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Fresh Picked Acres of Kansas
Registrace 25. 01. 2023
Hello Gardeners, homesteaders, and market gardeners. Our names are Ed and Delia Schneider and we run a market garden farm located in Eastern Kansas near Topeka, KS. We are always looking to share our farm with other vegetable gardeners across the world. We also love to learn from other individuals who have knowledge to share. If you want to contact us please email us at freshpickedacresks@gmail.com
Planting Bare Root Strawberries
Join us on our homestead as we focus on planting bare root strawberries. Our market garden is already getting ready for 2025 vegetable harvest. This is our 2nd year planting strawberries and the first time we are planting bareroot strawberries.
Join us as we use the bare root strawberry planting tool we purchased from Nourse Nursery.
Join us as we use the bare root strawberry planting tool we purchased from Nourse Nursery.
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Liquid Fertilizer Formula Calculation
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Ed discusses how he calculates his fertilizer to use each week in his market farm. Don't guess anymore how much fertilizer to use with Eds helpful tips on the homestead. This fertilizer program will help you in your garden as well.
Strawberry Beds, Harvesting, And Lenexa, Ks Farmers Market
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Join Ed and Delia Schneider as we make our strawberry beds and get ready for the farmers market. We show you a little bit of our process to getting ready to sell harvesting 80 pounds of green beans, sweetcorn, watermelon, cantaloupe, and tomatoes. You also get to ride with Ed at the Lenexa, Kansas farmers market as well.
Great Tips for Green Bean Germination
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Take a minute to go with Ed and Delia Schneider in the Green Bean field where Ed discusses green bean germination. If your homestead has ever had problems with bean germination, Ed offers you several tips to improve this. It is a how his market farm continues to be a top vegetable producer in Kansas!
Sweetcorn Update And Watermelon Fertilization Program
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Join Ed on the homestead as he shows you how he scouts sweetcorn and fertilizes watermelon and fertilizes cantaloupe in the market farm. Delia and Ed are growing a bumper crop of vegetables, and we are happy to have you along. Ed also tells you how to tell the difference between raccoon damage and deer damage in sweetcorn. Ed gives you the formula to use for using liquid fertilizer for your gar...
Sweetcorn Picking Time
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Join Ed in the sweetcorn field and see the rich bounty from taking care of a good crop of sweetcorn. You watched it grow on the homestead, and now its time to harvest the sweetcorn. Our market garden relies on the income from growing sweetcorn and it adds to our yearly farm income.
Sweetcorn Germination And Pollination Problem Solving
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Join Ed in his sweetcorn field as he discusses popular questions by many growers of sweetcorn. Ed takes you into the field to show you how to grow a successful corn crop. Today we are looking at sweetcorn germination, pollination, and how to get big sweetcorn ears.
Curing Onions From Start To Finish
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Join Ed and Delia on our market farm as we take you into our shop and show you how we cure onions on our homestead. Our vegetable farm produces a lot of produce, but we also had to learn how to store the vegetables as well.
End Of June Farm Tour
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Join Ed as he takes you around the farm and shows you the farms progress. A lot is happening on the farm with sweetcorn coming on, watermelon and cantaloupe is taking off, and much much more. Our homestead is a lot of work, and Delia and I strive to make our market farm as good as we can with our limited ability.
Keeping Raccoon Out Of Sweetcorn Field
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Keeping Raccoon out of the sweetcorn is an important task on a vegetable field if we expect to make any sweetcorn sales. Our homestead does its best to deter the masked bandits, and putting up an electric fence helps keep our market farm profitable.
First Picking Of 20,000 Green Beans
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Join Ed and Delia in their Green Bean Field as Ed discusses marketing tactics of green bean sales. Ed also discusses why green beans are a great choice for the market farm. The homestead has relied on growing green beans now for several seasons and its important to know when to harvest these excellent protein foods.
Irrigation King On Sweetcorn and Green Beans
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Join Ed as he shows you how he irrigates Sweetcorn and Green Beans on the market farm. These crops have a high demand for water, especially when they are forming a ear of corn or a pod of beans. Our homestead has come a long ways in becoming more self sufficient and irrigate out of our pond.
Lenexa Kansas Farmers Market
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Join Ed Schneider as he checks out the Lenexa, Kansas Farmers Market. He looks forward to selling his produce here in the very near future as the sweetcorn is getting ripe on the homestead!
Our Bees Have Arrived!
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Join us at our market garden as our bee hives have arrived on the farm. The homestead grows a lot of melon crops and is in need of a couple of bee hives to help us get all of those melons pollinated.
June 9 Farm Tour
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Join Ed as he shows an up to the minute snapshot of the progress we have made on the homestead. Here our market farm is growing a lot of vegetables, and the vegetables are showing a lot of growth! Its hard to believe our market garden has sweetcorn going to tassel and our green beans are blooming!
Farm Update And Last Green Bean Planting
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Farm Update And Last Green Bean Planting
Fertilizing Asparagus And Farm Tour May 20 2024
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Fertilizing Asparagus And Farm Tour May 20 2024
Side Dressing Urea Nitrogen to sweetcorn Using A Earthway Seeder
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Side Dressing Urea Nitrogen to sweetcorn Using A Earthway Seeder
Planting Melons, Strawberries, And Tomatoes
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Planting Melons, Strawberries, And Tomatoes
Time To String Up The Tomatoes In The High Tunnel
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Time To String Up The Tomatoes In The High Tunnel
Succession Planting Sweetcorn And Green Beans
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Succession Planting Sweetcorn And Green Beans
Transplanting Cantaloupe And Watermelon
zhlédnutí 119Před 3 měsíci
Transplanting Cantaloupe And Watermelon
Thank you!
Would save your back a big bit if you had an old cart you can modify to put a platform on with a forehead rest on it to lie on your belly, and pull yourself along straddling the beds so you can plant and harvest and b prone with your arms still having push power. Saw a cart Carl Schoeder made like that over at Foxfire farm in Louisburg when they were doing strawberries.
Do you and your wife do all of the picking by yourself? If you do you are workaholics.
It's just us. I drop a trailer full of vegetables at Breadbasket Farmers Market in Topeka at 5:30am and I head to Lenexa Carring all I can. It's very busy every Friday and Saturday.
Nice music at the market! Fantastic rain yesterday!! I was blessed with a bit over two inches!! Of course it would take 4" to fill the cracks, ha ha! God bless you both!!
We received a half inch but will take it!
Hey from Tulsa. Love this implement. We do things a little differently in our ice cream silt loam soil growing strawberries and watermelon. We use hydraulic closing discs and find that we have to readjust them from day to day depending on the moisture content of the soil. Very little adjustment is necessary inside any single day, as long as the soil profile remains consistent. The manual discs would work just as well. Anything is better than our last bedder, which required a wrench to adjust and was a nightmare. Tool-less is the way, and Rain Flo is by far the best at this. We also don't run ours level from front to back and find we get better rear compression with the mouth of the implement higher than the rear discharge. That would likely change in different soils. We're using about 400 pounds of weight on the pan, in the form of solid half blocks made from concrete. Nice video. Hope your operation keeps working as well as it appears to! How many hp do you find you need? The manufacturer recommends at least 80, but I'm convinced more is better since we're building beds that are 9 inches tall with 5 foot plastic. Also, dang you for being a straighter driver than me. 😂 Subscribed!
You have a very nice channel here looking forward to watching all the Vids.
What variety of corn is it.
Matriarch. It's a bicolor sweetcorn
Your corn looks fantastic. Nothing beats fresh sweet corn in the summer. A good tomato sandwich is a close second. 😊
Thank you
That's really neat that you got to visit their store, I really appreciate their channel and hardwork.
Us too!
I must not have planted deep enough because about a third of my sweet corn is falling over or lodging...first time attempt...also the tassles are forming but i don't have any ears on it yet ? Any help ?
Many corn varieties do have tassels before silk. You can hill up your corn if depth is too shallow. Next year plant 2" deep.
@@FreshPickedAcresKS Thank you. I will do that. I only went an inch deep according to the instructions...now i know better !
They do have a fertilizer application device that mounts in the Earthway seeder. Have one, seems to do the job. Like anything else, takes a little peddling around when you first start using it. If the way you are doing works out, no need to make any changes. If you could go thru and hill the corn it would really cover the fertilizer well. Like to hill when about that stage. Be waiting for your report on what you fell about your endeavor. Good luck on the growing season,
Let me know how it works for you
I will be using this idea for my own but a smaller scale for my home grows - nice video thanks for sharing : )
I hope you get a chance to give us an update in a couple weeks to see how it turns out 👍
What a great idea! I have about a 1200 sq/ft plot of sweet corn and have been side dressing with a cup and eyeballing it for years. I already did my side dressing this year but will definitely try it out next year. My corn patch is really small compared with yours but my back is in bad shape so this could help me out a lot. Thanks for the tip!😊
Nice.
Saw a video of someone spraying milk on their plants to kill aphids. Apparenty doesnt kill the beneficials. It was in a greenhouse, but probably it would work in the field if you had a cow and extra milk.
We started using a woven wire plastic fence. Works great. Must be used with ground cover or it will short out.
Green beans also help out your soil
You mentioned they’re profitable for you. I’ve found the labor so high per pound for harvesting that profit is hard to find. With 5-7 minutes to harvest a pound, that’s only 9-12lb per harvest labor hour, not counting the cultivation, planting, transport, or sales labor-or the input costs. How do you keep them profitable?
I don't pay anyone! You do make a valid point.
My favorite to can also! Fantastic with any meal that has potatoes, and what kind of meal would you have without them! Ha! Wish you the best at market!
Looks like that irrigation is going to be just the ticket for our weather! It really shoots the water out there nicely! Last summer was a real bear, some places, like mine, just missed the rains. I live on a hill, and it dries out pretty fast when the rains stop, and I think that every drop will be a real blessing from here on out. Weather man called for 40 mph gusts this afternoon. The hill I live on is wide open to the south and my poor garden will really get a pounding today. I hope it's not blowing quite that hard up at your place. Take care you two and I hope everything grows well for you!!
Thank you. We needed something that fits a small farm at a price we could afford. I think the water coverage is up to 150 feet per diameter. Good luck today and don't blow away!
What is your roll spacing?
Potassium and phosphorus are good when cobs are on.
The bee's should help get everything pollinated
I own the same planter. My farm is close to Lake Superior. Because of weather conditions I was able to first plant my sweet corn last week. Nice idea using your planter to apply fertilizer. Please post follow-up videos on the success of your application. I'm anxious to try it on my crop when big enough. Thanks
Looking good 👍
Thank you!
Great video
Adr you just using the same meter and fingers as corn?
Yes we are. It's working great
Something about this year, I guess!?! I live south of you around LeRoy and pulled a few of my Red Norlands to find them very large for this early, in the season also. Have not checked my Yukon Golds or Kennebecs yet. I don't know why I thought you lived a little farther west than you do? We used to travel to your neck of the prairie to high school sporting events, when my children played. I used to trap before health problems, but it's been ten or so years now. Hoping to muster the energy to catch a few bobcat again next late season. I sure miss it!! Have to see what life tosses my way this year. I'll get some lure from you, if I get after them again. Ed, you and Delia take care this summer and may the weather be great for the gardens!! God bless you both, Brian True
Thank you!
I appreciate it. I'm wondering if Red Norland just happens to be a faster growing potato. My Yukon Golds are behind several more weeks
@@edwardschneider2716 I'll have to check my others tomorrow!
@@edwardschneider2716 Can you show your mellons and how you treat for afids
Love your videos
Thank you
Welcome to my phone! Nice video!😊
What varieties of strawberry plants did you plant. I'm in Eastern kansas
We really like flavorfest
My tomatoes are grown outdoors. I think the wind here in Goodland, KS takes care of all of that for me. 😊 Thanks for the video!
They hand clean that ceiling once or twice a year ... October-November might be the funnest time to go see 'em!
Veggy Boys and Girl's !!
I think storage issue is why so many places try doing you pick scenes. Really, they need good circulation and single layers on paper towels, but you can get by with 2 layers if each has paper towels between the layers. Hard to harvest for market...gotta get out early and pick...best scenario.
I appreciate your feedback!
'When dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass. When grass is dry at morning light, look for rain before the night' is the old saying I learned as a kid.
I love it!❤
Broyans farm is close by too...they have a you tube channel too.. Thanks for the up close and personal of the area.
I've seem there videos. Good people
nice looking field. how do you manage weeds?
IDK what is worse ....... pulling a truck load of cold muddy ones or cleaning all those strings up at the end of season ! 🤣
Love the videos
Thank you
Can it do no till?
It can. Following greenbeans we no till it. But Following a plasticulture field I like to level it out again
Been there ! All that worry , and it's better than you thought all night !!! Glad for yall !
Thank you
Thank you
Proud to call that man my cousin!!
Hey, Scott! Love your high tunnels! See you around 😊
Great work, Scott! You are an amazing farmer! Proud to have you as my cousin. Wish that I lived closer.
Hey Cuz.. It looks great!
These are good planters, I added two aluminum tanks to my planter frame to add ballast. The tanks are 100 gallon each (old sprayer tanks). So when I fill them with water it adds about 1,500 pounds to the unit.
I would like to do the same
@@FreshPickedAcresKS Yes this works really well, when finished planting I pull the plugs and the planter quickly looses all the weight.
How far apart are your rows with the mulch layer and how wide are the rows?
I have a video coming out tomorrow morning us putting more plastic mulch out. Going with 8 feet.