Brother I'm glad to see you up moving around. I went through the same thing earlier this year with five compressed discs and I know how you feel. Me and my wife watch you all the time and really enjoy seeing the kiddos playing out there with you. Keep up the videos and we will keep watching 😁
I spit coffee out laughing at the boys when they yelled “it’s time, it’s pumpkin melon time”! LOL! Travis you need to put a warning in the beginning of your videos, Drink at your own risk! Hahaha. Have a good weekend my friend, Rob
You are definitely way ahead of our melons and pumpkins. We have softball size and you have harvested some nice ones. Thanks for the comparison and first hand experience report. Hope your back is recovering and you are slowly getting back up to speed.
Loved watching the boys roll that monster watermelon! They are so cute! So glad you'll have help cleaning your plots so Brooklyn doesn't have to do it. You don't want to wear her out. ;-) Keep on healing!
I've only had luck after the stem at the fruit browns and dried Yes I know some tell difference test for different varieties . Great to work with enthusiastic help Thank for showing
Next year you should try growing the Piel de Sapo melon, also known as the Santa Claus melon. They are a very popular melon from Spain and are very tasty.
I’ve been growing giant pumpkins competitively for quite a few years and in 2017 I grew a 2,000 pound pumpkin. It was a lot of work and to be honest I enjoy just vegetable gardening more. Thanks for sharing your harvest with us all
If you try a seedless orange watermelon the orange crisp is the sweetest watermelon I ever tasted... Their was one time I ate a seedless sugar baby that was that sweet... But we grew 20×20 piece of black plastic with 4 foot and a half hills in it of the orange crisp, they where amazingly sweet, unbelievable.... We grew them here in East Tennessee.....
@@LazyDogFarm I'm going to tell ya about the only watermelon that does not taste like watermelon, it's orange glo.. It just tastes like sweet tropical is the only way I could describe them.... A big one will get a little bit of a hollow heart but it will be so sweet you can actually see the sugar sparkle in them.... I hope you try that one sometime... I've grew them many times... My family knows when it's right, it's the best....
It saves us a little on watering, but we still use buried drip tape on most of the stuff we plant just because it's a very effective way to deliver water where the plants need it.
Nice video. Try Charleston Grey for your pollenizer. Good luck with your seedless, I quit growing them because I never found one that have good flavor. People in our area are very happy to get seeded melons.
That's the one that came in the packet, but I thought I'd try the jumbo ones. I might try some orange seedless ones next year. Have heard good things about a few varieties.
enjoyed the video, I grew a 99 pound pumpkin in NH, I live in Virginia now so I will be growing watermelons next year and more large pumpkins and a lots of sunflowers.
I am glad you are enjoying the results of the no-till bed. I remember watching an old video with your dad where he was knocking the size of something you had grown in the no-till bed. He was too set in his ways to keep an open mind and that irked me even before the official schism. No one garden system is perfect for all situations all of the time but how are you going to learn if you don’t take risks?
Oh, it's too heavy. Lol love their enthusiasm. I believe Ty Ty is going to crack open the giant watermelon. Fun and yummy rewards for work with Daddy. Sweet!!!
I have seen canary melons in the grocery store here in western Kentucky, so maybe they’re catching on. I’m trying to grow the Halo canary melon this year, but they have a way to go yet. I’m looking forward to tasting them, as I love pears.
Halo is a great variety. I've never seen them in the grocery stores here, but there are quite a few things that you won't find in these rural grocery stores.
Hey lazy dog farm thank you for the hat🧢 I love it🧡Abram and tyty were so cute pushing that massive watermelon 😁❤🍉Thank you for sharing! God bless ya'll ✝️🌅
@@tbear4557 Been in Louisiana my entire life and yes, the food is pretty amazing. Buy you some roux and make some gumbo. It’s really easy. The hardest part is the roux and you can purchase the southern brands such as Savoies’s on amazon. Shrimp creole is a fairly easy dish as well. Let me know and I can send you some recipe’s if interested. I’m about to start a pot of red beans and rice for later today….another Southern favorite.
Nothing but rain here. Lightning strike took out equipment. Softball tomatoes rotting on the vine. Starting to pick them as soon as they turn. Planted a little late so ... Maybe the fall crop will make in time. The Bella Rosa suckers I rooted in water went straight into the ground and doing fine so far. Suckers I put straight into the wet soil fried as soon as the sun hit them. Covers would help.
@@LazyDogFarm Just thinking about drip tape. Be nice if you could inject air to dry out the soil. Water line/gas line fertilize with gas too. Or separate lines. Just thinking. Gas insects who knows what all.
@@tomjones4318 They have ways to do that on golf courses and football fields, but not sure it would be feasible in the vegetable garden. A light cultivation always seems to do the trick for us as far as helping things dry.
We do for some things like okra and beans, but not for everything. We grow a decent amount of hybrids for production and disease-resistance, and can't save the seeds on those.
@@LazyDogFarm experimenting with clear plastic now over most beds also as a weed barrier 9B Central Florida also rain and flood protection so much rain whatever?
Hey Travis - What is your strategy to terminate the cover crop you're planting into that no-till plot? (I think you said you were going to plant red ripper and sudan grass) Will you terminate it with a tarping method? Generally speaking, I think there's some gaps on resources for no-till cover crop termination methods. Would like to see more of that type of content and resources to help those folks doing no-til with cover crop selection and termination methods. Thanks for any feedback you can provide!
As far as I know, there are really only two effective strategies for terminating cover crops in a no-till situation. You can spray it with herbicide like the commercial guys do, or tarp it. We'll use the tarp. Some folks talk about crimping, but I've never found that to work. It always comes back when crimped.
Going to do a video soon on our experiences with cover crop germination in that no-till plot. Definitely much different than our traditionally tilled plots.
I have an engine hoist that I put pneumatic tires on to lift melons like that. My 'Legacy' watermelons just started blooming a week or so ago - hoping they are ripe in Sept. I hope you give an attempt at fermenting the Kabocha with some fresh ginger and Jalapeno (or Serrano) - just cut on a mandolin without skinning the Kabocha and don't over ferment. I saw my first Red Kuri is about baseball sized - can't wait to ferment one of those. Some of my Kabocha should be ready soon. Also have a Blue Kuri that I'll fermenting try this year.
@@LazyDogFarm I tried to find a recipe, but didn't find what I was looking for: split kabocha into quarters (keep skin on), run through a mandolin on thickest setting, chop or run through mandolin a large piece of ginger or more, slice up a couple Jalapeno or Serrano, and use a standard salt bring. Sorry I couldn't find a recipe. Taste regularly until you get the proper tang but don't over ferment. Crunch, spice, sour, and yum should be the result. Don't let kabocha get soft or it becomes nasty.
Those pumpkins are nearly as big as Eddie's tomato over a poorboys, glad to see you are still getting on with things with your back injury, I wish you a speedy recovery and your family well from over here in Scotland
We tried Carolina Cross Last year. They made big watermelons( we had some 50 lb melons), but they wasn't as sweet to us as our regular watermelons we plant each year.
Great video as always Travis. Your harvesting team are awesome 👌! Ty ty will be a great salesman too. You get down on the ground like that again, those watermelon rollers will be rolling you back to the house. I'm getting impatient with my 1 baby doll I have left. (Or the one that I have found)enjoyed that fig tree farm. Going back to get a list of ones I would like to try. It's amazing how many varieties there are!
Trav where do you recommend getting silage tarps? I know Hoss has some and I can only assume the quality is top notch. Just want to get a recommendation before I make the purchase
If you have an Agri-Supply near you, you might can find a 100'x60' one there. It's the Warp's brand. They are big and heavy, but you could cut it to whatever length you'd like. If you don't need one that big, I'd go with the smaller options that Hoss carries. But the tarps are exactly the same, just the size is different.
Remember back during my childhood when we always had the rattlesnake big watermelons, and none of these small seedless melons that just leave you wanting more. Too many people want these hybridized over sweet instead of natural melons. Great video as always. Have to admit I am interested in the melon that tastes like a pear. What is it's name again so I can look in to it and find out more about it's origin? Thank you and have a blessed evening. 🍀
How about that...a plan for converting another plot to no-till. :) Obviously that will have to wait a bit for your back to get better but you were pretty sceptical about it at the start. Those giant watermelons are definitely huge but I agree a smaller variety would be more practical. I'm not sure I can grow the Orange Crunch watermelon up here but I might give that a try next year.
Those watermelon 🍉 did good!! I’m growing giant watermelons as well but my are just setting fruit, hoping for one over 150lbs for the WV record!! Those pumpkins did pretty good too, I would have loved just one of mine last year to get as big as your biggest ones. Mine this year are doing 10-25 pounds a day and I have 3 so far over 200lbs and push 300lbs. Plus several others just getting started, hopefully have 4 at 1,000 lbs and 5 at 500 or better! I’ll send you some of these seeds this winter, there’s a huge difference in these seeds vs other giant pumpkin seeds!
@@LazyDogFarm here’s the video of the weights from yesterday, you can skip through towards the end of the video when I actually measured them and got the weight of them off ott chart. I’ll send you some of my giant tomato seeds as well and my giant butternut squash off the world record 55.5lbs butternut!! ua-cam.com/video/WCcAVac8keM/v-deo.html
About the only downside to the Dry Shod and Muck type footwear is the stanky feet issue. Whew. Wash them out good at the end of the day with an anti-bacterial and dry overnight over a fence post or a stake and you're sweet and fresh for the morning chores. I'll get some Hami melon seeds to you when the breeding program winds down. How old are those boys now? Abram seems to take after his Mom and Titus has a feisty streak like his Dad.
Holy crap - what the heck do you do with a 50lb watermelon???? Cut it open and FILL the fridge with the leftovers? WOW!! Those Canary melons we get in a lot of Grocery stores up here (Southern BC Canada)
You eat the center and throw the rest in the woods. Not really room in the fridge for something that big. And we've got plenty, so there's enough watermelon to spare.
Travis I wanted to pick your brain for a moment. So do to the unfortunate injury to your back, which I am happy you are healing nicely from, this would probably be the first year that you have a had to have more of a "hands off"approach to the garden. I'm sure that in itself is a challenge. But sometimes I wonder if us as gardeners tend to do "too much" the more knowledgeable we become. That is until we have circumstances such as injuries. Which makes us take a step back for a second and let nature take more of it's course. My question to you is since the injury and you have had to do this even with the Wonderful Brooklyn as well as family and friends there to support you, have you seen some unexpected improvement is some things? Examples tomatoes that you couldn't trim, some of the nicest I have seen you grow. Or the Watermelons, biggest yet, pumpkins, biggest yet regardless of variety, and now the soil quality in the patch has improved. Makes you think 🤔. Thanks for your time.
Very interesting way to look at it Mike. I'm not sure that the inevitable negligence as a result of the back injury has caused things to look better. I think it could be several things: 1) That Nature Safe fertilizer I've been using is really good stuff once starts working. 2) We had a really dry spring which always makes for good harvests around here. 3) This is the first spring that we haven't sold our vegetables, so we have had more time to devote to the crops as opposed to just harvesting and selling. 4) I work from home now so I can keep a better eye on things.
Here's a good article about germinating seedless watermelons: extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/pdf/g1755.pdf They're definitely tricky, but I'm going to try to follow this guideline by the letter next year.
@@LazyDogFarm Doc said its the vibration that slows the meshing of the bone. Take it easy. You are almost through the 6 to 8 weeks... Be patient my friend. (voice of experience lol). Really appreciate y'all and enjoy watching & learning. Thanks.
The boys were so cute working together to move that watermelon! Love Titus’ little southern drawl. The man that made Muck boots sold the company several years ago. He now makes the Dry Shod. Love my Dry Shod boots.
I can't help it sorry I'm sure Mr and Ms🐎 from across the way a r e peeping behind the bushes or perhaps the curtains guess the old swimming hole is off-limits as well just saying sorry whatever? We sure could use 25 or 30 of those Christmas butter bean seeds everybody seems to be sold out even🏨 nevertheless I've got some King of the garden started in pots flooding here think about it
@@LazyDogFarm Zone 9B trying to get a seed bank established various vegetables this fall and winter how you have the time and energy is amazing whatever?
Nice crop of melons . Those boys are so darn cute. Hope your back is healing well.
Such good little helpers. Tituss seems to want to open up any and all melons. So funny and so cute!🤣
He'd open them all if I'd let him. lol
oh, man! I was cracking up watching those two boys roll that watermelon. so good! :-)
It took them a minute, but their persistence was impressive!
Brother I'm glad to see you up moving around. I went through the same thing earlier this year with five compressed discs and I know how you feel. Me and my wife watch you all the time and really enjoy seeing the kiddos playing out there with you. Keep up the videos and we will keep watching 😁
Thanks Michael! Hope your back is feeling better.
I spit coffee out laughing at the boys when they yelled “it’s time, it’s pumpkin melon time”! LOL!
Travis you need to put a warning in the beginning of your videos, Drink at your own risk! Hahaha.
Have a good weekend my friend,
Rob
Haha. I like those unpredictable surprises scattered throughout the videos.
Those boys will always remember rolling those watermelons and pumpkins. That was awesome.
They sure will. Great memories indeed.
You are definitely way ahead of our melons and pumpkins. We have softball size and you have harvested some nice ones. Thanks for the comparison and first hand experience report. Hope your back is recovering and you are slowly getting back up to speed.
Getting back to speed very slowly but surely.
“He’s a daredevil”: made me laugh till I choked! Your kids are the cutest.
Never know what they're going to say!
Me too!! Probably the funniest thing I'll hear all day!!
Another great show. Glad you decided to start your own UA-cam channel
Thanks Janis! Glad to have you as a viewer!
Loved watching the boys roll that monster watermelon! They are so cute! So glad you'll have help cleaning your plots so Brooklyn doesn't have to do it. You don't want to wear her out. ;-) Keep on healing!
Yeah it's good to give her a break. She's been working hard to help get these plots harvested and cleaned.
You are a great Dad. Those are lucky little boys . Thank you for another fun video
Thanks for watching Lorie!
Lol cute. Love watching these little gardeners. Hope you get well soon. Miss seeing mom.
She was working late that day. She'll be back on the next video I believe.
Like Cousin Minnie Pearl of the Grand Ole Opry, there’s the price tag on Abram’s boots! Good memories!!!
I've only had luck after the stem at the fruit browns and dried
Yes I know some tell difference test for different varieties .
Great to work with enthusiastic help
Thank for showing
Yeah that's our usual sign, but that didn't necessarily work with these giant ones.
High five to Abram & Titus! Well done, young heroes!
Thanks Mousie!
Hilarious watching the kids roll the melon 😅
Canary, Santa Claus, Christmas, and Crenshaw are all tasty melons!
I need to try a Crenshaw. I've never grown those.
Happy I found your new vlog. Keep them coming Travis....
Glad you found us too Andy!
Next year you should try growing the Piel de Sapo melon, also known as the Santa Claus melon. They are a very popular melon from Spain and are very tasty.
Thanks for the suggestion David!
Where did you get the seeds? please.
I’ve had those and they are tasty.
Alright alright alright!!
Thanks for watching Xavier!
I’ve been growing giant pumpkins competitively for quite a few years and in 2017 I grew a 2,000 pound pumpkin. It was a lot of work and to be honest I enjoy just vegetable gardening more. Thanks for sharing your harvest with us all
Wow! That's impressive. I can't even imagine a pumpkin that big.
Great helpers there. We're growing those Carolina cross this year for fun. Gonna have to get a frontend loader to get them out of the field. Lol
That would certainly help! Hope y'all are able to grow some big ones!
Oh my word! God is so great!
Yes he is!
All the time.
If you try a seedless orange watermelon the orange crisp is the sweetest watermelon I ever tasted... Their was one time I ate a seedless sugar baby that was that sweet... But we grew 20×20 piece of black plastic with 4 foot and a half hills in it of the orange crisp, they where amazingly sweet, unbelievable.... We grew them here in East Tennessee.....
Sounds like that might be the one I grow next year.
@@LazyDogFarm I'm going to tell ya about the only watermelon that does not taste like watermelon, it's orange glo.. It just tastes like sweet tropical is the only way I could describe them.... A big one will get a little bit of a hollow heart but it will be so sweet you can actually see the sugar sparkle in them.... I hope you try that one sometime... I've grew them many times... My family knows when it's right, it's the best....
I've been doing no till without the ton of compost. I leave the previous plant residue and plant into it. It saves a lot on irrigation
It saves us a little on watering, but we still use buried drip tape on most of the stuff we plant just because it's a very effective way to deliver water where the plants need it.
I've been looking for you good to see you huge harvest
Glad you found us Susette!
I look forward to seeing you add more no till plots. Then again I enjoy everything you put out, no till or till, it don't matter.
Thanks for watching!
Nice video. Try Charleston Grey for your pollenizer. Good luck with your seedless, I quit growing them because I never found one that have good flavor. People in our area are very happy to get seeded melons.
That's the one that came in the packet, but I thought I'd try the jumbo ones. I might try some orange seedless ones next year. Have heard good things about a few varieties.
enjoyed the video, I grew a 99 pound pumpkin in NH, I live in Virginia now so I will be growing watermelons next year and more large pumpkins and a lots of sunflowers.
Good luck with the watermelon next year. Hope you grow some good ones!
Some whopper melons there
First time seeing you guys. Y'all have a beautiful family and stead. Awesome!
Welcome to the channel T Bear!
I am glad you are enjoying the results of the no-till bed. I remember watching an old video with your dad where he was knocking the size of something you had grown in the no-till bed. He was too set in his ways to keep an open mind and that irked me even before the official schism. No one garden system is perfect for all situations all of the time but how are you going to learn if you don’t take risks?
Experimentation is fun. And when you find something that works well, that's a big win! But you never know until you try.
Oh, it's too heavy. Lol love their enthusiasm. I believe Ty Ty is going to crack open the giant watermelon. Fun and yummy rewards for work with Daddy. Sweet!!!
He'd cut every watermelon out there if you'd let him. He gets so excited about opening one.
Yes, I got my Dryshod, Sod Buster boots. Love them!!! I'm hooked. I love the Moss colored ones...
Glad you like them. I might get the green ones for my next pair in a few years.
Best watermelon I've ever seen. 😂 Lovin' life
Thanks for watching!
Great harvest and great helpers 😊
Yes! Couldn't have done it without them!
Cool boots, funny boys, and big, big produce.
Go big or go home!
I have seen canary melons in the grocery store here in western Kentucky, so maybe they’re catching on. I’m trying to grow the Halo canary melon this year, but they have a way to go yet. I’m looking forward to tasting them, as I love pears.
Halo is a great variety. I've never seen them in the grocery stores here, but there are quite a few things that you won't find in these rural grocery stores.
Wow what a harvest. Those boys are adorable.They are strong and got some big muscles too. HaHa. Love it.
They tell me all the time that their muscles are bigger than mine. They loving showing how "strong" they are.
That's quite a tag team you got there . They didn't stop till it was rolled out .
That watermelon weighs more than either of them, but they got it there!
Hey lazy dog farm thank you for the hat🧢 I love it🧡Abram and tyty were so cute pushing that massive watermelon 😁❤🍉Thank you for sharing! God bless ya'll ✝️🌅
You are so welcome!
I bought the Dry Shod boots you wear, really well built and comfortable.
Glad you like them David!
That’s some hard working Boys ! Nice watermelons
Thanks Linda!
You can use a furniture trolley to move them
Good idea Jacki!
@@LazyDogFarm some would say I'm full of them lol!
@@LazyDogFarm did u end up putting the hook on a pole?
Y’all always make my day. Cutest family ever and I love the southern accents. I’m from Louisiana so I’ve got the southern accent going on too ;)
Thanks for watching!
I spent 3 years in Shreveport in the Air Force. Loved it. I sure miss the gumbo and creole. Can't find it up here in the midwest.
@@tbear4557 Been in Louisiana my entire life and yes, the food is pretty amazing. Buy you some roux and make some gumbo. It’s really easy. The hardest part is the roux and you can purchase the southern brands such as Savoies’s on amazon. Shrimp creole is a fairly easy dish as well. Let me know and I can send you some recipe’s if interested. I’m about to start a pot of red beans and rice for later today….another Southern favorite.
@@sondrad1839 opp
Nothing but rain here. Lightning strike took out equipment. Softball tomatoes rotting on the vine. Starting to pick them as soon as they turn. Planted a little late so ... Maybe the fall crop will make in time. The Bella Rosa suckers I rooted in water went straight into the ground and doing fine so far. Suckers I put straight into the wet soil fried as soon as the sun hit them. Covers would help.
Hard to deal with all that rain for sure. Not much you can do about it.
@@LazyDogFarm Just thinking about drip tape. Be nice if you could inject air to dry out the soil. Water line/gas line fertilize with gas too. Or separate lines. Just thinking. Gas insects who knows what all.
@@tomjones4318 They have ways to do that on golf courses and football fields, but not sure it would be feasible in the vegetable garden. A light cultivation always seems to do the trick for us as far as helping things dry.
Love how you break it down. Do you ever save your seeds?
We do for some things like okra and beans, but not for everything. We grow a decent amount of hybrids for production and disease-resistance, and can't save the seeds on those.
Another great video! Regarding soil/ garden prep for Fall, have you ever tried "solarizing" the plot with plastic??? May God bless you and family.
We use "occultation," which is done with a black tarp. Never tried solarization with the clear tarp.
@@LazyDogFarm experimenting with clear plastic now over most beds also as a weed barrier 9B Central Florida also rain and flood protection so much rain whatever?
Gonna check these boots out, been looking for some garden boots that last longer than one season. Awesome melon harvest yall.
They're the toughest rubber boots I've found. Hope you enjoy them.
Hey Travis - What is your strategy to terminate the cover crop you're planting into that no-till plot? (I think you said you were going to plant red ripper and sudan grass) Will you terminate it with a tarping method? Generally speaking, I think there's some gaps on resources for no-till cover crop termination methods. Would like to see more of that type of content and resources to help those folks doing no-til with cover crop selection and termination methods. Thanks for any feedback you can provide!
As far as I know, there are really only two effective strategies for terminating cover crops in a no-till situation. You can spray it with herbicide like the commercial guys do, or tarp it. We'll use the tarp. Some folks talk about crimping, but I've never found that to work. It always comes back when crimped.
Thanks for the question John I was wondering that too.
I bet the boys would love some melon popsicles!!
Oh yeah!
I wouldn't even bother raking out that no till plot...unless it bugs you.
Going to do a video soon on our experiences with cover crop germination in that no-till plot. Definitely much different than our traditionally tilled plots.
I have an engine hoist that I put pneumatic tires on to lift melons like that. My 'Legacy' watermelons just started blooming a week or so ago - hoping they are ripe in Sept. I hope you give an attempt at fermenting the Kabocha with some fresh ginger and Jalapeno (or Serrano) - just cut on a mandolin without skinning the Kabocha and don't over ferment. I saw my first Red Kuri is about baseball sized - can't wait to ferment one of those. Some of my Kabocha should be ready soon. Also have a Blue Kuri that I'll fermenting try this year.
Thanks for the reminder on the Kabocha. I do need to try that.
@@LazyDogFarm I tried to find a recipe, but didn't find what I was looking for: split kabocha into quarters (keep skin on), run through a mandolin on thickest setting, chop or run through mandolin a large piece of ginger or more, slice up a couple Jalapeno or Serrano, and use a standard salt bring. Sorry I couldn't find a recipe. Taste regularly until you get the proper tang but don't over ferment. Crunch, spice, sour, and yum should be the result. Don't let kabocha get soft or it becomes nasty.
Dang y'all grew some big pumpkins and watermelons! Looking good 😉
Had a good year for sure. Feel very blessed. Thanks for watching!
Those pumpkins are nearly as big as Eddie's tomato over a poorboys, glad to see you are still getting on with things with your back injury, I wish you a speedy recovery and your family well from over here in Scotland
Haha! Eddie and I are going to have an official tomato duel next year. Thanks for the well wishes from Scotland!
We tried Carolina Cross Last year. They made big watermelons( we had some 50 lb melons), but they wasn't as sweet to us as our regular watermelons we plant each year.
Yeah they're not the sweetest, but fun to grow for sure!
Looks like you got baby setting Duty such great bonding obviously hopefully a great role model they can remember and emulate for future reference👍❗❗
Not called babysitting when it’s your own kids!!!! Lol
Brooklyn had to work late that day, so it was just me and the boys trying to get it done.
Try a "Strawberry" watermelon. They are very sweet but has a lot of seeds.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Great video as always Travis. Your harvesting team are awesome 👌! Ty ty will be a great salesman too. You get down on the ground like that again, those watermelon rollers will be rolling you back to the house. I'm getting impatient with my 1 baby doll I have left. (Or the one that I have found)enjoyed that fig tree farm. Going back to get a list of ones I would like to try. It's amazing how many varieties there are!
There are hundreds of varieties it seems -- hard to choose sometimes.
Trav where do you recommend getting silage tarps? I know Hoss has some and I can only assume the quality is top notch. Just want to get a recommendation before I make the purchase
If you have an Agri-Supply near you, you might can find a 100'x60' one there. It's the Warp's brand. They are big and heavy, but you could cut it to whatever length you'd like. If you don't need one that big, I'd go with the smaller options that Hoss carries. But the tarps are exactly the same, just the size is different.
@@LazyDogFarm perfect I’ll look into that! Thanks so much!! I hope you’re healing gracefully!
Remember back during my childhood when we always had the rattlesnake big watermelons, and none of these small seedless melons that just leave you wanting more. Too many people want these hybridized over sweet instead of natural melons. Great video as always. Have to admit I am interested in the melon that tastes like a pear. What is it's name again so I can look in to it and find out more about it's origin? Thank you and have a blessed evening. 🍀
Canary melons. There are several different varieties out there, but they're fun to grow and quite tasty. They also store better than a watermelon.
I checked out the boots, I’m a size 12 but on Amazon says runs large so order a size down? Do you agree or do you buy the size you usually wear?
I usually wear a 10.5 in sneakers, so I wear a 10 Dryshod. Hope that helps.
@@LazyDogFarm yup sure does help!!!
How about that...a plan for converting another plot to no-till. :) Obviously that will have to wait a bit for your back to get better but you were pretty sceptical about it at the start. Those giant watermelons are definitely huge but I agree a smaller variety would be more practical. I'm not sure I can grow the Orange Crunch watermelon up here but I might give that a try next year.
I was very skeptical initially. But I'm slowly being convinced. I'll be glad to eat my bowl of crow now or later.
healthier soil equals healthier plants and less bug pressure:)
Seems to definitely be helping with the insect pressure.
Omg Omg toooo cute
Thanks for watching!
Is it safe to assume that not disturbing the soil biology is the reason why the soil in the no-till plot staid less compacted?
fungal/bacterial networks, specifically
Could be, or could be just simply the 6+ inches of soft compost there. Could be a combination of both.
If you water every other day then how much for corn?
On corn I usually let my drip run for several hours, until I can see the area around the plants is saturated.
Lol me and Abram are on the same page
Haha! He's definitely the "picky eater" between those two.
Those watermelon 🍉 did good!! I’m growing giant watermelons as well but my are just setting fruit, hoping for one over 150lbs for the WV record!! Those pumpkins did pretty good too, I would have loved just one of mine last year to get as big as your biggest ones. Mine this year are doing 10-25 pounds a day and I have 3 so far over 200lbs and push 300lbs. Plus several others just getting started, hopefully have 4 at 1,000 lbs and 5 at 500 or better! I’ll send you some of these seeds this winter, there’s a huge difference in these seeds vs other giant pumpkin seeds!
I'd definitely like to try some of those. That's a massive pumpkin!
@@LazyDogFarm here’s the video of the weights from yesterday, you can skip through towards the end of the video when I actually measured them and got the weight of them off ott chart. I’ll send you some of my giant tomato seeds as well and my giant butternut squash off the world record 55.5lbs butternut!!
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@@heavenlyhillshomestead9465 Sounds great! Can't wait to try them!
@@LazyDogFarm I’ll send you seeds from all my giant varieties of fruits, many are record holders either state, country or world
Buddy... I think it's getting about time to prune those gold locks so tye-tye's head can breathe😂😂
Haha. He likes it long, so we just let it grow. He does wear a headband sometimes to keep it back.
@@LazyDogFarm he's a good lil dude and I like the look just know it's hot. Love it when the boys are there to help always a good laugh coming
@@LazyDogFarm btw how's the back doin? 2more weeks or 3?
I swear it is like watching a mini version of you and Brooklyn
Everyone says Abram looks like Brooklyn and Titus looks like me.
Now that's funny! I'll have to start paying more attention...
@@LazyDogFarm it's so true they are ya'lls mini versions
nice video. your kids are gonna be beasts! they already have a work ethic better than some of my employees!
They're strong little boys, and a handful too! lol
“That’s not a knife…”😎
Haha ... a machete that can be used as a knife.
Crocodile Dundee ?
About the only downside to the Dry Shod and Muck type footwear is the stanky feet issue. Whew. Wash them out good at the end of the day with an anti-bacterial and dry overnight over a fence post or a stake and you're sweet and fresh for the morning chores. I'll get some Hami melon seeds to you when the breeding program winds down. How old are those boys now? Abram seems to take after his Mom and Titus has a feisty streak like his Dad.
I've never noticed mine stinking, and I wear them almost every day. Abram is 5 and Titus is 3.
Holy crap - what the heck do you do with a 50lb watermelon???? Cut it open and FILL the fridge with the leftovers? WOW!!
Those Canary melons we get in a lot of Grocery stores up here (Southern BC Canada)
You eat the center and throw the rest in the woods. Not really room in the fridge for something that big. And we've got plenty, so there's enough watermelon to spare.
Travis I wanted to pick your brain for a moment. So do to the unfortunate injury to your back, which I am happy you are healing nicely from, this would probably be the first year that you have a had to have more of a "hands off"approach to the garden. I'm sure that in itself is a challenge. But sometimes I wonder if us as gardeners tend to do "too much" the more knowledgeable we become. That is until we have circumstances such as injuries. Which makes us take a step back for a second and let nature take more of it's course. My question to you is since the injury and you have had to do this even with the Wonderful Brooklyn as well as family and friends there to support you, have you seen some unexpected improvement is some things? Examples tomatoes that you couldn't trim, some of the nicest I have seen you grow. Or the Watermelons, biggest yet, pumpkins, biggest yet regardless of variety, and now the soil quality in the patch has improved. Makes you think 🤔. Thanks for your time.
Very interesting way to look at it Mike. I'm not sure that the inevitable negligence as a result of the back injury has caused things to look better. I think it could be several things: 1) That Nature Safe fertilizer I've been using is really good stuff once starts working. 2) We had a really dry spring which always makes for good harvests around here. 3) This is the first spring that we haven't sold our vegetables, so we have had more time to devote to the crops as opposed to just harvesting and selling. 4) I work from home now so I can keep a better eye on things.
@@LazyDogFarm Okay that makes perfect since. I think you are right too. A combination of all things mentioned. I like it.
Good video - what is your son Ta Ta's name or is that it. Just curious.
His name is Titus, but we call him Ty-Ty.
What is the name of that big watermelons??
The variety is called "Carolina Cross."
@@LazyDogFarm Thanks. I wish you a speedy recovery, health and peace for you and your family 🌹🌹
Planted seedless this year only pollinators germinated replanted only pollinators germinated any ideas orange and yellow Watermelon did great
Here's a good article about germinating seedless watermelons: extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/pdf/g1755.pdf
They're definitely tricky, but I'm going to try to follow this guideline by the letter next year.
Looks like Honey dew....
Kinda similar, but a little better in my opinion.
WHAT AN AWESOME DAD. GOD BLESS YOU TRAVIS IN JESUS NAME. STILL PRAYING GOD HEALS YOUR BACK STRONGER THAN BEFORE IN JESUS NAME.
Thanks for the prayers Melinda!
Thought the doctor said no vibration?? ie: running a mower??? Looking for a fusion, huh??? 🤔
Just did a little test run to how it felt. Felt fine. Went really slow. Still not lifting anything.
@@LazyDogFarm Doc said its the vibration that slows the meshing of the bone. Take it easy. You are almost through the 6 to 8 weeks... Be patient my friend. (voice of experience lol). Really appreciate y'all and enjoy watching & learning. Thanks.
Has the Dr. cleared you Travis!?! Need to give your wife some rest and get back into the garden work!
This Sunday will be 4 weeks into the 8 week brace period, so halfway there.
@@LazyDogFarm wow, I rewatched the beginning and you answered my question on there 😓 sorry there Travis! I was too excited to watch this episode!!!
The boys were so cute working together to move that watermelon! Love Titus’ little southern drawl.
The man that made Muck boots sold the company several years ago. He now makes the Dry Shod. Love my Dry Shod boots.
Did not know that. I just knew the Muck boot quality dropped significantly and my DryShod's last a lot longer.
I can't help it sorry I'm sure Mr and Ms🐎 from across the way a r e peeping behind the bushes or perhaps the curtains guess the old swimming hole is off-limits as well just saying sorry whatever? We sure could use 25 or 30 of those Christmas butter bean seeds everybody seems to be sold out even🏨 nevertheless I've got some King of the garden started in pots flooding here think about it
Not a peep. Hopefully all the suppliers will restock the Christmas Limas for next year. It's a pretty common variety, so it should be available.
@@LazyDogFarm Zone 9B trying to get a seed bank established various vegetables this fall and winter how you have the time and energy is amazing whatever?
PO box 827 intercession City FI 33848 most are Lopes and melons rotting suffocating guess I got some bad karma haha?
I'd be glad to ship you a watermelon if I could. lol
@@LazyDogFarm where shopping is a pleasure has had some halfway decent ones what we need is a few of those Xmas seeds hahaha whatever?
Your calling your daughter TaTa. That means Grandpa in Spanish.
Titus is actually a boy. His nickname is TyTy.