 Hey guys, welcome back. Today is another garden vlog. I haven't done one in ages I feel like because I've sort of let my garden run a muck until now I'm reclaiming it back. So the last, where I left you I think was mildew and I was getting mildew of all my squash plants. Well, we've gotten rid of those now because we've basically picked all the squash from them and they were sort of overtaking our garden just here. But as you can see, I've basically cleared all the pumpkin, all the squash plants away and now I've actually started to create a new garden bed for us to use. So I've dug out the little layout, what we're gonna put in. And now I'm going to put some weed mat in to stop any weeds and things from tree roots like this one and all these ones next to it. I'm gonna put in some weed mat to stop that and then I'm gonna fill it with some more compost and some more soil and then plant in my plants that I'm going to use in this garden. So I got some clippings of my old herb plants that were growing there before and these are the ones that I have. So some mint, some mint, mint and then we have some rosemary, thyme, oregano and some majeurum. So they're all ready to go. They've been growing well. So I took some out and see how they were when I transplanted them into this pot right here. And they were okay when I left them in there for a week or so before I actually dug out over there. I made sure to see they were going to survive otherwise I wouldn't have any plants to put back in there. So they've done well. So they're going strong thankfully or good there. And here I'll show you under this little, you can see our new garden. So basically all that's in there is kale and spinach because they're honestly my favorite go-tos and I want to just focus on planting some of them for now. We have a tomato plant at the back that we've kept and then our original eggplant is going strong over there so we kept it. So as you can see, there's an eggplant growing on the bottom which is so exciting, I'll be using that soon. Oh and we also have a little, you can see, a little avocado tree growing at the back. It was growing strong before. I'm going to transplant it somewhere at the front because it's going to grow quite big. I think it grows to about half the size of this tree right here. So I'm looking at planting that around the front because honestly it probably will not fit in there. We take over and it'll be too big. So we're going to move it around the front somewhere else. A new update as well, it's been a while. I have a few things to share with you all. So this was our other citrus tree that we had but I actually planted one just over here. So this is the citrus tree that I planted. So we've actually put it into the ground now after years and years of it just sitting there. So I've planted it in. I actually had to trim a lot of the limbs off it as you can see because it had like a disease going on it. So it would make the tree branches swell up and it just wasn't loving life. So I cut those off to get rid of it. And it's going really strong now, which is great. It's a magpie. That magpie is always there. Honestly. And this is our mini garden next to our big one right here. So this is the mini one. We've actually started growing some cauliflower in this garden. As you can see, boom, it's just here. That will be growing soon, which I'm very excited about. And then we have some of our old beet shoots still there. Some of our bean plants out the back. This one's starting to die off now as you can see. Look at this. Boom, bug sensual. Yum. Anyway, I've been turning it over and over so I didn't need any more compost because I'm going to use that compost to then put in my garden here. So I'm going to mix it with the soil to make it sure it's nutrient rich. And it's a natural fertilizer rather than using chemical fertilizers from the store. So big bonus for organic gardening. Sustainable gardening, woo. So now that I've dug my huge hole in the backyard I will be putting the weed mat on right now. So I've just filled half of it in with dirt so far. We're going to fill in the other half now and then I'm going to put some compost on the top and then mix it through. And then the soil is ready to put the plants in. So I've filled the hole up now. As you can see, you can still see the perimeter around the edges. So I filled it up with all the soil that we had before lying around. And now I'm going to go grab some compost and put that in. And then we're going to mix it up. So it's got some fertilized soil for the plant so it's ready to go. So now that I've popped all the compost on top so I thought that'd be enough. So it's basically on this level with where it was before. As you can see, so now I'm just going to move it around with the spade and just dig it all in so it mixes it together with the soil. And then it's ready for the plants to go in. There we go, all done. And my gosh, I am working up such a sweat like I'm dripping from all that manual labor today. So worth it, like look how beautiful that is. Beautiful in the making anyway. I'm going to add some plants in there now. So I'm going to plant in my herbs and then I'm going to go to one of the nurseries near where we live tomorrow and go pick up some lavender to grow in there. I want to actually start growing herbs and flowering plants and things that you can turn into essential oils. So that is on my big bucket list to do this year. So I'm so, so excited to get started on that. So I'll start growing the lavender to then turn later on into essential oils. And there we go. I just put some old bricks around the perimeter just to make it look a little bit more pretty. You'll see that some of those bricks are from the ones I collected on my trash walks. So I'm reusing some old bricks too, which is like a huge bonus. So this is basically our DIY garden bed. So there you have it. You can pretty much do it up how you like. You could do it with bricks like we did or you can make it even fancier and use some wood. It's very, very nice. So either way, it looks great. So I'm going to finish up here for the night just because it's getting like sunsetty and it's going to get dark soon. So I'll plant the actual plants in tomorrow. Once I've redone the soil a bit better and it's a bit brighter so I can see more. So that'll be for tomorrow's job. So I'll see you guys in the morning. Hey guys, so I'm back. Although to you, I haven't really gone anywhere. So I've come out and it's all ready to go. So basically what we did since last soil yesterday evening was we've gotten a bit more of the soil that was around the edges and put that all in. So to build it up to the level of where the bricks are. And then we've got some whole flung dung from our local nursery. As you can see, that's what it looks like inside. We popped that on top and raked that through. So this is actually quite sustainable and it's very nutrient-rich for plants. So it's super healthy for growing new plants in. So I really recommend using that. So as you can see, that's mixed through where all that kind of barky kind of looking soil is. That's what we've done. And then we wet it so to make sure that it's all damp and ready for the new plants to go in. So we wet that a bit to make sure that the soil was absorbing the water making sure it wasn't all dry. And next I've just watered, just finished watering my little herbs here, my clippings of the herbs that I had in my garden before. And I wet them so they're all ready to go to be transplanted. So they're best to be transplanted when the soil is moist, not dry. So they take to the soil better. So I've just finished that. So the soil is damp and they're ready to go. And guess what guys? I'm so tired. I got a lavender plant. So this one is actually French lavender as you can see. So that's what it looks like once it's fully grown. This is actually the last one in the store because everyone seems to be buying lavender at the moment. So I think they had the same idea as me. So I'm going to wait for this to actually flower a bit more because you can see it's only just started. And you can still smell the fragrant scent of lavender on this, but not as strongly as it would be if the flowers were blooming. So I'm going to wait until it grows a bit more, flowers a bit more and then use it in my essential oils in a future video. So do stick around for that. That'll be super, super fun. Can't wait to show you guys. I've been researching how to do it. So this is the one I chose. There are many different types of lavender but this was the one I thought that looks the most common lavender plant that I would usually see. There's so many different types. I might try using different types of lavender in the future but for now I thought I'd start with French lavender. So I'm going to plant that one in soon. I just have to wait for it to soak in for about 20 minutes or so. And then it's ready for me to plant in my lavender in my other herbs over there. Ta-da! Oh my gosh, I'm actually so, so over the moon about how it looks. It looks amazing. So here at the front we have the lavender, the French lavender. Then I've just replanted the rosemary, the thyme, then the modurums just over there at the back. I don't have a sign for that one. Then we have oregano over there and basically all kinds of mint. So at the front, this is our old mint. We had it in our garden around in the corner there. That's where that mint came from but we moved it just because that one was starting to die out a bit over there. So we just moved it round to the side here. So that is that one. I'm not entirely sure which mint that is. Then here we have the lemon mint just here. Beautiful and lush and that's it. That's all the herbs we have so far. I wanna eventually start growing some citronella for mosquitoes and for making more of my bug repelling products and things. So that will be in the near future, hopefully. So yeah, I'm just gonna give them a water now. Once this one's finished, almost done. I'm so psyched with how it's turned out. I'm so over the moon. It looks absolutely incredible. But then I thought it was gonna look so I'm so, so happy with it. Before we wind up this blog, I'll quickly show you the few plants that I've recently planted out the front where my aloe vera plants are. Not just them, but we've started planting broccoli around the front. I'm so excited to use them once they're fully grown. So this is the new aloe vera that a friend gave me. He saw my Instagram post. I did talk about that in a while back. So it's slowly growing. Getting there, it's looking a lot better when I transplanted it. It wasn't too happy, but it's looking so much better now. My normal aloe vera that I've had for about a year and a bit now. A little baby one I planted a while back in my previous video. And then these little broccoli plants, which I've just recently planted in. As you can see, just around the front. Here we are again. Gorgeous girl. So yeah, that pretty much winds up the rest of my vlog. I hope you enjoyed it. It's probably with my favorite garden vlogs that I've done just because I have a bit of a more of an understanding of gardening now. So I feel like I can share a little bit more with you guys. Hope to see you guys in my future videos. And thank you so much for watching and being such an amazing community. I'm so, so grateful. Hope you have a wonderful day and I hope to see you in my future videos. Bye.