welcome to the California garden in the
month of december the weather is cool the
sky is shining and it's another great month
for gardening so sit back and enjoy as
we cover the garden tour what's growing
in the California garden this month some
harvests we made and things to do in your
garden this month so let's begin with
the garden tour the first bed has some
radish plants growing and next to that
we have some spinach which are small
plants still and then we have our onions
these onions are growing pretty well so far
moving on to our side bed we have some
cabbage plants these are early maturing
cabbages and next to that we have some
kale that's growing in the side bed and
this bet has the Gypsy broccoli variety
and that's growing pretty well and hyacinth
beans are loaded with beans and a lot of
beans on this plan and we harvested a
lot of hyacinth beans this month as you can
see here lots and lots of beans on this
plant and this is probably one of the
fastest growing beans that have ever
planted moving on to the next bed we have
our sweet potato plant and this is a
neglected bed still I still have to do
something about this bed now this is
what happens when you grow radish a lot
of radish plants in one container you
grow it for the Greens these plants are
not going to produce a lot of roots if
you want larger roots space them out
and moving on to the next bed we have
some more onion plants and this is the
cauliflower plant the purple cauliflower
I'll show that soon and some more cabbage
plants growing in this bed and finally
we have our eggplants bed now this bed
had both peppers and eggplant and not
only the eggplants stay peppers have
been removed and these eggplants have been
doing well i'm planning to over winter
them see how it goes and so far they
seem to be doing okay
even in the December cold weather now
let's look at some plants that are
growing in our garden we have cilantro
we need a lot of cilantro and this is a
cool season crop and it's growing pretty
well I've used a very wide container this
season to plant cilantro and as you can
see it's been doing well so far
and we have our purple cauliflower
growing as you can see here
beautiful-looking cauliflower started
producing head earlier this month and the
purple head looks very beautiful the
purple color depicts a lot of
anthocyanins in the cauliflower plant
and this means it has a lot of more
vitamins and minerals when you eat the
cauliflower back to the white variety
which we also have growing this month
its a cool season vegetable and
cauliflower is something you must grow
the Dancy tangerines are loaded with a
lot of fruit this year and we had a lot
of dancing tangerines harvested last
year as well so all in all i really like
this
tangerine variety the harvested fruits are
very delicious very sweet and one
variety that I can definitely recommend
for you
we have one tomato plant growing this is
the only tomato plant we have and still
has a lot of tomatoes even in december
now let's look at on the harvest we made
this month avocados our GEM avocados were
harvested this month
continuing from our last month's harvest
this wasn't a very great year for
avocados but as you can see here
beautiful-looking avocados the GEM avocado
is one delicious avocado variety and
also produces these large avocados so
from October through February is the
avocado harvest season and once again
you can see here this avocado is pretty
good looking pretty large and and
excellent variety to grow in your garden
our purple cauliflower produced a
beautiful head in December as you can
see here beautiful-looking cauliflower
and we planted this cauliflower both in
containers as well as in raised beds
this one is growing in a container and
the container is not really large it's
just a square container about five to
seven gallons of soil in this container
and it produced a beautiful head
eggplant we still had some
eggplants harvest in december from each of
the sources we planted the container the
raised beds which hard pretty large
plants growing already we were able to
harvest some more from our whiskey
barrel container as well
guavas...our Mexican guava tree is loaded
with fruits and december is a great
month to harvest the guavas as you can
see here beautiful looking guavas quite big
in size and these mexican guavas are
not very sweet
if you like guavas that are not very
sweet you will like this guava variety
it's a great variety to grow and if you
like the sweeter variety we also had the
Arabian guavas which are sweeter but it
all depends on what kind of varieties
you like all are really good varieties
here you can see both the Mexican guava
as well as the Arabian guava and some
tangerines that we harvested in the
month of december and we also have
harvested some washington naval oranges
from our orange tree this month the
hyacinth beans did produce very heavily
this month as well and if you've been
following my videos
you must have seen that this is a great
producer we have been harvesting beans
from this plant for the last three months
or so and it still keeps producing it
produced a lot of these beans these flat
beans that are absolutely delicious and
I wasn't really expecting this plant to
grow so large but it did grow very large
and it produces a lot of beans
which we could harvest and use moving on
to kohlrabi we were able to harvest
our purple kohlrabi is that were
growing in the container
we harvested some last month and then we
harvested some this month and as you can
see here beautiful-looking kohlrabi
loaded with vitamins and minerals
these are the radish plants were
growing in the whiskey barrel container
you can see here the roots are pretty
well formed and nice month to harvest
radish so in the winter season you will
be growing and harvesting all these kind
of cool season crops like leafy greens
radish and this radish is the white
icicle variety of radish
beautiful-looking radish as you can see
here easy to grow and mature as quickly
now let's look at the things to do in
your garden this month there's not much
you can do in your garden in december
but test your seeds for viability if
you've seen my video from the previous
month had given a tip about checking seed
viability and here we have some
passiflora seeds which are very hard to
germinate this plant produces beautiful
flowers if you're interested in seeing a
video on this drop in a comment below I
try to see if i can make a video on this
and let me know if you're growing this
plant in your garden as well and by just
using a simple paper towel and putting
your seeds and putting it in a ziploc
container a sealed container and keeping
it on the shelf you can test for seed
viability and once the seeds germinate
within about 10 to 15 days you can
transplant them into containers or plant
them in the ground as you wish
it's a great way to test viability
and start your seeds as well so there we
have it folks that was our
episode on the California garden in the
month of december from everyone here at
California gardening we wish you a Merry
Christmas and a very happy new year will
see you again soon
happy gardening