sounds like you need to talk to the boss above and follow His advice. we alaways enjoy the information, always learning. God bless,matthew6:33,proverbs3:5

Send some of that rain to me in Florida!

You'll be alright. Keep your head up

Wow ... Hope you get it all sorted out! For what it's worth ... Happy Father's Day!

i would move onto new field. land is cheap. dont worry about land. anything that makes life easier and less work is good.

Thanks for sharing Somtimes the weather is bad to us . remember those days. happy fathers day be safe

I would apply again, i know it's more work but i think it will save you work in the long run 😊

We've repaired miles of plastic. Smart to cut. Hate repairing in the mud, we've adopted a no fixing plastic in the mud policy. Some of the later fields have been laying and have grass breakthrough the pre, which is holding the edges for now, We got 3 inches in 2 hours last week on nearly mature melons, hopefully they were laying on the mulch

I would pull up all plastic and drip on washed out rows run my box scraper till flat relay all 4 rows and respray with pre emerge.

Few more inches and it would have been real bad news. That run off is bad news and will only get worse. Cover crops in-between planting, crop rotation, and less till.

Unfortunately, I’ve been exactly where you are. We’ve lost almost every transplant in the field a few weeks after planting in years past from hail. My first instinct was it’s over but at the end of the year God always managed to take care of us and it always works out. By the way, we’ve had 24 inches of rain since April 1st (our 1st transplanting date) but no severe weather so far.

As someone whose house has been hit 3 times by baseball side hail, I feel your pain

Thank you so much for making time to still film and record throughout the storm. Yes, you are right it's either a blessing or too much rain. I am not a vegetable farmer nor even know how to lay plastic mulch. I already know what my father would tell us to do, is relay and redo it over again and fix what we can at that very moment. Back home we don't have the big stores and the convenience of driving not too far to pick up from the big box stores. Even shipping for us is very expensive. For spraying herbicide again I'd definitely spray it again. Thank you so much again for the great content. Take care and God Bless.

So sorry for all the bad weather your way but thankful it was not catastrophic. Prayers your way the crops.do ok.

So frustrating but your attitude is fantastic. I would replace right where you had it. You had a hell of a storm. I’m in Warren county Ohio and we have a little over an inch of rain since April 30th. Without irrigating the one acre garden I have would be toast even with it being under plastic. I’m also amazed you do not have destruction from deer. I have my garden electrified otherwise I lose most everything to them. Hope the weather calms down for you and thanks for sharing your days with us.

Ouch. I have my own challenges growing in South Carolina, but wind and hail are not on the list. Our big issue is insects and bacterial/fungal disease.

I would lay new set of beds. And reapply.

I'm very sorry to see this for you and the other farmers in that area. I know you guys like to see a good rain, but not that much that quickly.

Thanks for sharing your storm with us. I live in nebraska and it’s been a wet spring and very stormy I’m glad you were spared the devastation of a huge hail storm.

Life on the farm. I remember it to well. Sorry for you.

I just bought a Buckeye tractor water wheel and bed shaper. I’m at the bottom of the watershed. I’m kind of nervous about it now. I’d be more worried about the erosion than anything else.

God help you

That same storm dropped nearly 3" on me. I'm over here near a small town called Johnstown. We haven't received hardly any rain since.

I can also relate when it comes to plastic. I laid many acres of plastic back in the day. Can be frustrating. Weather can be with you or against you.

Sad to see good top soil going to mud and flowed away. How about rotating crops with grain or something that lays down a stubble one year and can be plowed to bed for vege. Might not be practical for your case

You did the right thing with the rows, at least you had no crop in the ground. Do you have a cultivator, not sure if that works with plastic rows. It would be nice to have a completining tractor tool that turns over weeds and reburies the plastic. Other wise i think, "have your pet sprayed or neutered" thanks BOB. The wetness in the greenhouse could have come up from the ground due to pressure from so much water. Good thing it dried! Put a camera in there for the next big storm. Also great for time lapse for tomato growth and you tube content!

Well, this is something no one wishes on anyone. But it does say, that mother nature doesn't care who u r, a seasoned professional or a beginner trying to learn how to grow for their family, if mother nature decides she doesn't want u to grow, she will shut u down in an instant. It's up to us how we rebound and move forward. Thoughts r with u. Hope this doesn't effect u to badly down the road. And u know your gonna get my opinion, so here it is. And I'm sure u have already made soke decisions and I may just b talking to no one. My thoughts would b, in the areas of plastic that haven't been planted yet, def re apply herbicides. At that point, u application is gone, so another application isn't gonna hurt anything. Anything planted may require a few late nights to apply herbicides using a backpack. A pain in the butt, but may help long term. Longer hours now may mean better growth later. As for the blown up areas, if it was me, I would write them off for plastic. Use the area that has nothing in it yet and put down new plastic. Get the best growth outta that as u can. A little delayed, but u won't lose money. Just time. But u still have the drip tape and u do still have thw fertilizer in the ground in the areas that the plastic blew off. My thought is barrasicas (cauliflower, broccoli, kale ect) to my knowledge, u don't grow those, and it may throw off your entire system, but those crows grow great in the later season. If u were to go and grab some seeds, plant in 72 cells immediately, they wouldn't go in the ground for 4 to 6 weeks. That means that the heads will not b getting hit with the nasty heat of the summer ( yes the plant will, but it the actual edible part of thw plant that is most affected by the summer heat), and u will have a late summer, early fall harvest of barrasica. These don't need a plastic, but will benefit from the drip tape since they love their water. Yes, it will add work to your year, but u won't waste land, drip tape and fertilizer. Most of them r a one harvest, except for thw kale and broccoli. Kale just keeps on growing if u r just harvesting the other older leaves, and broccoli send off, shoots after u harvest the main head. Again, U won't lose any money, just some time. But u have lots of hard working kids, that I'm sure, would love the extra hours. U also get the benefit of all the plant matter that u will b adding back into thw soil. Barasicas r huge plants with a smaller harvest, but u add a bunch back to the soil which u have lost. And that brings me to my questions. Top soil. U said in your last video, u don't have much top soil there. And now u just lost a ton more. Is that not a major concern to u? I wanna known your thoughts on that. From what I have been learning the last few years, that top soil is where all the benefital microbes live, as well as worms and all that that gives your soil the health that it needs. Is there ways that we can combine both, no till, soil rebuild efforts, with conventional tillage and chemical applications. It's something I've been thinking alot about, and I'm sure, ppl smarter than me and tested, but there has to b a way to combine the 2 to gain the benefits and reduce the erosion and loss of top soil. Maybe a deep tillage that only opens the soil but doesn't turn it, leaving those microbes alive but removing compaction. Or stopping vegetable production on those crops and moving to another area, and throwing the original vegetable crops to cash crops for some time to start adding that heavy organic matter back to the soil. Again, u r the professional and I'm the amateur. In the end u know better than I do. And I know it's not a quick fix. It would b a long term thought process. But maybe something to kick around. Thx for the video, and I hope all ends well for u and everyone involved on your farm. Good luck.

I would say lay a few more rows and shift everything down to keep everything grouped together the way that you want it. That is assuming that the ground dries out quick enough for you to lay a few more rows in time to be planted. The damaged partial rows can either be used for anything extra that you left over that you feel like throwing in or they are probably the rows that would get damaged again if it rains really hard again. I would probably say re apply your herbicide because I doubt that there is much of it left after that heavy rain.

New subscriber here from Nassau Bahamas… I really enjoy watching your videos but can you please tell me me how long are your rows and how wide is your pathways?

I would take some time and dig some more ditches. Get better control of your drainage before the next storm steals your top soil.

Always think high ground when building.

Sorry to see you going through that. I watch The Veggie Boys on KZfaq. They could give you a few answers. All the best. Elaine. 🌱

I would put in a drainage pipe where that rutt was going into your farm store area..

Create French drains all around the main property line.

I'd say lay it out again so on the half acre you can do as you planned previously and still profit from your veggies on the existing rows that had damage from the storm. You had one heck of a storm but as you stated at least your current crops still look good.

I understand the frustration of having all your hard work void. It is only insurance.

I’m learning but I think using the land next to it and move on. That last row is history. Just a novice thought

We use a v shape hoe, put plastic back in and bury, we also don't use raised bed ,just flat bed , to hard for us to move soil, hate the whole process, but it's std practice. I would reply herb. Lite on the 3me. Add the sandea. Dual. Sounds light most was lost,

Sorry man!! Happened to me 3 years out of 20!

Best advice I can give is take a break and do another kayak video wishbone!

Could you possibly plant into the bare soil without any of the plastic mulch? Maybe the mulch provides too many benefits that you want the crops under that stuff one way or the other. I wish you a successful solution to the rain damage. I'm about an hour east of State College, PA and an hour north of Harrisburg, PA and we had a heavy storm although I didn't see any hail. It rained so hard it shredded some zucchini leaves but they should survive.

Some times it sucks to be a farmer but unfortunately god is in charge of the weather

The definition of insanity "keep doing the same things, expecting different outcome". You quit dairy, but, why can't see the issues of doing conventional AG? You are a hard working, smart farmer which I respect and admire. Time to do the right things for you, your loved ones and the Land.

@the veggie boys can you help Wishwell with advice?

I heard about this. Didn't the President declare Ohio in a state of emergency? This year has been a strange one even for us where we are. The only thing I can say is it has to get better. Our peaches, nectarines and apricots got wiped out from a super cold winter and late frosts.

Would laying 2 or 3 more rows give you more than you had before? Or fix it and add a couple rows.

Thats a shame, that's a lot of work to do over. Does it really matter though if the walkways are weedy? I guess you couldnt cultivate the walkways...? so it becomes a question of if its that weedy would they be stealing that much in the way of nutrients from the crops? Me, I just spent a morning pulling weeds from a 20x30 garden so its a bit different for me than it is for you. If it were me I would probably just respray the herbicide that effects the most weeds since I already had sprayed once before, and see how that works out . Is that a terrible idea?

I wouldn't apply the herbaside for the second time? That being said u have a hard time doughting you?

"Farming ain't easy" I guess it could have been a lot worse but still. Sometimes farmers can't get a break. If it ain't the weather then it's the Government. They have new agendas trying to develop a head of steam going to be tough for European farmers and people.

I am only commenting /answering because you asked. I would convert the field to no till and plant a cover crops to end the flooding problems completely. I would use wood chips in the aisles. and never till them . I would let the weeds take over., but never allow them to go to seed. I would never use 2-4D or any other harmful products.. The continual tillage has created an impervious hard pan beneath your fields. You don't have wonderful soil, you have dead dirt. But, then again, I'm not a famer I am a couch potato! Not by choice, by stroke. We all get what we deserve.

Cut your looses and go to the outher field.

Yep, erosion works best with bare ground, basic geology. This is a great example of of ignorant ag