Beautiful flowers! The deer ate everything in my front yard but back has tall deer fence.. I couldn’t stand to see them eat all my plants & im old so I paid to get a big fence!
Hey great video, what zone are you at? I am a new farmer in zone 9, and deal with hard clay soil (abandoned land for 15-20yrs so a lot of compaction) AND a super windy site (17-25 mph in the summer months mostly). I shallow planted some sweetcorn but they are getting hit hard by the wind. It had to be shallow because of the clay. What kind of soil do you have and how deep did you plant your corn? Also, garden beds look fantastic, how did you build those and why do you use them vs planting on the ground? Thanks so much.
I get what you are dealing with in terms of the hard clay. We have an old tobacco farm that was farmed to death and then abandoned. We’re in zone 7 and we don’t have wind like you do all the time. I could see the wind being a bit of a pain. Since we have hard clay, I don’t grow anything in the native dirt. I have spent years making my own dirt and I’ll explain how. I cannot tell you how highly I recommend doing this. First, I keep chickens in a pen (in the video that’s where the corn and tomatoes are growing) all winter. I deep bed them like Crazy with an absolute Ton of leaves that we rake up and hay from the barn (make sure you are using unsprayed hay). All winter the chickens work that deep bedding. If I want to speed them up, or if they need a little help because it’s gotten matted down in an area, I’ll take the pitchfork and make piles for them to pull down. The soil the chickens make is incredible! We haul that dirt out, once the chickens are put back on pasture and make our beds (or add to existing beds). The higher they get, the better! The second thing that builds soil well is adding deep grass clippings. I mulch the paths and the beds (just be careful if they are really hot not to put them up against your plants because you will burn them). Earthworms Love grass clippings and they help them turn into dirt, good dirt full of worms. This also adds to the soil in the beds. Every few years, I take a shovel and take off all the dirt that’s in the paths that used to be grass clippings but has rotted down. All that gets added to the beds too, helping to make them higher with good soil. You get the picture. It does take some time to build up the dirt like this but every year is better. The yield from plants growing in this kind of soil is fantastic! About the corn: we usually plant about one inch deep and four inches apart. Then we thin to around a foot apart or so. We hill it (that would definitely be helpful to you with all the wind) and if we have enough grass clippings, we mulch it. Hope this helps. I think I have a short that might be helpful. I’ll see if I can link it for you. Happy growing!
@@PoplarSpringFarm Wow thank you for the super comprehensive reply and for taking the time. I am missing the animals on my farm, they are definitely an indispensable part of any farm, so the immediate next step for me is getting rabbits and chicken. In the meantime I will look to source some aged chicken manure to add to my compost piles. Re clippings - problem with zone 9 is that everything dries out super fast, so any "greens" don't stay green or moist for long... Water is scarce too so regularly dousing compost piles isn't much of an option.
I’m 77 & love growing vegetables & flowers… you are very wise & I enjoy this video.. found you today.
Beautiful flowers! The deer ate everything in my front yard but back has tall deer fence.. I couldn’t stand to see them eat all my plants & im old so I paid to get a big fence!
The deer would devour those flowers in my yard & I live in town.
Really enjoyed your tour and how your children love the farm and helping. New subscriber here.
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Beautiful garden. No need to apologise for your voice 😊
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Hey great video, what zone are you at? I am a new farmer in zone 9, and deal with hard clay soil (abandoned land for 15-20yrs so a lot of compaction) AND a super windy site (17-25 mph in the summer months mostly). I shallow planted some sweetcorn but they are getting hit hard by the wind. It had to be shallow because of the clay. What kind of soil do you have and how deep did you plant your corn? Also, garden beds look fantastic, how did you build those and why do you use them vs planting on the ground? Thanks so much.
I get what you are dealing with in terms of the hard clay. We have an old tobacco farm that was farmed to death and then abandoned. We’re in zone 7 and we don’t have wind like you do all the time. I could see the wind being a bit of a pain.
Since we have hard clay, I don’t grow anything in the native dirt. I have spent years making my own dirt and I’ll explain how. I cannot tell you how highly I recommend doing this.
First, I keep chickens in a pen (in the video that’s where the corn and tomatoes are growing) all winter. I deep bed them like Crazy with an absolute Ton of leaves that we rake up and hay from the barn (make sure you are using unsprayed hay). All winter the chickens work that deep bedding. If I want to speed them up, or if they need a little help because it’s gotten matted down in an area, I’ll take the pitchfork and make piles for them to pull down. The soil the chickens make is incredible! We haul that dirt out, once the chickens are put back on pasture and make our beds (or add to existing beds). The higher they get, the better!
The second thing that builds soil well is adding deep grass clippings. I mulch the paths and the beds (just be careful if they are really hot not to put them up against your plants because you will burn them). Earthworms Love grass clippings and they help them turn into dirt, good dirt full of worms. This also adds to the soil in the beds. Every few years, I take a shovel and take off all the dirt that’s in the paths that used to be grass clippings but has rotted down. All that gets added to the beds too, helping to make them higher with good soil. You get the picture.
It does take some time to build up the dirt like this but every year is better. The yield from plants growing in this kind of soil is fantastic!
About the corn: we usually plant about one inch deep and four inches apart. Then we thin to around a foot apart or so. We hill it (that would definitely be helpful to you with all the wind) and if we have enough grass clippings, we mulch it.
Hope this helps. I think I have a short that might be helpful. I’ll see if I can link it for you.
Happy growing!
Here’s the short. See my long written reply also
ua-cam.com/users/shorts0oUmhPlQDvs?si=Wx59rYpprNuC4VIl
@@PoplarSpringFarm Wow thank you for the super comprehensive reply and for taking the time. I am missing the animals on my farm, they are definitely an indispensable part of any farm, so the immediate next step for me is getting rabbits and chicken. In the meantime I will look to source some aged chicken manure to add to my compost piles. Re clippings - problem with zone 9 is that everything dries out super fast, so any "greens" don't stay green or moist for long... Water is scarce too so regularly dousing compost piles isn't much of an option.