thanks so let's see it's july third when you see this beginning of the bunder moon and d oh i mean for us means get stuff on the ground anyhow warm weather stuff that isn't on the ground a better go in right now it's kind of what we're going to be doing i didn't have to do a thing just let them figure it out little girls are you know that's where they want to be and they'll go to whatever lengths it takes to get up there  been a little bit of a ruse talaga little rooster fully thrown her weight around up there so these girls have to wait for t v to go to bed and hope the kiddies leave them enough space on the other side you know the non clio side for them to cuddle up into and that's what's been happening it took you know minor intervention on my part settle down quite a bit you know they'll all be standing within a three or four foot circle of everclear all six of them sharing treats and very minor head pecking order you know aggressive behavior at this point they're very casual with each other cleo is in charge and she'll make sure these girls know without time to time but for the most part they're they're just integrating still is starting to present the little bit that's where they go in sort of the mating pose for you you're up there but only fluff their feathers afterwards so she's you know i was talking a couple weeks ago that black sex links are weeks i was always thinking you know they start laying around twenty to twenty four weeks but i recently heard it's more like twenty twenty four point twenty two somewhere in there so maybe they'll start land here a little earlier than i expected although i'm in no hurry i'd rather have them put on good weight be fully developed a nice big eggs spigots so they they can take their time it is i was checking with the feed store and she said i can start integrating a little bit of layer into their food you know build up that calcium stored in  skeleton which showed the fossilized remains of a very similar mechanism in the tie around a source rex storage mechanism for calcium for laying eggs so my little dinosaurs they are alive they never is also the one that you're from you'll recall when i tried catcher a couple weeks ago she puts up a fuss if i try to pick her up but she's also the only one little really do this on a regular basis lly pleasing rough which could be totally flat because it's under a covered run and access for you know clean up that sort of thing here real simple they don't need much although i might put a curtain up in the window for them because they do like little privacy that's a new nest spock's i trashed the old one after the invasion and that one had a curtain which you might laugh at but kitty used to when she first started laying would hop up on the roost in the darkest corner over here and lay her eggs and they'd you know drop off the roost and break on the great as soon as i hung the curtains kitty immediately went into the nest box and has laid every egg in there ever since so stella get the notion baby i always wonder what i'm doing in their bedroom i don't like that i might find something hidden in the switchblade or there copy of william burroughs i don't know all right now we can go guard ok these guys of you know and this is a real hearty variety that you know it's my hybrid project that goes in the ground in february oh yeah and you know some of these younger if you catch them early so you know my maybe i'm getting close to my final goal which is tall very tall as you can see her red purple flower there magenta when they first come out in the pollinator they turn indigo and then you get this very gated you know this kind of what i'm after here is this variegated purple green pod with an edible pod and the problem i've been having is the the purple or they are the tougher they are but some of the i d stumbo some of the you know some of these green ones are really starting to show some snow p tendencies like those right there look pretty good we're also starting to develop some in nation resistance i think because i can see a little bit of a nation that's a p virus that's transmitted by the eight foods but you know to be grown this late in the season  and still be you know looking good without really deformed pods they're doing great so get another harvest off those make a few more notes i think we're getting there they're not doing bad very little yellowing you know we see some of the older leaves yellowing that's natural but other state nice and green on top for the most part sometimes if it's real cold real cold soil temperatures they'll start to yellow all over the isn't very available to them in those colder soil temperatures and they really still start to sulk it's almost like they start going backwards drawing back to their roots you know but these guys are holding steady you know i'm getting a little so you know i've got the a food's down in the basement which i've got to get rid of me because i don't want to resort to you know fumigation with organophosphate i i think it's probably being vectored by these aphids to get a little virus what can you do about it absolutely nothing you know it's just like any biopics to work with a virus for us you know things like copper or  things that you can use for fun guy or bacterial infections are going to work for a virus best thing you can hope for is provide them the basics adequate water nutrients your environment and hope that they can  over it kind of grow through it start putting out some actual shoots here from the leaf nodes a little advantage of shooting you know and kind of bypass infected material here so you know you do get deuced production but you know it seems to be random like some plants are just seem to be resistant to it these are also you know not all of these had they fit the cause of the if it's real early so some of them are not infected like this as we go down the road think let's go down to the three sisters here and check out what's going on there last week two weeks ago we planted corn that had been started indoors we planted a bean for every corn and you could see the beans coming up here experimented with planning in between the corn next to the corn and in between the corn this would be you know so there's a couple different patterns here  not the best germination and like i said we've kind of handsome cool weather and beans really likable and soil temperature to get started these were direct so deep so we have some  negligible germination problems so i've got some beer that i'm going to poke in when we're done with squash and my point here is this is you know the difference between the green thumb and the brown farm you know everybody  plants lose a seedlings and the secret to the green thumb is you just plant wor so we do have the squash now i have on the show it kept attended to plant seeds and of course i started thinking about it and i thought well i want to baby i'm up a little more than i so i did start them indoors and the you know they just you know unwound their recruits from the bottom of the cup and got them well distributed but these guys aren't going to be very gentle with so that's why you don't want them in the cell more than two weeks it is because you don't want that root getting all wound around where you feel compelled to mess with the roots time planning these just barely lower than they were in the cell that's because the native soil you know this potting mix kind of stuff wicks the moisture away very quickly about quarter inch down probably good to be in the school sur been a little wet as far as soil moisture content goes now you can you can see it's dried out but when i put that plastic on for warmth is a little wet for cucumbers what numbers don't like to germinate under very wet conditions they make it just moist situation so i was digging down and i did find some like i found one that had sprouted roots but it kind of rotted before the stumptown usa you're being visited by slugs they love these things and i don't know whether they must be crawling out of this mulch on the garlic or something sure don't see them right now but there are coming in knocking off a couple of these every night now trying to do is you know i'm going to leave the ones that look strong and you know kind of give them the space definitely those are your survivors you know so if you get the seed off those guys i should mark those guys make sure i get seen off of them because they've survived under less than ideal circumstances but of course the same night they planted these i thought to myself you know i've been having such good luck with that transplanting  seedlings from that are started indoors maybe that's what i'm going to do again so i went ahead and planted a bunch of these i've got enough for twenty four per row you know it's a trust with three rows on it and so i'm going to start putting these in just because i'd like to go a couple more days but the holidays are coming up plus i've been reducing these for years and you can see it's gotten a little crushed so it's a little trickier when you know these plants are little young for this i'd like like it's i'd like to go a few more days and part of the advantage of cells that are dividing so quick at this point you can actually see the difference from one day to the other and let's see if i can pop one out pretty here redeem myself there got a real nice healthy root system just on this one is getting close and you can see that a more advanced one just sort of you know a couple more days advance the route start hold that soil together you can see it's just sit in the bottom jiggle i will be watering the sand but not too much no wet feet you can email me if you want the real garnet yahoo dot com that's all one word in lowercase you can also call me up and so i listen to the