EPIC Greenhouse Buildout With @carrieunderwood

in this video we are hitting the road to do one of our most epic Garden installs yet so I'm packing a bag I'm grabbing Jacques our garden hermit we're heading out on a flight to Music City Nashville Tennessee to do a garden install for Carrie Underwood we've made it Jacques and I are here we're just outside of Nashville at an amazing Garden I can already see some really cool layouts a little bit better set up than yeah so let's go ahead and check out we have a very special collaboration and here we are how's it going Kerry good how are you good to see you you too so how did you get into the whole garden game because it's I don't think you grew up doing it right I did not um I grew up in Oklahoma on a cattle farm and um a lot of neighbors around us would garden and we would always play in The Gardens and they'd kind of have us you know pick strawberries and stuff like that but we moved out here um got quite a bit of land as soon as we started building the house we started building the garden and tried a little bits here and there and then really got to take a deep dive in 2020 and we were just here I love the heat here in Tennessee and it just made me happy to you know grow something from nothing yeah like feels like Little Miracles every time I get through it's crazy right and then people come over and you're like serving them like this is my homegrown this you know I feel like a Gourmet Chef exactly yeah so you started with all the raised beds that we see out here and then this greenhouse came not not too long ago yeah very recently like we're still not quite done with um some of the details like a little stone work on the outside and um you know just figuring out the space and what I really want to do here anyways we're here to help with the greenhouse thank you so we've got I actually see some of our stuff here which is really cool before I even yeah you guys cool to see but yeah I my my biggest issue in life but definitely in situations like this I have this empty space and if there's too many options I can't make any decisions I know the feeling yeah um so I thought I would reach out to The Experts yeah and um and ask for help because that's there's no shame in that game especially with garden stuff because if you set it up wrong you're in for like years of pain you know and so yeah we'll help set this up but I saw a couple things I'd love to check out if you don't mind so we'll do a little tour sure okay let's do it okay so we are here in the outdoor Garden which kind of wraps around the greenhouse in a really really cool pretty way yeah yeah well we um that we moved out there that was originally kind of in the middle like just a big event um and then removed that and just thought this would be a really great place and you know and like my kids can play back there while yeah yeah that was quite the Treehouse yeah it made sense and we wanted it to be pretty and look like it around so I see a coop yay Jack and I both have a coop and so we're sort of like Coupe official do you want to go check it out sure yeah let's go oh wow so you've got the whole outdoor yeah we're gonna clean it in the spring so we'll pressure wash it and clean out the inside but yeah oh look at these girls yeah there's my big boy oh you got the roosterone look at that isn't he gorgeous he's got an amazing rooster amazing tail yeah I like the variety too can we yeah I don't know if there's something I would have laid any yeah oh there's one oh we got one little girl here that's Linda she's working on it she's mean I named her Linda because she's Linda Blair watch Linda she's not gonna like this no no I don't think she oh she hit the watch Linda sorry yeah she's she was Broody last year oh yeah that's how she got the name Linda Blair yeah I said we need to pressure wash it I'm a little embarrassed a little bit you know yeah okay Orchard is our Orchard how many trees total dude I have no idea like hundreds right I have no idea we have a lot of apples we have a lot of peaches wow these are a couple rows of peaches um over there we have pears we have plums that direction that'll be so much fun to harvest oh wow yeah and then blueberries that's my favorite you got blueberries blueberries and then blackberries back there that's another one of those things this is like the area that we would struggle with everything in here yeah apples peaches blueberries in your Zone man spring must look amazing out here it does in about February everything will kind of start butting out cool well thanks for showing us yeah back here at the greenhouse and we've done some prep to figure out how to best utilize the space so first of all the dimensions you're looking at 16 feet by 28 feet pretty good size pretty good size and then the direction Jacques is really important with a greenhouse layout the two on the team that actually have greenhouses Brianna from Blossom branch and Chris at flu and garden helped us kind of conceptualize and lay this out and so this isn't like a production Nursery or production Greenhouse so you want to put some beds in here and you just want the ability to grow maybe into the winter or protect the summer exactly and then we're also going to play with like heights because since that's the north wall we'll probably put the taller beds there I believe the plan was and then we'll move the lower stuff down this way maybe a little seed starting section so we've got some birdies beds here we need to build and then we're going to put a big old potting bench on the South Side kind of looking at the house so you kind of get some nice scenery that you can do and then we just got a couple other fun elements like some citrus trees and stuff but right now we kind of got to get to building yeah all right so what we're going to start yeah we're going to start by taking off this little like protective coating on all these yep they all have them this is always the most exciting part it is oddly satisfying to do the peel I don't know what about it all we're doing here is just kind of matching it tossing a bolt through and like loosely just Loosely tightening it so we have the form of the whole thing does it matter what that's perfect thank you is it me or is does food just taste less it does taste swear it for sure does yeah it tastes like nothing at the store yeah it's just water it's because you can grow like I don't know a kind of a normal variety of a tomato but if you grow it at your house and you harvest it fresh and eat it right away it's still better than literally the last thing you should get at the store my goal is to not buy produce at the store that'd be cool I think you're there scale wise like the size of the garden you could definitely do it I I freeze a lot and I got into canning oh of course I was just about to ask if you're getting into that game because winter here you for sure can't grow right so I've got like a ton of green beans stuff like that that's easy to grow I grew Black Eyed Peas for the first time last fall and they are so good don't do anything you just let them leave them just leave them yeah then you just pick them up put them in a jar like it's amazing are you big into cooking are you like cooking most of the time I yeah I mean I'm no I'm no Chef I keep everything pretty simple yeah all over there I don't know oh no oh no Chain Reaction Carrie for the ones you're screwing in skip the third one down and skip the third one from the bottom because we're gonna put two little braces in there so it doesn't bow out all right almost done with these two yes so now we just have to tighten it all up I'm gonna grab this and just go in on each screw and just give it a quick little snug One stock potatoes potatoes I'll tell you what I did you can tell me what I did wrong okay so I used grow bags it's a good start is it yeah okay how big were they where's this big oh it's the oh it's a potato bag where you can open up the thing and see them oh I never did that yeah I've never done that I've never actually used that but I've seen them you can harvest my potatoes I open it all the dirt's gonna fall out yeah I had a big experiment I ordered some seed potatoes okay and I used some of those and then I had I actually had some sitting on my counter that were starting to sprout so I used that I did like red ones white ones blue ones and some sweet potatoes and some purple sweet potatoes okay and the sweet potato ones like the the plants grew they're gorgeous that surprised me like one day I just looked at I was like ah sweet potatoes that's amazing um but then my potatoes uh so I I put them down in a like not a whole lot of dirt yep um like cut side down and then um kind of covered them like barely and then they would grow and then I'd cover them some more and then they keep growing and I cover them some more okay I kind of did that what did I do the healing that is right yeah it is right when did I get no traffic when you planted them they were already sprouting too right so I mean that's like what you should do let's not leave them longer yeah I love forever the biggest mistake I think most people do with potatoes is they try to harvest too early yeah you get curious basically I feel like my plant kind of yeah I could totally die and then you want to like leave it for another two weeks after it really and then they'll kind of bulk up a little more yeah but sometimes like I've had spotty eels with potatoes yeah to be honest with you it might not have been much about what you did it could have just been the variety or the time of year the watering schedule or something because sometimes like the watering schedule was somewhere because I was a little sketchy yeah yeah and sometimes I'm like they they need a drink a drink I would I would just water them myself they might do really well in the raised beds but then like generally what happens is that you're like potatoes one so probably always have them because you'll leave like a little one but it's not that big of a deal I just I love the ideas of potatoes because you don't all you need is potatoes to grow more potatoes yeah like it's an unlimited cycle yeah exactly it's kind of like garlic we just planted a bunch of garlic and almost no one grows it from like a true seed it sounds scary yeah it sounds scary have you have you grown garlic ever it's really if you totally should don't have to plan it like you missed it for this season but you could do it in like if you plant yours in November you'll be good yeah I think you could technically plant it now [Music] the layout set up it took a little bit of Tetris but we went with an L-shaped here two of the talls Jacques finishing off the last L right there and then this is still to be determined but we're gonna put three rounds over here for now because there's a big potting bench that we're gonna put in for Carrie right here and these Citrus probably gonna be like left right side kind of like a little Citrus Oasis in the potting bench but now we have the hardest part which is 17 yards of soil to shovel so let's get to it all right well I'm gonna dump the first load in then actually I don't know if it's smart to do it like this I'm gonna scrape it in you might I might need a scraper yeah there it is there it is it's like the opposite of breaking ground there we go this stuff looks really good honestly yeah like I guess we did in the shovel that I think it should work out we're gonna just chip me in boom easy [Music] okay we have finished the soil it was a task we got it done right before the sun went down and the layout I think looks pretty good yeah we got lucky in the sense that this perfectly matched this side the L's on both sides we're gonna do the citrus here and here but the L works really well and then we put the shorter beds right here and we still have I don't know about two feet of space so you can kind of Crash down if you want and reach and work and then we put the rounds over here and filled it all up with some local soil right about to the top and that's it for day one yeah I'd say pretty good we made some good time yeah I feel like a lot of the manual labor is behind us thanks to Carrie for also shoveling yeah I'm not gonna let you guys have all of that you went hard that was very helpful so tomorrow we've got kind of the more fun stuff where we're going to mix some soil for the two Citrus we hopefully we'll get the potting bench in and kind of like some little final touches maybe start some seeds together good talking about some sanding ideas it'll be fun yeah awesome so we'll see you guys tomorrow we're back again for day two of the Epic Greenhouse install but we're waiting on a potting bench which I'm very excited for you to see because I think it looks really cool but we've got some Citrus you've named one of them already I believe I did the bear slime his name's Teddy I gotta figure out names for the other ones so we we've named it before we may have to prune it which is a bit of a sad moment but Teddy I think we'll be okay so we're gonna pot these up but we have to mix up some Citrus mix which we couldn't find around here so we just kind of bought some ingredients to make our own so when you're doing citrus since especially since it's not growing in the environment that it's used to growing in you want to give it kind of a loose well-draining mix they just didn't usually you can go to the nursery and just buy a citrus mix it wasn't around town so we bought some standard potting mix that has what's called Forest Products which is kind of just like bark which it wants so we'll cut that in and then I bought some extra bark just to give it more drainage because it'll be in a pot it'll be in the greenhouse so all we got to do is just dump a couple bags in and you guys can start mixing if you want thanks add more in so I was reading about like the Myers lemon and how it's like a cross between a lemon and an orange just to make it sweeter that's cool yeah yeah it's the sweetest lemon you can get they're really nice like people often use them for like lemon tarts and stuff yeah they start you know making um like lemonade and stuff which my my boys love to me the craziest part about Citrus because I just got my first good sort of harvest of all the ones I planted a year and a half ago is how different they all are because like I have like four different oranges and they all if you taste them yeah you can tell there's something very different about it some are a little more acidic some are a little more sweeter so I'm probably gonna venture out and get like a clementine oh yeah okay as well yeah and this this mix would work that would be perfect for it yeah all right so all we want to do if we're good with this placement guys we'll switch to shovels and then we'll just shovel in to the bottom place it and make sure it's nice and firm shovel up so there we go lovely a life of citrus begins so so sometimes I mean let's look at the roots though unwind a little usually when you're transplanting a tree carry at least at least for most of them you want to look at the roots and see if it's bound at the bottom which it really isn't here you'd see it kind of like spiraling around yeah which would mean that when you put it in it'll just kind of follow the same it doesn't know it left the pot kind of okay so something I usually do like right just give it a very light kind of rake and it see how it like just teases these out a little bit so that when they get in here they know to kind of come out this way instead of and since we're indoors like there'll still be a lot of sun so should we Orient the graph Point either way I think that means yeah that's a very technical terminology there this right here is like the rootstock it's like some sort of more hearty Citrus everything's below yeah everything below this point is is not a bear's line right so everything above is and usually this is where the graph cut is so that's why this one's cut because this would have been from the other variety okay and so wherever that cut is you usually Orient it North so it's not getting hit with sun because Citrus especially like really doesn't want the branch to be hit with too much sun okay that's why we're going to prune it in a second you want it to kind of be all bushy and thick unlike the stuff in the orchard which is a little more yeah yeah so which way was North that would be that way so we'll Orient it just like that right yep okay so you hold it in place there John and then we'll fill around you and make it nice and snug yeah I feel like we could even leave it a little below the level I think to keep the height down yeah so when you do Citrus and ground usually carry you you'll like lift it slightly above the ground because it really doesn't want to be what's called wet feet yeah um and so that helps it kind of drain a little bit better but in this case since we made our own mix it's more or less exactly what this wants so we'll be fine okay so we're in the question now do we give it the haircut or do we not which is the painful moment I think so yeah yeah you can't just to control it up if you don't have not only limited should it not go up but it doesn't even want to really in a perfect world because what will happen like it got grafted right and so that graph just kind of went straight vertically for a while and this is probably like maybe one or two years old I would say but what happens if is if we cut it come in here and cut it at like 45 it'll stall for a bit but then you should start seeing a bunch of stuff coming out here which is where we want it for sure so I think we should probably do that I'll let you do the honors poor Teddy scared I'm sorry teddy somewhere in there yeah that's that's good yeah so there it is oh there's a little band right here it's been decapitated all right so while Carrie and Kevin put up the Meyer lemon I'm gonna just go ahead and mulch this this is just to help keep a little bit of that moisture and stop it from drying out and it should just make it happier overall a little aromatherapy how are the roots actually they like really nice there's no like I don't think I even need to do much it may look even a little yeah a little less less bound all right so we cut this guy down to here we could always just match cut it but that is definitely more than you normally would we'll do what's best for the plant her name's Judy there you go Judy sorry Judy Judy Judy and Teddy one of the Michael Myers yeah some of the Halloween movies although she died maybe I don't know yeah hopefully if that's the omen you're trying to send right now so hopefully no foreshadowing oh yeah we got to see what's in this box yes okay here we know we wanted a mulberry it might not be it says a Blackberry Mulberry do we get some combo I think we got some kind of combination do we get a bunch of oh got it oh there's the strawberries yeah we got raspberry we got blueberry we got blackberry and we got Mulberry okay how do mulberries grow they are like a chain those do grow like a tree so you could throw the the Blackberry the raspberry stuff wherever yeah it's a black raspberry it says oh it's a BLK white right okay okay I know that was a thing so we got something special then good okay this is actually great because what we can do now is if you want to grow strawberries you can start these now in the greenhouse we just pick a bed we're on to the strawberries now so we have some bare root strawberries these are actually a wild strawberry so the berry itself usually with Wild Ones it's they're just smaller because they're not bred to be huge but the flavor is super it's like almost like the big ones got compressed into the small ones for the flavor so we're gonna plant these but then you started some Curry from seed which is next level well neither of us have ever done it I thought my Greenhouse was coming it was one of those Supply you know issue problems so I'm about somewhere I thought it was coming at a certain time so I was like I'm gonna start a whole bunch of stuff so it'll just be ready yeah um for when it gets cooler and whatever and then it took forever so these guys got a decent start and then I just left them outside to die very sad but they made it they made it through through the coldest Parts pretty much not only that but like this one looks really good and you have like oh we're going here we need some life there so yeah so we should plant these ones first yeah let's see let's put it right in the corner maybe like you can get real close I can't yeah okay yeah here's a scoop I know I might need something a little there you go there we go thicker so then with strawberries it's actually really important there's like a crown right in the middle where all the new growth's coming from you can't have that below the soil at all okay or it'll rot and die like almost right away okay so I'll kind of hold it here and just backfill around yeah strawberries the big thing is to just basically not over water them carries berries number one is in Kerry's berries carries Berry number two let's put this maybe in the other corner so just we well let's put it right next to it so we remember where it is so now for these guys we'll just separate them out see how many we've got this is the way I typically will grow them for straws I've I've done like six inches or so it'll get a little crowded because you'll get them kind of running okay so if you want you can start digging those in you don't have to do anything too crazy you can just kind of like pull and drop and then just like do that you know and then it's in look at that okay so what we could do right now is we're thinking at least maybe some root crops in these beds yes so we should just sew the seats we just do it yeah I asked I asked my son my um almost eight-year-olds what he was like is there anything you want me to grow and he was like carrots okay let's do this that's perfect we got some in here I'm sure what we could do is kind of guesstimate like some little circle or something that we could put the carrots into so so you can see all the little seeds in there and then we can use his signature technique yeah tap tap tap this is Magic Tap yeah and then they'll start you can kind of go uphill and it'll still fall so that way nice good technique see that Precision yes that way you're not like over seeding it too much and you can kind of knock them down a little bit if they're getting a little too thick yeah our radish and beets all right give it a go there you go oh there we go it is it's just that easy and then I'm gonna get out of your way I'm gonna make a third ring on the inside for sure yeah yeah the only reason I didn't do it is just in case but since we're being so good with the seeds we have plenty yep it's not like you guys like own a seed company we have a source for you if you want more if we run out I see like those like library card holders for seeds oh yeah yeah like the old ones I'm like I need to get one of them I am highly ready for that in my life okay I think the bench is here oh my God I think that's the bench we just got really lucky because the potting bench is in these three boxes here we thought it would come later it came right now so we're going to switch to building that out which I'm very excited for but we also got a little mystery package from an epic warehouse and I'm curious because I didn't even know I don't even know what we said here yeah so I'm not sure cuddles I'll let you open this one up okay and then I'll open this one here what could it be oh we got the power plants those are my favorite oh look at this okay we got oh we could have used those earlier nice nice extra pair of gloves one more you're hooking me up specialty box anyway yeah get it oh we got the four cells nice yeah that's great this is great okay this is like absolutely perfect timing for the spotting bench hooking me up I love that you got a A haul here I know okay so it will all be used very well let's lay it down and let's see what we're getting ourselves into with this build here I'm excited you said this is from Texas yeah from Texas four it smells good yeah really nice all right number two putting on our final piece foreign [Music] bench done amazing all right let's put it in place oh it's super hot yeah it's not too bad I was like expecting to be like yeah all right well what do we want to do next okay seed starting so let's do keep starting 101 yeah foreign [Music] house at least for now there's a lot of growing to do we bought way too much soil so we spent some time topping off the outdoor raised beds but let's take a look at what's going on inside what do you think Carrie layout I love it I love it it feels great I love that we've got herb bed right up front so you can just pop in pop out right we've got the herbs starting over there what are you thinking you're going to put in here spring summer um maybe get a jump on some things try to try to early grow some things I'll have to wait a little longer for the summer so maybe some squashes maybe some Tomatoes Jack and I were talking we love the idea since you have these little sliding things you could throw them up there and then just have string trellises come down yeah and just kind of grow whatever you want like right after like picturing all these like Peppers along this back wall like looking all nice maybe some flowers hanging from yeah yeah I'm short enough I can just walk right out there yeah you could Dodge them for sure like it makes them add some color we've got the berries here with your two from seed right there which honestly I think are gonna do really well there they look great they're gonna love it the carrot bed the Beet bed the radish bed so the root crop Trio right here and then the seedling table which is looking really nice yeah yeah better lighting set for now for sure yeah we got Judy the Meyer lemon yes Teddy the Bears line the miracle berry nice little date palm names to come you'll see on those things to put out in the orchard mulberries blackberries yup I think it turned out really well yes I'm soaked on it very happy it's really fun too fun project thank you guys well thank you yes it was fun I learned a lot it got a lot done we got a lot done in two days you can do a lot if you focus on it so thanks for having us out Carrie really appreciate it and we'll see you on the next episode guys good luck in the garden and keep on growing

2023-02-24 01:48

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