How We Killed All the Weeds in Our Garden!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Weeds are one of the biggest sources of discouragement for backyard gardeners. But they don't have to be! There are lots of easy and simple techniques to reduce the weeds in your backyard garden and make growing your own food more enjoyable for the whole family!
Our simple system involves the use of cover crops, a chicken tractor, and tarps to reduce the presence of weed seeds in our soil and drastically reduce our weed pressure. Join us as we show you a prime example of this in our corn plot where the weed pressure is minimal even after not cultivating for over 3 weeks!
0:00 Intro
0:49 Did Our Sweet Corn Germinate?
3:33 Why Don't We Have Any Weeds in Our Garden?
3:59 Why Does Cover Cropping Work So Well?
6:33 Moving Our Chicken Tractor to a New Plot
8:24 Changing Our Plans for Our Pepper Plot
10:45 Harvesting Celery from Our Raised Bed Garden
13:14 Harvesting Collard Greens from Our Raised Bed Garden
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In SWFL, I was able to keep a few collard plants growing for 2 dang years! I kept harvesting everything but the new leaves. Finally tore it out when the dang thing was over 6 feet!
I'm just here for the watermelon ducks
I'm in zone 5b, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, and just discovered yesterday that my celery, spinach, and Swiss chard all seem to have survived the winter! The Swiss chard and celery may not grow into much, since they were more mature and looked like they got pretty beat up, but the spinach I had seeded at the end of Fall with some beets as a last-ditch effort for a harvest. So they're looking small but pretty darn healthy - I'm excited to already have a start on the garden seeing as we've had snow as recently as a couple days ago!
I had a good chuckle seeing the three ducks in the background. Minding their business walking across your corn field 😊😅
That is a beautiful bunch of celery.
This is my second year with celery and I’m pushing mine as well. It’s so much better than store bought.
Eating collards, turnips, kale and green onions up here in Vidalia,Ga
I didn’t know the sweeter corn likes warmer soil. Good info! Thank you! And I love your seed recommendations!
Beautiful celery! Grocery Store NOLA has green tomatoes for frying up, a mess of yellow wax beans and sweet peas that never make it to the freezer! Was able to plant mid-Jan with mild temps.
That celery is beautiful! So impressed. I will try some next year
My Taters recovered from the frost and I just fertilized yesterday. Thanks so much for the help. You rock!
I am learning so much from you! Thank you
Glad to see you go to double row. We've done it for decades here in the South where we can get three crops a year. Usually plant in February for our field varieties and late Feb or early March for the super sweets.
I've never grown celery because I find it tasteless when store baught.. you've changed my mind. I'm going to give it a try!
I grew it for the first time two years ago and didn't know about blanching it either. The flavor was so much better than store bought! I made cream of celery soup with alot of it and had it all winter that year. It was great. Last year, everything failed😒 I hope this year is better! I miss that soup!
I grow and harvest it to dry in dehydrator for celery powder wonderful to cook with.
1st time tuning in to your channel , and it won't be the last. I'm truly impressed the way you explain how to do it the right way, and what works for you. You talk at the perfect speed so everybody can understand, and your very thorough in covering all aspects of fundamental gardening. Now killing weeds is what got my attention , because my front ,and backyard is literally the garden of weeden.
Welcome to the channel Kevin!
not harvesting here in Ct. just snow peas are starting to grow. Now that April is here, I should be able to start the greens if we get a little more sunshine and a little less rain.
Thanks for the tips on the celery. I can't seem to get it to grow here. So I will add some your advice and hope for the best!
I’ve cut the celery a couple inches from the roots, leaving the roots in the ground, and the celery grew back.
I started corn indoors early in my New England season with great success. I started an early variety in tubes made from newspaper filled with starter mix/peat moss 60/40 mix (home mixed). I wrapped the 6 x 6 pieces of paper around a 1 inch dowel and put a small piece of tape on it to hold it. I packed the 6 inch deep, 1 inch diameter tubes in a 4 inch deep tray, filled the tubes with the mix in semi tight, poked a corn seed in, watered the tray and in just a few days some of the seeds started to sprouted in my basement. As soon as the tap root poked through the bottom of a few of the tubes I planted the first run of corn. It was early April here. I gave the plants time to reach knee height and I started another batch. I planted them between the first group of plants. When the first batch started to ripen I started a third batch. As the first run of plants stopped producing I pulled the stalks and planted the 3rd batch of plants. We were eating corn from late June through September. I also took a paper grocery bag and shook the pollen into the bag then used a paint brush to pollinate the silks. I'm guessing you could run 4 crops further south. Corn needs warm soil to sprout but it is generally a cold weather plant as part of the grass family. The plants grow and tolerate the cold of early spring and late fall. I used an early variety of corn that had 2-3 ears per stalk...some more.
That is very interesting info....thanks!
Glad I found and subscribed. Great video.
Welcome!
I enjoyed your celery tips. I will have to give that a try. I am enjoying carrots, lettuce, and bok choy from my garden.
My garden has lettuce and peas. In the garage under grow lights I have tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. I need to start my melons and squash. I’m in San Diego
BEAUTIFUL CELERY!! ❤️🙏
Thank you!
That celery looks fantastic. I'm not a successful celery grower.
First Rate Farmer Travis!
Great video, my backyard grocery store has turnips, collards, mustards, kohlrabi and lettuce ready to pick.
Livin it right 👍. I enjoy the videos✌️
That’s a nice looking celery!!
That is some beautiful celery for sure. I have been eating collards, hakurei turnips, radish, lettuce, spinach, mustard, kale. Fava beans starting to bloom as are english peas, so hope to have those soon as well.
6:17 it's only work if you don't enjoy doing it! 😁 Thanks for the content, keep it up you are inspiring!
Wow!! Sweet corn in April. Now that is awesome.
Great video and info. Thank you
Our pleasure!
your video's are very helpful to me, thank you
You are welcome!
Travis you could always plant a new corn seed in the holes if you had any seeds left.😊
Enjoy the nice Celery and Colards😊
Kale and collards are big at our grocery store in zone 7b VA. Your Kale and Potato soup recipe was a big hit last week, and it will be Collard greens and cornbread this weekend.
I heard about this man who had some watermelon ducks and I had to watch his video to see if I could see them and I did I did see the watermelon ducks.😂 Another great video I believe has a lot of good instruction to it lot of good advice very well laid-out video
Ohhh this will be my first time growing celery. 🤞🤞
I like your methods. I'm from Michigan . won't be planting till middle May for the most part.i have planted potatoes peas and onions garlic also my strawberries are up. But I'm just getting started. Goodluck with your garden
Thanks Daryl!
Keep going No Till brother, from a fellow farmer couple hundred miles or so north.
Beautiful celery Travis! My Russian kale plants survived the winter and are growing leaves now. Nothing else ready to eat in my garden yet in Zone 8b, Washington state.
HAHA ducks walkin by at 10 mins . funny little critters
For those people who haven't grown celery, they're missing out on that great flavor of unblanched celery.
Do a video on how you make your collards. Like ya did with the tomato sandwich.
Things are looking great Travis really beautiful celery. Something you can try with your cover crops I heard of from an agonist . Fertilize a couple of days before you terminate the crop and it will make it more nutrient dense for the next crop
Maybe you won't need to use a preplant fertilizer. John S.
That is some impressive celery.😮
My backyard grocery store is producing... Green onions, and not much else. My collards already bolted, and there's still some possibility of frost in the near future. I'll probably have mustard in another couple of weeks. I'm growing celeriac rather than celery, just to see how it works out, but I suspect the heat will get it well before it matures. I'll try a fall planting later in the year.
At least I'm not going to have to worry about weeds this year. I think the wind blew them all away today.
Very nice
In Thomasville area our corn is well along
May 11 And im eating corn....the farmers just have theirs at knee high..hehehe..i started mine inside...and planted large plants...yummy...but wish i knew the variety u are growing in 2023..
Travis my backyard grocery store is putting out loads of green beans, kale cabbage here in 9B
Early corn...I'm jealous. My 1st planting has not sprouted yet.
hey how about showing how you prepare those greens and cook that stuff up great video thank you for posting
My back yard grocery store is producing snow melt water - but not nearly enough.
I'm growing that baby corn for an Asian restaurant in my area. Variety is called Chires. Should be interesting.
Nice celery
Sweet corn in April? I've still got 30inches of snow in my garden. Zone 3A Northern MN.
Hi, Travis. Our garden is not yet producing anything. It lasted about 10 minutes and melted as soon as it hit the ground, but on 4/1/2023 (yes, April Fool’s Day), Olympia had some big snowflakes drop out of the sky - Mother Nature’s way of laughing at us. Our seedlings are still in pots, indoors, on shelves, and under grow grow lights. So much for us Northern Growers! 🥴 Best wishes, Kate
It's either your natural weed-be-gone program or black weed tarps After you feed & balance soil. Burning holes sure looks like alot of work to me but .. for some it's ideal if a bit pricey. Like your approach to low-cost but effective easy methods. Thx. 🍒 ...blaming Cats ..for shame! ..lol.🐅
Try your celery tops in a salad They are great. John Ness
Beautiful yummy groceries!! My celery grew beautiful dark green leaves but didn’t make stalks. I grew them in containers and am puzzled!!
They do take a long time.
Me: Hey Trav
Travis: Yea?
Me: Do you plan to plant cover crops in your raised bed garden containers? Thanks for the great videos as well as the AgroThrive discount.
Not sure yet. We haven't even had them a full year, so haven't gotten a good handle on my rotation with them yet.
10:04 feeding the ducks i see =)
Appreciate your well made and clear videos. You mentioned using "gin trash," so wanted to ask if you have any concerns about chemical residues (pesticides/herbicides and/or fertilizers) being in the gin trash? We have access to some at a gin nearby, but have been very hesitant to use it. Thanks in advance.....and "Woof" from an older Dawg
I don't have any worries because I've seen the chemical test on the stuff we got and I know it was well-composted. When they stick the loader into the huge pile of it, it's steaming. But if it's not well-composted, I would be worried.
I would advise you to burn that plot before you drop mulch for smothering
Someone actually told me you couldn't use the chicken tractor on grass because the chickens would die, they didn't have dirt! Can you believe that? I had to laugh! Just couldn't help myself! 😂😂😂
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I wonder if the no till plot would hold moisture better if you initially tilled the compost in then added some additional compost every year or two so there wasn’t just that deep layer of compost on top of native soil
It would. But the compost also "burns up" pretty quick when tilled into our sandy soil.
I still have to mulch my compost. The Florida sun will eat it up pretty quick. But it does best on top.
We’re just harvesting some Forest Gump right now (peas & carrots).
How exactly do you put your salary away if you don't blanch it?? Are you freeze drying it or what??
We weren't talking about blanching when preserving it. Some folks will cover their celery stalks with newspaper while still in the ground -- they call that blanching too. It makes the stalks have a lighter color and not as strong a celery flavor.
Next time put the lazy dog farm sunglasses on them Ducks for the photo-op 10:03
Do you have a video of how to set up drips system for corn.?
Here's the video we did when planting our corn plot: th-cam.com/video/H43xusCgq1I/w-d-xo.html
Hi! What do y’all spray your squash plants with? I’m going to try old Alabama gardner aluminum foil wrap this year and maybe sticky traps at base of plants this year. Don’t have large enough space for melon trap crop but heard that cucumbers deflect squash bugs. Any truth to that on your end? Not a huge cuke fan so never grown them. Thanks!
We use this stuff: amzn.to/3U1USfo
You can cook the leaves too and make celery salt
I always wondered how celery salt was made.
What variety celery are you growing here in the deep south. I'd love to grow it. Appreciate all your videos.
This variety is called "Utah Tall." It has done well for us the last two years.
Add grapes to your chicken salad too!
Those watermelon ducks stole the show
Can you do a cover crop on raised beds? Will love to see you do this.
Yes. I did clover on mine and then weedwacked it down and covered with a tarp... HUGE Okra after that!
I'm a small veggie grower. I grow small amounts of cover crops behind and beside my compost heaps. I chop and drop in my compost when I'm running low on greens plus chop a few for my 2 year old food forest. You don't have to grow acres, just small amounts here and there. Grow a handful near your perennials or longer to harvest vegetables. Works great. And there are some for all seasons.
Great video as usual. Are you sure you mean corn by the end of April? As you know, it usually takes about 20-21 days once it's pollinated.
Yeah my math was off there. I meant by the end of May.
@@LazyDogFarm That's ok, I'm sure that's the first mistake you've ever made...
Where did you get your celery seeds please? The seeds I have wont germinate, Ive tried every trick I know. I love celery and want to grow it. Please help!! Love all your videos.
I think we got ours from Harris Seeds. The variety is called Utah Tall.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you bunches
Don't forget the cornbread. 😀
My elephant garlic leaves are turning yellow. What should I add to get them good and green? Iv put the nature safe 13-0-0 on them a few times and but a more balanced fertilizer on them once.
If they don't have too much water, I'd fertilize them again. They like a lot of nutrients.
@@LazyDogFarm it has rained a lot here in SC this spring. I hit them again with fertilizer as well.
You can regrow Celery. Number of YT videos showing how to do.
I’m growing celery for the first time this year Trav.
Did you name your pet ducks yet?
They're not ours, but the neighbor who owns them did tell us their names at one point. She could tell them apart, but I can't. She did say the leader of the group is named Richard. He's the biggest one.
What about nutsedge? That stuff keeps coming back every year
It can be tough. We used to have alot of it. You have to just aggravate it to death via frequent, shallow cultivation and it will eventually go away.
Hand digging it up 😤
I am in Moultrie. We do a small amount of gardening. Our main issue is weeds, crab grass, hog weed and so much more. Can't find anything that works. Help
The tarp and till technique works very well. Till the area, tarp it for a few weeks, pull back the tarp, water, till, put the tarp back on and keep repeating until all signs of weeds are gone.
I'm in s. La... is it too late to plant collards or celery?
Yes. Wait until the fall.
I have grown McCormack blue field corn. It's supposed to be bred from white Hickory King and an unnamed blue variety. My guess is that the unnamed variety is Ohio Blue Clarage. My chickens don't like anything but white corn kernels. I think they would starve before they ate a red kernel.
What happened with you and the hoss channel? Good to find you again.
I resigned back in early 2021 and started this channel shortly after.
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give it time, i tilled up an area that i shouldve just waited on. i turned up sprouts.😥
Wow. 45 day corn? What variety is that?
I misspoke. Meant to say May. I think the maturity date on this Eden variety is around 60 days or so.
Where can I buy Nature Safe Fertilizer 13-0-0
It's not easy to find. I'd recommend going to their website and contacting the closest sales rep to try and find a dealer near you.
What kind of corn did you plant?
We planted a variety called Eden.
If you use copper wire as in electroculture it will triple your production. You tube 💞
What exactly did you do except move chickens around? Sorry it is not clear to a new viewer, something about the chicken tractor (easy) and then you mention tarp or no? You plant a cover crop first over the weeds and then bring in the chickens when it is a certain height? And is there a tarp in there somewhere? It seems this video relies on a previous video? The section titles don't really match the answers either. But I would like to know! And your content seems intriguing if I could understand with clarity your process.
We planted a cover crop in October. Once the cover crop was about 2' tall, we put the chicken tractor on the plot and moved them every single day. We let them make three rounds on the plot. Then we mowed the plot close and put a tarp on it for about a month and a half. We pulled back the tarp and used the wheel hoe to break up some of the organic debris and then we were pretty much ready to plant.
Corn at the end of April??? Don't you mean the end of May?
Yeah that's what I meant.
Wait .... why are there only three ducks ???
Two of them got hit by a truck last year.
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We're the geese eating your corn?
No they just walk around in there. They do like eating the cover crops though.
At 9:45 your talking about how in a drought it's too dry......WTH bruh?? You usually put down irrigation tape any how And that soil is blacker than my hair to boot! What are you worried about my brother?????
Believe it or not, our sandy soil can make it tough even with drip irrigation. If we go a month or more without rain and there's no ground moisture, it can make it tough.
april?
I meant May.
It isn’t rocket surgery
Get to the GD point!
I have celery jealousy.