LAYING PLASTIC MULCH ON RAISED BEDS ON OUR VEGETABLE FARM

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2 ай бұрын

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.

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@mikecorcoran6834 Ай бұрын

You explain every aspect so well. I wish I had a teacher like you when I was young. Atheists would never make good farmers! 💯

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

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!

@OldPackMule 2 ай бұрын

Man the ingenuity of modern farming is amazing. Thank you for sharing. Much respect.

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

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

@butternutbean1885 2 ай бұрын

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.

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

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!

@paulaadams9546 9 күн бұрын

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! 😊❤

@wishwellfarms 8 күн бұрын

Thank you so much. I’m glad you enjoyed the video!

@kenwoodcoda 24 күн бұрын

Your explanation of the process is excellent.

@wishwellfarms 17 күн бұрын

Thanks Jim!

@mikewalter8547 Ай бұрын

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.

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

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

@frankenscience3553 Ай бұрын

Maybe add rolling baskets to help break down the chunks?

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

For sure, been wanting to get those for several years now just haven’t shelled the money out

@jacobhess789 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Jason, appreciate you making this video. Very informative and well done! Always appreciate your wise words regarding produce farming.

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

You are very welcome, Jacob, glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate you watching and commenting!

@umarabdulrehman3395 Ай бұрын

Love from pakistan . you are great

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@suave47 2 ай бұрын

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.

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

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.

@niccolealdrich4890 29 күн бұрын

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.

@wishwellfarms 29 күн бұрын

Yes, I’ve seen those. I just haven’t done much research on them, but I imagine they would work well.

@niccolealdrich4890 29 күн бұрын

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.

@WalterRWC Ай бұрын

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.

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

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.

@caseyarmstrong7064 2 ай бұрын

Nice job Jason, looking forward to seeing the growth of your plants.

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Casey, hoping for a good growing season!

@MikeLiddell1966 2 ай бұрын

Whew, I know you are glad this is now taken care of. I’m ready to see the transplants going in the ground.

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I am very relieved! Transplanting video coming out tonight!

@gbayi64 2 ай бұрын

I love watching your contents, It's like watching soap operas. love from Nigeria.

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

Well, thank you so much and I appreciate you watching all the way from Nigeria!

@abayomialao4916 Ай бұрын

Where in nigeria bro and are you a farmer?

@gbayi64 Ай бұрын

@@abayomialao4916 In Lagos bro, where r u located?

@juliusstein9273 2 ай бұрын

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.

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

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!

@michaelcurran98 2 ай бұрын

What do you spray over the plastic? We use Dual and Prowl but haven’t been too happy with the results

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

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!

@danwhiting4399 2 ай бұрын

Would running a moldboard plow help star over and dry out the soil? Then disk?

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

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.

@mikewalter8547 Ай бұрын

What preemerge are you using between plastic rows?

@wishwellfarms Ай бұрын

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.

@mikewalter8547 Ай бұрын

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

@maclaudeamumbwe2663 2 ай бұрын

You should have used a mould plough or something

@wishwellfarms 2 ай бұрын

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.