i usually put peppers in you know about memorial day some years the second week in june depending on the weather but we have put out a phenomenal spring  last this is where you know if i grab a more cooperative chicken he still is not going to be very cooperative she's a little touchy i've got this chicken who's very cooperative you know when you look out all war and more sensitive yours we're going to talk about the back end of chicken so if you want to hustle people out of the room you know or since you're right ok so if you look at the back of a chicken a good way to get them to kind of show the back end of one crammed into the front and the other you get these enormous eggs and she's been passing them up to this point but what happened is she was trying to pass something so big that that little sphincter kind of you see sort of an inflamed donut sort of the internal part sticking out of the bent and very dangerous situation for the birds thank you and so fortunately you know i check my i work these birds every day that i can wars and they see you know they are capable of cannibalism this did not happen in this case but the others you know still is the dominant alpha anyway so she can pretty much take care of herself possible and you've got to kind of gently work that back and homework work because sterile as you can you know i put gloves on but they weren't sterile so i put a little i suppose a lot on them to make sure i was  it's got a hold of those feet that they kind of go limp you know you've seen people hold them upside down that way it really does work i do not handle my birds generally upside down but it does have its uses so i  got it in once put her down and you know one point blader it was back out i stuck it back in again another pool and it was back out and i but a little less each time so that on the third try i got everything tucked in keep the bird calm separated from the others and fortunately she went into this in the top condition that she's generally end and  strong bird she has gone off to lay thank goodness obviously you know the best thing for right now is not to lay heal up so fortunately for me her body has told her to and that's enough for now take a little break so i'm keeping a sharp eye on her during the those first few days i did have an isolated case this happened while i was work at work i didn't want the other birds pecking at it she's get the whole flocks getting it you put it in the water and try to calculate how much they're drinking in the doses that way i find it's easier with a single bird to figure out the daily dose which isn't very big it's under a tenth know antibiotic prophylactics in case because there's probably is some tearing associated with prolapse obviously exposed to the external environment which should not be exposed as i didn't do a l to old self minus the leg so take a little break stella she's this is the one that started it you know like seventeen eighteen weeks of age very early a little earlier than i  like for these particular reasons she's laid up to this up to last week's steadily for us that would make about it was about twenty six months straight so you know you know for a plant you know you know whatever species gets x big and if it's all by itself it'll get that big but then you know it's you're depending on that one plant you can't extend your harvest you want to cut that plant or harvest that plant's done so there is an advantage to have multiple plants so for plants to fill the same space as one and it's just a matter of kind of determining what the optimum is there's also an advantage of it discourages air circulation so you can get some fungal problems down the base encourages slug populations i just love hiding down there in that shady little glen so you want to keep them pretty well space this has turned out to start pulling baby how or just harvesting outer leaves is usually what i do you know all these outer leaves are basically good for salad right now and you can start harvesting those outer leaves and just that will give you else in there but i've been you know as crowded as these look i've been pulling these out you know about fifty percent of the pulp population i planted a bunch of seed in each position basically going you know if you know half the population destroy one then you've got the next one and just keep doing that and of course these are good for your micro green salad so that you just eat the whole thing basically a nice butter leaf lettuce in there so then when you know they get to this size or perhaps a little bit bigger and you come in they need you're going to cut them right about here and leave that in the ground and what you've done here is you've left that growth to you know this stuff will usually just kind of die back so as you mo all this down you leave in the roots on the ground and the slow growth to and that's go re juvenalia regrow so you can people can do this you know every two three weeks you can cut it they'll come again it's kind of what they're doing commercially in the high who passes for the micro greens and see  and i've been talking about how i don't water my tomatoes and you know that's kind of what i was saying a couple years ago we had a fairly cool a couple cool summers and i found that in those conditions you know you really don't want to have but it's not that you want complete drought conditions with the tomatoes you don't want these suffering drought i found was that they don't need very much water and almost cool seattle summer cycles  you put an inch down of water and with mulch and it's going to remain moist for a month and really that's kind of where i got that don't water things now we're starting into a cycle where we've had it just went through a week of the eighty degree weather in the middle of may which is i don't think i've seen the soil temperatures in may i garden in this spot for ten years and i don't think i've seen as well temperatures that high this early so i'm in a kind of a different situation as you can see and i don't have my mulch down yet because i'm out of wheat straw this soil has gotten really dry on top which isn't unusual appearance wise for my method but even when i go down and got my little weed or two will pull a little cooler out here when i go down you know obviously this is what i'm talking about this doesn't need watering down here and when these plants are more mature with a very robust root system the disease resistant  will fill the underground portion of this bed with its nice wandering roots and at that stage you know july august this is exactly what i want to bone dry up here to prevent any kind of  or diseases or bacteria fungi from thriving in this upper layer because remember that late blight quite a thorough which gets your tomatoes every year is a free swimming organism at some point and loves free water so if this is saturated that o o spore from the site of thora can swim find its mate start before the cycle that will eventually get your plants so i want to you know so i don't want so from from drought that there's you're you know that can all that just about packs and that's just about right but we're having these you know hot days i actually have been put on live and i'm also just waking the soil up you know this has been bone dry under plastic all winter long for exactly this reason to suppress the pathogens and i'm just waking up because now i want to you know dug some amendments in here that need to break down from the plant to make it more available since try to wake the soil up you combo hardware store people moisture light ph and it doesn't all right job you know the moisture is also you know it's measuring the conductivity between these points so i've also noticed that a a well fertilized bed or pot that you measure you know has more conductive it's got the mineral salts in it or look you know the conductor's in the soil so if it's like just pure coconut coyer with plain stench really helps when you're going to have access to the baghdad proper stream don we're just going to kind of work  crosses over a little bit stop if not you know oh i'll give it another shot so this amount of water is not to change you know normally i try to water it in the in the morning it's not good to water at night  but i'm kind of trying to do something different and with the conditions were having you know it's been sixty degrees at night very unusual for this time of year so i'm doing it allows me to go do things that you wouldn't normally do right we're all wet that's got to be enough right but what you notice is you not only a little bit you know got wet on the top really just a scraping if you go take this you can see how dark it is saturation especially when you're watering with cold water that's going to drop the bed temperature down so just be careful with water and once these plants go in another by june i will not water inside the cage at all that will just i do it because i want it to breathe and by then these plants roots will be there searching and i want them to survive you know if they go out looking for food looking for water is going to be a lot bigger root system  these for hardiness and for heights and every year i plan i'm really they're always you know about twice the size of the others these did get a little rat issue the rat was pulling up from seedlings so they're a little behind but we should be seein peas you know now first week in june maybe we'll see blossoms here towards the end of may so nice jennifer lawson the right time for new strains obviously individually put tendrils on the strings because i don't i'm not convinced they can find strings by themselves enough prove me wrong there you go that's the best set ever they're all mice in parallel because i am been messing with them just you a little bit of nutrient deficiency and i'm afraid yellow all over especially on the new leaves this is nitrogen deficiency and so i gave him a little fertilizer and i also moved him with peppers this is kind of what they'll do if you put them out too early if you put them out you know when the soils fifty instead of sixty they'll kind of yellow up on you even if they looked green before they'll start sulking and that soil temperature is not only because the doesn't like it deficiency so i'm thinking you know next water i give might give him a little epsom salts magnesium sulfate and the stuff you buy at the drug store you know it's a it's magnesium salts and the pepper seem to overshot it and got into wet and they got a little night and some sort of nutrient lockup you can kind of see these really got nuked you can see they're not picking up to get these all burned leaves from some sort of metal and mineral deficiency they just result of planting every time a t o known to man over the years next to each other you know i've got things called eye ball and jason's mud and you know things in here so if they've got the purple and the