live on a hill
so I just want to show you a little
bird's-eye view of the garden here we
love to sit up here and just enjoy the
view you can see the fountain in the
middle the beautiful flowers surrounding
it and it's just a beautiful spot for us
to relax and enjoy the garden now come
on over and let me show you our little
kitchen garden here which is right
outside our back door this is a little
spot where I like to grow just a few
vegetables so I can run out pick some
lettuce pick some herbs and then take
them inside for a meal so here I've got
some beautiful I think this is a napa
cabbage which is going to seed and these
flowers are edible the pollinators love
them and I love how the beautiful yellow
flowers look and right down here in this
purple smart pots are some radishes I
think these are the French breakfast
radish they're really beautiful radish
so if you're looking for an easy
vegetable to grow with kids radishes are
a great one and it's just so relaxing
my hair among the beautiful flowers and
the beautiful colors just enjoy a cup of
coffee and start my day off with a
peaceful moment even if it's just right
out here now these beautiful sugar snap
peas are growing and also need
harvesting so I think we may be doing
some harvesting a little bit later on so
grow yourself a couple really simple
salad vegetables as close as you can to
your kitchen door and that way you'll be
more likely to just run outside pick
some and pop them into your meals now
right here I have some seedlings that I
started from seed indoors that I've been
acclimating to the outdoors for about a
week now I've been moving them in and
out at night because our nights have
still been in the 40s so it's a little
bit too chilly for them but I am hoping
to get these planet out in the garden
soon I've got some basil some tomatoes
some peppers even a little papaya tree
on the end there that was given to me by
a viewer which I can't wait to get
planted and another little thing I
wanted to mention is we are going to be
doing a small space container garden
series sometime this month and I'm
thinking we'll probably do it right here
in this spot so if you're interested in
growing containers you want to tune in
for that we're gonna have lots of tips
on how to grow a lot of food in a little
bit of space so let's go down to the
main part of the garden now well before
we go down to the main part of the
garden one thing I forgot to show you
here is this lemon tree so I'm really
excited about this this is the second
year I've had this lemon tree and these
lemons I think they're also ready to
harvest a couple of them anyway but
we're also getting some new blooms and
some new buds here which means hopefully
this year we're gonna have a lot of
lemons and by the way guys it smells
really good right now - oh my goodness
that fragrance is amazing it's just
wonderful so we're gonna head down the
stairs here to the main part of the
garden and let me show you around down
here and have a few sips of coffee along
the way
and there's just something about sipping
coffee first thing in the morning the
garden just makes it taste so so good
now one reason why I love coming out
here in the mornings is because I love
listening to all the sounds you can hear
the birds chirping I'm just gonna be
quiet for a minute so you guys can
listen isn't that beautiful now one
thing I've planted right here this is
called a veggie pod and I actually
transplanted a whole flat of kale in
here you can see all the little kale
plants a couple of chard plants and
they're planted in here very very
densely and I'm not going to be leaving
them in here but I didn't have a spot to
further a permanent home for them in my
garden so what I'm gonna do is just
transplant them in a couple of weeks as
I have spots available but this provided
a really good growing space for them in
the meantime
now one thing here too is there are a
whole bunch of Tiny Tim tomato plants
that actually made it over the winter
time they were stuck back up here in the
veggie pot against the fence I think it
really protected them there is some cold
damage on them which I'll be trimming
off but there's also a lot of new
flowers coming out and I'm really
surprised I didn't think they would make
it over the winter but I just wanted to
experiment and see what happens and I
want to encourage you guys to experiment
in your garden to try new things see
what works you might be surprised back
let's take a walk now right in this area
here the nasturtiums are absolutely
going crazy if you've never grown
nasturtiums before they are a great cool
weather flower to plant especially early
in the spring they grow very very easily
from seed you can direct see them or
plant the seeds directly in your garden
beds they love temperatures under 80
degrees but they don't tolerate frost so
make sure you plant them after your last
frost date but here they're absolutely
going crazy in fact I'm going to need to
trim them back pretty soon because I'm
going to be planting some Tomatoes right
here and as soon as the peas are done
producing these are beautiful sugar snap
peas aren't these flowers absolutely
lovely you guys I love how they look
they're going up and over the trellis
here like let me get back in there and
show you this beautiful pea
I planted a couple of these this year
this is a magnolia pea from a Baker
Creek seed and would you look at this
flower the color of this flower is
absolutely beautiful and these tendrils
are lovely and they grab on easily and
climb up a trellis so as soon as the
peas are done once the warm weather hits
we'll be planting some squash and
tomatoes in here but the nasturtiums are
just cascading over and some of the
nasturtiums leaves are literally as big
as a small dinner plate so as we get
more hours of sunlight through the day
the nasturtiums will be in full bloom
and it will be just a blanket of color
in here now I did forget to mention at
the beginning of the video that we live
in Southern California so the wintertime
is the perfect time for us to grow the
cool other vegetables like the peas the
nasturtiums the lettuces and right now
is actually the end of our cool weather
season so that's why everything is so
lush and blooming right now but if
you're just coming into spring get some
of these cool other vegetables planted
as soon as you can work the soil after
your last frost date here we've got some
more peas climbing up the trellis and
what I wanted to show you here too is
this sage plant sage is a delicious very
aromatic herb it is a perennial here in
California and also in many zones the
leaves are absolutely beautiful and this
sage plant I've actually been growing
here for about seven years believe it or
not and I trim it back every single year
to just bare sticks so I trimmed it back
over the winter time and what that does
is help it generate fresh new growth and
now it is growing back yeah I wish you
guys could be out here to smell these
leaves with me they just smell so good
on my morning coffee walks I don't like
to do a lot of heavy duty work I just
like to wander through smell the garden
and enjoy now I love this little hidden
spot of the garden it's just so pretty
and so peaceful the flowers are starting
to come out these are calendula starting
to bloom look at the color on those
flowers it's just so enjoyable to see
the bright splash of color
and then there's a beautiful green down
here which I absolutely love it's been
growing here for a couple of years this
is called red vein sorrel would you look
at the color of those leaves and the
texture this is a perennial green I've
cut this back many times and it keeps on
growing back it's so delicious and
nutritious too you're gonna love the
look of that salad if you grow it and I
want to share a little bit with you too
about how I like to grow strawberries
now a lot of you have grown strawberries
with me in the strawberry crate towers
if your first time strawberry grower I
highly encourage you just stack up some
crates and I'll be doing a new video on
this soon and plant some strawberries
and you can even plant other types of
greens in here too which I'll be doing
over the next couple of weeks even
though the strawberry tower needs a
little bit of trimming up there's some
fresh new strawberries growing which is
such a beautiful sign of spring these
are probably gonna be ripening up over
the next couple of weeks there's all
kinds of little teeny tiny ones and
flowers this is going to be so much fun
fresh berries are so delicious and
they're very easy to grow now this kind
of gives you a perspective on warehouses
in relation to our garden you can see it
up above us we walk down the hill to the
center point of the garden which is this
fountain planter now I like to grow a
lot of peppers in here and also some
herbs so the peppers are just starting
to come out again after the winter time
this is a really super hot Thai chili
pepper that actually a viewer sent me
and I pruned it back in the winter time
and I was just kind of letting some of
the chilies dry up so I could make some
red pepper flakes just leaving them
right on the plant here and you can see
there's some new little leaves peeking
out which is a really nice sign of
spring and I also planted a whole bunch
of chives here along the edge I love how
they just kind of drape over the edge
chives are such an easy perennial herb
to grow and you can just give him a
little haircut I'm just going to pinch
them off here cuz we're gonna go and
have breakfast after this and they grow
right back so highly encourage you to
plant chives in your garden and the
fragrance it's just so good now the
other thing about
chives - is that you can actually divide
the plants to make more plants or share
plants with a friend so you can see
right down here how they're growing very
very thickly you can just get your
shovel dig the plants up break them
apart plant them in another area of your
garden or give a bunch to a friend so
they can have chives - and these chives
actually happen to be flowering the
flowers are edible and so so beautiful
now in this section here there's some
tomatoes that overwintered which means
they grew over the winter time we didn't
get a frost here this year
so these again although there is some
cold damage they're producing Tomatoes
which is super exciting we'll have some
really early Tomatoes these are an
all-america selections winner I believe
this is a yellow patio choice which is a
really nice container type tomato you
can see this one here I don't know that
one might not make it so I'll probably
go ahead and pull that one out but this
right here is probably one of my
favorite spots in the garden right now
because of the way the nasturtiums are
just growing up through this tomato cage
that I left in all winter and just kind
of spilling over so beautiful.the
nasturtiums in case you didn't know all
the parts of the plant are edible the
leaves you can put in a salad the
flowers you can also eat the bees love
them and they kind of have a really
zippy flavor and then once they are done
the flowers have reached their peak and
are drying up they drop seeds everywhere
and a lot of times they reseed year
after year now last summer we grew some
tomatoes in this giant sturdy tomato
cage and we have a video on how we built
this DIY sturdy tomato cage I'll link that
up in the video description but over the
winter time my favorite I planted some
more peas this is a yellow podded pea I
forget the name of the variety but
growing beautifully here right now and
one thing I wanted to let you guys know
is if you don't have raised beds for
your garden it's super easy to build one
we built this one and did a video on it
last summer on how to build it for under
$25 we filled it with some repurposed
soil added some worm castings and soil
amendments popped it up and we had a
perfect spot for our tomato cage here
which is now a cage for peas and a
little bit of room in here you could
plant some herbs or some other smaller
vegetables around the edges I think
these are : gelas which haven't quite
bloomed yet a lot of people have asked
about our living wall of trees that we
planted a couple of years ago as you can
see they are growing crazy especially
now that it's getting warmer out there's
a lot of new growth and it's really
helping us have a nice green backdrop to
our yard here now in the summertime I
love to grow peppers in this planter
because it's a sunniest spot of the yard
and the peppers absolutely love the heat
in this particular location but over the
winter time I just tried to throw down
seeds for greens so this is one of my
favorite varieties of lettuce that I'm
growing right now it's called bronze min
yet aren't these leaves absolutely
beautiful roughly I love the texture I
love the color these are in my lettuce
seed collection so we have been
harvesting and eating bronzed vignette
lettuce almost on a daily basis and
here's a little pot of kale I planted
just a few weeks ago actually started
the seeds indoors and if you don't have
a lot of space grow yourself a couple
containers of greens if you have enough
space from these little five gallon
containers that's all you need you can
grow yourself some salad greens they're
so fresh and so tasty and that way you
don't have to go out to the grocery
store as often really important these
days well here I've got a pepper plant
that I overwintered a lot of you watch
that overwintering your pepper plants
video and I actually just brought it
down here and put it in the sunny spot
with seeing this shaded location now
that it's getting warmer out I can even
see a teeny tiny little leaf right here
so this will be getting some new growth
on it very soon and this plant I planted
a year ago it overwintered and now it's
going to give me peppers again for a
second year now for those of you if
there's still in the cold in the snow I
hope you're really enjoying this tour we
really want to send some warmth your way
and just encourage you to hang in there
spring is on the way and hopefully warm
weather will be coming soon I've really
been enjoying the nasturtiums because
once the weather gets hot they die out
so right now they're in full bloom and
it's just such a relaxing feeling
and it just makes me so happy to see the
color popping out all over the garden
one thing I love is the different colors
of nasturtiums that are growing it's fun
to just come out here just observe and
just soak it all in so many different
colors on this one the red the black in
the center and the bees absolutely love
them too and there's these beautiful
yellow ones with a reddish Center there
then these variegated orange ones the
pale yellow with an orange Center it
looks even a little bit different so
what I encourage you take the time to
enjoy the colors and the beauty of your
garden let it just relax you and fill
you with peace and I'm really excited to
see some blossoms popping popping out
here on my orange tree got a couple
oranges off it last year and I'm hoping
for a whole bunch more this year this is
growing in a container I'm not too sure
what size container it is but it's been
growing in here for several years and
every year we get a few more oranges off
of it somewhere the bronze vignette
lettuce a couple little violas popping
up some little tiny zinnias that receded
from last year and then here I'm really
excited about this because I love
sunflowers the volunteers sunflower that
just popped up here sunflowers are a
gorgeous warm weather flower and I
cannot wait to see them bloom they
always just bring me so much joy and
happiness they're just so bright and
cheery and a real sign of summer as I
take my morning garden coffee walks I
also like to check on my plans to make
sure they're doing okay and also see if
there's any problems so I can stop the
problems before they get out of hand now
here I want to check on a tomato plant
that I actually tried experimenting a
little bit I put it out a little bit
early like I said the nice is still been
in the 40s some in the 30s so I think
this is the Mawr globe tomato from my
spring garden seed collection and I can
see here that the bottom of the plant is
getting kind of yellow so I want to take
those leaves off that's probably most
likely due to the cold temperatures so
I'll take the bottom leaves off here I'm
just
keep the plant I'm growing healthy and
no worries the weather's gonna be
warming up it'll grow some new leaves
I'll keep an eye on it see how it does
but all in all it looks pretty good this
tomato plant growing right behind it was
also kind of an experiment
I've been weaving the plant as it grows
up through the trellis and this has been
growing out here all winter long I
almost took it out but I'm actually glad
I didn't because now it's getting some
new little blossoms on it so I'll just
see how it grows maybe it'll grow up and
over the trellis and hopefully I'll get
some tomatoes out of it this area of my
garden is what I like to call the smart
pots deck because I'm growing in Smart
Pots fabric containers which if you've
never grown a garden before containers
are a great way to start smart pots are
a good fabric container that you can
just pop up fill with soil you have an
immediate garden the fabric is super
durable it's breathable so it drains
well and you can grow a lot of
vegetables in containers now like I
mentioned I like to walk along and see
if there's any issues going on the
garden and here I see one right here
this is a napa cabbage that I let go to
flower because the bees love the flowers
I love the flowers but I can see here
there are a bunch of tiny little a fits
on here can you guys see those those
little gray bugs those are aphids and
you don't want those in your garden but
if I am going to have aphidss in my
garden I'd rather have them be on this
plant that is just for the bees right
now rather than on a plant that I'm
going to eat but if they do get aphids  on your
kale or on your lettuce on your broccoli
or your other plan so what you can do is
just rinse them off with this strong
spray of water from your hose do that
every day if that doesn't work then you
might want to try something like neem
oil which is an organic pesticide that
you can spray over a couple weeks period
of time that disrupts their life cycle
and helps get rid of them so there's
actually quite a bit growing here in
this 8-foot long raised bed I just
planted some kale and some other greens
a couple of weeks ago this is a purple
kale I just love the look of these
leaves they make your salad absolutely
beautiful and here's a little tiny red
chard plant
and these leaves are actually delicious
when they're picked young I'm going to
let them get a little bit bigger I'd
like to pick them when they're about the
size of my palm and they're nice and
sweet and super tasty and salads and
here again is the red vein sorrel such
an ornamental beautiful edible plant one
thing I am really excited to see coming
up here along the backside of the long
raised bed is dill I planted dill seeds
a couple of weeks ago and it's always
just such a joy to see new plants
sprouting germinating you can see
they're developing little teeny tiny
true dill leaves and if I got down here
and smelled these really close
they're starting to smell like dill
these are going to be so tasty in eggs
and salads when they get taller and they
bloom the bees love the flowers they're
a cool weather herb so get some dill
seeds started first thing in the spring
- now a few weeks ago we did a video on
three easy vegetables to grow when you
can't get out to the grocery store
super-important right now right you guys
and one of them is beans now I planned
my beans a little bit early but I'm so
glad I did they're doing very very well
they're growing kind of slowly because
it's still colder temperatures at night
but they definitely are growing and
these are some beautiful bean varieties
this I believe is the royal burgundy
bean they always look a little bit
purplish the beans are definitely purple
and the leaves are so pretty I planted a
I think this is a yellow wax bean and
there's another one in here somewhere
called a slender at which is a smaller
type variety of being but if you're
growing vegetables with kids
please plant some beans with them they
grow and sprout very quickly in warmer
temperatures and your kids will
absolutely love having their own little
container or even their own little cup
of a bean seed growing that they can
then transplant out in the garden as
soon as the weather gets a little bit
warmer and you're past your last frost
date so on that three vegetables to grow
when you can get the grocery store video
the first vegetable was beans the second
one was peas which we've already talked
about a lot here on this little tour so
get some piece planted
a little five gallon container works
very well for peas as well put a few
tree branches in it and you've got
yourself an easy DIY totally free
trellis
now the third vegetable we talked about
planning on that video are greens and
here I've got a container full of
arugula growing looking super beautiful
I planted in a spiral type of a pattern
and I'm thinking some of the seeds I
planted might not have been arugula
because they're coming up with kind of
purplish stems so I know I do have some
arugula in here but I could have got
some other seeds mixed up in here as
well but no worries I actually want to
come through here and thin these out by
snipping them at the base every two
inches and I can use the thinnings in a
salad and then the other remaining
little plants in here will have a little
bit more space to grow
now rugal a-- is a cool weather green so
it's a spring is a great time to plant
it but as it gets warmer out you're
going to want to have some heat tolerant
greens growing too and I have one right
here called New Zealand spinach this is
actually in my heat tolerant greens
collection you can see it looks very
similar to a spinach leaf but spinach
grows best in the cool weather but New
Zealand spinach grows very well in hot
weather the hotter the better it will
kind of trail over this container here
and this New Zealand spinach I have cut
back probably for a couple of years and
it keeps on growing back so it's a
really good long growing plant to have
in your garden as well
now hopefully you caught my how to plant
garlic video a while back and I was
super excited the other day to see that
there's some brand new little garlic
shoots growing here garlic is a perfect
planet and forget it kind of crop a lot
of people plant it before their last
frost date but you could also go ahead
and plant it in the springtime you might
not get as large of garlic bulbs because
garlic does need cold weather in order
to grow nice and large but give it a go
grab yourself some organic garlic from
the grocery store break the bulb apart
into little cloves plant them pointed
side down and as the weather gets warm
you're going to see these little shoots
come up and you can
harvest it about six months later now I
am really excited about this little
garden bed here it's a little bit hard
to get to so what I decided to do was
just plant some wild flowers it doesn't
get a ton of Sun so these are actually
called a partial shade wildflower seed
and they're coming up absolutely
beautifully I just planted them maybe
three weeks ago and with all the rain
we've had
I haven't watered them at all and it's
so much fun to see fresh new green
growth so plant yourself some
wildflowers and out-of-the-way spot in
your garden the bees are gonna love it
and you're gonna love the color pops so
make sure I come back and show you these
as they start to bloom I'm really
excited about this well I wanted to show
you a nice wide shot of the hill right
behind me here the rain we've had over
the past few weeks is just creating a
carpet of green and color cascading down
over the hill so let me take you through
it and show you what's growing and I
hope it brings some enjoyment and peace
and relaxation to your day as well come
on so right now over the arch here the
nasturtiums are starting to climb and as
the weather gets warmer and the
nasturtiums die out I definitely want to
grow some warm weather vegetables I'm
thinking maybe some cucumbers I'd really
love to grow some watermelon over these
arches I just came out with a brand new
watermelon seed collection I think it
would be so much fun to grow the sugar
baby watermelon which is a nice small
compact version up over this trellis and
just see the watermelon hanging down I
think would be so much fun so let me
know what you think about that too I
also want to grow a lot of tomatoes and
cucumbers last summer I grew cucumbers
on this trellis it worked very very well
this is just a cattle panel which we cut
to size for this particular garden bed
put some nice sturdy heavy-duty posts in
and it made a really nice sturdy trellis
for my cucumbers right now we've got
some peas growing you're gonna be
harvesting today now one thing I love to
do is plant flowers in with the
vegetables not only do I love the bright
pop of color and you will too but the
bees love it too now here's a super easy
flower to grow it's actually an herb
it's called borage the flowers are so
delicate and
such a pretty shade of purple it kind of
smells like a cucumber but there's very
easy to grow plant them once they will
reseed and the bees will come to your
garden like crazy these are in the bring
on the pollinators a warm season flower
collection I can just get lost out here
in the garden the sounds the smells the
color it really helps take my mind off
everything crazy that's going on in the
world and I hope you're finding
enjoyment in your garden as well now I
showed you some arugula a few moments
ago that I just planted this is an
arugula that has bolted is now flowering
and going to seed so I always do like to
leave some plants into flower because
the bees love them and of course the
flowers look so beautiful too then once
these little pods dry up you can harvest
seeds from them for your next planting
and help yourself be sustainable in your
garden as the weather warms up here a
lot of these cool other plants will
start dying off and it's where I'm going
to plant my cucumbers tomatoes and
squash here I let this tomato plant and
over the winter time just as an
experiment didn't expect to eat a lot of
tomatoes off of it but it has been
climbing up this little trellis and it's
starting to grow again which is always
really exciting to see things bursting
into life now for those of you that
joined us for this video last summer
this is a little trellis that we made
out of something called ladder mesh we
were able to find it at Home Depot I
think this whole trellis cost about $10
and it's probably about what maybe seven
feet tall
we had some cucumbers and some Tomatoes
climbing over it it's a really
inexpensive way to trellis in your
garden so let me just move up here and
show and show you another beautiful pea
plant that's climbing up over the ladder
mesh so this again is the Magnolia
tendril pea and I love how this looks
climbing up over the trellis with the
peas hanging down I just think it's so
beautiful with these flowers it just
gives me so much enjoyment to come out
here and harvest some of these peas and
just eat them right in the garden these
are so delicious and so tasty and
actually have a little bit of a pinkish
purplish color on the pods and these can
be eaten pods and all
so good now particularly in the
springtime this is always one of my
favorite spots in the garden because it
just turns into a carpet of green in a
few weeks it'll be a carpet of bloom as
long as the cool weather holds there's a
lot of poppies coming up the poppies
bloom and all kinds of beautiful colors
pinks red and oranges and they'll bloom
until the weather hits about 80 or 85
and then they'll start to die off but
it's such a beautiful spot just to sit
and relax and enjoy for a moment
know as I walk up the hill and wind up
my morning coffee walk garden to her
there's also a few edible plants right
up here I want to show you this kale
plant here is mammoth and this plant has
been here for probably 2 to 3 years now
the leaves are getting a little bit
large and maybe not quite so tasty to
eat anymore
so what I'm gonna do I'm very soon here
is trim back this kale so if you have
kale that's looking a little bit ratty
don't pull the entire plant out what you
can do is cut the plant off at the base
here and kale will grow back time after
time you get some nice fresh new baby
leaves that are going to be beautifully
sweet and perfect to put in your salads
one last little edible green I wanted to
show you is growing right down here and
it's called miner's lettuce now I
planted this once a few years ago and
it's spread all over my garden you can
see now it's kind of starting to go to
seed but it's very tender and tasty and
salads and I actually read that miners
actually grew this back in the day to
give them some nutrition as they were
mining because they didn't get a lot of
fruits and vegetables and the miner's
lettuce was so easy to grow and then
they were able to get some nutrition in
their diets and we loved growing it here
too well I hope you enjoy this morning
stroll coffee walk garden tour I know it
brought me a lot of peace and relaxation
thank you so much for spending time with
me in the garden comment below how your
garden is bringing you peace and
relaxation and joy in your life right
now during this tough time in our world
thanks so much for watching enjoy life
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