make sure that you know that that's been a joy on the seed packet you know was wearing ear muffs you know and ready for the cold weather and of course we're harvesting we did up a couple dozen jars of salsa last night the first of i usually do two or three batches a year one year i did think although i think they got me through a thing here the next year so you just never know things go in cycles you might need fifty quarts of pickles you just never know i think tomorrow night i'm going to do some tomatoes they are hanging right on the vine baby tomato tomato tomato i'm not going to set any world records for production or anything but i've got two extremely healthy nine foot plants that are right putting up and considering the conditions we had this year i think it did pretty good this weather keeps up has it been too bad at night lewis days are get shorter and we just see it all through the garden things are shutting down going through their clear has decided she's queen of the stack here kitty and i have some issues with  actually a couple weeks ago we planted this red mustard which came up great and is now starting this show the slow down of the season house and you can get in here and then as usual i finally got the end  then right here behind me i tell you that it was carnage that's all the green piles you saw in there around the chicken yard i took out a lot of plants the good plant and which is the bad plant the one that's left is the good plant that'll keep you moving down the road but that was so and last week we planted some spinach which is hiding amongst all these w sprouts the wheat wheat straw has one disadvantage but this little guy in the row is a nice spinach coming up and we plan to do two varieties i believe this was the way seed and i'm seeing some fairly spotty germination on this one horse today i'm starting to see some come up i was going to replant we done there start to come up and all blows my schedule maybe they are coming up i actually had a talk about it anyway this time of year don't wait around you know if the bloom stale was from a seed variety or seed company i should say that you know i'll buy if they're on sale but you know for simple stuff like spinach or lettuce or something but they're not the best seat in the world or maybe your seeds can sit around all summer long you know spinach seeds a fairly short lived seed though summer days if it's been sitting on the kitchen counter in the ninety degree heat ok the seventy five degree heat you know they can go bad in a season i suppose and so if you see or you know this germination of course keeps going down with age so if you see a row that's not coming up right away with a quick profit like spinach mustards the lettuce go ahead and replant right away don't wait around in fact they might just here's what will do will go and plant next to these guys because i'm still not convinced these are the bust as i'd like them to you want to get that out of the way strong survive because the days are getting short man they things are going to germinate pretty well with temps we're getting with these cool weather crops but getting them to grow as the days progress is going to be become  increasingly challenging so when we have we've got double choice hybrid perfect for micro greens or for let them grow for a little longer for cooking and we have harmony hybrid which is a i picked it for the sab wide leaves to kind of replace or blooms they all so let's go ahead and plant that one just for kicks look out for deals with the seed store you know sometimes they are going on sale this time of year  and you can pick up some deals for next year if you get them out of the sunlight and get them to temperature stabilize they'll be good for next year generally just plan to do down here fighting to get out and stuff like the tension against the pounding rains and you know keeps it consistently moist during the drier call that good and then on the other half of this bed i did something a little different i planted some lettuce just broadcast i got a couple packs of seed kind of left over from the summer and i went ahead and broadcast them break them in lightly and then just put the straw mulch on top and a nice little lawn coming in think this will sort of be the cut and come again you know you see little clumps of the green leaves to go when it's up to the darker soil so a nice long coming in and i think as i said cut and come again is where you let him get to you know michael green stage  sort of cut them off you know leaving about an inch and leaving the growth tip and then they'll come back on from the center again so i'll give that a try this winter see if you can get something going and just turning around here at your feet will follow up on the beach project these were the beats from the refrigerator these were last year's best seats and this is flat if egypt beat heirloom open pollinated variety and i planted my two big honkin beets you know they were in the fridge over the winter and i went ahead and planted them up a little late in the season i'm starting to see the ones i really like more you know this red mustard for instance trying to poke through so i'll get some of these ones curly lease thinned out again there's going to be a lot of carnage the chickens get a lot of snacks also great nutritious for compost cucumbers are not looking good you know a couple weeks ago we tried some a little bit of potassium bicarbonate for the downy mildew a little bit so for the spider mites and spider mites just really kick the snot out of these vines i also left those seed cukes on a little too long as you can see these vines are just about done kind of thinking s just a couple little you know shots of color here's the goldfish hybrid certain that come on with a fairly nice looking cherry sort of nice medium hot as a pickling pepper you know for your aunt's pasta and that's exhibiting a nice round shape i've been selecting for the round ones because they keep interbreeding  guy they keep interbreeding with the other peppers and i know when they're oblong like that they're turning back into the chili pepper which is a little too hot for me and so at least a couple of these are showing good signs of  you know selecting for what i want select the pork i don't like this particular goldfish hybrid which is showing either the shape or the color or the heat that i'm looking for this thing actually turned and i think it might have got a little bit of the sweeter pepper i was growing couple years ago the red is not what i'm looking for i'm looking for more of a  ahead and plant something for the winter months you know we'll be going down the slab here in another week or two when the rains start  far as you know commercial but this has been a stand by for years amongst the gardening sat and diabetics and that sort of thing for some sort of sweetener that's you know not a carcinogen or so let's take a look at the sea because this is that's where the conversation starts you want to take a look at your seats get him out here where we can look at him and he explained see these plant these a quarter inch deep and they may be able to come up from a quarter inch deep but that's not the way i would recommend it so they gave me a very generous three e micrograms of these seeds it might say milligrams but i think it's micrograms it's we've got not much soil or not many seeds to work with i'm already trying to spawn so here's what we're going to do we're going to put them all in one little pot the small nursery pot the small seeds you may you know if you get fifty percent germination and twenty five percent survival i think you're doing pretty good some of these compost base well but particularly for smaller irregular germinating seeds i find cyril mix enjoyed them working very well for me this is just to get them started just given the right conditions  sprouting and then if they do well they're only going to be in this pot for you know sixty eight ten weeks six months coming on when i get round to it so we're going to go ahead and fill up our pot kind of level settle and we're not feeling it all the way to give a little special treatment here  dissecting microscopes great for this but this doesn't translate well on the screen donations to the to the fund for you know the microscope projector and camera interface can be sent to maybe you've got one line around the house all right so that's got a good estimate as almost exactly and will just dump the other two in there somewhere and now we're going to cover this with oh more solid food for their gizzard my chickens personally just like road earth but a bad bags of this stuff i tell you for that for topping the plants because it's pretty and it acts as a mineral mulch he helps keep the moisture very good without over watering it and putting just a sort of trying to get one layer or you know maybe one of the half layers of these it's little tiny pebbles and of course that's got to be watered in with this one i'll probably water from the bottom put it in a little dish and fill the dish about half will  soak up from the top and that way you're not stirring the top if you do water from the top you'd recommend sort of like a mist bottle would be good and then there is a nice little meyers and lamb and i was buying these beautiful meyers lemons last things like this indoors i guess we're getting pretty close to where lemons are going to be too happy although the minor lemon is fairly frost well maybe not frost resistant so here is a unhappy specimen know black and rotted it's got a fairly good tapper intact so we're just going to break those up a little bit though milly's got a new home because i'm going to a big chunk of mix here this is a bark and the recycled mix from previous endeavors  the chunks are for air ration roots of variation and you notice i'm not going to have much bigger pot obviously a lemon tree can get very large but you don't want to start putting this guy in a two gallon htat right now they like outgrows this it will go to the next size and again i'm going to use the number two chick grits which is a little bigger prefer this over the small stuff we only use the small stuff because it was such small seeds on this stuff actually works the you know it was starts all right as long as you're not over using it and only use it on the indoor plants potted plants and i bought you know a medium sized packet from years ago air out from around the roots and i know i just said they want air but especially on transplantation you know i'm getting shockey and i think that's shine this guy up and bring him indoors since it's doing so well lemans in four years 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 show i listen for the phone after the tuesday evening show you can also visit that new website at the real garden dot 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