clears into the beauty sleep and it shows a couple minutes a day and a dance up pretty quick and about an hour and a half we didn't have you know the school system is coming back oh you're not done yet she's got her own ideas but she hates to be part of what's going on to cameron you she just can't turn down a batch of forget me nots a merry weedy weed in the garden but the chickens love them and they're easy to pull out so you know this time of year i let them grow  forget me nots everywhere in the chickens help me weed here turn it into something useful are getting longer we're past that ten hours of daylight mark as a february tenth here in seattle and that's when things start to happen you starting stuff indoor prep in some bands and i thought we might even plant peas on today's show but i think it's for next week but it's aren't quite dried out enough to work i'm still in the planning stages which is always what takes me the longest you know i can plan a bed in half an hour but i'll think about it for three weeks to try to get through all the rotations  you know what went on there last year and what's going to go in there this year strategizing that we're going to talk a little bit about that show you kind of how i go about it need to figure out you know which ones were the best as far as the characteristics and looking for getting cranky time for your nap all right let's leave into it do a little gardening variation as it's free standing got some you know it's made out to by two lumber used to sit up on the porch where the greenhouse is now and so it had to be i can stick the poles into the ground this is considered half inch p v c but it's actually something different it's my name be p v c it's so different as for possible waters for pressure it's for hot water i forget exactly so even though it has half inch on it it's quite a bit smaller in diameter than the stuff i use over the garden beds and that's because i'm doing such a short bend here i went with the smaller diameter here  diameter here i've got to modify i'm here now homemade clips they usually use and are made out of the thin walled half inch p v c the regular stuff as you can see what i do is a they take like a two foot length my off cuts and i pull out about a third of the diameter here working down the pipe and then chopping off sections and i round the corners off so it doesn't repeat plastic that's kind of what i've done here but i found that these clips were a little loose on there so what i've done is i've added a piece of drip pose on the inside to give him a little tighter grip the  ventilation no you can go ahead and cap that with a little and piece but mainly it's a keep in those pounding rains off keep in the soil at the right moisture level and you're lettuce won't be so gritty because you know that rain splashes up all the dirt gets the greens kind of gritty so it's kind of an advantage on that note during the daytime it will get a little warmer under here but that's really what not what we're after are planning hardy crops under there that don't need a significant amount of  temperature advantage so i've i'm pretty sure the peas are going to go here one batch anyway and what we're going to do here is talk about a little play on the tape measure is a tool essentially for good reason a four foot is about as far as you can reach without falling on your face when you're standing on the edge trying to plant something in the middle you'll see what i mean it's easier on your  you know when i need an expander bar on the hoops war any kind of lumber they use out there four foot by eight foot sections everything chops down nice and even so what i've been doing thousand and ten and spears kind of how we were late two thousand and which includes the garlic that went in in december and then i just started a new page for early  so that's not going anywhere and i'm trying to kind of look into the future you know considering how much sun beds gets how tall crops are stick in the corn in the back corner so it's not shad thing peppers i'm not too happy with i'm up against a wall there but it might have to be there and i've chopped the cherry tree back to the point where i think i can put peppers in this but i have to cut peas stay in the ground in tell they're ready to be picked for seed so they the vines have to drive so they're very tall behind it's in the ground for a fairly long time like through late june anyway so i'm going to put them in the back where they will be out of the way so it got eight foot bed that i need to figure out i generally plant a handful of all these different varieties looking for that perfect tall by magenta flower very gated green and purple pe which is a great improvement over the original parent stock so we're juggling a couple different things here but for mainly i was just going to show you a easy way to figure out how much seed you need because you know and then these can go into the bell jar for storage so we've got you know we've got the calculator out here other thing that i use a lot this time of year graphs easy here we've got ninety six inches eight feet is to ten randomly selected piece and we've got three point one five grams so which is ten so ninety six pods on one vine which is very good and so i want to work backwards i want to find out how many i've got  those is it too early for tomatoes yes really really tomatoes but you know those big gallon things that you buy at the nursery you know they start those pretty early in the greenhouse so no reason why you can't get a jump on the season two and these are not going to be my tomato grafts that go out in the garden i just ordered the root stock yesterday it's back order to all today so i won't be seeing those for a week or two but those go out the garden they're going to take a while so what we're going to do  as a little nod to the people who call me and say i don't have a big garden then i got pots out on the balcony here and that's what we're going to do here we're going to try some early tomatoes  determinant so if you're going to grow in pots the first thing you want to look for is of determinant variety this is a variety that only gets so big tends to fruit over a shorter period of time and you know you don't need to state it as much maybe one stick you know in the pot to hold it up right but you don't want to end up with a brandywine in a two gallon pot you know crawling all over your falcons so what i've got here is organ spring which is a breeding project out of the u of o i think maybe us oh i can't remember which and this is a no is an early variety called tolerant and that's what we're looking for here and i've got containers choice red rich flavor perfect fit anywhere in the can see it's in a little pot there on the porch ok so also no you norma's yields wonderfully bushy plant look for bush that's a good word to look for if you're growing in a pot so what we're going to do is start a couple of these up and i'm thinking i'll stick these in the greenhouse you know maybe just one good plant in the greenhouse and just grow it in there for the pretty clean stuff of course microbial action looks about little bit even it out look right this year for sure so you're the tomato last year not so much this year for sure i'm only looking for a couple seedlings so i'm going to plant one seed personnel good fresh seed tomatoes you know that eighty degrees soil temperature i'm pretty confident label all this container choice and you know you probably don't have to pick out the seeds way i do but i do look for keep the big chunks off their heads so these will go on a heat map seventy five to eighty degrees soil temperature and they'll be in five days tops we do miss the man down here which is just fine for him keep the lights right on top of them so they don't get leg and lated and as soon as they start crowding in this cell you know tomatoes just love that's w w w that the real garden 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