he's been having some multi issues just trying to go get her i want to show that you feather she's a good girl for picking come in and sort of like what's on her but here where there seems to be and what i've been doing is she's so old she's eleven years old she has a hard time reaching back there so i don't think she was getting the sheaves off so i did was i went in here and just gently you know get in here and take this little sheath he just kind of break apart a little bit and to roll your fingers that dander will come off as you can see those are all little other sheets and sheets i use you don't pick her up when i'm doing it she said actually kind of let me when we have a little social grooming session chickens like to do that anyway and that's probably what the others were trying to do they just were a little overzealous i'll give him the subtle little signals from the chicken goes to the other leaf old body language with the still my favorite after all these years year you know a weed if you will as i've been hauling off these great big weenies because they were shading the main crop which is chicory but you know that's what kind why we enter spur stuff in here we've got the that's and still not quite sure what it's supposed to do and this is a new thing and it's tried this year it's an italian sort of spring herb sort of succulent you know these it then i've got to get some really nice little lettuces this bed or lettuce last year and somebody last year was asking me how do you get the big heads of lettuce like you see at the grocery store and you know th secret spacing basically you get this one individual specimen very little competition and they start heading up a little more even though this is a leaf lettuce but you know you can see what i'm saying as far as the sort of grocery style store grocery store style of things in fact here's one that needs to come out because as i was thinning my chicory chose a nice looking plant and left it there and it turned out to be a lettuce you know they look nice you know these have been harvesting our leaves on this guy because he is you know not competing too much when you take one of these mustards and you know you got a nice salad raised their cattle just letters doing great i'm cooking along incredible i love the tall vine and we're actually starting to see a couple fruits off of here these are showing more of the purple that you can see they do have a little bit of the green variegation early there they're still good at that point but you know this was a cross between a purple kappa junker which was a fifteenth century monk's super pea and i think one of the oregon snow peas pretty vigorous and i had to put a few belly bands on these guys is because we're flopping really severely starting to bloom catch up with the earlier planting and this is like to happen with peaches and then down here we actually reason i had to tie him up because we've got a third friday up front here this is super snappy which is a snappy the supposed to have these big huge pods but it's got these tiny little vines sort of more of a bush variety really and  those surprised to see a purple blossom on a commercially available p you know european variety maybe it's got a little bit of the same gene pool i'd love to cross these two over with each other which is why they're on the back row right next these hopefully maybe a little serendipitous cross you know they'll be action and they'll start seeing my snow pea variety come out of this does make a really big pod almost as big as your hand stays sweet and tender through it because i was pushing the season a little bit before memorial day and you know pretty cloudy memorial day early june is very early peppers out in seattle and i kind of had a feel for the weather tram and i thought i'd push it planted through the plastic which really helps warm the soil and the other day we had one of those sunny days and i did have the plastic over these open ended on the ands and so that kind of also taking the blooms off this point i've already taken the first bloom is generally is in the first split in the stem the first crotch angle the put that first bloom out if you leave that bloom they'll say i'm i'll put all their energy into making seed in that one pepper and that's new and they might put another one out there just for kicks but at this stage i really want to you know keep an eye on these are all setting you know splitting into two zero three zero and top you can see right here this is already put now you know one two three four five six blooms right here at these growth cycles and i'm going to start taken you stages of peppers here's one where a slug took the top off of one but it was my strong plant had a good stem and i basically had to plant all but two of my seedlings anyway so what happened is now you start to see all this advantageous branching here you know each leaf node you know he's put now new branches and that's kind of what i want to start seeing on these others even though the top isn't snipped you know these will start putting out some side branches really that's what i want to start at least seeing the beginning of before i start allowing blooms on these plants coming up on the summer solstice already to be ever heard of warning day it's the first day of summer you know twenty first and it's from you know you're over from in europe i think and  they say if you hear a cuckoo on the first day of summer then it's going to be a wet summer it's sort of like us version of our groundhog day nobody knows where it comes from but a new weather predictor so i think we're safe here in seattle cheap and they're about the size for corn you know this is sort of you know six cells too small for corn and he's just for some reason i got the notion that it's good news he's just you know obviously if you like a rose pot would probably be equivalent like to be transplanted necessarily but you do get a jump on the season if you start him indoors get him up past the slug snack size slugs love these big juicy cuddle eden's here but once towers but i think i might go half and half you know a little bit up the tower and also with some across the path and into the corn and we'll do a little variation on the three sisters only this time they'll both have their own bed initially and then the swash can get into the corn once it's both that level so i've got thirty plants three rows it comes out to a nine each spacing on the rule in a fourteen and spacing between ro pretty tight for corn but you know i'm always pushing the envelope i'm also looking for good pollination corners when pollinated you want to plant a pretty good block of them you know to ensure good pollination good so i'm throwing a few extra plants in here a lot better than i've done in the past i've crowded them terribly and i just kind of got along you know sort of tall grass plants with little tiny corn like fixtures on them so i think this year you know it's getting better so what i've done here is a marked out of planting stick the nine inch going to come in nine inch from the edge and i've got my first stake just kind of marking where the first plant goes and after that i can just come eyeball down the stick now this soil just kicked the chickens out of here and so enough to mix the dry with the wet and there was enough compressed moist soil down there where i can i think i'm all right planting you can tell i don't have quite the height on this bed i generally do and i'm first planning this because if they've kicked some of the your let's take a look at one of these guys and white see where it is a little off color down at the saturated base of the soil column you know the oxygen is really what you want here and this is also why you don't want to be in the pot very long the spin in the pot for about two and a half weeks in the pot maybe a little deeper now it's like to cover it up with that more mineral native soil the potting mix is great for what it does but it almost acts as a wick for the moisture just about every watering because they are nitrogen hogs in this case you know i think i can safely say which is the dominant plant you know so that's my problem and too kind hearted to be a good gardener got to kill kill then brutal and that that's true too you gotta whether it's if the lettuce that we talked about for the nice big head of lettuce you know eliminate the competition and go with the winners the one argument i've got for the dixie cups as it does stick to the roots soil as per your dusty i might later in season might go ahead and when the plants are to loring a little bit hopefully you know putting up multiple shoots from the base is a sign of a good healthy corn plant i'll go ahead and mulch and put some compost type mulch you know not just the wheat straw go in mulch it up a little bit with some compost and then the worms kind of take it from the top you know into the grow a set number of plants like this i did same thing with garlic cloves so i'm planting a plant the big garlic clove then the you know medium garlic clove that way you know the big guys are fighting it out medium guys toilet chance to have their own space and it looks like we're out of time make sure you water those in and i'll go ahead and put a little wheat mulch wheat straw mulch on that right away  soil temperatures been holding at sixty and seventy overnight even with the most down so we're out of time you can email me if you want the real garden at yahoo dot com that's all one word in lower case you can also call me up the show i listen for the phone after the tuesday evening show but you can always leave your name or number and your