plant some beets today it's dark our winter garden let her know that she's you know she's got a spot  still hasn't no such insecurities she just knows she's top notch greens taste better after those frosts so it's kind of convenient but you can grow in that time of year and plants produce sort of an empty freeze with their sugars and that's what you're tasting when they are after the frost we're going to plant some seeds will take a look at some of these warm weather crops and they're trucking along the boys but a great year i spotted the first right tomato a couple days ago take a look at that after they got drafted kitty here has been doing good lately have been years old still but not a new set of feathers she's been at it for a few months now still helping her with those pins and getting them off unraveled for him fluffed up i think she's looking pretty good for her age you can see she's kind of bolting a little bit she's kind of losing one and growing one she's known as with chicory white leaf chicory so we're going to grow these great big chicory plants i'm terribly is often when it gets in the dead of winter and force the roots in the basement  are you know sequels and answers only you know this is where the poem is used and you can see there's no real cucumber down there and the female blo out for a good shot you can actually see the little cucumber at the base of the flower so cucumbers are monies just leaf got male and female flowers separate but on the same plant which the females don't need the female flowers don't need pollination to set a fruit now they won't have seeds necessarily but they will set fruit so you can look for that if you're in a greenhouse or something where you are an area without good pollination fortunately have got days away maybe a week away from being fickle sized if you're saving seeds i don't think i will save seed this year because it's i've got a big jar full of this variety and this is sort of a sort of a breeding project this is a like a winter squash basically all the way till frost they'll get big sort of almost football sized even with these pickler's they'll get all yellow and sort of netted like a cantaloupe and and then you bring them the seeds out and say next year this year i'm going to keep them picked i'm going to get a lot of pickles off this if you keep them picked you know if you're not saving seeds go ahead and pick them up as often as you can and as soon as you've got a couple of quarts on the vine pick them pick them up and that way you're always using the freshest cumbers for your pickles which is what you want to do and that will your plants are going to produce more now that bed is looking a lot better than this of backed by the wall just gets a little less sun and you can tell that these are you know a few days of sunshine different from those over there oh they're starting to catch up so i'm thinking they might need a shot already this is a tall climbing variety so you can see lots tendrils i do come out here and tuck their little heads in as they grow i do it every day because when i'm gone for the weekend every day when they're twined like this if you catch them when they're still loose because each day they twine a little tighter to get a little wood here but when they're still green and loose you can actually pull them down you know just slide them down that it seems to help with bitterness and you get the nice long straight fruits great and just more space for dealing with cubic feet rather than square feet gardens really recommend a couple weeks ago we planted some carrots we did a rerun show last week because we were at the opera but a couple weeks ago we planted these on the show last on that show i said if they're not doing something in in a week you know try again you know replant make that fourteen days carrots are sort of a fussy germany are in that you know fourteen days is not unusual but you know then you should start to see  planted in little clumps rather than in a straight rows you can see here so we've got no five or eight little or three depending on germination rates every two and a half three inches  and that way we we've got a good choice at each spacing but we can for once i think i didn't plant too many carrots see that's really easy to do the real smaller you think all these will never come up but for once i think i won't go longer than that though you'll they're real sensitive to what's around them they will start stunting a little bit your plant will feel the same amount of space whether it's four plants or one plant so you don't want that space divided between four little plants you want to give that space to one big plant basically so be heartless you know i usually do it in stages all go along and where there's five i'll take it down to two and those will fill the space and then when those fill the space that point you should have some bait carrots you start thinning for baby carrots and then will end up with about a four inch spacing you know will eventually take out the middle space carrots can get rather large you know you look at the top of a big carrot  that was all fern you know those ferdie leaves and once you've got a big spread of leaves like that there's a fairly sizeable plant and that's what you need if you're going to if you want to grow the big you know storage curate squash  doing real good you look at those rerun shows you know same time i was picked on the same week from another year for the reruns and you know last year they were what about maybe but i'm seeing the wisdom here i've got better pollination you know the bees are more numerous this time of year squashed you know really do need that pollination too as you can see for some reason  but you see that aborted fruits quite frequently already took off most but you kind of see a funny looking one like the one right here it doesn't look good to me i'm starting rather than swelling that's not going to produce seed for the next generation so it starts to close off nutrients to it i suspect in a few can that one got a little bigger than they usually do but i suspect in a few days you'll start to see the sort of brown spots forming on it just like a old the soon as i see that all i'll just pick up pick it off at the stem just bend it back and usually the plants already starting the scar it should detach fairly easily and don't feel bad about that it happens to cure you happens after the plant has formed a good for any fruit after the plants wondering do i put all my eggs in one basket do i try another will squash to have enough nutrients water you know fades away as usual love tomatillos so easy they just you know love to grow and it's take a look at one of these tom see how they're doing they grow in this lovely little and you know they're about halfway there you can you don't have to remove me can just reach up and feel them you know see how well those are doing and then when they're ready to pick you know this this h for orange here and you know some sign of orange that's the breeding project and if they all turn red all is lost but i'm looking for orange come on babies this sort of a orange the mexican slash  shade pepper and there's a nice example of a really nice bush that's producing well save me see from that guy to see he's got big pepper which there's only a couple with the big massive pollen before i saw all the silt but we are still king up now these are in this section the pollen tubes for the female flower which is the corn that we eat so we've got good tassels good silk and we should be filling out some growing you know up till frost just those fruit won't aren't going to ripen so here in a few couple weeks i'll be snipping the tips in a kind of side activity which will be stimulated by some clipping those tips will come off even the top flowers perhaps will come off because there's no chance of them right wing in this climate and will start to push the energy down into the plant back here by my red reflectors by the way warm soil temperature in seventy eight degrees back in the corner very dry you know this is bad was not watered after june because the garlic was in it i actually watered it after i raked it just put a little moisture knock the dust  other ones take advantage of that not even sure beats can go down a little deeper but as always not too deep will waste all their energy heirloom species so it hasn't been bred for singularity and they have bred or they'll sometimes market a broken apart embryos you know that are singles you know when you're doing commercial and using a seed drill you know it's more accurate inches the other thing beets do which is really annoying because they'll come up and they'll grow for you know couple weeks and they'll get kind of tall and spindly and then kind of try to crawl out of the ground almost you know that that taproot want in the ground wants to have her on top of the ground and the only solution i don't know why they do it doesn't make any sense and the only solution i've ever found is to just be ready with a little bit of you know you can either take this soil and mounted up or what i usually do is i take some finished compost and just put handfuls along the row watered and kind of hold them up a little bit way with the parents we used to sort of screams topper you know some soil and coconut choir mixed because they're such a frail seedling you don't have to worry about that with the be stuff the problem with a lot of mulch is rosy is that you know there fibrous and they do want to mat down a little bit which to a degree is helping you know it's helping conserve that moisture that's what you want