Planting Pumpkins and Transplanting Vegetables - Vlog 16
Vložit
- čas přidán 16. 06. 2019
- We finally got our pumpkins planted and most of our early vegetables. We plant pumpkins on cereal rye so they will mature on bed of clean straw mulch and our warm season vegetables are mostly planted on raised beds covered with plastic mulch.
That's really cool the way to plant them thanks
Thanks for watching Rick!
It is really cool to see how all this hard work actually gets done! Thanks Jason!
All this hard work is cutting into my backpacking time, lol! Thanks Korbin!
Thank you for all the info
no problem, hope it was helpful
Here in Dayton farmers haven’t even had a chance to plant yet because of all the rain it’s been pretty bad love all your videos keep up the good work
Well, two weeks after this was filmed I am singing a different tune now here on the veggie farm....we are completely saturated and will start getting way behind on our succession plantings now. This season is starting off very rough but we are fortunate to have gotten our 1,200 acres of corn and beans all in. Thanks Jason!
💯
Glad you got caught up. For anyone that has not tried a candy onion, "do so"! They are awesome.
There are easy onion to grow and taste great!
Great job getting caught up!!! Excellent work at sharing the farming story Jason. I have been enjoying it. :-)
Thanks Jeremy! But now we are behind again! Its been a tough season.
Looks like you got a good crew there. Nice job !
Thanks Niko! Having a great crew to help out makes a big difference.
I think I need to experience this next year!
Your welcome to visit anytime! Even though it appears that we have gotten a lot of crops in, in reality we have only begun and are now way behind again. Sweet corn planting go on until July 17th and green beans till Aug 1 and with all this rain we have now missed a planting and will have a gap in harvest. Half of our raised beds with plastic have not been laid yet for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th plantings of warm season crops and now they are getting behind. If this rain does not stop it will be our worst year in 20 years of growing vegetables and there is not really any good insurance for this, just NAP and it sucks...I don't even buy it anymore.
Everything is starting to come to plan 🙌
We are way behind again!
@@jasonwish-
I figured you were way behind schedule
Mother nature can be quite cruel to Farmers just for her enjoyment
glad you got caught up. looks liked all worked out
Fast forward two weeks and we are way behind again....we need a good week of sun and no rain!
@@jasonwish- I agree it getting pretty bad around here we had tons flooding.
Really enjoying these behind the scenes look into farming. Glad the weather has cooperated to allow you to finish planting. Do you grow your own seedlings that you are planting? Do you have areas that are set aside for “pick your own” vegetables? Will you be doing more videos on the equipment.. what each piece does and how it works? Hope celebrating includes a kayak trip down the river or a weekend backpacking trip!
Unfortunately the weather has not been cooperating again....its been a rough go this season! I will try to make a video highlighting our vegetable equipment....thanks for the suggestion! We do grow all of our own seedlings for transplanting. We no longer do pick your own as that segment of our business has died off with the growth of so many Farmers' Markets. And yes, we did a Memorial Day Kayak trip....coming real soon!
Hello Jason, thank you for sharing this fine video. That is fascinating equipment. Do you have any job openings for planting pumpkins?
:- ) it looks like your crew is having fun. Be safe out there. Hope to see you out in the woods soon. The very best to you and family. 🤗
We try to make it fun out here and be safe at the same time. I need a few more comfy seats on that pumpkin planter and everyone will be fighting for that job 🤣 Hope to make it out into the woods soon! Thanks Ronald!
Thanks for your videos, super interesting! What weight and type of plastic do you use for your raised beds/vegetables? Can you only use it for one season? Looking for affordable options.
Thanks! We use black micro embossed film in the one mill thickness for long season crops like tomatoes and peppers but for just about everything else we use BioGold black embossed biodegradable film that degrades into the soil from light and heat, no need to pick it up and dispose of it like with the regular black embossed films. The biodegradable film is absolutely only good for one season. The regular films could probably be used for two years, but we have never done that. There are many places to purchase the films, but we get ours from Martins produce supplies in Pennsylvania. We will be going into much more detail on all of this on our Farm channel, please check it out if interested: youtube.com/@wishwellfarms?si=cHHYsuW1rpuESIwa
When you said you grow beets on mulch do you start those in the greenhouse or do you poke holes in the mulch and then drop seeds in
The beets are seeded in trays in the greenhouse and transplanted through the plastic just like the other plants. We have done seeds right through the plastic as well but we like the transplants better.
Do you plant beets as seedlings or seeds. Is the spacing with water wheel 18 inches for beets?
most people plant beets by seed but we start them in the greenhouse and plant them 1 foot apart since that is the closest setting we have on our water wheel planter...we put 3 rows on each raised bed covered with black plastic mulch.
please consider following our farm channel where we post two vids each week about the veggie farm: www.youtube.com/@wishwellfarms/videos
What’s your herbicide program on those pumpkins? This is all the more reason for me to pick up an old JD7000. I’m assuming a burn down on that tall rye and plant through it may be enough with 30” row spacing
I use 20 gallons of 28% nitrogen with a quart of Roundup to kill the rye right after I plant And then go back in right before a rain after planting with one pint of command 3ME, one and a half pints of Dual magnum and 1 ounce of Sandia/permit. I have put it all on together before also, depending on when rain is coming , and yes those are 30 inch Rows. I do have to lift my row cleaners up out-of-the-way because they get completely tangled up in the rye and I remove my fertilizer coulters as well. I used to roll the rye down with a cultimulcher ahead of time and that helped with a tangled mess that I get. If you have Mares tail this herbicide program will not work very well, sometimes I have to spray some 2-4 d over the rye before it heads out if I see Marestail.
Jason Wish - Wishwell Farms definitely need that UAN to help get the glyphosate in that rye plus the rye kinda preserves that N for the pumpkins to use. Command, Dual and Sandea sounds like a good idea as a pre emerge and probably a little less expensive that incorporating strategy. Stellar use of the corn planter! My gears are turning for next season already! Luckily in central Maine we don’t have the Marestail issues. Great information thank you!
@@thomas35569thanks! That's what I've always heard about the N in the rye as well. Marestail destroyed my crop last year, you are very fortunate. My pumpkins are looking awesome so far this year. A crop update video should be dropping this weekend sometime.
Are all of your vegetables sold at farmers markets or do you also wholesale to grocery stores?
Dennis Aker we are about 99% retail at farmers market’s and our own roadside stand on my farm. Only about 1% is Wholesaled to a local supermarket in our hometown. We used to Wholesale to about a dozen supermarkets about 15 years ago but with the growth of farmers markets there are plenty of options for selling at them and there is much more margin as long as you I have plenty of good help.
What's your spacing for peppers tomatoes and melon side they're plastic?
2 1/2 feet on tomatoes, 3 feet on melons and a double row for peppers at 1.5 feet
At about 1:34, a pepper plant flies by your head... Was it Ethan or Jocelyn I wonder? Lol
Good Shepherd Gaming pretty sure that was Jocelynn lol. I nearly got hit a few other times. Some of them are just weeds and not peppers.
You planted pumpkins in tall grass - do they grow that way ?
Jeffrey J that is perennial rye not grass. After we plant our pumpkins we kill it with round up and it Will die and lay down flat in the field under the pumpkins like straw and keeps them nice and clean and free of soil diseases.
Jeffrey J this is actually the way that most pumpkins are grown now. Thanks for the comment!
@@jasonwish- Thank you
Hi there ,any problems with slugs or snails?
Never had a snail problem but we see slugs from time to time on the bottom side of the pumpkins but they have never been a problem during the harvest season. Now on strawberries, that's a different story....always have lots of problems with them but if you get the slug bait spread in time its usually not too bad.
@@jasonwish- thanks
What are candied onions?
The variety of sweet, yellow onions that we plant are called Candy Onions...kind of like a spanish onion.