totally dormant this winter threw up some greens and some is some red beans sorrel corn salad is coming up in the corners of the forget me nots are always a sign that we're coming around even though we'd started back this summer this winter i think it's a combination that real drowsy condition we had last summer in the fall you know a lot of stuff went dormant just from the drought and then the winter comes along and just i even ran out of dandelion greenies to give these girls this is some romaine from a store embarrassing feeding on store bought lattice fisherman buying a stroller at the store anything for the girls and things for the girls with her passing there's been a little dominance play amongst the youngsters stella has become a little aggressive up on the roost which is unlike her she's actually been pecking rosie on the head rosie's kind of a pushy bird i think they're challenging each other a little bit these sort of very subtle ways and over there she's got him in the middle there these are none of these birds are particularly foley and rosie's little pushy but she's she's all right and when they bite each other on the neck like that  other chicken makes squall like that you know it's it's all fluff and show you know nobody's getting hurt there even if they pull a feather out occasionally which they'll do and then feed it  they start rolling around in the dirt for moral no thirty seconds you might want to break them up what happens is you know you can tell them no no don't do that soon as you're out of sight it's go go go back to doing it you know times to just show us so there are certain things you can train a chicken to do and there's certain things you can't and that's kind of a hard wired behavior with that the darn thing  and this is the one that made me and him are going to shut out for demo purposes but you know i open this up last night they were in there for about an hour last night we've been out here for about an hour and a half  had yet to really emerge from the sea the imbibe some water and swollen about twice their size and we can just see the radical roots of last week just kind of under the skin of the peat this week  i'm seeing some peace come up you know it's not been that warm like here this rose really started to come up especially if i will start to poke around and if i brush the soil away and start to see just the same it's all made by the same company in germany which owns the patent and this is a coconut soon other vegetable matter waste product pelleted up with about you know toxic they're not safe kitty can attest that you could eat one of these pellets as a chicken they're very attractive to try to keep that in mind we actually filmed use a lot of better to do a thin bating more often than a big heavy one because these new dissolve eventually in the rain they actually work best when they are just slightly moist so like in the summer let's say two parts of water this time of year when you're cleaning up that first batch just get it in a big spray bottle pump it up and spray it everywhere and it just dissolves the slugs the ammonia is most of the gases off anyway and it just dissolves that slug into little amino acids for your garden if you're spraying around plants might want to drop that formula down to one part ammonia three parts water so you know a quarter formula get the clear stuff not the sudsy stuff and it works wonders for your wild slug population you know have seen herds the last few years i've been using the same bad because i'm using the grafted tomato stock i'm using the disease resistant group stock grafted with  heirloom cyan on top we started a few seed cells that last week will take another look at them this week this is a bet i've been growing and i've grown up i think three years in a row kind of testing of the year keeping the rain off of the plants for this time of year i remove the tires drop the roof right down on the soil so really no moisture is going to get under there all it's to you know level down even further probably what doesn't decompose as far as your grass and the straw left over from last year will probably torch it off with my torch a leader you know one of those big  but here's one that you don't hear about every day it's a good read in italian is what they call it so it's also known as sort of a lamb seaweed kind of thing was reading today where seed company recommends you plant them by june and after that the germination rate goes straight downhill so that's probably why they didn't work last year there were an interesting seed actually  give these guys a little watering i put some on some what paper towels and they bring open in about two days big corkscrew and helix thing with a couple forks on you know just too small as forks on one  and a completely smooth root on the other it just looks like this little plastic wormy why in just a couple days and you know it looks like this one's planted up you know i kind of i'm going to do next as far as i do a lot of this this time of year germination testing you know before i start you know get you know planning whole flat's peppers or tomatoes or something that i'm trying and i had them on the heat map and they weren't doing anything when i searched thinking oh this is a african species maybe it would spoil the cool season so i took them out from on the bench see what happens they might just take longer than germany stock that's really been the biggest challenge over the last couple years is tiny yet so that they're both the same size this is the bow fort came up and deal later because it was in the dark so these are little tall and skinny that can maybe that we're working with psi on stock goes and as you can see i'm doing pretty good so far you know there are traveling at the same rate and that's exactly what i'm looking  for you'll read things that say you know to start this one first to start that one first at this you know because of the erratic germination of the rootstock but i've had excellent germ both forte and really it's not been an issue here's the next we've got that hundred percent germination on that on both species this is the mystery tomato we planted last week that's just seven days out of the ground right there and this is a yet another day in the beauford so i planted an extra next thing of it's witching on every fifteen minutes got it on our site all during the day like half an hour off fifteen minutes on because in the day i've got the heat of the lamps going from above but i do give it a little chained and a couple fluorescents to keep the spectrum going and get those edges so i don't want those lights pretty darn close i've got so little space or here that brings them up close when they're this stage and i can pull that space throughout dropping down they can spend most of their creed grafting days in that box and they should go pretty quick at that point stocky one you know don't always get the tall one plus i like the symmetry of cuddle eden's because got a an even cuddle even so i'm going to call him the inferior specimen and you know you can save him if you want some much roots there to begin with at this stage took the other guy back in and the water in the pot that was sort spat out of town you can email me if you want the real gardens yahoo dot com that's all one word lowercase you can often call me up and so i was a proponent tuesday evening show but you don't always leave a name number message comment question on the answering machine i'll get back to you you can also visit that website w w w dot the real gar