try cleo and gilda they've spent a lot of time in the yard together seems like every time i come out of those old girls or in the little girls coop eating their food i am the little girls or the cougar eating their food which it isn't supposed to happen but you know they're they're locked up all day while i'm work so that's their main their main diet is appropriate and you know what i let them we're going to see this the day before the summer solstice or two thousand and twelve in yesterday or when you watch this was international panic day i noted on the calendar there which is all too appropriate because if you don't if you're gardening by summer solstice you ought to be panicking you've got very little season left and that's why i'm panicking and running so behind they've got it i like to have to eat transplants on the ground by july fourth it's a quick crop you know but it needs pollinators and sometimes the bees give out there in  october your cucumbers even though the vines may be growing the pollination isn't as good so we've got to get moving here have been digging in beds all week long to read that last week and  just a little experimental tests if we can't make that work this year it's not every time i've tried it it for me come sort of a weedy mess in the beans or tearing down the that's the good news i'm pretty darn sure this point there's they are all hands you'd know it by now she'll come to me but she hates it when i come to her meanwhile the other birds are tearing at the camera people and oh what a magnificent animal hunt show me thinks  her it is good to pick him up occasionally get him used to that and i've spent all up till now i don't have it needed to catch them but it's some point in their life you're going to need to pick them up against their will and it's good to get up and use to the fact that you know nothing happens nothing gets hurt yeah you're kind of grabbing adam not exactly at the moment they want to be grab but then you just kind of took them in your arms give a little pat and that the stage well you just trained him go ahead let him go you know get used to the fact that then you're not going to be grabbing him and bring in their neck for instance and probably what they're worried starting to flop and i got a few more some string straps on these right before it started raining and wind and everything and see they were put on another two feet since then that was just a few days ago beautiful magenta blossoms  turn indigo in there pollinated and then here's a good example of what's going on here a little variegated peak just coming on and see the green and purple being expressed in this one and they very there's a lot of been working on you know trying to get a highly very gated tall purple you know blossom as you can see some of them are starting revert back this one just has a little blush of purple water demand and as you can see they popped up a couple days ago i had them on the heat mat about seventy five to eighty degrees that popped right up give me plenty of light plenty of warmth probably grow those up under the ideal conditions for just maybe two weeks just get them up to the first leaf stage and get them out here bake them and have got a bed all lined up for him and seeing as how it's almost summer solstice that's so still stuck medo works it's not a big tomato it's not that i don't know we're going to find out whether it's a great tomato but it's an early tomatoes and maybe they'll produce more for me excellent so peppers the beds are all dug is you know you know the weather we've been having and i came out here they're all dug amended great ready to go i'm just kind of waiting for the soiled warm up the weather to break find a little afternoon for myself you know that where i can start putting these beautiful specimens i've got you know wasting their life away down under the fluorescents indoors because you can see it they haven't stunted yet they're doing really good keep blossoming second set of blossoms comes off once these plants go in the ground under these conditions oftentimes the shock i get will shock you and drop those blossoms anyway all on their own but for now i'll kind of let them go what we're trying to do here is wait for the plant to start putting out the branches and he can see this one this in to the garden let me put some roots down roots shoots for it so we're going to kind of discourage this blooming stuff for now otherwise that'll you know those poor peppers that might be all that this produces are going to produce a pepper plant that's going to produce about eighteen to twenty peppers a little later in the season perhaps but nonetheless you're going to get a lot better production out of it these are all sort of a chili pepper so i do a lot of drying of the peppers for paprika and freezing of the peppers for salsas and that sort of thing so if i get you know a bigger harvest all at once late in the season that works really well for me if you're growing more of a i've got sort of a strange amount of corn plants started and i've got this little half bed which is become sort of strange because i planted this kind of crazy solenn eco pence's over here managed to obviously doing quite well now i'm going to get a really good set of these little white flowers that they produce and it's kind of unusual seeds i'm hoping to get a really good batch of seed off of this and  at one interval and then i realized that wasn't very much even for a half a bed so i planted another twenty a couple weeks later so i've got sort of a weird number alternating so we're looking at sort of a succession planting  accidentally for the corn and what we're going to do here is start plugging these in and we're going to the three sisters here so we've got the walk in green corned emma stasi sweet corn and come up with that i she's offering just limited seed here and there and then also from her i've got this della kata and these are the small squash you know instead of my usual giant hubbard binding monsters which would definitely eat the corn eat the beans spit their carcasses out i'm going to go with a little smaller delicate it is not in the in my experience hasn't been a real  binding thing a service semi buying semi bush more of that sort of thing which would be appropriate for the space now i'm hoping that you know when this does start you know the squash does tend to spread out a little they usually put them up on towers i'm hoping by then you know i can kind of let them crawl into the rest of this bed and hopefully the to let me compensable done so this is the master plan we'll see if it and we're just going to plan to see what happens now the other thing i'm doing is a multi day thing that you walk in with the honest the sweet corn just to see i'm not sure whether i'm just going to let them all pollinate each other or maybe i'll  chunks and that's just where we make that whole thing it's just see what these  come over here so you can see he's probably in there may be just a little too long because i'm just in time you know the roots are start to circle so i'm going to be kind of careful get nice root out but nice healthy white roots and says exactly what you want you know them if they're all brown and mushy you're overwatering earlier don't have enough drainage these look fantastic in corn you can have a pretty extensive root system and then they'll start to tiller's you can almost even start to see these tillery roots spread out you'll start to advantage in the pot can be a disadvantage and in the native soil so i always take a little bit of that off and then bring the native soil up here because it was all that good organic material that we've been working in there that holds the moisture better than this stuff that i always planted for drainage  special about that as i said just just about the same height but maybe a little deeper since we're seeing those roots kind of start to walk up  big chunk stop there here i should mention i'm not quite sure if this is a bush bean or her climbing being didn't say on the pack i forget what i read at the time so  corn formally marked with a green magic marker and see what these guys are doing get and corn corn and beans and squash you know you're not going to these are true warm weather crops and you're going to want to get the soil temperature up to well it's about sixty right now which is just ri mentioned that the beds the pepper beds are covered with plastic right now there's a reason why the plastics right down on the soil two reasons one is the soils of the perfect planting moisture right now soil solar collector keep collector the dark soils under that clear plastic sun goes through the plastic really heats the soil up to a significant degree we're reading sixty one here i was reading sixty eight four inches down in the bed with the plastic on it was significant difference really makes a difference with the pepper plants where every little degree clock there in october trying to get your peppers in and to be this one of these seeds where i chose for my generation i grew out about six years ago these are the all green dark green ones and but some of the cobs were a brilliant checkerboard of dark purple and yellow consolo was hanging around with those of you for another day and you know got a stick of squash in here just for the camera for can email me if you want the real garden at yahoo dot com it's all one word lowercase you can also call me f joe i listen for the phone after the tuesday evening show generally always leave a name and number message and you can visit what that web site w w w dot the real garden dot com there's