camera crews back home as well nicely i guess i'm part of the flock no is it twelve weeks thirteen weeks on the america and there's this is about where the chickens start really starting to mature sexually you know they're starting to put their kind of in between or it's like there were little voice cracks every now and then  disciplinary end of the her old you know kiddies getting it so old that she you know i make sure she gets her treats right now she's up there kind of thinking and probably can't hear i'm getting tempted to i had an incident last week where i came home a little late i'd come home and let him out after work and i went home and  you and they've been so good about put themselves the camera and the curls she was nowhere to be found and i called and called and poked my hand into any likely places and i thought for sure i'd lost  finally had to go to bed and fortunately the next morning rosie must hold yourself up pretty good to see just pacing outside the coop wanting to get in with the other girls and wondering you know what i was so worried about so the raccoons are pretty active starting around february and in the spring there seems to be when they're pretty pretty days shifts  raspberries cherries him coming and no apples or anything obviously for months now so i think this is when they are earth will get a little carnivorous so keep an eye on that coop door and be aware of what's happening in the backyard there and they can deal without me he wants to show me a pretty feathers here to him and so this is the americana and look and see she's starting to give her her little beard  ear muffs like her aunt cleo's got him some more of a burnette and then cleo clear as a blondie you get a lot of color variation in the american audience because they're they're bred for that green egg color and then the gold dappled darling it's just whether how beautifully that nice checkered pattern they're known for that's it girls we've got to go do some gardening you can hear that some over here if you come over there  over here for you i'm here over here for you take care then you'll see the little green and purple striped hopefully peapod start well up shortly thereafter so they're getting a little wild here i've already put some side straps in they've they've been climbing very nicely because we haven't got much wind much storm but they do want to you know crawl off that trellis because they're competing with sunshine for sunshine i'll just put a little strap on them they look fine now when the wind is blowing the rains not coming down but if you let them get a little too loose then you'll get a goods rainstorm through and it's not going to be a good thing quick look at the greenhouse i just show you how  just one planted on the winter solstice and i'm expecting fruit by the summer solstice by golly we put a big pot and a few couple weeks ago and it's really starting to appreciate that i'm getting a lot more blooms it looks a lot happier it's not being drought stressed as much because this this pot holds a lot that way i can keep it at that sort of dry but not too dry level without these peaks and valleys that i was getting blossoms when i get a chance because that will pot you know the self pollinate and i'm starting to get you know these little fruits starting to form some getting pretty good pollination and it's looking like a pretty good  this is not made to be a big tomato either that you know they'll be maybe that big but they'll be early we'll get tomatoes before october this year you know just for the salad i generally grow them canning purposes anyway so that never really bothers me i always grow that large indeterminate variety out here in the garden and like i said this is for canning so i kind of want him at the end of the i and then plant so what's going on here i keep the tomatoes very dry particularly the foliage but also over the years the soil has been i've been keeping it drier and drier and drier and i did water in you know since the tomatoes were in a little pot about this big so basically up watered the plant as though they were in maybe a slightly bigger pot so the moisture isn't sitting there and saturated soil around them and then i put abouts half an inch down in the surrounding areas i haven't mulched it yet because it's going to help with the soil temperature outside here we're reading about sixty three point  because you get all solar radiation so what i'm doing here you know so i put a little bit of down because this was very desiccated and you can see how the soil actually even looks dry ice still not much drier than i wanted particularly when i get down low you can see over here where the rain has kind of gotten under the wing it's a lot more easter and while that's you know with this sort of soil that's  not excessive the soil doesn't saturate but that's a little loyce than i want it to completely around the plant so you know if the plant but you know it's nice to have a perimeter of moisture because when the so this is a strike roman it's a grafted stock you had to order some from the catalog this time because i just never got around to mine it's pretty good deal seven bucks and i spend more than that on fancy's root stock seed you know heirloom seed so you know if you only need to it's a pretty good deal as you can see i've got it on the outside this is a major major main cage it's made out of the concrete reinforcement wire right now i just have the four foot sections on each one of this to maintain heat keep it low as the plant grows once it tops out here on the wing i actually have a five foot section that goes on top of each one and then the roof goes up you know so i have some guy wires here left over from last year because when this thing is ten feet tall gets a little wobbly in the way and i've never had it come down while the plants were growing in there it came down once thank you came down last winter while i was gone thank you and kind neighbors who were watching the chickens for kind of you know wrestling it to the ground and making sure it didn't blow away and then on the inside since you know this is a little baby plant right now it's going to take a while for those side branches to motivate out of this out here i put the standard medium sized triangular cage in there to kind of help support it while it's reaching its maximum potential jerry by the plant you know make sure he's watered in he could probably use another little shot but i bring the moisture level very slow and just make sure that those roots are sitting in  water you know this is particular for this climate you know i grew up in colorado for instance where it's very dry and you probably have to water tomatoes every day you know but here it's just a top here so i do have it wrapped right up to the wing but there's still you know four you know three to four inches of ventilation at the top so in less it's a very hot day i don't really worry about  this overheating i do have a little there monitor here that i'm going to i usually try to get highs and lows during the day i just took this up because it's been cloudy i wasn't too worried about it it was going to be sunny i did do a little there anything else i will say that when i do start mulching this much will happen you know as soon as the this system blows through as can be cloudy and rainy from what i hear for another four or five days i just planted these a let the dark soil absorb that heat and then when it gets sunny again mid june there i'll start mulch in this up and i do not put the mulch inside the cage a clip right up to go to the plastic  saying with this i don't mind the moisture being out here as long as it's not around the plant it just keeps all that fungal stuff at bay i think it's because what's happening to me it can take it really dry it will reach out to find its own moisture nutrients and it's just been working dynamite you know i had the best year for a long time last year and it wasn't a good year for tomatoes i've heard a lot of people saying that there's work working year and it didn't get it quite so i did manage to overwinter it going to keep it very dry it kept not only plastic it also remain over it and it's made it and all you can see that's going into the bowl stage it's going to start producing a lot of flowers for me i'm hoping for a really big batch of seed maybe you will see it exchange or even maybe so some of it's a fairly unusual variety but let's look at it let's compare it with the xhosas dream route which isn't growing for its greens necessarily i'll get a little bit of seed off that but it can grow over there on the corner is a pretty little potter i don't know maybe maybe i should try cooking with it or some see if it got any transformative powers once he appl do a little quick follow up on the corner over here planted some corn and these cops i had these weird styrofoam things from work you know cans of stuff come in these things i realized they were a perfect fit for a little dixie cup six ounce dixie cups and i thought you know that's perfect for corn i generally wait longer into the season into june and direct plant last year i had a good success with direct planting both with primed in unprimed seeds which didn't seem to make a lot of difference but when i had put a clear plastic sheet over direct sowed corn which really heated that bed up artificially i was getting you know ten and fifteen degree differences particularly during the day obviously the clear plastic acts as a solar collector the sun goes through hits that  darker dirt and that's like a big solar collector and this year i'm going to try to you know priest start and see what happens just because i felt like i should plant something that's probably had nothing for the show and that's why we did this  we've got two varieties we've got the ana stasi corn which is this tray over here this is the one they found you in the cliff dwellings so the story goes sealed in a little clay pot sealed with pitch and supposed to be and this is actually we're calling it out of the sweet now whether house will see how sweet it is have a hard time believing that how well developed it is but i think what they're saying it's not a flint horn with the little dents in it years old probably and i got ninety nine percent germination i just noticed the last one is coming up about two or three weeks later from the other one's pretty impressive as you can see we've got a little more  or out of the hock and so kind of i'm thinking maybe i'll plant these together a lot of cross pollinate and see what i get next year so let's talk about pepper so that's one of the things i really need to do although i'm not too excited i usually don't get the peppers until mid june although that's a week from this week once you see this so i do need to get those beds started i was saying that i was a little with only three weeks to go till planning i was debating whether i pull them out of the six cells and pot i'm up which is sort of a pain and there's all transplant shock you know and they can slow him down but you know you can see sort of see the difference you know this is you know basically the same variety of pepper know you compare the ones that are starting to stunt now you know in in the little six cell particularly look at the width of the you know the diameter of the stem we're starting to get advantage of shooting at the see a couple different problems here they are in pots and keeping it again these are pretty dry you know because you know the potting soil can bog down and they don't get air ration but what i'm seeing is one of these got action theoretically and then it's hard to see on this one so i kept picking away at those but the other thing you don't want the stage is it starting to bloom you know these guys are thinking ok we got a little bit bigger pot we can complete our life cycle here and they're starting to put out little blooms bless their hearts but they've got a long way to go before i'm going to let them boil and i'd like to if you let them do it that's fine but that's they're going to get about about this big and they're going to have like one or two big peppers on a maybe a couple little ones and you don't want that so with tweezers i go in there and try not to screw up the  the little growth tips because you'll notice that you may get a bigger one here and if you can't get those little ones just wait a day or two but figure this first one always forms right in the crotch there of the you want to get that out of there and if you can get these fine if not just wait a few days because the plan to start putting energy into those in the get bigger where you can get them without screwing up the tips but i'll get these in the ground keep those blossoms off of them they always get all sulky when they first come out side because we are pushing the envelope for chili peppers particularly unprotected know who post which is you know i've tried it both ways trying to get away from the plastic and blaster i did use plastic check them over for any you know infestations the unstressed ones you know this kind of what i'm talking about with you can even see this how dry this soil got you know  are great for and you know once they get outside unless they're really infested this is a get outside the beneficial insects in the cooler climate it'll start to they'll start to  not have a problem with those agents and if they get really badly infested i'll give him one last shot of soap once they're out the garden at that takes care of it 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 after the show i generally listen for the phone after the tuesday evening show but you can always leave a name number on the message machine also physics that website that you w w dot the real garden dot com there's 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