nice day yesterday today was pretty nice to and most importantly i don't care if it's overcast songs get to those growing temperatures i'll be all right get that soil temperature up over you know forty degrees i'll be alright and it's happened ready set go it's time full swing the chickens are looking red in the face b c in some eggs pretty soon here in their younger years mid march was the loose switch flipping time for these girls but you know kitty is nine this year this month this one here another two or eight you know a month or so here so there start a little later quit and a little earlier i tell you kitty here the oldest lady just about as well as she ever has last year she was laying two out of three days and  whopping eggs with a nice hard shell a champion for sure was waddles are starting to look pretty red there so we'll see what happens you know like i said they're on the retirement plan anyway sort of semi retirement if they lay some eggs for me their main goal is to keep the real gardeners blood pressure down which they are very good at very good at goodness gracious  know you know kind of sneaks up on me every year even after all these years you know february always seems kind of too soon and then things start happening again and then it's march and now for going to savor looking april right in the face so if if you mean to do something in the garden now's the time to get motivated and you know i mean i start all my own things by seed and certainly if if you don't have to do that you know i just like to pick my own varieties try new things that you're not go find at the store because you could you know local nurseries going to have you know nice things nice plants to buy and when you think about the you know you watch me put the labor into some of these seedlings you know  you get a little six l of of cabbage or tomatoes or something for you know to fifty three bucks you know it's not a bad deal at all greenhouse do the work for you and then you can concentrate on your part you know feeding the soil which will feed the plants it's a good way to go i think like this till sales this weekend too late for you if you're watching this now i guess i should start i'm not much of a community calendar kind of guy i always think about it too late to announce it on the show but there's probably think the master gardeners sale is coming up here soon to you know you can look that up and certainly you can find some good transplants going before while the selections good because everybody else is going to have the same idea here in a week or two the sun starts coming out always shop on a rainy day do your shopping was crappy out it kills me noah you go to a nursery or the garden section of the hardware store on a sunny day everybody has their shopping when they should be gardening and you know on the rainy days it's usually greenhouse for a little bit and as i said they were a little long in the tooth because it was so the weather really wasn't very hospitable there you know late february early march but we got me in a couple weeks ago and nitrogen yesterday little fish emulsion you know just as the liquid fish emulsion it's very high and it's major component is nitrogen which is what these things need you know these are basically your leaves particularly if it if the inner leaves start yellowing then you really know you need it and so yeah you know this is a good time of year to start putting the night shift on i'm just follow those descriptions on the back of the jug although i did do some analysis on it few years back as far as a bail ball nitrogen it was lower than what the labels says now that doesn't mean that it doesn't break down because it is an organic fertilizer so basically and you know space them out pretty well i think these things have plenty of room and we still have about a half bed left and i notice downstairs under the lights i have some stuff broccoli this is not the overwintering purple sprouting broccoli it's more of the bronco wrap with no mention of overwintering i hope it doesn't you know over winter if it does will rip it out and try something new but this a great little seedlings and despair where you know you can get them up to above slugs single snack size and don't let them be in the cell too long and these guys were put on their you know they've got their second leaf that the seed puts out and then you know this is the first truly you know counting up from the bottom there's your second truly and then you know what i'm looking at the need to go mary stem if you will  and will stick some of these guys and with brassicas they don't have a very extensive root system and it's they don't like transplanting as much as tomatoes do but i am going to tease these roots just to open them up a little bit and open the bottom up just so they know that they're not so spinning around the cell anymore although these haven't wrapped around yet this is this is kind of how you tell that they've been in the cell for the right amount of time they should have a good healthy white root system which these do but that they have it's circled the cell very much when you get to that point they're going to stunt very likely to stunt was so what you're looking for is is serve a continuous growth from the sea to maturity you know don't let them slow down in the cell or in the pot you keep potting them up or go get them into the ground so that you've got a nice continuous cabbages you know mustards don't tend to put on advantageous routes like tomatoes well but you can put them a little bit deeper which helps  hold them off and he can see i can't wiggle the soil to pack that around fill in the hole over there and you know this will just go into details here when i say a little bit deeper a good way to tell you can see there's a little bit of space between the soil level and the cotton leans here and you know you can go up to you know just under the connelly's here so maybe another quarter inch deeper and you can as you can see that's a pretty consistent  very large you can get to be a big bush but what we're going to do since we've got a number of these we're going to plant them let's say about ten inches apart  ecause i haven't quite the slugs been out here every night with the slug has one third clear ammonia two thirds water and you know a spray bottle and you know giving them a squirt that dissolves the slugs into a lovely nitrogen is goo good for the plants as far as fertilizer goes and good for the plants as far as we're going to plant a little tight we're going to plant a few extras just in case hopefully we'll just be pruning them by eating those little side shoots that the bronco wraps produce you know this doesn't produce the big central head that normal you know regular broccoli produces it produces more of a you know a number of little florets and usually  and again i'm not tearing at these roots i'm just kind of pricking them a little bit so they're looser ready to go i'm gonna have to prepare another bed for those because you know a bed this size is big enough for about six full size cabbages you know to produce a big head of cabbage but you know the base leaves get you know your bushel basket size and they do need a lot of space so i often the many years i don't grow cabbage just because i don't have a plan for the room but i've got a hankering for some homemade cole slaw there so this year we're going to try  away just so they get a nice start on things so real quick this is a quick and i've done it a million times i know for the long time viewers but the new a great time start let us right here right now you know let us actually is inhibited germination anything above seventy degrees and likes a nice cool temperature it's a cool weather crop generally and this is my  they they know that it's not time to sprout what they're waiting for is to get turned up near the surface these are generally small seeded species and once they get up close enough where they get that near red light from the  sun then the cytochrome kicks in and stimulates germination in this type of seed so what i do here is i play with this i've got a cosmetic pad here at the bottom of the condiment cup folded paper towel and  bag would work just as well and that's plenty right there because what happens is these are going to speak start to sprout right in here give  and then i i'm putting just a single layer of coffee filter on top to keep the moist and as you can see you can see right through that what i'm going to do is here i'm going to put this under my light bench under the light tubes for about twenty four hours and in that amount of time you'll actually see start to see just the very beginnings of germination the little tiny radical root coming out of there in forty eight hours they'll have quite a long root start growing into the so you do get to act quickly if you catch them after twenty four hours we should see a little root and that way you can plant them as a normal seed you don't have to be carefully planting the little root that has sprouted and trying not to break it off  which does work but it's it's fussy so to catch them after about twenty four hours and you'll have a good and then plant them you can plant them a little deeper because they've already got in this near red light you can plant i'm about a blew it like three times last year so what i've done here also i've primed to see they the viewer emailed me and said that i was and i forget what i said but it was not necessarily true i guess eat them first and what's going to happen is if i have surgically removed the seed skin off of here like right here you can see that we actually have a little radical root sprouting this was not visible before i mean i could see it under the seed skin because i know what i'm looking for but what i did was i kind of plucked that off as you can see just to show you what's happening underneath there so these this and i did three different kinds snap snow and this was an italian variety that's list of business snow pea but the catalog said it's really more of a snap piece so we've got service knapp's know going in and you know here's a couple more doing the same thing you know sprouting so this  is ready to go the snow and snap are still down on the warm light because they weren't as advanced and i'm and they're very soft particular the snappy is very soft and  of you know at this point i'll put some more water on them and we're not leaving with the rise opium bacteria this is the garden combo inoculate peas beans now let's see what's in here which so this is treats black eyed peas garden peas garden beans lima beans peanuts and sweet peas and the real way you can inoculate all of those is because it's a combination of and then like when you're doing clover and alfalfa it's a whole nother set of species when you do soybeans it's another species you can get charts particularly from companies to sell this stuff as far as what inoculate inoculates what species so let's go ahead go back and get my peas normally i'd plants for most advanced ones out here on the edge because theoretically they're going to sprout faster grow faster but i really want to see what they use peas look like  i don't know half an inch three quarters of an inch yes some of the packages will say two inches deep and that's a little little excessive for peace it is the root that's driving down it will actually push the p f so if you see that you didn't plan on quite deep enough if you do see that just kill the soil up over a you know as they come up and give them a little basis we're going to just you know kind of throw them in here and then space them out as we go i plant in tight i think i've poured out enough for about a three quarter inch spacing peas love to be close they're very gregarious species helps and break the soil surface when they're coming up together and it also helps some climbing when they first start now before they hit that first trellis i should mention that you want to get a trial this over these as soon as they're you know the ones behind me are ready for a trellis i'm convinced that they can actually see the shadow of the strang i'm convinced that there might be some light and shadow trigger reaction as far as them finding the string and all of these that i'm planning here are tall species i like tall vining peas the best i think they're a little more productive and it utilizes the space of the garden a lot better you know i've got a fairly small footprint here so you'll notice as the season progresses everything i grow grows up everything's on a tower a trial a server you know anything so we're out of time