Nice looking garden. When I was a child my neighbor Clarence had his garden worked for planting with work horses. Remember one was named Jake. Great memories. I am a new subscriber.
Steel spring tooth harrow. Modern technology. When I was a kid the garden harrow was way different. There were 4 cross members maybe 6' wide made of ~4" logs. The teeth were railroad spikes driven through drilled holes in the logs. The logs were rafted together at 12"-16" spacing with the harrow teeth on ~6" spacing along the width of the logs. A couple of boards were nailed on top of the raft for a driver platform so he could ride instead of walk. I was too young to handle the hitch but I remember both my grandfathers harrowing with those old implements. Thanks for sharing
We did the same thing with navy beans bought them off the store shelf. And they sprouted and we had a crop of soup beans that year. But cleaning the beans from the plants that was fun. All my brothers still laugh at that one. And that was over 40 years ago.
Wheat is a nice crop to plant, it does not need much to cover it and even most of that which is on the surface seems to germinate OK. Like all 'grasses' it is thirsty, out here in Africa i needs irrigation as its mostly grown in the drier winter months (its wetter in the South)!
I like to plant buckwheat. It makes very nice flowers and enriches the soil at the same time. A nice pumpkin patch is also very pretty and so are sunflowers.
I had an A-frame spike harrow that I pulled with a single pony. She had to have a breather every few minutes. It isn't something you'd want to do all day, but she could do it long enough to do whatever we were planting that day. It is a lot easier with a single horse. I'll be interested to see how your wheat experiment goes. I've been thinking in the same lines and doing some research. I'm using a similar area to grow all we can eat and all we can, freeze and dehydrate, plus some to give to neighbors. I've actually got several of my neighbors gardening now too, so that will be less necessary. That said, I have none of our small grains whatsoever. I've been looking at growing some Tennessee Red Cob corn next year, which would give us corn bread. I'm amazed at how small of an area it takes to grow 50 lbs of wheat.
Dad made a 4 row marker out of a cedar post and some scrap 1/2" pipe about 2' long. In Michigan and Kansas we plant hard red or white Winter wheat after September 5th to avoid fly larva. In Alaska, they plant Barley, the farmers have a flour mill and turn the barley into flour, cream of barley cereal (like cream of wheat), barley couscous, brownie mixes and pancake mix. Hopefully that is Spring wheat for this planting to grow into maturity. The packer may be noisy but it's a great tool for it's use. Just after Memorial Day was always garden planting time in Michigan, 60 miles North of Detroit, to avoid frost.
I had dry beans that weren’t the freshest so I threw them out in the garden, so they sprouted and will grow on. Good to see you Miss Brenda with your beautiful hair! What a fabulous mane you have! The horses probably think this garden is a piece of pie compared to hauling logs out of the woods. I really enjoy your videos and please keep hem coming. God bless you and keep you both, as well as your animals. 🌹
@@warrenklingensmith1241 Oh .... I see, I thing I heard Mrs Brenda speak about bread wheat, but mind you, French is my mother tongue and I don't consider myself a 100 % bilingual. But, thanks.
A couple old sharpened broomsticks with heavy string works well to mark a straight row. Jute twine rots if it gets wet. Plastic twine likes to twist. Just follow the string. I use different width depending on the plant. I weed with a rototiller and 30 inches is about right. I also hill up the corn with a furrow attachment when the corn is around knee high. It keeps the cornstalks straigh if we get a thunderstorm with high winds. Hard work though. I could use a horse.
Being raised in Kansas (The Wheat State), wheat is usually sowed in the fall and harvested in June. There are some varieties that you can plant in the spring and harvest in the fall. I enjoy your videos,,,, keep'em coming!
I still use a broadcast spreader for small patches of barley, oats and wheat. Great devices for a small plot. It is good to see Brenda doing some of the presenting, no offense Jim, but she is prettier!! hahahahaha
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Please. If i may ask? Let me know how that turns out. Ive looked into doing that. But not sure if there is a right or wrong way in doing that.
Nice. In Aus we have big white cockatoos living in flocks of thousands. The moment grain germinates, they come in and eat the sprouts, here its oats. Have to seed real heavy. They'll also raid big crops of seed potatoes. In cities they'll unpeg the washing from the lines just for the joy of dropping things, and they regularly remove the top off my rain gauge, just because they can. There's a pecan farm just up the road, farmer has a drone and herds them away with that. We have 9 pecan trees here, they just love trashing pecan trees. After almost 8 years I still have never eaten a pecan nut from here, cockies get the lot, and waste a lot.
This winter you will have the best breakfast cereal there is. Whole wheat soaked in hot water the night before, then heated and add a spoonful of vanila icecream. Milk and sugar all in one go. Nutritious and delicious! You can thank me later ... hahahaha
There's lots of grains you could experiment: sorghum, amaranth, chia, quinoa, several kinds of millet (they're all actually different plants), ancient grains like spelt, farro, einkorn, and emmer, and barley, teff, oats... I could keep you busy for years. ;D
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Good. Are you guys aware that the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic has slowed way down and they say when it stops we will have a mini ice age. I guess we are going to repeat 1776 when Washington crossed the Delaware in a mini ice age. I am guessing about ten degrees colder than usual?
Try Earthway Products. I believe that even some Walmarts out in the country carry their products. Or you can look for Cyclone seed sower at Etsy.com Good luck!
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Italian green string beans are the tastiest green bean but seed is hard to find. Roma II is the name and Agway and Livingston seed carry it. It is quite a wide bean and they actually taste better if you let them get a little old and the bean inside gets big. I prepare them the farmer way by boiling for 15-20 minutes to soften and then refrying them in butter with some fresh sliced garlic added toward the end so it isn't bitter. I add a little milk to scald the last minute and stir. Salt and pepper to taste. Stir the beans so they don't burn. It takes longer but the taste is well worth it.
Dose jim use the sylos ? And none of my bisnes i thought you where in pa but i herd your new your how you all go from vt to ny your realy not that far from me in belchertown ma one town from amerst umass
The old timers and organic farmers plant buckwheat to suppress the weeds for the following year. Perhaps you could do half the garden one year and half the next. I know nothing about when to plant and how to plant. I know honeybees, if there are any in the area, love buckwheat and pheasants like it for cover as well as food. Perhaps you could harvest and grind it for pancakes. Might take a little research. I was too young to remember much when we grew some on the farm. Your Amish neighbors might know.
I have had horses for 58 years now, I never had a horse that wouldn't respond to its name, even when hitched up with another or in multiple hitches. But , of course, you have to use it often enough when you work with the horse single, or just handle him in the stable.
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Go Brenda go! Thank you for sharing.
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I was waiting for Jim to say Gee or Haw when she was making the rows.
Nice looking garden. When I was a child my neighbor Clarence had his garden worked for planting with work horses. Remember one was named Jake. Great memories. I am a new subscriber.
Steel spring tooth harrow. Modern technology. When I was a kid the garden harrow was way different. There were 4 cross members maybe 6' wide made of ~4" logs. The teeth were railroad spikes driven through drilled holes in the logs. The logs were rafted together at 12"-16" spacing with the harrow teeth on ~6" spacing along the width of the logs. A couple of boards were nailed on top of the raft for a driver platform so he could ride instead of walk. I was too young to handle the hitch but I remember both my grandfathers harrowing with those old implements. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing your experience
A nice way to live. I remember horse farming with my grandfather in the 1960’s.
Very nice video with a great narration by Mrs Jim. Keep it up.
We did the same thing with navy beans bought them off the store shelf. And they sprouted and we had a crop of soup beans that year. But cleaning the beans from the plants that was fun. All my brothers still laugh at that one. And that was over 40 years ago.
Good to know!
Great video, y’all, and, as for making straight rows, you know you get more plant in crooked ones, lol. Thanks for sharing, GB. 👍👍👍👍👍
Haha! Right!
Ahhh, it's the best thing about Mondays 🐴👏🏻👋🏻
Thanks!
Wheat is a nice crop to plant, it does not need much to cover it and even most of that which is on the surface seems to germinate OK. Like all 'grasses' it is thirsty, out here in Africa i needs irrigation as its mostly grown in the drier winter months (its wetter in the South)!
Good job.Always nice to try something different.Ken handled the spring tooth very well.
Thanks 👍
I like to plant buckwheat. It makes very nice flowers and enriches the soil at the same time. A nice pumpkin patch is also very pretty and so are sunflowers.
Thanks for the good suggestions!
I had an A-frame spike harrow that I pulled with a single pony. She had to have a breather every few minutes. It isn't something you'd want to do all day, but she could do it long enough to do whatever we were planting that day. It is a lot easier with a single horse.
I'll be interested to see how your wheat experiment goes. I've been thinking in the same lines and doing some research. I'm using a similar area to grow all we can eat and all we can, freeze and dehydrate, plus some to give to neighbors. I've actually got several of my neighbors gardening now too, so that will be less necessary. That said, I have none of our small grains whatsoever. I've been looking at growing some Tennessee Red Cob corn next year, which would give us corn bread. I'm amazed at how small of an area it takes to grow 50 lbs of wheat.
Dad made a 4 row marker out of a cedar post and some scrap 1/2" pipe about 2' long. In Michigan and Kansas we plant hard red or white Winter wheat after September 5th to avoid fly larva. In Alaska, they plant Barley, the farmers have a flour mill and turn the barley into flour, cream of barley cereal (like cream of wheat), barley couscous, brownie mixes and pancake mix. Hopefully that is Spring wheat for this planting to grow into maturity. The packer may be noisy but it's a great tool for it's use. Just after Memorial Day was always garden planting time in Michigan, 60 miles North of Detroit, to avoid frost.
We think it's Spring wheat, we will see how it does.
I had dry beans that weren’t the freshest so I threw them out in the garden, so they sprouted and will grow on.
Good to see you Miss Brenda with your beautiful hair! What a fabulous mane you have! The horses probably think this garden is a piece of pie compared to hauling logs out of the woods. I really enjoy your videos and please keep hem coming. God bless you and keep you both, as well as your animals. 🌹
Brenda says thanks! Thanks for watching the videos and God bless you as well!
You are a great team. 👍😎
That wheat thing: It will be interesting to find out how wheat is harvested on a small scale ... Great, a little nice adventure to follow.
The wheat is for a cover crop to choke out the weeds. Not to be harvested
@@warrenklingensmith1241 Oh .... I see, I thing I heard Mrs Brenda speak about bread wheat, but mind you, French is my mother tongue and I don't consider myself a 100 % bilingual. But, thanks.
Nothing like getting the garden in, pretty efficient operation.
Wow, that roller really made it look nice.
Just found your channel, reminds me of my aunt & uncle's two-horse farm more than sixty yrs., ago in the Ozarks.
Hello! Thanks for watching, hope it brings back some good memories
Great video - I hope the gar6den is a total success.
Thanks! Nice of you!
It shows the great condition your horses are in that you are able to just use one horse on the two section spring tooth harrow.
The garden looks great! I sure miss having a garden...
Nice video cant wait to seeit come up and get growing. Boy those horses looked good just what i was looking for. God bless yall.
Thanks, you too!
Love your show learn a lot by you and show thanks
Great job , continue on , stay safe , enjoy !
Thanks, will do!
A couple old sharpened broomsticks with heavy string works well to mark a straight row. Jute twine rots if it gets wet. Plastic twine likes to twist. Just follow the string. I use different width depending on the plant. I weed with a rototiller and 30 inches is about right. I also hill up the corn with a furrow attachment when the corn is around knee high. It keeps the cornstalks straigh if we get a thunderstorm with high winds. Hard work though. I could use a horse.
Nice job looks great thank for taken time to video
Being raised in Kansas (The Wheat State), wheat is usually sowed in the fall and harvested in June. There are some varieties that you can plant in the spring and harvest in the fall. I enjoy your videos,,,, keep'em coming!
Hard red winter wheat is planted in the fall.
I still use a broadcast spreader for small patches of barley, oats and wheat. Great devices for a small plot. It is good to see Brenda doing some of the presenting, no offense Jim, but she is prettier!! hahahahaha
That just proves that Jim is a very smart man!
@@SWAMPHUNTER644 There was never any doubt about that
Great video there.. Its nice that Miss Brenda is getting in there too. You got plans to use your wheat for? Flour? Maybe?
Yes, we hope to grind it into flour
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Please. If i may ask? Let me know how that turns out. Ive looked into doing that. But not sure if there is a right or wrong way in doing that.
Nice. In Aus we have big white cockatoos living in flocks of thousands. The moment grain germinates, they come in and eat the sprouts, here its oats. Have to seed real heavy. They'll also raid big crops of seed potatoes. In cities they'll unpeg the washing from the lines just for the joy of dropping things, and they regularly remove the top off my rain gauge, just because they can. There's a pecan farm just up the road, farmer has a drone and herds them away with that. We have 9 pecan trees here, they just love trashing pecan trees. After almost 8 years I still have never eaten a pecan nut from here, cockies get the lot, and waste a lot.
They sound like a real menace!
Yes, and breed more because of cropping, have large tribal extended families, and live over 50 years. Go figure!
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Nice weather! Our English weather is as usual... I'm still wearing the same clothes as in the middle of January
Interesting! Sounds like a more steady weather pattern than we have here
Good Job !
This winter you will have the best breakfast cereal there is. Whole wheat soaked in hot water the night before, then heated and add a spoonful of vanila icecream. Milk and sugar all in one go. Nutritious and delicious! You can thank me later ... hahahaha
Interesting! Hope we get some wheat so we can try it! Then we can thank you later!
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Hahahaha. you are good farmers so if you don't have a crop of wheat, it won't be your fault.
wheat might do fine up north planted in the spring , im not sure , down here in ky we sew wheat in the fall , it does'nt do well here in the summer.
We hope so, time will tell
As always Jim I loved it .I also like that your wife is getting more involved .Brenda I thing
hope that is correct Julien Lamarche
Thanks
Great video Jim thank's for sharing
Thanks Jerry
There's lots of grains you could experiment: sorghum, amaranth, chia, quinoa, several kinds of millet (they're all actually different plants), ancient grains like spelt, farro, einkorn, and emmer, and barley, teff, oats... I could keep you busy for years. ;D
Your doing a great job
Thank you
Is there a follow up video to tis one bout garden
Are you guys going to can your veges for winter when they are ready?
Yes, freeze and can
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Good. Are you guys aware that the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic has slowed way down and they say when it stops we will have a mini ice age. I guess we are going to repeat 1776 when Washington crossed the Delaware in a mini ice age. I am guessing about ten degrees colder than usual?
Great video, I've never seen a bag seeder before. Where do find those? The horses look so healthy, so beautiful
Try Earthway Products. I believe that even some Walmarts out in the country carry their products. Or you can look for Cyclone seed sower at Etsy.com Good luck!
thanks
@@davidhintz1 Thank you ..
Do the wheat for a treat for the sweet horses...
Last year you knocked down the picket fence next to the garden.
What’s the shed and boiler thing behind your house near the garden?
Our outdoor wood furnace
Poor Ol` Ken sure had to pull.
I was wondering how long it takes to farm with horses. How long does it take to plow, cut hay, rake hay, etc. Thank you
Way too hard to answer this way. Over time I will try to give you an idea about that in some of my videos
That sounds great I look forward to seeing it in upcoming videos
Still no update on That ford ..jim?
It's going great, thanks for asking
I see some fresh whole wheat bread in your future.
Hope so!
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I have a quick question! What camera and other equipment do you use to film your videos! My family loves your videos!
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Italian green string beans are the tastiest green bean but seed is hard to find. Roma II is the name and Agway and Livingston seed carry it. It is quite a wide bean and they actually taste better if you let them get a little old and the bean inside gets big. I prepare them the farmer way by boiling for 15-20 minutes to soften and then refrying them in butter with some fresh sliced garlic added toward the end so it isn't bitter. I add a little milk to scald the last minute and stir. Salt and pepper to taste. Stir the beans so they don't burn. It takes longer but the taste is well worth it.
Your making me hungry, dang it. Boy that sounds good.
Dose jim use the sylos ? And none of my bisnes i thought you where in pa but i herd your new your how you all go from vt to ny your realy not that far from me in belchertown ma one town from amerst umass
Jim hasn't been using the silos for a few years. We came to New York from Vermont in search of a farm
What was that thing that seemed to hit the roof of your barn and then bounce off ?
Not sure, we didn't see anything.
The old timers and organic farmers plant buckwheat to suppress the weeds for the following year. Perhaps you could do half the garden one year and half the next. I know nothing about when to plant and how to plant. I know honeybees, if there are any in the area, love buckwheat and pheasants like it for cover as well as food. Perhaps you could harvest and grind it for pancakes. Might take a little research. I was too young to remember much when we grew some on the farm. Your Amish neighbors might know.
Buckwheat technically is not a grain and has no gluten. It is mixed with grains to make bread etc. and a very distinct flavor.
yes, that's what we've heard
Silly question... Do the horses really know their names?
Interesting question Wayne,keep safe and well, best wishes from Sue & Carol, North Norfolk coast UK
Yes they do
I have had horses for 58 years now, I never had a horse that wouldn't respond to its name, even when hitched up with another or in multiple hitches. But , of course, you have to use it often enough when you work with the horse single, or just handle him in the stable.
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Corn and wheat for Bourbon? Just kidding guys.
Nobody likes a crooked row lol
Right!
Put my comment on the wrong video. Sorry.
Working the garden with a horse makes a rototiller look like crap! Your through it in a jiffy.