strawberries are in season the chickens have learned that they just love strawberries some hope some more than others don't get in the way of marie when you  oh yes girls drop dead date has always been july fourth i started two weeks early in dorset and then they have to be out they always transplant two weeks of age and they have to be out the door by july fourth same thing it worked great unfortunately put it in a bed where i couldn't really get a ladder him so i ate beans up to about here and then the big push was up there i got a lot of seed heard this year from  back two rows that's just sort of an off the shelf old fashioned favorite either kentucky wonder blue lake are probably the most common green beans grown pole beans grow this kentucky wonder did great last year just tore up these poles and from a sort of cult favorite vegetable breeder and so i've got a little bit of her stuff growing in here i think i also have some on a size the seeds grown in there which are creeping to old bean because we've planted a bunch of keep the germination going you don't want to rotting out so don't be soaking the soil too much and we should be i planted a few days ago i speak seeing them in a couple days most consistent only over fifty at night to early is real good conditions that we usually don't reach until july so it's going to be a good year as a kind of you know i just by the week str number of years ago i think it's out of cornell in new york and they found the collective redlight helps peppers and tomatoes particularly for you know increase productivity i bought this stuff years ago when i found it down the basement and i haven't gotten the wheat straw yet and i thought well you know in the mean time in the i'm not big enough there in the next week i'll go and put this down to keep that also delicate moisture content that i'm keeping down there and it's doing pretty good you get a little heated damage maybe a five degree heat advantage under there that's holding the moisture well we're right right now we're at eighty degrees about six again you know it's this time of day it's a picture it'll look very dry appear to come out in the morning the soil actually breeze up some of the moisture from below and all the darker again as you can see it looks real dry i water so infrequently you know we haven't watered these tomatoes since i watered on the show about what three weeks ago just topping off you know the lens a little bit and then i put the mulch down the next day ground cage never water inside the cage this from here on anyway so i could just pull the outside off give it a good water put it back on i may look into some drip irrigation and it doesn't open up until you get you know six eight inches you know that's where it is so it's like sort of a pyramid water distribution so you really don't water the top you're watering the bottom used to do a lot more of it you know the downside costs you've got a lot of black tubing and stuff around there in the size and get overwhelming and you know most cases most summers i haven't i've gotten to the point where i haven't needed it that much but these warmer conditions i do have a lot of it down you know i've had sections cut for of that in this garden for years this is all really old to bring those starts to deteriorate it gets less per dictabelt as far throughout the garden oh and i must admit you know i was good about laying down the spring everything in place and when they needed a little water the other day and i didn't really want to sit there with the one i tried it out it's kind of nice you know the water's beds at a time so you know it's an option i think on smaller gardens you know maybe you don't need it you know it's kind of a hassle to start to go industrial it's it's kind of cucumber command which is more of a traditional you know black spine pickling cucumber myself that seeds from two thousand and twelve long live seed about seven years if you take care of them so you don't have to dry out seed every year a great pickle so that's what i go in for so we're going to this particular individual grew out from the others i occasionally see the seacom characteristics because i grew these together years ago and this one was and it's also after eight and i like the buy i like to look at and so i let one of them grow out to be the big seed cucumber normally that stifles production of higher on the line and it did none of the cucumbers grew to perlite i forgot to sift my coconuts course i've got some of these longer fibers and here i let that go but we are going to use a little finer topper on top i am using big chunk perlite in here because cucumbers don't like w my seeds so they're they're good some only go put one in each i generally get ninety nine percent germination this has to come down into this course or mix a little bit about a quarter inch three eights maybe pretty hardy seedling from these little seeds and i am kind of visually looking for a nice fat seed edgewise hard to see on hard time said in that hard outer skin you see that with a lot of curb it's sometimes you have to like with the squashed ceiling sometimes you have to actually pinch that sheath and pull them off five eighty these are not too hot that you know when i'm up and running these will be down in the basement under fluorescent at least for the first few days or maybe i'll have others which stayed in the basement under fluorescent lights so it had little hotter in the day a little colder at night but it had more sun and it worked great so that's what we're going to  map i turned my back for two hours and then picked up twenty to thirty percent then i put them on the heat mat and forgot about them for two days at which point they dried out too probably you know five  over of their original weight so i'm kind of wondering how these are doing and i'm kept on a little lower temperature and with a little more sealing wax on those containers this one's germany she could see a little percent jerk you know germination before i start planning but i might start sticking those probably wait til tomorrow start sticking milk in the ground and again the breeders today you know the misting for today i'll leave that for you know thirty seconds and you can see where ever it fizzes it's workin so it's working to something there it won't harm healthy tissue i hope seeing as how these don't look spectacular i'll probably stay i've got just enough seed to do it again so probably try the pre germination at a lower temperature in one of these inside a ziploc bag with a moist paper towel a slightly lower temperature and you know maybe in a week i can show you something there and the point of the story is that you know the difference between a brown thumb and a green thumb a brown thumb stops planting here for snacking and we've got the breeding projects to the other side you know these are the snow peas snap peas doing well they'll they'll produce like that for a week or two and then  and you know you can see some of them go back to their capital purple kappa junker parent some of them pick up the very geisha and some go back to the snow pea the green ones tend to be more snow peel like and purple ones tend