clouds in the morning a few sun breaks and then light rain in the afternoon evening instead we got clouds in the morning monsoon in the morning straight down rain then it broke out and got beautiful afternoon here so just goes to show you can be looking right at all the signs and interpret them wrong and we'll take it out the garden water day in a little bit and the peas are starting to fruit and i'm hoping those go quick because i kind of need a bed for cucumber stuff to lifeforce my dropped a date i was counting back and  start the peppers next week don't make your move too soon because they don't like to be root band and they don't like to be too big when they're transplanted so the time just right things to take off  after harvest those cabbage when their babies down kind of on the same schedule and i was breaking a bed at nine thirty nine forty five the sun was given up on me quite sure what to do with it i think it's kind of a scrappy little better carved out the wilderness back behind the green and i also do years back could be a potential for that cucumber bed but sort of like i said behind the greenhouse sort of on the back corner of the house of the sun wouldn't come around to tell mid morning i may put those scrap tomatoes in there i've got so got a bunch of  cousins in there early tomatoes and clear and cucumbers and tomatoes do something silly start thinking about fall think about the winter overwintering just about the time you get all the warm weather stuff was in this when you want to start thinking about the next step you maybe some brussels sprouts benefit from the good frost sweet there has got the it's got the winter catalogue from the from the you know seed company i figure i've recovered from the bill from spring planting so now they're going to try to attract me with the winter this one's been running away in the morning when it's time to go in she runs over to the back forty there and i think it's just because she was picked up and escort it back to the pet she loves to be held buff sex like everything's growing growing growing the snow you're taking a look at this bit of chicory the belgian and and you know i thought well maybe i could let a couple of these pretty coffees grow in plant a little bit of this a gritty in between which is getting smothered so i think i'm going to have to get brutal here and tear out everything but when i'm trying to grow i mean you know it's nice d see in some of these shot holes here it's looking for cabbage loopers the large little caterpillar from those white moths hover over your cabbage and they are very well camouflaged in their early stages back there is one at there which look for the you know the holes in the leaves and up till now i think they were just slugs but especially these little the holes are what's happening as you can see it's very hard to green and doing some real they can really munch on your cabbage any brassica cabbage broccoli cauliflower brussel sprouts and any of the coal crops will get the moss for the larvae and what it does is this is soil bacteria that produces a little protein looks like a start diamond shard like a diamond razor blade under the electron microscope and what that does is it and perish rather quickly at that point you can kind of tell when you sprayed and you know you mix it with water sprayed on the plants you do have to reapply after rain and you can tell when they've gotten a little and they do need to so you know you can't just spray it on them but you can tell once they've ingested it they'll just kind of sit there they get a little saggy a little sad look and and very soon you're looking at a dead caterpillar so  breeding project we've got some green ones we've got some purple ones and we've got the variegated ones so if you choose for the variegated over the years i have eliminated all the white flowers that was a morphology that would pop up from now now and then so even the green potted ones are now purple flowered and i'm looking for snow peas and as i said that green ones tend to be more snow pea like not bad at all tender and all the the purple are ones you can they toughen up quicker even before they fill out and you can feel this waxy cuticle and you can actually see me rubbing that off so those tend to have  supporting vine they say but as you can see it probably could have benefited from a little more string and i'm so i'm hoping you know these are the make you can pieces i hope and just you know bloom like crazy will get three weeks of constant peas and then when my  protect them it's not so much for the rain or the temperature or let me take it's not so much for the temperature there's not that much bandage and something like this but the wind protection and the rain protection specially those new plants that been down the basement they're not fully squash makes wearing stripes you know not doing too bad not as vigorous as i'd like just genetically but i've got a few good seedlings in there and i think they're going to do all right i want to head and planted the you know i had to stuffed in each pot and they were kind of equal so right now i'm going to let them grow one generally the squash work themselves out you know they'll fill all grow together there will be out of the four there's probably one or two that would dominate the other two will kind of be down in the understory grown around and you know the advantages that they provide more of the male flowers for pollination and they usually don't set the fruit as well as others but with this method i don't think there's that much competition between you know i think i can grow four and here plus with maybe letting it go half and half like half a trellis this year and then half into the corn and we're going to do a variation on the three sisters here one being squash we're we've got the corn in we've got squash and i think it squash can have its own bed while it's getting a status while the corn is growing up and then one scorns nice that i just stuck outside you know those would be the ones i like crawl maybe this is a knot on a cage and then you get a little more vigorous squashes like what i like see these are the  let them kind of crawl back down so you've got ten foot up ten foot down you know twenty foot binah you know three foot circle so pretty pretty good now that i think the nano squash i save seed from squash last year this is the only one i got actually replanted downstairs and still have only got one to germinate and i'm thinking what happened is a groom next to the sweetmeats here and i'm thinking maybe i got a sterile hybrid the long island cheese as a kind of the four different varieties and occasionally you'll cross and get a sterile hybrid so maybe that's kind of what i'm looking at is sort of a you know dead end genetic but i stuck them in over because this plastic does absorb puno ten twenty twenty five percent of the sun depending on how thick it is how clean it is and so on days like today oh trapping the heats important but on those sunny days man i want to let these and the trellis is in my way but they had to move it from that bed to that bed to this bed you know and it was out on slab you know and in the way of everybody so i needed to put it in position so i just went ahead and did it and then i figured out i can actually get the so i've actually gone to fall i've been using clotheslines i've got holes drilled in here and i've been using quite close lines swerd adequately but they could still slip this way and that way so now i'm going to go to a little boxes i figure you know first this is the natural support so i went ahead and put a grid in here as they get bigger you know i'll just put them in like every quarter so it should be plenty and that grafted onto disease resistant roots but foliage is still the heirloom scion stock so they are still susceptible to all the normal full year diseases so you know we've been handling dirty chickens and soft always kind of clean up before you get in here and handle them they're really filling out the cages we've got the little cage inside that they're kind of starting to escape and let the main leaders up through the top and then i'm starting to get my side branches to some good  secondary leaders that are heading towards the outside and these guys i do encourage to you know work to the outside of the cage for now and you know i'll come in and kind of help them out and the leaf needs to go to the next watt i've been using a water meter and you know this looks extremely dry and it is directly around the plant and mulch but you stick that meter in down six inches and still reading kind of in the mid moisture zone  so that's where we won't want to just know free water but enough moisture for the plant obviously and you know i'm in the next two months i'll probably water him three times you know give him a good about an inch inch and a  half not around the plant out here under the straw and that's about all the get for the rest of the year something i've been working on i get a lot less disease they've seen happier they've got you know all that oxygen and around the roots maybe it's because they're the this is a split this is a secondary branch this is a sucker you know the guide it's just never going to do anything but complicate things get those off in the very small stage with tweezers or your fingers and we're going to can always leave a name number question comment on the phone which she calls a visit that website that you w w dot the real garden dot com and there's pictures chickens and write up on yahoo pals and the squash here and all that