known for early production as far as i can figure she laid her first date on the third of july which was actually right before seventeenth anniversary seventy three and a verse three and she's been darn near every day since small eggs to begin with getting a little bigger each time all week long and happy as a clam it's on by at first  thought it was two chickens laying because i was out of town in the two when i got home on fourth of july but then i realized that so it could have played it the day before so i think it it's just still it comb is something else in the waddles to very red in the face and that's that's a chicken that's getting ready to lay right there you know compare it to rosie here so as a nice little you know the six wings showing that hybrid vigor you know they're a cross between two different chickens so you can tell males and females apart at birth and so you're you're crossing to braise which always and prosperous life slowing down a little bit but she's actually i think the young ones have perked her up a little bit she's got you know somebody a crack at you know throw her weight around a little bit don't do it katie save your energy she naps for about six hours a day and it's up as dinner goes  right so here we are approaching the middle of july and of course in the post fourth of july weather is like flicking a switch it happens every year a little cloudy and rainy through june right up through fourth of july and then dependably once you get back to work it's eighty degrees out and so on so that's what happened and here we are we've enjoyed a good week of  eighty's in the day and fifty made fifty east sixty at night those are growing temperatures anything above mid fifty's like that the plant  t being set back during the night time and it's growing very actively during the day today we're going to go out and kind of look at how we've prepared for the shift in the weather to talk about our strategy out there in the beds and take a look at how things are growing and then we're going to plan a couple oddball things that happens so i'm going to leave you girls  girls are so tame i have to be careful where i step because they don't know enough to get out my feet they don't see me as a threat so we've got milk chickens watch out this is a fairly good showing p you know what that will get you less starts you want you know these been are being grown for see this model breeding project and so the seeds are filled out they're nice and starchy which is why i'm not you're at this stage now where the pod still flexible it's got that nice so squeaky cuticle on it and these are going to be fairly smooth i think i'd better try one to make sure it's not poison dried pea for your pea soup and that's were so those are about to come out of course because that's a cool weather crop and we're already starting to think about roo taking into the fall and winter crops  start winter crops sort of in the middle of the summer and cheap on the darker colder days and you know you choose something that's hardy enough to take you through the latter part of the growing season we're going to plant something up later enjoy the summer while we can not think about fall crops already peppers you know or love and this is what they've been waiting for they do salt through june unless we're having unusually warm weather just in the last you know it's six days since we started warming up first i see as they start to green up it's nitrogen isn't is available in the cooler soil temperatures and plants just don't even want to seem to uptake anything anyway when it's cold so i see him green up as soon as they start get in those temperatures also see the growth pattern changing these guys have been in their little pot downstairs waiting for a transplant and then you know they come out hard enough for a little bit and then they get planted and ground and they get all shockey and what they do is they start looking like this guy here still kind of trying to snap out of it he's got very short internode all lengths he's getting shocked he doesn't think he's going to have any better conditions than what he's in right now so he gets real short internode you can see a lot of sort of not very vigorous growth a lot of growth and a lot of these blooms here and this guy i'm going to really take off every bloom right now you can see is trying to through and he's trying to put out one pepper pod and go to seed and if you let any of these blooms succeed in that then that's what's going to happen and by taking off the other blooms  before they even start to develop i'm putting energy into leaving out you know growing shoots and leaves rather than trying to grow one tiny little pepper and i've at the top and later you can start branching down at the leaf notches here so at this point you know i might let him start producing a little pepper which the sky is doing  peppers are served in the term an ent once they get going once they reach a certain size they'll continue to fruit and grow and bloom right up to frost but you want to get them up you know to where they're actively growing before you start letting them suffer so i've kind of been going through and abusing these babies you know like here's one you know he's that's kind of an in between or but i can see he's got th top that i've been getting so i'm trying to get him to recover from that too and this guy has a lovely squat stand on him and take one more pepper off of him because i want to start encourage him to branch out a little more and maybe i'll leave these other two on there and if i see him stalling out and you know slowing down as far as gross you know i'll pick another pe nitrogen right now would be a real good idea give me a little fish you know something high in one thousand to get that vegetative growth going and keep that up through july you know maybe give him one or two feedings in july and then you can back off until they really start setting fruit and i would give them one more shot as the fruits developing in september and do it that way again not too wet for these guys but we are so i am starting to water a little more for the peppers you can see this is a fry able still but it is more ice it hasn't turned the light the also notice i've got the mulch down now to the warm days i've kept everything and mulched inhibit slug action one on those dark misty nights it also exposes the dark soil to the sun so the bed heats up faster if it does rain dries out faster and you know during those may june months i always tend not to have much mulch down as soon as the sun comes out we start putting mulch down so that we're not getting those big spikes you know watering in the morning and drying out by night we want to keep that nice consistent moisture and also for not spending a fortune on the water bill you want to keep your know no plastic on anything you're going to cook your plants more than you're going to help them at this point with the plastics and you know good air circulation is is really important anyway it's always sort of a game of give and take when you've got plastic on plants versus the earth circulation so everything's wide open exposed to the full sun you know we've got the what's  this is the oregon sweetmeat bred back to its original characteristics theoretically and enjoying it second generation in my garden and then over here i got some free seeds with my potato seed order  for the pink banana squash and it's something i've grown before it's on the years where you get one it's sort of a long season squash so it's sort of a crapshoot whether you get squashed or not but vigorous vine and if you do get a squash it's about obviously hit their stride and need to get strings on pretty soon with the next set of leaves probably they're going to start showing a little tendrils a little climbing tendrils reaching out for that string and you're going to want to  they love those and the garlic talked about things that it felt to get out of here the first of my soft necked garlic is starting to kind of see how it's just set about a forty five  and feel down the neck still nice and green but you can see it's starting to lose its vitality that's about it and within another week you know you'll start to see others fall down that's like those over i will not be watering them at all it's time to let them cure we've got a nice dry soil in here which is ideal for let them dry down and you can see it's kind of where we're at a nice light dry soil  nothing wrong with that as well we're worried about this garlic rust and i've been getting you know especially on the hard neck you can really see this yellowing of the leaves it's a it's a rust is a fungus that at this stage is compare and contrast this is a variety that somebody gave me last year so this is the first time it's grown here in this garden so it hasn't been infected that's what my hard next to look like you know the leaves so obviously is still green you know you take that one leaf off maybe rinse out real quick with the hose just get a quick jet not even necessary really and hang them up one cure in the basement for while i usually keep the fan on for two or three weeks you know they should kind of be gently rocking in the breeze it's a beautiful smell for the first couple days in the house you can do it and i school cheating garage you want to keep them cool and keep that air circulating around until they're dried out here they also don't taste very good intel you know a good month after picking the bitter so you want to use up last year stock  almost need high little effort fourth of july but you know beans are starting to come up here for the three sisters beans got mowed by some slugs and i don't know how many beans were kind like a few dozen plants in there and that's plenty and we've also got the wool squash in here that went in real late little delicate of squash i'll just see if they can do anything down there filming a little later tonight other than beating the heat is that this guy it looks like it's all done and all the blooms of dried up during the day and then at night it bursts into this cloud of white if you see  i can't decide whether it's got a center or not every time i walk by and i think i smell something but then when i get near it it's gone like zana do or something and so but interesting little plant i'm real happy with  are getting big and they're also getting hot you know being crammed in on that rooster they're panting they don't want to go up in the roost i mean all traffic jams so i'm going to do is i'm going to hinge this you know side it up and then put that door out here and it's going to side for cleaning and so will have an extra sixteen inches of space so you know you'll see it next to the real quick time you got left  let's talk about the weather props it's on me and beets carrots that sort of thing can go in the ground right now direct so good time to do it you can't beat the carrot rust fly for instance and by doing that here it's also like kind of a warmer germination temperature i found and then beets grow well with the carrots but for other stuff you know you're kind of waiting for the beds to open up you know something like the are a good bet so getting started now while you're kind of waiting for that last thing to come out and then you'll come you know early august mid august to have some real nice transplants good weather through early green broccoli you know wandering through the store what's this so early green broccoli as it's the reason i bought it is because so short season so that's what i want i want to get this in and get it done and i want it to grow it down to the planting jeff four three two two three four five two three two one  and top it off a little bit not too deep but broccoli seeds or seedlings are fairly robust spite me a small seed and this this material is real easy for these and here this time of year you don't even need to grow a lamp you can actually just pop them in a go out on the back porch or in the greenhouse and just let mother nature do the sunshine thank you make sure you label that and i've had a couple growing over the years from seed they are easy from seed they germinate readily there are these tiny little seeds that come in the berry that's the stage from here from the seedling up to the always leave a name number comment question on the answering machine you can also visit that website w w w dot the real garden dot com there's pictures of our chickens reviews of the techniques used here in the garden we'll see you next week oh yeah  way good job stella we'll see you next week