Great idea. I put a stake in, when the peas are about 6 inches. I tie it to the stake, and they naturally grow up and around. I have grown them in a large container up against the fence and they seem to attach without any help. I grow sweet potatoes the same way. Good video I hope you enjoyed your harvest.
I keep simple, as soon as peas are few inch I tie twine so I stretch them to reach and twist them onto the twine. Every few days a new string across and an inch or few inches up higher. It works perfect every time like this way. Simple is best
Your followers are asking great questions, I really appreciate your answering so many of them! It is very informative to get your responses and adds to the content you are showing.
My potatoes are in 15 gallon containers & they are doing great! It's such a wonderful feeling, seeing as last year was disappointing. I did this same thing to my peas. It sure does help with guiding them. Hoping we get a great harvest. Tfs Travis 🙂
Sent by Deep South. Hard act to follow but with their recommendation here I am. We have 91 acres but not living on it. Good turkey and deer hunting; if building materials will come back down some, we gonna live there one day homesteading like you guys. Good luck 🍀
I was sad at first because you didn't say it but then you made my day! Alright, alright, alright! My peas are not finding my trellis either. Next year I'll try this!
Now your on the right tract with "gardening". You were always the one I listened to about the science of gardening. This is what I tune into a gardening channel for..Keep it up!!
As a new gardener I also appreciate the videos with helpful tips. The planting, growing and harvesting videos are a wealth of info. Keep them coming. Proud student of HU and now LDFU!
Your potato crop looks stellar! I'm not grow any spuds this year, but I use that same trick to get my snow peas up the cattle panel. All your tips are helpful because we share the same ag zone, 8B, although I'm in north central Florida. It's very helpful for me to know when you do, or did things, like when you started your tomatoes in seed trays so they are now a foot tall. It's also nice to see what your family will end up doing with the harvests. I've always looked forward to your videos.
My English peas look exactly like yours and every time I’ve tried to get them to the trellis, they have broken. Yes they are way more tender than beans. I really appreciate the tip. Will definitely try this!
In TX zone 9 - first time growing potatoes they are flowering so we will see - planted at end of January so hopefully they will be ready to harvest soon! Great show today.
Like the channel. I do this method to tie-up lots of different plants when they get over-grown, including putting a movable one in the middle. It will work but you will to need to put on a second higher string in a while.
My potatoes are doing great thus far. Purchased seed taters from Hoss again this year. I even had a small kill with a late March freeze and they came back strong! Have several peas growing at this time and they also seem to be doing well. This year I just bought a bunch of varieties, mixed them all together, pre-sprouted them and also did some starts and every single seed or start has produced a viable plant.
Great pea tip! I did this with my peas to help them get closer to the trellis, too. It really does the job! They grabbed on and shot up and are now blooming. This is my first year for peas. I didn’t plant enough, but now I know and can plan for more next time.
Alright, Alright, Alright. Glad to see you are Alright. Hope your venture works out Fabulous!! Won't be long now till the Merchandise starts popping up. Folks we have ourselves a Channel!
My potatoes are just breaking through the ground good. Central Kentucky. I planted a few days before Good Friday. Which is when I’ve always heard to plant them here. My dad uses that stob and string method to support his Roma beans. It helps keep the weight of the beans from laying the bushes on the ground and causing the beans to rot.
Thanks for that little tip, I like to use the round plastic tomato clips for all my trellising. They are much easier then trying to feed the vines through the netting or fence, and can be reused.
Hey Travis! Another good one. My potatoes are looking great! I usually plant my seed potatoes whole and get little to no harvest and they are small. So this year I am trying all of your tricks. Started off slow because my cut potatoes looked shriveled and rotted. But once I posted the pictures everyone said go ahead and plant them and I did and mine look great thank you for all your teaching!
Hey buddy. My wife and I went all in Hoss cause of you. Glad we found your new channel. I'll be curious to see if your taters taste like mustard at all. Keep us posted on that at harvest. Best of success to you, from North Cackalakie (Carolina)
Travis, potatoes look great. Mine are just now starting to break the surface and of course we have another chance of snow and freezing temps this week. But, I guess it is our version of all the rain y'all have had down in your area. Still waiting for the potatoes to grow tall enough for the first hilling. Interesting fix for the peas which don't want to train on the trellis. Thanks
@@LazyDogFarm Well, the freezing temps did not listen and we got over an inch of heavy wet snow. Plus side is that it will insulate the potatoes for the cold snap to follow.
I planted potatoes March 20. Everything looks good so far. I planted a couple varieties from y'all that you've got in that plot so I'm excited to see how yours do since you'll harvest a couple weeks before me! And the pea idea is genius!
Hi Travis. Thanks for the tip on the peas; sure looks like that will help. My potatoes are also doing well with hardly any insect pressure and I have not sprayed anything yet. Probably will spray a bit for prevention over the next day or so. Enjoyed the video. Looking forward to the next one.
Zone 6 here. Peas in and up about 3" Had about 3" of snow yesterday the is almost gone today. They should be fine. Will be putting in potatoes in a few days. Going to try in 10 gal buckets this year, to save garden space. We'll see how it works. Waiting anxiously for consistent warm weather.
I actually took the risk and planted my tatters on valentine's day. Have not sprayed them at all and I'm quite surprised they are doing as well as they are. Had one instance where the devil ants got in there and took one of my plants out. My row looks almost like yours do, and I'm quite proud of them.
Good looking potato patch you got there Travis and it’s clean. Did not plant any spuds this year. Transplanted a row of okra today. Corn is up we planted 4/7 I think I had a planter malfunction had a good many skips but hand planted the skips 4/15 looking for them to be up end of next week. Waiting on my onions to fall over so we can harvest them first time planting onions 5 / 30 foot 🦶 rows. Good luck to the lazy dog channel.
Love the “in the garden” video. You are so knowledgeable and you share the tips that we are always eager to hear. We’ve learned a lot from you so keep these videos coming! We planted red potatoes about the same time you did and they are looking great as well! No pest issues as of yet.. We are in East Texas...the big town of Dodge.
Perfect timing! I was just wondering about what to do with my peas today and not that this is a completion or anything, but I’m in south west TN, and I’m pretty sure my peas are a tad bit taller than yours so I’m feeling darn good about my first TN pea harvest.
We should have planted ours a month earlier than we did, but it looks like temps may stay moderate for the next couple weeks. So we may have a chance at still getting a harvest or two.
@@LazyDogFarm That Feb. freeze put us back on our pea planting and I'm hoping the mild weather will help us as well. I had some long garden stakes that I used to lay on the ground right next to my peas that gave them just enough help to reach for my trellis. I did that right before I saw your video and when I went out the next morning, some of them had already grabbed on over night.
Very informative video, as usual ! Great tip on the peas. My Yukon Golds will be ready in about four weeks, here in SW Florida. Bug pressure has been really bad, been spraying every week. Will try a cover crop next year for sure. Thanks again for the excellent video !!!
Will you incorporate chickens back into your homestead for cover crop purposes? I know several years ago you did a video on using chickens to forage around your crimson clover cover crop to add nitrogen, etc to the soil.
I like that twine idea for the peas. I’ll have to try it in the fall. It’s already too hot for peas in SoAZ. My current peas are done. I grow mine on a cattle panel arch. My potatoes are doing great! They’re in grow bags and almost all the bags are full of dirt now. I’ve been hilling them every two weeks as they grow.
My first attempt at potatoes. I would say about half of them have sprouted and are coming up (planted 4 weeks ago). The red potatoes seem to have done better. Pretty sure I just need better soil conditions. Wish I had your lush, full rows!
I also have the very best potatoes I’ve ever grown. What I think I’m seeing with my pole beans that are about to start climbing is the plants want to lean toward the direction with the greatest amount of sunlight. If the fence is in that direction, they train on their own. If the fence is on the opposite side I have to intervene and train them personally.
So happy I stumbled onto your site because I didn’t know what happened to you. We’ve missed you!!! Love your tips and watching your garden grow. My potatoes have had it rough here in NWFL. This is my first year growing them. We battled brown spot, worms and now they are getting a yellow tint so what can I do for them?
I haven't started potatoes yet, those will go in soon, only doing sweet potatoes and I have great success here in Florida 9b doing them in the summer...also love the music choices on your channels
If you and I were buddies I'd never let you live down "vegetable fairy" but since this is public and polite... I'm glad to see this channel. I'm a big fan of all your work. Beautiful family too.
@@LazyDogFarm Lol, sure. I have seven raised beds. Every plant is from Hoss. They're doing great. I believe in the next few days I'm going to tarp down some areas to start my own dream garden. I think two patches... potatoes and Alliums. I wonder if I can make the sand here (just outside Gainesville, FL) work. Anyway, thanks for the show and inspiration.
Found you! We were wondering where you were. Thought you went cross country in your Pop Up. Lol. Our potaoes are starting to come up. They are slightly on a hill. Good to see you Travis!
Regarding your potatoes, I think you might be right about the mustards helping reduce pest pressure. I think horseradish are mustard relatives and it's often said that horseradish reduces Colorado potato beetles. I've had good luck in this regard for the last couple of years and it MIGHT BE due to the horseradish. It might be because they were grown in raised beds about 500 ft from the former patch.
Alright, Alright, Alright! I love the familiar format Travis! I always have the same problem with peas and pole beans. Seems like I always have to help them find whatever I want them to climb on at first. I am having a seemingly great year with my potatoes too. I’ve never really grown them before, but I followed your planting suggestions and they’re going crazy. I did put them on tape though but I put a row start valve on them so I can only water when absolutely necessary and fertilize that way too. I haven’t fertilized with anything except compost but I think I’ll shoot a little 20-20-20 to them and see what they do. I’ve seen people side dress with similar granular fertilizer but it’s a lot easier with the injector, lol.
Great tips! I use this method of tying pea plants every summer on my zipper peas to get them to climb up. Otherwise They bush and vine out so quickly, I can’t get between the rows.
My Yukon Gold potatoes look like yours. They are about 3 feet tall and no bugs in sight. Problem is, I'm not hilled as high as you are. I ran out of dirt... I'm down to clay. When they are this tall, (at this stage of growth) will trying to hill again get me more taters? I have a lot of fairly well composted wood chips that I could throw on them for "hilling". Also, is it too late in their cycle to fertilize again? (I did the Complete pre-plant and one dose of 20-20-20) Thanks, Trav Great videos!
I don't see an issue with adding the chips so you can cover more of the plant. Not sure it would make more potatoes, but definitely would help keep the potatoes covered until they're ready to dig. If they look green and healthy, you might not need to fertilize again.
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no bugs on my taters this year. But i let loose some mantids and we have hue wheel bugs here. And over the last few years i find the mantid and wheel bug eggs sacks on my blueberries. Bug pressure has dimished quite a bit over the last couple years.
My first year with English peas. The pattern I've been seeing is they flop like they are drunk till they are a foot or so long and then they make a sharp turn(up I guess). Anyway I use that crook in the main stem to finally hang them up. Seems to take forever to get to that point though.
You mentioned not puncturing your drip tape. Last year was my first year for drip tape and i love it. Howevwr i punctured my tape three different occasions and then i had two ruptures i dont know the cause. I had one emitter flowing heavy for no reason. I dont know how long tape last or how to put the drip hose on and if i can run it on top or how far below. If i had it on top i wouldn't have poked a hole in it. How do you repair tape or when do you replace it. I also struggle to get the drip tape end termination to not leak...so i was wondering if you would ever do a complete show on drip tape, drip tubes and repairing and things not to do
We just a coupling to patch a hole in tape. Just cut out the section of tape with the hole, and connect them back together with the coupling. We'll try to do more drip tape content when springs rolls around and we start installing more of it.
Hey dude, love the channel. I'm growing reds and yukon golds in a raised bed. I bought organic reds and yukon golds from Walmart, stored them in my pantry for little over a month( had nice two inch or so eyes). I planted them the first of March and they are looking great. The yukons are about two feet tall and the reds slightly shorter. So far, no pest problems. Should I spray for insects now or wait till I see signs of them? Anyway, enjoy watching your channel and have learned lots of do's and don'ts. Keep going strong dude.
I know this is an old video, but I've been dealing with the same thing, but I'm growing my peas up an A-frame trellis, not realizing vertical would've been better. But before hurricane helene came, I ran a few rows of twine to keep my vines close to the trellis and ended up leaving it since it really helped them climb. Is there much risk of disease with the plants/leaves pressed up together? I'm only doing 2 rows, with trellis in between, but the vines are getting pretty tangled and leaves overlapping... first time growing peas here!
sometimes we make do with a hammer but really they're mostly good for driving nails. have a 2 pound short club hammer that is a lot better for driving things into the ground. nice tip about the peas. wondering what's the benefit of the dilute fish emulsion when i use a 20:20:20 that has trace elements. It's an expensive way to provide fertilizer however, several studies have shown that fish emulsion forms various acids that help ward off some plant diseases in young plants. might be the fish emulsion that kept disease at bay, instead of the mustard covercrop.
I have one of those hammers too, but it wasn't close by so we just had to hit them a few more times. Could very well be the fish emulsion -- good point!
Because the trellis netting is tied to those posts as well. So it would have been a little more difficult to navigate around that and keep the string really tight.
Hey Travis, I just planted the red ripper Peas since I live in South Florida where it’s extremely hot and humid. I am trying the arch out of cattle panel and in my haste and excitement of finally planting the seed I did not add my granular inoculant. Would it be beneficial to just re-seed and thin them out or pour the inoculant on top of where I’ve seeded? Thanks and love the new videos
Yeah y'all have surely gotten a lot more rain that we have. It's pretty dry here -- hoping to get some tonight. Those storms tend to fizzle out by the time they get this far east.
Hey Travis - Did you get your seed potatoes into the ground early, exactly on time, or a week or two behind when you normally plant? I'm wondering if in addition to the mustard there was also a planting timeframe correlation related to your healthy looking potato plants. Also, was there any outlier weather patterns in the days or weeks during the weeks prior to your planting or anytime within the month after your planting? - Either way, it may be something worth keeping in a journal or just written into record keeping.
We planted potatoes the same time we usually do -- between mid-Feb and the beginning of March -- sometime in that two week window. The only weather-related causation could be that it we have had some cooler nights this spring.
I'm in Missouri here Travis and we had that crazy snowstorm a weed after the last frost free date for here. So I have been really slow to even get my plants out there. So I'm just beginning my garden here. I wish we were able to grow all year long like you all have. I was just starting to look into that drip tape. That sure does look like the easy way to go. But I'm still tryin to figure out what I need how much and now where to get the beginner package. Are you going to be selling things like that? My idea is having several hose lines going out to the different areas and putting all the shut on/off switches to each area right on my back porch. How's that for lazy? lol .. So if you need any ideas for another show.. I still could use a little more help with putting that together and where to get it. Thanks. My old achy body wants the easiest way possible.
I'm not planning on selling any gardening products. We may sell some merchandise once the channel grows a little more. Not sure if you have to mow the grass between your plots, but moving all those hoses each time you mow might become time consuming. That's why we just have one water hose and move it from plot to plot as we need to water.
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you for answering Travis. I was planning to make it so that the way of the hose would not need to be mowed at all or moved. At least very little. I think I need to understand better how it is hooked up to the original water source. I suppose it would help for you to understand my garden is not as large as yours. Don't mean to be nosy, I have no idea what has caused the change. But are you planning to set up the same sort of business that you were just in? I guess I'm takng for granted that you are. And hoping you will. I want to figure out that watering system... thanks
@@ladybugsarah6671 I have started a digital marketing agency. So I'll be doing that and this channel. No plans to sell gardening products at this point. If you do all the plumbing underground and have it surface at each plot, that would work -- although it would require much more work up front.
Thank you for the "Alright Alright Alright". It made my day and made me smile. Keep on keeping on.
I'm so glad!
ME TOO!
me too... just isn't right without hearing that alright alright alright!
Garden tips! That’s what I like to see on your channel. Thank you.
My pleasure!
Great idea. I put a stake in, when the peas are about 6 inches. I tie it to the stake, and they naturally grow up and around. I have grown them in a large container up against the fence and they seem to attach without any help. I grow sweet potatoes the same way. Good video I hope you enjoyed your harvest.
Love these videos straight from the garden Travis! Keep it going brother.
Rob
Thanks Rob!
I wish I knew what you have forgotten about growing crops brother. Excellent!
Thanks for watching Grandpa!
I keep simple, as soon as peas are few inch I tie twine so I stretch them to reach and twist them onto the twine. Every few days a new string across and an inch or few inches up higher. It works perfect every time like this way. Simple is best
Just found your new channel, Travis, from Deep South Homestead. Glad to see you again.
Thanks for coming
There it is...Alright, alright, alright! Thanks for the English pea trellising training idea. I have the same problem. Well appreciated.
Give it a try. Hopefully it will help.
Glad I found you. I love watching you and your advice. Missed you.
Glad you found us too Jeffery!
Yes!!! Finally found you.🙏🙏 missed your videos 😁👍
Welcome! Glad you found us!
Your followers are asking great questions, I really appreciate your answering so many of them! It is very informative to get your responses and adds to the content you are showing.
Thanks. We appreciate all the comments and try to answer as many as we can.
My potatoes are in 15 gallon containers & they are doing great! It's such a wonderful feeling, seeing as last year was disappointing. I did this same thing to my peas. It sure does help with guiding them. Hoping we get a great harvest. Tfs Travis 🙂
We hope you get a great harvest too!
Sent by Deep South. Hard act to follow but with their recommendation here I am. We have 91 acres but not living on it. Good turkey and deer hunting; if building materials will come back down some, we gonna live there one day homesteading like you guys. Good luck 🍀
Those lumber prices are indeed ridiculous. Hopefully you'll be able to build your dream homestead sooner than later.
I was sad at first because you didn't say it but then you made my day! Alright, alright, alright! My peas are not finding my trellis either. Next year I'll try this!
Let us know how it works for you.
Now your on the right tract with "gardening". You were always the one I listened to about the science of gardening. This is what I tune into a gardening channel for..Keep it up!!
Thanks Harold!
My father & I Loves Gardening and Growing Plants. That is interesting backyard activities
Thanks for visiting
As a new gardener I also appreciate the videos with helpful tips. The planting, growing and harvesting videos are a wealth of info. Keep them coming. Proud student of HU and now LDFU!
Thanks Jim!
I’m growing potatoes after a mustard cover crop and they look good here in California. Took me awhile to find your new channel but I’m glad I did.
Good to hear! Glad you found us.
Your potato crop looks stellar! I'm not grow any spuds this year, but I use that same trick to get my snow peas up the cattle panel.
All your tips are helpful because we share the same ag zone, 8B, although I'm in north central Florida. It's very helpful for me to know when you do, or did things, like when you started your tomatoes in seed trays so they are now a foot tall.
It's also nice to see what your family will end up doing with the harvests. I've always looked forward to your videos.
Thanks Sue!
My English peas look exactly like yours and every time I’ve tried to get them to the trellis, they have broken. Yes they are way more tender than beans. I really appreciate the tip. Will definitely try this!
They do break very easily. It's working well for ours so far.
@@LazyDogFarm Planning to do that to mine this week. Thanks!
I’ve always loved your videos brother. Always informative and practical. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Joshua!
I’m trying a potato tower this year. It took about 2 weeks before they showed themselves but they are growing now. Can’t wait to see how this works!!!
Definitely keep us updated!
Those are some good looking potatoes! That pea trellis tip was right on time. Thank you!
Any time!
Lazy Dog Fam--sounds like a t- shirt in the making. Great idea with the peas.
For sure!
In TX zone 9 - first time growing potatoes they are flowering so we will see - planted at end of January so hopefully they will be ready to harvest soon! Great show today.
Sounds like you're well on your way -- a whole month ahead of us!
Like the channel. I do this method to tie-up lots of different plants when they get over-grown, including putting a movable one in the middle. It will work but you will to need to put on a second higher string in a while.
Yeah I noticed that I probably should have put a second string as well. The heat is doing a number on them now.
My potatoes are doing great thus far. Purchased seed taters from Hoss again this year. I even had a small kill with a late March freeze and they came back strong! Have several peas growing at this time and they also seem to be doing well. This year I just bought a bunch of varieties, mixed them all together, pre-sprouted them and also did some starts and every single seed or start has produced a viable plant.
Sounds like you're ready for a big harvest!
Great pea tip! I did this with my peas to help them get closer to the trellis, too. It really does the job! They grabbed on and shot up and are now blooming. This is my first year for peas. I didn’t plant enough, but now I know and can plan for more next time.
Good to hear it worked well for you!
Going through watching all your videos! Great content!
Thanks Kory! Glad you're enjoying them!
Alright, Alright, Alright. Glad to see you are Alright. Hope your venture works out Fabulous!! Won't be long now till the Merchandise starts popping up. Folks we have ourselves a Channel!
Thanks Daniel! We'll definitely have some merchandise at some point once we start growing.
My potatoes are just breaking through the ground good. Central Kentucky. I planted a few days before Good Friday. Which is when I’ve always heard to plant them here. My dad uses that stob and string method to support his Roma beans. It helps keep the weight of the beans from laying the bushes on the ground and causing the beans to rot.
Good point about the Roma beans. Anytime you can keep leaves off the ground, that's going to help with diseases and such.
Great information! I'm glad I found your channel!
Welcome!
Just found your new channel really like the new tips and harvest , look forward to new vids
Thanks Mike! Welcome to the channel!
Travis is BACK! Happy Days!
Good to see you here Cheri!
Thanks for that little tip, I like to use the round plastic tomato clips for all my trellising. They are much easier then trying to feed the vines through the netting or fence, and can be reused.
That's a great idea!
Glad I found your new video. Learn such a lot from you x
Awesome! Thank you!
Hey Travis! Another good one. My potatoes are looking great! I usually plant my seed potatoes whole and get little to no harvest and they are small. So this year I am trying all of your tricks. Started off slow because my cut potatoes looked shriveled and rotted. But once I posted the pictures everyone said go ahead and plant them and I did and mine look great thank you for all your teaching!
Good stuff!
I just stumbled across your new channel wondered where you went besides popup life. I planted potatoes for the first time mot so good.
Welcome aboard Jeanie! Sorry to hear about the potatoes. Too much rain?
@@LazyDogFarm Yes we did have a lot of rain.
Hey buddy. My wife and I went all in Hoss cause of you. Glad we found your new channel. I'll be curious to see if your taters taste like mustard at all. Keep us posted on that at harvest. Best of success to you, from North Cackalakie (Carolina)
I don't think they will. There was at least a good 2 month window between the mustard incorporation and the potato planting.
Travis good luck on your new venture hope everything works out Alright Alright Alright
Preciate that Mr. Wheeler!
Travis, potatoes look great. Mine are just now starting to break the surface and of course we have another chance of snow and freezing temps this week. But, I guess it is our version of all the rain y'all have had down in your area. Still waiting for the potatoes to grow tall enough for the first hilling. Interesting fix for the peas which don't want to train on the trellis. Thanks
Tell those freezing temps to come back later! It's April already!
@@LazyDogFarm Well, the freezing temps did not listen and we got over an inch of heavy wet snow. Plus side is that it will insulate the potatoes for the cold snap to follow.
I planted potatoes March 20. Everything looks good so far. I planted a couple varieties from y'all that you've got in that plot so I'm excited to see how yours do since you'll harvest a couple weeks before me!
And the pea idea is genius!
We hope you have a great potato harvest!
Hi Travis. Thanks for the tip on the peas; sure looks like that will help. My potatoes are also doing well with hardly any insect pressure and I have not sprayed anything yet. Probably will spray a bit for prevention over the next day or so. Enjoyed the video. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Terry! Good to hear your potatoes are doing well!
Zone 6 here. Peas in and up about 3" Had about 3" of snow yesterday the is almost gone today. They should be fine. Will be putting in potatoes in a few days. Going to try in 10 gal buckets this year, to save garden space. We'll see how it works. Waiting anxiously for consistent warm weather.
That's kinda funny that you're waiting for consistently warm weather and we're hoping it stays cooler for a little longer.
My potatoes from Hoss are doing amazing ! Nola Red and Kennebec Whites
Mr Big Pea finally making peas , I think the weather had them confused.
That is awesome!
I actually took the risk and planted my tatters on valentine's day. Have not sprayed them at all and I'm quite surprised they are doing as well as they are. Had one instance where the devil ants got in there and took one of my plants out. My row looks almost like yours do, and I'm quite proud of them.
You should be!
Thanks Travis, I'm at this point. Very timely tip.
Very welcome!
Good looking potato patch you got there Travis and it’s clean. Did not plant any spuds this year. Transplanted a row of okra today. Corn is up we planted 4/7 I think I had a planter malfunction had a good many skips but hand planted the skips 4/15 looking for them to be up end of next week. Waiting on my onions to fall over so we can harvest them first time planting onions 5 / 30 foot 🦶 rows. Good luck to the lazy dog channel.
Sounds like your garden is doing great. Thanks for sharing!
Just subscribed. We're on family land my great grandparents bought. Surrounded by lots of cousins. I'm going to enjoy your channel.
And we're going to enjoy seeing you here! Thanks for subscribing!
No slaw recipes but have a great fish fav. Crappie!!! Will go great with both those slaw recipes you whipped up!!!
We call them "speckled perch" or sometimes just "specks" around these parts, but they are oh so tasty!
Love the “in the garden” video. You are so knowledgeable and you share the tips that we are always eager to hear. We’ve learned a lot from you so keep these videos coming! We planted red potatoes about the same time you did and they are looking great as well! No pest issues as of yet.. We are in East Texas...the big town of Dodge.
Seems like quite a few folks aren't having the typical pest issues with potatoes this year.
Perfect timing! I was just wondering about what to do with my peas today and not that this is a completion or anything, but I’m in south west TN, and I’m pretty sure my peas are a tad bit taller than yours so I’m feeling darn good about my first TN pea harvest.
We should have planted ours a month earlier than we did, but it looks like temps may stay moderate for the next couple weeks. So we may have a chance at still getting a harvest or two.
@@LazyDogFarm That Feb. freeze put us back on our pea planting and I'm hoping the mild weather will help us as well. I had some long garden stakes that I used to lay on the ground right next to my peas that gave them just enough help to reach for my trellis. I did that right before I saw your video and when I went out the next morning, some of them had already grabbed on over night.
Very informative video, as usual ! Great tip on the peas. My Yukon Golds will be ready in about four weeks, here in SW Florida. Bug pressure has been really bad, been spraying every week. Will try a cover crop next year for sure. Thanks again for the excellent video !!!
Try a cover crop of mustard. Seems to really help.
Will you incorporate chickens back into your homestead for cover crop purposes? I know several years ago you did a video on using chickens to forage around your crimson clover cover crop to add nitrogen, etc to the soil.
Yes, planning on doing that at some point.
I like that twine idea for the peas. I’ll have to try it in the fall. It’s already too hot for peas in SoAZ. My current peas are done. I grow mine on a cattle panel arch.
My potatoes are doing great! They’re in grow bags and almost all the bags are full of dirt now. I’ve been hilling them every two weeks as they grow.
Good to hear about the potatoes! Hopefully it doesn't get too hot too soon.
My first attempt at potatoes. I would say about half of them have sprouted and are coming up (planted 4 weeks ago). The red potatoes seem to have done better. Pretty sure I just need better soil conditions. Wish I had your lush, full rows!
Red potatoes are usually the first ones to sprout because they're a faster-maturing variety. Hopefully the others will be up soon for you!
I've never grown potatoes. This year we are putting a few in the Greenstalk for funsies. I also noticeda potato plant in my compost pile.
They're one of the easier things to grow in the garden. Hope you have a great harvest!
Dang!! Sorry to be so late to the party! That's a good trick, Travis - I'll have to try that when I grow English peas next year.
There you are!
I also have the very best potatoes I’ve ever grown.
What I think I’m seeing with my pole beans that are about to start climbing is the plants want to lean toward the direction with the greatest amount of sunlight. If the fence is in that direction, they train on their own. If the fence is on the opposite side I have to intervene and train them personally.
Our pole beans always seem to climb just fine. It's these dang English Peas that need a little push.
So happy I stumbled onto your site because I didn’t know what happened to you. We’ve missed you!!! Love your tips and watching your garden grow. My potatoes have had it rough here in NWFL. This is my first year growing them. We battled brown spot, worms and now they are getting a yellow tint so what can I do for them?
If they're getting a yellow tint, that probably means they're starting to die back -- which means they're about ready to harvest.
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you for the reassurance. Have a blessed day.
I haven't started potatoes yet, those will go in soon, only doing sweet potatoes and I have great success here in Florida 9b doing them in the summer...also love the music choices on your channels
Thanks Adele! I'm sure the sweet potatoes love that Florida heat.
Great tip! Thanks for sharing.
You bet!
Your potato plants are looking good. No potatoes poking up yet for me. Probably another couple of weeks. Peas are just starting to come up.
Thanks Steve! Hope you have a great potato crop this year!
If you and I were buddies I'd never let you live down "vegetable fairy" but since this is public and polite... I'm glad to see this channel. I'm a big fan of all your work. Beautiful family too.
Thanks for letting me slide on that one.
@@LazyDogFarm Lol, sure. I have seven raised beds. Every plant is from Hoss. They're doing great. I believe in the next few days I'm going to tarp down some areas to start my own dream garden. I think two patches... potatoes and Alliums. I wonder if I can make the sand here (just outside Gainesville, FL) work. Anyway, thanks for the show and inspiration.
Found you! We were wondering where you were. Thought you went cross country in your Pop Up. Lol.
Our potaoes are starting to come up. They are slightly on a hill. Good to see you Travis!
I would love to go cross country with the pop-up, but our kids have to go to school. Maybe one summer we can do that!
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Do some videos on your Pop-Up too !
yeah, my potatoes have done great this year, red and white, I'm about 90 miles away from you in Brunswick.
We were over that way this past weekend camping at Blythe Island. Ate lunch at Mr. Shucks there in Brunswick. Nice town.
@@LazyDogFarm you need to camp on Jekyll Island, lots of fun things to do there.
Loved this informative video. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Regarding your potatoes, I think you might be right about the mustards helping reduce pest pressure. I think horseradish are mustard relatives and it's often said that horseradish reduces Colorado potato beetles. I've had good luck in this regard for the last couple of years and it MIGHT BE due to the horseradish. It might be because they were grown in raised beds about 500 ft from the former patch.
Rotation and cover cropping are both great practices to reduce pest pressure.
Looks great 👍
Thanks 👍
Have been tying up the peas for years, we plant Super Sugar Snap and have to tie up often
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One year we used just lines of string instead of a panel-type trellis and they did seem to climb that better. Might need to go back to that.
Alright, Alright, Alright! I love the familiar format Travis! I always have the same problem with peas and pole beans. Seems like I always have to help them find whatever I want them to climb on at first. I am having a seemingly great year with my potatoes too. I’ve never really grown them before, but I followed your planting suggestions and they’re going crazy. I did put them on tape though but I put a row start valve on them so I can only water when absolutely necessary and fertilize that way too. I haven’t fertilized with anything except compost but I think I’ll shoot a little 20-20-20 to them and see what they do. I’ve seen people side dress with similar granular fertilizer but it’s a lot easier with the injector, lol.
Good to hear your potatoes are doing well!
Always enjoy your how to videos, good luck with the new channel! Zone 5b NE Pennsylvania and we don't grow Okra!
Thanks Paul!
Great tips! I use this method of tying pea plants every summer on my zipper peas to get them to climb up. Otherwise They bush and vine out so quickly, I can’t get between the rows.
Thanks for sharing!
Feed them mid growing season Potatoes love feeding
For sure!
Danny and Wanda at Deep South Homestead gave you a shout out so I thought I would check your channel out. Cheers
Welcome!
My Yukon Gold potatoes look like yours. They are about 3 feet tall and no bugs in sight.
Problem is, I'm not hilled as high as you are. I ran out of dirt... I'm down to clay.
When they are this tall, (at this stage of growth) will trying to hill again get me more taters?
I have a lot of fairly well composted wood chips that I could throw on them for "hilling".
Also, is it too late in their cycle to fertilize again?
(I did the Complete pre-plant and one dose of 20-20-20)
Thanks, Trav
Great videos!
I don't see an issue with adding the chips so you can cover more of the plant. Not sure it would make more potatoes, but definitely would help keep the potatoes covered until they're ready to dig. If they look green and healthy, you might not need to fertilize again.
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Thank you kindly
no bugs on my taters this year. But i let loose some mantids and we have hue wheel bugs here. And over the last few years i find the mantid and wheel bug eggs sacks on my blueberries. Bug pressure has dimished quite a bit over the last couple years.
Always good to hear of sustainable pest control techniques like this. Thanks for sharing!
Trucker's Hitch on that tension line.
2 to 1 mechanical advantage to easily pull as tight as you need.
Noted!
My first year with English peas. The pattern I've been seeing is they flop like they are drunk till they are a foot or so long and then they make a sharp turn(up I guess). Anyway I use that crook in the main stem to finally hang them up. Seems to take forever to get to that point though.
Yeah they are definitely slow to go at first.
You mentioned not puncturing your drip tape. Last year was my first year for drip tape and i love it. Howevwr i punctured my tape three different occasions and then i had two ruptures i dont know the cause. I had one emitter flowing heavy for no reason. I dont know how long tape last or how to put the drip hose on and if i can run it on top or how far below. If i had it on top i wouldn't have poked a hole in it. How do you repair tape or when do you replace it. I also struggle to get the drip tape end termination to not leak...so i was wondering if you would ever do a complete show on drip tape, drip tubes and repairing and things not to do
We just a coupling to patch a hole in tape. Just cut out the section of tape with the hole, and connect them back together with the coupling. We'll try to do more drip tape content when springs rolls around and we start installing more of it.
Hey dude, love the channel. I'm growing reds and yukon golds in a raised bed.
I bought organic reds and yukon golds from Walmart, stored them in my pantry for little over a month( had nice two inch or so eyes).
I planted them the first of March and they are looking great. The yukons are about two feet tall and the reds slightly shorter.
So far, no pest problems. Should I spray for insects now or wait till I see signs of them?
Anyway, enjoy watching your channel and have learned lots of do's and don'ts. Keep going strong dude.
I wouldn't spray them unless you have to do so. Just keep a close eye for any damage.
I know this is an old video, but I've been dealing with the same thing, but I'm growing my peas up an A-frame trellis, not realizing vertical would've been better. But before hurricane helene came, I ran a few rows of twine to keep my vines close to the trellis and ended up leaving it since it really helped them climb. Is there much risk of disease with the plants/leaves pressed up together? I'm only doing 2 rows, with trellis in between, but the vines are getting pretty tangled and leaves overlapping... first time growing peas here!
Zone 7 here, potatoes are finally starting to pop. Thinking I'm about 2 weeks behind yours.
Once they get going, watch out!
I would love to know where to get those mustard cover crops! My normal place has been out for awhile
These guys have it: greencoverseed.com
Rows running East to West. Was it the South side of the trellis that received the twine treatment?
We did the "twine treatment" on both sides of the trellis -- so on the north and south side.
sometimes we make do with a hammer but really they're mostly good for driving nails. have a 2 pound short club hammer that is a lot better for driving things into the ground. nice tip about the peas.
wondering what's the benefit of the dilute fish emulsion when i use a 20:20:20 that has trace elements. It's an expensive way to provide fertilizer however, several studies have shown that fish emulsion forms various acids that help ward off some plant diseases in young plants. might be the fish emulsion that kept disease at bay, instead of the mustard covercrop.
I have one of those hammers too, but it wasn't close by so we just had to hit them a few more times.
Could very well be the fish emulsion -- good point!
Would be interested in your potatoe yield comparisons when it comes time. Last year my Norlands out preformed the Viking 4/1.
We will definitely document that on video. Just from the looks of the seed potatoes, it appears the Viking makes a much larger potato.
Great idea for peas. Why didn’t you just tie the string to the t post on the ends?
Because the trellis netting is tied to those posts as well. So it would have been a little more difficult to navigate around that and keep the string really tight.
Hey Travis, I just planted the red ripper Peas since I live in South Florida where it’s extremely hot and humid. I am trying the arch out of cattle panel and in my haste and excitement of finally planting the seed I did not add my granular inoculant. Would it be beneficial to just re-seed and thin them out or pour the inoculant on top of where I’ve seeded? Thanks and love the new videos
Make a little furrow alongside the row and put it in there. Should be fine.
@@LazyDogFarm Thanks for such a quick response, done watered in, nownow let’s see if I can with stand this Florida heat and humidity LOL thanks again
Your Garden Looking Good ! Wish We had some weather like that here in Louisiana... Raining All Week it wasn’t look good for the crop
Yeah y'all have surely gotten a lot more rain that we have. It's pretty dry here -- hoping to get some tonight. Those storms tend to fizzle out by the time they get this far east.
Hey Travis - Did you get your seed potatoes into the ground early, exactly on time, or a week or two behind when you normally plant? I'm wondering if in addition to the mustard there was also a planting timeframe correlation related to your healthy looking potato plants. Also, was there any outlier weather patterns in the days or weeks during the weeks prior to your planting or anytime within the month after your planting? - Either way, it may be something worth keeping in a journal or just written into record keeping.
We planted potatoes the same time we usually do -- between mid-Feb and the beginning of March -- sometime in that two week window. The only weather-related causation could be that it we have had some cooler nights this spring.
I'm in Missouri here Travis and we had that crazy snowstorm a weed after the last frost free date for here. So I have been really slow to even get my plants out there. So I'm just beginning my garden here. I wish we were able to grow all year long like you all have. I was just starting to look into that drip tape. That sure does look like the easy way to go. But I'm still tryin to figure out what I need how much and now where to get the beginner package. Are you going to be selling things like that?
My idea is having several hose lines going out to the different areas and putting all the shut on/off switches to each area right on my back porch. How's that for lazy? lol .. So if you need any ideas for another show.. I still could use a little more help with putting that together and where to get it. Thanks. My old achy body wants the easiest way possible.
I'm not planning on selling any gardening products. We may sell some merchandise once the channel grows a little more. Not sure if you have to mow the grass between your plots, but moving all those hoses each time you mow might become time consuming. That's why we just have one water hose and move it from plot to plot as we need to water.
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Thank you for answering Travis. I was planning to make it so that the way of the hose would not need to be mowed at all or moved. At least very little. I think I need to understand better how it is hooked up to the original water source. I suppose it would help for you to understand my garden is not as large as yours. Don't mean to be nosy, I have no idea what has caused the change. But are you planning to set up the same sort of business that you were just in? I guess I'm takng for granted that you are. And hoping you will. I want to figure out that watering system... thanks
@@ladybugsarah6671 I have started a digital marketing agency. So I'll be doing that and this channel. No plans to sell gardening products at this point. If you do all the plumbing underground and have it surface at each plot, that would work -- although it would require much more work up front.
Travis congrats on starting your New Channel.
Thanks y'all!
It will work I have done this before. My potatoes are ok.
Good to know about the pea trick. Hope your potatoes get better!
@@LazyDogFarm Me to. If not I will just plant some for fall.
Georgia Pea Weave !
I like it!
"I don't see any bugs!" Here comes the eighth plague... Also, good to see you working on the sort of informative content I'm used to seeing from you.
Fingers crossed!
What do i plant in the area after i dig up my potatoes.
Sweet potatoes, field peas, corn, a cover crop -- lots of possibilities.
I did the same but no rebar just tie it to the post.
I probably could have did that if the netting wasn't there.
@@LazyDogFarm just curious 🧐 no more Row by Row?!? Got a ton of info from you guys
My English peas are smaller this spring too.
We should have planted ours about a month earlier than we did, but we'll see what happens.