my middle of february i mean eight where does the time go getting over fifty five i think by the time you see this girl actually be some nicer weather but from the modeling that i've been paying attention  she'll get it eventually and seen a chicken choke to death yet knock on wood they really get frustrated they'll just come knock it out or are natasha will grab it out of her beak or ok where was i before this amusing interlude and maybe the next play will wash and down for you oh yeah the weather's just yeah everything's growin slow you know it i know i'm asking myself you know what the heck am i doing wrong here you know it's cool we need fertilizer i know they don't need water you know what's going on here but it's just the temperatures are going to take a little look at the second piece of bed here and talk about how my strategy is sort of going out the door as far as the rotation goes i might have to be light on my feet and  you know for those of you enter any sort of competitive eating contest like hot dogs or pie or something like that little bites win that race little bite sips of water case in point last longer that way something's going through you know i'm not sure if mother's day is going to be the planting date for tomatoes you know maybe i'll be pleasantly surprised here in the next couple weeks but you know if you put the warm weather out too soon warm weather crops out too soon they're just go salt and you know certain past skin attacked them while they're sulking and they can set them back so you want to have move slow for say this year i had got that little greenhouse go on which is holding a you know holding the nighttime temperatures a good you know eight ten degrees above the outside ambient so i'm hoping that i not having to take up all the space indoors if it's really tight out in years past i've run flats in and out you know put them on the basement floor at night and then run them out to under a who palace during the day and that gets a little old you know when you're running eight flats in and out every day so hopefully we can just roll with the punches here but right now i think that's enough greens for you let's  up to keep flies off not directly on the plant you know about a foot away from the drip zone they are just right in between the plants and they will really do their thing there oh why don't you stand right here and all over the place secure variety comes up early but then it wants to bloom early and this is your enemy if you're trying to grow rhubarb for pies and that sort of thing they put up these blooms and it really affects their they kind of concentrate their energy and of producing seed rather than producing foliage so any time you see these you want to get them off the plant as soon as possible  they kind of come up as a little bulbous form right in the center once you know what you're looking for you can catch them really early before the they come up with sort of a membrane over them and if you can pop those off even before they open up like this that's the best thing you can do you'll notice that the stock they grow on is round rather than the classic u shape of a rhubarb stock so it's kind of easy to spot these set of peas in what three weeks ago four weeks ago thinking that's it i've got let's say sixty about seventy five days before i'm go peppers in you know about mid june i'll put peppers in generally you know you want to soil temperature of the night time soil temperature of you know fifty eight sixty degrees before the peppers go in slow you know why they're finally getting to a point where i can maybe think about next week or the week after that put a trellis on them they haven't even see the very first tendrils here so i guess they it's about time but they're just moving it just horribly incremental pace so i think i'm going to have to i don't know there's no way they're going to be done think hopefully they're in nation resistant because when it does warm up the aphids are going to pop of course that's all related to the weather to the it's running behind too so maybe i'll be all right but definitely we're looking into  you know first week of june i think before we even start seeing some fruits off of these things so i'm going to have soon you know rearrange the little map that i had made and try to find another bed in the rotation it's been so bad as far as my scion stock and my root stock being out of whack as far as the size is going to actually put some root stock out here in the dark in the cold trying to slow it down so my cylon stock would catch with course now they're looking like the rootstock start to look out because they've been in this weird situation and with that in mind also you might hall of shame my little house of wasn't producing enough so i'm running about seventy five to eighty degrees here i put a little insulation on here to keep the temperatures up because they don't really need light at this stage in fact commercial outfits actually will put them in complete doing so well i've had real problems with this one of the various variables this year was i switched rootstock i've been using maxi for this is actually both for which  only are the science not taking and you can see with no vascular connection to the roots you know they just begun to die i've also noticed in some cases where the root stock itself  is going badly in a life where you know it's like the rootstock itself is dying from the shock or whatever so you know fairly disappointed in the bow for rootstock i have read grafted some of these like this perky little guy i'd probably just did last night where i actually removed the dying sigh on made a new cut and put a new sign on on top so i've got a couple of those this one looks good this one not so good ironically the suit i do have to look pretty darn good i've got one of the quarter blues and for ironically both done on the show usually the ones i do on the show are the ones that die in the ones i do in private or the ones that live this year the other way around so as to bring in the good luck there as i've got to and i said a couple weeks ago i've promised to only plan to see if i can't make two monster plants given plenty of room on the big tower of power that i've got for the tomato cage and given plenty of air circulation plenty of like room fertilizer and see if less isn't more in this case whereas previously my theory has been  more legs you know the scent of people here you know more legs on the ground more roots in the ground yes there crowded but they've get there pulling up more nutrition and this year i'm going to go the other way where to cure the individual rather the great big group project so that's where we're at th year actually planted them i pulled out some stock from a few years back which includes and see big purple yellow mexican nice early variety  purple blush and jet black big green and blush number four plus number four was actually a serendipitous cross between one of the  little plant that wants to grow gotta love that something that isn't going to fight you every step of the way culture is much like tomatoes only they're more resistant to root foliar diseases they've seen them grow through fall really a tough little plant and they you know it's good threatened that if i could make you know one of these years and it makes me get the sauce out of them and if they make a good spaghetti sauce and make it grow tomatoes in morals put in mix in here just to give it a little nutrient and we're going to be pulling out about fairly small group of oil out of about a third of a pot fall and i always have you know they've been crowded into these pots so once they get a little space they're going to take off here again like tomatoes they have they'll try combs on the stem the little fuzzy fuzz and that will turn into roots if you plan on just a little bit deeper and since the sky got a little crooked due to as you know just getting lotsa light once they're out in the field and they'll be great for you this is a i make salsa every year and this is the mainstay of the salsa i don't really make tomato salsa anymore go into the you know a good way to do this is just to pop them in to us some sort of so tray and just let him pull up the moisture from below and settles soil and drives year up so just a mix of sweet and hot peppers here in the ag baiter here you have the heat from them and light from above they went back in there because i was doing quick rotations of getting things you know the pepper sprouted i did three plants of peppers and i you know these were the last ones in and they you know once they came out into the cold i noticed a little intervale chlorosis you know you see those yellowing of these leaves that can be cold you know they have a hard time taking up nutrients when they're too cold too early of an age but it could vein is green and the leaf is yellow now it's going to either be a mineral deficiency like iron or what i'm thing is it's magnesium can be an imbalance so what we're going to do here is we're going to these are just about due for watering anyway so what we're going to do is give him a little further here i've got some it's thirty ten times plant food mixed up a teaspoon and a half a gallon should be available to plants to sweeten and put in a both the package said a half a cup with a gallon every four weeks for your plants for your potted plants and that's half what half a cup and a gallon of something no matter what it is is a lot so i'm putting a fat teaspoon in a gallon of water and i think this is what i did with the other ones  to kind of because they were having the same sort of yellowing problem so what i do is go ahead and so we are going to start piling up some of these lovely other peppers you know this is what a good flat looks like and this is a flat that looks just like that anemic one before i put it back in the warm in go in i mean obviously i'm going to be planning up though five or six flats of these things into sort of this size pot i actually was really liking this size pot it's a little shorter little a soilder mix same you know  overall size just a little shorter plenty of room for early roots and a pepper but i can't find these anymore so we're going to use in these so i'm going to need a lot of it so i better and i can't find any of th as sort of a base it's a good granular base of good water retention and also it stays irritated it doesn't pack down even though it's a fairly find grade and it tends to stay loose as you can see looking at these peppers well do is i'll put you know a tablespoon of those epsom salts in the water as well since and seeing this sort of imbalance give that little test try so we've got that we're going to and fur bark and we're out of time next week you can e mail 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 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