LAYING PLASTIC MULCH ON RAISED BEDS ON OUR VEGETABLE FARM
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Filmed on May 8 and 13, 2024. After a very wet few days we were finally able to get some disking done but it was still too wet to lay our plastic. Fast forward 5 days and and we get another shot at disking and getting our plastic down for our first plantings which are busting at the seams in our greenhouse.
That's an amazing piece of equipment, & you explained it all so well - so interesting!! Thanks! ♥️🙏♥️
Thanks!
Man the ingenuity of modern farming is amazing. Thank you for sharing. Much respect.
I appreciate that. It’s actually a pretty simple machine though and the planter we use to put our veggies in the ground is even simpler yet, the less moving parts the better, easier to work on ha ha
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Expexts always say it simple and easy...
Man!! I love watching your farming videos and learning how it all works and gets done. That’s a ton of hard work, but looks so rewarding when it all comes together. I want to see the colonel riding that plastics bed layer!!! Ha ha ha. Stay the course and keep up the awesome work!! Thanks.
Ha ha what a great comment, I shared this with Colonel and he’s already got a video idea in the works, hopefully we can make it happen! Thanks so much for the encouraging words, I really appreciate it!
You explain every aspect so well. I wish I had a teacher like you when I was young. Atheists would never make good farmers! 💯
Thank you so much! And I agree, I don’t know how you could be an atheist when working around God‘s beautiful creation each day!
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Yes! being able appreciate a beautyful sun set is already something.
I love your show. I've farmed all my life. But I've enjoyed watching your show. Thank you I've learned alot! God Bless you and pray you have a Great year! 😊❤
Thank you so much. I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
Thanks Jason, appreciate you making this video. Very informative and well done! Always appreciate your wise words regarding produce farming.
You are very welcome, Jacob, glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate you watching and commenting!
Whew, I know you are glad this is now taken care of. I’m ready to see the transplants going in the ground.
Yes, I am very relieved! Transplanting video coming out tonight!
Beautiful soil. The Veggie Boys would think they died and went to heaven to have soil like that.
Your explanation of the process is excellent.
Thanks Jim!
Great training materiel.
Thanks!
Nice job Jason, looking forward to seeing the growth of your plants.
Thanks Casey, hoping for a good growing season!
I was plowing in January same field ive plowed for 25 years I saw a white rectangle come out of the ground behind me. It was a porcelin Pencoil sign. Turns out Pencoil was Pennzoil first name from the 20s.
Wow, that’s pretty incredible, thanks for sharing that! We’ve had a lot of people over the years look for arrowheads in our fields, the Hopewell Indians used to inhabit our area
Have you ever considered using a flame weeder for removing the weeds?
It's beneficial for the soil, and I would think it would cut down on using herbicides.
I'm not sure what you would need for your particular scale, but I know they have ones that pull behind a tractor.
🤔 💭 might even help dry the soil up a bit.
Yes, I’ve seen those. I just haven’t done much research on them, but I imagine they would work well.
I know people like @offgridcurtisstone seem to like them. Curtis is a much smaller scale, but he might be able to give you some insight/feedback.
Maybe add rolling baskets to help break down the chunks?
For sure, been wanting to get those for several years now just haven’t shelled the money out
Love from pakistan . you are great
Thanks!
That is a crazy day of farming. But what u got accomplished is amazing. Just a testament to how hard farmers work to make sure everyone has something to eat. We appreciate, 100%, what u do. Great job
And for your soils, something we do up in Canada Here, we harrow our feilds instead of disking or cultivating. About 75% of farmers will harrow their field instead of cultivation first, just to work that top 2 or 3 inches of soil and speed up the dry out portion of the spring. Most of our cash crop fields (wheat, canola, peas ect) r zero cultivative. Just a small tickle to gwr the soil drying out and ready to plant. On years like this, with all thw moisture, it may b benefital, just to help that soil dry out a bit more before u put that disk into the field. Could b a difference of 5 days to 3 days of wait time. Just a thought from a didfrent environment to help speed up your prep work.
Another great video. Looking g forward to planting.
Thanks, Eric. Appreciate the suggestions and feedback. Don’t see too many harrows around here. The problem with going over the field when it’s a little wet is the compaction that happens. We don’t even use the disc on our farm except for these 8 acres, for us a cultivator with sweeps does a lot better job for smoothing out the surface where We plant our corn and beans where there may have been damaged from heavy rains. But for the most part, we are no till Farmers and try not to disturb the ground unless absolutely necessary because we live in an area with lots of rolling rocky hills and the topsoil will just wash away. Thanks again for the thoughtful comment.
I would love to watch a video from canada too.
@edjebeyedoufina8837 what Micheal Mitchell, or South Sask farmer. They will give 2 very diffrent styles of farming from my provinces lower region. First is a large scale 20 to 30,000 acre operation, with big equipment but suffers greatly from drought. The other is more of a family operation on about 3000(?) Acres with lower end equipment but will get the same result.
I love watching your contents, It's like watching soap operas. love from Nigeria.
Well, thank you so much and I appreciate you watching all the way from Nigeria!
Where in nigeria bro and are you a farmer?
@@abayomialao4916 In Lagos bro, where r u located?
Thank you again for the great content. I really appreciate you explaining the equipment in detail. I definitely understand the soil, but the equipment caught my attention. We've never grown vegetables, but that'll be our new crops for this year or probably next year. I'm learning a lot about the equipment before purchasing a Rainflo transplanter and plastic mulch layer. QUESTION? Have you ever thought of or tried biodegradable plastic mulch? I would really appreciate your thoughts on that. Thank you again.
Thank you! Yes, that is nearly all we use now, we lay biodegradable mulch on about 90% of our acres and is the best thing ever! We use bio gold. I only use conventional embossed plastics on the tomatoes and peppers because they are longer season crops and I don’t want the plastic to break down on it too early since we’re harvesting those the entire season.
Hallo Jason,
Wow that was impressive, so many rows in such short time.
We also lay plastic but much slower. I set myself some signs to get straight rows. How do you manage to keep the spacing and ride so straight?
Kind regards from Germany, growing watermelon and pumpkins.
I just follow the line that the machine leaves behind from the prior row to help me keep things straight and the auto rotrack does the rest. I never realized that I laid plastic fast but I’ve never really watched anyone else do it ha ha. Wishing you a successful growing and harvest season in Germany!
Watching intently. Im also wondering how you connect the drip tape if it runs short?
Cheers 🇬🇧
We use drip tape couplers, very simple for when running short or repairing leaks
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Thank you!
Would running a moldboard plow help star over and dry out the soil? Then disk?
I appreciate the suggestion, but if we ran a moldboard plow through there in the spring, it would be the biggest muddiest chunks to deal with for weeks and weeks, that’s why you do that in the fall so the winter freeze and thaw will break all that up. I actually don’t even use a moldboard anymore, We just chisel plow and it’s always worked out just fine for us. Fortunately, things have dried out nicely, and we are all caught up.
Hi Jason. I was just wondering if ever planned potatoes.
I do not. Our ground is pretty heavy soil and not too good for potatoes
@wishwellfarms thanks for the quick reply. That's what I thought . Looking forward to 2025 as you start your season. And the best to you and your family business.
What do you spray over the plastic? We use Dual and Prowl but haven’t been too happy with the results
I've never been impressed with the weed control of what I use either, we also use dual, which only controls grass unfortuanately, and we also add Command 3ME and .75 ounce of Permit (Sandea). We do not put the Command on tomatoes or eggplant though, it sets them back a little and can really harm them since it moves in the soil some. We run a Mankar (walk behind herbicide hooded atomizer) down the row middles and drive trails when weeds start to emerge after about a month....this thing has been a life saver but very expensive!
What preemerge are you using between plastic rows?
Metolachor (dual) and Clomazone (command 3ME). But I don’t put the command where tomatoes and eggplant are going or it will turn them white and hold them back. I also add 3/4 of an ounce of Sandea, which is just permit. I still haven’t found a magic bullet to control morning glory, it comes right back up and starts taking over our field and we have to walk the aisles with a little round up Sprayer called a man car which atomizes glyphosate into a very fine mist and it has a hood to protect the crops.
Our local extension is trying to get me some Beatles that live and eat bindweedI guess they do a great job and don't harm crops
What do you spray with after it’s laid prior to planting?
On all the vine crops and peppers we use clomazone, metolachlor and halosulfuron. I don’t put the clomazone on tomatoes and eggplant. After a good rain rinses it all off the plastic it’s good to go.
Which biodegradable plastic are you using this season?
BIO GOLD Black Embossed Biodegradable Film, .6 mil thickness, 4x5,000' this stuff lays almost as good as standard conventional embossed. I get mine from Martins Produce Supply in PA and they are $200 per roll.
@ thank you for taking the time to respond, Jason. Means a lot!
You should have used a mould plough or something
Unfortunately, that has to be done in the fall, if I would’ve done that in the spring, there would be muddy chunks drying out half of the summer before they could be broken up. It’s the freezing and thawing process throughout the winter That helps break that dirt up if you use a moldboard. Now that is dry everything‘s good.
that thing from a field was megalodon's tooth !
Hahahaha, you might be right!