Garden Update Aug '22 (Sweet Potatoes & Hickory King Corn)
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2022
- The sweet potatoes may not be exactly what we expected, but they have only been in the ground for roughly 90 days, so we will give them a little more time. The hickory king and jimmy red from @gardeningwithhoss is really showing off. We can not wait for this stuff to get dry enough to pull. Who ever knew corn could be so darn pretty!
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Hey y'all, I'm Meagan. My husband Andy and I grew up in rural NC and as newlyweds, decided we wanted something more than the typical American lifestyle. So we started growing our own food, I learned to can and so started this passion of food preservation and knowing where our food comes from.
Even though we grew up around this lifestyle, we still had to learn for ourselves, the ways of our ancestors before us. We now grow a huge portion of our food, including our own meat.
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Through my weekly videos, I'll show you how to prepare easy meals cooked from scratch, tips on preserving your garden harvest and the occasional farm video. Live life on YOUR terms!
I love watching you guys try new things and learning so much along the way. Your successes are stacking up! Thanks for sharing your journey 😁💞✨
Thanks for the tour. Very interesting information about the corn.
14:56 that there is corn smut, it's a edible fungus that grows on corn. In mexico we call it huitlacoche and it is indeed a delicacy
That is some cool looking corn
Oh my goodness, those watermelons are beautiful 😍 That’s quite the garden y’all have planted! A lot of hard work is paying off, that’s for sure. I would love to sit down at your supper table for a meal of those beautiful vegetables and some cornbread 😆 Thanks for sharing your experience with your crops. I always learn something new! God bless you both and those beautiful babies too 🙏
Thank you so much, God Bless my friend 💜🙏
We tried to grow field corn for the first time for our animals and a storm knocked it all down. We will try again next year. Thanks for sharing about the varieties of corn you are growing.
I hate to hear that, the weather has definitely been tough this year
Well I reckon i learn something new every day. Had no idea about the even numbers on an ear of corn .
Thanks for taking us on the garden tour. Y’all have been blessed with a bountiful harvest this year. I never knew that about the odd & even number of rows on an ear of corn, But I’m gonna be countin ours now lol 😂 Our hickory king corn has grown really tall this year as well. Some of ours has that funky looking fungus stuff growing on them to but we ain’t eatin that stuff either lol 😂 Thanks for sharing. 😇🙏🏻👍🏻🙌🏻❤️
Yea I can’t bring myself to try it, haha!
Hey folks, I live in central NC , the Southern States store had some like those back in the spring, the called them Georgia Reds, I planted a few of them, some didn't make it but I planted some that I started myself. Loving your videos. I need some bone sauce myself, I noticed one section of my field peas has been mowed down by deer
I’m going to look up the Georgia reds! Thank ya neighbor!
That is what hickory king looks like, they aren't big around unless they get crossed with something else. I have had the ears so high I couldn't reach them which helps with animal damage. If they grew tobacco on that land it may be played out on the top, might need deep plowing and extra fertilizer like wood ashes, I need to soil test mine as I have one area where things just don't do as well. I plowed down hill this year and was able to get deeper, felt silly doing it but it seems to work. Oh and I really like that coon fence, I have had a lot of trouble from them, we are infested with coons but the numbers are going down.
Thank you for the info on the hickory king! And yes we have a lot of coons to, it doesn’t help that that garden is right beside of a small branch. A couple years ago we caught almost 8 out of our corn field and still didn’t get any corn. I think they tell all their friends where the goods are, haha!
Here we call it corn smut, it's a fungi an so many people love it, I've not tried it an won't😂
luv your videos!
Cross pollination only happens if something planted too close then the following year you'd be able to see the cross pollination if planting from those seeds you saved off the plant the prior year
Thanks! And actually corn is a little different, you will see different colors in this years kernels because of the way corn pollinates it's self. We had jimmy red, indian corn, and hickory king all pretty close to each other, so we were just a little concerned but so far so good :) Thanks for watching and I appreciate the support!
Thanks for giving us a trip through the gardens,seeing the results of your labor is truly Amazing.Take Care Folks and have a Good Day 🙂.
Thank you! And yes it’s a relief to see all the hard work paying off!
Huitlacoche it's a mesxican delicacy. We call it corn smut. I won't eat it but some restaurants or people that do eat it will pay a good price for it.
Did not know ears of corn were always even. Surrounded by corn fields here in Pennsylvania.
When my FIL told me, I thought it was amazing! We’ve been counting corn rows ever since 😂
Love learning from y’all!! Hoping all your harvesting will be plentiful ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️
We planted Beauregard both in our garden and in a poly tunnel. The ones in the garden look ok...the ones in the tunnel look like Little Shop of Horrors, 😂. With so many vines and leaves, we're hoping it's not a case of "all fur coat and no knickers". 😉
We planted honey select corn for the first time and, woo hoo, it is delicious!!
Is it corn it in your corn
...the strange thing you point.oit? I e heard it's really good. Haven't had it.
Love your channel!
Yes, we LOVE honey select! And if I am understanding correctly I believe it is a mushroom or fungus that is growing out of the corn. Thanks for watching!
corn smut its a mushroom good to eat
I been getting average 8 12 cobs off 1 plant.
I grew an heirloom variety of corn this year called John Haulk. It did pretty much like your Jimmy Red; it spawned extra cob growth, lots of those “delicacy” knobs on the top, and even cob growth coming out of the tassels. Tastes great though and was interesting to grow. Just curious, we’re those first melons y’all showed Black Diamonds? I grew some this year but the terrible heat we had in June knocked them out. Thanks so much. Great video.
I’m not sure of the name, they were some free seeds that the ag department ws giving out so we thought we would give them a try! They have been very hardy because our weather here hasn’t been favorable and we have no way to water the area they are in
What an awesome garden!! I'm amazed...the drought hurt my garden too
Are you going to sell any white corn and watermelons?? I could eat my weight in watermelon lol lol
We may possibly sell some white corn after it has dried, we will see how much we get and yes on the watermelons! ☺️☺️
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Love your farm. I have a kitchen garden here in Pennsylvania. Which state y’all from? North Carolina? I have lots of family there.
Yes we are in NC, more north western at the foot of the blue ridge.
cukes have downy mildew
That was corn smut
Thought the tops should die off?!!
Not necessarily ☺️
Did the the sweet potatoes flower yet?
No, but sweet potatoes don’t always flower, unlike russet potatoes that must flower to produce a potato, sweet potatoes do not ☺️
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays mine always get almost a hibiscus lookalike flower on them. Must be the variety.
@@tammykaltreider I bet so! I've only seen sweet potatoes bloom just a handful of times around here, which is wild!
Don't you worry about snakes out there?
We don’t have snakes quite like y’all do in Florida, our snakes here most of the time slither away at any sign of commotion. We still watch for them walking through, but it’s mostly black snakes so we don’t worry to much ☺️