phenomenon says you can see they're just getting used to it and if it was got a funny it firstly they really wanted it but you know as soon as expected it started moving around they were kind of afraid of it too so it's kind of been a looks like they've made some progress cold they'll snarf that down rather rapid fashion in fact cleo here actually yes where she's getting ice cream headache when she eats the cold banana too fast and hoping that coolio gets down inside that crop and cools their core down a little bit so they've been kind of taking it easy you know keeping and laying in the dirt trying to keep cool they've been laying pretty good everybody but well kiddies kind of the ten year old the reeks still hasn't come on although she's presenting and eating some oyster shell and acting like she's getting ready but clearly here on the nine year old blonde erica america she's been there last week i say and she's been presenting for me sort of going into that meeting pose and which is something they don't do unless they're kind of getting ready to lay or in the way when they're off the lay they've kind of actually resent you trying to she's been receptive lately and i wonder you know what the heck is going thought well maybe she's playing and or maybe she's laying well i i started reaching under her because she didn't want to move and lo and behold there was a great big turquoise so the nine year old chicken who usually lays in the spring and then stops late june starts molting she actually stopped molting kind of you know she'd dropped a few feathers for a week or so and then she stopped molting which is unusual for them to stop molting once they get going and and then in the shortening days she's actually gone back on the way she's given me three big turquoise eggs i lamb the biggest eggs she ever has she always used to be served every day layer with a fairly small green egg typical of americans the green part not necessarily the large or small part and  i think it's staged i don't know whether it's some sort of pheromone whole you know chicken thing you know but her whether she just wants to be part of the gang her or what but i tell you to look back on see she's she's maintaining her dominance in the flock you know for once they're sometimes a bird that's molting will kind of lose a notch on the pecking order so called pecking order i've been calling it the dominance hierarchy lately because it's a lot more complicated than just checking for instance you know if the other birds want some of the screen watch this these to see if it's she's you know that a hierarchy has been established and it's it's kind of interesting you see some very subtle body language signals between the birds from time to time if you're paying attention to rosie of course it is thinking that maybe she's going to make a play for the queen as she puts a couple more pounds on her she might she might just become the queen of the roost so you better watch out cleo better treat her nice for now you know they always know they always make a big noise like they're being killed when they get packed or occasionally they'll get into some little sort of slap fest cleo in the tashi used to get into it they were you know kitty was always the unquestioned queen of the roost and  would get in a little slap fest fighting for second last place but they don't you know generally do not hurt each other i've seen a keep keep good fresh water available to the birds at all times make sure they've got shade that they can access at any time of the day i've been also kind of not watering heavily but i'll take the hose back in a long time watering the other stuff all kind of sprinkled with the soil back here so that the kind of keeps the dust down  offers a little cooler spot for them to dust  i finally kind of worked into the later part of the day late real late and she took a day off but as we said it was forty three days straight which is just amazing generally you know most chickens will go and where they're really putting all their energy into laying it looks like it is getting late the girls are getting ready for bed and it's just about scratch time stalk about that  so scratch is a good motivator this is just corn and wheat berries and as you can see they like it they like a lot so this is useful like when you need to get them in the pen when you're late for work and they're rambling around couple shakes o the oldest scratch jar and they come around and and you know as a treat you know this is not a complete you don't want to fill him up too much on all stuff because this is it's corn which is sort of candy cookies for the girls and the wheat berries pretty good him but you don't want to this is not a complete nutrition like the good layer feed with the higher protein higher calcium content for the layers but they do love this stuff and you know for a little treat have been giving out some little bit right before bed time so that we've been eating their good stuff all day long you know and they've got a good crop full of the high nutrient stuff and i give them some candy you know give the kids  candy just so they can you know and now they're motivated by it so it's a good deal and i think you kind of fight over it if if i don't spread it out well you know if it was just one pile like cleo would just take over maybe rosie so i spread it out survey gets a little treat you know they also have this also kind of get some i'm like i said so what i've been doing is here be on the bottom well unfortunately for marie she's on the bottom right jasmine coming to lay which i'm thinking that you know once she starts lay and she might be a little more aggressive although the pattern seems to be pretty well established at this look at the squash just from the chicken yard here this is the best view in the garden this is the hubbard squash on the left there the pink banana squash on the right it's got a nice female bloom looks like it's closing up it looks like it might have gotten some good pollination i have seen the bumble bees in the garden and in the tomatillos hopefully hidden in the squash blossoms we have the male flowers here down at the base that have been opening up first and then these plants and obviously had a pretty good life they were heading for the sky have actually got to get the stepladder out now to get them back onto the trail as you can see some of them wandering off once they hit the top of the and you can either wind them back down or i usually kind of let them truck off into other directions if you've got a good for you know enough fruit so that you can actually top them but i like t branching with side shoots starting to put on the blossoms so we're right now you know i always get squashed in a little late it's always a race against the season but i usually get a couple two or three in there usually you know four or five pounds so it's actually you know fungus will get its old my psyllium into that leaf cuticle that's been weakened by the drought stress to keep your cucumbers keep your squash watered and keep an eye on them if they do start getting that little patch of powdery mildew i hit him piss of pea are commonly known as the spider mite killer or destroyer i guess and we're pointing out these little near microscopic macroscopic these are the pupil cases for this little tiny black lady beetle that has a taste for spider mites so i just wanted to point out that i know you know this particular plant is being devastated by the spider ago and have been kind of the tract of the greenhouse i think it's because the plants do get a little heat stress despite the open vents and open door you know it does get pretty hot in there the plants are in pots so they do get a little drought stress you also kill the predator so you know outside here i generally don't use anything i'll use a little bit inside where there isn't this balance between prey and predator but outside generally the plants can outgrow these little nuisance of best because obviously methyl alcohol has a boiling point of about sixty eight degrees celsius so it'll start bumping and boiling at a fairly low and it's of course very flammable those especially the fumes coming off the top so heat it with a you know at least a non open flame source preferably and then at the end once you cool it down wintergreen smells like want to drink and there's you know  this isn't of course of pure you know pure thing by means but sure enough it's not like wintergreen so i'm going to and this is one of the odors that they found the chemistry is very similar attract here maybe some green lace wings or some lady bird beetles or something so i'm just going to soak a piece of paper in there yup it will twist tie on there and once it soaked up hang it all find a plant that's being attacked by  it's typically grown at very high altitudes it likes very intense sunlight you know you've got a thin atmosphere at high altitudes it's very it forms a let's read the description here by any old roses that forming plants of the high peruvian prefers fast draining volcanic or sandy soils in the full sun high elevation sites are excellent for the production of large roots which the part you grow at a quick top of small roots may be readily grown in a regular garden conditions at low level elevation so these roots are actually the hype of coddle this is you know so many plants you've you've got the the first leaf that you see is the kata lean well this is that's that hyper caudal the end of the life cycle these are known for very high nutrition and also it's sort of an aphrodisiac the discovers of these you know we're you know exploring in the in this is a variety that's been chosen for lower elevation growing have had it down under the lights and it's growing really slow and i'm thinking that the fluorescent tubes downstairs just aren't bright enough so i'm actually going to pull this one out as an experiment and you'll get it out into this bright august sunlight hopefully you know i'm going to grow these up a little bit because they are obviously it's sort of a delicate seedling at this stage i have tried direct sowing them out in the garden it just didn't work very well follow up on the stevia plant we planted these back in the spring a study is the it's sweet to plant it's thirty times sweeter than sugar you know if you pull one of these leaves office pull a nice tender one a couple of them u extremely sweet one time also has sort of a bitter aftertaste unfortunately but you know the germination on these required very humid very warm conditions not a very vigorous seedling although i'm not convinced that the condition of the seed wasn't to blame for that but as you can see it's and this is a typical of some plants that you're going to have this time of year it's getting lanky it's growing well tall but you know it's all this way and not this way and for most part of plants you know this is fine if you're growing a bunch out in the field you know for steve for sugar productive or sweetener production but for a you know house plant helped bring this in it at the end of the season because it is a tropical  layer and what we're doing with a bigger pot is expanding this zone so it's like that and hopefully this this soil will be a little better draining so that the roots can get down into the bottom without anaerobic condition plant just a little the deeper just because he's a little top heavy here what we're doing here we're going to take these a pickle mary stems off the growth tips harvest those for you know sweetener ice tea here in these hot days maybe closer pretty wo to clean up the wound so this we're going to go ahead and take take this down quite a bit what we're doing is all these you can see all these advantageous suits here are going to start taking over you get the hydra effect for every head that you cut you get a dozen more those found this is going to start pushing out if this doesn't do it i'll chop another few inches until i start to see an actual  produce these this side branching encourage the side branching that's but they're produced in the roots whereas the oxen's are produced in the tips but it's considered the rooting hormone it's also available  stella rosie good job we'll see you next week