welcome to the real guard and get our chicken shots and the day after thanksgiving a nice bright clear cold morning after a week of day lo cia emptied the rain meter once set four point two inches into the gannett about one quarter like there was about another one and three quarters in the gauge this morning so it's it's been wild in the wind and terror in the garden up a while my plastic was flying around oil it's been crazy so the girls put in the snacks in there with them but they won't come out in this stuff any more there are getting old so anyway boy it seems like a always seems like a long time since we filmed so much has happened and last week we had a lab so because we ran out of daylight so you can see the outdoor garden i just couldn't wait actually got it in before thanksgiving this year it's going to be a good year course the just a couple days after getting the garlic and somebody from work canada so i might have to look at my charts to see if i've got any you know weak varieties in there that i maybe have an extra row that i can pull out and put some of this really great look in we've got a little thing go in there this guy and me start talking and he gave me a little black berry j m that he had made a game a little bit of that party kiwi jam that i had made and then he brings me some garlic so i guess i owe him a it's a great way to diversify your larder and so make friends with other canners and gardeners that way you don't end up with you know twenty pounds of cabbage you can trade some of that off and somebody  trade your tomatoes for the salsa something like that we'll go look at the outdoor garden and then i think we're going to go down it's a little less windy and cold coming through and stripes rain and frost and as we all know it's just going to continue for a little while coming up on the solstice here another month peas behind when i'm ready to plant those so you know i'm already into next year and figure you know what's going to happen and you should be too it's just around the corner get out get an early start i got my first seed catalog in the mail somebody was on top of things this year from a nice organic outfit back east so obviously i'm not alone in thinking ahead so let's just wander out and take a look at the garlic  that we're filming you know earth you know good morning which is unusual for its bright sunny and i was hoping to catch some of this cold weather stuff in the grips of the frost because you know that's something we don't usually see but usually see them all uncurled like this you know you know already they are first thing this morning they were all rather flat rather crystallized looking pretty dead but you know this cooler weather stuff ha that ability to you know put the glycol up in the leaves and pull the water down into the roots and whether this stuff pretty good you know all this mustard in the cabbage will put up with a lot of abuse and tell you weeks now because it's starting you can see it starting to try to bloom but now of course we've run out of sun and more for it but surprisingly it's put up with the frost fairly well i will get try to get a hoop over it and you can also grow and thirty cloves per bed hard next soft neck about a six inch grit you know depending on the size of the bulb somewhere between one inch and two inches down bolts but they're tucked in just fine for the winter i few years back i planted them the day before one of these really hard frost like down in the teens in the soil was you know doing that  and castle thing bursting up with ice crystals and i thought for sure i'd killed them taking them you know with no transition from the sixty degree basement into the fourteen degree soil and you know just digging around there after the thaw and already they had started to put the roots out so don't worry about your garlic get in no it's not too late last year i planted in december and i got a pretty good crop despite the rust that came in totally unrelated to say they're moving you know follow through to season so let's just say goodbye it's been a great season obviously these guys are done i've got a lot of work to do to get some of this fruit off no i didn't get in and wrapped individually in newspaper incident down in the basement in a box to ripen i had enough tomatoes and i got my you know i don't know what he pounds of tomatoes canned  a probably crawling on these things i know some powdery mildew on the foliage at the end of the season so all this comes down i don't compost it i can't burn it you know due to the codes to all that'll go in the way you spin and go off straw too and send it all away because i want to i will be reusing this as a tomato bed due to the use of the grafting root stock the which is resistant to the soil borne diseases so what i'm concentrating on for next year is to make sure that the from the surface up his disease free because course the science stock is the heirloom stock which is not resistant to the foliage  actually you can go to the website i should say i did a pretty good write up and picture story for planting garlic from last year mutant serve a triple clover actually a lot of sometimes you get a double clove and this one's actually really weird it's got triple clover for you can see that one skin is holding one two and three close if you know if you're running low on seed you can use those but since i've got quite a handful here and only a limited space i'll save those for cooking i always like  to keep the skins on as much as possible which sometimes can be challenging with a hard neck it does want to pull off if it you know peels off a little bit i kind of you know with it and stick it and try to keep as much on the really careful with your basal material you know the root and gosh this one's already putting out some nice ones it's nice new roots you know if you've really ripped that up you might want to choose another clove but of because of course we all know that's where the girl explodes from this one's been stored well so you can't see any green tip on there but you know you can kind of see where it would develop  you take low and it's the rule for any ball whether it's garlic or daffodils is the height of the ball times three so right about there the bottom of the ball are it's a good time to look at your bulbs divide them you know if they're starting to get crowded to serve an exotic species i just like to kind of go through all my pots of now gone dormant and make sure there's something down there something buyable and then either stick them back in the pot you know take the opportunity to get rid of all these clovers and weeds that tend to grow it outside friday and when i'm doing this i'm also spread that soil out looking for things like this guy i hope he sprouting isn't that interesting this is a little pup that's come off the main corm and you can see he's got a little green tip there coming up and these are my aram's are a little confused as to what season it is because they do come in for the winter and go out for the summer so these guys probably just went dormant and they've been in the greenhouse so now they are a good side of this summer again so now i'm carefully taking those clovers out because i see there's another one sprout so i'm hoping i didn't screw him up too bad it's been and i'll just qana now that i know that that's what they're doing i'm not sure if this is a now i don't know whether this is a pup pot or whether there's a big mother down there since they are active we'll probably do i'm going to soon this is a grows here in the winter because in the canary islands that's the growing season because it's more easter  as pretty you know especially when it's wet it's got a nice cherry color to it so and don't get to know if you're keeping track of things like the exotic sear don't get to put the ten again  up those are from seed zero five and these were look well and i do tend to make notes one corm found in re planted in no six so this is either there's a mother corm down there or split i've had that happen we're just sides to split into three or four so that's what happened mean corm repotted to know eight so it's probably down there somewhere and i took some i guess i should show you just as a follow up i did another pot full of that same species face build it all out and here is kind of what they look like when they're dormant there's the little growth tip sticking up they tend to rot off a little bit on the bottom slough off a layer you know and grow and then this one you can see already see it's starting a little pup out so these are kind  of in storage right now i'm not quite sure this is a good way to do it just send moist coconut oil or make sure the bag can still breathe though or they're going to rot and i have i'm kind of just trying to decide what to do with those eventually but just to show you what's going on there's you know some berries in there oh you can even see the m embryonic radek deal route on there so or there might not even be dormancy on these that's almost like a top set of garlic is ready to go so no play with those maybe make some more bit and they toughened up a little bit got a middle bigger pot and now they have even been under the lights and been trying to figure out where i'm going to put them and you can see he's bent towards the light that he could  see but now they're back out into the normal you know fifty five sixty temperatures here in the basement and they're growing actively again i could see this guy's looking a little yellow though so what we're going to do is we're going to g never i mean i separated some of them but so many were going in this pot a ham got all of these and you can see some of these are getting a little ugly you know they've got sort of a trouble spot there from a couple years ago that was actually from  will demonstrate that but you can see that after the chop you know that calluses and this guy is actually putting a pup out so it doesn't kill the base at all it's just a way to pretty up the top and what we're going to do here is take a quick cutting off and another one you know like this guy right in the center and you see i've got my tweezers out because these are pretty spine and i'm going to get down here at that ugly  some spots here it's chopping off and now we let him callus he needs a spot to go like a little you know plenty of air plenty of just keep him on the bench and keep an eye on what this is going to do is you're going to leave this for like three or four five weeks basically basically intel it looks starts looking like the scar here dried it will shrivel inside you know poll into itself and at that point that's where he says want to start to put it to route that you could even play with that little bit there see if a thing popped out of th way we do that is here's one that's actually working that's what we're talking about today and you can see he's not in there very well he's just basically resting on the top of the soil and then i put a little bit of this number one around just just to put it in the dark basically very little water i puts a little bit of water in the soil down here and then put a dry layer on top of that and then place this on top and then put the peak rattle around and you know very careful with the water i keep them on the side of the bench and i pull them up the other day and sure enough we start to see the roots starting develop straight from that callus and so this guy's getting there now i'll go ahead and kind of keep him in this set up since it's successful for another you know month to go all the time in the world but we're going to just do the same thing just kind of prop i'm up there now the other thing you can do to make more pops potentially is you can take rather than plant them up as a specimen right here like i'm doing here i'm going to pull more no more gravel there just to hold them up a little more you think you can do is you know you take your cutting but we just did here or what we do here is planted sideways after the callous forms and the pups will come up from a so we're out of time you can email me if you want the real garden at yahoo dot com that's all one word in lower case you can also call me up so i listen for the phone app to save me so you can also visit that website of the w w dot the real garden dot com it's right up on some of the techniques we use here in pictures of chickens and cetera