I cut mine with shears, left them on top of the dirt and put a big plastic sheet on top to solarize the bed. Left it there for 7 weeks….just pulled the sheet back and the soil is gorgeous, no weeds, and all the corn stalks have broken down…..zone 9A.
This was my first year growing hickory king corn and I'm very happy with how it did. We had drought conditions in our area and it outperformed my other corn by a long shot. My peaches and cream wilted and had kernels abort due to drought, but the hickory king produced excellently. These heritage varieties seem to be much hardier than the commercial hybrids.
Hickory King and Tennessee Red Cob are the stuff! On a historical note, a century ago, when it was in the milk stage, Hickory King was the corn of choice for making moonshine in Appalachia.
That's such a good idea Danny! I'm sure it will work out just great. I just grew broom corn for the first time this year. It got so tall! I grew it for the seed heads, but when I cut the stalks down, I noticed they were like bamboo stalks. I am drying them flat to see if I can use for plant supports, little flag poles, etc. Maybe even make a little trinket box out of some. :) ( youtube changed the icons, now the thumbs up turns black when you click it, instead of blue)
Used to live in vernon parish Louisiana, we had the finest back to eden garden one could ask for... went from red clay and dog fennel to raising all kinds of crops 12 month out of the year and a superb banana plantation to top it all of.
We have japenese beetles,squash bugs, aphids.....which is why I look forward to a hard freeze and below zero temps....harder the winter seems to make less pest the following season...
Agreed! I moved from OK to Central Fl and the pest pressure is 200% more here. The amount of new to me, bugs is crazy! We had wood chips delivered and I think 1/2 the bulk was bugs. Lol
Lol welcome to central Florida. My house is for sale in St Cloud right now and we are headed north. It’s a challenge to garden here but you’ll get used to it. It’s backwards. Your best growing season will be from October-March. Summers will be the time to rest because it’s hard to grow anything well with the heat and humidity. Be careful with the wood chips. Termites and ants will be drawn to that. Good luck! 🍀
Thank you for this! I live in Lower Alabama. Gardening down here is HARD! And it's gotten much harder in the last 10 years down here. Many of the channels/guides, esp. those up north, give methods that do not work down here. I grew up in TN. Winter freezes, cooler nights, make gardening there so much easier. Tomatoes set, fewer pests, mildew isn't a problem.
I live in town now (grew up on a farm) and I have much less space to garden. I did find that mixing cedar pet bedding (from Tractor supply) in with mulch/clippings keeps bugs out. I guess it's the smell.
Funny, I was just looking up what to do with corn cobs and stalks yesterday, then this popped up. I was thinking I'd let them dry and shred for mulch. I'm in zone 5b and using BTE. I plan on letting chickens in the garden at the end of the growing season and nice days in the winter.
I think that's a good idea as well, to let the chickens control/eliminate the bug issue... Along with that, you get the mixing up & fertilizing of your soil. That keeps harmful pesticides etc out of your soil & off your food!
I did that and put it in the house to dry but also I put a fan on it and it seemed like it really dried out real good then it helps circulate the air more and I love y'all's show
Danny - can you try to solarize the bugs? Put down layers of transparent plastic to try and cook the bugs? Or spray everything down with super concentrated vinegar? My walmart has high concentrate vinegar in the garden section. Is there some sort of natural bait you could use that they would eat and die? Hard to kill off 1 part of eco system without adversely affecting other parts...
They came in through the port in Tampa Florida about 25 years ago and have been spreading across the south ever since. They are attracted to lights at night. Put a light over your mulch pile to draw them in then turn your chickens on them during the day.
I've already got my Hickory King ordered for next year. My favorite way to fix field corn is pickled; sweet corn just don't work for that 😊 And fresh corn meal just has a better flavor to me. Love that small chipper!
Good morning Danny, nothing wrong with driving corn in the house, I did the same thing, years ago I made a 2x4 frame, with chicken wire on the top, weighs next to nothing but lets air circulate. I'm reluctant to give people advice but there's no reason to shred those cornstalks, during the year I have a compost pile started at the end of the garden, as the growing year progresses I put weeds, rinds what ever on it when I pull up corn stalks I make two cuts with machete leaving about a 5 foot stalk after putting cut sections on compost pile I pull up stalks, some will need loosening with shovel, I then put those on pile also I've never turn it, it will decompose faster if you turn it but its not necessary, I'm always looking at reducing caloric energy, plus lowering my need for petroleum energy, not because I'm some kind of green, save the world type, but because I'm always considering energy put into the garden against calories, minerals, vitamins that come out, if you put more energy, calories in than you get out, you starve. My cornstalks have always been almost completely composted by next growing season, and these are huge stalks between 13 and 16 feet tall, but cut in 3 sections with the machete. The only thing I found that wouldn't decompose in one year is large okra plants. Now don't get too hot out there.
They may be all I get out of my corn, grinding up for next year (though I don't have one of those chippers), as the army worms were horrible and I didn't get on top of it in time and they got stunted.
Found your wonderful channel a while ago. Love watching you both. Praying all your hard work will not be damaged from IDA STORM . BE SAFE LOVE from DESTIN FL.
I read that farmers were having trouble with fungus in beans or peanuts. They switched to corn and then went back to planting beans or peanuts and the fungus went away. They found that the corn has a fungus that eats the other fungus. (I think I got this right!)
One year I chipped and shredded, then rototilled all that into the dirt right away. Nothing grew that year. Either it was robbing the nitrogen from the soil or it threw off the ph. I did better at another garden patch the same year with no equipment, just last year's compost and a shovel. Some years in gardens I have great success, some years not. It's a learning process for me, and a process of developing skills in techniques that work. Those bugs are incredible! I'm going to observe Danny's timing, methods and results, and see how this one comes out.
I like your mini shredder we have one and I shred my old manure when I shovel it itis in clumps so we run I threw the shredder and it comes out like beautiful black soil looks like it was bought I'm growing corn for the first time so now I know what to do with the old stocks this fall thank you for this video
I use to go around to farmers when they got through with sweet corn, there is generally an abundance left that they have to mow down so it doesn't get in with the field corn. Our chipper is a larger variety that we actually grind feed with so I would grind the whole stalks, ears and all up for the cows.
Love Hickory King. Mine failed from no rain. I have Hickory Kane as well. I refuse to stop trying because when we do we might miss the blessing that may have been set for tomorrow.
Ida's off our coast right now. The fire ants are "hilling up", rattlesnakes are traveling across the fields and now bees are swarming in the laundry room and we are only getting feeder bands not the full storm. That's what we love about the south!
I doubt if it is too warm for your Back to Eden gardening but it may be too warm and moist. 10 inches of mulch saved my corn from 120 degrees or more soil temperatures and super low humidity that we experienced during the drought. I live in the south west so shielding you crops from the intense radiation is critical. It is so wonderful to have lots of folks trying different methods of farming. I hope that everyone posts how each style of gardening worked out in their area.
I’ve lived in East Tx. for 45 years and I’ve never seen a millipede here until about four years ago. We started seeing millipedes all out in the soil, now they are coming in the house so we have to spray once a month all around the house. I’ve wondered if the airplanes that were flying over so low, were throwing out these millipedes in the woods. They seem to love moist wood!
I noticed those little roaches showed up here in SC this year along with some of the biggest jumping spiders I’ve ever seen! We never saw either of them before. I’ve had great results following with corn after a clover cover crop all winter. We started with 95% sand and are building organic material into our soil every season. Thank you!
Hey Wanda and Danny 😃 Great video.. so true about the bugs .. have you heard about the bugs that are coming in destroying crops… in five states now .. but over all your still have a beautiful crops .. Well we live in Texas and you’ll are fixing to get storm #9 or might turn into a hurricane… will be praying for you’ll .. stay safe and take care 🥰 Blessing 👩🌾
I do the same process with my corn stalks here in Mississippi. I have a chipper shredder that looks about the same as yours (about 25 years old) and I too have to remove the screen to run the stalks through. I have a log section about 30" tall that I use to chop the stalks on into about 8" long pieces then run through the shredder. That makes a world of difference and doesn't add any more time to the operation because your not pushing and pulling it in and out. I also run it through the back when you drop down the chute and just rake it in. I use a machette to cut the stalks down which also goes fast. I compost it in the back of the property along the wood line. Thank God I haven't had the same roach problem here.
I do believe u need to sharpen that, mine would spit that corn out like feathers. But Danny u are on the right road leafs are very good with chicken poop. I have been using that calcium nitrate after they get that first flower
As I walk the dogs through the woods I hear something small skittering through the loose dead leaves but can never catch up to see what it is. I was thinking maybe lizards but there would have to be an awful lot of them! Now I’m wondering if we have the same thing over here. SC zone 8 I wish I had thought to put our corn stalks through the shredder before I added them to the compost pile! Next time!
You might want to consider using a poultry net and turning some chickens loose on the roach infested area. You might also want to consider having some chickens run on your cow pastures as well. They can be great pest deterrents.
When I chip long vegetation. I put a fist full at a time into the long narrow chipper chute. The leaf hopper is a coarser grind. It works better for me that way. I have really tall thick sunflower trees as I call them that need chipping every year.
Not sure if you watch the Veggie Boys channel but they do exactly just that.. put or leave plants right in field as they go through picking. They have a much larger operation but I really think you and Wanda would appreciate their style as well.
@@chrishamill3170 yes, but you get tired of the poops on the deck, and in your shoe treads and spreading any piles of leaves you're trying to collect. They even started tapping on the kitchen door saying, "we're here, throw food scraps".
Boric acid roach powder worked really good for me in the house in Florida. Sweep it into cracks and corners. Walk around the outside of the house and dust the ground.
They do try to run in the door. A few years ago I had a standoff with one on my back deck. lol I opened the door and it came RUNNING for the door. Hard to catch and kill!!
Here the back to Eden system I don’t think would work very well because we get so cold in the winter for so long that any surface decomposition essentially ceases for several months and months over the winter. I myself have measured frozen soil up to 8 inches down below the surface during winter. The struggle at the start of each season to to rapidly repopulate the micro organisms in the soil, and I’ve been having good success with David the Goods ‘swamp water’ which he gives a source for. I’m also trying his terra preda theory under some perennial bushes.
Greeeeeeeen acres is the place to be!!!!Farmmmmm living is the life for me!!!!!..just gimme that country side and my entire garden will be mostly corn!😄
I wonder if Guinea fowl would eat them ? My daughter bought an old farmstead up in northern Minnesota and the ticks were terrible, she bought some Guinea chicks just for tick control. They roam the yard and through the woods feasting and wow what a difference it’s made ! I’m also wondering about just composting the corn stalks in a pile then spreading it out ?? Living in zone 3 🥶 my compost spends 6-7 months frozen so it can take years to be ready, I pee in a bucket and put it on the pile and have compost in a few weeks 😍😍😍 The strong nitrogen in the pee would probably burn the roaches ?? Blessings
Could you mix grass clippings with what you have & till it in & put some straw over it put some chicken's in there too (while you have no crops in there)? I know this is all well said then good on suggestions. I'd, personally, be finding a way to eliminate those roaches, naturally with D.E., chicken's, ducks, etc.
Wow, Interesting. For sure returning as much of the plant matter as possible to the soil is an excellent practice, especially here in the South where it digests down so quickly. Up here in NE MS I have bunches of American roaches (I've had them identified by 2 separate entomologists) that run and scurry just like those do. I cover crop my fallow ground every fall. Maybe turning and cover cropping would help.
I grew off a really good crop of silver queen and filled a freezer this year and it’s my first year doing it, I also have a really nice seed crop and a little bit to eat of the Danny corn going right now. But I tried one of the Danny corns yesterday and that joker tasted amazing and the Cherokee tan pumpkins and my purple beans love being with the Danny corn!
I believe Paul Gautschi developed BTE in northern Washington state. The weather and environment there are very different from the deep south. What works for him will not work everywhere. People need to realize that just because something works for them they do not have the right to tell everyone else what they should be doing.
We have a HUGE roach problem on the farm this year and it has started translating to our house so I am spraying almost daily now. Back To Eden has been a bust for us. Running grasses and nutgrass just love all those wood chips. I still think it has merit and will continue to try it in small areas to see if it truly improves soil over time. We invested in a pto wood chipper. WELL worth the money around here. All of our trimming(privet is a big deal), and my futile attempts to control sweetgum, means that we are creating a monstrous compost pile when we add chicken manure and grass clippings from the 2 acres we cut. You should try to get one of the PTO chippers sponsored for you to evaluate. We have been very happy with ours.
Some people who do back to eden leave the woodchips in a pile to heat up/almost turn into compost before spreading it. Would this help with the bugs in the south?
@@DeepSouthHomestead yes they would destroy the rest of the garden. Would you be able to fence them in? Or you don't want to chance them getting out? I guess the roaches would just come back there anyway!
Danny and Wanda, you can get the premiere one or Gallagher solar electric fencing to contain the chickens. My chickens run free and are my pest control.
@@FarmerC.J. A few years ago I had a gang of about a dozen roosters that lived free range at my house. They eat a huge amount of bugs including ticks. I didn't hardly see any ticks when I had them. The only problem I had with them was them all trying to breed the hens when I let them out. They were rude. lol
You got a lot of rain and we got a lot of extreme heat. I got a lot male flowers. Even though I did see the bees working. The year I really needed my garden to produce and it was bare minimumal.
Great video and good info, as always. One thing that I'm not so sure I understand regarding the B2E gardening though is that, from what I've observed, it's not solely about only using woodchips. While that is a component, really it seems that the method works because it's about soil growth and development and not leaving the soil bare. This of course differs from row monocrop gardening in the U.S. which seeks to make the soil as bare as possible. The woodchips are just one of several ground covers that can be used. I do agree though that what he is advocating isn't perfect for every crop in every area. It works in his area but his pest pressures are different than in the southern latitudes where insects abound. Part of having an abundant and balanced ecosystem though includes bugs. I'm curious though if it would be possible to put up portable chicken fencing and then using that (and chickens) to surround the area you put down the corn stalks would help to clean up the bug issue any or that would be more work than reward? Not sure what the upside/downside would be in your situation. I'm working on building out our homestead now (a loooooooooooong way to go) but I'm trying now to combine some of the B2E method with Joel Salatin's. Not sure if I can get it to work in my area or not though. The soil needs a lot of work. Keep making the great videos!!!! Always love to see a video from yall in my feed, makes my day!
Have you tried grinding sugar cane stalks with the chipper after you they are run through the mill. This fall you might try feeding some through the chipper and make a video of it.
Hey Danny and Wanda, I am friends and neighbors with Parma Pasture. They are how I found you. I wanted to ask how you mill your corn? Thanks for all you do !!!
What about setting some ducks out in that area this fall? We had a major roach infestation in our yard and although we had chickens it didn't help because they go to bed early. Once we got 2 ducks they got the roach population under control by eating them all night long. I'll probably always have a couple of ducks for pest control in the future.
Just dumb question cant u till soil then plant oats or rye as cover crop, and harvest the grass off of it for your cows , i know from experience the oats when cut will grow back and u might get 2 cuttings off it, ??
I'm a big believer in tilling up the soil. The critters in there don't care. They adapt. It helps to re-establish the vital Mychorizae network under the soil. Imo just dropping stuff on the soil waiting for it to decompose may work in the forest where the trees aren't trying to grow squash and Tators but I am. I'd saturate the soil with H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) and watch the critters try to get out of that haha.
I cut mine with shears, left them on top of the dirt and put a big plastic sheet on top to solarize the bed. Left it there for 7 weeks….just pulled the sheet back and the soil is gorgeous, no weeds, and all the corn stalks have broken down…..zone 9A.
This was my first year growing hickory king corn and I'm very happy with how it did. We had drought conditions in our area and it outperformed my other corn by a long shot. My peaches and cream wilted and had kernels abort due to drought, but the hickory king produced excellently. These heritage varieties seem to be much hardier than the commercial hybrids.
I have a friend who grows that. So, I take it you rely on rain for irrigation?
Hurricane moving in. Be safe.
Hickory King and Tennessee Red Cob are the stuff!
On a historical note, a century ago, when it was in the milk stage, Hickory King was the corn of choice for making moonshine in Appalachia.
Good morning Danny & Wanda!
Love how nothing is waisted...what is grown of the earth is given back.
I always run my lawnmower over the corn when it’s done and cut it as short and fine as I can and plant potatoes on it the next time.Always works good
Great suggestion! Will do next year!
That’s usually what I do after harvest and the stalks have dried. Makes great organic matter!
Whatever video camera you are using is fabulous! It feels like I’m there! Very sharp and clear! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️
Yes!
Audio also good!
Morning ya'll! Yes Danny, I believe corn and drying it in the living room is ok with, The Father.🌽🌽🌽
That's such a good idea Danny! I'm sure it will work out just great. I just grew broom corn for the first time this year. It got so tall! I grew it for the seed heads, but when I cut the stalks down, I noticed they were like bamboo stalks. I am drying them flat to see if I can use for plant supports, little flag poles, etc. Maybe even make a little trinket box out of some. :) ( youtube changed the icons, now the thumbs up turns black when you click it, instead of blue)
Yes I'm in South Louisiana and there's no way a back to eden system would work here for the exact reason you've shared. Thanks for sharing. Blessings
Used to live in vernon parish Louisiana, we had the finest back to eden garden one could ask for... went from red clay and dog fennel to raising all kinds of crops 12 month out of the year and a superb banana plantation to top it all of.
With Ida moving in may God have a strong presence in the south. Take care you 2 beautiful people.
We have japenese beetles,squash bugs, aphids.....which is why I look forward to a hard freeze and below zero temps....harder the winter seems to make less pest the following season...
Agreed! I moved from OK to Central Fl and the pest pressure is 200% more here. The amount of new to me, bugs is crazy! We had wood chips delivered and I think 1/2 the bulk was bugs. Lol
I’m a native Floridian and the pests are no joke here. They get into everything
Lol welcome to central Florida. My house is for sale in St Cloud right now and we are headed north. It’s a challenge to garden here but you’ll get used to it. It’s backwards. Your best growing season will be from October-March. Summers will be the time to rest because it’s hard to grow anything well with the heat and humidity. Be careful with the wood chips. Termites and ants will be drawn to that. Good luck! 🍀
That is the cutest tractor ever and just perfect for what you need
Thank you for this! I live in Lower Alabama. Gardening down here is HARD! And it's gotten much harder in the last 10 years down here. Many of the channels/guides, esp. those up north, give methods that do not work down here.
I grew up in TN. Winter freezes, cooler nights, make gardening there so much easier. Tomatoes set, fewer pests, mildew isn't a problem.
I live in town now (grew up on a farm) and I have much less space to garden. I did find that mixing cedar pet bedding (from Tractor supply) in with mulch/clippings keeps bugs out. I guess it's the smell.
Funny, I was just looking up what to do with corn cobs and stalks yesterday, then this popped up. I was thinking I'd let them dry and shred for mulch. I'm in zone 5b and using BTE. I plan on letting chickens in the garden at the end of the growing season and nice days in the winter.
I think that's a good idea as well, to let the chickens control/eliminate the bug issue... Along with that, you get the mixing up & fertilizing of your soil. That keeps harmful pesticides etc out of your soil & off your food!
I did that and put it in the house to dry but also I put a fan on it and it seemed like it really dried out real good then it helps circulate the air more and I love y'all's show
It's nice to see the videos of you guys working on your property , I could work outside all day long
🌞 Good morning Danny and Wanda thanks for sharing this video that is something to have to deal with daily.
Bugs, the bane of the south. We've seen bugs this year we never saw before. I'm really looking forward to how your corn crop will do next year.
Prayers for you guys!! Hopefully you are safe!!!
My grandpa use to till
It in a couple times and put a cover crop on top, Agree roaches are bad in the south and palmetto bugs too.
Danny - can you try to solarize the bugs? Put down layers of transparent plastic to try and cook the bugs? Or spray everything down with super concentrated vinegar? My walmart has high concentrate vinegar in the garden section. Is there some sort of natural bait you could use that they would eat and die?
Hard to kill off 1 part of eco system without adversely affecting other parts...
They came in through the port in Tampa Florida about 25 years ago and have been spreading across the south ever since.
They are attracted to lights at night.
Put a light over your mulch pile to draw them in then turn your chickens on them during the day.
I've already got my Hickory King ordered for next year. My favorite way to fix field corn is pickled; sweet corn just don't work for that 😊 And fresh corn meal just has a better flavor to me. Love that small chipper!
excellent - nice shredder as well
Good morning Danny, nothing wrong with driving corn in the house, I did the same thing, years ago I made a 2x4 frame, with chicken wire on the top, weighs next to nothing but lets air circulate. I'm reluctant to give people advice but there's no reason to shred those cornstalks, during the year I have a compost pile started at the end of the garden, as the growing year progresses I put weeds, rinds what ever on it when I pull up corn stalks I make two cuts with machete leaving about a 5 foot stalk after putting cut sections on compost pile I pull up stalks, some will need loosening with shovel, I then put those on pile also I've never turn it, it will decompose faster if you turn it but its not necessary, I'm always looking at reducing caloric energy, plus lowering my need for petroleum energy, not because I'm some kind of green, save the world type, but because I'm always considering energy put into the garden against calories, minerals, vitamins that come out, if you put more energy, calories in than you get out, you starve. My cornstalks have always been almost completely composted by next growing season, and these are huge stalks between 13 and 16 feet tall, but cut in 3 sections with the machete. The only thing I found that wouldn't decompose in one year is large okra plants. Now don't get too hot out there.
Cool little garden chipper 👍
This info makes amazing sense! Thanks Danny!
Stay safe down there guys. This thing headed straight for y'all.
They may be all I get out of my corn, grinding up for next year (though I don't have one of those chippers), as the army worms were horrible and I didn't get on top of it in time and they got stunted.
Stay safe yall, we have that hurricane coming. Thanks for your videos here from Louisiana.
My grandpa always said the same thing. He used to bury the stalks in the field.
Found your wonderful channel a while ago. Love watching you both. Praying all your hard work will not be damaged from IDA STORM . BE SAFE LOVE from
DESTIN FL.
Thank u Dan and yes its another sign of whats to come. God Bless u both.
I read that farmers were having trouble with fungus in beans or peanuts. They switched to corn and then went back to planting beans or peanuts and the fungus went away. They found that the corn has a fungus that eats the other fungus. (I think I got this right!)
Stay safe i expect you are getting ready for weather events ill b praying for yall💗
Yes, the roaches are horrible here, in LA as well
Stay safe and stay wonderful
One year I chipped and shredded, then rototilled all that into the dirt right away. Nothing grew that year. Either it was robbing the nitrogen from the soil or it threw off the ph. I did better at another garden patch the same year with no equipment, just last year's compost and a shovel. Some years in gardens I have great success, some years not. It's a learning process for me, and a process of developing skills in techniques that work. Those bugs are incredible! I'm going to observe Danny's timing, methods and results, and see how this one comes out.
I like your mini shredder we have one and I shred my old manure when I shovel it itis in clumps so we run I threw the shredder and it comes out like beautiful black soil looks like it was bought I'm growing corn for the first time so now I know what to do with the old stocks this fall thank you for this video
I use to go around to farmers when they got through with sweet corn, there is generally an abundance left that they have to mow down so it doesn't get in with the field corn. Our chipper is a larger variety that we actually grind feed with so I would grind the whole stalks, ears and all up for the cows.
Love Hickory King. Mine failed from no rain. I have Hickory Kane as well. I refuse to stop trying because when we do we might miss the blessing that may have been set for tomorrow.
Ida's off our coast right now. The fire ants are "hilling up", rattlesnakes are traveling across the fields and now bees are swarming in the laundry room and we are only getting feeder bands not the full storm. That's what we love about the south!
I doubt if it is too warm for your Back to Eden gardening but it may be too warm and moist.
10 inches of mulch saved my corn from 120 degrees or more soil temperatures and super low humidity that we experienced during the drought. I live in the south west so shielding you crops from the intense radiation is critical.
It is so wonderful to have lots of folks trying different methods of farming. I hope that everyone posts how each style of gardening worked out in their area.
I’ve lived in East Tx. for 45 years and I’ve never seen a millipede here until about four years ago. We started seeing millipedes all out in the soil, now they are coming in the house so we have to spray once a month all around the house. I’ve wondered if the airplanes that were flying over so low, were throwing out these millipedes in the woods. They seem to love moist wood!
We didn't end up with a roach problem here in Florida with our back to Eden garden but man oh man the termites sure loved it.
We chop our corn stalks with the finish mower, till in then plant winter wheat on our garden then till that in spring.
Just a helpful suggestion/idea: you could use a brush blade and a rake to help save your back on bending down every corn plant.
I noticed those little roaches showed up here in SC this year along with some of the biggest jumping spiders I’ve ever seen! We never saw either of them before.
I’ve had great results following with corn after a clover cover crop all winter. We started with 95% sand and are building organic material into our soil every season.
Thank you!
You must live in Chesterfield county?
Charleston county, actually
Hey Wanda and Danny 😃
Great video.. so true about the bugs .. have you heard about the bugs that are coming in destroying crops… in five states now ..
but over all your still have a beautiful crops ..
Well we live in Texas and you’ll are fixing to get storm #9 or might turn into a hurricane… will be praying for you’ll .. stay safe and take care 🥰
Blessing
👩🌾
In Florida they are in the mulch around the trees in public parks. Even at the ocean.
I do the same process with my corn stalks here in Mississippi. I have a chipper shredder that looks about the same as yours (about 25 years old) and I too have to remove the screen to run the stalks through. I have a log section about 30" tall that I use to chop the stalks on into about 8" long pieces then run through the shredder. That makes a world of difference and doesn't add any more time to the operation because your not pushing and pulling it in and out. I also run it through the back when you drop down the chute and just rake it in. I use a machette to cut the stalks down which also goes fast. I compost it in the back of the property along the wood line. Thank God I haven't had the same roach problem here.
That's awesome you have your own shredder. Not really surprised though.
Had to put a new carburetor on it.
@Larry Harrison I thought $3.39 was bad. Wow.
Sending prayers and positive thoughts for y’all during this up and coming Hurricane. Be careful and safe Brother God Bless and Protect you
I do believe u need to sharpen that, mine would spit that corn out like feathers. But Danny u are on the right road leafs are very good with chicken poop. I have been using that calcium nitrate after they get that first flower
As I walk the dogs through the woods I hear something small skittering through the loose dead leaves but can never catch up to see what it is. I was thinking maybe lizards but there would have to be an awful lot of them! Now I’m wondering if we have the same thing over here. SC zone 8
I wish I had thought to put our corn stalks through the shredder before I added them to the compost pile! Next time!
Praying yall are safe. Knowing this hurricane is coming. Get to high ground now. Blessings to all.
Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
As always amazing knowledge
That also happens in New Mexico especially with wood chips
You might want to consider using a poultry net and turning some chickens loose on the roach infested area. You might also want to consider having some chickens run on your cow pastures as well. They can be great pest deterrents.
When I chip long vegetation. I put a fist full at a time into the long narrow chipper chute. The leaf hopper is a coarser grind. It works better for me that way. I have really tall thick sunflower trees as I call them that need chipping every year.
I heard sunflower stalks make sunflower flour.
The good with the bad, try this Texas heat
Not sure if you watch the Veggie Boys channel but they do exactly just that.. put or leave plants right in field as they go through picking. They have a much larger operation but I really think you and Wanda would appreciate their style as well.
Your chickens would be in hog heaven if they could dig around in that bug infested corn stalk pile!
They'd be adding plenty of nitrogen to the mix, too!
That's right! I let my chickens out in the spring and fall. We don't have any ticks either.
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@@nancyfahey7518 I heard of people doing this and thought this is the way it should be done!
@@chrishamill3170 yes, but you get tired of the poops on the deck, and in your shoe treads and spreading any piles of leaves you're trying to collect. They even started tapping on the kitchen door saying, "we're here, throw food scraps".
What do ya'll use for them because I've noticed every time I open my back door they flood in and I look like I'm river dancing, trying to stomp them.
We use Bengal roach spray.
Boric acid roach powder worked really good for me in the house in Florida. Sweep it into cracks and corners. Walk around the outside of the house and dust the ground.
They do try to run in the door. A few years ago I had a standoff with one on my back deck. lol I opened the door and it came RUNNING for the door. Hard to catch and kill!!
I see all this corn and I think it’s time to make corn cob syrup for
Winter Yummm!! 😋
Grits. Cornmeal and flour
Here the back to Eden system I don’t think would work very well because we get so cold in the winter for so long that any surface decomposition essentially ceases for several months and months over the winter. I myself have measured frozen soil up to 8 inches down below the surface during winter. The struggle at the start of each season to to rapidly repopulate the micro organisms in the soil, and I’ve been having good success with David the Goods ‘swamp water’ which he gives a source for. I’m also trying his terra preda theory under some perennial bushes.
Greeeeeeeen acres is the place to be!!!!Farmmmmm living is the life for me!!!!!..just gimme that country side and my entire garden will be mostly corn!😄
I'm glad you mentioned the German roaches. I have never seen them as bad as they are this year.
I wonder if Guinea fowl would eat them ? My daughter bought an old farmstead up in northern Minnesota and the ticks were terrible, she bought some Guinea chicks just for tick control. They roam the yard and through the woods feasting and wow what a difference it’s made !
I’m also wondering about just composting the corn stalks in a pile then spreading it out ?? Living in zone 3 🥶 my compost spends 6-7 months frozen so it can take years to be ready, I pee in a bucket and put it on the pile and have compost in a few weeks 😍😍😍 The strong nitrogen in the pee would probably burn the roaches ??
Blessings
Just like here in sunny FL. We run into the same issues.
Good morning!
Keep up the good work.
This system works for me.
Could you mix grass clippings with what you have & till it in & put some straw over it put some chicken's in there too (while you have no crops in there)? I know this is all well said then good on suggestions. I'd, personally, be finding a way to eliminate those roaches, naturally with D.E., chicken's, ducks, etc.
Wow, Interesting. For sure returning as much of the plant matter as possible to the soil is an excellent practice, especially here in the South where it digests down so quickly. Up here in NE MS I have bunches of American roaches (I've had them identified by 2 separate entomologists) that run and scurry just like those do. I cover crop my fallow ground every fall. Maybe turning and cover cropping would help.
Diatomaceous earth?
I grew off a really good crop of silver queen and filled a freezer this year and it’s my first year doing it, I also have a really nice seed crop and a little bit to eat of the Danny corn going right now. But I tried one of the Danny corns yesterday and that joker tasted amazing and the Cherokee tan pumpkins and my purple beans love being with the Danny corn!
Silver Queen is my favorite! My great aunt got me on that stuff years and years ago. Delicious!! And big ears too!!
I believe Paul Gautschi developed BTE in northern Washington state. The weather and environment there are very different from the deep south. What works for him will not work everywhere. People need to realize that just because something works for them they do not have the right to tell everyone else what they should be doing.
We have a HUGE roach problem on the farm this year and it has started translating to our house so I am spraying almost daily now.
Back To Eden has been a bust for us. Running grasses and nutgrass just love all those wood chips. I still think it has merit and will continue to try it in small areas to see if it truly improves soil over time.
We invested in a pto wood chipper. WELL worth the money around here. All of our trimming(privet is a big deal), and my futile attempts to control sweetgum, means that we are creating a monstrous compost pile when we add chicken manure and grass clippings from the 2 acres we cut.
You should try to get one of the PTO chippers sponsored for you to evaluate. We have been very happy with ours.
Some people who do back to eden leave the woodchips in a pile to heat up/almost turn into compost before spreading it. Would this help with the bugs in the south?
Have you considered running chickens on it? They LOVE bugs, and they will turn it over for you.
They would destroy the rest of the garden.
@@DeepSouthHomestead yes they would destroy the rest of the garden. Would you be able to fence them in? Or you don't want to chance them getting out?
I guess the roaches would just come back there anyway!
Chicken tractor?
Danny and Wanda, you can get the premiere one or Gallagher solar electric fencing to contain the chickens. My chickens run free and are my pest control.
@@FarmerC.J. A few years ago I had a gang of about a dozen roosters that lived free range at my house. They eat a huge amount of bugs including ticks. I didn't hardly see any ticks when I had them. The only problem I had with them was them all trying to breed the hens when I let them out. They were rude. lol
Definitely can’t way to see more good ideas
You got a lot of rain and we got a lot of extreme heat. I got a lot male flowers. Even though I did see the bees working. The year I really needed my garden to produce and it was bare minimumal.
Good information.
Great video and good info, as always.
One thing that I'm not so sure I understand regarding the B2E gardening though is that, from what I've observed, it's not solely about only using woodchips. While that is a component, really it seems that the method works because it's about soil growth and development and not leaving the soil bare. This of course differs from row monocrop gardening in the U.S. which seeks to make the soil as bare as possible. The woodchips are just one of several ground covers that can be used.
I do agree though that what he is advocating isn't perfect for every crop in every area. It works in his area but his pest pressures are different than in the southern latitudes where insects abound. Part of having an abundant and balanced ecosystem though includes bugs. I'm curious though if it would be possible to put up portable chicken fencing and then using that (and chickens) to surround the area you put down the corn stalks would help to clean up the bug issue any or that would be more work than reward? Not sure what the upside/downside would be in your situation.
I'm working on building out our homestead now (a loooooooooooong way to go) but I'm trying now to combine some of the B2E method with Joel Salatin's. Not sure if I can get it to work in my area or not though. The soil needs a lot of work.
Keep making the great videos!!!! Always love to see a video from yall in my feed, makes my day!
Have you tried grinding sugar cane stalks with the chipper after you they are run through the mill.
This fall you might try feeding some through the chipper and make a video of it.
What about DE spread on the ground for the roaches?
To much humidity here.
Danny, what are your thoughts on lectins? Would love to see a video on that subject.
Not good for the human body. Good thing is when heated they're ok for the body.
@@DeepSouthHomestead Thanks Danny, I think the world needs to hear about this... Are fresh tomatoes and bell peppers good for you? What about beans?
Hey Danny and Wanda, I am friends and neighbors with Parma Pasture. They are how I found you. I wanted to ask how you mill your corn? Thanks for all you do !!!
Video soon. We were working on it today
@@DeepSouthHomestead I will be looking forward to it !
What about setting some ducks out in that area this fall? We had a major roach infestation in our yard and although we had chickens it didn't help because they go to bed early. Once we got 2 ducks they got the roach population under control by eating them all night long. I'll probably always have a couple of ducks for pest control in the future.
Just dumb question cant u till soil then plant oats or rye as cover crop, and harvest the grass off of it for your cows , i know from experience the oats when cut will grow back and u might get 2 cuttings off it, ??
Great Lessons,❤️
Sunflower stalks are great tomato/ pole bean/ pepper supports!
Sunflower attracts stink bugs. Not good for tomatoes.
Really? I've never had stink bugs on sunflowers in Ohio. Maybe different weather attracts them?
Can you dust that section with diatomaceous earth to kill the roaches over the winter?
I'm a big believer in tilling up the soil. The critters in there don't care. They adapt. It helps to re-establish the vital Mychorizae network under the soil. Imo just dropping stuff on the soil waiting for it to decompose may work in the forest where the trees aren't trying to grow squash and Tators but I am. I'd saturate the soil with H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) and watch the critters try to get out of that haha.
just curious, Would that not defeat the purpose of crop rotating?
Could BT be used against the roaches or some other natural agent? I probably would turn it in too before it is all broken down.