welcome to the real garden junior wherry strikes again and i've heard enough whining about that already june in seattle very normal weather yes me it's always like makes you feel a little less behind when you don't have your papers or i'm glad i didn't put my peppers in sports is an advantage not to put your peppers so we are hit in the forty's on the night of some no barely barely there temperatures during the day times but if they go over fifty degrees and your most plants are going to leave they've had so many greens lately that they might be less motivated by the treats and pulled up a bunch of purpose sprouting broccoli that was very purple but bushy plants with no broccoli sprouts on them so time moves on titan time so i've pulled them out these girls have been feasting on broccoli leaves me love broccoli leaves other they're kind of full i think but it's always better when daddy holds the lead for them so they'll they'll come for that going to join us rosie oh well aren't you special that is my darling so this is a week thirteen for the chicks as you can see there you know their friends are almost sized but they've got a lot of filling out to do those combs are coming and they're all feathered out they don't need any heat her for real attention at this point just food  water and ice take place to sleep at night and we're looking for a production somewhere in august mid to late august these girls come in is actually reading the chicken book and they were saying specifically the black star here like stella can produce in as little as sixteen weeks i don't know what conditions that would be under you know the twenty four hour hand house lights or or what they're known for early production is what the word is chicken feet are there for whatever yummy bits are she's she's actually starting to get that back part of her of her comb she kind of goes through two morphologies when she's whether she's laying or not when she's but she certainly going through the changes  quickly once they get growing so let's hope that i'm not too late this is pretty darn late so i had i'm just going to plant two varieties i say from last year and this is i've been sitting on so just to ensure the put about four seeds in each cell just click here they always all come up so you know i don't even know i do this but i have no time to lose here will put three any age and we're just looking for the first one up and look for the strong ones i only need about six plants  this particular set last year had a very particular you know the purple was all down at the blossom end of the fur and then it was mostly yellow with a little blush on the rest so it looks sort of like an eyeball when you looked at it from the bottom of the for so that's how it got its name and i'm thinking this is going to be fairly early variety because the the yellow variety was always curly and a little sweeter so these are going to get bottom heat lotsa light in the grownup for a week or two and or see if i can get a jump on the season and get him out of here in the longest days i can but we'll get him started indoors under ideal conditions now i will say this in the meantime i probably will prepare the bad go ahead and direct so some of these put a good pinch of seed in each position but those and kind of let in and put on the map and we'll keep our fingers crossed in the meantime i look for ones that have come up as we sure hope to garden because of that work really good one year when i also forgot out so basically you know this is usually where i start with beds there's almost always something growing in it must have given it to the chickens for a month or two so i you know start tearing stuff up you know harvesting wh keeps well in the fridge for a while so probably go in pick you know especially the mace rosie it's at the top you can tell these are starting to fulton the way they're almost doesn't go to seed they belong gaited  olds get wider but that little head at the top of the romaine you know there's something like that so i'll probably go in you know give chickens their greens collect a variety of lettuce as for our own use and then get this all chopped and greens as far as the greens browns in the compost pile so still some value in this and you're going to be left with some pretty good soil you'll have compact and down you can see a lot of roots in there  so at that point we kind of you know rake everything all the organics off because it's just going get your way at this point if you're ready to plant which brings us kind of to the next step is under the plastic here sky what we're left with for demonstration purposes of just leave it in place so i'm just going to start popping these big chunks as you can see it kind of comes up as a block you can see and know all the fibers roots from the plants that were in activity so you know those are like i said that's not a clumps are necessarily a bad thing or kind of like the little crunch berries in your cereal or whatever the flavor nuggets yummy biological activity just go bust up real quick don't have to do the whole bit you get the idea especially when you're you've taken good care of the bad you've kept roots in the ground nice layer of now were and read the men the bad what got here is some real yummy compost i don't know what i did right but i did something right last fall autumn leaves probably some chopped up because everything really broke down beautifully you can see this is a lot of commercial compost you know you open the bag and it's black and that's from actually high temperature and  high temperature and anaerobic activity they do in those huge wind rows the biological activity is so hot and you know the pile is so big that down in the center there you get that blackening that's actually from cording to the instructions in this sized bed it's ten ounces so a little cup is just about right for this particular bed but i also like to  by plants will put a little bit of that on there and there's also theories about how just some you know releases nutrients from clay or buying  of where we're at that and that's it ok after the more strenuous work of air raiding you know where you're kind of digging all the way down to the  bounds and turned into an inorganic as in no carbon mineral and that's going to happen from microbial activity starts out as a sandy soil a lot of rocks in it but actually it's so i got good drainage got good minerals and i'm a big believer in working with soil your first rather than tr problem with new rules here lots of kid stuff and finally after flushing it up all that like that you actually want to pack it back down a little bit get the capillary actually going back in here so it's time to go down not real hard so we're out of time hope that helps if you can email me if you want real garden at yahoo dot com that's all one word in lower case you can also call me after the show i listen for the phone generally after the tuesday 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