oakum the real guard better sit down quick and give these chickens are treats otherwise we're going to run back inside i don't blame him so so  wood gas which is gas fired off of the fuel stock and to run a little burner for a kiln i think where we can put some of the cellulose material into the air tight kiln and turn it into bio char to improve the soil here by they attract fruit flies in the compost bin the seeds are very pernicious for the tomatillos it's really important to scoop up much of a fallen fruit as you can with the tomatillos otherwise you're going to have a solid law you had a real hot compost pile you can get away with putting them in the compost pile but i just don't have the material to run anything that hot so they have to go down to the lab where it's a little more hospitable this year i had maybe one good right pepper like the first pepper formed which i used for seed collection several of the plants didn't even get that far they were just to serve a crop failure in many respects so i had almost all the plants in that bed twenty four plants were either failing or were completely green just as green as this pepper here was so what i did was what i do season hang it in the garage hang it in a closet i guess if you will so that you know you're not the plants dying slowly yes but it's putting that last energy into its reproductive system which is the fruits here i've had great success with this as you can see the plant desiccated not much left of the leaves but you know these peppers were all green really green and i pulled these plants in and for the most part you know the very immature ones know those didn't write them but the ones that were at least adult sized firstly lightened to a light green they actually yellowed up i didn't really expect them to go any further and lo and behold they've almost reached that typical feel them that they are desiccated but that's ok because that's what i'm going to do with them anyway good dry mouth so you know the only only thing that could go wrong is if they're molding inside and i really don't think they are because you can usually tell visually from the outside as well oh how will i won't reveal here will be justified and i need to be careful here because these are screamin hot peppers and i mean glove up here because they're they're hot to begin with and then  down here the little oils and you're only concentrated on the globe up because i don't want to rub my eyes halfway through the show and i have to take a little break there so i do as  seeds so what i've noticed also for years i've just dried these whole with the seeds inside the stems on and they'll toast up in the d hydrate or to serve a dark rich orange brown color but notice when i deceive and save seed this is what i meant end up with you put that in the d hydrate or it dries so quickly that they don't lose this color at all so i've kind of been doing more like th i was experimenting with misting the roots a little bit in the first week or two that they were down here trying to keep it dry and then of course the final experiment is to plant one of these was it pull the peppers off planet see what kind of  what i do is to get air tight jar we're going to use one of these condiments pups and the lid what you need to do is poke bunch of holes in here and it works fine  this with a power drill we want to do the whole thing but poke as many holes in this live as he can you know while maintaining some sort of civil like quality you know in the middle too and just all over the place don't hurt yourself and  flaky stuff it also comes in sort of a pelleted form like little babies what this is it's a very hydro scopic which means solution so you which is very caustic you know and it will screw up your seed basically if it comes in contact with it so keep the lid on this stuff too because it will content cool and dry will make the seeds viable for longer as far as it's not very it's not so critical if you're just saving sea for one year but it's a good idea to at least keep them for confident that if that seed for the next year even if this year fail and while you're at it before you go too far with this forty package them up pull a couple of the seeds out before the other so this was specifically for the substandard seeds or of the smaller c i was questioning whether it was worth even saving from the smaller blooms and as you can see i've got pretty good germination here i didn't really count how many went in there this is just sort of an eyeball test see you whether it was worth it and i think it was so now you know that not only are the seeds taken care of well but it's worth taking care of them and in spring you won't waste time  viable so let's take a look at our lettuce that we've been kind of growing up down here and tonight which will soon be going outside in greenhouse and these are pretty sturdy stock which can handle the winter temperature certainly and there that are no plants run in the building of this show so this is what we started with was a little experimental flat half a flat just put in a few seeds in you know we had spinach few types of lettuce the oh this interesting line enough we planted this is a test when these things just came up this is the romaine it looks like so this guy was just he didn't he just barely even had his first leaf on generally it's a little earlier than i'd like to transplant but when we did it i pointed out the advantages you don't have to untangle the roots you know you just put dried out and  we went to a fairly small pot because those roots are so small the plant so small it's hard to control the moisture in a bigger pot so i said this guy did fine and as you can see that early transplantation you know this is the same variety i believe it is and as you can see the crowded smaller cells you know they're growing in just that much dirt here that quick transplant taishan might be two way to go if you're going to do this now the rest of these over here i just started getting around to him in the last week i started with the bronco rabs back here because this can be a very large plants for a longer season thing a long term goal thing this is the little red in the big broccoli heads you get the little floor at small you can eat the leaves along with them  so i got a couple of these transplanted up in went straight to the bigger pot disease and got in the other on their second set of leaves they've got a fairly extensive root system at this point still being very careful of that moisture content you don't want to ride them out and these aren't plants that are big enough to really transpire a lot of water out in this time of year obviously evaporative drying not so good so you've got a few bright bracco rabs got a couple experimental  bok choy just to you know which can also you know theoretically you see them at the store you know bok choy can get to be sort of like a you know a big bundle of like celery for instance like a head of celery so i put them directly into these larger pots experimenting with those singles you know because lettuce can get pretty big but are we going to harvest them big i don't know you know i might be sniffing this stuff is a micro green so i've been experimenting with multiple s here's foreign wine singles spinach singles doubles the chard i only had like four good ones so i and their roots one is even looking that good so i went ahead and put that just quadruple there so these art have been sort of living the good life down here for about three weeks i guess obviously if i had been on my toes they could have been a little more advanced at this point but they've got a few days down in the basement here just to get their roots down get over any kind of transplant shock and now i can see them kind of leaning there those fluorescent lights just aren't strong enough for real good growth with these so they're kind of leaning around and even the winter sun even in this time of year is brighter than anything that's down here so out they're going to go in the into the greenhouse if them out of here because i've got other stuff to do and here  on the other hand we direct seeded just a bunch of c d s as you can see into this is a ilya pot because it seemed a little fussy you know starting in a flat and transplanting up maybe good i think this might be disappear your technique obviously still i was watching the moisture content on this this you could i mean you could mow this right now and have you know a bowl salad thing you might want to try at this point i stuck a bunch of seed in here just for kicks and now at this point obviously the next pot i do and i would recommend starting one of these each week  you've got a continual supply i need to do is plant less seed next time and maybe this time just go and start you know thin and this out you know start pulling some of these guys so that some of these can get a little bigger  tweezers you know work really good for this go in there spend a half an hour going blind trying to pick out the small ones versus the large ones and  aren't going to get better get back insulated get a blanket roll down here put a bunch more water in there and this thing could actually turn out to be a good rest so when we come back here to the dead b that it's not exactly a time to be planting a whole lot of stuff so i get the garlic and of course will probably do that next week and it's like too cold even this plant lettuce is there anything direct  before i planted the garlic west year as you can see  grows a forest plant from asia you know it's a canopy it grows at the bottom of the canopy and then runs up the trees into the top so this is a typical you know mat forming fruit for and what we're going to go with here is a small grain  so by that means we're using the play its natural ability to make energy out of the sun like and then we're going to chop down back in the soil in spring so we go to yes but i'm out and i've got you know fifteen pounds of these other grains now that i do like grains they seem to have been noticing that i grow the cover crop of as far as opposed to a dye i thought you know which means you know the little coddle eden's for most of the garden plants like a tomato comes up you see those two little proto elise coming out those are and doesn't give those pathogens a host for at least these few months where this is going to be in the ground and get all the corners and put them in pretty thick to see it's getting pretty old of course we're not growing this for optimum grain production at which point you drill demanded a very specific those warmer months and then you know we get the cold snap in the snow and will kill them off so part of your way and then one other thing you're going to throw in here is old betsy as a nurse and the wheat will be a said when we're ready to plant the spray you just get the weed whacker out and you'll take it down the other we'll get probably waist high before i plant this we just chop it down and sort of one and two inch intervals and a couple weeks before you want to plant you can email me if you want the real garden at yahoo dot com that's all one word in lower case that you can also call me after so i listen for the phone after the tuesday evening so you can visit that old web site the real garden that sincere dot com and then you'll be redirected to the new website the real garden dot com that's the wave of the future