How We Plant Many of Our Early Tomatoes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2013
- In this video we show how we, at Magicland Farms, which is located at 4380 S. Gordon, Fremont Michigan 49412, plant most of our early tomatoes, in plastic mulch using drip tape. In addition to tomatoes, we grow and sell, sweet corn, green and yellow beans, red and Yukon Gold potatoes, watermelon, muskmelon, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, peas, beets, onions, garlic, winter and summer squash, apples, peaches, plums, pears and pawpaws. We sell most of our vegetables, apples, peaches and plums right at our farm at our roadside market. For more information see our website www.magiclandfarms.com.
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I Built a Plastic applicator for my strawberry farm and welded Sharpened conduit pipe in a cross pattern on a 12 inch steel wheel. That gave me a 6 inch spacing. As i drove along it rolled and punched perfectly spaced holes in the plastic. you could probably make one on a larger scale like a bicycle wheel to punch wider spacing for tomato plants or anything.
wonderful video that explained step by step very informative GREAT JOB! thank you
Great video. Thanks. Keep them coming.
After spending some time on your channel I thought I utilized my time in the correct way by seeing the correct video. I appreciate your work.
It was really a nice channel and I was really impressed by seeing this video.
Thank you so much for sharing how you grow the vegetables that you do. Its a hard job that deserves the utmost respect. You grow food, you feed people. I loved watching your video and learning how things are done on a large farm and the methods that are employed today in food production. My mother grew up on a farm and she would talk about all of the kids working to get rid of pests or if they had tobacco planted to succor the plants, Mom was born in 1930 so tobacco was a good cash crop for the smaller farmer. My family share cropped land in Indiana. When my Mother left home she came to California and she and my Dad always had a garden each year and my how she could grow things but I think that the tomatoes were the ever loving best. Thank you so much once again for sharing about your farm I loved your video I just wish we were in the same area so I could come and get my produce from you. I am trying to grow tomatoes this year so wish me luck.
I am from india.Saw your videos and used drip and plastic mulch for the first time.We got great yield for the first time.Thanks a lot for the sharing videos.
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Nicely done, don't listen to all those who criticize, they probably don't put anything up on youtube
Great video!
Are you tilling the land up before making the beds? Like are you tilling the whole field or just where your going to make the beds? Awesome video thanks for the free knowledge!
good work using technology
Good small enterprise video, One question is how do you keep from cutting the dripline with the post hole digger?
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Es interesanta su video `para mi ya que estan sembrando a aire libre me gustaria si subieran otra donde esta la cosecha. Saludos! Gracias estoy para servirles tambien es mi fuerte la siembra. :D Saludos! :D
I too wonder how you miss the drop tape, also I would put a TBSP. of Epsom salts in each hole, and throw the torn off peat bottom in the hole, to help hold water.
The rows are really straight. Great job.
Super 👍 very nice good working
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Mechanical Transplanter is legit!
With the recent technologies changing when it comes to mulching, firstly there's the colour change...
If you are in the Northern America where the frost appears, you can get away with black and be merry, your yield won't increase and your costs won't either.
White if you are south of the frost line, it keeps things cooler, about 5f cooler... However not all technology is B&W there's a whole range of colours, for example the tomatoes and eggplants love red ones, they find the yield is increased and mulch is kept at bay.
So, spend 3 hours of research on mulch and call the suppliers, 3 suppliers on their different products, and don't settle for the cheapest...
If you want the cheapest solution, you can always mulch up your old plants and use them next year... but you know that won't be very good for your farm
Very nice and hard work really I like to do same work
Interesting and cool video. Y'all need to sharpen your knives though, lol. Thanks for the information. Cheers
how did you not hit the drip tape with the post hole digger?
I use a rain-flo plastic layer and water wheel trans-planter. I also have a Ferris polyplanter which plants seeds right through the plastic. I use a Zimmerman plastic lifter/wrapper.
This equipment is expensive and so is the plastic, drip tape, and soluble fertilizer. What else can you do if you don't want to use all those herbicides?
Get yourself a water wheel trans-planter and get rid of that post hole digger. Add a little fertilizer to the water tank and if it does not rain for days the plants will survive. The added water causes good soil to root contact. Leaving dirt on the plastic from the post hole digger causes weeds to grow there.
I would only say I wish I had a couple or three of those young ladies in the blue shirts helping me ( she is a great worker) . Also is the drip tape often cut by the post hole digger?
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is it easy to remove the plastic after the season is over? I'd hate to have it tear up and litter my field.
where do you buy your Mulch plastic, do you get a discount ?
How do you miss hitting your drip tape with the post hole diggers? Thanks
Tommy Vaughn they run it on the side.
how to you avoid hitting the drip tape with the post hole digger.. is it offset in the row ?
I was wandering the same thing?
May I ask how you support all those tomatoes in such a long row? Thanks. Any great fob there
One method (I use ) is heavy pruning and allowing only 2 or 3 vines that wrap around a central post. It's a sort of forced energy to the remaining plant. This way they can be tall and close.
You mentioned a modified rototiller to make raised beds. What does it look like?
Search "BCS Tractor with Rotary Plow."
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Great video Thanks, My dream is to retire in the next few years and become a full time farmer. I only have 8 farmable acres and have already purchased a mulch layer and transplanter. I guess my question is can you make it on about 5 acres of tomatoes every year. My goal is to sell all of them to wholesaler so I will get a lower price than if I did a upick or something. I need to profit 35k per year to make ends meet. Please give me some advice if you can and how many acres do you farm. Thank you again.
Tommy Vaughn check out Curtis stone on TH-cam. The urban farmer. You have more than enough land.
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Many thanks for posting. One question though. Why do you put the drip irrigation below the mulch? Farmers normally let this rest on top of the mulch liner.
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Man. Garden the way you want to. I can't seem to find any laws about how to plant a tomato!
Great video, as far as the comments go...
it truly amazes me how ignorant people are. If ever SHTF there will be a terrible stench of death. Autism really is very prevalent on youtube. How do these people tie their shoes!? let alone work a computer!!
Thank you for providing produce to so many! even if the idiots can't figure out how its done even with a video..lol...
God Bless you and all the farmers out there in Work, Hope and Pray Land.
Do you guys do anything to prevent weeds from coming up through the holes?
In most instances, hand weeding is what we do to take care of the weeds that come through the hole around the plant.
My god all that work! Do you have a day job too?
Hi! could you tell me what size and type of emitters you used? Do they clog being under ground? Thanks!
Aqua-TRAXX 8mil 1 foot spacing emitters we do not bury them we lay on ground with plastic on top
thank you!
Massey Ferguson and John Deere the way to go!
I'd work there just for the cute girls lol
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Do any the kids plan own taking over the farm.Did any of the kids go or plan on going to college.
Yes to both questions.
can you hire me, I want to be in your team,.
I finally understood but the sound was so bad and the video so confusing and unedited it took a while. This is exactly how "corporate"crops are grown in Costa Rica. You see whole hillsides of black with thousands of orange or green dots ever few feet. We were told it was extremely efficient and was good for the ground since it involved little tilling.
Which country did you come from?
Seems like the drip tape and plastic cost alot and you have to figure that into the total
cost and maybe have to up the price of your tomatoes or make less.
Where do you get did of the plastic and cost of that since they don't let you burn it like the
old timers use to.
Thought the chick was a lil boy at first lol
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The soil looks sad.
the knife she uses to cut the plastic makes me sad inside.
+Erik Pearson lol
+Erik Pearson Yeb its as blunt as ol charlie
You have an inside that gets sad? Very sad!
I do not think there is anything magical here, the magical are those who are incorporating soil health into their practices
lol, lots work and bad quality.
The narrator sounds like he is mumbling with marbles in his mouth..Very hard to understand.
Please tell him to take the time to pronounce each word separately.
very bad farming
its true
You say very bad farming but don't say why ?