welcome to the real garden apple solved the chicken but shot problem quite effectively dicky you're just showing off those pretty new tail feathers you're growing weren't y the weather wrap up graph but boy those september temperatures were pretty darn good did my tomato some good put some color on those peppers but now we're in october october wherry no that was back in july new wary and away so putting things away i can duck of bunch of tomatoes last week and i've got some salsa on the cans and i'll be showing off a jar or two of those mustard seed it's like oh wait a minute i've got two beds i got a plant here in the next month or so or by december is my thanksgiving is my recommended dropped dead date for planting garlic get it in before if you can you can put in it in a little later but recommend get mr bed open and ready  terrible i blew it in the endgame there that's in bread and butter is in but i don't think i'm going to get any kosher deals done fortunately i have a bunch left from last year oh i'll eat the pickles for two years after canning of the salsa kind of starts losing its its flavor and color after a year but pickles you know they're sitting there in that brine now i've eaten them for after three years and didn't really notice much difference so we're going to go down to the lab today about beth more recent you were is mine i even know there is a lab generally in the summer there's so much to talk about out here in the garden  no go down in the lab but we're starting to get those shorter darker days and i've got some projects can be done indoors we've got the greenhouse and trant in transition here we will talk a little bit about that the tomatoes are done we planted some early determinant varieties in the greenhouse and they put on some nice salad tomatoes you know week or three earlier than the field tomatoes that was nice to have but they're done it's time to pick them put you know you them on the windowsill and eat them up and move something in there like some greens or something two girls are eaten one of the you know ten apples will get this year the little graphics that we inherited with the house is never done very well but squirrels like them actually tasted this one that wasn't bad usually there they go from green to mushy very quickly i should probably keep it quick or i on them anyway we got things to do you can knock on that girls we'll do out what's going on so this screams bad well let's start with this we planted it over a period of two weeks and now we're really starting to see some good germination both those varieties of spinach came up we replanted next to the row because we were afraid of spotty germination it turns out it was just a late germ later germination so i've got sort of a double row going here that's going to be fine and also have a sort of a long weeks or broadcast of the lettuce seed for  availability as well as the cold weather affects nitrogen uptake in the plants so anything i can do to keep those warm and a little drier obviously i won't when i want to water open them up again but they'll do better under plastic i think and get a little acceleration growth there plus it keeps your greens dry less gritty that spinach when the rains pound and splash you know you get the  little bit of grit up on the leaves to keep them covered the stay nice and clean so you don't have to work so hard you're processing them so you're processing a few weeks ago we collected some lettuce seed just clips the heads with their little dandelion like balls here and you know at the base of each of these poops is a bundle of seeds and now they've been drawing down in the basement times in a bucket just like this and now it's time to start losing a whole lot of seed if you lose a few and you can pick that through and in the end you can basically hand window with this out and spending on how clean you want the seed you want fairly clean because it's going to store better all this fluff holds moisture and we're going to be desiccated these seeds and put them in a bell jar to keep them dry so the more of this you pull out now you're just drawing the seed so you get the rough stuff out  and there's a couple ways of doing it nice clean seed tray works well for certain seeds i like using get it down at the and get everything done at the end then i start tapping the as the seed rolls down you can blow that fluff out and it helps the balance to keep the thing moving side to side so you're losing it out the top pick out the big chunks you can buy that two hundred dollar set of seeds says i saw in the catalog it looks so tempting for you can go to the thrift store and buy one of these messy desk organizers for seventy nine cents and this works really great for you know these you can find different size mash you know depending on who made the thing as you can see that just pulls everything to sweet and really good it's clean at that point especially for that this is really great for the bigger chunks and then you can kind of blow the fluff out of the glass at the end so let's put it all back in which brilliant t v moment so go get it in get it dry and  ideally want to you know all this stuff in all those last august days before the rains come but i see a couple things that still are pretty good as far as viability of the seed pods can get m i this is going to start i'm going to start chopping some of this stuff so we'll hole we don't need to pull the whole plant off the seeds are pretty pretty right and if i was worried that i was taking these a little early i might hold a whole plant the other thing is these things are taller than my basement so it's kind of hard to hang them down there and it's a good idea to pull out as much of this desiccate this keeps a good news on it so those who go down and hang in the basement for you know until they're nice and dry and then i'll on those long winter evenings i'll start to pull apart these little seeds and let's find a good one to demonstrate ones you can see where the bloom used to be of course right at the base of the seeds and these are very light because they're they've just started to ripen and then these brown ones of course are more mature and if you have you know those fall right apart and again wilson will be winnowing out some of this vegetative material and that's the seeds for the children so lots to do lots to do even this time of year i just found myself thinking ok will do seed saving i realize that i have all these snap and snow peas that have twenty one courts on the first pick of the tomatoes which actually for me is like a record here you know i mean i think i think the best up to this point was like sixteen courts  lo and behold after all my thrashing about and grafting of tomatoes and trying new things we finally did succeed and the plants look really healthy still hardly a spot them so i think that really these what's you know ripening on the final make it all the way so i think i'm going to get a second round off of the tomatoes and get on with the tomatillos i finally got around to making some salsa temperatures the nighttime temperatures were actually pretty good this year so let's just look through the murk here you can see the tomatoes are kind of die and they're there i'm going to pick them tonight and i'm going through all of those pots out into the cold cruel world and we're going to start planting some greenhouse greens let's go down that's all about planning and gallons and this i'm going to try something new try just to see under undivided sci fi this is going to be my garden this is you know good because it's uses the entire space  compost goes never amounts more than twenty five percent of any of my mixes and the longer i do it the bony are these mixes yeah let's go ahead dump some in here what i've got going on here i should point this out is slotted flat it's got a holes in it so that the water drains through and then for now since i'm go for now we're going to use all three to fill it full because this is a lot of soil or the undivided flat you know a lot of times when you're using these insert simple six pack or nine packs cells to help and that helps with generally doesn't grow very well for me but i like to eat it so we're going to try this one really plus seed pack g s thirty weight on this stuff these are going to go very shallow close is actually a fairly light determines germinate or like slight for germination fact maybe woman things that was working well for me last year was don't cover him up right away just press him into the soil put him under the plant lights for twenty four hours then cover him up it works great so maybe i'll just stop there with slight sprinkling and this soil so moist it's been in the bucket and hasn't dried out it's basically right let's take a look this time now because it's doing so well we've got the pineapple and coffee plantation going down here these are the vegetatively you can take the crown off of a pineapple kind of twist away all the fruit and then let it callous for a week or so and then plant it up it's almost like a cactus in that respect germinate for the next three four months and we're going to pop one up for success specimen they're all doing very well though so as always we kind of go to the next we don't put this now into a twenty gallon pot we go to the next size basically this gives the roots time to grow out and fill the pot up again gives you gives you control over the moisture and this is a very critical stage going from  so we're not going to get this right so i've got you know again sort of a big chunk mix the bigger the pot the bigger the chunks this is bark and it's to expiate that in some big the pot when you hold these out because that's where they're getting the most oxygen best theory to check where it falls off the top i'm dying to see what these guys are doing anyway and they're looking good not torturing them and just kind of let them know that there's something out there big beautiful world just to sum up and i can beat him up  off rather than cut off you get it right at the base of it doesn't want to come off it's probably not ready still has all green on it so let's  take a pineapple to work to all kinds of good ideas and you know as i'm keeping the plant clean to cure this you know these plants these all pockets of them like that you want to keep the dirt out of there and if you do get some stuff in there take them out to the horse and set the hose to your mr and then hold it up real close and will gently blast all that stuff out so far that you know yeah you can email me if you want the real garden at yahoo dot com is all one word lowercase you