we're still looking forward to our damp july fourth holiday fall hopefully right you know looking into the future my peppers will be basking in the eighty degree weather and soaking up that sunshine lots of heat making those peppers hot tomatoes will have that burst of energy in the top the cages oh it's going to be good but right now we've got to plant stuff carrots something that's going to take a little frost at the end of the year you know when we talk about winter gardening but that's a very deceptive term they're actually talked about christmas in july you know you start your plants now into august let them get a good start when the days are long it's not just the temperatures the length of the days you know star mid july and august in some broccoli year some brussel sprouts maybe and anything that can take the frost will grow into the winter between you know so she gets her treats she doesn't really care what the others are doing well let's go out do some gardening i bought some seed potato last february and it started sprouting on oh somewhere in march late march and i tried to keep it cool in the dark because i knew i wasn't going to get to it for a while and here we are you know it's june thirtieth or whatever and i still have this bucket down the basement says potatoes i mean i wonder what could be in here wow potatoes taters or even forming ok what we're ready was that was the blue variety and it's already forming potatoes in the bucket in the bag is but you know there's techniques for growing them fairly perfectly and you know kind of is a mobile little technique and you know so you can kind of set up to take those here and this year over there next year that's what we're going to do we're going to do the old potato box technique so i here's the basic structure to buy to use the plans i was looking at called for to buy six to buy sixes and you know as i was buying them i thought me and that's an awful lot of wood for what i need to accomplish here and you know the two by six and zero five bucks you know you can buy twenty pounds of potatoes for five bucks this you know in year you can reuse it next year but i don't want to get too crazy with the price on this you start growing potatoes at twenty bucks a pound so i was kind of wandering around the hardware store and found this  naturally rot resistant and you know that's plenty of wood for what we're going to do or you know maybe buy the one for stability because this does give a nice base you can see it's not going up as a little wobbly but put a nice weight on the base but for the rest and for the second one that i'm going to build of these i'm going to use this three quarter inch fence board for pre drilled you know you can do a two at a time save time this is one of my favorite garden tools to be the impact driver or you know the handhelds driver of course for this you don't really need an impact so i you know if i had three tools to use in the garden be my tweezers my spade for you know my my cordless driver thing it's soil because we are going to be building up soil the native soil and adding some soil here so this makes a nice little bin where i can mix soil but i'll leave this one open so i can get in there also so you can kind of see in there  while we set up in the appropriate spot so here we are in the front yard which we don't get see much of the show for the grass berries grow in some of my more so i've gone and chopped all the weeds out kind of give it a fairly good dig this isn't fast so in the world it's not ever really been works that much if you put some steer out there one point in time but you they'll grow fine and slightly higher teaches too so don't worry about it if you're you know anything below seventy should be just fine and rather than you know a lot of people you know figure that's you know the black stuff in the bags the good stuff and it's all kind of just pile that on top of this made of soil and i always mix and you always try to build biology and you make a pretty good soil better handles water on its own it'll it'll dry out become hydrophobic you know it will take water or it can get water logged and take an awfully long time to dry out so i would like to get it into this nice when you're done you cast off the soil back you and screw back and wait for the next layer right so that's that's the other thing t right so what we've got here but we definitely have to plant one of these blue ones all right this is kind of nutty but it might just work you see there is a risk and don't don't try this is a real technique you know because being in the bucket not good for the plant not good at all you know it's the potatoes are going very deep i'm just trying to get these roots down to cooperate play moisture get him out of the  cloudy and there start to come on the first ripe ones it looks like it's going to be a good harvest and actually it's kind of good that they're behind like this because hopefully by the time they start writing up that you know will break out of the junior wherry weather pattern into the mid july weather pattern which tends to be hot and dry and that helps keep the mold off them gives you a more extended harvest you got raspberries are done i get in there with the printers and clip all the canes out to give these guys room pushing back behind the trellis as i have to do every year they always seek the sun and the leaders on my plants a lot of people true in terms either double or us single leader that's what's recommended you know from the grafting place that i bought these from but i've been using a different technique where you fill this hole cage and get all those leaves going to the plants so we're out of time you can email me if you want the real garden at yahoo dot com that's all one word in lower case you can also call me if the show is generally listen for the phone after the tuesday evening show but you can always leave a name number message comment on the answering 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