oh my god overslept welcome to the real garden nine vintage edition brand new two thousand and thirteen it's it's almost spring it's time to bring up and get some gardening done let's go see the chicken come on up the other end but marie cush point out is i thought she was molting and she is but only on her eyebrows she stopped presenting for a week or two and now she's presenting rather readily so i think she'll probably come back on the lee pretty soon here journalist one she caught a bug on her first day out and has been continuing to dig them tough provider own fodder ever since she's been playing since last july pretty my old crone the first chicken i ever owned eleven years old this year and as you can see she's a little worse for the wear little scruffy and trying to grow that tail back in but is having a hard time bug and just couldn't shake it and said see her go but in an ideal world people you shout loop your chickens so that's just how it is we live longer than they do we're just kind of starting a little bit of gardening  let's go out and look at the girls got a pretty good show i've been they have been jumping up like that all winter long but they know they're on camera they're superstars at hear while the few things i did this winter was i managed to get my bra or my garlic him and it's coming up pretty nicely got a couple italian varieties are a little late in starting these are all that two or three times a year cut off fertilization in june cut off water by july and harvest is usually mid july late july for the hard part next just starting to emerge so but it's  coming up i can see my little green coming up so i think we're on schedule for this and again i'll give a little bit of fish to that as well so other math we've kind of let the garden go fal one just too much to do and everyone so well it's good to take a little break get a new direction so basically what i'm doing here is starting with the basics and puting soil plants to feed me stuff has been washing up all beach visit and it's basically eel grass it's been chopped down to these little bits by the wave action and it's been depositing itself in a pretty good you can still see shell there  the responses i've been getting from everybody is isn't it salty and it is to a degree remember the plants don't necessarily take up the salt that they're living in so at best they have a little coating  so there's not much salt to begin with and then seawater itself is ninety five percent water about three point five percent salts and of that some of the salts are actually magnesium potassium  sulfur and other you know plant nutrients there is sodium chloride in there but it's especially on a low cap ion exchange capacity soil such mind that means sandy sandy soil will  let go of any sodium pretty readily particularly because you also have plant nutrients charging the soil particles got a negative soil charged soil particle or a compost particle also seaweed or in this case you'll grasp this will break down nicely and put provide a lot of trace minerals you know this see things are full of those trace minute minerals a lot of the organic fertilizers you find almost in their native state from when i put them down a couple months ago over here i've kind of been worked the soil the chicken been in here a little bit and but not a lot you can see these leaves are breaking down more it's good to get some some stirring action let the chickens loose on here's a bad but this is the they've only been here in here  sat all winter long without their access to it news you can see here they start chopping this stuff down you know there's the leaves yeah but there are a lot smaller particles and you can see they're nicely coated in the microorganisms that are going to break them down and just the they have that special way of turning the soil you know they don't compact it because they're so light and they'll just you know comb through this over and over and over again it's really a great way to churn and burn this organic material without building a large compost heap this is a cool composting technique you know you're not getting that microbial heating action that you do with a cubic y got this old sort of folding dog fence i found behind a dumpster and i just keep rearranging you know they've been through the two beds back here they've been through those two beds back there and now i'm kind of working i'm down along from these beds and they do a good job come here goldie show much you can do  so obviously what they're concerned with is finding worms they like their protein when they're laying planted these the night that i planted them they've got water again very nicely thank you very much so i actually put this over to control the moisture level peas are a big seed this particular variety rarely me it's cool down about a degree with the sun going down we're forty nine degrees which is slightly warmer than ambient out here when i first put it in a three hundred fifty which is about bare minimum for p germ very nice we don't have emergency i don't see a route or anything but they've picked up just the right amount of moisture this was a wrinkled p c b when i put it in the ground as you can see there's no wrinkles in it now because it's almost doubled in size and weight but it's still firm which is what i'm looking for i could see that radical root in fact just that little triangular piece it's just ready to break through the next day or so i'll see that little white tip break through the skin second i can go right back down put a root down since i know which side is which i don't worry about that when you're planning a dry junk or an old soupy from the monasteries back in europe and they and i think it was a like an organ giant or one of the snow peas so i'm trying to get a tall vine magenta which was a giant snow pea and it had magenta blossoms and a little blush to it so i've actually planted a short row of those back here kind of at the end of the trellis so that if i choose to i it's kind of that time again you know for the reruns of covered this but every once in awhile come up with something new to say about it of tomato for grafting yet they came up this afternoon currently wasn't looking and they're already looking for that light this is a common problem you get when you light photo trope is and if you will so that's what these guys are doing what i'll do is i'll poll him out cool them down a little these are kept seventy five to eighty degrees on the heat map or cooling down a little now that i've got emergence and get those fluorescent lights right down on top of them and that'll keep them stocky so we've got two varieties go on here the root stock which happens to be this one oh forks good germination on the bow for this year excellent so this is a disease resistant root stock of specialized seed it's comes from wild strains of tomatoes so if you grow these out and eat that get tomatoes without grafting these would have a hard green in edible tomato but they've got a very vigorous disease resistant root stock so we're going to grow these up for of roots alongside these talian pears it's like a giant pear sauce tomato which i have also you mertz in the last six hours i'd say seattle will seedlings here and here looping this is where you want to catch them if you get them under the lights so they don't do this other thing that will be ari so what's going to happen is what we were going to try to grow these up under similar circumstances of the growth the same rate to the same diameter of stem we're going to be cutting the root stock in half and cutting the heirloom basically in half so hopefully that's what we'll do so what's happening is in order to assure that i get the right diameter stems to put together which is more challenging than it sounds because they grow at different rates of head cool one down speed one up advance one from up here and you know find me for the diameter so i'm just using a real basic mix of you know this the coconut oil or this ground up coconut just you know typical tomato planting now in years past i've been putting you know four of the air these are the heirloom seeds i've been putting for  heirloom seeds in each cell so i get more tops unfortunately what i learned was that those plants will be smaller you know the door from their crowded like and i think that's one of the problems that it's having matching diameter so in this case and planting one in each cell hoping you know counting on these seeds being pretty good as far as germination rate goes and that way hopefully i'll get the root stock in the air growing at the same rate so this is now they're about eight to a quarter inch deep not very deep it's a small seed you don't want a speck spending all their energy just i just had some seed sitting on the bench and i think it's what i want that i'm hoping it's that black prince quarter blue cross that i had going for a year or so ago so good way to water these in this is very dry material at this point it is just a place and half an inch of water and when the top turns dark it's imbibe all the water it's going to pull it out drain it and get it on heat now and again about seventy it you know something a little more you know this is all eight ten weeks out and something you can do something that you know it's kind of overdue i should have started these back in february probably use cabbage  too early if you come out to early and they get you know that late frost too many times they can take a little bit and then they'll start getting stressed out and soon as it warms up