were called the chickens are telling each in their own way oh my goodness we're into the third week in august here a critical time in the for the last two weeks week until the last week to get going complex you got a rerun but yeah i can't up my first quarter of pickles forty nine days from seed to jar i also have  hard to quantify so much of gardening wisdom quote unquote is anecdotal you're always trying to late when somebody tells you something always ask somebody else or look it up on the somebody starts talking about two shorter no it's that twilight in particular is getting shorter you know in those long summer days that afterglow that help them below just last for you know another hour and a half from now when the sun goes down it gets dark a little quicker what are you doing sweet pea she's preening me is what she's doing to make sure my feathers are pretty h this one at the american is or goofy but they're lovable you know she's in the bottom or she's got a little little feathers missing on her forehead where the others kind of  you know show their dominance a little head pick there but she's just the sweetest little thing in the world i'm her friend hurt her and me down at the bottom of the wrong area  of darlin all right let's go do some gardening corn you know got a pretty rocky start it's showing a direct correlation between sunshine low sunshine and better sunshine but you know i put a book bunch of plants in here and we're looking at sort of a late harvest i've got enough plants and here i could actually get some fairly good pollination going can see a couple of the the three survivors from the first planting  queens and only use pollen from the breeders choice but i kind of want these six guys to go the other way too in this this guy just about the time this guy's going to lose his policies go start silken down below a hybrid of the two blue kentucky your kentucky lake i guess you'd call it and then we've got the more the breeding projects over here t tallest most by any ones from last year they didn't have a particularly strong binding habit last year either but i chose the few that did buying up and start reaching the top and this year you know i was like ok most  bush beans and i've got a couple viner's finally let's just call it good but after they've grown like this they start like this guy can kind of came up and started wandering around and now he's whining he's crawled up this chicory plant modern native word for the old ones and they were the first to happen it's in the southwest four corners area that we know of and so this would be where the three sisters technique was practice the squash corn beans and i think in this how good this would be in the three systems one of the problems is the beans you know choke the corn before it gets too big or the corn is not tall enough when the beans are ready to twine and so with this you know it would give the corn enough time to start establishing you look over here to this corn is now just about tall enough for the beans to climb at last and sure enough you know this being for instance would be perfectly timed for the height of that corn so i think what we're seeing here is maybe an adaptation not obvious at first why you'd have  a you know bush bean you know turning into a whole bean but maybe next year all interspersed with those and see if we can do better with that technique i've never quite figured out how to get the three growing together without one of them choking the other down it all becoming one big bio mass or go generally want to take over and do ok another one will give you a few and then the other ones  sort of a limited heighth all this oh this one looks like it's maybe got a little bit of the kentucky wonder these all grew together last year so there are sure some genetic mixing going on this jar of pickles it was these woods pickles from this year for display but i actually had some ferment to pickle heels i took my ands from a batch of pickles last year and actually made the lactic fermented pickle and then we cultured it with a dropper full of this lactic acid culture we hope and i put cold dark for a week and then i've been in the fridge kind of dormant as you can see it's the melkus curdled you know it's got curds  in here not a bad sign you know or making cheese basically and i would say that's probably lactic acid acid will drop occurred and the other test well one other test would be  lack of fungal no scum on the top that's a good sign fun guy tend to be antibacterial bacteria often are antifungal you know they're antagonistic to each other often and the third would be the old nose test sterile monoculture of whatever we're after theoretically so i've got a spray bottle of ten percent milk and thanks that water going to inoculate practice semi sterile culture it's pouring out of the air at this point but you know whatever protocols so i've got sort of a hygenic you know brand new draw for here i spray it with alcohol on the outside not so much to can you know concern with this but concerned with my mother culture here i don't want to contaminate it so i did sterilize the outside of the thing i'm just going to grab a drop that one as a comparison we're going to use the standard which is a tacit bicarbonate with a little bit of sticker in it it's the nurseries have this it's it's going to be ninety five percent i'll show you what i'm talking about as far as the first signs because sure enough and mine are as bad as what i've seen around town and i'm sure anybody who's got the few proofs start to see this probably happens every year put a little spike down in the plant to absorb nutrients and then you know start putting my psyllium out and then when it really starts you know when that leaf is solid white it's just best to spore matt just releasing this stuff into the air hosing it so you might just try getting the hose out you know don't be using the jet spray you know use the shower and just give them a gentle rinsing i was given some of the base ones little shot when i was watering last night deficiency in june which was corrected with fish so these i don't really expect these to be larger plants hang out a few more fruits this time of year they don't look too bad if they've recovered from the nitrogen deficiency they're starting to along gate who knows maybe you know with an indian summer i could still get you know above average crop but right now they're kind of average kind of kind of like what i get carrots you can do in you know three four different batches so you can wait a little longer but the beets really do not compete with each other at all they're a multi germ see that think they've got this  thing where they'll grow as a family and kind of share the wealth and none of them get big so it's out out out and i'm down as quick as i can and i finally did this year i've often up to this point i've always kind of not have the time or the patience to do it but this year you know we've got them thinned out as you can see of the has to be a rather large plant and if you want big dates like we start to get right there it's turned out to be a really good sauce to me you know very productive as you can see these are on the grafted root stock for root stock and it's this one's actually just loves it like watering was second week in august and july probably i've been using the drip irrigation of this plastic which is worked fairly well like each time i turn it on i move it you know you move the emitters a little bit see any free water in there you know very dry and dusty this time of year if you dig down six inches you start to see a little color in the soil and eventually  little bit of moisture but really they are very dry maybe too dry no this is a this is an aborted fruit of some sort it would be a good sign that there would need water that starts happening a lot this is an anomaly i think but i have noticed them say one year i was seeing just how dry they could go i didn't think i had water after august september was hot we've been doing that all along this point would go up and start taking off all everything all the tips anything that hasn't formed for this guy doesn't stand a chance really so you know you can take suckers more vigorously usually they get the message that's why i like the beauford root stock because it tends to have sort of a set size gargantuan but no bigger and it also has a sense of season where it kind of tones