I’m glad TH-cam has allowed Farmers to create another source of income. Plus, so much knowledge to share with others. This method of planting is fascinating.
I am really enjoying documenting my farm life to share with the world, and at the same time creating a small income source so thank you for mentioning that. I often take for granted everything that I do on the farm. It has been eye-opening to read all these amazing comments from around the world. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
i usually dont comment, but i cant pass on this one being very comprehensive and informative on farming tips and equipments, anyone want to start farming either small or medium, atleast we can learn some where to start.
I agree, it amazes me how many kids these days don’t even know where their food comes from when they go to the grocery store. We often have parents reach out to us to see if we will hire their 12 or 13-year-old but that is just a little too young. We used to hire lot of 14 and 15 year-olds to help pick strawberries but now that we no longer grow strawberries we require our employees to be 16 or order and have a valid drivers license. It just makes life a lot simpler for me and by then they are realizing that they need to earn money to be able to drive a car around and get ready for college. Thanks for watching and commenting I really appreciate it.
Huge props to the two who are super good and consistent with their transplanting all video long. I love seeing the next generations getting in the process.
Howdyyawl from the land down under very impressive planting tool. It works extremely well, applause for simple machinery, well done. This gives me an idea to make something to use on our farm here in South Australia. Thanks for sharing. Keeping it real 😊
lol, I agree, even though college was a great experience, I think in this day and age I probably would not go if I knew I was going to be a farmer and would just do an apprenticeship on a farm internship to learn what I need to learn. I appreciate the kind words about teaching, I did entertain that idea at one time in my college days, but don’t think I would enjoy it in a professional setting, I’ll stick to sharing my knowledge through TH-cam videos and to my employees. Maybe one day I will do consulting work for those trying to learn how to farm. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Thank you so much for the great content. I was just researching and looking for a RAINFLO TRANSPLANTER online, preferably a used one, not a new one. I love your content and the specifics of the different types of transplanter wheels. Lol, which I did not know. I learn something new every day. AWESOME CONTENT!!
Thank you so much Walter, glad you enjoy the content! I looked at a lot of different brands before I bought my rain flow and I still feel they are the best one out there. I’m sure you can find some used ones if you check around used equipment dealers that specialize in small equipment.
We watch a.number of farming TH-cam channels. Just found yours. Super high quality video with excellent narration and great content. Subscribed. Your channel will do.great!!!
I like how your produce farm is more organized than others, like than the Veggie Boys farm in northeast PA. I think that reflects on a lot of things that result in their end product. Keep it up, as the country needs the small farmers too.
Thank you! I owe a lot of that to my wife as she works hard to keep our farm and home looking nice. There is certainly room for improvement around the farm but when there is so much going on it's hard to keep on top of everything. Our operation is pretty simple with just one family, I'm sure with an operation as diverse as Veggie Boys with so many family members involved that it probably feels like organized chaos year around.
Congrats to you and your beautiful family. You guys are doing a beautiful job growing food. Amazing you working with your children that's the way. Greetings from an organic farmer from Chile.
Thanks for watching and commenting! It’s not late at all we live in Northwest Central Ohio. The frost free date is not till mid May so we were only a few days late.
Thank you! That bed shaper and water wheel planter are the two best pieces of equipment I’ve ever bought in my life! Today is my daughter’s graduation open house and I know my wife will be very happy when this is all over ha ha!
I just want to take this time to say i just came on to your videos about a week ago thay are fantastic. I'm 66 retired I help out at a food pantry 2 days a week sometimes 3 days .We get lots of progivduce from stores. In rhe summer we have a town farm that gives us a big yeld every week
Hey veggie boys! Is this Andrew? Yeah, that vapor guard works fantastic, especially on vine crops, not really sure it does much for peppers and may help a little bit on Tomatoes. I’ve been getting most of my produce supplies from Martins in PA for years, not really anyone in Ohio that has their kind of selection and pricing. Been enjoying your channel for several years now. I’ve had a personal channel on backpacking and kayaking for about eight years that has a pretty good following and my sons channel on air guns and hunting is about the same size as yours. Started the Farm channel last year, but didn’t really do much with it until this spring. I really enjoy doing it but definitely can be a juggling act with keeping up around the farm, running two channels and being sure to spend quality time with family. Hope you’re having a great start to the season, keep in touch. Jason
@@theveggieboys absolutely! Actually, my wife and I will be traveling to New England this fall for a few weeks in our RV and we will be going by pretty close to you...maybe we can stop by for a quick visit. We have decided to not grow pumpkins this year for the first time in 24 years, to celebrate being empty nesters, lol!
Yes, they were great for tender rooted crops like cucumbers and melons, but we have found It’s only really necessary for watermelons. They are definitely the most sensitive and fragile.
reminds me of my summer tobacco setting days, brings back good memories. looks like you got some good help! man I want to farm lol, great video thanks for sharing!!
Yeah I’ve always heard that there were a lot of similarities between vegetables and tobacco. Not too many tobacco farms around anymore like there used to be. It’s a stressful job at times but very rewarding, thanks Harold!
Great video ! Thanks for posting and sharing your knowledge with us. Subscribed ! I don’t think I’ll ever reach your size of the operation, but getting knowledge and trying to implement some of your techniques even in a much smaller size farm, will benefit me and most likely others !
Hey Mark, thanks for checking out my channel! And I greatly appreciate the sub and like! Yeah, my three kids grew up helping around the farm and now they’re all adults ages 19 through 23 and two of them are still helping me in the summers when they’re off from college and the third one has a full-time TH-cam channel and is no longer helping on the farm. We do hire an additional 12 high school and college kids to help us harvest and sell all the produce throughout the summer.
@@wishwellfarms I can tell you raised them right!! So glad I had the chance to watch your channel. I love farming just doing a little garden and work my way up to a green house. Thank you for taking the time to respond
Love your channel, I started growing sweet corn and melons on a large scale (for me) this year for a few local produce stands this year and your channel is full of great information. Thank you.
Thinking about this brought back some good memories of testing melons in the field with the employees before harvest, we would cut them in half and take the heart right out of the middle of the melon to sample it with sugar sweet juices running down your hand and chin! I used to grow one called millionaire and sugar heart. They were hard to beat, but El Capitan, red garnet, and sweet Polly that we grow now are just as good.
Congrats to your daughter and Congrats to you on getting the crops in and the stress of that off your shoulders! I was finally able to get my 20 plus tomatoes and dozen peppers in in the ground (between storms) with the rest of the garden this past weekend as well!
Nice! It always feels good to get caught up especially when you’re a little behind, the weather can be crazy some years. My daughter is definitely ready to put high school behind her and start helping out on the farm and I’m looking forward to having her help.
Yeah that one took off! Finally! I was hoping that if I kept at it long enough that eventually things would start to grow and it is…appreciate the excitement, I know I’m excited to see where the channel will go! I love doing it and I hope it shows.
New subscriber here. Very well explained. Here in my part of the UK, I have to grow melons in the greenhouse. Looking forward to watching your farm in action 🌱Elaine
Those Ellepots are fantastic! For several years before we started using those a third of our plants were pulling out and unusable, and it was so frustrating and these have solved all our problems. You just have to be careful not to push the seeds down too deep or sometimes they will germinate out the bottom of the Ellepot instead of the top ha ha. My favorite varieties are red garnet, El Capitan, sweet Polly, and we always put a little bit of bold ruler out because they are several days earlier in maturity. We’ve planted many others over the years that always did great for us, but this is what we are currently using.
nice job buddy God bless you with your family am watching you from Iraq and I have 2 questions : how often do you irrigate per week? did you put in consideration the water ratios for each variety especially during flowering and fruit holding or you irrigate all at once no matter what? Thanks and keep it coming
I water everything the same, but may add a little more supplemental fertilizers for tomatoes and peppers when they are starting to set fruit, but early the season is not really necessary to add fertilizers in the drip irrigation since I incorporated everything into the soil before I laid the beds. Depending on the rainfall and sun, I normally irrigate twice a week about four hours at a time with my low flow drip tape
Great video. Love the planting videos. We r hopefully, going to b transplanting this coming weekend. Weather has mot cooperated this year. Cold and wet. With your seedless watermelon, do u need a male pollinator plant mixed in with the fruiting plants. I've heard it is necessary for the seedless watermelons
Thanks, Eric! Hopefully things will continue to dry out and warm up for you. On the seedless watermelon we put a pollenator plant between every three seedless ones. We go in a week after we transplant them and place them by hand, it just gets too confusing to do it while transplanting. And yes, it is necessary otherwise you’ll just have a field full of vines and no fruit.
@wishwellfarms makes perfect sense. And, I'm guessing, since u r not trying to make fruit on the male plants, a slight delay in grow from planting the males later isn't going to matter at all. Produce a few flowers and u r good. Thx for the info. I've always wanted to try seedless, but praying for pollination from one plant to another, makes me nervous. Will b nice to see the results from yours
Thank you! We just use a general all purpose fertilizer in the greenhouse while raising the transplants but before we plant them in the open field, I spread 150 pounds of DAP and 150 pounds of potash and 300 pounds of ammonium sulfate per acre. Next month when they start setting fruit, we will start Fertigation with some 9-15-30. Don’t know if this is the best way to do it, but it’s what works for us.
I live in Indonesia🇮🇩, see how technology works there, that's amazing❤, 12k plants you guys make it looks so easy Wow 😳, here we still use traditional way. For 12k plants maybe we'll need 50 person, work for over 8hrs, in 3 days, shame😅.
I would say it's 100%...the only thing that can hurt the plant and cause it not to live and grow is if there is a section of soil that is chucky and rocky and the plant does not get placed well into the soil. After a few days we will find a few like this and we just pull them out and plant a new plant that was leftover. Pepper and tomatoes have the highest survivial rate and cucurbits (vine crops) have the worst since they will not thrive as well if their root ball is over disturbed when shoving it into the ground.
In the field, we plant summer pic, rambler, roadster, STM 2255 and skyway 687. I’ve planted a lot of BHN varieties in the past as well, but I have settled on these for the last couple years. For Roma, I like Mariana and for my yellow tomato I like Carolina gold. And BHN 871 Celebrity is a darn good tomato just not sure I’d want to put all my eggs in that one basket for commercial fresh market production though. Thanks for the sub. I really appreciate it!
That works great for small areas but is expensive and time consuming on large acreage. We used to put straw down on about a half acre of tomatoes and it was an entire wagon load of square bales. Some weeds would still find their way through, but not near as bad and it kept Tomatoes clean from splash up.
Do you stake up your tomatoes in the field? Also heard you sprayed a herbicide over the top for the row middle . What chemical did you use? Your plants are beautiful do you fertilize them every time you water them! Mine were not quite that nice of a plant. We also use a small sale tray. I think I heard you use 72.?
Yes, we use 72 count pro trays for almost everything. And yes, we do stake up our field Tomatoes which we will be doing next week before they get too tall and flop over… we will be using the Florida weave system just like I did on my grape tomatoes. And we do spray a herbicide over our entire field of S-metolachlor and command 3M E (clomazone), but I do not put the command on the tomatoes and eggplant ground. I also add 3/4 of an ounce of Sandea which is the same thing as permit. Hope that helps!
So far we are badly loosing the battle to the weeds on our small garden. We have some fruit trees and shrubs like currants, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, rhubarb, aronia and elderberries. I’m afraid to use strong herbicides so I don’t burn the currants. But it’s so hard to control the grasses and weeds between the fabric cover rows. I need to learn so more about the herbicides so we can spend more time enjoying our garden. Thanks for your comments
@@mar1video yeah you gotta be so careful around all those different fruits and vegetables, just don’t ever use 24D that stuff can travel and kill so much but you might be able to spot spray some round up if you’re careful in your hotspots of weeds otherwise the only thing you can do is put down more ground cover, pull the weeds or use a homemade concoction of soap and salt and vinegar that I saw on TH-cam.
"like that its not harmful to plants, animals, or us" .....Random News Flash some future point later "that shits harmful to everything and eveybody!" Wouldnt that be the thing...
Red garnet, El Capitan, sweet Polly, and bold ruler. We’ve planted many others over the years like millionaire and harmony and sugar heart but these are the ones we are planting now.
We planted five different ones this year, Skyway 687, STM 2255, rambler, roadster and Summer Pick. Our Roma tomato is Mariana and our yellow tomato is Carolina gold and BHN 871
I actually don't have squash bug issues only cucumber beetles. We spray them with evergreen (pyrethrins) and Azaguard (neem oil) These are both chemical/pesticide free opitions...however, if they get out of hand we won't hesitate to spray permethrin to control them.
Yes, it’s called BioGold, I believe it’s a corn starch based plastic. We still use conventional embossed plastics on longer season crops though like tomatoes and peppers so it doesn’t break down in the middle of season on us, but 2/3 of what we lay is biodegradable.
We are located in Bellefontaine, Ohio. I only plant like an acre of seedless watermelon, which will give us a couple thousand to pick. Pretty easy to sell them when you attend 8 farmers markets around Columbus and run 2 retail roadside stands.
On single planted rows like melons, cucumber, squash, and tomatoes the drip tape is off to the side about 4 inches from center so it’s very easy to avoid as long as you drive straight. Rows planted with peppers where there’s two rows per bed, the drip tape is down the center, also very easy to avoid.
Yes, we do use a pollinator plant between every three seedless ones, but we do not plant at the same time as it gets too confusing so we go back in and plant those a week later by hand after we have the irrigation going.
Yes, that would probably be a good idea, never really thought about it, if it did come down on me when I’m changing out the water wheels there’s an open area above me so it wouldn’t even hit me.
Hi,is that black plastic bio degradable,at least to some degree ? Manufacturers should be obliged to produce only bio degradable plastic for agriculture needs in my opinion.
There is both conventional and biodegradable and we use 2/3 biodegradable. It is a cornstarch based plastic that breaks down with the soil microbes and disappears within one to two years completely. However, we don’t use it on longer season crops like peppers and tomatoes because sometimes it can break down too soon and we need that plastic to last the entire season to prevent weeds and keep the moisture in the soil under the plastic.
@@sheriffsathulla4192 sorry I can’t please everybody, I get more comments wanting longer videos and my short videos do poorly. Appreciate the feedback though.
Here is our prior video of us forming the raised beds and laying the plastic mulch: th-cam.com/video/xrzKJRzZYUY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=c31bCpTMu0URUTVe
I’m glad TH-cam has allowed Farmers to create another source of income. Plus, so much knowledge to share with others. This method of planting is fascinating.
I am really enjoying documenting my farm life to share with the world, and at the same time creating a small income source so thank you for mentioning that. I often take for granted everything that I do on the farm. It has been eye-opening to read all these amazing comments from around the world. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
i usually dont comment, but i cant pass on this one being very comprehensive and informative on farming tips and equipments, anyone want to start farming either small or medium, atleast we can learn some where to start.
Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out the channel and I appreciate the comment!
Every child 12 yrs + should be required to go to a farm and see how this is done. They should participate too.
I agree, it amazes me how many kids these days don’t even know where their food comes from when they go to the grocery store. We often have parents reach out to us to see if we will hire their 12 or 13-year-old but that is just a little too young. We used to hire lot of 14 and 15 year-olds to help pick strawberries but now that we no longer grow strawberries we require our employees to be 16 or order and have a valid drivers license. It just makes life a lot simpler for me and by then they are realizing that they need to earn money to be able to drive a car around and get ready for college. Thanks for watching and commenting I really appreciate it.
Kids need to garden and get off them video games and TV
I was picking potatos when i was 9 here in 1950s Britain.
Young generation need to connect with nature to protect the planet together and know valuable foods
i love how you tell and show all the small things going on so we know and don't have to wonder..thanks
Thanks so much for the kind words Tom, I really appreciate that!
Huge props to the two who are super good and consistent with their transplanting all video long. I love seeing the next generations getting in the process.
Fortunately, it doesn’t take too long to get the hang of it, thanks for watching and commenting!
Howdyyawl from the land down under very impressive planting tool. It works extremely well, applause for simple machinery, well done. This gives me an idea to make something to use on our farm here in South Australia. Thanks for sharing. Keeping it real 😊
Hey, thanks for commenting all the way from Australia! Hope you have a successful farming season!
I’m learning more on TH-cam than I did in college. And you explain everything, did you ever think about teaching? You have a great gift.
lol, I agree, even though college was a great experience, I think in this day and age I probably would not go if I knew I was going to be a farmer and would just do an apprenticeship on a farm internship to learn what I need to learn. I appreciate the kind words about teaching, I did entertain that idea at one time in my college days, but don’t think I would enjoy it in a professional setting, I’ll stick to sharing my knowledge through TH-cam videos and to my employees. Maybe one day I will do consulting work for those trying to learn how to farm. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
❤ this coastal Alabama gal says....."ahhh,the thrill to till" ! Great looking crop and varieties!
Thanks I appreciate that! Been a while since I’ve been to coastal Alabama!
No man needs to plant a cucumber,water melon . I saw the rice planting by a machine. Amazing video.😊😊
Rice is something I’ve never seen planted before
so interesting to see how to plant stuff at scale. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome, thanks for watching!
you are very well spoken,pal ) Could listen to you for ages.
Well, thank you very much. I appreciate the feedback!
Very informative & educational .......! Greetings from the Far East .......
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for the great content. I was just researching and looking for a RAINFLO TRANSPLANTER online, preferably a used one, not a new one. I love your content and the specifics of the different types of transplanter wheels. Lol, which I did not know. I learn something new every day. AWESOME CONTENT!!
Thank you so much Walter, glad you enjoy the content! I looked at a lot of different brands before I bought my rain flow and I still feel they are the best one out there. I’m sure you can find some used ones if you check around used equipment dealers that specialize in small equipment.
We watch a.number of farming TH-cam channels. Just found yours. Super high quality video with excellent narration and great content. Subscribed. Your channel will do.great!!!
Thanks for the kind words, Becky. I’m gonna keep cranking them out and will do my best to keep them interesting and high-quality.
I like how your produce farm is more organized than others, like than the Veggie Boys farm in northeast PA. I think that reflects on a lot of things that result in their end product. Keep it up, as the country needs the small farmers too.
Thank you! I owe a lot of that to my wife as she works hard to keep our farm and home looking nice. There is certainly room for improvement around the farm but when there is so much going on it's hard to keep on top of everything. Our operation is pretty simple with just one family, I'm sure with an operation as diverse as Veggie Boys with so many family members involved that it probably feels like organized chaos year around.
Congrats to you and your beautiful family. You guys are doing a beautiful job growing food. Amazing you working with your children that's the way. Greetings from an organic farmer from Chile.
Thanks all the way from Chile!
Wow you are planting late by about a month. Hope you have a wonderful year ahead
Thanks for watching and commenting! It’s not late at all we live in Northwest Central Ohio. The frost free date is not till mid May so we were only a few days late.
Very cool machine! Thank you for sharing. And God bless you.
Thanks so much, appreciate you watching!
Nice planting! Congratulations daughter 👍👍👍
Thank you! That bed shaper and water wheel planter are the two best pieces of equipment I’ve ever bought in my life! Today is my daughter’s graduation open house and I know my wife will be very happy when this is all over ha ha!
It's always a wonder to see and learn how a single farmer can grow food for enough 10 or so people
More like thousands
I just want to take this time to say i just came on to your videos about a week ago thay are fantastic. I'm 66 retired I help out at a food pantry 2 days a week sometimes 3 days .We get lots of progivduce from stores. In rhe summer we have a town farm that gives us a big yeld every week
That is so awesome to hear! It’s comments like these that help keep me motivated to continue filming, editing and publishing videos…thank you!
Thanks for the planting looks great , I am
Planting garlic grows good looking forward to watching more shows@@
Thank you so much, I appreciate you watching and commenting!
Awesome video! Keep up the good work and I was very interested in what you put on the plants before transplant. We are gonna have to try that.
Hey veggie boys! Is this Andrew? Yeah, that vapor guard works fantastic, especially on vine crops, not really sure it does much for peppers and may help a little bit on Tomatoes. I’ve been getting most of my produce supplies from Martins in PA for years, not really anyone in Ohio that has their kind of selection and pricing.
Been enjoying your channel for several years now. I’ve had a personal channel on backpacking and kayaking for about eight years that has a pretty good following and my sons channel on air guns and hunting is about the same size as yours. Started the Farm channel last year, but didn’t really do much with it until this spring. I really enjoy doing it but definitely can be a juggling act with keeping up around the farm, running two channels and being sure to spend quality time with family.
Hope you’re having a great start to the season, keep in touch. Jason
@@wishwellfarms Yep it’s Andrew lol. Keep up the good work I’ll be watching! And maybe one day I can come see the operation y’all have.
@@theveggieboys absolutely! Actually, my wife and I will be traveling to New England this fall for a few weeks in our RV and we will be going by pretty close to you...maybe we can stop by for a quick visit. We have decided to not grow pumpkins this year for the first time in 24 years, to celebrate being empty nesters, lol!
@@wishwellfarms lol awesome. Well if you decide to come just let me know. We will show you around.
Nice looking crop!
Thanks, Hopefully it produces a nice yield!
The planter is awesome. Great video.
Yes, it is a pretty handy planter for vegetables That’s for sure, thanks for watching!
You did a great job giving details like the type of fertilizer and concentration. New sub.
Thank you I appreciate the compliment!
I’m in need of your prayers and healing vibes. Please keep me in your thoughts as I work towards better health.
Great video I will now plant my cucumber and melons in jiffy pots thank to you 😊😊
Yes, they were great for tender rooted crops like cucumbers and melons, but we have found It’s only really necessary for watermelons. They are definitely the most sensitive and fragile.
reminds me of my summer tobacco setting days, brings back good memories. looks like you got some good help! man I want to farm lol, great video thanks for sharing!!
Yeah I’ve always heard that there were a lot of similarities between vegetables and tobacco. Not too many tobacco farms around anymore like there used to be. It’s a stressful job at times but very rewarding, thanks Harold!
Amazing to see where food comes from!
Thanks!
Lots of hard work, but very rewarding, thanks for watching!
The bomb! Awesome!
Thanks!
I just came across your website.... GREAT STUFF..... I'M GOING TO LEARN A LOT... THANK YOU FOR YOUR POWERFUL CREATING 🙏🙏🎉🎉❤❤😊😊😊
Thanks for checking it out and I appreciate the kind words!
Great video !
Thanks for posting and sharing your knowledge with us.
Subscribed !
I don’t think I’ll ever reach your size of the operation, but getting knowledge and trying to implement some of your techniques even in a much smaller size farm, will benefit me and most likely others !
Glad to hear that it was helpful and that you enjoyed the video, hope you have a great growing season this year!
Super job mister!
Thank you sir, I appreciate that!
Very interesting. I am looking at a transplanter like yours and this video seems to show the value of it.
A must have on a small vegetable farm in my opinion
Just came across this random and it was extremely interesting. Liked and subscribed. Love how you have the kids involved
Hey Mark, thanks for checking out my channel! And I greatly appreciate the sub and like! Yeah, my three kids grew up helping around the farm and now they’re all adults ages 19 through 23 and two of them are still helping me in the summers when they’re off from college and the third one has a full-time TH-cam channel and is no longer helping on the farm. We do hire an additional 12 high school and college kids to help us harvest and sell all the produce throughout the summer.
@@wishwellfarms I can tell you raised them right!! So glad I had the chance to watch your channel. I love farming just doing a little garden and work my way up to a green house. Thank you for taking the time to respond
Love your channel, I started growing sweet corn and melons on a large scale (for me) this year for a few local produce stands this year and your channel is full of great information. Thank you.
That is great! Nothing better than cash from a farmstand! Best of luck to you this year and thanks so much for following my channel
This was extremely neat to see. You guys are very good at what you do. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for the encouraging words, Larry!
WHAT WAS THE SWEETEST WATERMELON YOU HAVE GROWN ? THANK YOU FOR SHARING, GOD BLESS AMERICAN FARMERS !!!.
Thinking about this brought back some good memories of testing melons in the field with the employees before harvest, we would cut them in half and take the heart right out of the middle of the melon to sample it with sugar sweet juices running down your hand and chin! I used to grow one called millionaire and sugar heart. They were hard to beat, but El Capitan, red garnet, and sweet Polly that we grow now are just as good.
unbelievable process my gosh I learned so much you guys rock 🔥🔥🔥 thank you for sharing
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
Congrats to your daughter and Congrats to you on getting the crops in and the stress of that off your shoulders! I was finally able to get my 20 plus tomatoes and dozen peppers in in the ground (between storms) with the rest of the garden this past weekend as well!
Nice! It always feels good to get caught up especially when you’re a little behind, the weather can be crazy some years. My daughter is definitely ready to put high school behind her and start helping out on the farm and I’m looking forward to having her help.
500+ likes!! Thats what Im talking about! 😮
Yeah that one took off! Finally! I was hoping that if I kept at it long enough that eventually things would start to grow and it is…appreciate the excitement, I know I’m excited to see where the channel will go! I love doing it and I hope it shows.
New subscriber here. Very well explained. Here in my part of the UK, I have to grow melons in the greenhouse. Looking forward to watching your farm in action 🌱Elaine
Thank you, Elaine! I’m very glad we don’t have to grow our melons in our greenhouses. Wishing you a successful growing season!
welldone sir, this is amazing
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
amazing
That simple machine helps us do amazing things!
very cool...
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Thats really a great idea with using the ellepots! I'm certainly going to try that myself. What are your favorite varieties of seedless watermelons?
Those Ellepots are fantastic! For several years before we started using those a third of our plants were pulling out and unusable, and it was so frustrating and these have solved all our problems. You just have to be careful not to push the seeds down too deep or sometimes they will germinate out the bottom of the Ellepot instead of the top ha ha.
My favorite varieties are red garnet, El Capitan, sweet Polly, and we always put a little bit of bold ruler out because they are several days earlier in maturity. We’ve planted many others over the years that always did great for us, but this is what we are currently using.
nice job buddy God bless you with your family am watching you from Iraq and I have 2 questions : how often do you irrigate per week? did you put in consideration the water ratios for each variety especially during flowering and fruit holding or you irrigate all at once no matter what? Thanks and keep it coming
I water everything the same, but may add a little more supplemental fertilizers for tomatoes and peppers when they are starting to set fruit, but early the season is not really necessary to add fertilizers in the drip irrigation since I incorporated everything into the soil before I laid the beds.
Depending on the rainfall and sun, I normally irrigate twice a week about four hours at a time with my low flow drip tape
Great video. Love the planting videos. We r hopefully, going to b transplanting this coming weekend. Weather has mot cooperated this year. Cold and wet.
With your seedless watermelon, do u need a male pollinator plant mixed in with the fruiting plants. I've heard it is necessary for the seedless watermelons
Thanks, Eric! Hopefully things will continue to dry out and warm up for you. On the seedless watermelon we put a pollenator plant between every three seedless ones. We go in a week after we transplant them and place them by hand, it just gets too confusing to do it while transplanting. And yes, it is necessary otherwise you’ll just have a field full of vines and no fruit.
@wishwellfarms makes perfect sense. And, I'm guessing, since u r not trying to make fruit on the male plants, a slight delay in grow from planting the males later isn't going to matter at all. Produce a few flowers and u r good. Thx for the info.
I've always wanted to try seedless, but praying for pollination from one plant to another, makes me nervous. Will b nice to see the results from yours
Nice farm bro
Thank you I appreciate that! Lots of hard work, but very rewarding!
Great video you’re making it happen. What type of fertilizer would you recommend for bell peppers.
Thank you! We just use a general all purpose fertilizer in the greenhouse while raising the transplants but before we plant them in the open field, I spread 150 pounds of DAP and 150 pounds of potash and 300 pounds of ammonium sulfate per acre. Next month when they start setting fruit, we will start Fertigation with some 9-15-30. Don’t know if this is the best way to do it, but it’s what works for us.
I live in Indonesia🇮🇩, see how technology works there, that's amazing❤, 12k plants you guys make it looks so easy Wow 😳, here we still use traditional way. For 12k plants maybe we'll need 50 person, work for over 8hrs, in 3 days, shame😅.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that....I guess we have it pretty easier here 😁
I’m curious to know your average transplant survival rate. Do some plant types have a lower success rate than others.
I would say it's 100%...the only thing that can hurt the plant and cause it not to live and grow is if there is a section of soil that is chucky and rocky and the plant does not get placed well into the soil. After a few days we will find a few like this and we just pull them out and plant a new plant that was leftover. Pepper and tomatoes have the highest survivial rate and cucurbits (vine crops) have the worst since they will not thrive as well if their root ball is over disturbed when shoving it into the ground.
How deep do you put you drip tape in the soil ???? Great video you do a great job of explaining what’s going on and why !!!
about 1 inch, Thanks!
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Nice presentation
Thank you!
What are the tomato types you plant…for my small garden I’ve found Celebrity yields the best. Great channel new sub here.
In the field, we plant summer pic, rambler, roadster, STM 2255 and skyway 687. I’ve planted a lot of BHN varieties in the past as well, but I have settled on these for the last couple years. For Roma, I like Mariana and for my yellow tomato I like Carolina gold. And BHN 871 Celebrity is a darn good tomato just not sure I’d want to put all my eggs in that one basket for commercial fresh market production though. Thanks for the sub. I really appreciate it!
Is there a video of you creating your mounds?
Yes, it was the prior video on my channel, here it is: th-cam.com/video/xrzKJRzZYUY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xZPYCLR79vbfkxZf
@@wishwellfarms just subscribed. Thank you for the reply
Question, is it possible to get wheat straw and place it between the mulch rows and eliminate weeds???
That works great for small areas but is expensive and time consuming on large acreage. We used to put straw down on about a half acre of tomatoes and it was an entire wagon load of square bales. Some weeds would still find their way through, but not near as bad and it kept Tomatoes clean from splash up.
Do you stake up your tomatoes in the field? Also heard you sprayed a herbicide over the top for the row middle . What chemical did you use? Your plants are beautiful do you fertilize them every time you water them! Mine were not quite that nice of a plant. We also use a small sale tray. I think I heard you use 72.?
Yes, we use 72 count pro trays for almost everything. And yes, we do stake up our field Tomatoes which we will be doing next week before they get too tall and flop over… we will be using the Florida weave system just like I did on my grape tomatoes. And we do spray a herbicide over our entire field of S-metolachlor and command 3M E (clomazone), but I do not put the command on the tomatoes and eggplant ground. I also add 3/4 of an ounce of Sandea which is the same thing as permit. Hope that helps!
So far we are badly loosing the battle to the weeds on our small garden. We have some fruit trees and shrubs like currants, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, rhubarb, aronia and elderberries. I’m afraid to use strong herbicides so I don’t burn the currants. But it’s so hard to control the grasses and weeds between the fabric cover rows.
I need to learn so more about the herbicides so we can spend more time enjoying our garden.
Thanks for your comments
@@mar1video yeah you gotta be so careful around all those different fruits and vegetables, just don’t ever use 24D that stuff can travel and kill so much but you might be able to spot spray some round up if you’re careful in your hotspots of weeds otherwise the only thing you can do is put down more ground cover, pull the weeds or use a homemade concoction of soap and salt and vinegar that I saw on TH-cam.
"like that its not harmful to plants, animals, or us"
.....Random News Flash some future point later "that shits harmful to everything and eveybody!"
Wouldnt that be the thing...
Yeah wouldn’t that be just great 😂
Graet
Thanks
What variety of watermelon do you plant
Red garnet, El Capitan, sweet Polly, and bold ruler. We’ve planted many others over the years like millionaire and harmony and sugar heart but these are the ones we are planting now.
Out of curiosity, what are the 3 varieties of determinate tomatoes?
We planted five different ones this year, Skyway 687, STM 2255, rambler, roadster and Summer Pick. Our Roma tomato is Mariana and our yellow tomato is Carolina gold and BHN 871
Probably a dumb question but what happens to the plastic bed covering? Is it biodegradable or does it have to eventually be removed?
Yes it is biodegradable
Farming knowledge should learn from kindergarten helping future food production ❤
Indeed
What do you do about squash bugs on the summer squash?
I actually don't have squash bug issues only cucumber beetles. We spray them with evergreen (pyrethrins) and Azaguard (neem oil) These are both chemical/pesticide free opitions...however, if they get out of hand we won't hesitate to spray permethrin to control them.
Is that the biodegradable plastic that you use?
Yes, it’s called BioGold, I believe it’s a corn starch based plastic. We still use conventional embossed plastics on longer season crops though like tomatoes and peppers so it doesn’t break down in the middle of season on us, but 2/3 of what we lay is biodegradable.
where do you buy some ellepots??!!
We get them from A.M.A Horticultural in Ontario Canada.
where is your farm located? Do you sell that many watermelons in your area?
We are located in Bellefontaine, Ohio. I only plant like an acre of seedless watermelon, which will give us a couple thousand to pick. Pretty easy to sell them when you attend 8 farmers markets around Columbus and run 2 retail roadside stands.
how do you not hit the trip tape underneath?
On single planted rows like melons, cucumber, squash, and tomatoes the drip tape is off to the side about 4 inches from center so it’s very easy to avoid as long as you drive straight. Rows planted with peppers where there’s two rows per bed, the drip tape is down the center, also very easy to avoid.
Це індетермінантні сорти томатів?
We only plant determinate in the fields and indeterminate in the greenhouse for hydroponic production
Where are you located
Bellefontaine Ohio
You need a tractor canopy
Yeah maybe, but at that time of the year I'm a pastey white and in desperate need of vit D haha
For seedless, do you use the pollinator every 2 seedless ones you plant?
Yes, we do use a pollinator plant between every three seedless ones, but we do not plant at the same time as it gets too confusing so we go back in and plant those a week later by hand after we have the irrigation going.
Put a safety jack on that planter, you are testing you life to a rubber o-ring
Yes, that would probably be a good idea, never really thought about it, if it did come down on me when I’m changing out the water wheels there’s an open area above me so it wouldn’t even hit me.
You plant big tomato plants, we plant small plants
We were 10 days behind schedule with all the wet ground, plants grow a lot in 10 days. Thanks for watching.
the only real reason to have children...
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If I knew this earlier I would have 7 kids!
I only have one 😔
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Hi,is that black plastic bio degradable,at least to some degree ? Manufacturers should be obliged to produce only bio degradable plastic for agriculture needs in my opinion.
There is both conventional and biodegradable and we use 2/3 biodegradable. It is a cornstarch based plastic that breaks down with the soil microbes and disappears within one to two years completely. However, we don’t use it on longer season crops like peppers and tomatoes because sometimes it can break down too soon and we need that plastic to last the entire season to prevent weeds and keep the moisture in the soil under the plastic.
Do you ever have ants get under the plastic and build nests?
Please study-Joel Salatin thanks 🌎🙂
I know all about Joel, thanks
your videos are boring due to long and longer conversation ❤ have a nice Day brother.
Try to make it shorter in future videos.
@@sheriffsathulla4192 sorry I can’t please everybody, I get more comments wanting longer videos and my short videos do poorly. Appreciate the feedback though.