oh oh washer here earlier in the day seems to work shootin the window here it's coming through and stripes i have consulted my favorite weather and clouds during the day is more than made up for with the temperatures you know when it's raining like this it's actually a little warmer we've been hit in the thirty's well above freezing which is very nice to help and everything that come around with girls are feisty but now they're starting to feel that chicken there's a specific bleaching cycle that they go through while they're laying i forget what it is right now because it's like you know legs breasts cold waddle you'll notice i'm sort of bleaching out during a weeklong or two weeklong cycle and then they'll take a little break you know a day maybe two and then they'll start laying again so you know the and where the carotene comes from which first time you crack one open man it's a little freaky quite honestly but then you taste it and you're hooked for life so if you think about chickens you know those feed stores probably have the first batch of chicks maybe they might be the second third batch chicks  this is assuming that you've planned well up to this point have at least a design of the coop going my recommendation is always assume as you buy this chick start build the coup start building the run because otherwise you've got full grown poultry in your bedroom closet happened everybody i know including me twice three times was up for something like that so yeah we'll start talking more about chicks and that sort of thing i'll probably try to get something up on the new website i used to have a little primer on somebody else something pictures of garden dot com that's the new online manifestation of the show and paid leave me a comment let me know there's something other than spammers out there to brighten my day anyway so last week we planted peace and planted torrential rains aren't compacting the soil i wanted him in once and that's all i've done i don't want to shoot wet in there especially in these colder temperatures we're reading they all me fifty degrees soil temperature which is right actually it has been dropping back down to the low forty's overnight but you're getting fifty sometime during the day those peas are going to come up i see like one of the  overnight you know ten to twelve hours drain them and then let them sit in a fairly warm environment and house sixty five seventy for a day planted on both in the evening in the next morning  cabbage and i these get fairly large i've been trying trying to break myself planting things so close it works but it always you always get a smaller plant and with these particular ones you would be really nice to have sort of the full size napa cabbage so i have diligently as there's far apart as i can stand think i've planted these on about an eleven inch grid so you obviously are going to have plenty of room when these if if and when these things get full size these were in the little six cells a little longer than i would have liked the start of them probably early february and they grew very well under the lights indoors and then i kind of put them out the greenhouse for a week to slow him down while we're having those cold snowy temperatures because the brassicas will start to  as soon as it warms up if you put them out too early if they experience cold temperatures very cold temperatures too early in the life cycle and assume as it warms up they're just going to stop growing put up that seed chute try to go to seed so i it's always  because the cabbages don't like their roots teams too much but i try to let them know that they're out of the constrictions of the propagation cell and space them out keeping them covered trying to keep them warm enough you know  so we've got the chinese cabbage it's got this the borna it's another mustard sort of a long leaf mustard that i only got to seed sprouts on a little disappointed with those but i stuck those in to see what would happen and then i've got the bok choy along this row about joy doesn't get quite as big and it's very good when it's smaller so those are a little tighter but joy such a quick crop  space and tighter harvest looks smaller and then just keep more seed in this bed and just you know as your pull him out stick more in and it's you know up a little baby bok choy can be as short as you know forty days from seed you know your frying pan so very quick crops of those going a little tighter and then back here we've got those purple sprouting broccolis actually this is a purple sprouting this just like a bronco rabs of some you and these definitely are a little long in the tooth these are the ones that started blooming a little bit in the greenhouse in their little pots and what we did was we surgically removed every bloom  shift gears back to growing and if you're lucky and shock them enough they'll kind of stop growing for a bit stop blooming for a bit shift back into vegetation mode produce a nice bush and then they'll go back into i've had them last all season getting sort of a small harvest at once and then getting a second harvest keep plucking plucking and them and to the point of actually ripping branches off when they're really insistent on blooming and then getting a third harvest in the fall by just abusing them and then finally take a quick look in here to the morris house and some little lettuce and  just a few of these were the ones i strived to grow in pots in the greenhouse and you know things just don't you know unless you've got a big pot things just don't get as big in a four inch pot as they do out in the garden so i figured well the weather is warming up i've got some sort of advance specimens here i thought i'd stick them and see what happens give me a little nitrogen and get them off and running i have to put in some char transplanting them but of course these are the ones that you're eating for the leak you're eating the leaf not the bulb so chards can be fairly perpetual i'm hoping that maybe i'll just have this on the side and see what happens now  with this weather warm and what slugs are rampant i've been particularly over here with these cabbages mammoth slugs to love them and i've been coming out at night with my little head lamp on every night and give me a little slug says slug fish is liquid death this is everybody's sort of putting salt on a slug and it dissolves them all this is ammonia you know clear household stuff one one quarter to one third of ammonia and then the rest is water very effective but i was trying to find some willing victims but they're hiding here in the daylight i have i will be put in some nice stills up on the website you know to show a couple dissolving but as soon as you hit him with this stuff they start turning white you know that mucous slime layer on the slug to disintegrate not very good for the slug they'll try to crawl out of it but when they do they're exposed to the elements they don't have that protective layer and they die pretty quickly the ammonia is a form of nitrogen it will convert to ammonium or just gas off it's you at this concentration you can actually spray it on plants and it won't burn most things test to test a patch first and so you can and and just even at night you know i've got the head little head lamp on and i don't see all of them so i just kind of spray along the rows and after a minute or so you can actually see the little white patches from the slugs that you didn't see start to light up because they're dissolving with the stuff so you know hit him hard you know it's not that population down now and that's less eggs that are being laid for the future obviously it takes a great deal of persistence to actually conquer the slugs but this is the year i'm sure of the other trick you can use i guess i should mention this is i got a few too many copper grounding wire that's like six gauge grounding wire which is very tarnished right now form a perfect ring make sure it connects here and i usually put a little stem in here so you can tinker it securely in the soil so you put that around your plant you know bend a closed stick that in the ground and the slugs get a little electrical shock by trying to crawl over under this now you've got to make sure that there's no that or any gaps where they can crawl under it and slugs do tunnel so they you know this is a fairly effective but not foolproof and especially it works best when this is shiny penny bright so when it they get tarnished like this was and see what's going on down here right so off we've been planting to meet hopes it's check out tomatoes for the tomato grafting project again this is where you take root stock heirlooms grown together chop the tops of switch them and like i said last week you want to give yourself a couple extra weeks for the grafting process because it does slow the plants growth for just a moment did finally get my beauford rootstock in so i've kind of got these on the high burner although i was checking their temperature and this is actually approaching one hundred which and i don't think yeah like that was reading one hundred yeah it's interesting so i don't think i'm a kill temperature yet but i'm pretty darn close they are definitely on the high burner so i'll probably be backing off a little bit like that so those are up yet now that you'll hear a couple different things you know the one personal tell you to start the root stock first because it's the root stock planted singly because we need a nice heavy root system because the heirloom will be grafted onto the now these came up first and kind of got a little leggy because the were on the heat mat without light  heirlooms came up you know a few days behind them but their stock here so you know while these are first up they need to fill out as far as the diameter of the stem goes where as these are well stocked here so it's always a kind of a crapshoot if you ask me as far as which ones you plant first what i like to do is start you know since i've got lots of heirlooms tons of heirloom seeds hanging around i like to keep planning these you know like half week intervals i'll plant this or that you know maybe a few of each kind as i continue through the project gauging what my rootstocks doing ideally you'd plant you know some light for five days before you plant the root stock plant some at the same time as the root stock and then plant another batch of the heirlooms you know maybe three or four or five days after you plant roots and that way somewhere along the line these things are going to catch up to each other now of course you can utilize the diane you know the tapering diameter of the tomato seedlings from these get a little older you know you'll have a lot more space to work with and you can kind of go up and down the stem and find diameters that match so i mean you don't want to get up into the tippy top and you don't want to get below the connally's wounds but somewhere in between oftentimes you can find  about oh two week healing period and then they start actively growing again and then by that time it's going to be almost time to come outdoors and run a little behind this year but that's ok if they're if they're out there by you know mid may so well some purple sprouting broccoli and a cabbage and i had a you know i transplanted them up and they were looking great and very gentle with them by water to me and but one of them had some aphids i've got these hang around in the basement i just can't get rid of and so i thought well you know do everything at once here and fix them up and what i did was mixed up some oil based in natural and you know natural insecticide some name oil and some other organic oils and gave him a good spirits well know when you transplant these things you know they get a little dehydrated you know from the shock in their of course these were fairly young plants they don't have that waxy cuticle that brassicas will develop later on in life and what i did was i sprayed the whole flat and they all looked like this by the next morning they were flattened very unhappy so to last and don't use oil based on young plants and always test one plant i was using test what you're using and you know take your time when you're using it ok all right so that first i'm getting ready i've got my charts out now you people are lucky you buy it yeah you go out buy a pack planet think nothing of it right should life be so easy for me i've got all these breeding projects the charts the ramifications of the man that and that's good if you're not doing it if you can pay handle it with my schedule and the amount of plants i'm growing older and use the flat so it's i've got the six l fold plaster the packer masters kind of but i do as i pack it down to the planting depth i'm looking for more or less you can kind of adjust it with your tweezers plant one purcel peppers not too deep and we're out of time 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