PLANTING CORN in a NO-TILL Garden -- IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2019
- No-till gardening can be difficult on a small scale. Today we show you how it can be done with a silage tarp and simple gardening tools.
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I have no clue what you said, I was watching the kitty. ❤️ Time to rewatch.
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Thank you so much for showing this process. I was really looking forward to seeing how it turned out. I bet the corn will love the nitrogen that the Sunn Hemp fixed in the soil. I think this garden "strip-till" system has a lot of promise. Can't wait for part 2! I hope y'all have the best fall garden ever! Thanks for taking us along for the ride!
Thanks Nicholas. Glad you've enjoyed the journey!
WOW.....Hubby definitely wants to try this method. Great video..Thanks so much Travis!!
It worked out remarkably well for us. Thanks for watching!
Very nice! Sure enjoyed seeing your little kitten!
That's Tiger -- our new kitten that the wife rescued from the grocery store.
Beautiful! I think you'll agree the amount of reduction for the amount of biomass is incredible! That sun hemp crop was more mass than I've had on my plots, I would say, but the process worked beautifully! You will see that remaining stubble gone pretty quickly. A little water along the way while your tarp is "cooking" works wonders too! Great job on documenting the process, I know I have enjoyed it, and others too! I'm heavily involved with my tarps right now myself! ;)
You are right about adding some water throughout the process. Not a bad idea at all.
Can’t wait to see the corn grow:)
In this warm weather, you'll be able to stand outside and watch it grow!
Great info..blessings
Thanks Carolyn!
Travis, I am pea green with envy!! Oh, to have the land to be able to dedicate an entire garden plot just to sweet corn!! I'd be in hog heaven, for sure!! Now that I have my drip tape layer, I sure will try another block of sweet corn - I'm betting I'll actually get a good stand putting it on drip tape!
Go for it!
I got corn travis...woohoo.. thanks for your help.. I cant believe how much fertilizer corn likes..amazing
I went to your web site looking to buy some seeds. Cant find any..used the link provided
Yes, corn likes plenty of nitrogen. Here's a link to all of our seeds: hosstools.com/premium-garden-seeds/
6a/b here (Ohio River Valley (Cincinnati-ish))
We don't necessarily do a Spring/Fall corn planting on Sweet Corn at my place.
Just a continual 2 to 3 week succession planting from beginning to end. Starting in early May, last planting early August.
That's one way to do it as well! It gets so dang hot here in July/August and that's pretty rough on a maturing crop. But it can handle the heat early until the temp breaks in a few weeks.
Nice! Did u get any soil tests done b4 u planted the sunn hemp cover crop and after u removed the spillage tarp? Would like to know how effective cover crop was in changing and improving soil 😊
We did test it with a soil pH probe. The pH was good before the Sunn Hemp and didn't really change after the tarping process.
Do you only spray the Spinosad on just the silk and ear covering itself, or on the entire plant ?Thank for the video and info.
If you've got worms eating the entire plant and that's a concern, you can spray the whole plant. But for corn earworm control, the most important part is spraying the silks.
Ive been following and doing this right along aith you, my first time doing this method by the way, and when i removed the tarp.....ants! Everywhere. What do you recommend to get them out of the garden. The solution doesnt neccesarily have to be organic. Thank you from dexter georgia, and keep up the great work
Uh oh! We didn't have any ants under ours. Ants don't like disturbance, so they should move once you start working the area.
Hey I got another question for ya.... after y’all grind up your cover crop what if you just dosed it heavy with water to help the decomposition process? Or even halfway through the decomposition process maybe pull the tarp back and dose it good one time with overhead sprinkler? I want to see how good it crumbles up after the sun hits it for a few days...
You could do that. Have even heard of folks injecting some fish emulsion into that water dosing to feed the soil as well.
Can you still get in a crop of corn?! What’s the days to maturity? I’m in southern VA, Zone 7. When’s y’all first frost date, usually?
Our average first frost date is around November 30th. If you've got 70-80 days before the first frost date, you've still got time.
Thanks for the video but I don't understand so you plant the corn seeds right on top of the drip tape that you buried? While the corn is growing The Roots don't bother the drip tape underneath it??
Thanks for getting back to me when you get a chance
Dana
That is correct
Travis, no till is you go against the wall. I get that. But, let me tell you something. What no till is all about is the microbs in the soil. Now, you can either take about 3 years to really get that established or you can use something with microbes in it.... it's still organic, it's still no till.. but it's what makes those plots work. I suggest BIO-SI Go look it up. Or you all might have something that will do the same thing. I wish you the very very best.. Love your shows.
Must be nice to live in the south... Garden is winding down this year. Been getting in low 40s overnight. Frost is coming.
Wow! We hit 70 at night a couple days ago and got all excited, but back to being hot for several weeks longer.
I had big plans for working in my garden this long weekend... but God has other plans for us... working on boarding up, and getting ready for that hurricane. Have several houses to get ready... so no garden except maybe taking down my trellis I just put up last weekend... no sense in letting get all tore up.... I'm guessing I won't be picking any pole beans at this point. Very annoying my fall peas are really looking excellent... best stand of peas I've had in a very long time. Planted them on top of where I had sun hemp... guessing I won't be picking any of them either... last time we had a tropical storm we it tore up the place bad... really bad, and this looks like it's gonna be worse. :( We just take it day by day... grow a bunch of corn, us Florida people might need to come and pick some up. :)
We hope you guys get spared this time. Stay safe! Michael was really rough on our crops last year and it was Irma the year before that. Hoping for no bad ones this year.
Where do you get tarps like those?
Right here: hosstools.com/product-category/garden-tools-collection/silage-tarps/
After you plant your corn. Have you thought about broad casting a clover over the plot?
Haven't considered that. Corn is a heavy-feeder -- not sure we would want something close that could potentially rob nutrients from it.
Doesn't Clover add N to the soil?
Me? I'd be more worried about the Clover goin' to seed and becoming a long-term issue in my rotation.
Yeah clover is a nitrogen fetcher. It won't rob the soil I stead it'll enrich it
Have your barn cats had kittens
No. My wife rescued this one from the local grocery store. Was planning on finding a home, but the kids really love it so it might stay.
Is the tarp porous? Does it let rain water through it?
It is not porous and does not let rainwater through. But this subplot is below several other plots so it does get some moisture through runoff.
Can you reuse trip tape??
Yes you can. We reuse it 3-4 times before replacing it.
No compost under the drip?
Not this time. 1) We were out of compost and should be getting a new load soon, but wanted to get this planted now. 2) We kinda wanted to see the results of the Sunn Hemp cover crop by itself.
Would B.T. be ok for worms? How often would you spray it? Once a week?
B.t. works on many worms, but has not been proven to work on corn earworms. Some sources say it works, others say it doesn't. But spinosad definitely works on earworms!
Any ideas on grasshopper control? I had a huge problem with my spring corn. They pretty much destroyed all the leaves.
That ground looks awfully soft. Has it been tilled before? A push plow wouldn’t hardly make a scratch in my fields.
That plot has been tilled at some point, but it hadn't been tilled prior to this video. We have some plots that are pretty sandy, and others with more clay.
Who’s your friend
That would be "Tiger." A kitten my wife rescued at the local grocery store. Was planning on finding it another home, but the kids have taken a liking to it. So it may be staying.
Looks Like ol tiger has taking a liking to you.
Not scalable
Not if you're doing an acre or more of production. But it will work great for gardens from a couple thousand square feet up to an acre -- especially if the garden area is divided into subplots like we have.