I am just on the loose with my camera. I'm going to go along and just show show you what they're using for their experimental plants. They they're raising them for various reasons I know not. So in these small cell plantings either these are like the opposite of the document that these are raised beds with little rows sort of cut in the middle of the of the raised bed, and they're growing this way. We've got either a turnip, or a radish. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference here.

But then, we've got also flowers being planted. And flowers, of course in farming, are being used either as bug attraction or bug repellent, depending on their on their smell. And here we've got a variety of opinions. Coming up, coming up in very little water I notice. So maybe they are looking for drought resistant varieties in the case they have these kinds of periods here. And this of course will be your carrot, carrots.

Carrot tops are very firm like and quite beautiful, fluffy looking brushy things as they come up together and community course I would always espouse that you companion plant but when you're doing experimental research here you don't want anything getting in the way of what you're doing some kind of a brassica I've eaten these leaves so much. These are kind of a I always remember the name of this immediately when the camera goes off, but I can never remember the name When I'm filming So anyway, it's I've grown this many, many times over the years and quite good, very nutritious and very large growers substantial leaves. Here we've got beet root, my favorite vegetable of all time, for various reasons for the hormonal properties that the beet root can exert as well as for the greens, which are the greatest things in salad and all of it being very, very high power antioxidant and particularly organic.

And we're being grown here in very dry conditions so they seem to be doing very well. Looks to me like we got green beans, a variety of a green bean going on here. beautiful white flowers and almost looks like these are sweet. Paste. But let's take a look here. Yeah, and, to me look to my eye looks more like more of a variety of a green bean.

Although it is shaped like a sweet pea. One never knows when you're in another country, you always feel like an idiot making the wrong guess on vegetables. But these are quite beautiful and growing very well. So this is an idea if you're growing lagoons and feel Look, they just are making strips of bamboo here and just crossing them over. Something very simple. No, they're you're doing a little crosshatch with the bamboo as well there and they could go all the way up if they wanted to, but they just kind of quit after a couple of rows.

But the growth is being is is being done well enough. And the result is good. Here they're working with black plastic now here's here's a kind of a mulch that you can choose I always advise against I am a very much an enemy of the black plastic revolution. Although it does tend to work very well this happens to be strawberries. I'll zoom in on those for you. The black plastic, yeah, it works.

It prevents the weeds. It's a it's a good ground cover prevents some of the insect problems which could occur the nematodes whatever, don't get in the blowing in with the dust. Great and then when you water, it does tend to funnel the water directly into the hole you want. And then, you know channels of water very efficiently. However, knowing this human world being as it is in between plantings, these black plastic strips tend to go to hell and you've got black plastic now. Blowing all over your farm, which will become a nightmare for the rest of your life.

So this is, you know, there's pros and cons to it. I just tend to shy away from the, the plastic at all costs for whatever reason. Because we'll, I think it's high time we learned to put up with the natural world. And I mean, when I say natural, I mean all natural. And that it's, yes, we may become lazy. But we don't have to introduce chemicals at any given point.

If we so choose, and that's what makes us truly organic. And these what's going on here they're, they're letting this go to seed. So this is how you produce your organic seeds from season to season. You go ahead and certain plots you will see a you will plant for the expressed purpose of just creating seed. And this is what's going on here. So the they bolted in when we say bolted it means the, the seed chute has created a very tall structure out of that plant.

The vegetable is no longer that good to eat, although it's still edible push comes to shove we've got kind of a rocket, and these kind of legacy brassica looking sort of salad things going on here, which are crate quite great in salads. And this is a local variety. Quite interesting, aren't they little fluff balls and fairly, fairly easy to grow. If especially if your honor Research Farm with 100 individuals to take care of it. And up here of course, an old standby And some lovely young ladies going by that are that are working working here at the center. We have got a brassica that has been picked looks to me to be a broccoli that is now in its last days.

And right next to it here we have a Western cabbage or a ball cabbage, quite large ones. If you'll notice, big and beautiful Look at that thing. Look at those things go. As you see the size of that plant is quite large. It's it's maybe as wide as two and a half of my hand spreads there, all the way across the plant. So you want the plant your final planting about two hands spreads across.

This is about what what else happened here in your final planting. In other words, you can plant more in the beginning, pick pick those out and eat those when they're younger, let the final ones grow to maturity and like this, this is a good strategy I find and yeah, these these broccolis are all picked over. And this last bit of chaff this last bits of leaves I would recommend somebody do something with those right away either turn those under for green manure, or go ahead and feed these to the animals before they dry out and and go worthless right now they're full of nutriment even though we don't like to eat these outer leaves here and we prefer the the lovely broccoli