Skip to 15:58 for the weed tip. I got this tip from Living Traditions Homestead, you can check them out here (they also have a coupon code if you want to order the ground covering): th-cam.com/video/M1jwgVa1l3Y/w-d-xo.html
Yeah! They got the WIDE stuff this year! We're still a few months away from having a good garden. Did one a few years ago and yeah, the weeds just made it unbearable. And then we had other ranch projects to deal with. I hope your garden does great this year! Looking forward to seeing how it progresses!
You are making much more work for yourself, imo. It's a lot less work & cost to just mulch the whole garden with compost & uncomposted wood chips between the rows. In the winter, just cover the growing beds with composted wood chips, too!
Your garden looks great! I bought a double wheel hoe last year from Hoss Tools and it takes all that time hoeing out of the equation too. Check them out if you haven’t already they’re in your neck of the woods in Georgia. My garden is about 12,000 sqft and I can weed the whole thing in about half an hour with my wheel hoe and a 12” oscillating hoe. One thing that might also help you is put drip tape under your weed fabric. It will keep the water in the root zone and you won’t be irrigating between the rows and encouraging weeds to grow. I’m glad you are sharing your garden this year. I’m looking forward to seeing throw it progresses through the season. Good luck!
I have the same Craftsman tiller, I had the same trouble keeping up with weeds and I too have started using the weed fabric this year. Game changer! Funny, I also got the idea from Living Traditions. Nice Job!
Amazed that people can dig a hole and not hit any rocks. I could build a rock wall when I dig holes! I would put the weed cloth in between the rows. I have been told that the woven weed cloth allowed water to penetrate to the soil. I am going to use it next year, hopefully on a new property.
You can buy landscape fabric which blocks weeds and lets water flow through freely. I use it in my flower gardens with great results. As for hilling corn, I use a hiller attachment with my Troy-Bilt tiller and run it down between the rows. It not only hills the dirt around the corn but also buries all the weeds at the same time. 10 minutes to hill and weed ten 120 foot rows of corn.
you spray vinegar between those rows (careful not to get it on your veggies) and you'll be rid of weeds for good. i did it so i know it works but it kills everything so only spray the weeds
We have been gardening for over 40 years in several different areas of the U.S. We use the Grower's Solution ground cover. We cover the rows and the walkways. We use soaker hoses on top of the ground cover. After the newness wears off of the ground cover it becomes more permeable and allows the water to pass through more readily. We had our best garden and harvests since using the ground cover and with lots less work. Added bonus: It sounds really neat when it rains on the ground cover. Blessings on your garden from west Texas
You guys are doing a great job! When i was a kid we had a large garden and we worked in it a great deal they are a lot of work. keep it up.. I have that mat under my bee hives with much on top which makes it easy to pull up the few weeds that come up.
suggestion: take your angle grinder and remove about half in. from the chopping edge. Then taper off the upper roundy parts. Then grind all 3 cutting edges really sharp. It makes the hoe much more controllable and easier to use.
Love the garden, no bad comment from me about the cover, weeding and staying on top of it is a huge task. I have green cut worms. It is always something you have to stay ahead of when gardening.
Before I was like you guys, every year enthusiastic about planting veggie food, then the all kinds of weeds start to grow and grow and it becomes difficult to see where my tomatoes are, and surprise surprise my enthusiasm wanes. However for the last few seasons I have used sheet mulching (or even plastic sheeting) to keep those invasive weeds at bay. Then there are our 'friends', snails and slugs, a while ago I planted out a whole load of butternut & red kuri squash seedling plants, it wasn't long before quite a number had been devoured!!! Good luck with your garden, looks like you've got it well fenced in against deer etc.
Living Traditions did something different this year. The weed fabric they used is 15' wide and cut off at 50' long. They covered their entire 50' x 70' garden. They have no weeds in between the rows either.
Good luck. We like putting the corn on a BBQ Pit with the husk still on after soaking it in water. It steams the corn and you still get a smoky flavor.
Had all these issues in past years in NE Florida. The chopped corn blades on mine were grasshoppers...had the miserable racoon vandalism too! We trapped several and relocated the guilty, but their cousins seemed to know exactly when it was time to replenish the front line troops. We even planted an extra 3% just for the raccoons, but they wanted more. We mostly gave up, but I like your electric wire solution. I'll have to cut back all the trees that have closed in on the border fence, but the prospect of a coonless corn patch makes it worth the try!!! We had outrageous success with corn in the kitchen garden. Used no-till and no-thin planting...had 8'-10' stalks with near 100% pollination. The seeds were simply laid out in a furrow, 1-2" spacing!!! That seems wrong, but I was following advice of another gardener, and bam! One fine corn crop. Had to switch back to the field garden for corn...then got tired of fighting the raccoons and started chickens on that ground.
Dude. The classic Tonka dump truck. We had some that my great grandma bought. So my grandma, my mom, me, and my own kids all played with those old trucks.
Mice n voles moved in under my mats n they ate the plants underneath n they feel over.i use steel fence post n I drive down the row w the tractor when tomatoes are medium size n drive the post in the ground.watch for ground hogs on corn.
Everyone has their favorite variety of corn but we used to buy Silver Queen in south Alabama by the bushel when we’d visit family. I swear, that’s the sweetest corn I’ve ever had!
If you have a water supply have you thought of installing porous pipe or drip line underneath those weed barrier sheets? That way you could get a decent supply to the plants instead of relying on rain water dropping through the holes.
Have you looked into Neem Oil for pests it's quite the amazing organic pest control product,I've been using it for years out west in California it might be helpful ✌️
Here is a little thing that will help even more. Buy some cheap walmart weed block lay it in the center of the rows, Take your sawdust lay over it. spread it about an 1-1,1/2 thick it will save you hours of work and in the fall take it back up and just dump the sawdust in the rows, the fabric you will be able to use it again next years.
Recommend you plant a variety corn with BT gene that will help protect from corn borer and ear worm. Still need to spray but not as often. Also looked liked you might have some stink bug damage.
You can kill the weed seeds before they sprout by composting and tilling in your old garden at the end of the season. Next cover the ground with thick BLACK plastic for 2 to 3 months. The plastic will bake the soil hot enough to kill most the weed seeds, even in the winter. This will not stop the seeds that birds and the wind bring in after you plant, but will give your garden a good head start on them.
Your boy makes me think of "Davey." His Daddy was one handed. One day I came on them, splitting firewood with a hydraulic splitter. Daddy put the wood on and held it, Davey ran the hydraulics. Did a safer job of it than any of the adults working around there. Davey was 3 years old at the time. Older man that had retired from Pittsburg Steel came up, seen that boy running the splitter, I thought he was going to have a heart attack. Mouth hanging open, speechless shock. Some Alaska kids take on responsibility pretty early, and do surprisingly well with it. When they don't need to be, they're just normal kids. Doesn't seem to hurt them at all.
Using strips of weed fabric, like you've done, does save on weeding. However, if you use 15-foot wide weed fabric, and providing a 100% coverage for your garden will almost eliminate the weeding. Yes, you will have to catch the little weeds as they come up in the holes you burn for your plants, but they won't persist. This will better fit your style if you lose interest in weeding over time. Isn't that all of us? After you harvest, spread another roll of weed fabric on top of the fabric you use for growing, and it will really kill all of the weed seeds in the soil, and you won't even have to burn new holes next year (after you remove your winter fabric and put it away for the next winter). Use of a small trowel or bulb planter to break up the soil in the already established holes, with a small dose of slow release fertilizer, and you are ready to replant. Successful gardening is all about working smarter and not harder. If you wear yourself out, you will quickly lose enthusiasm.
Indiana sure can grow corn.... don't see anything wrong with that garden other than planting some other stuff you do need an just steal the corn you need from the side of the highway/LOL. Yeah I don't advise that either. I have heard of ways to get rid of some pests... involved boric acid and then baking powder and some borax soap also but just how they mixed it up and what not escapes me now.
Maybe you know someone who can sell, or even give, you some sawdust. Lay it 3-5 inches deep between your rows. And it makes a great amendment to sandy soil. But then, you probably don't know anyone with sawdust to spare. Too bad.
@@wdmoya1953 Lil dab will do you...very light green or slight yellowish color of the leaves...is usually the signal that a "little" nitrogen is needed.
If man only knew God and continued his repentance, he would have been rid of those weeds by hand and not ever have to pull another weed from his garden again. Repent remove repeat. Go and sin no more.
Skip to 15:58 for the weed tip.
I got this tip from Living Traditions Homestead, you can check them out here (they also have a coupon code if you want to order the ground covering): th-cam.com/video/M1jwgVa1l3Y/w-d-xo.html
Love Living Traditions Homestead!! They used really wide woven weed fabric this planting - looks easier. Good job. I pray God blesses your efforts!!
Yeah! They got the WIDE stuff this year! We're still a few months away from having a good garden. Did one a few years ago and yeah, the weeds just made it unbearable. And then we had other ranch projects to deal with.
I hope your garden does great this year! Looking forward to seeing how it progresses!
You are making much more work for yourself, imo. It's a lot less work & cost to just mulch the whole garden with compost & uncomposted wood chips between the rows. In the winter, just cover the growing beds with composted wood chips, too!
Use it every year!
I watch them too, as well as Doug and Stacy
Whoop whoop - Fall Line Ridge & Son 💃🕺He is toooo adorable!! Y'all are teaching him great skills!!
Your son warms my heart 😊 Cheeeese 😃❤️ Your good parents 👍🏻
Your little guy is soooo adorable and good luck with your garden.
You have a beautiful family. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.
Your garden is looking great!
Those tomatoes are really jamming!
Your garden looks great! I bought a double wheel hoe last year from Hoss Tools and it takes all that time hoeing out of the equation too. Check them out if you haven’t already they’re in your neck of the woods in Georgia. My garden is about 12,000 sqft and I can weed the whole thing in about half an hour with my wheel hoe and a 12” oscillating hoe. One thing that might also help you is put drip tape under your weed fabric. It will keep the water in the root zone and you won’t be irrigating between the rows and encouraging weeds to grow. I’m glad you are sharing your garden this year. I’m looking forward to seeing throw it progresses through the season. Good luck!
You might try to mulch your garden with about 3" of mulch and you won't have any weeds anymore. We love your channel.
Your soil is amazingly red. I’ve noticed that on previous videos. May your garden be blessed! Cheers!
Family is everything love how you involve your kids and wife.
I have the same Craftsman tiller, I had the same trouble keeping up with weeds and I too have started using the weed fabric this year. Game changer! Funny, I also got the idea from Living Traditions. Nice Job!
Very good video editing and content. Thanks for posting.
That is absolutely one fine young helper you helping you and mom. CHEESE!!
Amazed that people can dig a hole and not hit any rocks. I could build a rock wall when I dig holes! I would put the weed cloth in between the rows. I have been told that the woven weed cloth allowed water to penetrate to the soil. I am going to use it next year, hopefully on a new property.
So great to see the family working together. M. Belinda Davis in NC
You can buy landscape fabric which blocks weeds and lets water flow through freely. I use it in my flower gardens with great results. As for hilling corn, I use a hiller attachment with my Troy-Bilt tiller and run it down between the rows. It not only hills the dirt around the corn but also buries all the weeds at the same time. 10 minutes to hill and weed ten 120 foot rows of corn.
Nice one Wes - great bit of family teamwork! Your little lad is sure growing fast, and the garden's looking good too! Stay safe & well. 👍👍
you spray vinegar between those rows (careful not to get it on your veggies) and you'll be rid of weeds for good. i did it so i know it works but it kills everything so only spray the weeds
Vinegat will kill off the foliage - fine for killing off annual weeds or seedlings but on established perennial weeds they'll grow back
We have been gardening for over 40 years in several different areas of the U.S. We use the Grower's Solution ground cover. We cover the rows and the walkways. We use soaker hoses on top of the ground cover. After the newness wears off of the ground cover it becomes more permeable and allows the water to pass through more readily. We had our best garden and harvests since using the ground cover and with lots less work. Added bonus: It sounds really neat when it rains on the ground cover. Blessings on your garden from west Texas
I wouldn’t start a garden without that ground cloth. Looking good!
I really liked the sprinkler you ran just before running the tiller.
It's great to see families worikng together like that.
You guys are doing a great job! When i was a kid we had a large garden and we worked in it a great deal they are a lot of work. keep it up.. I have that mat under my bee hives with much on top which makes it easy to pull up the few weeds that come up.
Those weed blockers are amazing!
The Mini me corn trample dance made my night!
Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing
Awesome little family 👍 From Cadillac Michigan
Looking great, your hard work tending the garden now will payoff at harvest.
The best way to create a hard worker is to expose them to a hard worker...... and Chores, and allowance for said chores... You all looking good....
suggestion: take your angle grinder and remove about half in. from the chopping edge. Then taper off the upper roundy parts. Then grind all 3 cutting edges really sharp. It makes the hoe much more controllable and easier to use.
How about a pitcher Bruce
The family effort is just unbelievably wholesome
You're right!! They're such a blessing to watch!!
Your boy is just the cutest!
Love the garden, no bad comment from me about the cover, weeding and staying on top of it is a huge task. I have green cut worms. It is always something you have to stay ahead of when gardening.
Before I was like you guys, every year enthusiastic about planting veggie food, then the all kinds of weeds start to grow and grow and it becomes difficult to see where my tomatoes are, and surprise surprise my enthusiasm wanes. However for the last few seasons I have used sheet mulching (or even plastic sheeting) to keep those invasive weeds at bay. Then there are our 'friends', snails and slugs, a while ago I planted out a whole load of butternut & red kuri squash seedling plants, it wasn't long before quite a number had been devoured!!! Good luck with your garden, looks like you've got it well fenced in against deer etc.
Living Traditions did something different this year. The weed fabric they used is 15' wide and cut off at 50' long. They covered their entire 50' x 70' garden. They have no weeds in between the rows either.
Good luck. We like putting the corn on a BBQ Pit with the husk still on after soaking it in water. It steams the corn and you still get a smoky flavor.
Had all these issues in past years in NE Florida. The chopped corn blades on mine were grasshoppers...had the miserable racoon vandalism too! We trapped several and relocated the guilty, but their cousins seemed to know exactly when it was time to replenish the front line troops.
We even planted an extra 3% just for the raccoons, but they wanted more. We mostly gave up, but I like your electric wire solution. I'll have to cut back all the trees that have closed in on the border fence, but the prospect of a coonless corn patch makes it worth the try!!!
We had outrageous success with corn in the kitchen garden. Used no-till and no-thin planting...had 8'-10' stalks with near 100% pollination. The seeds were simply laid out in a furrow, 1-2" spacing!!!
That seems wrong, but I was following advice of another gardener, and bam! One fine corn crop. Had to switch back to the field garden for corn...then got tired of fighting the raccoons and started chickens on that ground.
Cute video. You are so patient with the little one who just wants to help. BTW: placing posts straight up and down is making them plumb, not level.
lol picky picky hahahahaha
Your garden looks good!
Dude. The classic Tonka dump truck. We had some that my great grandma bought. So my grandma, my mom, me, and my own kids all played with those old trucks.
Mice n voles moved in under my mats n they ate the plants underneath n they feel over.i use steel fence post n I drive down the row w the tractor when tomatoes are medium size n drive the post in the ground.watch for ground hogs on corn.
You should use drip irrigation to each tomatoe plant and soaked hose with the other plants
Everyone has their favorite variety of corn but we used to buy Silver Queen in south Alabama by the bushel when we’d visit family. I swear, that’s the sweetest corn I’ve ever had!
If you have a water supply have you thought of installing porous pipe or drip line underneath those weed barrier sheets? That way you could get a decent supply to the plants instead of relying on rain water dropping through the holes.
Looks like the same Sears Craftsman tiller my dad had back in the 70's
Have you looked into Neem Oil for pests it's quite the amazing organic pest control product,I've been using it for years out west in California it might be helpful ✌️
Have you thought about soaker hoses under the mats? Very low pressure so they just weep
Here is a little thing that will help even more. Buy some cheap walmart weed block lay it in the center of the rows, Take your sawdust lay over it. spread it about an 1-1,1/2 thick it will save you hours of work and in the fall take it back up and just dump the sawdust in the rows, the fabric you will be able to use it again next years.
Beautiful garden !! Nice to see whole family helping and especially Lil Man !!Are yall growing Silver Queen corn ? It was my Dad's favorite !! :)
Try planting a cover crop between the rows, and mow it. No weeding, and adding bio to the soil.
Recommend you plant a variety corn with BT gene that will help protect from corn borer and ear worm. Still need to spray but not as often. Also looked liked you might have some stink bug damage.
I need to make some of those tomato cages to use as utilization cages on my food plots
I find concrete remesh works great and they will last several years.
Make them bigger than this. I used one in the Upland plot and they stuck their noses right through it.
Glad you got some UV protection for the ground.
Since you all ready have water on site you might concider some drip irrigation under the fabric that would cure your watering problems
Lay cardboard on paths,cover with a couple of inches of wood chips,then add an inch every year
Living Traditions have just planted their garden with fifteen feet wide fabric - commercial width apparently.
I think you have water run to your veggie patch... try laying a soaker hose under the black material or install a drip watering system...
Probably a good candidate for drip irrigation.
You need to add mulch or your sawdust in between the rows to help you weed problem.
You can kill the weed seeds before they sprout by composting and tilling in your old garden at the end of the season. Next cover the ground with thick BLACK plastic for 2 to 3 months. The plastic will bake the soil hot enough to kill most the weed seeds, even in the winter. This will not stop the seeds that birds and the wind bring in after you plant, but will give your garden a good head start on them.
I like natural
fresh and clean vegetables
Little Man was on a mission wasn't he
Your boy makes me think of "Davey." His Daddy was one handed. One day I came on them, splitting firewood with a hydraulic splitter. Daddy put the wood on and held it, Davey ran the hydraulics. Did a safer job of it than any of the adults working around there.
Davey was 3 years old at the time. Older man that had retired from Pittsburg Steel came up, seen that boy running the splitter, I thought he was going to have a heart attack. Mouth hanging open, speechless shock. Some Alaska kids take on responsibility pretty early, and do surprisingly well with it. When they don't need to be, they're just normal kids. Doesn't seem to hurt them at all.
I have the same problem with my corn. What are you spraying with?
we use tent peg to hold the cages down
I still hope to see slow motion racoon aronautics when they meet the electric fence..... Trail cam movie night
Using strips of weed fabric, like you've done, does save on weeding. However, if you use 15-foot wide weed fabric, and providing a 100% coverage for your garden will almost eliminate the weeding. Yes, you will have to catch the little weeds as they come up in the holes you burn for your plants, but they won't persist. This will better fit your style if you lose interest in weeding over time. Isn't that all of us? After you harvest, spread another roll of weed fabric on top of the fabric you use for growing, and it will really kill all of the weed seeds in the soil, and you won't even have to burn new holes next year (after you remove your winter fabric and put it away for the next winter). Use of a small trowel or bulb planter to break up the soil in the already established holes, with a small dose of slow release fertilizer, and you are ready to replant. Successful gardening is all about working smarter and not harder. If you wear yourself out, you will quickly lose enthusiasm.
Thanks Ali
nice garden
Newspaper, plain cardboard, sawdust from your sawmill, placed between rows will keep weeds down.
Our constant rain = weed explosion
Get yourself some treflan and put in between those rows and water it in real good. It will stop your weeds from germinating.
We called those racers!
I hope you check everybody for ticks
Just a FYI check out
Living Traditions Homestead for gardening
Check out raised beds
Put a radio under an old wash tub the big ones turn the radio on it will keep the raccoons out
I can’t help myself, “plumb”, not level.
Little helper 👍
Indiana sure can grow corn.... don't see anything wrong with that garden other than planting some other stuff you do need an just steal the corn you need from the side of the highway/LOL. Yeah I don't advise that either. I have heard of ways to get rid of some pests... involved boric acid and then baking powder and some borax soap also but just how they mixed it up and what not escapes me now.
Georgia, not Indiana!
I know you are working hard but your son is stealing the show 😊
consider a drip system
Sorry u working so hard
That might have been a skink, vs a salamander. They look similar.
U got real soil compaction issues
smart kid I wouldn't touch the snake either lol
wire is no good for tomatoes the sun heats the metal up and it burns the vines
Hi
You must still be having trouble with varmints
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That going to rot away in 5 years or so, why
nice
❤
Little man made my day
Maybe you know someone who can sell, or even give, you some sawdust. Lay it 3-5 inches deep between your rows. And it makes a great amendment to sandy soil. But then, you probably don't know anyone with sawdust to spare. Too bad.
What makes the garden grow ?
Rain🌧 and 🌞 sunshine and ammonium nitrate.
👍💯🎯🤣✌🇺🇸
need to be careful with ammonium nitrate it will make your plants grow but could also cause you to get less product,
@@wdmoya1953 Lil dab will do you...very light green or slight yellowish color of the leaves...is usually the signal that a "little" nitrogen is needed.
Dusting your crops with diatomaceous earth will help with your insect problems.
You're supposed to take the weeds out all together not just pull them up and leave them there or what is the point in doing it
Why u working so hard, it really not required
Best be careful how much screen time your son gets. He just might steal the channel from you. :-)
If man only knew God and continued his repentance, he would have been rid of those weeds by hand and not ever have to pull another weed from his garden again. Repent remove repeat. Go and sin no more.