It was an old way of checking to see if your corn was going to be a good crop. It’s an outdated saying now because modern corn varieties grow faster than old varieties.
WOW! 2.7K SUBS!!! Thats awesome. Seems like the other day you were around 800! I started my channel on February, 23rd and my goal is to have 1000 by August, 23. Glad to see your hard work paying off.
Eating whilst you work sounds good to me. The corn looks yummy. Yay, the peas are gone, well until next year. All those fresh veggies you have harvested is amazing. Just wish your market store was close by to me as you would be well patronised by my community and me. Well deserved dinner time for you all after a full day out in the fields. Great video, xx
When I was selling at the Farmers Market, I would be eating beans, peas, corn, etc. Some people would comment about it and I would always say. "If it doesn't taste good raw, it won't taste good cooked."
we supply alot of small mom and pop markets around our area and also the young ones sell at farmer markets veg, fruit, and starter plants for small gardeners and also off grid homesteads.
New backyard garden subscriber from South Carolina zone 8A. Raw corn, y-u-u-u-m! My grandparents grew larger gardens, tractor maintained, but not commercial. Just extended family canning and freezing and entire family helped and shared harvest. Fave was Silver Queen white corn, along with a couple of yellow corn varieties. They also grew 3-sisters style (green beans growing up the corn stalks for staking, with squash growing around base for shading out weeds). What growing zone is northeast PA? First/last frosts? This is helpful to compare planting/harvesting times to your great videos please. Might be helpful to copy and paste this info in comments section for all your videos. I see the question asked "where are you" many times below in this one video. Grandfather kept honey bees. When he "robbed" the bees, we grandkids used to make fun of his protective suit and smoker, and taping of gloves, hat, etc., to prevent bee penetration. But when he arrived back in the house with dishpans and dishpans full of beautiful golden honey, it was so exciting. Even we grandkids helped cut the combs out of the frames, strain, jar it all. Chew on honey-filled combs. Amazing process. Experience shared with lots of cousins. Bonding. Grandmother took windowscreens off the house long enough to dry sliced apples in the sun out on the hedges every fall. Nearby commercial apple orchards have long since closed because next generations did not stay. Sad. Granny froze them for homemade fried/baked apple pies all year - you know, the half moon-shaped ones. She would make them large and small. Incredible flavor! Such great memories. Can remember playing in yard with chickens that were on dinner table that same day. That process was more discreet, hidden from us little ones. I'm sure your children and grands will have great stories to tell too! Your personality alone surely enhances quality of life for everyone around you.
i am not sure why, but i am stuck watching your videos. Have no interest in farming or anything. But I notice how passionate you are about this whole thing, and you dont mind working while its 40 degrees outside. Your products are amazing. If you are any closers, i would be your regular costumer. othervise, i am your subscriber. love the content.
Something you need to try! My wife’s uncle worked the farmers market for 30 years. He always sold out of sweet corn only being at the market in 45 min some times an hour. He would pick a F250 truck full starting very early before the sunrise. That was the secret to totally different tasting corn. As soon as the suns rays started hitting the plants he stopped picking. That was the secret to better tasting corn. When the sun goes down the starches start to go down by in the morning there was a different tasting ear. Try it one time and cook them for yourself. You will taste the difference!
I've been raising Providence back when it was Serendipity before they added rust resistance, that's over twenty years. I use a serrated hook linoleum knife and can fly through it. I pick around 50,000 ears each summer. My customers complain if I grow something like Temptation.
I think you should add a smoke House for cured bacon, sausage and ham... you could even smoke some cheese. No farm is complete with out plenty of bacon. Bacon, bacon, bacon, and more bacon.😃😋
Hey i just moved to PA FINALLYYYYYYY only took my 10 years to convince my mom to get us to PA and be near her family because im not a city person but grew up in connecticut also spent enough time in PA to know i hate city life and love the country....so we are all within the biglerville/arentsville to new oxford area basically all my family is within an hour of everyone....just moved to new oxford and was wondering where u guys are
Have you heard of purple hull peas? Also field peas or white peas are 2 more that are really great! I grew up in the South and now I live in PA I have not been able to find any of these type of peas. They are so good! I really miss having them. So I figured I would ask if you or anyone on the farm there has heard of them. If so, please tell me where to get some lol😂😂 thanks! Great video!!
I like to eat raw corn and have enjoyed it for about a decade. My favorite is white corn. Do you have a date when your corn is ŕady. Farmers around here don't raise or don't advertise it.. the taste is beyond good.
Emily Crimmins With the veggies we need to focus on what veggies get certain diseases, so if a plants gets downy or powdery mildew we have to make sure to rotate those crops. So we can rotate with other vegetables not just corn/wheat or soybeans
Do you grow less of some things just because you do not get many lbs off of each plant or do you just have to charge more? I suppose you need some variety just to attract customers or else you would only grow a few of the most profitable plants.
john dumas We raise a variety because our customers ask for different things. Some plants produce more some produce less, and there are some crops we sell so much of -bell peppers and tomatoes. We could just grow the profitable ones, but that’s not fair to our customers.
@@theveggieboys thank you . I live in VA . do some veggie gardening in back yard. Your vidios are very interesting. Hiow Many acres of land are under cultivation?.
Could you tell me where i can order the sweet long pepper and hot long pepper and the cabot cabbage. I live in N.C. Hadn't seen a person that carrys them.
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
Gardenmatics If you notice when we pick them we squeeze the tip of the ear. That’s normally where your worms would be and after picking thousands and thousands of ears you can definitely tell when something isn’t right.
Jocala Farms never really thought about it, pickling cucumbers are around 20k and acre with a great year (not this year) It’s hard to plant a lot tho because we try to sell everything through our farm market. If you would like to email me (my email is in the about section) I would be happy to share more
Hey what does the saying knee high by the 4th of July mean and does it really work?
It was an old way of checking to see if your corn was going to be a good crop. It’s an outdated saying now because modern corn varieties grow faster than old varieties.
There is your answer! Right from one of the veggie boys!
@@theveggieboys my corn was knee high by the 4th and it is now about knee high lol, hip high in the good spots...very dry up here in Eastern Ontario.
The saying is correct but it’s knee high to a draft horse not a human
Like here in the south they say as soon as u hear the wiperwill calling it's time to plant your corn
Dude is super happy and energetic...fun to watch
👍👌🇨🇦❤, " The best thing about veggie farming" is Andy taking us along with him on his busy day, great narrative
Warm Watermelon out of the garden.... yummmm. Hey thanks for the uplifting , CLEAN content!
Ed P Thank you so much for supporting us!
WOW! 2.7K SUBS!!! Thats awesome. Seems like the other day you were around 800! I started my channel on February, 23rd and my goal is to have 1000 by August, 23. Glad to see your hard work paying off.
Field Rows WE ARE LIKE THE FIELDS! GROWING!
I find it easier to pick corn at the Farmer Stand Thanks for sharing another great vlog. 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽
Eating whilst you work sounds good to me. The corn looks yummy. Yay, the peas are gone, well until next year. All those fresh veggies you have harvested is amazing. Just wish your market store was close by to me as you would be well patronised by my community and me. Well deserved dinner time for you all after a full day out in the fields. Great video, xx
When I was selling at the Farmers Market, I would be eating beans, peas, corn, etc. Some people would comment about it and I would always say. "If it doesn't taste good raw, it won't taste good cooked."
that's not a fact at all but whatever makes u happy lady!
Thank you for explaining each crop
Michael Wellik Thank you for enjoying!
we supply alot of small mom and pop markets around our area and also the young ones sell at farmer markets veg, fruit, and starter plants for small gardeners and also off grid homesteads.
New backyard garden subscriber from South Carolina zone 8A. Raw corn, y-u-u-u-m! My grandparents grew larger gardens, tractor maintained, but not commercial. Just extended family canning and freezing and entire family helped and shared harvest. Fave was Silver Queen white corn, along with a couple of yellow corn varieties. They also grew 3-sisters style (green beans growing up the corn stalks for staking, with squash growing around base for shading out weeds). What growing zone is northeast PA? First/last frosts? This is helpful to compare planting/harvesting times to your great videos please. Might be helpful to copy and paste this info in comments section for all your videos. I see the question asked "where are you" many times below in this one video.
Grandfather kept honey bees. When he "robbed" the bees, we grandkids used to make fun of his protective suit and smoker, and taping of gloves, hat, etc., to prevent bee penetration. But when he arrived back in the house with dishpans and dishpans full of beautiful golden honey, it was so exciting. Even we grandkids helped cut the combs out of the frames, strain, jar it all. Chew on honey-filled combs. Amazing process. Experience shared with lots of cousins. Bonding.
Grandmother took windowscreens off the house long enough to dry sliced apples in the sun out on the hedges every fall. Nearby commercial apple orchards have long since closed because next generations did not stay. Sad. Granny froze them for homemade fried/baked apple pies all year - you know, the half moon-shaped ones. She would make them large and small. Incredible flavor! Such great memories. Can remember playing in yard with chickens that were on dinner table that same day. That process was more discreet, hidden from us little ones. I'm sure your children and grands will have great stories to tell too! Your personality alone surely enhances quality of life for everyone around you.
super grand video the best brings back a lot of really good memories, you guys have the best on youtube very instructive very interesting
i am not sure why, but i am stuck watching your videos. Have no interest in farming or anything. But I notice how passionate you are about this whole thing, and you dont mind working while its 40 degrees outside. Your products are amazing. If you are any closers, i would be your regular costumer. othervise, i am your subscriber. love the content.
Your veggies look amazing and so healthy!! Great video. Thanks 😊
Something you need to try! My wife’s uncle worked the farmers market for 30 years. He always sold out of sweet corn only being at the market in 45 min some times an hour. He would pick a F250 truck full starting very early before the sunrise. That was the secret to totally different tasting corn. As soon as the suns rays started hitting the plants he stopped picking. That was the secret to better tasting corn. When the sun goes down the starches start to go down by in the morning there was a different tasting ear. Try it one time and cook them for yourself. You will taste the difference!
Thanks for the comment! If only I needed a truck bed full lol.
wow that looks just like the peach's and cream sweet corn we plant and sell.
Great content.Keep up the good work.
Well, I have watched all your videos so far and it's great to see you all working growing food and baking. Now I want sweet corn.
Web Luke Thank you so much for the support!
Excellent videos! I am learning a lot and I think people can appreciate seeing where and how their food is grown!
You're making me hungry for sweet corn. waiting for the corn man to come to the local corner store usually sells out within a week week and a half.
funny, well thought out, I will be back to see more ...Thanks
Keep America & Yisrael Great thanks for stopping by!
Bless your little pea picking heart - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Gary Dolan Lol i need a shirt that says that!
I enjoy watching your videos , Andrew.... From Manila Philippines
You are a natural. You tuber.
Debbie Mast I’m trying!
New subscriber from Saskatchewan Canada here!! Love the video so far! @Rolling Coal sent me over!!! I’ll be watching more for sure
OF COURSE they are out of Sweet Corn ALREADY!
I'd be standing at the cash register as you brought the harvest in! 😎
Cant say i have ever had raw corn but if live to try it.
So much respect for you guys ❤️
corn is getting like apples lots of fancy names
I love veggie boys. I love farming. God bless
Hey from Lancaster County, love the videos.
Rodney Davis Hello!
I didn't understand why you were left among those 1000 subscribers. But how is it that you suddenly have over 3000 subscribers? congratulations.
I've been raising Providence back when it was Serendipity before they added rust resistance, that's over twenty years. I use a serrated hook linoleum knife and can fly through it. I pick around 50,000 ears each summer. My customers complain if I grow something like Temptation.
We easily sell 100,000 plus probably closer to 150,000 ears every summer, it wears on you so we raise these varieties and our customers love them.
Very interesting
Great! From Argentina
Delicious 😋🌽
I think you should add a smoke House for cured bacon, sausage and ham... you could even smoke some cheese. No farm is complete with out plenty of bacon. Bacon, bacon, bacon, and more bacon.😃😋
Good job😊
“If you’ve never had raw sweet corn, try it because it’s “lliterally” delicious.”
*I would have loved to have a farm and grow my veggies and raise my farm animals ....... Too late now but not to worry maybe next time round❗️❗️❗️*
Hey i just moved to PA FINALLYYYYYYY only took my 10 years to convince my mom to get us to PA and be near her family because im not a city person but grew up in connecticut also spent enough time in PA to know i hate city life and love the country....so we are all within the biglerville/arentsville to new oxford area basically all my family is within an hour of everyone....just moved to new oxford and was wondering where u guys are
Matthew Baker We are in North East Pennsylvania
I love these videos
Have you heard of purple hull peas? Also field peas or white peas are 2 more that are really great! I grew up in the South and now I live in PA I have not been able to find any of these type of peas. They are so good! I really miss having them. So I figured I would ask if you or anyone on the farm there has heard of them. If so, please tell me where to get some lol😂😂 thanks! Great video!!
Dawn Hart To be honest I think you can get the seeds on amazon. Iv never heard of them but they look Interesting!
The Veggie Boys thank you! Wow! Amazon really does sell everything!! lol😂😂 I’ll look them up
TY!
Where is this Farm. ?? Just found this show enjoyed it, will suscribe.
Pennsylvania
My new favorite channel, do you make your own pickles?
You're a sweet corn picking machine. Lol
Farmer Dre Just wait till we are picking thousands a day 😂
Great Videos
Do you have Patreon and should post your PO Box for orders from your beautiful store
Keep up the good work and great videos
nothing like some sweet corn right off the stalk
Donald King You can say that again! We wait all year for it
You know they have invented welding equipment.....lol....great video
We have a few welders 😂 the chain works sooo well!
The ends my fav part
I make cucumber kimchi with pickling cucumbers.
I like to eat raw corn and have enjoyed it for about a decade. My favorite is white corn. Do you have a date when your corn is ŕady. Farmers around here don't raise or don't advertise it.. the taste is beyond good.
What kind of rotations do you do in your veggie fields? Do veg fields rotate with wheat, etc.?
Emily Crimmins With the veggies we need to focus on what veggies get certain diseases, so if a plants gets downy or powdery mildew we have to make sure to rotate those crops. So we can rotate with other vegetables not just corn/wheat or soybeans
Hey , have you ever thought of doing (candy corn 🌽 ) it is so good yummmm
Cool
Hello Just started watching your videos, they are very entertaining and informative. Where are you from?
North east Pennsylvania
Yes good raw sweet corn is good. We can’t get much with no pesticides.
I love raw sweet corn right off the stalk My mouth waters when I watch you eat that corn Yummy
Do you grow less of some things just because you do not get many lbs off of each plant or do you just have to charge more? I suppose you need some variety just to attract customers or else you would only grow a few of the most profitable plants.
john dumas We raise a variety because our customers ask for different things. Some plants produce more some produce less, and there are some crops we sell so much of -bell peppers and tomatoes. We could just grow the profitable ones, but that’s not fair to our customers.
Which Kind of Pesticides you Using?
& This all vegetables are organic?
For me I like to eat sweet corn raw than cook. I don’t like to eat corn when it’s cook because it’s sometimes sticky.
Hi . I am following your videos from last couple of weeks. Just wondering where this farm is located?
Sreekant Kasinedi United States, alittle Southwest of New York City
@@theveggieboys thank you . I live in VA . do some veggie gardening in back yard. Your vidios are very interesting. Hiow
Many acres of land are under cultivation?.
Why are you wearing a WINTER cap?Get a mesh cap son!Enjoy you're videos!!!I feel like I been working there after I watch them.
Could you tell me where i can order the sweet long pepper and hot long pepper and the cabot cabbage. I live in N.C. Hadn't seen a person that carrys them.
When will corn planted today be ready to pick?
Would depend on the type of corn planted and the location.
I’ve had more cukes this year. But something is eating them and leaving 1/2 the cuke behind.
Sound like you need to put some meat on the table!
Do you have bitter cucumbers when grown in this way or not? Greetings from Ukraine )
Have not seen worms in corn for decades. GMO varieties seem to take care of it, and never blight!
Hello
What do you after you find earworms on the corn? I mean i know you cant sell the ears. So how do you protect the other plants?
Do you cut the sweet corn stalks for silage
I really want to know how the feed grinder works.
Are you located in PA? I noticed someone wearing a PSU shirt in another video- certainly looks like central PA.
Yes we are, north east Pennsylvania
You need a Veggie Boys. "I Hate Picking Peas" T-Shirt!
Love raw sweet corn.
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of
drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
Do you plant purple hull peas ?
Are those dill pickling or sweet pickling cucumbers? lol just kidding
Gary Hunter They can be whatever you like 😉
Would've loved to see animals getting fed
Do you guys plant gmo sweet corn?
Hi joel😍😍
Wishing I could pick some sweet corn 🙏🏼😢
Do you guys farm in Susquehanna County?
Need to see mulch removal.
can you enlight us why you don't trellis your peas, cucumber, tomatoes etc. too much work? returns are higher but
When you plant thousands and thousands it’s difficult to trellis them all with the other work that needs to be done
I see y’all have a pool. When in the world do you all have time time use it? Lol
Will your pixall work for picking peas
kevin mccarthy We’ve tried it before and sadly the plants are too viney and just wrap around the machine.
👍🏼👍🏼
What about butter beans?
how do you tell if an ear of corn has a worm before you pick it
Gardenmatics If you notice when we pick them we squeeze the tip of the ear. That’s normally where your worms would be and after picking thousands and thousands of ears you can definitely tell when something isn’t right.
Which crop gives u the best profit margin
Jocala Farms never really thought about it, pickling cucumbers are around 20k and acre with a great year (not this year)
It’s hard to plant a lot tho because we try to sell everything through our farm market. If you would like to email me (my email is in the about section) I would be happy to share more
Been trying to find out where ya live. What country or state.
Roger Swigert We live in the United States - Pennsylvania to be exact. About two hours from New York City.
When y'all shuk the corn don't throw away the corn husks sell them see we make tamales with them to
Do you grow non GMO PRODUCT?
Yea, I like to eat raw corn too....
Keep America & Yisrael Great it’s so delicious and people just don’t know about it!
I’d like to know what the issue was with the 17 people who gave a thumbs Down? What’s your issue?
Where is your farm located?
Kris Loughley North East Pennsylvania
On average, how many corn ears per stalk?
Mark Schmidt 1-2 oh a sweetcorn stalk. Usually we go through once and then chop the stalks for green chop for the cows.
If you hate pick the peas, recruit me please to pick them 😆😆😆