Grow Broomcorn for Brooms & Fall Decor | Late Bloomer | Episode 16
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2015
- Subscribe! www.latebloomershow.com/ Kaye shares her broomcorn experience. "Help me inspire people to grow their own food and take control over their food security. Your donation of any amount makes 'Late Bloomer' possible and available for anyone." www.latebloomershow.com/donate
Kaye planted broomcorn in 2013 with the intention of making a whisk broom. She wound up buying one at Granville Island Broom Co. in Vancouver, BC. With original music by Jon Pileggi.
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Hi K I planted broom straw I am a broom maker and I planted 13 rolls of it I have one heck of a cropped this year I live in Canada thank you for your video
I'm so glad to have found your channel! So informative and inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing. I had a bunch of this stuff growing around on my land couldn't figure out how my corn got planted over 100 ft away.lol I dont have an aphid problem with them, but I do spider mites.uugh. we had parasitic wasps who took care of the aphids early on this spring. It was amazing to see such a tiny wasp going thru picking out aphids and then laying her eggs in each one. The yellow jackets on the other hand are not actually eating your aphids, as they can't eat insects. They were collecting up and eating the honey dew just like the ants will do with the aphids. Their larvae are carnivorous, and they will collect insects to take to their larvae which in turn the larvae will provide them some nourishment by regurgitating a high protein "honey dew" for the wasps to eat. I'm terrible at explaining and dont know all the technical terms . But it's pretty interesting as all my life when I would see wasps taking off with a fly or caterpillars I always thought they ate them. Especially when I would see them chewing bits off etc. But they're just either downsizing to be able to fly better. Or they're taking parts they prefer or they know have the most nutrients to feed their little sisters. I forgot to add they dont usually bother with anything as small as aphids as prey to take and feed their larvae. So it's more likely she was just getting a snack while out searching for bigger prey or nesting materials.
Excellent.
+MrMac5150 Thank you MrMac!! Please share! Many thanks!
Hello Kaye, I grow Broom Corn in Southern Illinois. Mine is about 10 foot tall .
Wonderful!! Do you make brooms with it? I no longer live in CA and have MUCH more room to grow stuff. I have not grown broom corn here but would love to. Say, do you think it's too late to grow some this year? And will it just bring birds up into my garden?
I grew about four plants this year and i was trying to figure out how to dry it and make a decoration. Your video was helpful since I got to see it in different stages!
Thanks for the introduction to Broomcorn. I'll put this on my bucket list of plants to grow.
+hypocentric That's great! I you want to order seeds, please do it through my website and help support Late Bloomer! Click photo in this post to order. www.latebloomershow.com/2015/10/22/grow-broomcorn-for-making-brooms-fall-decor/ Many thanks for watching and following!
Thank you for doing this video it made me grow some broom corn this year have 13 rolls of broom corn it's doing very well I live in Canada and also I make brooms thank you for the video
Well, Kaye, what can I say, I truly enjoyed your video! I guess the points I enjoyed the most, wow, I'm having difficulty finding the words I want, Its just a great video, very well done! I was captured by the quality of the video to the extent that I almost forgot what plant you were featuring. Truly, truly a great presentation!
+OldAlabamaGardener Thank you SO MUCH!! Your kind comments mean a ton, thank you! I hope you gave me a thumbs up? The music really helps to pull together three years of material. Thanks again!
I grew broomcorn this year, gonna try to make something
Kaye there is a huge market for Brooms sticks right now. Many people buy them here for Halloween . You have seen the witches riding the broom sticks. Were you not frightened of those bees?, I always enjoy your movies.With kind regards Patrick
+Patrick Meehan Yes! Indeed, Halloween! Well, truth is some of the broom straw molded, you have to be careful where you dry it. What was left was not enough, but it is so beautiful, I want to do it again! Thanks so much for watching!!!
I grew broom corn this year! Mostly for fun/ to see what it looks like. I'm in Iowa we have great soil and my broom corn is probably 12 feet high! I can't wait to make brooms :)
Very fun and interesting! :) Growing brooms never even entered my thoughts, fantastic. :)
+CragfireGardening Thanks, Joe!! I really appreciate that!! I do want to try again.
Bought rainbow broom corn at a roadside for our autumn decor. Now that I know a little about it I think I'll try my hand at growing it
It looks fun growing it.
+Alejandro Gale Orihuel It is! Give it a try! Please share! Thanks so much for watching!
wonderful as always!
+omfug THANKS! I had my editor add 10 secs of music over black so that I could add social media icons, but can't figure out how to do it, LOL! Thanks for watching!!
Cute as a button,, GOD BLESS 😇🌹🦋
New learning in your very very fascinating episode!! I had never given thought ever to the origin of our household broom!! Very pretty too, Kaye! Your footage of the broom company you visited added a great dimension. The bee footage, well I expect that kind of footage from your channel, lol!
+Mumbai Balcony Gardener | Avid Life Observer So glad I surprised you! Thanks so much for the kind comments....did you give me a thumbs up? Please do! Yes, I'm looking forward to feedback from the broom store. I remember holding my breath during those long takes of the wasp, LOL. Not easy holding steady anymore. Thanks again!
i just bought some seeds :) thank you for this video!
Yay! Please let me know how it goes. I don't have room for it this year. It's so beautiful growing! Thanks for watching!! Just give it a good foundation and don't do what I did and mulch before the shoots come up.
Hi! I'm glad to find broom growers here on you tube! I wanted something to look really different and help out our birds and found broom corn online and then found Amish rainbow seeds just like yours at a nursery and its so fun waiting for the late blooming!!! Our family pet is suffering from frequent seizures and outside a lot wandering around after a bout and I did not want for the world to see because even for me it is traumatizing to witness, so, being on a corner lot a lot of privacy was needed to shield the children from the sight and along those lines of thinking, the yard has taken a whimsical spooky theme year round to kinda keep the kids out of the no man's land woodsy dark corner. I hope the broom corn keeps this spooky witchy look going and couldn't find any images to look forward to in till you! Thank you! I have to add that it was also my pick because it is drought tolerant and we have to pay for city water even tho we are on the edge of society, lol, w a farm n fields forever starting with our neighbors just across the street from us. I also have love lies bleeding alternating in between broom corn and hoping for even more weird different things to look at that will also treat birds! Next, before much longer, we are adding a short black lattice fence for definition and to hide the crazy cheap dollar tree buckets I planted each in because I really didn't know what to do, my first year deciding. I have forty broom corns and 50 love lies bleeding, sunflowers and Mexican sunflowers too. And they're almost too in a circle like a crazy witch would do, but I love knowing they're as wholesome as one could get with the Amish word in the name title!!! I also arranged feeding the cute little songbirds and my other feathered friends this way far from our guests parking and our driveway on purpose because, lol, I have some very particular vehicle owners here not so interested in mother nature, tho as I seem to be addressing their concerns they seem to be getting more into it ;) I even gave a packet of seeds among other things to a good friend who was having a traditional handfasting wedding which really left her speechless, lol! take care, I'll try n look u up n see what you're doing now n subscribe. thanks again for the inspiration!
That Broom corn did very well for you!
+TheOntarioGardener Yes, I'd like to plant it again! I pulled all that out. It was intertwined with other stuff and I thought I would start fresh.
Hi there: I grow them every year in Toronto, Ontario, but they do not reseed from previous years, I have to reseed. I also grown amarathus, various types and they look awesome together,
This is so cool. Haven't seen this done before.Thanks
+angela sheppard I know, it's a real sustainability plant. And beautiful, too. I am going back to Vancouver this week for the Web Fest again, and I will drop into their store. I am not growing broomcorn this year, though.
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Another great episode Kaye. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes Bob.
+Bob Lt Thank you, Bob, I really appreciate your support! I've got another interesting episode coming up in two weeks or less. Thanks so much!
We will be waiting. Best wishes Bob.
+Bob Lt Thank you! I am so grateful.
Yay kate great video
+Adrian Rodriguez Thank you, Adrian! Please share with a friend?
Ok i will
+Adrian Rodriguez Thank you! YT made it much easier to share with G+, but now they have changed their algorithms, unfortunately, so we have to work harder to spread the word. Thanks so much!
Ik made a channel and it was graest but i dont have the time
I always wanted to grow broom corn. I hope you collect enough to make one, Kaye. Thanks for another great video.
+Gardening With Puppies Thank YOU, good to hear from you Paula! Are you settling in to N.C. woods?
Yes. We moved here in North Georgia two months ago and we are loving it.
+Gardening With Puppies Are you in the Chattahoochee National Forest?
This is so neat, I'm doing this, how much should I plant .
Very interesting episode, Kaye! Are you going to save up the straw until have you enough to make a broom?
+OneYardRevolution | Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening Thanks, Patrick! I would need to plant it anew. The reseeded stuff is a bit scrawny.... I probably will be planting in the spring, yes.
really nice catch with the yellow jacket, that's a hard shot for a squirrelly amateur to get. Most people run from bees. Thanks as always Kaye, your a garden favorite of mine. You should really try sorghum if you like broom corn, it is a great grain, and you can press the canes to make molasses. I have a 10' Sorghum im growing for seed.
+Permaculture Prepper Was hoping some would appreciate that. It is NOT easy to capture. Thanks so much for your kind words, really helps me today! How much sorghum do you need to grow to press molasses? You know how little space I have... Thank you!! Please share.
I was worried!!! u haven't posted in so long!!! love your videos, Ben
+Ben Erickson You are SO sweet to say so. I have a very busy editor now (when we three started in 2012, my editor and sound editor were just starting their careers, now I have to wait for an opening, When I am on Amazon, Hulu, HGTV, or PBS, it will be a different story, which is my goal for 2016! you can help by requesting Late Bloomer on your favorite station!) Thanks for watching and your support is so appreciated!! Next episode is going to be really cool!! Be sure to subscribe at latebloomershow.com where I publish a weekly blog.
Great video. The firework sound affects were nice. They look very beautiful to grow. My mother and grandmother would love that broom store. Do you know if you can order them online? My son loved the bee at the end.
+OmgKittys78 Oh, I'm sure you can, check out their website, just google it. My sound editor will be please, thanks! That's a yellow jacket at the end by the way, like the one in the video. But I'm glad he liked it! I've always put animations at the end of the videos, hoping kids would be watching. But I like them too, LOL! Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
How cool is that! I'm gonna try and grow me a broom eh, and some loofah, thanks for this episode didn't even know I could grow a broom!!!!!
+Shelita Williams I wouldn't have either if I hadn't seen the seeds in my health food store! Give it a try, it's fun and beautiful! Thanks for watching!! Have you subscribed to latebloomershow.com?
I will, and of course I have!!!
+Shelita Williams I thought so! You can order broomcorn seeds via the video at :41. Please do and help support Late Bloomer! xxoxo th-cam.com/video/0d5zbxyZIGg/w-d-xo.html
I sure will!! Pretty Lady Kaye! I appreciate all your hard work and effort you put into making outstanding videos! How organized you are, I can't find clips from last week, and you go back 3 years! LOL
+Shelita Williams Right! Well, Lightroom 5 keeps me organized! Always file folders by date starting with the year, month, date, and you will always be able to find them. And if you are super organized, add keywords!
That is cool to learn how they make those brooms and to learn what they make them from.
+dakotabob10 Thank you, Bob! Did you notice I was wearing the same shirt all three years, LOL??
***** I hope that you changed it a couple times during that period. Hahaha!
+dakotabob10 Yes, can't you see it's faded and missing a button in 2015?
+Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show I did not notice the button and to be honest, the shirt looked a little faded in 2013, as well.
+dakotabob10 Okay, you made me laugh today, which is a HUGE accomplishment, so pat yourself on the back, LOL.
I just put Texas Black on my wishlist for next year. It would look interesting in Pittsburgh with gold. Black n Gold is THE religion around here, but I’m not into football. I think it is a dangerous sport. My mom n daughter enjoy watching it. They’re both avid fans of the sport. Planning a garden is exciting. I did not get an even stand of Millet. I will consult Mechanical Transplanter Co. as to how I can improve.
My broom corn is 10 ft tall - it's like a dinosaur plant
Wow thats interesting! If u plan on selling some seeds plz lmk thanks👍🏻
+Cheryl cummings Hey, Cheryl, I would send you some but they are from 2013. Please order them via this video at :41, and you help support Late Bloomer. Many thanks!! th-cam.com/video/0d5zbxyZIGg/w-d-xo.html
Great video. Wish i could have the seeds to grow and learn some technics from the broom company
+Rohinton Irani Where are you located again, Rohinton? It's hard for me to remember. To make brooms like they co, you would need that big frame I think to put tension on the cord. But, there are lots of videos online how to make them. Thanks for watching!!
+Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show I live in India, Mumbai. Did u learn some tricks from the broom company.
+Rohinton Irani Are you following +Mumbai Balcony Gardener ? Do you have space to grow broomcorn? No, I did not learn tricks there. Their techniques are closely held. And you'd need a frame apparatus to do it their way. Thanks for continuing to follow Late Bloomer. I don't know if you can order seeds from the U.S., but if so, order via my website and help support Late Bloomer. www.latebloomershow.com/2015/10/22/grow-broomcorn-for-making-brooms-fall-decor/ Many thanks for watching and following!
+Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show Yeah I am following her channel. It is amazing 2. My father has some land abiut 78 miles from mumbai. What is the watering needs of the plants,
Thank you for the link. I hope they ship it to India. Thank you
+Rohinton Irani Low water needs once established. With your monsoon season, I can't predict what would happen after the rains. If you are growing just for beauty, plant and forget about it. If you are growing for broom straw you will have to harvest.
Lovely episode, shame you couldn't get a broom out of it :)
+Tony Hodgkinson Thanks, Tony! I will try again. :)
if at first you dont succeed........
+Tony Hodgkinson You read my mind. I was so tired last night I could think of the first part, LOL. Thanks!
I got lot of coconut leaves brooms but not artistic . Really didn't know how to make creative broom , I got coconut sticks brooms
pagan gods bless you us pagan need besoms and these are perfect I'm starting my garden soon