tired last week we're getting some a little warm up now after some sort of more typical junior wherry weather for a week or two before had one of those to even put the peppers in till mid june i didn't think about it keeping down the basement of the greenhouse i used to run flats in and out of doors and i used to grow a lot of peppers b we're going into the top of the fall crops and i've got probably two thirds to three quarters of the beds planted with the warm weather stuff i'm including the cucumbers are going to go i get some plants go in and that alone finish up in the cooler months a lot of those plants will be carrots rust sprouts cabbage benefit from a frost or two to improve their quality sweet over just need that hard snap all right we got a lot of gardening to do girls what the world holds in store for a magnifying glass i've got a pretty good crop of corn to go on almost all the positions are filled i lost about five to six positions from each of the know sweet corn you actually want late you know if you're if you're doing a lot of sweet corn you know start early and you keep planning to so we're looking at later planning dates it's all about growth degrees days you know how warm it is for instance like bees will something like baseline never even started till july so what we're going to do is so this is sort of an experiment in direct planning corn which so far is looking a little iffy them the second round we actually germinated them inside let that radical group come out and have much better germination there but even you know the soil is like sixty five holden sixty five sixty degrees so this is you know considered  el adequate for corn but it really likes that warm you know we're talking seventy five degree soil temperature hard to achieve in this class so you know last year i had very good success starting the indoors for two three weeks and then transplanting them out in may so we're running a little behind by i think we can still if we can get a good stand going it looks like we've got enough because of course one or two corn plants doesn't do any good because you need enough for all corner of the bed and i let it grow you know it's from the corn that grew there the season before i'm going to plant a couple of these just to see how they go do good rather the same thing i did last year which is aloft the top cut the male part off so it can't pollinate my sugar enhanced genetics over here in effect any production here corns unique in the fact that you actually can get  in a logical change the first pollination like pollination usually you don't see it until you plant the core you know a plant the next year and see what the seeds like there the pollen can actually affect  here so we're going to you know this is the experimental things we've got blank this also give us an idea of what a later planting date you know push that date back a couple weeks maybe you can still get corn by september at the direct so who knows maybe now's the time to plant that's what i find so i'm just going to pop a couple seeds in there make your soils crumble the dry out and i'm also going to put in a couple of the preps breeders choice this is the show you know more of the shriveled gene you know these are super not this shrunken gene but the sugar enhanced se genetics they've got the old sugary shrunken because they're not full starts or full of sugar and will plant a couple of those again to see what a later date would do for us next   i want to point out that if you're reading projects like bruce karatz and beats back here a couple years ago and actually collect some seeds last year these are looked volunteers from volunteers  you know from hybrid of the hybrids and obviously doing very well this one there were two varieties in here and i think it's pretty distinct which ones are which i'm going to let this one go i've already started weeding out the other one because they it's not as big or ists be dug down these didn't make as big a carrot this one's got a big honking carrot at the bottom and see this one has a first for the light but it's also got a disadvantage for moisture that's first parts dry out so what i've done this time this is true for all these beds i don't use lumber on the side generally use it just use  y soil sitting here also mulch this with ground autumn leaves this time broadleaf maple leaves and it made this great mulch which is almost totally gone  just skeletons and a few of the leaves left and it looks dry on top that it's been hot today but you go just a little down and you find this great crumb structure that's kind of what you're looking  for and you could see that the garlic roots really dig those crumbs you know you know when you work the soil you break up the big clumps sure you know crumble into you know something like that but don't be  produced material on earth as far as mass so that it's fungus iran to ground something's happening underground right i mean that's you know how what you're looking for if you let your soil dry out too much you know you're going water on the show the last time about five weeks ago and as you can see they're not suffering at all i'm almost ready i think in july watering might be appropriate  in position soup where it would zero atmos drop so it's kind of at the bottom of moisture course up here it's bone dry up in the first couple inches but i go down couple more inches so you know i'm kind of in the middle even further down you can see you know i'm getting up there and then out here kind of away from the crack in the plastic and where i have water a little a little heavier out get away and five weeks later and we're still you know we're not bone dry in here and you know if you go down you have to go down about six or six inches and you can put some water in slowly i'll put down you know the quarter inch of time stop wait fifteen minutes overnight build it up slow i'll have to pull this plastic off because i didn't you know plan for that cycle bring it up slow but the plastic back on and we should be good for another month you know especially with this plastic i generally don't use plastic mulch i have the stuff laying around the reds supposed to reflect red light help tomatoes moisture which is what you want for preventing the blossom and rot which is calcium to fit uptake problem when you're got that water going from drought to saturation or sitting in saturation for a long time done you know the breeding project on the right and the eating peas on the left you know i'll save some of those seeds too for next year but you know a good amount has we've got these cucumber sitting here get a little sunshine in the afternoon they've been in the basement these are about one week and three days old they're going to go in the ground at two weeks  i sometimes waffle whether that's two weeks from the time i plant the seed to war two weeks from when they emerge either work as you can see they go really fast they don't like to spend a lot of time in the flat they don't like transplanting don't tease the roots with these you can pick them you know get a slight amount there and stick a man only two weeks in the flat you won't have those roots thousand are circling so you don't need to mess with them just dig a little hole and stick just about french stuff but you still see a couple seeds these little fuzzy spiky things no reply commercial scene you don't really see that as much because i think they  time we're going to go half and half this way leaves and carrots the requirements are pretty similar as far as the water goes you want plenty of water in the beginning get them up running actually like these later planting  and i'm just going to i'm going to plant these for size the stuff i always crowd stuff but the trick to get big things is to spread them out you know give him plenty of room big plant big group right so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take a little pinch of these spread them out a little more because carrots you know to get a good stand can be a challenge and these guys are really one of the reasons i was indecisive about this bed is it really going to take this is a full sun area which you're gonna love when they come up to going to have to mulch this and make sure that water is pretty well for us you know about a week to ten days while these guys you know get their act together so with the carrots and again this used seeds are from last season i'm not even sure you know what their german enough to work with and the