you welcome to the real garden the three quarter moon rising over the garden and the beginning of the year happy new year everyone does stuff those seed catalogues kilts i'm looking for an early planting date this year the chicken shot say on these the end of a short little day here you know those whose displays are coming down and the christmas displays are coming down the nursery there and watsons seeds from my mom my favorite seed companies they said they had just put the brac up today so i am on fire the girls know the tide has turned here the days are getting longer already there a little pulled it out for cleaning purposes and put it back again if they're not lame better make arrangements pretty soon pigments in their skin and those come from my sleepy greens so that's a good sign when your chickens craving those greens some chickens want to molly around cleo sort of a twinkie terry and when she's  off the lay she just so kind of peck at it she seems kind of enthusiastic tonight and then when they start eating worms and pecking at the oyster shell you know they're getting ready to know and maybe even kid you'll squeeze one out this year he's overcome a few health problems it's feeling a little better about herself and about the world lately looking good it's a nice new feathers on that we've i covered this up after a tour and chill rain couple months ago and haven't really opened it since you can see a bunch of we and wheat and stuff growing up we've got the you know some soon to know we're just kind of waiting for the garlic to come up you know playing around with some greens in the greenhouse and planning our next move i'm already looking at beds and trying to figure out those summers rotation you know where t so you know some will italian purple variety last year about this time never did well it's hard to find good art show you know they're often not very vigorous and even amongst the more vigorous it's almost like they don't come up through from seed you really have to search for a good individual i want to get a package of artichoke seeds like this i plan on planting them all and looking for you know the two or three or four strong ones out of the package and you know grow those up you really only need one or two big you're probably only let me rephrase that you're probably only going to have room for one or two of these plants in the typical backyard garden they do get rather large it's it's kind of an extravagance in the garden but if you can get a good plant go and it can be found they're very ornamental a wild look in the drag map under very controlled conditions nice you know this isn't sterile but it's very hygenic compared to being in the soil for such a big seed and really a fairly large seedling  seedlings are sort of delicate they're succulent nature of makes them prone to damping off and a little more post emergence problems  so what i'm doing here is i'm just soaking that just until i can see the you know translucent all the way through gain and it's last year i was working on you know prescribing corn so it didn't rot in the ground work very well and i found was about a ten percent increase twelve this is what is bred by a sort of a family affair i used to send to the farm for this variety very limited coverage as far as that which seed companies and it's been out of the tropical dome environment for a few weeks here and this is it's doing fairly well it slowed down a little bit when i got out of the eighty degree temperature and into the sixty degree temperature down here in the  basement but i'm overall pretty pleased with the way it's going we're backing off the water getting it plenty of oxygen down here and then the other thing we're going to do here this plant's at the point where we're going to nip it to make it bush here at the causes a hormonal balance the side of kevin's forming in the roots are become the dominant hormone when you remove the oxen producing tip here and the side of kevin's effect on the plant is branching so that's what we're doing when we nip a plant to get the hydro effect so stevia is the sugar leaf plants it's supposed to be thirty times sweeter than  sugar taste test wow that is sweet it's got its single flavor to nice green flavor to it so it worked how about that and we just have to grow a bunch of them which is what we're going to hear hear another little plant i see it has to use kind of getting too big for the tropics do and he's got a bit too small of a pot and also knows these having some overall yellowing of the leaves which often can mean a little nitrogen deficiency so we're going to pot i'm up gives a nice new soil and make him happy the stars when you're mixing a lot of soil but for the indoor plants i've been doing this thing with a little bit of compost and a little bit of coconut oil but a lot of you know you see a lot of large grained material in here just giving the roots a lot of oxygen yet to find a mix that is too chunky actually i take that back i once was experimenting with planning it directly in the red lava rock that's about that big you know and that that got a little too chunky even for flirt place a little too much air between those spaces stevie is considered manual it's tender it's tropical and should have some issues getting it started make sure it's on a heat map or some other heat source nice and warm it's been growing up in the tropic dome which is about eighty degrees daytime in let's say seventy five night time and so this guy must have some pretty good roots because he's sticking to that pot first few weeks of the plant doesn't need a lot of nutrients and the sterility of the soil this makes gives them a little help specially these tender seedlings i've been run out chip grit so i've been using is a little bit thomas this is the fine i've actually been sifting my promise to get those big chunks separated from the little chunks the big chunks go in this chunky mix that we've been talking about in the little chunks have been using as a seed top as a plant topper yeah and the mineral mulch you know to hold that ideal moisture level little bit of a thirty ten ten this is a high nitrogen plant food it's also has a little bit of epsom salts and a little bit of iron supplement go ahead and that's going to be about  depth and just let him sit there for fifteen twenty minutes until it soaks all the way up through capillary action and then poland drain well and i'll probably keep him warm for a from fairly well and when you see you know nasty looking leaf like that you know if you if it's just an old leaf this one almost life that just got scorched but if you suspect any kind of disease or anything of course you go ahead and remove it and it actually encourages the plants or leaves and branches have been planted some crazy big seeds came in these tamar i actually did this is a plant from the grocery store series few years back but we never sprouted you know i just bought a tamarind pod these produce a great big gelatinous pod and tamarind to serve the pulp inside the pot pod it's going to nice sweet sour taste to it and it's got a bunch of seeds in there so these are actually  reckon you know you want to plan out right away and they usually have very short shelf life you know including things like chocolat you know if you you need to actually kind of get that seed out of the chocolate pod within twenty four hours if you really want to be viable i've tried chocolate seeds on line several times and work so what we have here a tropical thing and those were actually buyable from the fruit but i sent away for these so we're going to see you know especially when i see it will stand a brief ross  excited because most of this stuff is all indoor i'm sure the tamarind is but i'm always trying to push the cusp maybe not out in the garden of course but perhaps in the greenhouse during the winter months and finally how about we plant something real quick here  benefits of the oath we're all seeds up in a sterile environment but those roots can go down into the nice compost the soil and we're going to plant real quick some coke  plant and i keep trying to stick it out doors and it keeps die and then i'll bring it in for the winter and will perk up and then i'll stick it out for the summer it keeps die and so we're going to try relative that it's got sort of an orange fruit you know it's like one of those sort of sweet drink kind of fruits and tropical mountainous region so it may survive some process a cool again you know a common theme but my seed out here tomato or would be or whether they're fussy like you know probably suspect they are but i have little seed like that it might just pop up no problem and we're going to finer soil i'm going to actually pick some of the bigger chunks out and just a little bit for a seed that small you know we're talking to sixteenth of an inch and twenty it's what i'd recommend first and you know a lot of a tomato for instance will come up from you know half an inch down sometimes but don't make them fight too hard right so the label that quick