yeah boy so we're in summer now everything seems to be worked right about a week early this year and that includes getting some good weather for fourth of july usually it's the week i've said it before and i'll say it again if you if you think your garden isn't growing very fast go away for a few days or a few weeks you know idea of how fast it's growing and freshly once warm like that the corn kind of just not only game six inches in height in two days but also i just felt doubled its footprint on the ground i planted the corn fairly close as far as the home standard goes and even then it looks very sparse with its little dixie cup sized plants  so the chickens don't like the heat that much especially kitty who is eleven years old and just susceptible she's a big bird to she's got and she's got a lot of feathers so she's always kind of stuck in the tank a little bit water they get less active you know they know what to do they they sit perfectly still when they're panting they're hot and when they're panting with their wings out they're really hot see them do that quite a bit during  shutdown for a day or two but we got there nice we just got the marine influence kind of shifting back into the region today and it was still a very nice day it didn't have that sort of crushing sensation  the kiddies kind of ready for bed with filming late due to the heat and also i really wanted to show you some cucumbers going in but you're going to kind of catch me made projects here getting late chickens are about to go down so we're going to we're going to see me kind of getting the cucumber ben's ready to drop dead date this fourth of july two days ahead of time i'll probably get a man by tomorrow night so twenty four hours early earlier in the season for the cucumber see and i've kind of come up with this system two weeks in the flat indoors and then right out in the garden that way they've got a head start in that bed opens up one of my favorite cross who i really like pickling i do grow i grow the pickler's on but to your name on the vine for a couple more days and they make a nice salad cucumber as well  next dries down to earth dies down too much you know you start getting this peeling out here going to goes all the way over the follows down since she saw over the ball and you don't want that to happen so you know i wasn't quite sure if these were flopping due to senescence ready to harvest or whether a raccoon or something went through and i'm thinking i look at the size of this and i would hold off because standing back up hold off for a week or two  animal so you know when the when it's warm their metabolism is higher and get that phenomenal burst of growth so they were got the or the cabbage were moments ago really preserve the moisture the transpiration slow down so i like to i think they're up there at their peak first thing in the morning so i went ahead and got the heads off this morning pulled up the roots this afternoon and i loosened the  haven't formed that first leaf one two three four and then there's one of the corners but these are just about where i want to maybe maybe just a little early but i'd rather err on the early side and plan before the fourth than wait til you know monday when i come back because then they're going to be a little too big this is about right about there and so i've got a minute just you know i said girl i'm out so show you what we're looking at so we've got a nice healthy root system makes some white too cumbersome to curb it's in general squash watermelon you know  whatever don't like wet feet will rot out real quick if i put a big chunk perlite in there for lots of areas and i've been real careful about the moisture content and the you don't want them to dry at the stage but you also don't want to sit in free water especially drain the flat and put it in into a dry one when you water from below and you can see even at the base here we don't have any air pruning or rot or brown but these are looking really good and that's just about you can see how that has just starting to curl he's got like one maybe two spirals at the bottom and that's exactly what you're avoiding by getting him out of this in two weeks flat and that's from  the date that i planted the seed takes about three or four days for him to come up at seventy five eighty degrees and then in just two weeks they're ready to plant as i goes back in one thousand me you're careful you can pull that kind plant a few fewer by in hopes of getting more production sort of less power and more speed trim the sail and go a little faster that's what we're going to do so as i've got about seventy two plants to work with thing and students calculations and even fifty plants is a little tight but i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to go to two rows and plant the back two rows of this trellis because the front row always goes south and gets a lot of branches and it was sort of this a plant this row that ends up here so i'm going to try to plant in either along the string or maybe both rows in between the strings so they both have a chance to branch out and kind of have a you know share this string in each of the other strings so i haven't quite decided yet but definitely few but a few fewer  plants generally i plant seventy two in a four by eight that's why i've done in the past and i do get production off the other two rows it is limited by the front row shading the but i will try something different this year i'll to finally start bruce these great big pods that they're known for and you know some of these really do you know that one that's about you know because my scattered about the yard here he came out week or two and then we'll start stripping him from the vines bagging and making notes on selection you know very decent production i found that you know that if i see an exceptional plant something a foot of growth in the last three days four days and i start to branch out a little bit and trying a different kind of trial of the future or rather than the strings running back and forth like the us which is good this way i need a catch in this way so i'm going to start boxy a me and i've got the first rung here and you know come up to where they're start to spread again fox and again because later in the season these love the warm weather they really are trying to put on some good vegetation this weekend and actually starting to let him set all their blooms at least in this bed i put all my winners in one b over the years have evolved into a sort of a neon orange new mexican shaped medium heat pepper with this nice sort of a shape tends to split into three s at the crotch rather than  so and so it's got this serve martini glass shape almost very typical of this breed serves the fish pepper in a bread with a whole bunch of other stuff finally my picked up the orange gene from want to put on a good bush to begin with and they you know they keep bloomin and branching and putting out you know the branches that the nodes as they become more mature on more vegetative growth before they start blooming in this case to start the show promises but now we'll branch here at the node but this is a stressed plant and it doesn't what it's doing is trying to put out that one pepper on one package of seed for next year growth easy this week and you know this point they're you know this is a six inch grid and they'll kind of clear one of those and they and then the start branching out as well we're already flowers separately but on the same plant so it generally the male flowers show up first and then sort of plant you know gets a feel for how much sun and water nutrition it's to get then it will start to put out the female blooms male blooms you'll see the little squash and have a little piece ised bulb there think you down at the base and then the flower and you can tell that that's where the oval is residing with the mail is probably not away from the female flowers always mistimed you know the male flowers will bloom like crazy for a week no female flowers openness in female opens the male flowers are all dead so it sometimes it's it behooves you to you know if you see two that are let these turn god help me i'm going to let these go into the creek and here you know you can see they always go south always travel south so i know where they're going and we're going to try a little three sisters commingling rather than cohabitate you know just let the squash kind of run through here and by that times the corn will be big enough where it won't get strangled or overcome by the squash wash but the corn really is is you know that's that stuff they talk about here in the corner grow it and i you know i believe it because this stuff once it's got the right conditions there's nothing out secondary shoots at the base which is a good sign and let's see it's the second of july and it's about up to my hips so we're we're looking good let's take it one last one quick  are enjoying this weather i might not see them doing great anyway as i've been saying i don't have been watering these very much but you know when it's ninety degrees for a few days i actually did water  that was it's you know late june watering and it was pretty they were pretty dry and i was looking at these plants the other day and i realised i could see where i did push it a little bit this is back when they were smaller plants i water them like they are small plants and i wasn't giving a much and i kind of decided to give them their june watering and that's right about i really pushed it to the limit i've been saying i've haven't found where they will yet and they know just start with the mindset that i'm not going to water and then water i'm with that mindset you know very sparingly i keep the crowns very dry and and by the way these are like red reflectors i'm getting into the