own happy october i guess i took september off sorry about the reruns we were painting the house  we didn't know how long this weather is going to last but it's been hammer and tong the past six or eight weekends the house sealed up it's time to do a little gardening to catch up for girls and greens so the four young ones just been on fire we're getting four eggs days more often than not one of them will take very occasionally but mostly four out of four almost every day they left out sometimes  you know kitty here was always served with every other day player or maybe two out of three but she laid really big eggs cleo here would just kind of an every day during the spring and then she couple weeks ago i was scratching these girls about zero eight o'clock and we'll make sure i do it before they go to bed and now all cleo is going to bed at six twenty to see some old thing somewhat for the season plants they're a little drowsy today always back off the water this time of year because you know one good day soak the place and then months a lot of years you can't drive back out and just gets overly saturated for the tomatoes and then on purpose keep them nice and dry or go over and look at some late blight getting started on those tomatoes despite my best efforts but due to fantastic weather we've been having i'm actually given some right once it's like i'll get some in the jars after all her so let's leave them with that enjoy a girls school ahead and do a little see what so get your garlic seed order you haven't done that already has just about time i swore that i was going to plant garlic on time this year i've been drifting into december who are a number of years now and done pretty well but yes i think i'll try to get some of this stuff in by the end of october this year like normal people so what's happening here is a picked out a couple nice beds we had the peas over here in here this summer so i thought well collect some seed off of it as a pool zira and carrots and beets or by any olds so you grow a mall last year and the over winter as you can see the see putting up on these carrots on the heath so it's a two year process and beat seed and carrot seed in comparison you know two bucks a pack three bucks a pack for enough to plan a whole bed you know this is kind of crazy and i wouldn't do it normally but i did you know these were the egypt tops which i like so much and i got you can see it's starting to look like a b c beat c it is a actually a conglomeration of seeds when you see one of these things it's actually like a little cluster of seed embryos you'll get anywhere from to seven embryos depending on the size of the cluster why you know you every year you plant beats and you swear that you only planted you know one per inch and you get five coming up at once that's what's happening there so i said basically i selected the beets that bulbs the best but i didn't actually get the beets i did them fairly well and you know you get the skinny ones you get the small ones i collect the seed off the big ones and the big ones i know they were good because they were back in the back corner which gets the least sun and the least water and lay your whole string of them back there that did the best so that's what we're collecting off of and basically this is a couple that were a little green so i didn't i'm stripping directly into the pan here and these were a little green so i just got to lay them on the  open bed here for a day or two to dry out a little bit desiccate and then i'm ready to strip them off which is an arduous process so they kind of grow on these little strands you know now these are going in fairly green you know they i know they look dry here but when you especially when i feel i'm here it's still kind of pliable we still have leaves in there little kind of get ground up and went off in the end so off of them and your window on a nice windy day where you can just blow on them you know get them in a seed flat you know get them jumping in the flat and just kind of blow that so you get the idea there so that's what i'm going to do with  carrots they're really green they're still see they're still on a fairly pliable green stock here already harvested most of the ones i want to get but they're you know like this one started to just in the last few days since i did this last some of these are drying out and it's guys probably ready to go you know these dried on these are nice and dry and crisp and the seeds falling out fairly readily and there's your bristly guy and you know obviously there's a bunch of seeds in these on barrels so this guy would be ready to go right off the bat but a lot of these were still kind of green especially some of the larger ones so you know like here's an example one we're going to want to run with a little bit more we've got the it's still green you can still feel  so i've got a paper sack you know loosely packed again put them down in the basement unheated garage is fine but i'm here for a little bit and then again we'll finish off another fairly long time you know we harvest in july so it's in there for what about eight nine months we get it planted now so we're going to want to mend the soil get it fluffed up and put a little  rest of your amendments and then when you get ready to plant your garlic that's you know here's the head of garlic from last year this is a nice soft neck so you're going to plant individual cloves here try to keep the skin on and when you break him up really watch that base the basal material down here that's where your roots are going to come from so you want to nice complete base there and if you pop off a little chunk that's all right but if you really do a number on it look for another clove you know this is so that's where the roots come out this is where the shoots come out on the point so obviously you're going base first in the soil and the rule is with any fall is about three times the depth of the ball so you know i know i always think cloves the first one and then two three something like that you want to plant the bigger cloves you know as you work down you know if you work into this particular head you've got some nice planters on the outside i've heard people say don't plant the biggest ones you'll plant something in between was a little take yeah always i always figure whatever's biggest that's actually what i plant would be those right there as you work inside the porcelain is you know you get in those little bitty ones inside on this and now this one is almost like a you can almost feel a double clove in there right there sometimes you want to avoid those double clothing  you plant this and you get a sort of a double clove and they come dorf each other to try to keep them is sometimes will just do it even a single split it's not favorable try to pick the singles right so  let's move on let's kind of you know when we get ready sort of those put in the ground i've got a lot of questions lately about the powdery mildew so let's take a look back here on my own i realize i'm still reading up every year and need to refresh my course you know the cucumber is actually what i thought was angel or leaf spot i think it's actually downy mildew hitting them really early in the season and now of course the powdery mildew scumming up powdery mil powdery you know the downy mildew gives you those black brown flecks underneath the leaf kind of like what's going on here in either case they're i'll do half the leaf see what it's checked back next week and see what happens if there's you know i don't usually fight this stuff too much you know if i can catch it early find this stuff does work better as a different you know from different plants that have been produced in different morphologies this one sort of the the one that looks just like a ball going carrot pepper and then what i'm really after is more of this wrink start to life they were a little slow to take off and that cool j in june you wary that we had but the ones that take off your credit these incredible plants now one of them has turned into a very large chili pepper that's red dang it but it does grow on a good plant very productive good size pepper stick flash and i tasted one the other day in the green stage and it was  hot which is something that i've kind of been having troubles finding a good new mexican variety that will grow up here and maintain its heat or cool summers off and kill the heat from the fridays that come directly from  mexico so you know i'll probably be saving seed from those guys and just growing them is a different pepper and let's take a quick look under cover no water i did give a little water around labor day because they were bone boem boem boem boem dry from an august with no water very very dry spell very hot and dry just a little bit of water about a month ago and almost within the week i started seeing the turn here you know just when it started going from this color green to just that tint of yellow here here we've got the roman stripe heirloom grafted onto the disease resistant root stock and here we have the brandywine again the heirloom grafted onto disease resistant root stock i've got all cracking here which can be you know typical this time of year you know a little bit of water did get in there and he swelled and he cracked and that of course as part of the heirloom thing so i might be at once it gets this stage you can actually pull them inside and right in favorable conditions on the kitchen counter and you really won't notice the difference in quality or taste this one's just fine you don't can with cracked ones but this guy's going to be good for dinner but right now it's a race against season i've noticed a little bit on the nuts north of here of course the beautiful example here of the  horror we even this stuff around i've got my ice a profile right here for when i'm done here we've got the beginnings of late blight and you know the inevitable result of this is spor this is actually has been thought it was a fun guy but apparently now it's considered a water mold it actually has a free swimming zero spore little by flagyl it sexts cell that  is able to swim across the surface of the leaf you know in high gear you know just morning dew that sort of thing so it can spread very quickly it gets them every year you know it's just a matter of when it hits we've had a pretty good year i'm going to remove any infected leaves work one plant at the time work from the top down and and then and you know hitch self with a little bit of potassium bicarbonate on it i might accept you don't want the free water i don't have faith that the potassium bark bicarbonate would have enough sap to really completely contain this particular pathogen and free water is exactly what they love so do keep that foliage dry as much as you can at any cost and you'll really start to hold the line on th different callers to even nice 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