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Gardening update: Sunflowers are blooming! Corn is ripening.
We've got squash and cucumber and pumpkin plants all flowering.
you can see back in there, the little yellow flowers hiding.
Everything is looking good. The pole beans are climbing you can see them
climbing up the corn, over there, it's even going up into the peach tree.
Morning glories over there. I'm really happy with the way it's looking.
Here is my beautiful lush three sisters garden. I have a little bit of a problem.
Let me show you what the problem is first, and then I'll tell you what I think happened.
Let's go in and take a look at this. The first thing that I noticed is my corn
are not here. Let me step in here carefully.
So here's one of the corn stalks. or two of them.
It got pulled over by the weight of the string beans.
What I think happened, if you remember in my first video, how bad the ground was so
we put down that cardboard?when the roots of the corn stalks went down, they hit the
cardboard and then they spread out. across it. (video bomber)
And we didn't get enough depth, the corn (there's the other girl) Say, "good morning," Lesleigh.
We didn't get enough depth, the corn roots didn't and so they weren't strong enough to
hold the weight of the string beans. So what we are going to do is pull the corn
stalk up, stalks, the ones that are pulled over, we are going to check to see if any
of them are ready to eat, and then the rest are going to be um pig fodder. We are going
to feed them to the pigs. We do have some string beans on the fence,
on the sunflowers, so hopefully we'll still be able to get some pole beans that survive.
Alright, I'm going to get to work pulling up corn, here.
Let me just reach down and see if I can pull it up.
yep. ok, here we go. There's a mess of string beans,
I wish there was a way to know if the pole beans were going to survive, I would just
leave this in here for them to climb around on.
But we do have a corn cob, why don't I just pull that off?
I read that these get all crispy, and that the tips get rounded, but I don't know, so
let's just take a look at it. See what it looks like.
I don't know what these, see these red marks? I don't know what that is either. I'll go
online later and look and see.
Lesleigh: It's rust. corn rust.
Lorella: Do you know that? Or you're just guessing?
Lesleigh: I learned about it. Lorella: Ok.
Lesleigh: That might not be the exact thing, but that was the term they used.
Carter: there's a lot of layers to that corn. Lorella: alright. It smells good.
there are lots of layers, that's what protects these corn kernels.
Not fully (mmm) not fully developed, but Carter: you could cook it.
Les: you could still cook it. Lorella: We can, you want to try it, or you
want to give it to the pigs? Girls: sure!
Carter: you can cook it on the stove and cut the off and then make like an omelette.
Lorella: we could do something. Let's see.
Carter, while I'm looking around for these, do you see any pumpkins or squash?
Carter: I know we had a pumpkin somewhere. Oh, there's one outside the fence.
Lorella: Why don't you show that one, the one that the chickens get to have because
it's outside the fence. Carter: There's one, and then there's number two.
the toe of my boot for comparison.
Good morning! It's Friday, August 28, let's go take a look in the garden and see what
we've got growing. It's kind of jungly in here, I thought we
had planted everything with plenty of space, but now I don't know.
alright. let's see. These are zucchini plants.
I don't see any zucchinis growing yet. A cucumber plant.
Oh! Something just moved in there. I wonder if that's a toad.
WOW! I've got a monster cucumber under here, guys!
or something! I have a HUGE something!
I don't know how we didn't see this growing. Look at that thing!
man it's huge! (laughing)
I've a monster zucchini! I don't know how we never saw this all the
days we were looking! Look at this!!
Lesleigh: Oh my word!! (Lorella laughing)
Gosh that's like the biggest zucchini ever! I'm going to try to show you it compared to
my arm, because I'm a mess, so I'm not going to show my face, but look at that. I don't
know how we never saw that zucchini growing under that plant. It's huge!
It's as big as my arm. That's just lovely. That's amazing.
Ok, so let's see if we have anything else hiding around down here that we did't know was growing.
Let's see what else we have down here in this jungle.
Sunflowers.
Oh there's a little bumble bee. on the sunflower.
I don't know if you can see it.
Here's a little bumble bee.
Hi! There you are. Good morning mr. bumble bee. Oh, look at you
pollinating and doing your thing. Thank you!