Usually for corn the rule to remember is there needs to be at least 3 rows. 1 row per foot and corn 6-12 inches apart depending on variety. The three rows is essential for pollination as well as support… you may find better luck planting this way. In home gardens its also recommended to block plant corn with the smallest block being 3x3 feet. Some places ive read is 4 by 4 ft.
We live about 45 minutes from Baker Creek after having moved to Missouri 3 months ago. We visited them last weekend during one of their summer festivals. We enjoyed their tours and bought a lot of seed packages for next year. The most exciting thing was to get their seed catalog!
The garden is looking great. One thing that we do whith our squash, zucchini and okra is bread it like you are going to fry it . Then lay it out on a cookie sheet and put it in the freezer till it gets frozen then you can put it in freezer bags. It stays good for a long time. When you go to fry it make the oil hot and throw it it still frozen. It works great for us
On that cabbage...my mom would be out there picking up all those dark leaves you left behind...she ✂️ cuts and trims out the tuff veins on the dark leaves and cooks them in with the cabbage head...she says the dark leaves are where the nutrition is.👍✌🥬
Me and my family love watching you and your amazing wife, your an amazing couple who suit each other so much. What a amazing life you lead. God bless you both
Found your channel due to Just a Few Acres. Catching up on all your videos. One herb to try are chives in place of the onion greens. Will come back every year and give the onion flavor.
If you plant your corn in blocks instead of single row they pollinate better. And if you have a local bee keeper that you can reach out to about a hive on your property that will not only help your orchard but also your garden. Plus you get fresh honey out of the deal.
we (my cousin & me)have 3 gardens we have ben tending this year one is a acre or better potatoes n corn tomatoes,peppers and beans some other stuff at the farm then we we have one at our houses with more tomatoes potatoes cucumbers n beans pepers ext ext but we have had to water for 2-3 weeks now & man you talking about a job ..packing 5gal buckets of water & pumping it from a pond n stuff an i say that much Hard Work is enough to kill a feller about it..+ all the other farm stuff + a full time job..shew but it has got to be done..it is dryer than i have seen it around here ! the ground is just dust an dont hardly take water it just runs of before it can take it..
love the property. the colors, the space, the silence, excellent job on choosing such a life. wish we would have properties like this here in germany..
As for the water pump from the pond , be careful as to the bacteria from wild life on your food crops .If you filter it so not to plug up the drip system you should be okay , but overhead sprinklers ?
They say that because of the way corn is wind pollenated, a "square" or rectangle is better than a row, because no matter which way the wind blows pollen can drift to the female parts. I'm trying corn first time this year, 90 plants so far uneven germination per hole (2 seeds per hole), went back with more seed as well for the empty spots.
I have done the corn and bean trick for years always worked for me (except the critters get them first). I have learned to do the rows north to south so the corn blocks the sun less.
Thanks for the garden and orchard tour. Both areas are awesome. The garden is so clean. The weather here in Central Alabama is so hot and humid, until my small garden is barely thriving. Your animal was really enjoying the fresh greens you gave them. Thanks for touring for us. You and Rebecca hard work will be paying off soon. Love your videos. Will be watching the pond irrigation video. Take care the both of you.
I have found that shade cloth can really help keep broccoli from bolting in hot weather. It's easier when you plant all of your brassicas together in a double row or block, so you can cover it all with the cloth. I also use insect netting to keep the bugs off. Insect netting on as soon as you plant them out, the add the shade cloth right on top of the insect net!
Great garden and orchard tour. You will be eating like a king with all those healthy plants. I grew up on a farm with a big garden and didn't realize at the time what a great resource it was. Sure wish we had it now.
Thank you!! Your garden is looking good 👍 I have heard that if you plant your corn in more like a square configuration you will get better pollination. Like 4 X 4 or 6 X 6...you get the idea. Also,.potatoes hate the heat so even if they are determinate potatoes, they need to be hilled or protected from the heat 😁 Thanks for listening and getting us a garden tour. Now it's time for ALL of the animals 😂 Billy goats included
looking good.. if you can all your tomatoes as sauce.. you can then turn them into spaghetti sauce, marinara, salsa, catchup etc etc.. makes it more versatile and your not stuck with extra jars of things you use left often
Such a nice harvest! I grew Rutgers last year; they made some delicious tomato sandwiches. Last year I discovered cucumber lemonade and cucumber mango salsa so I decided to grow cukes for the first time this year. Your orchard is amazing already! I remember when you planted them. Using your nutrient rich pond water will cause a garden explosion.. in a good way!😊
Great idea Ethan using the flame thrower to cut holes. You might want to think about putting on some long pants though or you might become part of the :"Herd". LOL
I had a lot of trouble with birds pulling the corn shoots to get the kernel on the bottom. Solved the problem by buying 36" rolls of chicken wire and used a hacksaw to cut it in half into 18" rolls. After planting the corn, I rolled out the chicken wire over the rows and stanked each end to keep it from rolling up. No more bird problem. I concluded the birds did not want to walk on the chicken wire for fear of getting their feet entangled.
I freeze my corn on the cob but I do it by first bringing the water to a boil first and then picking and shucking the corn, blanch for 6 minutes, into ice water for 6 minutes, vacuum sealing 4 ears to a bag, and then freezing. Comes out like just picked when heated in microwave to al dente.
I chop up my onions and freeze them. I find that by chopping them up, all at once, I use them more often because I hate chopping onions. Plus, I don't always need a whole onion, this way, I use what I need and the rest is still good.
Nice garden, I like the raised beds they look great where you have put down the plastic and where you have mulched. For your corn you might try planting in squares, so it is easier to pollinate themselves and stagger the time you plant so the corn ripens later in the summer for each square for fresh corn all summer long. The way we did it we also planted squash or watermelon in the center, their leaves are huge and reduce weeds in your corn patches. I have never seen the hornet nests you put up before what a great idea. At the end of summer, you can use them for Chinese lanterns.
Thanks Evan and Rebecca for sharing this garden video with us, you are going to have quite a harvest this year. Looking forward to seeing the cellar shelves filled for winter and beyond. Stay safe and hopefully those fake hornets nests will work for you, catch you in the next video. Fred.
Great garden . Looks really nice. The blue Hubbard squash they are good keeper put them a cool dry place for storage. . If you. Want worm free corn withe no spray. Use mineral oil. After the silk comes on put two small drops of oil on each. More than that you hurt the ear. We used a small oil can that just puts a small drip out . The kills the moth egg . Great video.
If I ever manage to get hold of some land I think Ill go for something similar with your sloped raised garden bed very nice. here in Australia we have the option to use similar material to Water tanks so thats another option.
That’s a good idea Even I wish I could do something like to water 💧 my hay fields the garden looks really good I would use it for the garden to if you did that you would have a lot of grass for cows 🐄 enjoyed the video you going to some cows in time?
Hi Evan, try making goulash with your canned tomatoes. I use beefsteak, Red duece, big boy, jet star tomatoes that I can. I made 40 quarts last summer. Plus 21 quarts of dill pickles. I take a medium onion, one pepper a pound of more of beef
Green beans will give nitrogen… not sure it will help with pollination… I’d just taken a tassel and pollinate them by hand when silks come out… when silks turn brown it’s pollinated … if white silks keep coming pollinate by hand again
Great video, Evan.. You and Rebecca have done a ton of work...Started laughing.....'Rebecca does LOVE her brocolli and cauliflower'....Videos keep getting better and better....Nice...JK
All looking well I'm looking forward to seeing how you going to do the pawn irrigation system. I'm sure that's going to be one of your highest viewed videos before you even make
Great tour Evan. Good content. Great job about pond irrigation. Red potatoes are my favorite. Thanks for bringing us up to speed on your wonderful homestead. Hi to Rebekah for us.
Evan we have used a brown paper bag to emulate a hornets nest. I use them under my shelter to keep the carpenters bees away. I bet it would work in the orchard.
from what i was told when i was very little our back yard had all fruit and nut trees, my father had them taken out, now that i own the place i wish they were still there. assuming they would still be good.
I know it sounds weird but even if you don't have enough pressure from 1 spigot to run 2 sprinklers you may have enough if you connect to a separate spigot. You might have the pressure, just not the flow to support 2 from 1 spigot.
I'd skip the pond irrigation and harvest rainwater from your animal barn roof for the pasture and animals. Then for your orchard and garden your house and new pole barn roofs because it will be definitely cleaner than pond water.
That would be a lot of water to store. I run the garden sprinkler 2 hours a day when it is dry. 4 gallons a minute. 480 gallons a day 3360 gallons a week. So when it doesn't rain for 2 weeks. I would have to have 6720 gallons of rain water stored just for the garden. A 5000 gallon water tank is $4400 at tank depot. The pond will be the more cost effective method.
@@CountryViewAcres Obviously you can do what you want. It was just with past issues with pond scum,run off from your converted hayfield from years of fertilizer/pesticide use. I wouldn't even consider using it for animals or vegetable gardens. Many things can be used for holding tanks- like IBC totes etc.
why don't you build an old fashioned root cellar to store your potatoes and Hubbard squash. We had one and it worked great but you need to keep the mice out of the root cellar. We put in a black snake to keep the mice out.
I love your garden set up, including berries and orchard. What are you using for landscape fabric on top? Where do you get it? And how much does it cost? Do you get multiple years of use from it or do you replace it every year?
Watch for Greens, early this fall at places like Wal Mart or Lowe's for Greens, plants. Greens actually do better in the fall month, maybe right up until Christmas time. My opinion.
Usually for corn the rule to remember is there needs to be at least 3 rows. 1 row per foot and corn 6-12 inches apart depending on variety. The three rows is essential for pollination as well as support… you may find better luck planting this way. In home gardens its also recommended to block plant corn with the smallest block being 3x3 feet. Some places ive read is 4 by 4 ft.
We live about 45 minutes from Baker Creek after having moved to Missouri 3 months ago. We visited them last weekend during one of their summer festivals. We enjoyed their tours and bought a lot of seed packages for next year. The most exciting thing was to get their seed catalog!
The garden is looking great. One thing that we do whith our squash, zucchini and okra is bread it like you are going to fry it . Then lay it out on a cookie sheet and put it in the freezer till it gets frozen then you can put it in freezer bags. It stays good for a long time. When you go to fry it make the oil hot and throw it it still frozen. It works great for us
On that cabbage...my mom would be out there picking up all those dark leaves you left behind...she ✂️ cuts and trims out the tuff veins on the dark leaves and cooks them in with the cabbage head...she says the dark leaves are where the nutrition is.👍✌🥬
Me and my family love watching you and your amazing wife, your an amazing couple who suit each other so much. What a amazing life you lead. God bless you both
Found your channel due to Just a Few Acres. Catching up on all your videos. One herb to try are chives in place of the onion greens. Will come back every year and give the onion flavor.
If you plant your corn in blocks instead of single row they pollinate better. And if you have a local bee keeper that you can reach out to about a hive on your property that will not only help your orchard but also your garden. Plus you get fresh honey out of the deal.
Your potatoes bed use sheep manure & horse manure and u get big big spuds I use them two manures and bit of water.
we (my cousin & me)have 3 gardens we have ben tending this year one is a acre or better potatoes n corn tomatoes,peppers and beans some other stuff at the farm then we we have one at our houses with more tomatoes potatoes cucumbers n beans pepers ext ext but we have had to water for 2-3 weeks now & man you talking about a job ..packing 5gal buckets of water & pumping it from a pond n stuff an i say that much Hard Work is enough to kill a feller about it..+ all the other farm stuff + a full time job..shew but it has got to be done..it is dryer than i have seen it around here ! the ground is just dust an dont hardly take water it just runs of before it can take it..
Thank you
love the property. the colors, the space, the silence, excellent job on choosing such a life.
wish we would have properties like this here in germany..
Hey 👋 Evan and Rebecca the Garden is looking great it's so clean. Love apples and peaches and strawberries are my favorite.👌💕💕💕
As for the water pump from the pond , be careful as to the bacteria from wild life on your food crops .If you filter it so not to plug up the drip system you should be okay , but overhead sprinklers ?
Beautiful cabbages, turnips, romaine
The animals are happy campers.
It takes 27,156 gallons of water per acre to equal a 1 inch rainfall. If you are going to water the hayfield, that would be a lot of watering to do.
Those animals sure look happy 😊
Nice harvest!
That is a beautifully huge garden, well done !!!
They say that because of the way corn is wind pollenated, a "square" or rectangle is better than a row, because no matter which way the wind blows pollen can drift to the female parts. I'm trying corn first time this year, 90 plants so far uneven germination per hole (2 seeds per hole), went back with more seed as well for the empty spots.
Great Garden, and I love cabbage anyway you fix it
The goats call out for their Caabbegge. They know what they like.
and pigs
I have done the corn and bean trick for years always worked for me (except the critters get them first). I have learned to do the rows north to south so the corn blocks the sun less.
Thanks for the garden and orchard tour. Both areas are awesome. The garden is so clean. The weather here in Central Alabama is so hot and humid, until my small garden is barely thriving. Your animal was really enjoying the fresh greens you gave them. Thanks for touring for us. You and Rebecca hard work will be paying off soon. Love your videos. Will be watching the pond irrigation video. Take care the both of you.
What a beautiful garden! 😍
Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻
I use two cans of tomatoes. Best goulash when you use your own canned tomatoes.
You should grow corn in 4 equal rows for best harvest.
Great video, your camera work is professional and clean.
I have found that shade cloth can really help keep broccoli from bolting in hot weather. It's easier when you plant all of your brassicas together in a double row or block, so you can cover it all with the cloth. I also use insect netting to keep the bugs off. Insect netting on as soon as you plant them out, the add the shade cloth right on top of the insect net!
Great garden and orchard tour. You will be eating like a king with all those healthy plants. I grew up on a farm with a big garden and didn't realize at the time what a great resource it was. Sure wish we had it now.
Thanks for the tour. The garden is looking terrific. Those cabbages were huge. Y'all have a Blessed day.
You might benefit from a freeze dryer. They aren’t cheap, but they really preserve your harvest.
Thank you!! Your garden is looking good 👍 I have heard that if you plant your corn in more like a square configuration you will get better pollination. Like 4 X 4 or 6 X 6...you get the idea. Also,.potatoes hate the heat so even if they are determinate potatoes, they need to be hilled or protected from the heat 😁 Thanks for listening and getting us a garden tour. Now it's time for ALL of the animals 😂 Billy goats included
Your garden is looking wonderful.
Evan please get that cowboy hat on bud!
looking good.. if you can all your tomatoes as sauce.. you can then turn them into spaghetti sauce, marinara, salsa, catchup etc etc.. makes it more versatile and your not stuck with extra jars of things you use left often
Love your videos ❤️ keep doing what you’re doing.
So inspiring 🥹
Such a nice harvest! I grew Rutgers last year; they made some delicious tomato sandwiches. Last year I discovered cucumber lemonade and cucumber mango salsa so I decided to grow cukes for the first time this year. Your orchard is amazing already! I remember when you planted them. Using your nutrient rich pond water will cause a garden explosion.. in a good way!😊
after you cut your cabbage cut an X into the stalk this will give you a second crop of nice sweet cabbage
Great idea Ethan using the flame thrower to cut holes. You might want to think about putting on some long pants though or you might become part of the :"Herd". LOL
Your garden and orchard look fantastic. Love watching. God bless❤
I had a lot of trouble with birds pulling the corn shoots to get the kernel on the bottom. Solved the problem by buying 36" rolls of chicken wire and used a hacksaw to cut it in half into 18" rolls. After planting the corn, I rolled out the chicken wire over the rows and stanked each end to keep it from rolling up. No more bird problem. I concluded the birds did not want to walk on the chicken wire for fear of getting their feet entangled.
It’s all looking great
I freeze my corn on the cob but I do it by first bringing the water to a boil first and then picking and shucking the corn, blanch for 6 minutes, into ice water for 6 minutes, vacuum sealing 4 ears to a bag, and then freezing. Comes out like just picked when heated in microwave to al dente.
Your garden and orchards are looking beautiful. Keep up the good work. 😊
I chop up my onions and freeze them. I find that by chopping them up, all at once, I use them more often because I hate chopping onions. Plus, I don't always need a whole onion, this way, I use what I need and the rest is still good.
The garden is look great
Maybe buy an old fire truck that has a water tank, you can take it on your pasture land easily then. Great garden
Very good video.
Very good video.
Your garden looks amazing! Great job guys! 😍👍🍓
Nice garden, I like the raised beds they look great where you have put down the plastic and where you have mulched. For your corn you might try planting in squares, so it is easier to pollinate themselves and stagger the time you plant so the corn ripens later in the summer for each square for fresh corn all summer long. The way we did it we also planted squash or watermelon in the center, their leaves are huge and reduce weeds in your corn patches. I have never seen the hornet nests you put up before what a great idea. At the end of summer, you can use them for Chinese lanterns.
Nice garden
Awesome video.Thank you Evan and Rebecca and family hope the children are all well and happy.
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Thanks Evan and Rebecca for sharing this garden video with us, you are going to have quite a harvest this year. Looking forward to seeing the cellar shelves filled for winter and beyond. Stay safe and hopefully those fake hornets nests will work for you, catch you in the next video. Fred.
Great garden . Looks really nice. The blue Hubbard squash they are good keeper put them a cool dry place for storage. . If you. Want worm free corn withe no spray. Use mineral oil. After the silk comes on put two small drops of oil on each. More than that you hurt the ear. We used a small oil can that just puts a small drip out . The kills the moth egg . Great video.
If I ever manage to get hold of some land I think Ill go for something similar with your sloped raised garden bed very nice. here in Australia we have the option to use similar material to Water tanks so thats another option.
That’s a good idea Even I wish I could do something like to water 💧 my hay fields the garden looks really good I would use it for the garden to if you did that you would have a lot of grass for cows 🐄 enjoyed the video you going to some cows in time?
Hope your Hubbard squash makes. It is my favorite of all squashes but haven't seen it in the stores for years.
If you plant corn in a triangle formation 8" apart they will do just fine.
The garden and fruit trees are looking good and you should have a good harvest!
Garden looks great. You’re right about corn. You need multiple rows to get good pollination.
I’m with you on dehydrated fruit. It’s the only way in my book. Perfect work snack
Hi Evan, try making goulash with your canned tomatoes. I use beefsteak, Red duece, big boy, jet star tomatoes that I can. I made 40 quarts last summer. Plus 21 quarts of dill pickles. I take a medium onion, one pepper a pound of more of beef
Green beans will give nitrogen… not sure it will help with pollination… I’d just taken a tassel and pollinate them by hand when silks come out… when silks turn brown it’s pollinated … if white silks keep coming pollinate by hand again
Nice garden!
Grow potatoes in bales of straw.
Such a fabulous garden! Well done for the two of you putting in all the work to get such great results!
Where is the polk salad ? Good that the 2 of you have green thumbs .
Love what you guys do. Thank you for the tour!!
That was a great video.
Looking real good.
Try using straw bales for the potatoes
Like your videos. I seen where you didn't plant sweet peas an carrots , watermelon , canalop
I add carrot seeds but didn't get them planted. We usually raised pumpkins, but we still have plenty of pumpkin puree.
Great video, Evan.. You and Rebecca have done a ton of work...Started laughing.....'Rebecca does LOVE her brocolli and cauliflower'....Videos keep getting better and better....Nice...JK
All looking well I'm looking forward to seeing how you going to do the pawn irrigation system. I'm sure that's going to be one of your highest viewed videos before you even make
Evan .. blackberries, blueberries but no raspberries ?? Garden looks great !
WOW you have a wonderful garden with MANY varieties of plants .Thanks for the tour 👍 ❤️
Great job. Please share your process on pond irrigation system. I’m looking to install one on my pond.
Nice harvest!
Great tour Evan. Good content. Great job about pond irrigation. Red potatoes are my favorite. Thanks for bringing us up to speed on your wonderful homestead. Hi to Rebekah for us.
...the livestock is eating well...lol...good one keep safe...
Evan we have used a brown paper bag to emulate a hornets nest. I use them under my shelter to keep the carpenters bees away. I bet it would work in the orchard.
You should start grapes for wine !
Hope you have a great harvest!
The garden is looking nice!!
plant your sweet corn in a block so the wind can cross pollinate
Your orchard and garden are beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Look at Cog hill farms they are trellis there black berries! Looks great! Hello Rebekah!
Cool video
from what i was told when i was very little our back yard had all fruit and nut trees, my father had them taken out, now that i own the place i wish they were still there. assuming they would still be good.
I know it sounds weird but even if you don't have enough pressure from 1 spigot to run 2 sprinklers you may have enough if you connect to a separate spigot. You might have the pressure, just not the flow to support 2 from 1 spigot.
Beautiful garden
Fyi on the pond water- it may make everything smell like fish. My hubby wont let me use our pond water on the houseplants for that reason
I'd skip the pond irrigation and harvest rainwater from your animal barn roof for the pasture and animals. Then for your orchard and garden your house and new pole barn roofs because it will be definitely cleaner than pond water.
That would be a lot of water to store.
I run the garden sprinkler 2 hours a day when it is dry. 4 gallons a minute. 480 gallons a day 3360 gallons a week. So when it doesn't rain for 2 weeks. I would have to have 6720 gallons of rain water stored just for the garden. A 5000 gallon water tank is $4400 at tank depot. The pond will be the more cost effective method.
@@CountryViewAcres Obviously you can do what you want. It was just with past issues with pond scum,run off from your converted hayfield from years of fertilizer/pesticide use. I wouldn't even consider using it for animals or vegetable gardens. Many things can be used for holding tanks- like IBC totes etc.
Stake your Brussels spouts mine got 6 feet tall last year!!! Your garden looks great!!!
Run multi sprinklers off your pressure washer...
why don't you build an old fashioned root cellar to store your potatoes and Hubbard squash. We had one and it worked great but you need to keep the mice out of the root cellar. We put in a black snake to keep the mice out.
What state do y'all live in? Can u plz do a video on how you can, dry, freeze and store your vegetables.
I love your garden set up, including berries and orchard. What are you using for landscape fabric on top? Where do you get it? And how much does it cost? Do you get multiple years of use from it or do you replace it every year?
Watch for Greens, early this fall at places like Wal Mart or Lowe's for Greens, plants. Greens actually do better in the fall month, maybe right up until Christmas time. My opinion.