show is about twenty one months gilbert continues to play she leaves started playing just shortly after stella and continues to play the series got a straight go out on her own right we're going to go in the ground here this week i think preach amazing many years i've stuck them in the ground you know third week i'm chewing on him till dominance behavior no one gets hurt yeah i can remember putting peppers in just just because i was running out a calendar in those conditions still weren't right for the salt into into july this is a good get some good growing weather and i'm clock and you know average fifty degree nighttime temperatures and anything over fifty you're growing i mean when your soil temperatures are in the upper sixt when you just throw the chicken down into the group they're kind of hard wired to reestablish stahmann a particularly that one is a bottom of the ladder anyway so if i just toss her down right in front of the others cloudy period one of our more typical growing seasons and i used clear plastic because it really even on a cloud on a cloudy day will bring those you know fifty degree soil temperatures up into the seventy's and eighty's now if you get a one sunny afternoon and you forget to pull that plastic off you cook so i went with a black plastic because we've been having such nice days black plastic has a slight so i dug one up i did these last friday is now wednesday so they've only been on the ground for about five days and i did dig one up yesterday before i get impatient first tip of the root just emerging so that's where we're at i'm planning on a ten and a half inch grid which is a slightly you know tight spacing for corn i think at the by the fourth of july as they say more you know perhaps we'll have seventy four degree days by them you know as i would say the degree days are measure of how long you know  loving crop such corner tomatoes take as far as the actual conditions it's not by the calendar you start with the base typically fifty degrees and a temperature above that is a  agree above that is a gross degree day commercial corn seed will be sold with you know for instance you need eleven hundred degree days so you need eleven hundred cumulative degrees above the squash back behind the green house had the color of the banana squash except for a turquoise star on the blossom so i thought that was so cool then i thought well collect the seed that i grew next to an italian squash and so i was fried that it might come out mixed with that i didn't want that so i actually went back two years i have seed saved so i know this from the same batch that grew those beautiful squash i'm after so i'm actually back black plastic actually than the bare soil but it is also holding that moisture in just perfectly the other thing i did was i you know slugs just love baby squash baby corn so i sprinkled a few of those slug pellets the iron phosphate base to you know in viral friendly slug pellets because they love to hide under the black plastic i've been finding a lot of very sick looking slugs you know the iron phosphate works when they ingest it with the bait they kind of paralyzes like their digestive system so i've seen some slugs you know kind of a pretty good body count under this black plastic and it's either those pellets you know they're attracted in from the plastic pellets or i'm thinking it might be like the old frog in the pan of the water going to they're hanging out having a groovy time there under the black plastic and then the sun comes out and they might just be drying out maybe just getting cooked i showed a lot of dry soil in the store and did and i just want to reiterate that that's not kind of where i left it so first let's take a look at where we're adding to the tomato b cage at this point i do water the plant a little bit but i keep the drier inside and out because i want those roots spreading out so before i put the mulch down i watered into the what i consider about the ideal a nice consistent dark color from top to bottom but the same time now you know it's it packs but there's a lot of air can between there and that's all the moisture i'm looking for from tomatoes anything more net than  thing in the later season that is basically the question was the difference between what i'm doing and death watering you know like where you really saturate the soil you know infrequently but you really go heavy and basically this is the same concept it's just i never want oversaturation i never want to be that point where the plant is sitting in an oversaturated bed for even a short period of time  can see the thing that packs the most here is the bottom layer you know that's the wettest part and it always will be right you know it kind of dries out from the top general so basically i don't want  water down deep already has the water if i'm going to bring this up to a consistent level and maybe you know recharge that bottom just a little bit unfortunately i do have to water through the top layer to get to the bottom then  we're just going to put a little bit in and reach that ideal and stop there we never overshoot you know to make it you know it's through the long weekend or anything like that so what you do is what we're going to do  kind of do this through show really come over here and i've got bad or just about the condition they would be in where i'd kind of think well these are young tomato plants i'll give him a shot of water  those roots out and looking for the water so here's a bed that's been works how waiting for a crop to go in and as you can see it's very dry on top dusty you get down here you've got a little more if i take a little is you get down here you know you pull that top thirty second of a layer off you see it's dry underneath you go back to that like color but the thing is what what's on top is wet i mean this is mud now stuff you know it might take an hour you know it might take over night i had a bed very similar to this and i watered to the end and i saw it you know about that much pure drive between the top layer and that already watered down layer come back the next morning it was all distributed and it starts looking good so we'll take another look at that you know after we come back here and  this is exactly how you do it you know you do something else tomatillos went in last week all signs of nutrient deficiencies that they were suffering from in the pot gone  the more runty ones are starting to look robust tomatillos just love to grow again i i water these in and i'm probably about ready maybe for a little shop maybe i'll give you a fish emulsion with a little bit of water in the next day or so but again these guys are pretty drought tolerant they are aggressive growers you can see i've got these little baby stakes on them because what happens is they they start growing so fast once they hit that soil they get a little top heavy and they also start seeking the sun you know they'll they'll lean for that sun and they'll start to flop over a little bit when the wind picks up or they get a little rain on their tops so these guys are getting big enough to graduate to something like this you don't want to poke the roots too much so i kind of go off to the side so if i hit a root it's not you know ripping it right from the main stem and we're going to start with the loose velcro going into this is going to start put in with all the collars on them just so they can't get too far away from vertical if they do flop over you'll notice that it's just in the time you've been at work they'll have grown vertical again which is a problem when you stand them back up because now they're pointed down there's no dispute problem so keep them vertical obviously the trial isn't set up so that you know another week or two the start hitting this little box here less about the time will start branching out too so they're highly trained lists worked great last year i used to let them sprawl little more get them real vertical you know so each one gets this small amount of point first with this great speckled dog belly coloration and now it's growing these flowers that's got several of them on this year you can see it's little lipstick red  speed and speed access so far oh yeah a couple more days in this will start opening up you'll get to see the entire structure of the flowers this is one of those ones that says pollinated by flies and carrion beetles so it does smell unfortunately i don't think i'm going to grow this one again because in nation an resistant the slings really suffering from a little bit of mosaic virus are a nation by iris this is  tax the pea and you know they're there feeding activity doesn't necessarily affect plants but they vector this virus around when you get late season peas you want to look for in an nation resistant variety now this is an old heirloom italian variety obviously has not been bred for that and the rest of them look pretty good to have a cuts are known for resistance but they look really good this year especially compared to maybe one more sprinkle pop rock over t