Canna & Calla Lily Storage + Olive Tree Update! 🪴🫒😁 // Garden Answer 

Yea I thought this video was fabulous! Very cheerful. what a pleasure to watch.

my cat is like that, even more than a dog, many cats are like this

Anyone who says they’re “not a cat lover” just hasn’t met the right cat! I adore cats, have had four over the years, befriended many outdoor neighborhood cats, and have gotten to know different cats belonging to friends and family. Cats are as wide and diverse as people. If you keep your heart and mind open, you’re sure to meet a cat you love!

@@PerfectPride ... oh I have had cats too!! Haha... with personalities as diverse as people’s.... but they have always had kind of a “take ya or leave ya” attitude. Not really a desire to please exactly. Dogs on the other hand never hold a grudge.... want to please so much.... want to be right by your side always and are faithful to the end. Russell seems to have those attributes as well and he is so cute! But.. on the good side.... cats don’t dig holes in the yard chasing moles.... they don’t jump on neighbors wanting a “pet”... and they don’t bark all night. I’ll give them that! Hahaha

yes that was peak ahaha

My parents had a persimmon tree in their yard. Oh my! What a terribly bitter taste they were.

I agree! I rarely laugh out loud but I couldn't help it when Laura tasted that olive!.Priceless!

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I was doing exactly the same thing. It is indeed a taste you will never forget (YUK). Greetings from olive growing Spain 😂

Me too 😅🤣

I was preemptively cringing!

I did the exact same thing too, when I was in Siena 😅.

My mom used to cure them in three gallon jars, first with the lye, then the lye is taken out via water, then salt water cured. Each step takes days with daily monitoring with test papers. The rinse step is a daily water change until no lye comes out on the test paper. When she would test them she would take one out, slice down to the seed and then you touch the paper to it. They were the best olives, like a kalamata without the vinegar and extra oil.

I laughed so hard I was crying. Replayed 2 times just to see your face. You looked directly at the camera! Priceless. Thanks Laura.

Yes, I was saying no, no, no. We had 2 olive trees in CA in the back orchard and my Dad never harvested them. I asked him why and he said they have to be 'cured' first - I think that was the term he used - he was too busy harvesting all the fruit trees and mostly almond trees (15 acres); some walnut and a few pecans. We didn't have peanuts but someone at work once asked me how they were grown - I knew they grew underground; and they also asked how cashews were grown. That one I had to look up and was surprised at the process of harvesting cashews (and also how dangerous they could be if not handled correctly).

Exactly! I knew she would have to spit it out immediately!

So cheap here... Crete Greece...it has nothing to do with harvest or cure as in price. It has to do with where it grows and zone/climate. Here in Greece its the main tree so most everyone has olive trees to harvest and produce oil or cure olives. A farmer sells the oil around $2 per liter and around the same for prepped olives a kilo. But you guys get it much more expensive because you do not produce and because of shipping from mostly Southern Europe

I was yelling at the tv.. nooooo…….😂😂😂

T his makes me sad it see all the beautiful flowers ,one day the next day gone just gone. This is almost a year later that I'm watching this video, Aug, 16th 2023. I'm not looking forward to this day at all. I'm a summer lover.😢

I love your profile picture !

That’s hilarious, I’m still waiting for my husband to get the fever. Haha

That's too funny. Mine is the same way however if I have GA on when he walks into the room he will say "Good Morning Laura"

Same. My husband could care less about gardening, but he knows who Laura is as soon as I mention her name in regards to anything I am doing in my garden.

IKR? Made me laugh out loud. Who wants a Russell? 🙋‍♀️

If I fits, I sits. 😂🐈

Russell was so cute today !...Laying in the crate...in the pot...on the table behind the olive tree....he has such a fun personality ! Finding olives was super exciting...let us know how they cure

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Maybe it was an email from Felco reminding her she's meant to be promoting them 😂

That would be amazing. It would need to be a coral or peachy pink color.

Yes me too!

Carol Klein is pretty good at showing how to do stuff. I have been watching her autumn series this week where she's been showing how to dig up, divide, and propagate a lot of plants during fall. I don't know what her area would translate into an American zone. I oftentimes learn more from her than Monty too.

I had a neighbor who left her cannas in the ground(zone 5b) and since they were planted next to the foundation of her house it kept them warm enough to safely overwinter in the ground! Sometimes it's worth taking a chance on plants that are borderline hardy to your zone🌞

My kids live in Northern part of Dallas, zone 7a, and they have a large patch of cannas (about 20 feet long, and 3 feet wide) which grow waaay far away from the house, zero protection from anything. They never dig them up. Every year the cannas die back in the Winter, and that's when they get cut back to the ground. Every Spring there's more Cannas! The entire patch made it thru the big Arctic storm which hit Texas this last February, and the temperatures were as low as -5° for several days!! Those cannas pulled thru like those extreme cold temperatures were never even here!! As a comparison, my Daffodils bit the dust in that storm, but not their cannas!! Those buggers are TOUGH!! Side Note- There is a moth who uses the cannas as a host plant. And every year there are hundreds of caterpillars who munch on those big leaves. This makes my son in law a little nutty. He says he feels invaded! But I keep telling him it's just nature doing its thing! After the caterpillars are done, he just cuts the eaten leaves off and the plants simply grow new leaves! No harm done!

@@gardengatesopen my Cannas got fuzzy caterpillars that ate the leaves this year, first time I've had that problem. I hope it's a freak thing as I am keeping the rhizomes in their pot and not watering them until Spring. They will be stored in my potting shed that I keep at 50ish degrees, I will see how they do.

@@angelaengler2387 I'm just going to guess that it's not a freak thing. And I only say that bcuz this is exactly what Nature is set up to do. So it sounds like you're creating a very healthy ecosystem out in your garden! Every plant is a host plant for SOME insect. EVERY plant. It's Nature's plan. And the beauty of that plan is that it works. The good thing about cannas is the plant has evolved to feed those caterpillars, AND then continue on to not only survive, but to flourish. So no worries when that moth lays those eggs, and the onslaught of caterpillars has arrived! The cycle of life is playing out, and the canna's leaves will be ugly for a little while, but then the plant will be fine! It will grow new leaves. And the beauty will continue. This world needs insects. And the imperfection that's created by them is the true nature OF Nature. Insects are gross, and creepy, I agree! But it's also very interesting to watch. ❤

@@NO-ns2tw yeah, those zones are tricky for me... Mostly bcuz all of Texas has such a big range of temperatures. You probably are in zone 8. Officially, I think y'all are in 8a, and I'm in 8b? Or something like that... But it always seems colder up there to me! Which I think is why I'm always thinking the Dallas area is in zone 7... And then there's times like last February where that one long storm put us ALL into an zone 6 (I think it was?) for that entire week! Or was that zone 5 temperatures??! But then, growing up in Dallas, I remember playing softball with my family on more than one Christmas Day, and going barefoot for it too! But then, some Winters it never does get very cold, like EVER! Those times, I'm in zones 10 or 11 for the entire Winter! Texas weather is so crazy!! Maybe we should have hyphenated zones! Like, you and I both live in: "zone 6-10 depending". I guess that's hyphenated with extending circumstances!

I planted one red canna, I purchased from one of our garden centers, in the ground around June (it was tiny, in a 6 inch pot with 3 little stems coming out) and had to dig it up just a couple days ago. I didn't think I could get it without my husband's help but I did and oh lord...I knew it had more than grew 6 times bigger but when I dug it up, I was surprised to see that I will be getting approximately 32 or more new Red Canna's next year to plant. That is of course if all goes well in storage. I'm storing them today.

Do I need to separate my bulb 'mass'? I'm worried if I don't, they'll rot in the middle, but I'm also worried about hurting them trying to detach them. I'm bringing mine into my basement for the winter (zone 6a).

@@dpstoops I don't separate the mass until spring. I just put the whole chunk in the basement in some peat moss and get as much soil off as possible but don't worry about picking it clean. It's much easier to separate the growth points in the spring when the dead parts of the mass have desiccated and you can just cut them away.

I only watch one planting and it Laura's I love the passion she has and she talking about what she does what she used but she over talk not enough plants or remove the plants she has to remove be4 frost Russell looks cute in that basket. Benjamin Franklin always come out to help his mom he great little help

You ain't kidding! This year I said no pots!

Plus those Yeti type cups keep your coffee hot for a long time. Also the soil and critters don't find themselves at the bottom of an open cup.

I was like, what!? She's just going to EAT IT??!! Preemptive cringing!

I live in Eureka, California. I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope one day you will have beautiful Canas again. ♥️

She is in SE Oregon, sort of a new zone 6. Until it is not, and goes back to a 5. Mother Nature is quirky.