welcome to the old guard got to give them their treats quicker they're going to run back under the cover oh here comes cleo how about that oh february really nice weather in february too coming off that rather get the feeling from last weekend where it was sixty degrees in february great northwest spring is coming and i'm going to be kicking myself sideways till sunday for not having planted peaches last week and i can just feel it used to plant in january and quite honestly never have a problem they always group great and you know whatever kind of p i was planning i have kind of moved the date back a little for a while it was groundhog's day  was valentine's day and this year i think it's still valentine's day given by males to the shelling peas and then for the  i have several sites rot out from two early planning last couple years so it will be you know covering this rainy day mr window yesterday so maybe next plastic from this lettuce the giant red mustard the belgian and i in the purple sprouting broccoli to the plastic off of those i think are hard prosser going to be over these guys can take like  problem you know if i see snow coming or something all who come back over but right now they were actually get a little dry under that plastic don't forget that if they're covered like that they're not been watered when it rains and these guys have been under plastic for several months our climate being what it was the didn't really need much water in fact i just pulled the plastic off this as you can see it still clumps just a little bit you know and then breaks part so that's great moisture level but they're there you know use a little bit more so i've got the plastic off those moved one of the hoops over to the here it's a tall vine variety of my been working on for a number of years and this is kind of awkward because i have to sort of custom trellis it because all my other beds go the other way and are four feet by eight feet this one kind of came with the house and it's like five feet by eight feet ish and of course it's ninety degrees to what i usually do with trolls and so i kind of have to build a special type trellis i do get a little more room for the rose lee did seem to grow right in that orientation it's you know about six on one half dozen the other at the end of the season you know they're all pointing towards the sun one little rain storm hit it so it got a little wet so i'm going to have to wait a couple days to work that fortunately i have a nice sandy loam here it'll dry out nicely in a day or two and then i'll appease don't need much you know they're there  for the big season garden two thousand and twelve the best ever first stuff rearrange your entire laboratory we're in the sort of compartmentalizing yellow card here i've kind of you know usually my gardening has taken over the bench so what if and when i do actually want to do you know some building or anything it's been rather awkward so i'm little beetle type thing it's like a weevil like a pea weevil i forget the latin for it but i'll occasionally see a couple seeds where they've bored in if you actually look very closely a pod you know when you find one of these you can actually if you get the magnifying glass you can actually find the hole in the pod where the insect is over posted through the pot of the pea  so i can see what so that was actually not very very good it's all probably i plan a few of those but as you can see from the list of the description of your gear the traits kind of pop in and out which is i keep growing out the bury the generations of variety of of breed stock you know i've tried to cross these pieces with other peeves and such and solo come up a little different each time and i'm looking for that  steady you'll see that will come up truths from the parent and try to weed out the other so it's a long term process who knows if i'll ever succeed and when i'm actually after  do well under the circumstances that russell russet burbank which is here to serve your classic grocery store baking potato yellowfin one of my favorites all blue which is th cool it's purple inside and out they say in so you can see even the stems here show a little bit you know cyan and very cool and i'll tell you right now if you if you buy your faders and they've been sitting for a while you know when you pick up these bags be gentle with them because all of these are sprouting like this and if you break this off that old sprout from somewhere else but obviously you know you want to you know want to be knocking of come out from around the bottom of that and you know if i like to plant a whole personally it's just keeps the skin off you know whatever natural  resistance it's got so the insects disease etc is enhanced by keeping the whole thing whole but sometimes you get a big one or if you have limited stock want to look in  split you know try to find two for instance it's a very well developed one but it's got a little dimple in there i'm going to count on that being able to produce sprout this is the obvious one and here's another little one that sprouting but this that's too close together so we're going to try to just excise some of this while we're at it and we're going to take the second off  grab a razor blade will do to go ahead and let this dry you know just set it on the counter let it dry overnight you're going to let this scar for a couple weeks at least and then they'll be ready to plant another thing you can do skin brush a little bit of that on and what that's going to do is it's going to absorb any excess moisture and it's also going to protect that wound from any kind of fungal attack solstice and that's where it's at now this is sort of a container you know determinant tomato i just started one early and go through it out the greenhouse see you know how early i can produce one of these rather unimpressive stupas tomatoes they're the fruits are terribly great but it is a very early tomato sorry got bloom on it god bless this little heart and he's going to be potted up  pot up here and you know just as a comparison these were planted just about a month later these were planted on january twenty ninth so just you know these are only two weeks old and these did it took them a while to germinate it's a slow germinating ride this is containers choice another little patio variety so you can see you can get a lot of growth in four weeks one of the reasons i'm bringing this  or from the time you plant the graph stock to the time you put them out in the greenhouse generally eight weeks it's been my you know rule of thumb and last year i felt like i could've used a little more time so what i'm doing is i'm going to count back from night nine ten weeks from let's say first of march so we're coming up maybe in the next week or two we're going to start the seedlings for the grafted tomatoes but keep some you know keep those roots nice and healthy and white prevents a lot of the disease problems that you might encounter that way and i can water i mean even if i can you know the soil never hold a lot of moisture to begin with it does get too wet you can introduce you know problems up on the stem but you can put a mess pressure if they are leg this one is very stout see doesn't really go down much deeper at all but they do get leg eased and you can you  these guys were some plants slow down you know and go a little shocking idea for a week or so a couple days after transplanting that's made old pete you know twelve hours later he'll be like ok that's great  of january these are started on cotton nice warm environment clean environment on the on the heat pad about eighty degrees temperature the germinate very quickly that points and then i pick the winners you get a lot of weird seedlings thirty jokes i pick the winners put a little nursery here see which ones are doing the best only need a couple and you know already they're showing signs of of who's dominant these two in particular look really good some to start busting these out again you want continuous growth like this these long seasoned plants you know you don't want them starting out on y little really affect their production later on so you've got some nice deep roots going on here which is exactly what i expect from artichokes you know these produce a rather large taproot which you can you know poll up and move they are perennial in our climate i've actually had hold up simon threw him under some bushes going to know what else to do with them and they  and go ahead and use another gallon for these guys because the emerald variety that from your family pot too much so he's going to go to a slightly bigger pot here  it's pretty obvious to see where the root starts are you know where the root and the plant starts it's going to go right up to that