Why is Greg planting iris flowers on their leased grazing farms road frontage?
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- Why is Greg planting iris flowers on their leased grazing farms road frontage? Having a nice arrangement of flowering iris is a great addition to any road frontage. Iris bulbs are very easy to plant and literally no maintenance to maintain a great floral display for many years to come.
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I love how you just love the land and nature. It’s not all about productivity and profit. You are about loving what you do. Just beautiful.
In french vineyards roses are planted at the end of grape rows as an early warning system for the winegrower. Because they are fragrant flowers, they attract insects such as aphids before they can make their way to the vines. This way the winemaker or vineyard manager will know what insects are in the vineyard that could potentially threaten their grapes. They also attract beneficial insects that will prey on the undesirable insects.
They also show signs of disease before the vines do.
When I drive around I appreciate the flowers along the road way, daffodils, irisis, lilies, etc. ☺
Every spring, patches of daffodils and other bulb flowers bloom in specific spots in fields around my farm. They show where there were once homesteads. I enjoy them as annual greetings from generations past. Wish they could talk.
Absolutely, they could tell stories that would fill a book. Lots of times there are old water cisterns and house foundations in the area.
If I knew from poetry, I'd say that was awful poetic
I know that you might think what I'm about to write is not accurate , but today's vlog you showed us what a tender poet you really are. Thanks for being a strong feeling man, and sharing it all with us.
Had a large bush in front of a bedroom window that created a nice barrier between the world and the window. Bush died. Put a 2 foot by 4 foot raised bed in front of the window and filled it with wood, branches, dirt, and shredded cardboard. Started by planting lilies, onions, asparagus, and lemon grass in it to get a living root in the ground and the flowers were lovely. I can't count the cardboard boxes I've mulched into that bin, but it saved me from buying dirt, and it saved me from filling my trash can with boxes.
Good for you! What a great contribution you and Jan have been making in your lives!
LOL! I talk about you quite often -- I recommend people watch your videos!
Love the flowers! Beauty matters -- it's what makes all the hard things worthwhile.
What a great tribute to your uncle Dan and aunt Audrey! Looks great!
If for nothing else, it has to be a great advertisement for how well you keep your land. Don’t let the haters define what you should do.
I live in east central Indiana. So many farmsteads have been razed and farmed over. But the flowers remain. Iris, lilies, yucca and daffodils. Reminders of the folks who lived in the past
Absolutely, some family planted those many years ago. I love it that it connects us back in the history of the land.
Beauty is of vital importance to our lives.
Well done little brother! So proud of you and all you have accomplished.
Happy to see Dan and Audrey's flowers being spread around the countryside.
Thanks big sister!
I love this Greg! Nothing better than going for drive in the country and seeing flowers growing in the ditches. Every property we have owned I have extensively planted perennial flowers and some bushes.
I love flowers, I guess I got that from my mom!
Once upon a time, I would dismiss the iris as a useless ornamental .. but even if the only thing a plant does is keep the soil from washing away, it is performing a purpose .. so one might as well have them look good doing it! The pollinators will also like a few more flowers, if nothing else. We now put irises in every new planting .. along with snow drops, star of Bethlehem, daffodils and violets. It can't all be yarrow, mint and blackberries, now can it? 👍👍
They look nice, that should be enough.
Fence rows and hedges played a vital role in farming practices right up until greed and getting two more rows of harvest. The problem is now we have lost wind breaks that protect against frost and weather, pollinator habitat, and secondary crops and the entire field produces less….
We all need to do the best we can do. It does make a difference.
My condolences on the loss of your Aunt. I think the flowers planted along the fences are beautiful.
When I admire and smell them, it reminds me of Aunt Audrey. She was the best.
My father was building units in the 40 deg celious heat.a neighbour sitting in the shade sucking on a beer all the days he was building . He said to dad when he as finish a year latter wish I had units like that your so lucky!! Your flowers and jealous people reminded me of that.
Making the land better and landowners wanting you to manage it speaks for itself. When I built a dozen Greg Judy tree swallow houses I had some stares and questions to.
Oh, I bet you did. You darn nature hugger, shame on you😊 Good job.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancherWe put up about 50 GJ tree shallow houses this spring and also got some interesting looks! Thank you for all you contribute to us trying to find our way back to the land, Greg!
@triciahill216 your welcome, good job!
Excellent !! Pennsylvania farms are big on this too. Adds so much interest along the road and suggests who loves taking care of the land. Go for it, Greg.
My husband's grandfather planted Forsythia, liliacs, mock oranges, spirea dogwood daylilies, iris and daffodils for a mile on the roadside on either side of of the Farmstead... it was beautiful. I and my husband are doing the same here at our new farm in the Michigan UP.
Just simply beautiful. What a little ingenuity can produce.
I plant irises in honor of my Grandmother and mother. I ‘wild’ the iris all over the place too..
Greg, so much fun to see you yesterday! Love those irises!! Thanks so much for all your help. Love your area!!
That was crazy that we bumped into each other on our county gravel road!
It’s worthwhile, good, and virtuous to help beauty present itself
I love the iris. Many of those colors I have never seen. Those are just beautiful.
This video really made my day. I love irises too and mine are in bloom even as I type and today's scheduled activity is to plant more containers with plants and flower bulbs that will carry the flower parade into Summer and Fall. Good times. Thank you for showing us the lovely flowers.
I Love Irises. You have so many Beautiful Colors. It's a Great Idea and Looks Beautiful also. Peace from WV
Thanks to my uncle and aunt, our colors are extremely diverse.
My Grandfather had bulbs planted along the fence line of the track leading up to the house. I think he just liked them.
About a dozen irises would disapear from my front yard every year on the night before mother's day. Happy to help
I really think this is a sweet thing to do
Well. I’ve got irises spreading on my property, and I’ve been digging up as many as I can lol… they spread like crazy in my experience
How beautiful, Greg! I just took some pictures of my lovely purple irises this morning... they just opened up here in southern Minnesota:-)
I am glad you shared this! I love it! I was going to suggest the day lilies - as they will naturalize quite nicely. It used to be that pastures would be lined with edible shrubs and such but that seems to have gone by the way side. I get that it interferes with fences, but some of that is just planning too. Good on ya for doing this! Beautiful
Greg...Bring in the pollinators add more diversity to your land.
So the way to your heart is through your Snooter ?? Great job Jan judy
LOL I LOVE how RADICAL you are Greg! How DARE you go the extra mile! People don't attack because they're jealous they are just UNCOMFORTABLE with DIFFERENT. Thank you as always for all the inspiration.
Beautiful. You guys have a blessed day🙂
looks very nice Greg
Best video yet!
Some of the most successful thoroughbred horse racing stables are the ones that are the most attractive. It is not simply about the mechanics, breeding, training, and successful racing of the extraordinarily expensive horses themselves; but making the entire operation, from the fences, to the stables, to the manure piles as attractive as it is possible to do so for a visiting owner who has millions of dollars invested in a single horse. Especially, since most thoroughbred racehorses are owned by men, and an attractive operation is going to esthetically please their wives, daughters, mothers, and girlfriends, who in turn, will potentially influence those wealthy men to continue spending money at your stables.
That’s just good business for the racing stables. Grazing farms can be the same way!
Greg, that's the exact point that I was alluding to. The small amount of time, effort, and expense that you and Jan put forth to plant the irises along the fence lines of the roadside frontages on your farm's, both leased and owned, is insignificant in comparison to the goodwill that those plantings can potentially generate once the owner's of the leased farms view those perennial flowers for the first time. A few iris bulbs planted alongside some leased fence lines might mean the difference between Green Pastures Farm being offered *"The Right of First Refusal"* if the leased property is ever placed on the open market for sale in the future, *OR NOT!*
like when you talk about the evils of row crop farmers,,,, love the flowers!
There are good row crop farmers out there, some also that do not care about the land. Same is true for livestock farmers, good ones and bad ones.
we plant drifts of daffodils (and drifts mean that many)
Beautiful!
i always found that iris germanica improves any type of land, especially poor and dry land; we planted several varieties here in West Texas
♥ Love your way of thinking.
What an inspiration!
Just gorgeous
Keep it up , most people are nuts & lazy
You mite like suzanna cromptons channel . Zerable sheep 🐏🐑 in Irealand .her pastures are full of diversity . Today her brown black sheep are in tall greengrass with cow parsley has huge white 🌺🌹, flowers and the sheep eat all theise plants , flowers snd grases .the grass was as tall lambs mothers .
Love your doing this .they are beautiful .need more 🌺 🌹 🌹🌺🌷🌼🌼💮🥀🌼🥀💮🌹🌺🏵️
I don't laugh at you but enjoy laughing with you 😂
😆😅🤣why not? blessings to all
I just wonder if berry bushes would work too!
GOOD DAY FOLKS…
I you have the wife of the couple on your side you would win.
Greg makes the farm look nice. Bale rings with a ten yard mud pit around it might cause the wife of the landlord to start complaining. He keeps the place nice and keeps his leases. Greg is smarter than the guys that makes a place a mess.
Thanks for the video! Those flowers look beautiful. I might have to do that along our fences that we drive by. My biggest concern is people love to mow the roadsides way too much though. We do have irises on our property by our house. I might as well dig some up. Is there a good time to plant them (spring, summer, fall, and winter)?
Iris are pretty bullet proof.
If they are growing give a good shovel scoop to get the roots. And just move 'em on over. Dont bury under the dirt though, they like their rhisome (main root) to get some sun.
Friends of mine are president NC Iris society and judges.
I get they know my Uncle Dan and Audrey Judy. They were national judges at one time in both the iris and lily associations
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Greg, what is name of company boots you wear. Tired of my feet being wet. :) Need to order pair.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher will ask if friends know your uncle and aunt thru Iris society.
Dan, His boots are the Hisea brand. I think you write "Greg" as the code to get a 15% discount.
@@GraybillGrassRanch thanks
Deer love to eat daylillies
I know🙁
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The fella maybe was freaked out because you can't spray herbicide on your fence rows now. You have to work a bit harder now to keep the weeds and trees off your fences.
Nay, just use a big fence charger and forget about fence shorts.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher good point!
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I've noticed so many unkind comments throughout youtube. So much criticism and judgement out there right now. It is very disturbing. I think you and your practices are wonderful
You are correct. I blocked two hateful folks this morning that seem to enjoy attacking. Their loss, idiots just lost access to free tips and profitable advice that allow farms to prosper. I’m not putting up with hateful comments anymore. They can go fish somewhere else.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher good idea. Don’t believe a word of it
Hey Greg what would you consider a good average of head of beef per acreage of land. Thanks
How do you weed eat under the perimeter fences along the road with flowers planted there?
Do you trim your fence line with a weed wacker? Dont the flowers make that more of a pain?
I dont know why I'm asking, my wife saw this video already so we'll be planting flowers soon, ha
There is flowers touching the fence wire. Don’t worry about it, use a large SPEEDRITE charger and sleep well.
Iris is the plant of hope. The word Iris comes from the Greek word for rainbow in ancient times the god Iris was thought to be the messenger of the gods she would travel from earth to heaven along a rainbow. Wherever she was on earth flowers would grow. The ancient Greeks planted Iris on graves as they thought it would help guide them on their journey to heaven.
That is some great history right there. Thanks for sharing with us. I never knew that about the Iris flower. It is by far, my favorite flower.
Iris multiply like sheep and cattle. 😂😂😂
You got that right!
"What in earth are you doing?"
"Planting flowers."
"On your farm? Among the fence line?"
Should have said "Nope, not my farm. It's a lease."
Leave 'em wondering. 😁
Oh that good!! Will have to remember that line, love it. They will definitely be scratching their head when they drive off.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher or when asked what you are doing, you could reply, "Starting conversations."
It is interesting how so many people spend THEIR time trying to tell you what to do with yours. The flowery fence line is a nice diversion.👍👍
No the land needs plant diversity.even in grass .
Beautiful!