Was lucky enough to meet the Rough Draft Farmsteaders in person and get a mini group tour/ rundown of the whole operation. Awesome day, learned a lot! Their passion is the driving force behind what they are doing and it was evident immediately. I hope to visit again one day and use some of their techniques on my own farm, and also the farm I work at.
I do a garden for 2 personnes 400 feets this year (200 feets greenhouse for winter no heat) no sale I really enjoy the relay intercropping that you do I begin this morning with oignons and carrot THANK YOU for the new tips for me All the urban farmer are the best for quality
So, I know this is now like 3 yrs later PLUS you probably have already eaten this, thus, thought of it... but for any who haven't... another awesome addition to salads is dill leaves. I bought a mix with it in it and am now in love with that. My husband already was a big fan of dill on things, so, he's doubly in love w it. IDK how well it holds up to being incl in mixes always ( I'm just a home gardener still) but if u have any to sell as-is, be sure to put a sign out that it's amazing in a salad and may help sell one's husband on eating salad ! ( Mine has never actually not liked them - decent ones - but he sure loves to make negative jokes about them ! ). BTW - and this is one of the only ways he'll eat Zucchini - you may want to also tell customers that zucchini slices work just as well as cukes in "slicers" . Just slightly dif. taste and texture, & some may prefer it actually. Slicers being what I grew up calling sliced cukes in vinegar/vinegar water, which one may or may not pre-soak in salted water & most peel them, but my mom found out most nutrition is in/close to peels so we stopped. Some maybe should peel theirs often tho, as Cucumber peels can upset some tummies. PSS: I had tennis elbow 2 years ago, too :( . Horribly. Thought my Lyme's was back so I went to the Dr. . I didn't get a brace thingy... . Hurt horribly all summer. Problem with teaching farm kids to just hut things with all your might, if need be.... turns out that ground I'd been driving T-posts into had been a silage pile area in the past... very compacted.... . Was putting up a trellis in a borrowed garden space on a friend's farm.
Great video! Gonna have to try pushing green bunching onion plantings into the summer. I’m a bit warmer here in NC 7b but not a ton. Ever try growing roselle hibiscus? It’s my new favorite crop. Love eating it candied and drinking the tea and it’s one of my most profitable crops. About $1,000 + per 100 foot bed, single row , 3 feet apart and it forms a 4-5 ft hedge. It starts producing in the sweltering heat of summer when other crops are tired and produces till frost kills it. Closely related to okra, but way better because I only harvest once a week. Loaded with vitamin C and antioxidants. Beautiful color. People go nuts for it at market. It’s fantastic. I find I get better germination from the seed I save year to year than the original seed I purchased from southern exposure seed exchange. Cheers!
Nice, Jackson. no I have not grown it but it sounds awesome. Might have to give it a try. Southern Exposure does not get enough love--great selection of seeds.
Excellent video. Love the price breakdowns for market. I realize that each area is different but at least you give some kind of starting point. Also helpful is ~how many in a bunch. Again will vary by area and market conditions, but helpful to at least start planning to get started! Can't wait to retire and return to the states and start using my land!
Been watching all these no-till market gardeners for my own growing use and have two observations. 1) They use a LOT of compost and other than Charles Dowding, have to buy it. 2) I'm in rural flyover country and people wouldn't even know what half of these crops are and would actually use less than half. This is meat and potatoes land but onions, garlic, tomatoes, green beans, corn, watermelon and some lettuce could sell and that's about it. Arugala? Isn't that the sound the old car horns made?
JM Fortier sprays his beets with seaweed which has a lot of boron that they need. I planted 3 types this year. In the tunnel: Johnny's baby beets, which I've never really liked but thought I would try once more-so, so. Leaves were beautiful until army worms (?) moved in. Came and ate their fill and left. Still harvesting those for CSA. (Not doing Farmer's Market this year). Early Wonder from Lake Valley Organics. Planted those in mid-March and they still aren't ready. Leaves are beautiful-Barely any Septoria Leaf Spot. BUT there was quite a bit of chard mixed in with the seeds. It's a type I've not seen before. Beautiful though. In the field we direct seeded Detroit Reds from High Mowing Seeds on May 15th. They are doing horrible. Their leaves are covered in Septoria Leaf Spot and are crunchy to the touch. We are pulling them today. We live next to Indianapolis, zone 5b-6a. We have had a marvelous spring. Wet, very wet but almost all temps under 80. Things took longer to grow due to lack of sun and so much rain. Thankful for "raised" beds, a hoop house (50ft) and a greenhouse (16 x 32). Salanova is bolting so we are growing Muir and Cherokee Red. Our CSA is a "Salad CSA" this year, with a fruit-strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb (not technically a fruit but a must in the Midwest) and blackberries. We sell at one tiny organic store and are hoping to start restaurants as well. We will definitely be adding 2-50' tunnels this fall. We experimented last year and were able to grow year round in our hoop and greenhouse. Granted, we didn't have a ton of snow but we watched carefully. It was worth it. Thanks Jesse.
Yeah, we haven’t done seaweed but we have an Omri boron spray we’ve been using that seems to help a bit. Thank you for all this info! Love the tunnels. Seem to make a huge difference in leaf spot.
@@notillgrowers Let me ask if you have ever had a problem with moss in the garden? Our garden gets a full 8 hours of sun but we have a tremendous amount of moss. I did notice it isn't under the straw we put around the garlic in the fall. But it is pretty much everywhere there wasn't straw. Someone suggested iron spray but I haven't looked to see if that would unbalance everything. We have very high phosphorus rating and I do get white on the top of the areas I use well water on. The hoop and greenhouse do not have any of the moss though. It starts directly south of them. Thanks for the videos. My 5 year old grandson really likes your videos and the Swedish Homesteader.
Great video.between your podcast and farmer to farmer.the biggest take away is context.you operate within your box (context).its the reason you do what you do. This is my first season.so my context is see what grows and double down on what works for next season.
It’s a constant process figuring out, marketing wise, what your context is. It’s always evolving, too (everyone watches the same videos and podcasts, right?), so it’s good to stay agile as well. Be able to change. Don’t double down too hard on any one crop too early and don’t be afraid to try new things. That’s the best way to determine your context.
In my Market I stop selling bush basil by the last week of May. I'll pick it back up again probably late August. What I find is through the summer, I get a lot of looks at it, but they comment " I've got bushes at home..." So essentially I sell before and after their bushes at home have come and gone.
That’s great. For whatever reason no one at our market seems to do Basil during tomato season, but that could always change. Or they bring it in wilted bunches. The bags are nice for keeping it looking fresh
Hi! talking about green onions, how do you plant them, do you plant them in clumps of 3-4 in each hole¿? and do you cut the leaves, how often if so? thanks a lot.
Hey!!! We have the same time zone, I’m new to this time zone and I’m trying to get it right. Do you have a write up of when and what you sow for the difference seasons? Coming from a tropical region, I have lots, lots , lots to re-learn.
Search my channel for Bryan O’Hara no till market garden podcast. It’’s not a video but it is on UA-cam. He has also talked about this in his NOFAvt series that is five (amazing) episodes.
Cogs on a small scale are surprisingly similar to farming on a small scale. I see market gardening as part of the maker movement. When we will need political power to get something fixed, it would be handy to have the blacksmiths, wood workers, crafters, eBay-ers etc with us.
I know this is an old video, but I was just watching through it and I was just wondering. Did the weeds make the garlic suffer as far as the size of the bulb went? Also did letting the scapes flower also deter bulb size?
Frankfort is a growers only market does great things for tomato sales! But oddly enough our cherry tomatoes don't bring anywhere near $5 /pint it's closer to 2.50 or 3.00 but I'm not complaining that is one of the consistent sales that I never bring home from market.
I hear great things about that market! Are you certified organic? That does tend to help. People are willing to pay more for certified food generally speaking. Also our 1 for 3 or 2 for 5 in half pints tends to work well to increase sales. Again, though, context is everything. Not all markets will go for it.
Rough Draft Farmstead no not organic, this is my first year trying tomatoes and stuff without spraying them, the pest aren't fun but can be manually corrected with a management plan like weed control ( also not sprayed) . It's the fungucide and fertilizer that keeps me from going organic. Frankfort is a great market but 2k a week like you mentioned in another vid would be a stretch for our market. Maybe some of the bigger farms might reach that without problem but then again that's why I'm only part time I guess.
Home grower UK Zone 8b and we've had similar relentless rain, totally opposite of last years drought. My only real success this year is carrots and oriental mixed greens (mazuna, pak choi), my beets are okay but I had patchy germination so from a 10 mtr bed of 3 rows I have about 40% success. My green onions are not doing well, about 30% survived and my chard is just looking so sad where again it only germinated less than 50%. Thanks For the video, always informative and entertaining. Personally I'd put a ridge pole down the tunnels so you'd never have the water pooling issue again but that's just me ;)
Funny enough (or sad), we literally have the purlin sitting in our barn for that 50 ft tunnel and just haven’t had the time to put it up (but have probably spent double the time dispensing of the water, so...).
Root crops: they love phosphorus for root growth, nitrogen for leaf growth. If you get more nitrogen in your soil, they should produce better leaves. But that could make for smaller roots.
Hey bro. I grow beetroot for a living here downunder. ..all year round west of Sydney. ..i just use my chickens manure and harvest in 8 to 10 weeks...take this advice u go great tc
Thanks Paul. Definitely wanting to incorporate our chickens and gardens (which comes with some rules for organic certification, but is still possible).
I hear you talk about your market and you say that at one point there were 100 less vendors. What are those of us in small towns to do for market gardening in places where a "market" consists of only 2 or 3 vendors each with different items or a roadside stand? I find this to be my biggest barrier into the industry is actually selling the product. I can produce all day long but there is no reason to if I'm not going to be able to sell it
Yeah, I have heard him say that but not tried it ourselves. We’ve found the key in our climate is the reduction in direct sunlight. If plants don’t get too brutalized by sunlight (as tends to happen in our region) they can photosynthesize better.
our market doesn't have resellers. has to be local producer only. Well worth it and thankful. We had two "farmers" labeling there stuff incorrectly and on top of it buying it wholesale from china and other places selling it as farmers
My brother put up martin boxes around his garden a couple years ago and he swears he's never had a horn worm since. May be a coincidence, but I'm thinking about trying it anyway.
Hey love your stuff...you seem to have very little flea beetle pressure on the arugula/turnips...is your area low flea beetle pressure or is it your awesome soil?
This is the time of year where I get really frustrated with the weed growth in my beds. yes, I till but I really have to in my context. I have tried the compost and no till option but I have a hard time finding affordable compost where I live. I have to order it and with the delivery cost it ends up costing me almost $60/yard for good compost. This may not sound like much but I need almost 20 yards 3 times for the spring/summer/fall season. I switched over to wood chips that I get for free from the local tree service. The problem with the wood chips is they seem to be tying up the nitrogen in the soil even though I don't incorporate them into the soil. Basically this would be the "Back to Eden" method. My plants grow very slowly when I use wood chips and I have to add a lot of the organic fertilizer a couple times per bed. So, I switched over most of the garden to landscape fabric and I just use the wood chips around the plants to smother out the weeds that come up through the holes burned into the fabric. This doesn't work obviously for root crops. I'm almost ready to call it and give up on farming. I only do this part time but I do enjoy the time I spend at the farmers market with my customers. They are so excited to see what I have each week. I think part of my problem is my fields are in an old cow pasture and the weed bank is very HIGH. :)
Back to Eden talks about wood chips but if you closely inspect what he's holding, it's actually composted wood chips. Pile them up, turn them a few times and use a year or so later.
@@notillgrowers I do add an organic fertilizer throughout the growing season for the plants in the BTE plot. The plants just grow so slowly and still show signs of nitrogen deficiency (yellow leaves). This plot is a test plot to show visitors to the farm multiple methods that they can use in their own gardens but I'm not happy with the results from the BTE method. Thanks for the reply. I'll keep trying...:)
you might want to think about growing beets silvo pasture in the lanes near the trees but not to close. it's like a shade cloth. a few other things grow pretty well in the same style. only problem is you do transplants for beets instead of thinning. from seed
You mention context and that's what I wonder about every time I think about what I want to grow when I get started. May I ask what your context is in Lexington? Do you have a good "foodie" crowd that appreciates your quality? Do you have a diverse ethnic/demographic customer base? Where I plan to sell probably won't have a ton of real foodie type of customers and I'm wondering if they're gonna go for these same type of produce and price.Great video again.
The two markets we serve couldn’t be more different. One is a neighborhood and full of dedicated foodies who will come out in the pouring rain to support us and get their food. The other is downtown so very touristy. Veg sales are tougher. People really like finger foods and stuff they can eat immediately. So for that we’re trying to adjust too find what works better there--carrots, cherry tomatoes maybe, strawberries, etc.. Thanks!
Check the podcast I did with Bryan O’Hara where we talk about how certain plants react to rising and diminishing sunlight based on the species of crop. It’s called the photo period and it can be used in many different ways.
Really love the style of the podcast and very informational. Keep up the awesome work! Big fan of 1 for $3 and 2 for $5. The example in this video were great. Do you share your price list anywhere?
We don’t really share a price list, per se. Everything is just bundled and sold in that format. Super simple. Sometimes a $3 until will be more or less weight depending on the time of year and whether or not the market is saturated with x item. Mostly our prices are slightly higher end, but in line with others. Roughly $3/lb for tomatoes for instance, but we weight them out into pints. We sell the larger ones individually or to restaurants by the lb. We try and keep market extremely simple. Customers love it!
It didn't look like pests to me. Beets really like a fertile soil. I'm guessing this soil is a bit lacking or worked out. Remember I said I am guessing Not there so I really don't know. I have a heavy clay soil which is full of minerals and trace nutrients and the beets are always amazing.
pathways might want to think about woodchip and cardboard. cardboard is your friend. mind you in heavy rain there's a chance of slugs but I just put a few beers out if I think there's going to be rain major event lasting week after week costing me about a six pack. I think you have a super long growing season like cali same as us. We have had a major flood event but the pathways and mulching do two things. Hold water control water and we don't weed. The labor cost of weeding pathways is just too much of a loss leader without a real return on it. where a well-mulched pathway gives you kinda things. plus you can seed it with spent mushroom spore and get some wine caps from time to time.
Thanks!! I would love both but finding time to locate either is tough right now. We have chased down every freaking truck in the county to drop chips here and they just won’t do it. The only one that came back I promised to give them $20 every time they dropped (because usually thy are the ones paying) and they never came back! Also, chips wash out of our paths for our rainfall and slope. Cardboard is an option, but locating hauling, and de-taping is massively time consuming. Better winter project.
@@notillgrowers lol the days of cheap woodchip dump are becoming rarer I guess in some areas. lol. That is to bad. Sometimes I really wonder about these local leaders. If they would put a support network for local farmers and these waste streams so much long term money could be saved. The waste streams they do put together are normally so filled with plastics. -- Locally -- they changed our "tape" they got together when china stop accepting trash and change the tape to a paper style tape and that's where we got our cardboard. there's also a detape movement for local products here when you get it from a corporation. they are forced to detape on their end. I think it's really where you live and how much local leaders care about food and waste. I really hope yall get cheap woodchips though :) we also get good leaf locally as well. We are so dang thankful about the leaf paper bag requirements. There's someone who collects it and drops it off. Thankfully the plastic load on that are good as well. You may want to write your local leaders a letter and pass the word to other farmers like you in your area to write there leaders a letter to setup programs like that. almost everyone in America (non-midwest states included) are near a city or large burb where these waste streams are either being composted(when it doesn't need to be and could be mulch just as easy and helpful as compost) or being thrown directly into the trash streams since china stop taking so much.
Do you think there is a market for Jerusalem Artichokes? I've been growing them for two years, and they are absolutely (as in 100%) maintenance free and prolific. I don't sell them, and only eat a few. They taste like water chestnuts to me. If you could get people to try them, you might be able to have a cash crop that doesn't require much effort.
Absolutely! But it’s Chefs. Chefs are going to be the best market for those. I have sold some in the past at the farmers market, but mostly just to chefs. That said, a passionate farmer can sell anything.
I think you are doing organic farming? If so, you will need to find organic fertilizers for substitutes: Beets need 5 times the phosphorous (P2O5) to nitrogen in days 1- 30 Days 31 - 60 drop the phosphorous and increase the Ammonium nitrate (33.5-0-0) Days 61- 90 keep the nitrogen add potassium (2 to 1.5 ratio nitrogen to potassium)
My channel is about farming, no? If you thought this was supposed to be a music video then I definitely understand. Too avant garde for my taste as well
It’s so inspiring to see your process and also mentions of family. I’ve learnt so much from you on the science of growing
Was lucky enough to meet the Rough Draft Farmsteaders in person and get a mini group tour/ rundown of the whole operation. Awesome day, learned a lot! Their passion is the driving force behind what they are doing and it was evident immediately. I hope to visit again one day and use some of their techniques on my own farm, and also the farm I work at.
Thanks for coming out and best of luck!
I do a garden for 2 personnes 400 feets this year (200 feets greenhouse for winter no heat) no sale
I really enjoy the relay intercropping that you do
I begin this morning with oignons and carrot
THANK YOU for the new tips for me
All the urban farmer are the best for quality
So, I know this is now like 3 yrs later PLUS you probably have already eaten this, thus, thought of it... but for any who haven't... another awesome addition to salads is dill leaves. I bought a mix with it in it and am now in love with that. My husband already was a big fan of dill on things, so, he's doubly in love w it. IDK how well it holds up to being incl in mixes always ( I'm just a home gardener still) but if u have any to sell as-is, be sure to put a sign out that it's amazing in a salad and may help sell one's husband on eating salad ! ( Mine has never actually not liked them - decent ones - but he sure loves to make negative jokes about them ! ).
BTW - and this is one of the only ways he'll eat Zucchini - you may want to also tell customers that zucchini slices work just as well as cukes in "slicers" . Just slightly dif. taste and texture, & some may prefer it actually. Slicers being what I grew up calling sliced cukes in vinegar/vinegar water, which one may or may not pre-soak in salted water & most peel them, but my mom found out most nutrition is in/close to peels so we stopped. Some maybe should peel theirs often tho, as Cucumber peels can upset some tummies.
PSS: I had tennis elbow 2 years ago, too :( . Horribly. Thought my Lyme's was back so I went to the Dr. . I didn't get a brace thingy... . Hurt horribly all summer. Problem with teaching farm kids to just hut things with all your might, if need be.... turns out that ground I'd been driving T-posts into had been a silage pile area in the past... very compacted.... . Was putting up a trellis in a borrowed garden space on a friend's farm.
Good stuff! as a start up market farmer this is the type of info I long for. Keep up the good fight brother!
Now that Curtis Stone has pulled out of youtube basically it is great to see another market gardener posting about the process.
That’s nice to say! Curtis brought/brings a lot of value--we hope to do the same.
Thank you for these videos bro. I learn a lot an I appreciate you sharing
Great video! Gonna have to try pushing green bunching onion plantings into the summer. I’m a bit warmer here in NC 7b but not a ton. Ever try growing roselle hibiscus? It’s my new favorite crop. Love eating it candied and drinking the tea and it’s one of my most profitable crops. About $1,000 + per 100 foot bed, single row , 3 feet apart and it forms a 4-5 ft hedge. It starts producing in the sweltering heat of summer when other crops are tired and produces till frost kills it. Closely related to okra, but way better because I only harvest once a week. Loaded with vitamin C and antioxidants. Beautiful color. People go nuts for it at market. It’s fantastic. I find I get better germination from the seed I save year to year than the original seed I purchased from southern exposure seed exchange. Cheers!
Nice, Jackson. no I have not grown it but it sounds awesome. Might have to give it a try. Southern Exposure does not get enough love--great selection of seeds.
Excellent video. Love the price breakdowns for market. I realize that each area is different but at least you give some kind of starting point. Also helpful is ~how many in a bunch. Again will vary by area and market conditions, but helpful to at least start planning to get started! Can't wait to retire and return to the states and start using my land!
Word.
Diakon and cut sunflower were the killer summer crops
Try the arm strap that wraps below the elbow works great...John
Been watching all these no-till market gardeners for my own growing use and have two observations.
1) They use a LOT of compost and other than Charles Dowding, have to buy it.
2) I'm in rural flyover country and people wouldn't even know what half of these crops are and would actually use less than half. This is meat and potatoes land but onions, garlic, tomatoes, green beans, corn, watermelon and some lettuce could sell and that's about it.
Arugala? Isn't that the sound the old car horns made?
JM Fortier sprays his beets with seaweed which has a lot of boron that they need. I planted 3 types this year. In the tunnel: Johnny's baby beets, which I've never really liked but thought I would try once more-so, so. Leaves were beautiful until army worms (?) moved in. Came and ate their fill and left. Still harvesting those for CSA. (Not doing Farmer's Market this year). Early Wonder from Lake Valley Organics. Planted those in mid-March and they still aren't ready. Leaves are beautiful-Barely any Septoria Leaf Spot. BUT there was quite a bit of chard mixed in with the seeds. It's a type I've not seen before. Beautiful though. In the field we direct seeded Detroit Reds from High Mowing Seeds on May 15th. They are doing horrible. Their leaves are covered in Septoria Leaf Spot and are crunchy to the touch. We are pulling them today. We live next to Indianapolis, zone 5b-6a. We have had a marvelous spring. Wet, very wet but almost all temps under 80. Things took longer to grow due to lack of sun and so much rain. Thankful for "raised" beds, a hoop house (50ft) and a greenhouse (16 x 32). Salanova is bolting so we are growing Muir and Cherokee Red. Our CSA is a "Salad CSA" this year, with a fruit-strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb (not technically a fruit but a must in the Midwest) and blackberries. We sell at one tiny organic store and are hoping to start restaurants as well. We will definitely be adding 2-50' tunnels this fall. We experimented last year and were able to grow year round in our hoop and greenhouse. Granted, we didn't have a ton of snow but we watched carefully. It was worth it. Thanks Jesse.
Yeah, we haven’t done seaweed but we have an Omri boron spray we’ve been using that seems to help a bit. Thank you for all this info! Love the tunnels. Seem to make a huge difference in leaf spot.
@@notillgrowers Let me ask if you have ever had a problem with moss in the garden? Our garden gets a full 8 hours of sun but we have a tremendous amount of moss. I did notice it isn't under the straw we put around the garlic in the fall. But it is pretty much everywhere there wasn't straw. Someone suggested iron spray but I haven't looked to see if that would unbalance everything. We have very high phosphorus rating and I do get white on the top of the areas I use well water on. The hoop and greenhouse do not have any of the moss though. It starts directly south of them. Thanks for the videos. My 5 year old grandson really likes your videos and the Swedish Homesteader.
This is your best ever video
So practical. Thanks
That’s awesome to hear! I was a bit iffy about releasing it for some reason.
Great video.between your podcast and farmer to farmer.the biggest take away is context.you operate within your box (context).its the reason you do what you do. This is my first season.so my context is see what grows and double down on what works for next season.
It’s a constant process figuring out, marketing wise, what your context is. It’s always evolving, too (everyone watches the same videos and podcasts, right?), so it’s good to stay agile as well. Be able to change. Don’t double down too hard on any one crop too early and don’t be afraid to try new things. That’s the best way to determine your context.
@@notillgrowers thanks
Have you tried using shade cloth in the field to grow the beats
Thanks so much for the info about the solstice and turnips. I love turnips and beets and just have not had any success!!
Bryan O’Hara really got me thinking about sunlight differently. Brilliant guy
@@notillgrowers what’s the deal about the solstice and which crops are affected? Does this apply no matter how far north you are?
In my Market I stop selling bush basil by the last week of May. I'll pick it back up again probably late August. What I find is through the summer, I get a lot of looks at it, but they comment " I've got bushes at home..." So essentially I sell before and after their bushes at home have come and gone.
That’s great. For whatever reason no one at our market seems to do Basil during tomato season, but that could always change. Or they bring it in wilted bunches. The bags are nice for keeping it looking fresh
@@notillgrowers The joys of hydroponic Basil. I can get it out sooner than the gardens :D Also by leaving the roots on, it doesn't wilt.
Hi! talking about green onions, how do you plant them, do you plant them in clumps of 3-4 in each hole¿? and do you cut the leaves, how often if so? thanks a lot.
Hey!!! We have the same time zone, I’m new to this time zone and I’m trying to get it right. Do you have a write up of when and what you sow for the difference seasons? Coming from a tropical region, I have lots, lots , lots to re-learn.
Great video! Can you link to the video that explains what to plant post solstice?
Search my channel for Bryan O’Hara no till market garden podcast. It’’s not a video but it is on UA-cam. He has also talked about this in his NOFAvt series that is five (amazing) episodes.
Cogs on a small scale are surprisingly similar to farming on a small scale. I see market gardening as part of the maker movement. When we will need political power to get something fixed, it would be handy to have the blacksmiths, wood workers, crafters, eBay-ers etc with us.
I know this is an old video, but I was just watching through it and I was just wondering. Did the weeds make the garlic suffer as far as the size of the bulb went? Also did letting the scapes flower also deter bulb size?
Also with rocket. ...its a bit hard togrow...gets white spot easily
Hi John from north Ga... very helpful....where do you live?
Nice and very informative videos Mate !! Keep it up !!
I've noticed in your videos you have great houses. What are some suppliers I can check out
Frankfort is a growers only market does great things for tomato sales! But oddly enough our cherry tomatoes don't bring anywhere near $5 /pint it's closer to 2.50 or 3.00 but I'm not complaining that is one of the consistent sales that I never bring home from market.
I hear great things about that market! Are you certified organic? That does tend to help. People are willing to pay more for certified food generally speaking. Also our 1 for 3 or 2 for 5 in half pints tends to work well to increase sales. Again, though, context is everything. Not all markets will go for it.
Rough Draft Farmstead no not organic, this is my first year trying tomatoes and stuff without spraying them, the pest aren't fun but can be manually corrected with a management plan like weed control ( also not sprayed) . It's the fungucide and fertilizer that keeps me from going organic. Frankfort is a great market but 2k a week like you mentioned in another vid would be a stretch for our market. Maybe some of the bigger farms might reach that without problem but then again that's why I'm only part time I guess.
Home grower UK Zone 8b and we've had similar relentless rain, totally opposite of last years drought. My only real success this year is carrots and oriental mixed greens (mazuna, pak choi), my beets are okay but I had patchy germination so from a 10 mtr bed of 3 rows I have about 40% success. My green onions are not doing well, about 30% survived and my chard is just looking so sad where again it only germinated less than 50%. Thanks For the video, always informative and entertaining. Personally I'd put a ridge pole down the tunnels so you'd never have the water pooling issue again but that's just me ;)
Funny enough (or sad), we literally have the purlin sitting in our barn for that 50 ft tunnel and just haven’t had the time to put it up (but have probably spent double the time dispensing of the water, so...).
Root crops: they love phosphorus for root growth, nitrogen for leaf growth. If you get more nitrogen in your soil, they should produce better leaves. But that could make for smaller roots.
We definitely have the Phosphorous, the nitrogen is often our challenge.
Airless paint sprayer, great for volume chemical application, thats all I got....
what variety of fennel are you using? I have trouble getting them to bulb.
Preludio is our jam
Wow
Good luck with the elbow!
Thanks!
Hey I know this is a really old video but wouldn’t it help you if you made it Gothic and you did the spans 4 feet instead of 5 feet on the Tunnel
Hey bro. I grow beetroot for a living here downunder. ..all year round west of Sydney. ..i just use my chickens manure and harvest in 8 to 10 weeks...take this advice u go great tc
Thanks Paul. Definitely wanting to incorporate our chickens and gardens (which comes with some rules for organic certification, but is still possible).
I hear you talk about your market and you say that at one point there were 100 less vendors. What are those of us in small towns to do for market gardening in places where a "market" consists of only 2 or 3 vendors each with different items or a roadside stand? I find this to be my biggest barrier into the industry is actually selling the product. I can produce all day long but there is no reason to if I'm not going to be able to sell it
Jm Fortier mentions boron being a limiting factor in quality beet greens. He sprays with seaweed and boron weekly. May be helpful.
Yeah, I have heard him say that but not tried it ourselves. We’ve found the key in our climate is the reduction in direct sunlight. If plants don’t get too brutalized by sunlight (as tends to happen in our region) they can photosynthesize better.
Great video Jesse
Thanks, Sam!
Spray beet leaves frequently with Sea 90 solution
our market doesn't have resellers. has to be local producer only. Well worth it and thankful. We had two "farmers" labeling there stuff incorrectly and on top of it buying it wholesale from china and other places selling it as farmers
Which green onions do you like?
My brother put up martin boxes around his garden a couple years ago and he swears he's never had a horn worm since. May be a coincidence, but I'm thinking about trying it anyway.
@Jeannie patterson they are bird houses that attract purple martins which eat tons of pest insects.
Heck yeah. Martins are the best!
Hey love your stuff...you seem to have very little flea beetle pressure on the arugula/turnips...is your area low flea beetle pressure or is it your awesome soil?
Good soil helps, but so does light row cover. Gotta protect them all the way from germ to harvest.
@@notillgrowers thx so much for answering, really enjoy your channel you (and my bad soil) are actually the reason i switched to no till this year THX
I don't know if you answered or not, but is your garlic also $3 or 2 for $5?
This is the time of year where I get really frustrated with the weed growth in my beds. yes, I till but I really have to in my context. I have tried the compost and no till option but I have a hard time finding affordable compost where I live. I have to order it and with the delivery cost it ends up costing me almost $60/yard for good compost. This may not sound like much but I need almost 20 yards 3 times for the spring/summer/fall season. I switched over to wood chips that I get for free from the local tree service. The problem with the wood chips is they seem to be tying up the nitrogen in the soil even though I don't incorporate them into the soil. Basically this would be the "Back to Eden" method. My plants grow very slowly when I use wood chips and I have to add a lot of the organic fertilizer a couple times per bed. So, I switched over most of the garden to landscape fabric and I just use the wood chips around the plants to smother out the weeds that come up through the holes burned into the fabric. This doesn't work obviously for root crops. I'm almost ready to call it and give up on farming. I only do this part time but I do enjoy the time I spend at the farmers market with my customers. They are so excited to see what I have each week. I think part of my problem is my fields are in an old cow pasture and the weed bank is very HIGH. :)
Back to Eden talks about wood chips but if you closely inspect what he's holding, it's actually composted wood chips. Pile them up, turn them a few times and use a year or so later.
Agree here, gotta compost those woodchips and also consider an addition of some sort of organic nitrogen at first.
@@notillgrowers I do add an organic fertilizer throughout the growing season for the plants in the BTE plot. The plants just grow so slowly and still show signs of nitrogen deficiency (yellow leaves). This plot is a test plot to show visitors to the farm multiple methods that they can use in their own gardens but I'm not happy with the results from the BTE method. Thanks for the reply. I'll keep trying...:)
@@CLFarmsGrows This guy explains it perfectly. ua-cam.com/video/m3-XY63YAgA/v-deo.html
you might want to think about growing beets silvo pasture in the lanes near the trees but not to close. it's like a shade cloth. a few other things grow pretty well in the same style. only problem is you do transplants for beets instead of thinning. from seed
You mention context and that's what I wonder about every time I think about what I want to grow when I get started. May I ask what your context is in Lexington? Do you have a good "foodie" crowd that appreciates your quality? Do you have a diverse ethnic/demographic customer base? Where I plan to sell probably won't have a ton of real foodie type of customers and I'm wondering if they're gonna go for these same type of produce and price.Great video again.
The two markets we serve couldn’t be more different. One is a neighborhood and full of dedicated foodies who will come out in the pouring rain to support us and get their food. The other is downtown so very touristy. Veg sales are tougher. People really like finger foods and stuff they can eat immediately. So for that we’re trying to adjust too find what works better there--carrots, cherry tomatoes maybe, strawberries, etc.. Thanks!
@@notillgrowers Thanks!
I've heard fennel inhibits the growth of other plants.
Could you elaborate on the turnips and radishes in relation to the solstice? Trying to understand :/
Check the podcast I did with Bryan O’Hara where we talk about how certain plants react to rising and diminishing sunlight based on the species of crop. It’s called the photo period and it can be used in many different ways.
@@notillgrowers ok thank you will do, been having issues similar
Cover Smother.... the Weeds... do not Bother to Weed... Save the Elbow ... LOL
I love the poetry here! Agreed. Need more cover.
Need a rhyme for elbow 😊
Really love the style of the podcast and very informational. Keep up the awesome work! Big fan of 1 for $3 and 2 for $5. The example in this video were great. Do you share your price list anywhere?
We don’t really share a price list, per se. Everything is just bundled and sold in that format. Super simple. Sometimes a $3 until will be more or less weight depending on the time of year and whether or not the market is saturated with x item. Mostly our prices are slightly higher end, but in line with others. Roughly $3/lb for tomatoes for instance, but we weight them out into pints. We sell the larger ones individually or to restaurants by the lb. We try and keep market extremely simple. Customers love it!
Is there a chance it could be pests affecting your field beets?
It didn't look like pests to me. Beets really like a fertile soil. I'm guessing this soil is a bit lacking or worked out. Remember I said I am guessing Not there so I really don't know. I have a heavy clay soil which is full of minerals and trace nutrients and the beets are always amazing.
@@billastell3753 Is it the same soil in the tunnels though, but just getting controlled watering?
pathways might want to think about woodchip and cardboard. cardboard is your friend. mind you in heavy rain there's a chance of slugs but I just put a few beers out if I think there's going to be rain major event lasting week after week costing me about a six pack. I think you have a super long growing season like cali same as us. We have had a major flood event but the pathways and mulching do two things. Hold water control water and we don't weed. The labor cost of weeding pathways is just too much of a loss leader without a real return on it. where a well-mulched pathway gives you kinda things. plus you can seed it with spent mushroom spore and get some wine caps from time to time.
Thanks!! I would love both but finding time to locate either is tough right now. We have chased down every freaking truck in the county to drop chips here and they just won’t do it. The only one that came back I promised to give them $20 every time they dropped (because usually thy are the ones paying) and they never came back! Also, chips wash out of our paths for our rainfall and slope. Cardboard is an option, but locating hauling, and de-taping is massively time consuming. Better winter project.
@@notillgrowers lol the days of cheap woodchip dump are becoming rarer I guess in some areas. lol. That is to bad. Sometimes I really wonder about these local leaders. If they would put a support network for local farmers and these waste streams so much long term money could be saved. The waste streams they do put together are normally so filled with plastics. -- Locally -- they changed our "tape" they got together when china stop accepting trash and change the tape to a paper style tape and that's where we got our cardboard. there's also a detape movement for local products here when you get it from a corporation. they are forced to detape on their end. I think it's really where you live and how much local leaders care about food and waste. I really hope yall get cheap woodchips though :) we also get good leaf locally as well. We are so dang thankful about the leaf paper bag requirements. There's someone who collects it and drops it off. Thankfully the plastic load on that are good as well. You may want to write your local leaders a letter and pass the word to other farmers like you in your area to write there leaders a letter to setup programs like that. almost everyone in America (non-midwest states included) are near a city or large burb where these waste streams are either being composted(when it doesn't need to be and could be mulch just as easy and helpful as compost) or being thrown directly into the trash streams since china stop taking so much.
Do you think there is a market for Jerusalem Artichokes? I've been growing them for two years, and they are absolutely (as in 100%) maintenance free and prolific. I don't sell them, and only eat a few. They taste like water chestnuts to me. If you could get people to try them, you might be able to have a cash crop that doesn't require much effort.
Absolutely! But it’s Chefs. Chefs are going to be the best market for those. I have sold some in the past at the farmers market, but mostly just to chefs. That said, a passionate farmer can sell anything.
Where do you sell in Lexington?
Southland drive on Sundays!
You know, I screw up on lots of stuff!
I think you are doing organic farming? If so, you will need to find organic fertilizers for substitutes:
Beets need 5 times the phosphorous (P2O5) to nitrogen in days 1- 30
Days 31 - 60 drop the phosphorous and increase the Ammonium nitrate (33.5-0-0)
Days 61- 90 keep the nitrogen add potassium (2 to 1.5 ratio nitrogen to potassium)
Great! Thank you for that (and yes, certified).
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I delete bizarre music channels , bye👋
My channel is about farming, no? If you thought this was supposed to be a music video then I definitely understand. Too avant garde for my taste as well