Good morning guys, Chris from Nichols Retirement Empire this morning. I was going to show you just a couple of things in the backyard for the garden update. One is my little tomato that I had some success with. I got this from a sucker and I've never done this before. So I'm really excited about it. I got one of the suckers off one of these tomatoes and put it in some water and so now here it comes, it's growing. So it's about time to stake it here in a little, you know, maybe a few days. Actually I may do it today but I'm going to stake this one instead of using the cages and see if that doesn't need better with it. And then my other tomatoes are doing great. They're starting to fill out some. These are my Rutgers and they got a lot of little tomatoes on them. I don't see a lot of them. They're still flowering stuff so I might need to come back and hit them with some fertilizer. Okay and down here I've got some squash that's coming in. I got one squash plant. You know I told you how I was getting all this fungus on them from all the rain. So I'm just kind of letting them go and I'm going to let them yield as much as they will. But I got some nice squash in here. There's a real pretty. Cool look how fat and healthy that one is. I got another one down here. Got one growing over there. Still got a lot of blooms on it. Look at the face. Big fat, big. Now I've been watching the brew you know walkie brew city gardener and he's been saying that you can take these flowers off the squash and eat the flowers. I'm not going to do that right now but I may try that sometime but he says you can do that. Now I've got one plant. Maybe we could have one of salad. He says you can do it. He says you can put on one. I got one plant that's not doing anything and I got a big space back here. This is the one that I ended up kind of having to pick all the leaves off. Actually you know what? That whole side is that. Okay well I'm going to let these go. I'm not worried about picking all this stuff off anymore. I'm just letting them go because we're getting kind of late. I'm not going to mess with them. I'm going to let them yield what they're going to yield. My bell peppers have slowed up a little bit but I still got one, two, three, four. I got five or six peppers on right now. I think. Now this one over here is blooming good. Yeah that one's blooming. It has not yielded a pepper yet. It's the biggest strongest plant but I have not got one single pepper. It's a light bluer. The other thing I wanted to show you guys is this that I learned this year and I picked this up off from UT people. I had never used mulch in my garden before. Get down here and I want you guys to see and I have not waited and probably a month. There's a few little things here and there. I've not had to water. Now we've had a good bit of rain. More rain than normal. But I will say this when it did not rain for about a week and a half I would have had to water several times and I have not had to water at all. Okay now I also had one of the viewers, one of the subs said they had never seen Okra and they didn't know how Okra grew. So you can see that Okra grows on a stalk. The Okra, can you see this one? All right the Okra grows in like between the stalks and it gets real pretty flowers on it too and you have to have a knife and you just cut the Okra off the stalk. And I think I put a couple of videos about how to cook Okra. I touched a couple of those to one of the comments in one of my earlier videos. But if you want to see how to cook Okra you can go to my watch channel and her channel is called Caller Valley Cooks and she could show you how to fry up some delicious Okra or bowl Okra. Some people eat it bowl. Okra is a real hot weather plant. A lot of people live north when I understand they can't grow Okra. The other thing about Okra is this. If you grow Okra you got to come out and cut it every two or three days or you do down here. And if you don't they get really big and we like our Okra not any bigger than that. That's the size usually that we want. So that's the thing about Okra is you just have to come out here every few days and cut you some Okra. And if it rains and stuff you may have to come out every day. I made it this depends on how good your Okra is growing. Mine is growing pretty good. You can see how tall it is. It's about up to my eyes and it'll get bigger and it'll grow all summer. And Okra is just something down here in the South. We really love grow Okra in our garden because it's really expensive in the store. It's high. The price is high on Okra and it's hard to find good Okra in the store. This is one of those things you pretty much have got to grow yourself and it's a money saver. It's really itchy. So when I grew these three rows I tried to get them pretty close together so that I could reach. I'm kind of lucky because this row is shorter than that row. So I can reach over this row and cut these but Okra is itchy. A lot of people you know if they're really cutting a bunch of Okra they'll wear long sleeves and gloves and all that kind of stuff. Cut off your skin sensitive. It will aggravate your skin. But once you get a nice big plate of some fried Okra it won't bother you to get your skin aggravated a little bit. It's really good.