In the words of a famous man y'all just "Keep on Keeping on"!!! And of course "Life's a garden...Dig it"!!! To bad some folks have forgotten the saying " If you have nothing nice to say...SHUT UP"!! Y'all do a great job...and Thank you for letting us see some of y'all's hard work.✌ Love and peace from Arkansas.
Get another one of those "chiki lifts' and move them to the outside edge. Might help, and would certainly be more stable and easier to move. Pffff...did the smart alek with the bean comment give you any tips? Looks just fine for a cover crop...we ain't making tofu here. I was impressed with that balansa clover, didn't grow any warm covers this year, unless you count the weeds lol. I love that hortanova netting, I use it on everything that vines, sometimes I'll run some bailing wire across the top for extra support. I hear ya man...summertime in the deep south suks :) gg
Travis I know what you mean about the heat. My wife and I usually try to get out early as we can to do our gardening and by 10:30-11 we have "enjoyed" all of that heat we can handle. But your chickens and garden are looking good and healthy so that's what counts. Thanks for sharing. 👍
I used to have a dairy farmer as a neighbor. He used to plant Laredo soybeans for his cattle. He fertilized the fields every other year, when he planted corn in the rotation. The vines would grow head high. Deer would eat tunnels/trails through the foliage. He never cut the field edges so there were times when quail, doves, and turkeys would be feeding exclusively on the seed on into the Fall and Winter. Even if they were conventional beans I don't think there would be a problem as long as the chickens had foliage to eat as well. With your goal being soil building with the side benefit of feeding your chickens, you're doing the right thing by not fertilizing the cover crop. If your vines were much larger you might have trouble moving the tractor.
Wow... sorry you get such a ration of grief from some viewers. We are here to learn and share experiences - what worked and what didn’t - based on soil and growing conditions in different parts of the country. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 7:15 am, 8/13/2022.
No worries. We appreciate all the comments because they lead us to explain things in ways so that hopefully everyone understands the process and the goal.
When it's hot, best to just go to something else until evening time when it starts to cool off. I was wondering why you didn't do another plot of clover but you covered that pretty well in this video. 👍
Thanks Travis. Heat/humidity here in zone 10a is a bear too. Cooling off watching a Lazy Dog Farm TH-cam video in the glorious air-conditioning. Ha! Chuck in Jensen Beach, FL.
I'm just north of you in Vero and digging sweet potatoes yesterday was ROUGH! Hard to see looking down for the taters when I was pouring the sweat. I gotta get the rest of them out of the ground today as I understand several days of rain are coming in!
I definitely get the humidity at 10 o’clock here when it hit 100° with humidity. That being said the Little cover crop on my raised bed of sorghum grass has done fantastic cut it down with the weedeater a couple times. I sure hope we get some cool weather to actually get a cool weather crop of mustard in it may not even get cold enough here lol. Keep up the good work
Got some of my fall seeds started, I might have jumped the gun a little but I have back up seeds. I'm inclined to think we might actually have a fall season this year. I don't know anything about the black soy beans, but your right about the wild birds can eat it, so can the chickens. I do know if you throw dry peas or beans in the chicken yard and they eat them, there's a problem.
Glad I found your channel. I was wondering where you went. I kinda have a combination of you and Living Traditions Homestead type of gardening philosophy. Lots of fun.
I grew the King of Garden Lima Pole Bean last spring on a trellis just like yours and got a couple of harvests. Good producer with many growing on top of the trellis by the end of the summer. I was amazed at the size of the vines. They looked like they were about the size that Tarzan swung on. A pretty big task to remove them in the fall, but delicious and worthwhile.
Hello, so how's the loredo forage doing? Dallas Texas here, wanted to do white Dutch clover but those never survive our heat. Would like to try what your doing as well. Going to get 4 chickens for our backyard next year ❤ can't wait!
It did well for us again this year. We currently have cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and onions planted in that plot and they're doing great.
Good Morning from Northwest Arkansas! I have a question for you. I just planted Green Magic Broccoli seeds indoors, on August 10th and they sprouted nicely. I need to plant them in the ground around September 5-10 and I think I will need to "push" them a little bit with some MG. Question, at what point can I push them, and at what rate of application, thanks so much, so happy that your channel is growing nicely! Love the videos.
I'd start with putting a balanced (relatively equal parts N-P-K) fertilizer in the furrow at transplanting. Then you can usually start pushing them as soon as you see them start to grow as they've overcame their transplant shock. I'd mix a cup or two of MG in a 5 gallon bucket and pour it alongside the plants every couple weeks.
If you do mixtures of cover crops you never need to worry about if the chickens can or can’t eat it…if they have variety they will choose what they can eat
I dont know if I missed it or not, but have you reported on how your girls are laying and the quality of the eggs? I would think with all those good greens that those eggs gotta be super rich!
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Hey you show the folks how to grow in plots and I watch all videos But how about the folks that only can grow in raised beds and small places to grow.Could you make raised beds and do videos as a side project for those folks and show them how to grow. Thanks .Frank.
Yeah that's what I should have did to start with. Hard to work on it now that they're in there and I don't really have anywhere to put them so I could flip it on it's side and work on it.
Off topic question…I’m south of Atlanta in a rural county, an armadillo has decided it needs to till my ground for me. Beside a 22 rifle, how can I deter this unwelcome helper? You must have them in south GA.
Kathy, a .22 is always effective but TH-cam has a pretty good selection of videos on trapping armadillos. I've always had a sweet spot for armadillos, but I don't have to garden against them currently. Cortez and his army were the first to name them the armadillo (little armored one).
@@LazyDogFarm yeah, I don’t enjoy killing living beings but it’s not like they are endangered and I work hard in my garden, that thing tore all the non raised beds up in one night! It had the audacity to trot right by me at dusk the other evening, I was not prepared, but I’ll get him next time! If I trap and release it just becomes someone else’s problem!
Ya'll are dealing with armadillos, deer, feral hogs, possums and raccoons. Your typical Yanqui, like me, will only have the 'coons and deer but we can have them in spades. I'm sure I'd have murder in my heart to find one rooting up my garden.
Hey Travis not sure if you've heard of this happening before but my corn bolted has started to produce the tassels before the silks were made. I had to go out and catch the pollen in a bowl this way I can pollinate the silks myself. We were in a hot season and then suddenly it went cool because of the monsoon weather. Not sure if this temperature swing had anything to do with the corn producing tassels right away you have any ideas? Thank you for the videos Travis and any input on my situation. I live in Rio rancho New Mexico.
Trap these tassels were dumping all their pollen and there were no silks. I got my first three silk yesterday and when I go out and tap the corn to see if there's pollen left in the tassels there ain't much left in the morning and usually the morning is when I see most the pollen falling. I'm talking I have these tassels for a good three or four days dropping pollen before any silk started to show. You have any thoughts on what could be going on?
@sh. I've had the same problem..the tassels started months ago n still no silks..its been 3 months I finally gave up n pulled a few for the chickens...n Travis my chickens LOVE any beans
I believe I'll put my money on your soybean research. You've always seemed very sure-footed in your garden practices. I wish I could suggest how to modify the Chick Lift to accept a set of sand wheels in order to lift and spread out that point load. Six chickens could be easily confined in a temporary 6x6 hortinova enclosure long enough to do your customizing on the tractor.
We had issues last year getting the soybeans to germinate in the no till plot. They seem to germinate much better then the soil is fluffed with the tiller and the seeds are raked in deeper than we can do in the no-till plot.
My chickens are picky eaters. Won't eat raw green beans, kale, Swiss chard. Cucumbers peels only the seeds. They will eat most of them cooked. Spoiled??
I know you need to trellis but man that’s a mess of plastic for the landfill. I don’t wanna be that guy but something biodegradable would seem better for everyone
In the words of a famous man y'all just "Keep on Keeping on"!!! And of course "Life's a garden...Dig it"!!!
To bad some folks have forgotten the saying " If you have nothing nice to say...SHUT UP"!!
Y'all do a great job...and Thank you for letting us see some of y'all's hard work.✌
Love and peace from Arkansas.
Thanks Kim!
Get another one of those "chiki lifts' and move them to the outside edge. Might help, and would certainly be more stable and easier to move. Pffff...did the smart alek with the bean comment give you any tips? Looks just fine for a cover crop...we ain't making tofu here. I was impressed with that balansa clover, didn't grow any warm covers this year, unless you count the weeds lol. I love that hortanova netting, I use it on everything that vines, sometimes I'll run some bailing wire across the top for extra support. I hear ya man...summertime in the deep south suks :) gg
I saw a chick lift that had about a 6’ bar on it. Maybe that would help the problem
Balansa clover is definitely a winner!
I think that someone's ego would not let it register that you were not growing a crop to harvest.
Travis I know what you mean about the heat. My wife and I usually try to get out early as we can to do our gardening and by 10:30-11 we have "enjoyed" all of that heat we can handle. But your chickens and garden are looking good and healthy so that's what counts. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Gotta get it while you can and take a break when it gets too hot.
@@LazyDogFarm That's right. And that's when a well-chilled watermelon slice pays off. 😋
I used to have a dairy farmer as a neighbor. He used to plant Laredo soybeans for his cattle. He fertilized the fields every other year, when he planted corn in the rotation. The vines would grow head high. Deer would eat tunnels/trails through the foliage. He never cut the field edges so there were times when quail, doves, and turkeys would be feeding exclusively on the seed on into the Fall and Winter. Even if they were conventional beans I don't think there would be a problem as long as the chickens had foliage to eat as well.
With your goal being soil building with the side benefit of feeding your chickens, you're doing the right thing by not fertilizing the cover crop. If your vines were much larger you might have trouble moving the tractor.
Wow... sorry you get such a ration of grief from some viewers. We are here to learn and share experiences - what worked and what didn’t - based on soil and growing conditions in different parts of the country. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 7:15 am, 8/13/2022.
No worries. We appreciate all the comments because they lead us to explain things in ways so that hopefully everyone understands the process and the goal.
When it's hot, best to just go to something else until evening time when it starts to cool off. I was wondering why you didn't do another plot of clover but you covered that pretty well in this video. 👍
Thanks Travis. Heat/humidity here in zone 10a is a bear too. Cooling off watching a Lazy Dog Farm TH-cam video in the glorious air-conditioning. Ha! Chuck in Jensen Beach, FL.
I'm just north of you in Vero and digging sweet potatoes yesterday was ROUGH! Hard to see looking down for the taters when I was pouring the sweat. I gotta get the rest of them out of the ground today as I understand several days of rain are coming in!
Thanks Chuck!
I definitely get the humidity at 10 o’clock here when it hit 100° with humidity. That being said the Little cover crop on my raised bed of sorghum grass has done fantastic cut it down with the weedeater a couple times. I sure hope we get some cool weather to actually get a cool weather crop of mustard in it may not even get cold enough here lol. Keep up the good work
Nice that you're doing cover crops even on raised beds.
Soybeans is a legume, so they could be producing nitrogen nodules. So, they provide nitrogen for the following garden crop.
They will grow till frost they look good
Got some of my fall seeds started, I might have jumped the gun a little but I have back up seeds. I'm inclined to think we might actually have a fall season this year.
I don't know anything about the black soy beans, but your right about the wild birds can eat it, so can the chickens. I do know if you throw dry peas or beans in the chicken yard and they eat them, there's a problem.
I'm with you on thinking we may actually get a fall! I'm excited!
It’s so humid here in zone 10B Florida. In usually go out around 0800. By 0930 I’m spent and soaking wet. Great video as always.
Yep. Go through several shirts a day around here.
@@LazyDogFarm Several shirts and several showers too!!!
Travis watch the utube on blue def being used as fertilizer. I think it would be great for onions
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I would think that Def would be more expensive than just buying fertilizer?
Glad I found your channel.
I was wondering where you went.
I kinda have a combination of you and Living Traditions Homestead type of gardening philosophy.
Lots of fun.
Glad you found us too! Welcome!
Iam glad you addressed the soy issue. I think the beans look good and healthy. John S.
Get some gypsum. It will help with all your plots it is cheap and won't effect Ph.
It should resolve any calcium issues long term.
I grew the King of Garden Lima Pole Bean last spring on a trellis just like yours and got a couple of harvests. Good producer with many growing on top of the trellis by the end of the summer. I was amazed at the size of the vines. They looked like they were about the size that Tarzan swung on. A pretty big task to remove them in the fall, but delicious and worthwhile.
Good to know. We'll probably just let the frost kill them and hopefully they'll be a little easier to remove once they get crispy.
Hello, so how's the loredo forage doing? Dallas Texas here, wanted to do white Dutch clover but those never survive our heat. Would like to try what your doing as well. Going to get 4 chickens for our backyard next year ❤ can't wait!
It did well for us again this year. We currently have cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and onions planted in that plot and they're doing great.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you 👍
I only free range 14 chickens in my yard. I know when I had ducks they were good grass grazers too.❤🐔🦆
It's been hard not saying something about the chickens
Good Morning from Northwest Arkansas! I have a question for you. I just planted Green Magic Broccoli seeds indoors, on August 10th and they sprouted nicely. I need to plant them in the ground around September 5-10 and I think I will need to "push" them a little bit with some MG. Question, at what point can I push them, and at what rate of application, thanks so much, so happy that your channel is growing nicely! Love the videos.
I'd start with putting a balanced (relatively equal parts N-P-K) fertilizer in the furrow at transplanting. Then you can usually start pushing them as soon as you see them start to grow as they've overcame their transplant shock. I'd mix a cup or two of MG in a 5 gallon bucket and pour it alongside the plants every couple weeks.
I really like the setup for your beans !
Question does the taste of the EGGS CHANGE .with different cover crops?
I haven't really noticed any difference. The yolk color may be a little more orange with some cover crops.
Maybe run the lawnmower up high over it, and follow with the chicken tractor?
Your tip on the watermelon was spot on. I have never been able to pick a ripe one consistently. Thanks
Great to hear!
If you do mixtures of cover crops you never need to worry about if the chickens can or can’t eat it…if they have variety they will choose what they can eat
True. I love doing mixtures in the cooler months, but it's a little tougher to find good mixtures for the warm season for my purposes.
Update please on egg production from the chickens now they are a year old....?
Egg production is great. 5-6 eggs every day.
I dont know if I missed it or not, but have you reported on how your girls are laying and the quality of the eggs? I would think with all those good greens that those eggs gotta be super rich!
Egg production and quality is great. We consistently get 5-6 eggs per day.
THE ADD ON YOUR VIDEO WAS CALLED BEYOND MEAT, YOU TUBE DISQUESTS ME IN THEIR ADVERTIZING.
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Chicken Manure has a descent amount of calcium if they are still eating some feed right?
Yeah they still get a little feed.
Hey you show the folks how to grow in plots and I watch all videos But how about the folks that only can grow in raised beds and small places to grow.Could you make raised beds and do videos as a side project for those folks and show them how to grow. Thanks .Frank.
I'm working on something as far as raised beds go. I'm going to eventually convert an entire 30x35 plot to all raised beds.
@@LazyDogFarm Wow that would be a Plus to your channel can't wait. Love all you do. Frank.
Peanuts like boron and other micronutrients, maybe some fish liquid would pep them up.
How are the chickens? I’m new at chickens.
Chickens are great. They're happy with the wide variety of stuff they get to eat.
If you were nearby, I'd bring you a piece of angle iron that would add rigidity and not add much weight to the chicken hotel.
Yeah that's what I should have did to start with. Hard to work on it now that they're in there and I don't really have anywhere to put them so I could flip it on it's side and work on it.
@@LazyDogFarm If the angle iron is long enough you could probably run it around the entire triangle shape and only attach it on the two top sides.
Off topic question…I’m south of Atlanta in a rural county, an armadillo has decided it needs to till my ground for me. Beside a 22 rifle, how can I deter this unwelcome helper? You must have them in south GA.
Kathy, a .22 is always effective but TH-cam has a pretty good selection of videos on trapping armadillos. I've always had a sweet spot for armadillos, but I don't have to garden against them currently. Cortez and his army were the first to name them the armadillo (little armored one).
Have a Heart traps are a great live trap.
I'd opt for the lethal option. I got one with my 9 a few months ago. He was rooting around in our straw beds near the house.
@@LazyDogFarm yeah, I don’t enjoy killing living beings but it’s not like they are endangered and I work hard in my garden, that thing tore all the non raised beds up in one night!
It had the audacity to trot right by me at dusk the other evening, I was not prepared, but I’ll get him next time!
If I trap and release it just becomes someone else’s problem!
Ya'll are dealing with armadillos, deer, feral hogs, possums and raccoons. Your typical Yanqui, like me, will only have the 'coons and deer but we can have them in spades. I'm sure I'd have murder in my heart to find one rooting up my garden.
Hey Travis not sure if you've heard of this happening before but my corn bolted has started to produce the tassels before the silks were made. I had to go out and catch the pollen in a bowl this way I can pollinate the silks myself. We were in a hot season and then suddenly it went cool because of the monsoon weather. Not sure if this temperature swing had anything to do with the corn producing tassels right away you have any ideas? Thank you for the videos Travis and any input on my situation. I live in Rio rancho New Mexico.
The tassels always come before the silks. Not saying it can't happen, but I've never seen corn form tassels and not silks.
Trap these tassels were dumping all their pollen and there were no silks. I got my first three silk yesterday and when I go out and tap the corn to see if there's pollen left in the tassels there ain't much left in the morning and usually the morning is when I see most the pollen falling. I'm talking I have these tassels for a good three or four days dropping pollen before any silk started to show. You have any thoughts on what could be going on?
@sh. I've had the same problem..the tassels started months ago n still no silks..its been 3 months I finally gave up n pulled a few for the chickens...n Travis my chickens LOVE any beans
I believe I'll put my money on your soybean research. You've always seemed very sure-footed in your garden practices. I wish I could suggest how to modify the Chick Lift to accept a set of sand wheels in order to lift and spread out that point load. Six chickens could be easily confined in a temporary 6x6 hortinova enclosure long enough to do your customizing on the tractor.
Had I known I was going to use that Chick Lift, I would have built the back differently. But I didn't discover the chick lift until after the fact.
Do you harvest your chicken for ya to eat ??
We just eat the eggs, not the chickens.
Lol good video. You had issues with edamame on a previous video i believe. Wonder whats that about. Are those the same crop ?
We had issues last year getting the soybeans to germinate in the no till plot. They seem to germinate much better then the soil is fluffed with the tiller and the seeds are raked in deeper than we can do in the no-till plot.
@@LazyDogFarm your a beast. Love learning from ya. Thanks
My chickens are picky eaters. Won't eat raw green beans, kale, Swiss chard. Cucumbers peels only the seeds. They will eat most of them cooked. Spoiled??
Ours will destroy kale and cucumbers.
Leave it to decompose the earth will reclaim it and feed to animals that we really want to benefit for our garden.
Know what u mean. Mine won’t even eat watermelon🥴
I know you need to trellis but man that’s a mess of plastic for the landfill. I don’t wanna be that guy but something biodegradable would seem better for everyone
Yeah it's not the most ecological-friendly option out there. If there was one made of cotton string or jute, I'd definitely use it.
@@LazyDogFarm sure would think there’s something out there but I know I have some 5’x30’ but believe it’s nylon. Possibly a bit more biodegradable
@@LazyDogFarm actually I just found some jute from peaceful valley and coco fiber from am leanord. Kinda high priced but worth it I’d guess
How many eggs do the "girls" give you..
Usually get anywhere from 4-6 a day.
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Just don't feed your chickens hops. Those are really not good for birds.
Evidently Hops is not good for dogs either....poisonous I hear.
You should stop listening to people that don't know
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