and it always seems like a surprise to kind of late july very you're not struggling to plant things because everything's planted a little breather before canning the seams but that's where we're at now so  spring time struggle time to plant everything to those transplants starr and get those transplants potted up get those transplants planted so so we've been having a heck of a stretch of weather here got a beautiful soaker rain first couple weeks ago now to really reach this a lot of good it's a drag when you're watering your beds and the drought on the edges as it was sucking all the moisture out as you go so now you know that was a great time to apply some extra mulch by the way and you know gives an opportunity to kind of your water goes longer because you're recharging instead of always struggling to keep up year and then you get flowers the second year so it's a long process but this is an exceptional plant beautiful big plant that i dug down it's got a nice carrot at the bottom you know select  on some plant pathology site a couple others had succumbed were really badly infected with it so i pulled those out of the gene pool got rid of them and get ready to harvest these i think what you're looking for these you know these are the seed pods here whole one that's not so well developed so this is you know the flower closes up beautiful smell on the carrots by the way when that new people are really big plant  full blooms like that i can't even describe it and try it you'll like it so you can see all these those little tiny white blossoms turn into individual seeds it's kind of hard to tell  to tell the difference but you can obviously see this was about fifty percent the size of this one the scale of the size i'm looking for they do start to turn a little brown when they get to this stage in life you know you'll notice these lower overwintering purple sprouting broccoli for a while and that's always a favorite in the spring so i'm thinking this would be a good place for maybe that get started we talk about fall and winter gardening there generally are talking about starting plants now or even a little earlier and now getting them a good start in the later half of the summer where there's warm and daily to get them started and then you know they're hardy enough to go into the fall and continue growing a little less vigorously but these are definitely the crops and generally benefit from a cabbage that sort of thing so now's a good time to start planning your fall strategy i think the other seeds i'm going to save back here this lettuce is from a little tub of seed that had been sitting on the bench for god only knows how long had a rather ambiguous notation on it could be fragrant choy although i don't notice the fragrance could be celtic's whole but i've got to look up the leaf shape on that it does have this lovely stock like stringy still edible though and slow to bowl very slow to bold at their ideal stage i would say they lasted for you're probably three weeks you know you know really nice salad stage which is projects so this is very old you know breeding from the from the mother lands there and as you can see i've got some supper pole beans these were selected for their twining last year i had the same issue most of them this species were bushy or bushy and then a couple of them would buy in and i finally am getting a couple buying very late in the stage but there are a couple that do want to buy in a little  lateness so we'll be kind of running through picking the winners as i said you know i planted about twenty beans down here on the breeders to pick a lot so i've got a lot of individuals to pick from and as i said it's of the beans they always go see you're looking at the top of the pole these guys go counter clockwise you're looking down at the top always so if you're trying to help them they are pliable and you know open to suggestions occasionally they reject your suggestions but nonetheless so i help this guy but there's no don't ever try to you know put him the other way even if it looks right to you because there's no way he's going to do that he's going to even if you belle crow him he'll back up and start going the other way so you know if you're going to help them that's why you can see he's got the natural motion big mo is great for touch or feel so when they feel this you know they actually have a reaction i believe it's an ox and reaction that's a plant hormone  responsibilities is cell elongate so obviously you've got a shorter cell on the inside it's just like the marching band a little steps on the inside big steps on the outside so i suspect what's happening is the a you'll get a fine says you know getting a little crowded here so he's you know twining up here and this one's actually doing it right here coincidentally for no reason at all other than crowding far as i can tell you start wandering off and i think what's happening here is you're getting a little bit of heliotrope ism that is movement in reaction to the sun you know this is what you see when plants lean towards that window and you know your house plants always lean towards that south window you have to turn them that's what's going on it's a type fuel truck ism and so you know you can use aphorisms they realize that these beans on a stasis just aren't going to use this poll that much apparently so this guy was wandering off and i put a little a little extension on there tied it on and got him going on that and now he's up and running which is exactly what he was trying to do so you've got a couple different you know reactions from plant going on here so you know you can see where they you know  branches the skies were looked like some sort of you know genetic you know curly leaf kind of you know they were they were very compact which you know a nice stocky plants what you're after but these guys were just ridiculous they're also over flowering now this is still showing an example of what i'm still fighting i'm still plucking you know you know this guy's still too small so i'm still plucking fruit office some of these guys trying to get more shoe so i can another shot this week nice healthy triple dose gave him about a pint each plant and then watered it in and i think it's helping i think they're starting to you know green up a little and a little bit you know i was watching it happen on a rerun of this show i was flipping channels from you know it's from last year the year before i think last year and it was about it might have been a little later than this year but those are doing good you know here's one that where i'm not plucking the peppers because he's big enough and strong enough that i'm leaving the peppers on the pepper is a fairly you know using tomato terms indeterminant bloom or they'll go till the end of the season continuing to end product if i leave all the peppers on in the past and you know and when i pick them then i taste them so i know some of my peppers are get a little mild last year so i'm start to select for flavor again and didn't used to be a problem they were whole hire a hot little well mild gene got in there somewhere and i'm trying to put that out so i'm starting to taste them and when i find one i like i put i'm just put a little color on the tag hopefully by the end i have them taste test on all of them and when i pick seeds for them at the end of the season will be able to call out some of these less because you always think gosh dang it and so limited on space you know what's the most it's a can put in here and still get beads while bees can get rather large so you know i probably won't pick these until november after a few really good frosts will start paying them out sampling them by that time you know i might have a couple of these more of these thinned out to favor of to kind of comb them up but that was just not even a week ago i was in here thinking about the show i thought well pull out i looked at the ones that i them and sure enough they're doing better and i saw one that was too close to another one so i went ahead and pulled it so this is the runt of the thin bed and then i went over and pulled a random one go random runt out of the non pinned bed and even you know days later from thinning and already see there was significant improvement particularly when you look at these leaf so you know this guy just has the one two leaves on him or is this guy is starting to take off he's got one two really good leaves he's already feeling out that crown he's going to become the top of your carrot and you know so he's got a lot more going on and that's just after a few days of after  give them as karats i wait a little longer because it takes a little while longer than the beats to see which ones are actually taking off from this it's hard enough to get a good standard care it's going i don't want to pull him out too soon but i'm actually brutal you know if nothing else guys thinking about it as i was going blind in my back's cracking you know one way to do it would be you know when they're small just take scissors or were just take you know that many in between your fingers just go boy and boy you know every every other two fingers with just go down pull fifty percent out wait a couple weeks and then then the little patches you know that you've left behind cucumbers are finally taking off again these guys got nitrogen that first time that first meeting with the peppers they were just looking yellow they weren't happy they weren't balloons there's always lots of mail balloons so i can pull one of those off and so cucumbers armani suits there they've got the male and female flower separate but on the same plant show all sacrifice right just makes him grow more there's your female flower this just closed up and even when they first opened you'll see that little bit of cucumber down there that's the you know the five days away from pickles so canning season is starting early head again this year you know so i planted the seeds for these probably about  of the beginning of the first game the second week in june and then we had him in the week before july fourth so we're talking you know sixty days typical so i'm really quick crop if you do it right  year which shows the quickness seacom as opposed to the complicity this was just a cucumber most people know and this was a plant that i saw it was kind of this this variety so i let it go to seed and it had this big football full of see it at the base and it's old but it went on to produce you like fifteen sixteen flower which you know didn't do well because of the seed at the bottom but it showed great potential for flowering and it's already showing on some plants you know these guys are just you know starting to put some female flowers out and they're starting to set some fruit but here's an example of a guy who you know after a slow start due to the deficiencies and you already i've got female flowers from one to you know three four five so it almost and i've got a double down here you know so it's almost every but you know this is sort of a must to begin with now this could also turn out to be just a one season f one hybrid you know let's say the plant from last year is actually the cross between two you know like t and it did really well for one year as an f one hybrid and now maybe it's reverting back to they could revert back to less desirable parent stock characteristics so you just never know what you're going to get till next year that's what