I found your channel about 3 weeks ago. You have become one of my favorite channels. Thank you for everything and most of all, thank you for being a farmer
On a small garden i had peppers. I found a caterpillar eating the leaves :(. However there was white spikes in it. I Thought about gremlins LOL. It was small wasps that ley there eggs in the caterpillar and the larvae use it as food. What i fond out was that was a sign of good organic gardening, or a healthy garden. I have used neem oil too at a different time. Fight the bugs. Sure love to see turning the compost heap. If you have a friend or farmer that has a bad batch of milk or ice cream mix it in in the winter im sure the pile will get up to 120F. Don't know what happend yesterday but i could not watch any you tube video, 2-3 min commercial, then some 15 min and 12min videos with no skip. i ran the pc cleaner and it seemed to be better today. If they put so many commercials people wont watch anymore hurting the small guy! I was wondering if there is a commercial virus? Love the replanting.
Your content so far is fantastic. Maybe you could add some insight into your future planning. Like if you maybe add DWC to you green houses or a extra green house. Maybe some info in your outside soul temperature /humidity. Or your greenhouse temperature/humidity? Also low and hight temperatures of your nutrients for you rock well cubes. You do such a fantastic job!!!! I feel as if you will get to all those so no hurry. Again thanks!!!!
Here’s u a tip that will save time and your back. Get u a 2’ piece of pvc. 1/“ or 3/4. Now run string through it. Now u can string tomatoes without bending over. Cones in real handy when they bush out.
I appreciate the comment and suggestion. I’ve used that PVC method before and I didn’t really care for it. I’d rather just squat down. I can do it so much faster and keep the string so much tighter. But it is a great method for those that are trying to save their back and maybe not in the best shape. And if I was doing dozens of rows, I would use it for sure but we only have three.
"That tire seen better days" , epic Jason. So wonderful to see our youth get outside and do some physical work. Looks like another bumper crop year for Wishwell Farms. Can hardly wait to eat this. Glad to see your show building up.
What I like about the channels that feature vegetable farmers, is the various revenue streams each has adapted. Some do animals, some don't. Some have a year round store. You have a part-time store but apparently are thinking about getting rid of it. Value-adds that some farms to do their crops. How you've gone about making these decision what to produce and sell and not produce and sell would be interesting. What have you done in the past that you don't anymore and why. And what are you considering for the future and why. Some people don't like it when farming channels describe their marketing but I'm like without a market for their products it doesn't matter.
... the channel views perk-up May-June planting viewers sub and watch wanting to follow along for the growing season through harvest..!.. nice beans ..!
If u add a 2’ piece of 3/4” pvc to the string. String goes through it. Now u can run string much quicker without bending over. Really nice when they bush out.
I am really enjoying your videos! I would love to see more about you as a person, your family (if that’s not too personal), and the area that you live in.
We have a lot in common even though our farms are very different, I have a hydroponic farm, one of the largest in West Tennessee. Like your farm, (I assume) the farm has a life of its own and we really just try keeping up with it. I've been sending my viewers your way when they are interested in soil-based farming since I believe that you are the best model for that method of growing on any scale on this forum. I will be sending you more as time goes on. Keep creating my friend. Good stuff. BTW if you have been watching us you may see some of your ideas implemented on a hydroponic farm! lol I am also looking at the produce canopied trailer as a potential fit for us. I called the company for a quote last week. May see one of those on our farm soon, Thanks again! Chuck and Darlene Fenster
I'd like to know more about how you started your spreadsheets that you use for both the planting schedule and for how much you take to your markets. I imagine a lot of work went into creating those spreadsheets.
Really like all your content so far. We have a ~3.5 acre mixed veg operation in North Central Iowa, so I enjoy a lot of the business side of things i.e. markets, marketing, pricing strategies etc etc. But also enjoy the technical content, fert and crop planning. In short: keep up the great work! P.s. enjoy your back packing vids, too. I don't get out as much as I like anymore but I backpack the sht, yellow river (iowa) and Ozark trail any chance I can get (I'm a hammocker. Haha)
From watching other farm UA-cam videos a lot of other farmers don't stake their tomatoes just leave them lying on the ground. Not a big fan of tomatoes on the ground rather take the time to trellis them up and keep them off the ground great videos and love your enthusiasm. Cheers from Brisbane Australia
Your doing fine mate just send down some of that stuff the young people have been eating, there's are lot of young people here that can do with a dose 😅
I am new just found this channel yesterday. Being from Westerville and working in Dublin I love to see someone that I have bought from on UA-cam. Maybe there is a video already but I’d like to know what the history of the farm is? Other than that I like what you are producing. Keep up the great work.
All aspects of the farm operation are interesting. I appreciated learning how the green bean harvester works and the price per bushel it brings. How do you calibrate the fertilizer spreader? Do you just go by the settings they give you? Are your customers okay with the herbicides and insecticides used? How do you hire your help? Who does your bookkeeping and payroll?
well done vid , just found your channel. have you ever heard of growing sweet corn under biodegradable mulch for an earlier crop? we grow some of our own food and always learning even at age 68, God bless,matthew6:33,proverbs 3:5.
I, personally, like your videos as is. Lots of explanation of what u r doing and y. I like the logistics info of a farm. Watching a plant grow is one thing. The processes and info on how they grow is that much better. I'm majorly jealous at how nice all your stuff looks right now. We r gonna have to replant half our transplants just cause of the wind and nasty cold weather. We have given up on the Cucumber transplants and decided just to seed into the soil. No early planting this year for us. But, if it was easy, everyone would do it and u wouldn't have a job.
I live in your area and you mentioned a chance of rain on Wednesday, don't know about you but we got smoked by rain. A solid 3 to 4 inches. Hope you got in the field before then.
You can always tie a not around both sides of the string in between the 2 plants instead of the crisscross method or even a small zip tie. I'm 63 with 2 bad knees I can't do that crisscross anymore besides you can damage some of the stems trying it. Of course I'm only a small backyard farmer lol. But I grow 30 to 50 determinate tomato plants a year and use the Florida weave. Or is it a modified Georgia weave lol. Good luck with your season.
Nice observation. That center section of a field with the drive trail tends to have little scraps pile up over the years. For nearly 20 years, we laid conventional plastic that had to be lifted and there was always scraps left behind that were hard to get. Now we use all cornstarch based biodegradable that completely disappear the following year.
To me anything farm related is worth watching. From starting seeds to harvesting. Tractor work, irrigation, overcoming issues with pests, plant failures. I steal knowledge & techniques as well as when to plant crops. I live 39 miles from the UA-cam channel Broyans farm & 51 miles from the channel The Veggie Boys.
We plant ours 2 1/2 feet apart within the row and the row centers are 60 inches apart. We get our tomato steaks from Martin’s produce in Pennsylvania or Monty packaging in Michigan.
Are you referring to the tomato plants or the string? The tomatoes are only in a single row, it would be far too crowded to plant tomatoes in a double row. Peppers are mainly the only crop that we plant in a double row.
I never did find out what it was but those little plants that had the dead spots in the stems died but the rest, 99%, are thriving and have no disease as of now.
Hi Jason,(I hope that's your name, and I'm sorry if I got it wrong) and Thank You again for the great content. That's so awesome seeing young men out there helping and doing the hard work. WOW.........takes me back and down memory lane of me and my friends out in the fields on the weekends with my dad. I have a question, though, regarding tomatoes grown inside a greenhouse and tomatoes grown outside. Why do both, and why not just one? Are they both profitable? I noticed most of your work with the tomatoes is inside the greenhouse. I only ask because we have never tried greenhouse farming. Our goal for the future is to add vegetable farming to our produce. Also, I love the setup of your greenhouse tomatoes. Last question: I know everything is seasonal, but is it doable or even possible to grow tomatoes all year round in a greenhouse? Thank you again for your time and the great content.
Content: Farm economics. How a farmer determines prices. Second part is difference between your operation (farm to consumers) vs farm to supermarket (time of harvest vs when it's in the market) I buy local but always hear people say how much more expensive farmer's market is to the grocery store.
If your having issues with Colorado potato beetles, try silver colored mulch next year. It holds more heat units, and the reflection off it will keep the beetles off your plants.
I don't even know what to suggest I enjoy your channel so much because your easy to listen to and you do a great job of thoroughly showing every step! Did you ever get back to recording the lowering of the plants? I am trying the FL weave this year for the first time! Skeptical about if its going to hold up to my indeterminates!
This chanel is amazing . you are great . 🌹
Thanks!
This youngers brights future hard work food security. Teaching farm part time student will lead good citizen
Love watching harvesting. Especially peppers!
Pepper harvest is not far off! I’m really looking forward to showcasing all of our different harvesting on our farm this year.
If I say the string that holds the plants and if I say the pipe hammer that hits the posts in are all genius.
Thanks!
Weed control advice from both a home farmer upto commercial scale would be good content. Watching from Newfoundland, Canada.
The row crop and your vegetables
😊😊😊😊😊
I found your channel about 3 weeks ago. You have become one of my favorite channels. Thank you for everything and most of all, thank you for being a farmer
On a small garden i had peppers. I found a caterpillar eating the leaves :(. However there was white spikes in it. I Thought about gremlins LOL. It was small wasps that ley there eggs in the caterpillar and the larvae use it as food. What i fond out was that was a sign of good organic gardening, or a healthy garden. I have used neem oil too at a different time. Fight the bugs. Sure love to see turning the compost heap. If you have a friend or farmer that has a bad batch of milk or ice cream mix it in in the winter im sure the pile will get up to 120F.
Don't know what happend yesterday but i could not watch any you tube video, 2-3 min commercial, then some 15 min and 12min videos with no skip.
i ran the pc cleaner and it seemed to be better today. If they put so many commercials people wont watch anymore hurting the small guy! I was wondering if there is a commercial virus?
Love the replanting.
Good luck,😁 man
Thank you we will do our best!
Your content so far is fantastic. Maybe you could add some insight into your future planning. Like if you maybe add DWC to you green houses or a extra green house.
Maybe some info in your outside soul temperature /humidity. Or your greenhouse temperature/humidity? Also low and hight temperatures of your nutrients for you rock well cubes.
You do such a fantastic job!!!!
I feel as if you will get to all those so no hurry.
Again thanks!!!!
Filters for drip irrigation. 😊
😅 thanks
Here’s u a tip that will save time and your back. Get u a 2’ piece of pvc. 1/“ or 3/4. Now run string through it. Now u can string tomatoes without bending over. Cones in real handy when they bush out.
I appreciate the comment and suggestion. I’ve used that PVC method before and I didn’t really care for it. I’d rather just squat down. I can do it so much faster and keep the string so much tighter. But it is a great method for those that are trying to save their back and maybe not in the best shape. And if I was doing dozens of rows, I would use it for sure but we only have three.
"That tire seen better days" , epic Jason. So wonderful to see our youth get outside and do some physical work. Looks like another bumper crop year for Wishwell Farms. Can hardly wait to eat this. Glad to see your show building up.
What I like about the channels that feature vegetable farmers, is the various revenue streams each has adapted. Some do animals, some don't. Some have a year round store. You have a part-time store but apparently are thinking about getting rid of it. Value-adds that some farms to do their crops. How you've gone about making these decision what to produce and sell and not produce and sell would be interesting. What have you done in the past that you don't anymore and why. And what are you considering for the future and why. Some people don't like it when farming channels describe their marketing but I'm like without a market for their products it doesn't matter.
Keep doing what you have been doing. 👍👍👍
... the channel views perk-up May-June planting viewers sub and watch wanting to follow along for the growing season through harvest..!.. nice beans ..!
Can you talk about the rise in cost of materials and labor? Some people have no idea how expensive farming has become!
Beautiful farm.
I agree about the Florida weave. We never have criss crossed the string in over 30 years. Not necessary.
If u add a 2’ piece of 3/4” pvc to the string. String goes through it. Now u can run string much quicker without bending over. Really nice when they bush out.
absolutely yes,these monsters are potato beetles.We have these in Europe in spades.Can share it with our American friends,send by DHL or Fedex.
I am really enjoying your videos! I would love to see more about you as a person, your family (if that’s not too personal), and the area that you live in.
We have a lot in common even though our farms are very different, I have a hydroponic farm, one of the largest in West Tennessee. Like your farm, (I assume) the farm has a life of its own and we really just try keeping up with it. I've been sending my viewers your way when they are interested in soil-based farming since I believe that you are the best model for that method of growing on any scale on this forum. I will be sending you more as time goes on. Keep creating my friend. Good stuff.
BTW if you have been watching us you may see some of your ideas implemented on a hydroponic farm! lol
I am also looking at the produce canopied trailer as a potential fit for us.
I called the company for a quote last week. May see one of those on our farm soon,
Thanks again!
Chuck and Darlene Fenster
I'd like to know more about how you started your spreadsheets that you use for both the planting schedule and for how much you take to your markets. I imagine a lot of work went into creating those spreadsheets.
Really like all your content so far. We have a ~3.5 acre mixed veg operation in North Central Iowa, so I enjoy a lot of the business side of things i.e. markets, marketing, pricing strategies etc etc. But also enjoy the technical content, fert and crop planning. In short: keep up the great work! P.s. enjoy your back packing vids, too. I don't get out as much as I like anymore but I backpack the sht, yellow river (iowa) and Ozark trail any chance I can get (I'm a hammocker. Haha)
From watching other farm UA-cam videos a lot of other farmers don't stake their tomatoes just leave them lying on the ground. Not a big fan of tomatoes on the ground rather take the time to trellis them up and keep them off the ground great videos and love your enthusiasm. Cheers from Brisbane Australia
Command is a son of a gun , it opresses plants so much !
Great video
Your doing fine mate just send down some of that stuff the young people have been eating, there's are lot of young people here that can do with a dose 😅
I am new just found this channel yesterday. Being from Westerville and working in Dublin I love to see someone that I have bought from on UA-cam. Maybe there is a video already but I’d like to know what the history of the farm is? Other than that I like what you are producing. Keep up the great work.
All aspects of the farm operation are interesting. I appreciated learning how the green bean harvester works and the price per bushel it brings. How do you calibrate the fertilizer spreader? Do you just go by the settings they give you? Are your customers okay with the herbicides and insecticides used? How do you hire your help? Who does your bookkeeping and payroll?
Video about pesticides,Jason.
well done vid , just found your channel. have you ever heard of growing sweet corn under biodegradable mulch for an earlier crop?
we grow some of our own food and always learning even at age 68, God bless,matthew6:33,proverbs 3:5.
I, personally, like your videos as is. Lots of explanation of what u r doing and y. I like the logistics info of a farm. Watching a plant grow is one thing. The processes and info on how they grow is that much better.
I'm majorly jealous at how nice all your stuff looks right now. We r gonna have to replant half our transplants just cause of the wind and nasty cold weather. We have given up on the Cucumber transplants and decided just to seed into the soil. No early planting this year for us. But, if it was easy, everyone would do it and u wouldn't have a job.
I live in your area and you mentioned a chance of rain on Wednesday, don't know about you but we got smoked by rain. A solid 3 to 4 inches. Hope you got in the field before then.
YALL DO A GOOD JOB AT THE FARM....
Great video! Would love to see how/if you process anything you harvest - canning, drying, etc.
when we tied Tomatoes the way you did today we always use a 3 ft piece of PVC run it through the lines and you don't have to bend over it
Great video. You have an amazing group of employees.
great video! would like to see more on your irrigation setup. timers valves etc.
Your videos are getting better and better my friend! My favorite channel!
That’s very kind, thank you!
You can always tie a not around both sides of the string in between the 2 plants instead of the crisscross method or even a small zip tie. I'm 63 with 2 bad knees I can't do that crisscross anymore besides you can damage some of the stems trying it. Of course I'm only a small backyard farmer lol. But I grow 30 to 50 determinate tomato plants a year and use the Florida weave. Or is it a modified Georgia weave lol. Good luck with your season.
There's a lot of pieces of plastics in the dirt, it seems.
Nice observation. That center section of a field with the drive trail tends to have little scraps pile up over the years. For nearly 20 years, we laid conventional plastic that had to be lifted and there was always scraps left behind that were hard to get. Now we use all cornstarch based biodegradable that completely disappear the following year.
To me anything farm related is worth watching. From starting seeds to harvesting. Tractor work, irrigation, overcoming issues with pests, plant failures. I steal knowledge & techniques as well as when to plant crops. I live 39 miles from the UA-cam channel Broyans farm & 51 miles from the channel The Veggie Boys.
how far away Amishes are ?
@@wild_insomnia
Some less than 10 miles, Lancaster, PA is around 90 miles. We shop at Amish markets.
Point out the plants you started from seeds
did you rip your lumber to make the stakes?
What is the spacing of your tomatoes in row? How far are the rows apart? Where do you get your tomato stakes?
We plant ours 2 1/2 feet apart within the row and the row centers are 60 inches apart. We get our tomato steaks from Martin’s produce in Pennsylvania or Monty packaging in Michigan.
@@wishwellfarms Thank You. I am going to get some. How long do the wood stakes last?
@@utsouthpaw2013 a loooong time, I've had many well over a decade or longer.
Do you see a difference between single row vs double row like you have it?
Are you referring to the tomato plants or the string? The tomatoes are only in a single row, it would be far too crowded to plant tomatoes in a double row. Peppers are mainly the only crop that we plant in a double row.
So what was that disease you found on your baby tomatoes?
I never did find out what it was but those little plants that had the dead spots in the stems died but the rest, 99%, are thriving and have no disease as of now.
Sorry but those tomatoes were way due to get out of those cells, they were leggy as can be.
They were removed from the trays and transplanted nearly three weeks ago and are growing nicely
Nothing wrong with leggy if you know what you are doing
You’re a hard work and smart person! I enjoy your videos a lot thank you.
Hi Jason,(I hope that's your name, and I'm sorry if I got it wrong) and Thank You again for the great content. That's so awesome seeing young men out there helping and doing the hard work. WOW.........takes me back and down memory lane of me and my friends out in the fields on the weekends with my dad. I have a question, though, regarding tomatoes grown inside a greenhouse and tomatoes grown outside. Why do both, and why not just one? Are they both profitable? I noticed most of your work with the tomatoes is inside the greenhouse. I only ask because we have never tried greenhouse farming. Our goal for the future is to add vegetable farming to our produce. Also, I love the setup of your greenhouse tomatoes. Last question: I know everything is seasonal, but is it doable or even possible to grow tomatoes all year round in a greenhouse? Thank you again for your time and the great content.
Content: Farm economics. How a farmer determines prices. Second part is difference between your operation (farm to consumers) vs farm to supermarket (time of harvest vs when it's in the market) I buy local but always hear people say how much more expensive farmer's market is to the grocery store.
If your having issues with Colorado potato beetles, try silver colored mulch next year. It holds more heat units, and the reflection off it will keep the beetles off your plants.
I don't even know what to suggest I enjoy your channel so much because your easy to listen to and you do a great job of thoroughly showing every step! Did you ever get back to recording the lowering of the plants? I am trying the FL weave this year for the first time! Skeptical about if its going to hold up to my indeterminates!