look in the rose garden we're tran out the new chicken sha striving to work one day last week i saw the chair i've been looking for the chair of my dreams for chicken sit in the other sex like the cold sex life was a couple weeks behind her and then it was he took a few more weeks after that certainly and i think the twenty and she did really well she's always a good producer of large eggs happy summer you know darling you know and if you think about doing anything in the garden now stop i'm starting to get those e mails you know is it you're going to go for tomatoes you might want to get a big plant at the nursery at this point and if you're missing certain deadlines there's always it's always time to plant something else come through watered everything in very well sweet right you have a garden to do is go out and take a look at all that's going on so the reason i think of the garlic is going to be a little early this year is already had a one variety over here in the corner which got knocked around a little bit but it fell over awfully easily this is the soft next garland when one starts to i think they picked up a week or two generally i just am not watering them at this point i was just about to break down and water the me because it had been awfully dry and then we got the rains and now i'm definitely not watering them for the rest of the season you want to cut off the water in our climate that's usually not an issue you want to dry him down so those they start to cure a little bit in the ground get those skins dried out their ways they'll outer leaves now it's just kind of done like that let a little bit of lettuce grow out i'd actually i'm probably going to collect seed off the roads here because these are the guys that grow under these conditions breed for success cabbage is just about done as are the breeding project peas purple kappa junker hybrid have a cop tiger is all filled out ready to go they said i see these four seed this is a breeding project not so much for the kitchen table so you know obviously this pot is very well filled out you would have harvested them well before this for storage so all that sugar is being converted into starch so these guys know well formed and well on their way to becoming seed by the time i'm ready to plant week or so i'm going to plant cucumbers and that's what i'm to do as these guys are filled out and ready to dried down so i'm probably going to you know pull them green paying them to dry and do the seed that immediately and then i've got sort of two of the wimpy ones in a cabbage would head up like that you know just get what you can make a salad out of it and move on don't you know when they they win when they wimp out like  generally do one four by eight bed for me trellis this is convenient already in place three rows dislike of done piece here but they always fight those extra plants yeah i get some extra pickles off of them  they those back rows are very pretty and as productive as that front row that really branches out you know look those are the plants get the most sun and they start branching and doing all kinds of good things and actually are very glory behind me i mean and even even with three rows of both beds if i if i plant all my plants it's only  six and three quarter spacing if i only plant two rows it's four and a half inch space so then i'm thinking well maybe i want to space some even more you know so two rows it's six inch spaces fifty plants  less than i have i've got about sixty seven plants two rows and eight in space thirty eight plants now do i want to actually split it into half and use only half of what i use last year at that point you know maybe i'm hitting or at the other side of the scale we're less plants will people less for so i'm going to hit a kind of a nice balance in here and a lot to think about the next week and a half while i figure out how many plants to put in here but it should be interesting to see the new technique i think i'd will go to rose whatever the spacing on is one thing i've thought about last year was go ahead and plant the two rows in back and then let that front row  that third string in front because i always have a hard time we always do with these peas are doing the crawl off into the path and i'm always push them back push them back so maybe i'll do two rows and then sort of leave that south those rains but they were just pushing up against that plastic sheet much i don't like leaves against plastic especially under what conditions it's a breeding ground for bacterial specs and you can almost and quite sure what happened there but that could be from they are getting a little top heavy to cure in the rain and this and the wind and these guys are growing so fast you can see how this guys kind of twisted a little bit is bowed right in here they're growing so fast  if they're tipping for an hour or two it seems they will actually you know the whole plant will start to bend towards the light in the direction again so you really have to keep an eye on them otherwise you get a good turn one of those you like those real succulent you know the throw snap beans snap peas these actually fill out a little more you can actually let snap peas put a little bit of pea in there they're pretty flat right now and they'll still be sweet and succulent snow peas you want to keep those flat and you don't want the peas developing now those are most tender and sweet and they're nice and flat you keep them picked as well and you'll get more production you can see how many blooms we still have to go and tell that if you don't you know they'll start to taper off in size if you don't keep these virus like talk about my think these are not a particularly resistant variety mammoth melting sugar and this is sort of what you start to get you start getting a little blisters or deformation of the fur you also get it's generally shows up later in the season when the act when the insects come out of dormancy and start feeding on the plants so that's kind of why peas are that's such a cool weather crops not that you know they do enjoy the cool they do like moisture  but also it's this virus starts emerging and that's why they're generally considered a spring time problem i don't know and they're they're really late in life i picked a great big ziploc just a couple  days ago and it looks like and go through there and do it again so the squash are doing good again they're out of the wrap you know the cage wrap that i had on there for the squash so that's usually my plant squash pretty late in the  spring so that's going on there for the first week or two as soon as we start pushing up against that plastic you know get off the enjoy the sun the plastic does cut into transmission so as i said it most of these are going to go down so i've kept them under the plastic they're actually not too bad in the rain i like to kind of control the moisture on the peppers the same way i do with the tomatoes not quite as dry as i keep the tomatoes but nonetheless have to get sodden they'll all start to do bad things and get a little problems with nutrient pick up with the soils to wet and they do enjoy the extra heat under here make sure get bent during this in those wing up and even though we've got the pruning thing just about dialed in here i've got twelve fourteen leaders going on these things i'm actually letting this large plum tomato split a little more on the that these little suckers though at the leaf nodes are coming off you know when you find one of those you know sticking out like that you want that coming off if you see a nice strong split at the top go ahead and let it go my strong side runners as secondary leaders and this guy you know i want him out on the outside of the cage the side guys so he's right where i want him but now i'm going to start training him up and i've got a piece of belt garden velcro here i don't want to trust him up to titan like you know bruise anything but i can put a little discipline on this and just get him going in the right direction and then izzy elongates a little bit more of pull him back on the page i do tend to let him drift off that cage a little bit that gets you just a little more room and then just keep him tied we'll be good to go again very dry they get a lot of during those  downpours they do stay much dryer with the wing on top they get a really nice drip line away from the plant so there is more easter you know a bailable to them these have the big root system they can get out to this edge of the need emergency but actually with the cucumber you know they'll have their first leaf and the start of the second going in another week here go you can you can bluff it by a day or two but you really high expectations for the beads these this is going to be the year of the bean right i had some long bamboo and i didn't want to cut it that's why but you know i've had beans that have hit eight foot the top of the foot poles and then gone sideways looking for something else so you know i don't know how i'd pick them up there but we'll see what happened here is kind of picked a spacing this is a fourteen inch grid  they've got a little brown seed like this and i was digging around trying to find one see where the germination ones that plant these few days ago and it's been less than ideal heavy rains kind of cold sides digging around i think i forgot to plant a pole so you get to see me plant because i can find no evidence of any being rotten or otherwise at the bottom of this first poll the first one hundred five for god so about one knuckle down some of the being packages so you know two inches down and i don't know maybe if in drought conditions or something you might want to do that but in this case where we don't want  sixty eight sixty nine degrees so will temperature which is respectable but ideal germination temperature for a being is about seventy five eighty degrees soil temperature so they are used to that tropical environment but i did are only stuck in about a foot and they wave quite a bit i keep wanting to kind of crisscross and do bad things like ticks and lighter bamboo well but the one way you see i start on this side with this one and then i go down a few feet and i start on this on the opposite side and we've every other one and no strings or anything you know and it actually pulls it together quite nicely and kind of gives you good support pop up towards the end of the season so looks like we're out of time and you can email me if you want the real garden at yahoo dot com that's all one word lowercase you can also call me a show i listen for the phone after the tuesday evening show but you