Our First Time Growing Corn in Years
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- We got the big garden of corn hoed and tilled for the first time. It's up and doing good and we are so pleased.
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Tipper n family I don't know why but CZcams has not been allowing me to use the like button on your videos ?? Has anyone else had this happen n how to fix it 🤔
I’ve lived in Ohio for 50 year’s or so and have raised 3 Children here with my wife of 36 years, your videos take me back to my raising in South Eastern Kentucky with all the gardening y’all do and the meals Tipper makes it all just warms my heart.. Keep up the good work and hang in there Matt Lol.. 😂
@@tcmomcoffey4028 Oh goodness that isn't good. I haven't heard of anyone else having trouble. Hopefully it's a temporary glitch and will fix itself. Thank you for trying!! We appreciate you 😊
@@tcmomcoffey4028 Try unsubscribing and resubscribing. Please, let me and Tipper know if it works.😊
I am ready to be eating cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers hot or sweet, potatoes, oh my how good it will be.
Years ago, my husband and I planted corn in a field a little bigger than that…I could hardly walk the next day!!! It grew beautifully until we had a bad wind storm, and it laid the corn down…we were devastated. Then, if by magic, it righted itself in about 24 hours and we didn’t lose a stalk!! We had quite the harvest for freezing🌻 I’ll never forget that summer❤
Thank you for sharing your experience!!
We've been devastated several years too & the magic of the sun drew it back up.
Mother Nature is so amazing to me! 😮❤
That noise of the loud creek would drive me crazy, but I guess it’s what you get used to to. I hope your corn does great .
Id prefer creek noises over what have here! We live on an acre parcel 1/4 mile from RR tracks, and a freeway overpass.@lindawiley878
Pap’s big garden with the creek is my idea of peace on this earth.
Same here
Oh me too!! I love hearing the creek.
I would never get tired of the sound of the creek. I have a small water fountain that I try to replicate the sound.
I so agree! The sound of water and just being near water is so soothing!
I know y'all are excited about getting back in Pap's garden, planting corn 🌽 after years gone by. I'm sure Granny is happy to see it growing crops again. I always worked side by side with my husband. I used to say I worked like a man years ago. Using the tiller, working on cars, running saws... I still work hard, just not like that anymore. Y'all have a wonderful evening. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕👣👣
Thank you! She is very excited about it 😊
When you told Matt to ride his tractor home it reminded me of memory from the 80’s. Southern small town eccentric life. In our town of about 300, we had a couple that were so fun!!!! His name was Commodore and her name was Josephine. He didn’t have a car or truck but he did have an old tractor so when they came to town he pulled a wagon with his tractor and she rode in the wagon, singing all the way. No one thought a thing about it. Bless them!!!! Nothing beats southern rural life!!!
Love that 😊
Nothing better than sweet corn at a summer dinner. We almost treated it like dessert.
It’s so good 😊
Y'all will love that wonderful corn!🌽 So happy for you to have the space again with your children and grandbabies surrounding you. Tipper, you and Matt have followed Granny and Pap's example of hard work and love of family so well. You have a beautiful life and lifestyle and I know you are grateful to the Lord for His blessings😀
A gazebo with a picnic table right next to the creek would be heavenly. Ya'll have such a beautiful place.
I hope poor Matt lives through spring planting.
I feel like he lives for it! 😊
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He's loving every minute of it
@@vickiechapman5205Who Wouldn’t ❤
Every wife assumes her husband loves the work! 😅
man,so blessed having a creek or brook bubbling along beside your place! that's wonderful!!
Thank you for watching!!
I really miss the big garden momma & daddy had every year. Momma was 37 when I was born, but they still had the huge garden til after I got married (I'm youngest of 4 & soon to be 66 yrs old!) I remember helping them can & put stuff up in the freezer. After they got older, they still had a garden, just not as big, maybe a third of the old one. May 21st made 20 yrs daddy's been in heaven. I've been a widow now for almost 3 months. It's still very hard. I love getting to see y'all garden and spend time together. Thats what a good life is all about! May God bless y'all with a wonderful bounty from all the gardens & another precious grandson very soon! Love & blessings from VA! ❤️🩹🙏🥪🍅🥕🌽🥔🍓🥒🫒🌶🧅
Bless you Debbie!! I've been praying for you and thinking of you. I will continue to do both!!
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. Hang in there. Sending blessings and prayers.
I could listen to the sound of the creek all day! I can't wait to see how the corn does for you :)
As an Iowa girl, there is nothing better than sweet summer corn- drenched in butter with a little bit of salt- so good! My cousin grows a huge patch of sweet corn on our farm among the acres and acres of feed corn he plants. We put up corn every summer and enjoy it all winter long! Enjoy!! Do you have problems with deer and racoon? One year a herd of deer wiped out all our sweet corn overnight and that was with electric fence...so sad!
It is so good!! We have several dogs in the holler that help keep them at bay 😊
Matt & Tipper are happiest staying busy doing what they love to do and I appreciate & admire how they take so much pride in ALL they do. Was happy Matt decided to get Pap's tiller which did save him time & hopefully better for his back too. He had more time for his & Tipper's garden side chat. Wishing you a bountiful season. God Bless & Love Y'all.
Can't wait to see the corn 3' tall and waving in the wind. A farmer in a nearby community years ago planted acres of corn and set up an honor stand on the highway. That was designated for his kids' college fund and they're now graduated. His corn is ready in June and people for miles around can hardly wait for it. We hope he continues growing corn.
We don't have much experience growing corn due to lack of space, but we do plant a small block of it. We go from "farm to table" in 20 minutes, just for the thrill of eating it minutes after harvest. You can't buy that at the supermarket, or the farmer's market! Best wishes for a bountiful harvest of corn!
That is wonderful Roland 😊
I love it when Tipper says “We’re Gonna Hoe The Corn” and or “We’re Gonna Do This Or That” and Matt is the one that does all of it Lol.. Some people have a mouse in their pocket but Tipper has a Matt in her pocket Lol..
Tipper is always very good to help, especially with cooking delicious things to eat for her family!
And she worked beside him.
"We" always includes the Project Manager 😉
Yay! Corn hoeing time! Hope its High as an elephants eye by fourth of July! 😊
I always heard knee-high by the fourth of July. I think I like yours better.
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Tractor, corn field, gazebos and a future barn, does this all make you full time farmers yet?😂 We got to love that y'all share yourselfs with us. Its a peaceful easy feeling. 🎶😊
The garden is beautiful! I love the creek so much! I am amazed by how clean and clear it is.
Thank you 😊
Good job guys. Hey, now I got a visual of Matt driving the tractor with Tipper in the bucket. 😂 Love y'all. Continued prayers to everybody.
😊 thank you Tony!!
The hole in the tree looked like a ❤️.
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Yes, the tree by the beautiful creek ,looks just like a heart , so amazing it grew like that ,
In Alabama where I grew up with my daddy & grandma we had wonderful creeks ,
But not here in Montgomery County, Texas.
I love seeing that wonderful clear creek , that's a blessing.
Be safe * God bless
Mrs josette
Montgomery County, Texas 🙏
Seeing Matt work his garden makes me homesick for ,my childhood days with Daddy doing as Matt is doing . Daddys favorite corn was all so Silver Queen. Love all u do sharing your
lives with us
Pap would be so proud of you and Matt❤
God Bless y'all both! Nobody realizes what at workout a garden can be unless they've actually had to run a tiller or hoe the rows. It's amazing how tired you can get and the new muscles you can find that you didn't know you had! Lol! My Granddaddy had a big garden and I remember him using the old tractor and the tiller on it and everyone else out there hoeing it behind him. To keep the deer out of his big garden, he planted a pea patch on away from the garden and half tended it for the deer to eat. It helped keep them away from our garden! Ms. Tipper, the easiest tool my Great Grandma had to work with was a hoe that a friend had cut the blade of it where it was in a point shape, like a triangle. It was small, pointed, and very accurate. Maybe you can have someone make you one like that. Sending y'all Love and Best wishes from Memphis!~
This video brings back so many wonderful memories of my Papa Gene (grandfather) he kept a dipper in a tree by the "crick" to drink from. That was the BEST water
Daddy always planted silver queen corn.
11:47 Matt needs a large gazebo with a picnic table and a hammock by the creek. 😅
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I sure do admire everyone's ambition.
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Love too see Tipper and Matt work the Garden.I know it’s hard work.My husband
Would never let me work in the garden.He always said it was his garden.lol❤❤❤❤
I'm hoping y'all will harvest the best corn you've ever eaten! My favorite is Peaches and Cream variety.
❤ Candy corn is good too.
I hope so too!
I love your creek rock. Reminds me of when I was young. We had a creek tree with many long roots that hung out over the water. We could walk down them like steps & sit at the bottom hidden by the bank dipping our feet in the water. Such a peaceful place in my memory.
Matt and Tipper, just to say we.love you and your whole family soo much, very thankful to know yall on u tube!!❤❤
Thanks so much
TIPPER I AM VERY HAPPY YOU AND MATT ARE GROWING 🌽!
I’m so excited for you all to have this huge space to grow your corn in. I pray your corn works out for you this year. It’d be so nice just to have your own right there to enjoy any time you want it. The creek is so beautiful. What a magical thing it’s been for everybody in so many individually different ways. Your whole place feels magical to me, and I am so grateful that you all share it with us here. I feel like I can sort of have a little taste of that magical peace too. Thank you for that gift. It makes a difference in my life in a very real way now that I am in this dang old wheelchair and can’t get out and be in nature like I used to. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Be well & take care.
I'm so glad you enjoy what we do!! Thank you so much 😊
Matt, I'll bet that old tiller knows it's way around that garden!!
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From MI here, and I want to say you have a wonderful vocabulary.
I really enjoy your stories.
Wow, thank you!
Y’all are so inspiring.
When you said “seeds WANT to grow”, I thought I’d try my hand more at gardening from seed almost exclusively! Yours is my absolute favorite CZcams channel!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much 😊
We had a creek just like that in behind my gr
Andra’s house. I loved it. We would see minnows in there, all the time! If it came a big rain, it would flood the back yard!!!!
I just love the sound of the creek running in the background.
I can just see a picnic table down by the creek in the shade Matt working in the garden and Tipper brings down a big picnic basket full of good things to eat Katie Ira Corie and Austin all settin around the table enjoying a good dinner on a hot summer day
That tiller knew which way to go seems like.
I'm thrilled for you with the corn. Thank you for bringing us along on the garden update Tipper and Matt.
Our pleasure!
I plant Hickory King corn. Same line of seed has been in my family for well over a 100 years. I love the field corn taste and it makes the best fried corn ever. Silver Queen is our second corn we grow for freezing and making corn meal. You guys sure make a great couple and the best and most honest videos. Keep up the good work.
That is amazing! I’m so glad you have that corn 😊 thank you!!
That creek beside the garden is so peaceful. There's just something about the sound of natural running water like that.
Such a beautiful spot for the garden, by the creek. I always think gardening and preparing and preserving the food is a spiritual thing. You see God's hand everywhere. I was taught to use, preserve, and share the bounty, and those things we preserve, grow, or hunted taste so good on a cold winter day. God bless.
Watching y'all being able to grow corn makes my heart happy for you. I miss my big garden . We grew candy corn. So yummy and i miss it. I even miss all the hard work . Living vicariously through y'all lol. Praying a bountiful harvest for you.
Thanks so much 😊
Pap's garden is perfect with the creek running through it's a piece of heaven on earth ❤❤ I don't like it when your video just abruptly stops 😢 I so enjoy listening to you and Matt just talking ❤
Wow corn looking good ,I love corn,my favorite, God bless your garden and all the family❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉is 🎉
Thank you 😊
I haven’t grown corn in about 7 years. I'm a fellow CZcamsr, I would appreciate it if y'all would keep my oldest daughter Jessica and her family in your prayers. They live in Arkansas and a tornado went through their area last Saturday and it destroyed their home. Three huge trees fell on and into their house. It will be a total loss because of structural damage, praise the Lord they were not home. A beam from the ceiling went through my grandson’s bed. Thank you!
I'm so sorry! I will pray for Jessica and her family.
Prayers to you all. Sending best wishes for a successful gardening season. May you find strength through your work. The holler will have sweet echoes of your grandsons voices soon. The next generation to live. Learn and reap the bounties of Celebrating Appalachia.
I could listen to the sound of water running down your creek all day. ❤ I do believe that Matt is the hardest working man I’ve ever seen. Tipper I know you and your girls appreciate all of Matt’s hard work as much as he appreciates all that y’all do too. You and your family are such a godly example for young people today.
I bet Paps would be proud yall have got his & Granny's garden broke back up & planted. It has to be a great feeling to be able to plow & drop seeds where your dad once did and hopefully, God willing have a bountiful harvest.
To me the free flowing creek would really be a motivation for working the garden, with a peaceful sedifaction also.
What a blessing.God is Good.
Happy farming. Great video. I wish I could have personally meet and knowed Paps & his inspirational God pleasing music in person.
I feel sure I'll meet him in Glory one day. God bless you all at Wilson Holler. Hello & Prayers for & to Granny. Would love to here her talk again, Good Lord willing. I understand if she is not able. Her & Paul singing is TOPS.&Blessing. THKS.
That creek just makes this spot heavenly. ❤
Such precious memories of working in Pap's corn field, must make you sense him there with you. I love Matt's sentimental gesture of going to get Pap's tiller to work the rows. Gardening is a special thing that connects us to those we loved and who have gone on before. ❤
I love that your family is able to live close together in a beautiful calm quiet place. Wish it was my family. :-)
You all have really expanded the size of your garden through the last several years. The corn field is looking good. I love the talk about the hope and prayers that are perpetually in the heart of gardeners. Here's to a bountiful harvest.
Thanks so much
Siunds great! Corn can be a beast to look after!
I’m excited to see your corn grow!!
Thank you 😊
I agree 💯% with you Matt about them not making things like they used to make them. I just had to replace my washer of 14 years. I paid twice as much for the washer alone than I did for the washer and dryer 14 years ago. I am certain that this double priced washer won't last 14 years. Sigh...and they call that progress?
You guys work so hard!!! You are such an inspiration. I admire your staunch determination to get things done as well as your cooperation with each other!!! I can hardly wait to see your work come to fruition💝💝🙏🏻💝
Thank you so much!
ENJOYED THE VIDEO TODAY as Usual, but for Different Reason. ❤It brought back Memories for ME of My Childhood & Even Young Adult..Planting & Working with Mom & Daddy in the Cornfield & (Truck Patch-we called it) ONLY had potatoes in the truck patch..I remember Pulling weeds between the corn 🌽 when Younger because I was Shorter. WHAT I WOULD GIVE FOR A BACK , Spine & Legs & Feet That worked and Be able to Have a Beautiful Garden like You All..ENJOY THE BOUNTY & GOD BLESS.. ❤
Tipper, I hope you'll write a book about gardening, tips and experiences. You've got enough garden stories for many books. Love your videos!
I went to college in Iowa. We would get the water boiling then cross the highway, pick the corn, shuck it while walking back, drop it in the water for 3 minutes, then get an actual taste of Heaven. Y’all are all set to do it.
Wise man you are in getting that workhorse of a tiller. They don't make that kind of quality these days. With tools like that plus your beautiful tractor, it makes work a pleasure ... oh ... maybe that's not the best word. 😊
Thanks 👍
Nice creak youhave there,you have a big patch of land there to grow things in it ,may you have lots of vegetables.❤
I hope we both have better luck than I did last year! I grew acres of it growing up, but never put my hand to it as an adult until last year. I planted about a 4'x8' patch so it would have a better chance to germinate. I planted them in a 6" grid, about 100-120 stalks, half indian corn and half silver queen. And they were going along pretty as could be, until one night it comes up a cloud and the wind was so bad it blew the whole stand of corn down. I wound up harvesting ONE SOLITARY EAR!
Last week I decided to try again with some heirloom popcorn I was told is named Amish Purple. I'm praying for gentle winds this summer.
Y’all been working hard and it will pay off come harvest time!
Maybe instead of a gazebo, you could build/plant a grape arbor? It would provide nice green shade and fruit, too. The house my parents built, where we lived until I was six, had a grape arbor and it was lovely, especially when the grapes were ripe.
That’s a big cornfield! It’s great that you can use a tiller in it. Can’t wait to see you guys eating the corn!
So sweet you are doing corn!! I got "called out" on a local garden page for my choice of fertilizer. I'm 66, not doing bags of compost anymore. Thanks for being honest about good fertilizer you use.
I’m so excited about the new garden! I was wondering if you could show drone coverage of the layout of your property, including the big garden, grannies house and Corrie and Austin’s house. Thanks for the video! Love you guys.
The corn will usually pick itself back up. Our corn was blown down on the ground and looked terrible. The next day the sun came out and it stood back up beautifully.
Loved the video!!
That new grandson will be arriving soon, and I'm so excited for y'all. ❤❤
You could make a little shade gazebo that could double as an outdoor kitchen. Can’t wait to see it grown🥰
Corn looks good my family always used 10 10 10 best thing ever everything going to make good stay cool and God bless you all
Thank you 😊
Gardening is hard work. Both of you are hard workers.
Tipper, if Matt had jury duty or something to where he couldn't work the equipment, would you be able to do it, you think? I know youve been around this stuff your whole life, but Ive never heard you say one way or another. 😊
By equiptment, I mean the tractor, or tiller or heavy machinery.
😊 I can man the tiller but not the tractor
@CelebratingAppalachia never too late to learn!
We plant hickory king corn. It’s my favorite fried or on the cob. My husband likes to be in the garden early. Best time of the day.
Tipper, you remind me of my cousin. She loved to plant and work in her garden.
Had our first corn on the cob for supper tonight. It was decent, but not like right out of the field. We have a condo now and we sure miss the garden we had 5 years ago. We now have a few tomatoes in planting bags on the patio and they look good. Bush varieties seem to work best in bags. They were out of the Cherokee Purples at the green house. We did get the last German Johnson they had. Love y'all.
Happy to see you start your corn crop! I finished planting my garden yesterday! Hooray! Now comes fighting the critters, mosquitos, and the weeds.😁 We planted silver queen this year ,too. Its Hubbys favorite.
I hope and pray yalls corn does good corn is delicious and God bless everyone ❤️ 🙏
Your bounced and beat = my jarred and jeered!
Looks like a great harvest in your future!!
Y’all work might hard! But today I did too! Glad I was able to! Weeded my flowers and work a bit in the garden ! Harvested my garlic! Just a wonderful time outdoors!
That is awesome!
Looking forward to watching the corn growing this summer. Hope to hear ya'll use some for cornbread. God Bless.💚& 🙏🙏 for Granny & all. Jean
A big garden for sure is a lot of work but the bounty sure makes it worth it , my job when I was a kid was hoeing the tomatoes and potatoes, I remember that I hated hoeing.
Always start early! Before the sun comes up is what I was taught.
Yall need a little spot cleared out in that creek to just lay down in it, to cool off after you work the garden. Wouldn't that be a treat? A popsicle while you lay in the creek. That's living LARGE!
Just LOVE the Silver Queen corn - my favorite!
Mr. Binks seems to be growing on ya'll. He's just makes himself at home.
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I've got 2 cats, a Siamese, who is queen of the house, and a long-haired black cat who is our trash-can kitty. LOL
You just gotta love'em.
Hugs 🤗 and God's blessings 🙌
Oh, my grandparents always grew Silver Queen corn. It was our favorite too! 🌽
Fresh corn on the plate can't be beat! ~ Deb
Love the creek!
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Hope you will have a wonderful Silver Queen Harvest!!🌽🌽🌽❤🕊️ Lord's Blessings,All❤
We grow corn around the farm every year but this year we're not growing as much because my uncle passed away in March just not the same without him watching it grow great video thanks for sharing 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I weed my garden by hand too. I have one tool a stirrup hoe that I’ll use but other than that, I use my hands. 😊
That tree lined creek is a wonderful sight
Everything looks wonderful in the garden, y'all work so hard, you're going to really enjoy the harvest.
Thank you 😊
Great you get to have one of my next favorite things in a garden after tomatoes.🌽🌽💯💯
I love the sound of the creek
Silver queen used to be what our local farmer's grew to sell along the road side. But now it seems like they are all growing bread and butter. Either one is fine with me. Cant wait to see how it progresses up to harvest time. I am so happy for you guys.