and many of the plants in the garden are feeling the same way we actually had a little frost yesterday and today the market on the calendar the thirtieth of april and the first of may north seattle has a light for us it was only it seemed so isolated to the windshield to the back porch railing snow and the picnic table  once you got down into the next to the dirt for the plants are there was no frost speak of not that we don't have a thing growing that wouldn't mind know the reward is the sunny days but hopefully with post meeting hopefully to get to a point where we can to let you hold fifty during the day time bird night time everything you get in the day is is a plus factor so we're coming into the season just just about now you know seattle can be kind of frustrating it sure looks like you could grow something out there you know until you start averaging the temperatures and figuring out that end of things you realize well there's a reason why everything's growing really slowly the girls are enjoying some isn't the stuff we plant is stuff that is left over from a couple years ago actually you know stuff grows like a weed after a while i like to let it go to bloom in them collect seeds because it's kind of hard to find this  we have to go through the tally and seed company to find it here in the states and johnnie's might help too but not it's not a very common thing th cycle these girls just seem to be read all the time he kiddies look encounter in the face their god bless her soul eleven years old still hanging in there my first so anyway fix these girls a little toppy a fish if the if it was on sale for dirt cheap but i thought well there's a protein source for the chickens laugh if you will they loved the happens in preparation to put them outside and just gently pull them out you know i generally get the tweezers out can get in there and individually pluck these are the reason they're in the little clumps so you don't have to thin as much  do plant obviously a low clump of seeds that each interval to ensure that i do get at least one or two good seedlings to choose from and i did pretty good there's like one position that didn't great germinate or but these guys did really good nice fresh seed very short lived seed it looks like the roots fairly healthy almost looks like it needs a little water you know a nice hot day today and these guys are finally starting to get their true leaves are starting to come out and see that little bit of green in there yet this brown color when they first sprout that will be you know i've never grown the stuff it's a little you can give it a try what happens it's sort of the new experimental crop there and quickly the cabbage planned these indoors around late february early march got them in the bed a couple weeks ago and i cursed myself last week by saying there was zero slug damage using the fortress method pellets seaweed limestone chicken breaking and you know the slug feels before plants and i musta missed one because i obviously they're all doing great not a slug bite out of any of these and then this guy started you know getting the chronic leaves  conference in the sky so you can see something got in there and chewed right and just about all the way around the strip about half the bark off and that's why he's not doing too well looks like the roots weren't red mustard it gets about the eighteen twenty inch long leaves when it's mature it's a sort of like with sabi i've always imagined wrapping a little to nothing in it and it's great and then you know those get three and will leave one or two to get big and we'll just play fairly guarantee our success and using the disease resistant root stock on the grafted tomato plant and i'm kind of making up a point i was planting in the same place every year it's kind of testing just how tough these guys are they've been live down in the soil still kind of experimental but i can say anecdotally that i think it's doing good's things as well before we get to any of the of the other amendments that we're going to be putting in here i'll point out what i'm doing attracting tracked into the dark soil you know and then the heat is trapped it's basically like being in a car with the windows rolled up on a sunny day right now we're reading about eighty to eighty five depending on the level of the soil you know this is day one and actually the soil is very dry still because i want to dig some amendments and if you really want to do this you know you water it you get the soil which right now is nice sunny day you can get you know one forty couple inches down one twenty six inches down what we're doing here is again sort of pasteurized the soil sort of give the pathogens run for their money  the mezzo files and thermal files are kind of what's active in your compost pile mezzo and thermo you know it's medium hot and hot lovers latin so we're kind of giving the thermometer if you don't have one you know you can either get the dial one which is actually pretty accurate i just checked it with my digital it was within a degree or two or you can you know this is up out of the base of the soil being caught by the plastic and we're going to put a lot more moisture in there once for sixty especially around the tomato plants which don't get watered really even during the also put some chicken manure in here because it did break down awful fast this year was sort of a mixed bag you know brown and green compost looking lovely and he's going to skin to be put in that  hard to get rid of it because calcium does not actually transport through the plant very well it's pretty much picked up as it grows so once part of the plant is calcium deficient it's hard to get that ups into the plant so make sure than others so notice the paste tomatoes roma tomatoes are very susceptible to some of your hybrids males for your heirlooms might sceptical to it more than the modern stock but yeah it's a little bit of that  are healing up nicely becoming strong as part of the plant actually and you can see i've got some real trees going here so we're going to pick two to go in that bed and that's plenty of to me the plant i'm thinking i might take a couple of these and maybe do another bit of tomatoes only using using them to test some of the different pruning techniques there's no single leader double leader there's the you know my the e book out there from with my romanian grandfather always plucked all the leaves off and only left three or something like that so if you've got a pruning technique