little garden bed here fenced off for i'm they've got their food they've got their water and before concert filming they also had a big board up on top of the fence you know for a good solid shade because when the sun's on them they do need to have an escape route from the heat and they are wearing little down coats course so as you can see what i've done here is i've set up the pens to be a joining so the older girls can take a look at the younger girls from first by side and start to get used to each other cleo started taking notice of them just this has already had the opportunity to peck at them through the fence a little bit that was fun for her it's not so fun for the little ones but at some point you're going to have to drop these girls  head start here a little they probably won't you know be in the same area without a barrier for another couple months probably now i don't know i can't say that for sure probably a couple more weeks and let the little girls get some size on them fatten them up a little bit so that they don't get totally dominated by the bigger girls although i must say that stella the black star here actually took a packet clean you know first see started but i don't they see had a very good concept of bigger chicken seeing as how she's always been the biggest one in her box and so she took one look at cleo one look at the end of leaf that they were both both about to enjoy and decided to take a swing at cleo cleo did respond in kind and  made sure everyone understood who's in charge here it looks can look vicious from the human point of view you know a laser beam directed peck on my head and of course the other chicken you know kind of squeals and runs away but i've never seen him hurt each other you know these aren't roosters these are him and it's pretty much the size does matter generally the bigger chicken will be the dominant one but it also can depend on personality for instance the rhode island red i used to have was a small chicken but she kicked some butt out in the yard  also depends on whether they're in layer or not you know kitty over there isn't laying cleo is so she's takes on a more dominant role when she's laying on the other one isn't these cold mornings i open the lid and they all hop up onto the edge of the boxen want to walk around and play a little bit and try to give them a little attention before i leave for work just so they don't go feral on me and then as soon as i get home from work out the comment it's not raining and i'm still holds i'd still be wary of getting them soaking wet you know at this age there's these don't have much body mass and you know you still want to be these are still pretty young chicks you know i keep forgetting that i threw him out of the house and you know five weeks  they're they're kind of advanced in their in their situation and i think they're enjoying it i think they're enjoying their situation out here a lot more than in the bedroom closet in a refrigerator like you said it's the other chickens get a look at on them that is just a good way to go  growing up and i had to get in here and very carefully weed that out because he's as you can see oh you know a clump of wheat and a garlic look very similar so i had to kind of you know fortunately i planned on a very specific grid so once i could you know i found a little tag for the garlic i could kind of go back find the first one and then kind knew where the garlic was going to be but even still it got all crowded in here and  can see i didn't go to nuts because i was afraid of like poland little garlics out like that so the best thing to do is get in here and get most of it down and then you know whatever survives you can come in here and kind of clean it up a little bit so i'm bright orange you know spore producing colonies on the leaves themselves what happens is the fungus in its initial stage penetrates the cuticle of the leaf gets inside there and that's and it's actually  i had kind of meant to i read something where you could bleach the cloves of garlic before planting which i didn't get around to i thought it was a little extreme i garlic before it just never got to that sexual stage where you see the pos tools so a lot of it's dependent on weather conditions last year we had a very wet very cold spring which really contributed to it so while i see i'm seeing a little bit of possible symptoms here i'm thinking with the drier warmer weather we've had you know it's going to grow through it next year i think i might bleach the close before plant and you know not in straight bleach mind you the ten percent solution would be fine you know one part bleach to nine parts water give them a good dip air dry them and and then plant them  you know at this point there's nothing i can do except for keep them well watch you know keep them watered from below don't stress the plants and of course i'm going to start fertilizing here pretty soon which probably should have had a feeding or two before this date but there's still time and i usually use fish emulsion on the garlic it's a nice high nitrogen source and you know fish is also sometimes been attributed with some antifungal activity with a full year feed so i might try putting it in the old pump sprayer and not only watering the soil  are beneficial fun guy and kind of feeling that niche on the leaf to give competition to the pathogenic organism the the garlic roast so i might give that a little try i actually got a pretty good harvest last year it was uglier th store mine with the stocks on i think they store longer months even my heart and garlic stores very well for me because i believe that skype on their scape on their time up down the basement so  what i was doing as i was you know harvesting the balls and rinse the balls with fresh water and then i was actually dipping the entire fully or part you know all the above ground part of the plant you know fairly heavy bleach solution hang  from the bulbs of the bleach doesn't get on the bulbs and the heads of the garlic and let it drip off the air dry and seem to knock it back so fingers crossed nice soil and fully are feeding and hopefully the garlic will come around it's looking good so far so good and we'll keep our fingers crossed treen plant which is well something i've been trying to grow and generally haven't been able to over winter this is a pretty little white flowered african plants and i was had a little half a bed here open last summer i had some of these started in pots are getting crowded and i said i just try i'm just trying for seed by fall i ran out of season but i kept some remained on it the non woven polyester frost blanket stuff kept them covered over the winter we had a fairly mild winter i lucked out and now you can see they're coming back in force and i mean actually even start to see some some of the flowering branches starting to grow you can tell when it's starting to flower starts you know like most things that start bolting rather than th clusters of leaves from the base of the plant you start to get you know the stock coming up from the base of the plant and so these are going to bloom in the spring late spring early summer i think  different this year and i have already decided you know and it's part for a new approach and also do a convenience because i haven't had the time this spring that i usually have to get things started and what not so i've already decided i've i'm going to go down to one benefactors this year and going to put the ball gary and kurt peppers aside for one year and devote an entire bed to the goldfish hybrid pepper which has coming out with either a ball garion carrot or a new mexican shaped bright orange or the one i'm really after is sort of a golden orange which is sort of a wrinkly new mexican morphology so you know  with only one better peppers this could open up some other possibilities maybe you know i do have some nice part of chokes that i started back in january you may remember a starting that on the show so i've got a nice good things that i think will open up for me if i can do corn and it's an actual conscious crop oftentimes i've done corn service as an afterthought you know as i go well there's an open bed and it's you know it's june maybe i can still get some corn in this year and a do a bad and be serious about it last year planted late with the indian native corns a d didn't failed to thin properly you're supposed to you know i always plant everything sort of close together as you know and so the corn i thought well just you know planet think like everything else well it really does need to get pinned out they were planted i planted the seed about an inch apart and which is fine to get a good stand but you really should see them out to you know five six inches at least you allow the plants enough room to get full sized and mature without little stunted blitz so what i've done here is night one of the things that happens to you as a gardener everything you see touch smell taste becomes possible gardening implements and work this is packaging from some little cans that come from work and i thought to myself pot holder right so three one would probably three for luck so that's kind of what i've done here said i'm all up nice and stable and we're going to plant things that i mix with all kinds of kind of mixed together and you know if it looks a little you know i adjust it you know i put the recycled mix in there and if it looks a little folino if the carbon sources have decomposed the coir in the compost will add a little more of that if it looks a little you know if it doesn't look like it's got enough drainage i'll put a little more perlite in it or a thing after a while you get to kind of eyeball the components once you know what they do you know tribe down in the southwest four corners area disappeared and dispersed about four hundred years ago and this is the story behind this particular strain of born is that they found it sort of up in the  dwellings of new mexico or arizona sealed in a little clay pot with pitch sealing the lid so the seed you know if it's truly from the honest osses would be four hundred years old long and well you know to keep the genetic material mixed up obviously you know the yellow must have some can't give them you know sixty degrees soil temperature whereas these you know you might get away with cooler last year a split in the clear plastic over them which really accelerate that you know the clear plastic over the dark soil is a little solar collector and you know for the four or five days it took to germinate when i was direct seeding it really helped it brought that soil temperature right up to seventy degrees on those sunny days and you know if it does rain it keeps the cold rain off and it's and of course you've got to keep an eye on it if you're doing that method because the soon as you see a little seed coming up you're going to want to get that plastic off the other kind of i'm going to grow the out of stasi but of course you know me i don't want to keep regions i grew these out back in two thousand and six and i did get pretty good germination from him last year so i'm hoping the seeds still good these were selected for the most green and have the biggest ears and the greenest kernels most consistently green this friday was very interesting because some of the plants did have very cobs that were very checkerboard yellow and  purple there's also ones that were just every color under the rainbow despite you know being the who walk in green obviously you get into much more diverse genetics for the corn when you get into the use  apparently it will cross breed with you know domesticated corn and down in mexico they actually allow the the sea mexicano and the ascent to it's sort of a wild grass with these zigzaggy seed heads that doesn't really resemble corn as we know it but it will cross pollinate and the mexicans say that it strengthens the genetic line of corn so i've tried sente has a very long season plant if you're going to try that i do recommend starting them indoors about three months ago and get them into the ground just as your direct seeding the corn and on a nice indian summer maybe you'll get some seed and pollination i was going to well i'll just show the penis is going to show the not maybe i can do that real quick in the movie that we've got i've been using obviously string in these pieces i've got four rows here always always string the inside ones first because so you're not having to reach over you know and then this natural hemp gets saggy so i always put a string over the tops notch side a little half hitch in each string as you come down like so and they'll keep that from falling down once you get the hang of it you can do this pretty quickly and you can't just do a real quick grow here i've got time granny not you want to slip can we go flat on the one and we climb on the other we're tying a half hitch around each pole so you know this is one continuous string for the whole way up and as you can see you can stop any time you want to tie it off or splice it in next time and we're out of time that's the not you can email me if you want the real garden guy who dot com that's all one word lower case you can also call me after the