What's up ? Welcome back to the Come On you Know podcast . So I almost forgot how to do this . It's been so long . I know . I know that's my fault . Well , it is my fault and because I have been going through some issues , I'm going to call it a jet depression . So I am a die hard jet fan and I am dying hard . It's been a couple of things going on past couple of weeks . I know you probably don't care because you're probably not a jet's fan , but I am and this is my show , so I'm going to spit it out . So I'll start on quarterback Aaron Rodgers . We traded for Aaron Rodgers , got him so happy . Green Bay Packers was actually my number two team . Little half halfway disclosure I am a one share owner of the Green Bay Packers . Anyway , that's my number two team , so happy .
Speaker 1Aaron Rodgers came to the squad to the mean green , gang green , and what like 70 seconds into his first game he popped his Achilles . That's a tough injury to get over . So you definitely you know he's out for the season . He's rehabbing , all of that . But I think I was watching that game .
Speaker 1When I saw it I probably had the same reaction as every jet fan on the planet . It's like first of all , aaron , get up , stop playing . Is it like this ? Far too far from April , april Fool's Day , pardon me , get up , don't play . Don't play with my emotions like that . Man , I'm going through enough in life , get up . So it gets up , goes back down . It's like why are you going back down ? Man Like , this joke has has gone far enough . And that was it . Dude , stayed down , stay . He was out of the game not too far into his backup , which was Alston last year . I'm not going to say his name , we all know it was Zach Wilson . It's like dude , are you serious ?
Speaker 1So anyway , I've been watching Jets news every day to see what we're doing to mitigate this . We had a couple of games we lost , of course , because we went back to our backup Talking a lot of football and no , you don't care . That is why I got straight up and down . That has been my life for the last couple of weeks and I'm tethered to the Jets . Die hard , jets fan , I'm dying hard . So , anyway , there's some light at the end of the tunnel .
Speaker 1Just to give you all a update , if you care or not , but Aaron Rodgers is , he's older , he's an older quarterback , so this injury is very significant . All bet is significant to anyone but him . Rehabbing at this age is a gamble . Not the rehab he's going to have to do that anyway as a human being . But rehabbing and then coming back to a high impact game professional sports it's going to be pretty tough at this age , I don't know . So you know all you die hard team sports fans . I know you know what I'm feeling .
Speaker 1Sometimes your team's up , sometimes it down , and you get into a mood . I've been trying to been looking at the news every day to see how it mitigates this and have to make certain moves . And we are the hot topic in the NFL right now , the Jets talking about this . That coach is going to lose the locker room because he's sticking with the backup quarterback . That isn't too good . This and that and I've been calling in to my favorite like Jets fan , youtube sports radio . In my opinions too , we just got to tough it out , but we tough it out all the time . We just there's no pot of gold in the rainbow for us . So anyway , I've talked about the Jets for four and a half minutes and that is . That's just what I meant .
Speaker 1So I don't have a specific topic or subject or this epi . I'm just kicking the tie myself , I'm just rushing dust off because I haven't done the show in a while . So I'm like , hey , I don't even know if I still know how to do this . I know how to talk . I've forgotten how to talk , but it's like the whole flow thing and at this point I was supposed to have folks dialing in . I'll get to that point . You'll be able to dial in and curse me out and give you opinion and all of that . So this episode , this show , I just wanted to go rando . Let's talk about Rand . I'm calling it rando Randall thoughts that I've had .
Speaker 1I wanted to talk about me getting into my hobbies . For those of you that don't know like I recently started Gardening . I actually did pretty well at it . I grew everything from what corn , squash , cornwall , melons , herbs of course that's easy peasy , squeezy sunflowers , potatoes , carrots , peppers , all of that stuff , and it was a gamble and that's actually what I wanted to talk about . See if you out there in the podcast audience world , if you have any trade secrets in here , you gardeners .
So I use raised beds . I monitored the soil pH . I monitored that pretty closely . I did a lot of research and it was fun . I yielded a significant amount produce , still learning all the terms and stuff . But I started in May , which was pretty late because I was still researching everything and I didn't realize that .
Speaker 1What is it ? The first frost ? I didn't know . My first frost date , oh , my last frost Pardon me , my last frost date . I didn't know all of that . So I was just like rando plant , dropping seeds boom boom , boom . Raised beds , building the raised beds , getting the raised bed soil , dropping the seeds , boom boom , boom , body being boom , boom . I didn't know anything about the three sisters . What is it Three sisters ? They had beans corn and tomatoes and beans corn or something else . So when I figured that out I had to rearrange the seeds , but I had fun with it . That's just one of my newest hobby that I dove into . That was pretty cool , but anyway . So if there's any of you out there that have any tips , I grew corn . I know where I messed up with the corn . Although I did yield some decent corn , it wasn't a huge yield . I know I planted the corn too close together and I know better next time , but my tomatoes were plentiful .
Speaker 1Cucs that's my favorite thing to grow now cucumbers , because first of all , they were good when I grew them and it's like I just planted them and left them alone and they just grew . They grew peppers easy . What I loved about peppers and I mean like hot peppers , like I grew ghost peppers , tabasco , cayenne , barbenero , my pepper chainie didn't make it and what else . That's it . Those are the only peppers . One thing I like about peppers is that none of the animals mess with them , although I know like birds , like peppers are hot , mammals can't take peppers but birds can . But the birds didn't mess with my peppers . The birds did steal my blueberries though Blueberries gone . So I know that for next season , like don't like wrap them up or something .
Speaker 1All the bird thieves took my blueberries and a couple of squirrels took my sunflower seeds from my sunflowers and I literally and like these pests are very , very like they don't care , they're just straight up brazen about it . Like so I go outside and I just see like all these sunflower seeds on top of my fence . I'm like what's going on ? Like how is that ? And I see you on all this , like the squirrel is just eating them . He's like , yeah , I'll just took your seeds and I'm out . Like thanks , like are you serious ? And snails . Snails ate almost strawberries .
Speaker 1I had issues with a fox or maybe a family of foxes , I don't know what you go foxes or fox-eye , I don't know what the plural is , a camp of foxes . But I go outside one day and I see a fox hopping over my gate to my fence . I'm like , get out of here , this is not your property . And then I turn and I see on my squash plant is a big steaming pile of fox fox , internal deficit defecate . I'm like , are you serious ? So the dude comes to my squash , you know , pumps out a load , rolls out and was like yo , I'm out , I'll be back tonight , and this is like in a daytime and foxes are not eternal , but anyway . So I learned my lesson with that .
Speaker 1Ironically , after he did that , my squash plant thrived . I mean it , it it throwed straight up Like . But the only thing is , after that with the squash comes squash bugs . So anyway , all you gardeners out there , you know if it's something you do , something you've done well in the past or you are good at , let me know . I need some squash . I need some tips on . Yeah , I really need tips on squash .
Speaker 1Or bet , I did grow spaghetti squash . It wasn't pretty . It didn't end up being big . I grew a little cute size spaghetti squash , a couple of them . They were little mini sizes but I didn't like I kind of let those go . I didn't think they would make it . I thought the squash bugs would take those over but they didn't . Somehow the spaghetti squash made it . So that's interesting to me , like my spas Spaghetti . Spaghetti spaghetti squash made it , but my regular squash did not Like .
Speaker 1The squash bugs just wreaked havoc . It's like they were waiting . It's like , hey , we had nothing to do , you know , from December to May . And then once you planted those squash , that squash plant in May , it's like all bets were off . We're attacking Every day . I was plucking them off . I didn't want to use any pesticides part of me so I didn't . So I would just like manually take the squash bugs off , spraying with water , pick them up , like I was like straight up , like picking them off with my hands , and I mean it was fun because I was taking care of my plant and I didn't want to use any like pesticides . But that was my claim to fame , pride and joy . Like him and grow all his food not using the pesticides . And I didn't .
Speaker 1And one thing I did use which was very it was a very successful tactic or lady bugs . I would order lady bugs , live lady bugs maybe every two weeks or so and I was throwing my garden and they would . Just , they don't damage your plant , they will just eat like regular pests , regular bugs and stuff . But the only thing about the lady bugs is like and I I know to do better next season , but think about the lady bugs is that they fly away . So I mean they will be . You know , I would place them in my garden one day . Maybe three or four days later they're all gone . They just , like you know , give me free out what and I know it's like ladybug food that you could use . It's like man , I'm not smearing some more junk on my plant so they could stay . Like me , I kept my plants moist , so there's that anyway . So if there's any of you out there that give me some tips on growing squash , just let me know .
Speaker 1Tomatoes easy peasy . Cubes , easy peasy . I grew a lot of lettuce . Lettuce is like the easiest thing to grow . I ate my lettuce salads and stuff like that . I'd try to grow rice and I know you have to keep rice moist and I tried to be a jerk to that . I grew rice and I grew like cotton next to cotton next to the rice . So both I don't want to say both did not make it because it came .
Speaker 1It was a point in time where I was like , okay , I'm not tending to the rice anymore , so , and it was like a I'm in zone seven . So it was like a . It was a stretch where it was really really hot for like two weeks and I didn't have my automatic watering system supplying water to the rice and the cotton , so I had to manually do it . So it's like that's the hard part , and it's not hard to water stuff . But if you don't water it , you know early , early , you know it has a full day of 90 degree weather , something . You come home and you got to wait until it gets a little , you know , a little late in the evening the water is . It just became it grew , they grew , both grew , both grew , but they also they were burned . So I know I know what to do and I also know like I crammed .
Speaker 1Everything was an experiment . I had in my brain like , hey , some things won't grow , so I'll just put all these things together , like I put broccoli with my okra next to beans , and then the bleep , the beans just flourished . So I have no issues with beans . Like beans were like . The beans were like growing up the trellis themselves . I didn't even , like you know , I didn't have to put them on the trellis somehow , they just found they their way to the trellis and climbed up . And there were different type of beans to like lime is pole beans , some other beans and some other beans .
Speaker 1I grew a lot of basil . I tried to grow tea flowers but the only thing that made it was holy basil . So now I know like I tried to go chamomile . I tried to grow some other tea . What is it the ? What is it ? Borough , borough , grater , whatever . I forgot what it's called . Whatever you make Earl Grey with , I tried to grow that , but the , the holy basil , basically strangled everything and out everything . Good tea , a lot of medicinal , medicinal uses , usage , usage . I mean I don't know if it's you know , that's just what's out there . I don't know if it's like scientifically proven , but that grew like straight up .
Speaker 1Nothing else was in a little section over there cantaloupe , easy , um , cantaloupe grew . Watermelon not so easy , and that's that like . I found that to be odd . So if there's any gardeners out there , growers out there , then I know , have some tips about growing . Well , watermelon , like , let me know , because the watermelon I tried to grow watermelon in two spots and it just didn't work . But the cantaloupe was like boom and then like part of me and just had dinner . So , like cucumbers , are melons right and I don't know like cucumbers , they just grew so easily . So here's my thing cucumbers grew easily , canelo grew easily , watermelon not so easy . So give me some tips on what , watermelon , and give me tips on the grapes . Well , I don't need tips on grapes . I tried to grow grapes .
Speaker 1Japanese beetles destroyed my grapevine , destroyed it . They went to town . They were like hey , that's for the Thanksgiving meal , we're on it . Yum , yum , yum , chop , chop , chop , chop , brr , brr , brr , brr , brr . They just like straight up . They just took it , they took it . You know what ? Broccoli , if anyone has any tips on growing broccoli , I could not grow the broccoli for some reason . So I need tips on broccoli , watermelon , squash and actually soybean .
Speaker 1I tried to grow soybean . I know that's a hard thing to grow . I researched it a little bit and it's moderately difficult and I can . I can attest to that it is so , but I still would like to grow it . So if there's any , if you give me any tips on soybean growth , let me know . Oh , and here's the thing too . So I tried a few things .
Speaker 1I try to grow a few things indoors and like replant them outdoors and what I'm like hydro , grow them or whatever you call it , like the little hydro joints you know you get in this water , you go via water and like I was successful with beans . But here's the thing is very hard . So I grew beans indoors with the hydro thing and like I don't like them and this is just my personal preference now Like I like them in the beginning because it's like , oh , things are growing , low maintenance , you just have to make sure it's water in there and then the fertilizer and things do grow . But they really outgrow the system really quickly . Even if it comes with the trellis , it's like you get more growth than the actual piece of equipment can like withstand . So the whole point of it is to grow , to start stuff , grow it and then transport it outside . And so when you transport it , you're transporting it into soil and you're going from water to soil . Like I'm growing the roots straight in water . Now I'm putting them in soil and I have to , like , monitor the water so they're not going to get as much water that they used to growing up in water . So it's like I don't like that and you're not like when I grew everything outside . You need that space If you think , if you want to get a lot of crops , want to get a lot of produce , and that's not going to happen indoors , like straight up , so like , and I bought a couple of them too , like I'm like , hey , I'm going to get a couple of these like indoor hydroponic system things and grow , grow , grow . I did it and I don't like it . So there's that . But so also grew flowers , roses . Roses turned out well , it really nice . Back to Troy King .
Speaker 1Why I said plant strawberries , my strawberries . Ongoing battle with the strawberries because I had them on the ground and then it was like snails . Just they just had a field day . It's like I was feeding the snails . Wake up , go outside and check and my strawberries would have like a perfect curved C shape in them and that's the snails . So my snails were killing them . So I raised them up and grew a couple , but like a whatever . The strawberry season was over At that point .
Speaker 1Tell you one thing I grew mustard greens , collard greens . My collard greens strangled the mustard greens . Collard greens came out great , though Cook them up . I have . I make the best collard greens this side of the Mississippi and I would challenge anyone . I grew them and I made them , yeah , so anyway . So use raised beds , any garden and tips are welcome .
Speaker 1I'm going to continue . I'm excited for next season . I know what to do better and I know what to change , and I know I said this episode was going to be rando , so I'm going to talk about different things . I just ended up talking about a garden in which I owe my garden and hobby an episode , because that's really why I wanted to start the podcast to talk about my hobbies and what I like to do , my perspective , and I didn't give any of my hobbies any love , but there's one and you know I'll continue to try to give you all my experiences with my hobbies and stuff that I like to do , and I know that's like who cares , but I care and I have some fun stories and funny stories .
Speaker 1It's like my all-out war with my garden pest and are you experienced and skilled gardeners out there ? You've . You know what I'm talking about . You got to fight four-legged creatures and insects and feathered like creatures and stuff like that , and it's like dude , these things were punking me , taking my fruits and my veggies . But I like to think I won . I won that battle because I had a decent harvest and it came to a point with a foxes weren't coming to my house anymore , got an electronic device , kept them away .
The birds what did I do to stop the birds ? Oh , you know what I did . I put plastic forks around certain plants to simulate or emulate rather a predator , like you know . So the birds land , they get politely , ouch , ouch , I get us right . So I set little like not traps , but little little things to kind of like the electronic device , things to kind of facilitate offensive tactic to keep these things away , the pest away , ladybugs , plastic forks , electronic pest deter . Those things did actually work .
Speaker 1So maybe I should be the one given advice . But no , so I don't know . Put it in the comments if you had any , if you are a gardener or what not , like you have a green thumb or not , if you have a piece of information that can help me , or if you want me to help you , well , I can't help you because I don't know . I wouldn't know you anyway . Have you had any memorable garden garden in the experiences ? If you did something like , hey , I put apples , put apple slices in my pineapple soil to help it grow , or something like that , let me know because I will use your knowledge to my benefit . I would definitely do that . But I don't know if I could call this episode rando . I guess I could call it gardening and my jetsicles . But anyway , thanks for listening . And so I got .