was kind of what i've been doing to keep up with it all there is a lot to do even though a lot of stuff's planted it's getting big and we need to figure out something to hold it up with girl's been on fire this week and you're laying great especially considering the summer heat we've been having this really quite amazing three and four see this it'll be a stellar as official one year anniversary of starting lay as the black star over here black sex like she has been a star i recommend them highly for those looking for productive brown layer so sure that hybrid vigor and sex link is a cross between a one gene in another so that you can birth in this case the males will have a little white dot on their head and their chicks in the females are solid black already let's go do some gardening incidence angle of reflection you know coming on the plants at various times of the day they get more or less the stuff and we're just you know with nothing better to do with my time here when i decide to dabble in the food to the red light and that's what bit those dominant inside splits i like the main leaders like to keep on the inside the cage all kind of help them up you know get those leaves over the next rung and that will help them stand up nice and tall i haven't had to put anything velcro on the inside leaders at this point and then on the second during the years from the sides i left about four main stems below the main split a big pair tomato italian paste tomato and so i'm you know it's the nature of this beast to kind of split a little more on the head so i've kind of kept leaders fewer on the bottom and kind of let him split more on the top but they've put out sort of growth that isn't worth keeping and here is a good example right on top here this guy isn't going to turn into anything but an energy robber a distraction for the plant starts putting energy into too many leaders that's not what you want whereas if you look down here it's a good example of what happens in the early splits when they're really dominant eye one branch grow out from below the main split and this is what you're looking for this guy split at the top not at the leaf nodes but the actual main stem split and as you can see here these are two good leaders they're not just spindly little things that are doing great and that's really what you want and anything after that you know get it out of those leaf nodes and keep your eye on it sometimes you have to make a decision later in the game  missouri pruning what's in fact here's one that i did you can see here this guy got rather large he kind of started growing into a branch but i started looking at the structure of the plant realize that you know sort of a sucker off of this one  what i did wasn't sort of trying to take off this you know half inch by and injuring the plant letting it bleed in inviting infectious things into the plant i did what's called missouri pruning where i come up to the tip i go ahead and be just like the one i just did now you're just going to come up here maybe take off that much and nip it in to leave that one for now he's kind of on the edge if you see the plant getting crowded  just go ahead and start earning anything you see even if you know it looked like it was productive growth sometimes it's better less is more just keep an eye out for things i guess i should also mention that i pruned up a little bit some of these leaves on the bottom that weren't looking too good i get them up off the ground anything that's touching the ground like that left one pradelle here we can just get rid of that and you know make sure you're not getting that splash back as i said i've got it bear in here so that it is very dry around the plant so i don't water in there so the soil didn't splash up on the plant plus it was really dry and speaking of the drie have my moisture meter out this time of year i don't want to be we've had such nice weather i have had to water but you know you don't want to overdo it waste water it's expensive and you also don't want to either drown or drought your plants that's a good way to do it actually watered my tomatoes this morning and gave him a good shot and you can see the moisture meter is a little higher than i'd like it right now that's down about so why the meter is kind of a good thing to have sometimes visually you know it's kind of hard to tell if you know nothing else just stick your finger down in there the ultimate moisture detector and still single stems you know before the split of top there really are no bloom and then the first will come out right at the split and we take that one off and then they'll come out again at the split and we take those off until we get a plant that's getting to have a lot of branches and a lot of you know leaves for energy so we get a bigger plant now we let it start to bloom set f plant you know as i like to kind of go through one one direction that's hokum away so they're not in the roots of the plant and then as they get bigger you know you'll cross out again and been using a clothesline threaded through trellis like this one is here and this but they always flop side to side within the wire these things continue to grow it's early in the season plants you know the natural distribution of the branches he got sort of what you can split it down the middle and have support through the middle of the plant and so you can tie weave them in there too and do it that way and then to this morning i walked out and realized gosh you know that that's exactly where i wanted that that's already a little low so i went ahead and you know i don't think i need the full on side side support at this level actually come out pretty soon we're going to you know the last pick peapods and i'm going to dry them out like the other ones i think i'll save some of those for next year because i really like those super snap and snap peas but i am letting a couple of vines into the corn and see he's reaching for the ten rule little bit i don't know you know i have kind of encourage them to go to the sides of  because as you can see here the squash are fairly aggressive climbers on the they know where the sun is and it's that way they always go south and they always want to kind of grab on to something swims just from the sporting hasn't hasn't found anything yet time lapse photography of these things kind of shows them with being around like you know like a squid tentacle trying to find something to hold on to beans kind of do the same thing as they're growing they what looks like a fairly motionless plant is actually writhing looking for that pole to climb up and as you can see once it find tropi is a plant motion and that mo is touch trope isn't so it's so as it touches something the motions set into motion probably an ox and based reaction a long day sion of one side of the tip which what i do is a kind of weave these in and out again i use a little velcro just kind of get them started you know because sometimes like this one isn't quite the next square yet so sometimes i'll just while i'm waiting it works that you don't need velcro at all so these fine safe have just grown it exactly the right rate and be very gentle when you're pushing them through you can bend the vine a little bit when it's young and subtle like that i don't it is this is the hose and if you think it water doesn't get to see you're just grabbing hold of everything up here is will easily top the ten foot cage by the end of this month they'll start sending out side runners like this guy is already doing he says you know a little secondary chute of these plants happy and it's going to give it a go with another suit and a good sign i've seen as i've already seen some right here that's female flour and as you can see it's you can already see the whole squash oval the male structure right there at the base of the flower where is on the side and you know because this is short bed in the long bed back here i've got a few more i think the total is something like sixty two plants in the past i've been putting seventy two plants in me the back rows do get shaded so the production is reduced the front row always does great and spreads out i'm thinking by spacing these out a little more not having shaded ones you know with each about two weeks so i get those in by fourth of july and then it got kind of be touchy with water for about a week or two give them a little bit at a time when watering them about every thirty six hours because that's about when they start to dry out again you'll see these guys will to a little bit in the sun even as adults cucumbers like a little afternoon shade it's a good  trellis in one season fast crop we should be looking at pickles about you know august twentieth remember that protection i think i will also i've got the and the cucumbers are going to get all shot nitrogen and i think these you know the chickens am going in this bed for you know five months now and that new are starting to be depleted so i'm going to give them all shot