let's see some sheep lightning over the olympics last week was kind of unusual for this area that's where it's popping from cloud to cloud and you don't really get thunder just a nice light show younger ones as they start to achieve their full size and you know start pushing around for dollars but kids hold their own but i think it's a good gives her a little spunk there she gets to be thrown down usually it comes down to size with chickens with personality you can play a good part too the most part these girls are getting along real well pretty exceptional that's like like a leg or in the plane right there usually all the average legs cycle is twenty five hours so it's but it's just been you know she's a young bird obviously just coming in her prime so she's just been kicking them out real consistent size getting a little bigger as the weeks go on island light and a rhode island red they usually have pretty big storms so she's looking good we're kind of right in the middle of the season here so you know if you haven't blank a bad start you know plant some cooler weather crops maybe like them my beats and carrots are good this time of year maybe get some cabbage and you get some start you know when they say winter gardening they mean start in the summer and go in the winter as the days get shorter obviously there's less energy plants from the sun you want to kind of get them up and running for the board starts getting dar we're not really going to talk about that today we're kind of catch up with some of her hot weather crops and see what they're doing and see what needs to be done as far as getting them along their way moved it out here and put a little roof on it a little roost and so we've got to roost now right now the little girls are sleeping up on the on the new roost in the old girls or you know in their habituated places on either side of the other roost especially in this hot weather they're really appreciating little space so they can spread out and not you know getting you know press their hot little bodies next to each other so i've got to build a little great kind of like on the old roost you know for the manure great so they can walk without walking on their own poop but for right now if you shavings works great and then of course the sniffy thing here is i also can just press for cleaning so that i can get in you know and muck things out and so you know access you know to all parts of the coop is real important if you ever have to chase any kind of past out of there you know i have some might to disinfect and clean everything real good so you always want to be able to reach all the corners to cope with your designs easier it is to  s for instance this one i know that we when i had plucked every blossom off and as you can see is kind of shifted gears back into vegetative growth put on some leaves put on some branches and at this point you it's starting to put new blooms on at this point i'll start let it set some for you know obviously at some point you know you're going to run out of season so and peppers are sort of a you know in tomato terms they'd be considered golden orange rather than bright orange and tends to be a little not quite a scream and hot as the ball bearings the nice pepper just kind of something i've been working on now you will notice that as these plants start branching out this tends to have a nice day safe sort of which is a little top heavy and like this is a perfect example here and you can see this guy starting to lean a little bit about this time of year usually start putting a stake on each plant because especially when they start setting for it they get a little heavy and you know that first rainstorm will come around and you'll find them kind of you know lying down in the garden so you get a steak on them and i think it actually helps them to grow better they they kind of feel that support and feel like they can put on a little lusher growth moisture you know keep your pet peppers actually can take a little moisture you always hear me harping don't water and you know you don't need all that money unless you know a couple of beds peppers doing great i'm very happy with them we step back here put out three or four of these tendrils at each node and they really have a good grip here as kind of laughing i was reading something where you know they were saying you know you can you control a smaller squashes you know some like a delica here a corn but don't do it with large ones this one's a hubbard and this one over here is the pink banana squash which also gets rather large and i've grown both of these fridays with for you know five six feet in the air and you know what that stem that they grow in they're quite capable of supporting themselves most part so right up to this point i've kind of let them do whatever they want to do but it's you know with five plants in there is time to start you know you want to keep them on the stress and they do tend to just go south they always grow towards the sun so sometimes they want to walk off the trails a little bit what i do is i will come out on a daily basis and real quick you know i'll take some my velcro here you know the stuff comes in a roll cut to length and i always look for it at the end of the season where it's when it's on sale and i'll kind of buy him out i haven't had to buy any for several years now so just real gently you know i'll just put one on each each plant and kind of show it more that cage is and you know tomorrow i'll come out here in the afternoon that all be tied in the binal of grown you know four six inches and i just you know take that velcro maybe the next and just move it up and up and up so you only really need one velcro as a temporary measure for each plant as they grow i like to you know keep it tight on the cage you can weave them in and out of the cage also you know this one's for instance has come out what i'll do is a weave it back in and sneak it up through the mesh like that then you get a really good secure fastening that can support any kind of fruit that these guys are going to grow you know in some spots on the leaves but i think that might just be a little stress now these guys might need a little water that almost looks like first thing i'm looking for is actually spider mites because if things do get dry and hot the way they have been in past few days and your plants get drowsy you can get some spider mite this so probably could be a little mosaic virus as well generally the plant will grow through such things the spider mites if you catch them early and you'll need a glass to really see you know  but stippling like this would be a sort of indicative of a spider mite situation if you can catch them early with a little soap you can knock them back in after that you know just keep the maybe up your watering a little bit and that should keep them off  are we doing down here well actually we're pretty good good indicator is the color of the soil you know the still dark certainly not saturated anyway but that's if they've got enough water for now moving on to the other who curb it squash cucumber smelling salts from the to curb it family boy are these guys grown or what you know it's hard to believe that you know i put these in just right before fourth of july  actively they generally just put out the one tendril at each node but again you know i've got the strings up i try to keep the you know come out here once a day and just kind of you know they don't have to be exactly in in the middle of the strings or south montag ality and i don't want this row walking over onto the other row so i'll pull them gently back if they get too tall you know don't be trying to bend them hold on it again keep him keep an eye on the water with the cucumbers one of the common problems you have with both squash and the cucumbers in august and september is you start getting the   if the plant gets droughty those leaves get brittle and that fungus can you know penetrate those cell walls easier so keep the plants watered but keep the foliage dry because the fungus does like  what happens is the you know the plants get drought in august and then you start getting those first rains in late august early september gets the leaves wet which is a perfect environment for the powdery mildew to take over so keep the plants roots bicarbonate on the label it sold as a powdery mildew fungus side sort of thing if you've got a rampant case of it it's much less effective so you want to catch it early and go from there in green flint corn and we're just going to see what we end up with you know you're ready to leave these will cross and we'll come up with some sort of hybrid corn grown really well gave him a shot of nitrogen earlier in the season because they were looking a little green corn is a high nitrogen feeder so i gave him some fish emulsion you know part of the three sisters act here is that the beans are are supposed to contribute nitrogen to the soil but corn is a real heavy feeder so i gave him a little supplement so we do have the beans crawling around in here and this is kind of you know like here's one growing up the corn perfectly say oh that's the whole months the other act here this is the corn provides a poll for the beans to wind up they've been keeping some of the beans have been keeping up with the  corn others have kind of stalled out you know they couldn't find the corn right away so i've actually started putting poles in because i'm not sure if you know beans have the potential to get a lot taller than the corn so i think for a couple of those couple of them hiding down here and this is always kind of what happens to me when i try this technique something always one of the three gets shaded out you know whether the beans  compare this squashes progress with the hubbards pink banana over there that we just looked at and you can see that this guy is just not getting this much sun it's you know so a little experiment now the you know the indians when they die down in the southwest where i grew up they actually plant the corn in fairly tight hill it's little bundles so maybe that maybe you're supposed to have a little discreet bundles of  corn with the beans and then maybe the squash in between i don't know obviously i've got some research to do but all well i'm pretty happy with it you know i'm definitely going to get some corn i think and the corn looks a lot better this year than last year because i actually spaced it properly last year i spaced it way too close you know i planted it you know two inches apart was supposed to then it never did and basically i just got some pretty spectacular grass plants with not much and the silk ear of corn is actually the the pollen tubes you know the pollen these are wind pollinated and the pollen gets into that onto that silt and goes down to the oval so you know to the amazing road you know i got to really start on these guys and they were just tiny little things just to the end of june and so a month in the ground this is what they're looking like they've got these really clothesline a little bigger investment than the twine but you get to use it every year it's a little softer on these tender stems you know i just basically drill holes through the uprights here and we'll just keep doing that as they go you know these things will get they usually get about this tall and then they also start you can see they're starting to spot put on a lot of auxiliary shoots so they do get rather sprawling towards the end of the season it's all i can do really to keep them on the trellis so looks good tomatillos loved grow you know compared to the tomatoes peppers they're the easiest things probably that the second cage we started talking out week or two ago and so i got the next cage on got the wondering up guy wires very important when you're dealing with a ten foot tower of power like this the plants let me disinfect the ice profile before handling it's made us because these are growing on the disease resistant root stock but we've got an heirloom on top which is not resistant to the all the full year diseases that tomatoes are subject to that the strike roman over here which is you know it's a little bushier plant you know the all the romas have sort of a different morphology allowed these to you know get a little string year maybe a few more runners on them but i do have to start counting these what i want is each branch gets split into two like this one's doing all the side branches and then and then this one i'm going to take out and since it's big i'm going to do what they call a missouri pruning and rather than rip this big stem off and risk bleeding the plant i'm good just take the growth to like so so each side branch is going to get split two and then the two main branches that fork at the top of the plant those get split into three like this one has it's there's one