THE WAIT IS OVER (or is it?) SILAGE TARP Reveal
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I promise Kaye you will be happier if you leave that tarp down til spring. The grass rhizomes still have energy to resprout. IMO they have to be cooked by the heat of really hot days in the summer. You pull that tarp up and plant and you will have a perpetual grass fight in that garden.
So, both? No chance of corn this year? I take your advice seriously
@@Latebloomershow I would not do it, seriously!
@@Latebloomershow Kaye, Willow cutting are in the mail.Scheduled to be at you po box Saturday am.
The low-growing bits of green under the tarp appear to be moss, rather than algae. Such an interesting project, best wishes!
The silage tarp definitely needed more time, but it's made good progress.
Keep up the great work, your homestead just gets prettier with every project. Your property is beautiful, just like you. And it's so great that you are taking all of us on your journey, thank you my friend, you are an inspiration. Much love ❤
Thanks, you too! Love you, Angie!
Leave the tarp until spring. I agree with the other comments about the sun and grass rhizomes still present.
My opinion is to burn a bunch of holes in the tarp and get you plants in the ground!!!! To me...would be much less trouble but then again i don't know what you are wanting to do!!!! My little tiny garden looks pitiful with all the rain!!!!!
I do not know what kind of grass you have in Tennessee, however if it is Bermuda, like we have here it will take more time to kill out completely. I would torch it after tilling to eliminate any weed seeds and rhizomes you pulled to the surface. And perhaps leave one tarp down until next Spring. Those beds are fairly large. I think you will have quite a bit of work on your hands with planting just one this season!
When taking the grass out of my front yard using cardboard. We removed the cardboard and did a shallow rototiller then raked up the grass then a deeper till and planted.
How I kill grass and learned from a permaculture technique. Mow the lawn as low as the mower will cut. Then scalp the area with a line trimmer. Leave the grass clippings in place. Then apply a multipurpose fertilizer. I prefer organic fertilizer. Apply the fertilizer at at least twice the recommended rate. Water the area down, then cover with your tarp or cardboard. The over fertilizing will burn the lawn and feed the soil more quickly.
Very interesting!
Yes....you ARE an inspiration! I hope you didn't take my comment wrong!! Was not intended!!! I just worry sometimes the stress you are under!!!! Be safe my friend!!!
No worries! not at all! Your feedback is always welcome!
I would keep it covered till next spring lol
Ditto below. The green stuff is moss. I live in BC Canada and moss is very familiar growing in grass and can overtake a lawn here.
I'm sure I heard a lot of ears turn your direction (squirrels and deer) when you mentioned growing corn.
Darrel can you tell Kaye, the Willow cutting are supposed to be at po box on Saturday. I posted it above but not sure she will read I don't have an email or any way to contact her. Thank you Darrell.
I saw it and will check on Saturday!
@@Latebloomershow ok good was worried it would sit there. I looked it up how to wrap it etc. Also I included some cuttings of my favorite plant in my yard.
Thanks for informing us of this. And what are those cargo pants you are wearing? I need some. The pockets in the Cargo pants, make them so handy to wear, when working around the property). I really like them. And keeping that tarp down until next year would completely get rid of whatever is under there. The hot sun this summer and the heat will even kill bugs and funguses.
I wear cargo pants, too, and absolutely love the handy pockets. You will be glad to have a pair.
These are made by Duluth trading Company which you can order onlineAnd they have different styles but I like this one because the waistband is elastic in the back which makes it much more comfortable for bending
Best wishes for the corn and other crops to be on your homestead! Glad you got that silage tarp on and now off. Hope all will be fruitful in coming couple of months. We were 110 degrees today on my porch in the shade. My poor mini watermelons were OK yesterday but today, I watered extra as they cupped their leaves in heat stress. Wild birds got cool water twice today, too. Two tomatoes were ripe but got hole on their bottom as mice chewed. Oh well.
I think your should till it and cover with tarps for a week or so. That'll kill most of the grass
A fire weeder for the poison ivy. Basically a propane tank wit blow torch attachment kills just what you want.
But does it stay dead? I mean I have so much
Always better to take your time to ensure everything is completely dead under the tarps. If you lift the tarp too soon you will be pulling weeds and grass forever. I would wait a month or so and then till it all and then cover it up again to kill any remaining weeds and seeds. Also a good time to amend the soil if required.
Actually I decided today that I’m gonna try to just take it up because I’m gonna completely missed this growing season if I don’t
Buy your corn this year. I vote for High Tunnels in the new area you had deforrested and near the house. Consider them a MUST HAVE.
I agree except Traci was telling me in Pennsylvania thank God it’s so hot in her high tunnels her tomatoes did not make tomatoes
It takes 6 months to kill off grass and weeds under the tarp. Even then it might regrow in a few weeks. No till method would be to take off all the growth with a lawnmower in the fall. Then put down a good foot of hay and wait until spring. It will be amazing soil. Check out the Ruth Stroud method. Works really well.
I think I thought of her to cover 5000 ft.² would cost me a fortune but I don’t know..? I know Ruth’s Stout was amazing and I’m going to be doing something pretty simple with growing potatoes
Talk to Doug and Stacey on what to do!!
Green stuff is moss., keep covered till spring. You need the heat to build up under tarp.
Hello Kaye....welcome to the south. I recently started watching your youtube page and really enjoy it. Im down in Bama close to OAG. When your ready to remove the tarp. Justin needs to cut and scalp the dead grass. Blowing it back inside the square for compost. By cutting it really short it will be easier to plow the space up. Keep up the great videos and God bless.
Thank you so much! We don’t have a mower, hmmm
Well by the time you plant all the garden spaces, your yard is going to be a lot smaller when it comes to grass mowing. You might want to invest in a mower and you or justin cut it and save a little $$$.
It does need more time! You leave the tarp until everything is gone. Wait until August to put in the brassicas and fall garden. I'm trying purple sprouting broccoli and have just seeded them for planting late in the summer. My corn is "Peaches and Cream" an 80 day sweet corn that I love. I had to replant after the squirrels destroyed my sprouts, but I still have time to get a harvest with the 80 day. I've covered my corn patch with the tulle or voil as you call it but will have to figure out how to keep them off the stocks as they get bigger. It's always something! There's nothing stopping you from putting in 4-5 rows of corn this year. You don't have to plant the whole area. Why not just a small section?
I just made an executive decision today to scrape up the grass. I just don’t have the time to wait and I’m gonna move my tarps over to the new forested area which is all sprouting back so you’re the first to hear about it!
@@Latebloomershow I think that's a wise decision! Gettin' it done, girlfriend!! We do the best we can with what's been handed to us. Keep your chin up!
Great video, I would leave the tarps down longer until next spring to make sure all the roots are dead. You are going to have a big big garden where you have the tarps. Sure glad you have Justin to do the tilling.
You are so funny...TILL next time...lol
Kaye,. I sent Willow cuttings today .Should be at your po box Saturday am.Ready to put in water.
Ok yay!!!
Kaye you are AMAZING! 👏
It's all looking good...👍♥️🙏
How are today Kaye? Watch out for crazy weather this weekend!!
Oh, no!
Might need all summer! Very interestomg project. The fuzzy green is moss, sorta like algae, likes wet areas.
Hey Robyn, I’ve got terrible I don’t know if it’s rust I don’t know what it is but it’s on the apple trees and they look horrible. I didn’t I haven’t sprayed them with anything but when I saw this developing like a week ago I sprayed them with all seasons horticultural oil, but they look absolutely horrible. Any recommendations? Someone said it could’ve been that apple trees get this rust from being near Cedar trees and they’re not real close to Cedar trees but the properly has a lot of them.
@@Latebloomershow This is normal for apples that arent resistant to the rust. The rust happens all the time around here and we dont fight it too much. It wont hurt the apples that are producing on the tree very much. A lot of apple trees will look bad in the middle of summer in the mountains due to the cedar rust but they will bounce back. Its pretty typical for them to look bad in the summer and look fine in the fall and spring. I suggest getting Arkansas Black. They are more tolerant and resistant to the cedar rust. There are other varieties that are resistant/tolerant also.
@@Latebloomershow My neighbor had an apple orchard (with non cedar rust resistant varieites) next to his pond that was full of life and fish etc. He sprayed one time with "organic" natural fungicide, and it killed everything in the pond. Algae started to grow and all the good bacteria died and the pond was a wreck. He removed all the non resistant trees except one apple tree. Its a really great looking tree, and its about 20 years old now and that cedar rust hardly affects it these days. I can see the tree from my office room and i see some cedar rust but not bad at all. Good luck Kaye. Sometimes i just let nature do its thing instead of fight back with treatments, sprays, wire, etc.
Yay Tarp! As a Southern lady myself and having lived in LA...I started watching your Cali city garden evolve. I have a tiny patio in a neighboring state. I control light with umbrellas. Can't tell you how many have flown away like M. Poppins over the last few years. LOL! I love corn too and miss it. Haven't had it in 2 decades. My Naurepathe took me off of it. Glyphosate/Roundup, GMO crops like corn and soybean have destroyed many folks' health and they are sadly unaware. Looking forward to seeing you get your healthy corn, Kaye-
I'm unapologetically a girlie-girl, 😍and I'm just loving your colours and ootd❣👍😁 I use cardboard for no-till. Works quicker, better.😉
Bermuda grass grows from rhizomes. You can not tell if it's dead without digging.Healthy rhizomes are white. Dead ones turn dark and rot. Bermuda has a mighty instinct for survival. I'd expect to have a fall garden in that area since you will need to uncover and wait for rain to hydrate that soil deeply... then watch for regrowth. Dig often to look for signs of regrowth.
That is definitely Moss.
Green moss
I've never heard of silage tarp but a few I know use wet cardboard and top it with straw. Then they separate rows and add beautiful composted soil and plant in it. I have recently learned that corn grows better if you hill it. Hope it works but I'll tell you. I had a 4X8 bed made and I put plastic down and put the bed over it. It stayed that way for 5 weeks and it just didn't kill what was under it the grass still grew just grew over. I gave up and moved it and put down cardboard then topped it with mulch. I'll leave it till next year, maybe do a few flowers this year.
The green grass that you have underneath is 'Lavata'...It never dies Kaye. Reason behind it that they produce the seeds underneath the GROUND. ..Will email u the solution on this..bfn..Sagar
Hi Kaye ,,,, those tarps need at lest 12 mounths from when you cover,, ok
the other solution is to till the area you wish to plant
now your whole homestead is virgin soil never ever been planted,,,, what a god send ,,, O M G whatever you plant will grow it can-t help but grow in abundance
you won-t need any fertiliser,,, mmmm maybe a small amount of black kow,,, thats good stuff ,, dad never fertilised virgin land
till after 12 mount of growing
his produce from the lower pastures were pho-nominal,,
so after Justin has tilled that section plant your veggies
ok ,,,, Kaye see you on the next show
bye bye love from us both,,,,,,,,
The green stuff is moss. You'll have to till to start, but should be able to be no dig after that with some management. Everything is looking great! 4 wheelers are so much fun, aren't they?
I made an executive decision today to take the grass up because I’m going to completely missed this year’s growing season if I don’t
Hi your Are awesome🤗 you have this. And I know you would do a awesome job in your garden around your new home. Keep up the awesome work that you do and thank you for sharing her.
Wonderful !!! Soon you'll be planting !!!
Be careful when grow different types of corn at the same time. Corn is wind pollinated. Sweet corn crossed with flour corn can't be good. :)
Thx, Yes I learned that from my corn farmer friend but flour corn takes too long. I can’t grow that this year
@@Latebloomershow I believe Painted Mountain is a 70 day variety
Was there poison ivy under either of these tarps? I know you are 'itching' to get all your vegetables planted and out of your garage and off the driveway. I would be too. BUT in the long run you would be happier if you leave the tarps down until next year. The tarp needs more time to kill the grass and weeds. With that being said, I am guessing in the next couple of videos you will be showing us the plantings of this area. :0) Stay healthy.
Three weeks? That is definitely not going to be long enough. Three months would be much more effective. The roots have to die. And that's moss, not algae. Moss requires acid soil. I'd have the soil tested before planting.
Can you till then tarp or should you only tarp then till?
You can do it either way it depends on your circumstances. It depends what you have there if you’re starting from lawn I would just mow the lawn tight to the ground and put down the tarp but you have to realize the tarp is going to take minimum three months.
did you do any research on polyethylene and phthalates?
Contains "100% Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE). It does not contain Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)." LDPE is apparently safer to use than other plastics. All plastics have a downside, but this appears to be the safest.