Good luck with the cotton, Robert. I'll be interested to see how it grows. I had no idea there were different colors of cotton. I learned something today!
I think it's wonderful that you are bringing back plants & flowers that would have grown on your farm generations ago. I know ppl are anxious to see the house done. Me too. But you have it stable & it will keep. The land needs constant maintenance so it doesn't get away again. You seem like a truly good human being Robert. It would make my day to meet you in person. Grow on good sir.
Wonderful video Mr. Robert. I can remember years ago taking nephews to NC and how enthralled the were about the many rows of cotton we drove past. We stopped and asked if they could each pick a boll. He gave each of them a branch. The Michigan boys were so amazed and listened intently at his tale of cotton. One still has his many years later. I'm sure he'll be amazed to know all the co.ors cotton actually comes in. Thanks for the lessons of times long gone.
Robert, You narrate very well. You take some of the simplest things and make them pretty interesting. That's a gift. My friend you got it. Your videos are very relaxing, And pretty cool, God bless
Aloha 🌺 Robert! Being someone with severe allergies, I was raised on cotton pillowcases & sheets. I still use them. Cotton has always been important in my life. Glad to learn more about it! Thank you so much!🥰🌺
Maybe the brown cotton was not desired by manufacturers. Maybe they could only grow for personal use. It makes you wonder. You are right, the rule was not in favor for the slaves.
Robert, I saw you on TV Sunday night on the Paranormal show!!! I had just received the 2 Old Byrd Farm t-shirts on Saturday that I ordered then there you were on my TV Sunday night. I was so thrilled to see your episode with Dan shown. I just couldn't get over it, so neat!!!
I cant wait to drive buy and see it in bloom. I saw a someone use a 4 foot pvc pipe to put seeds in the ground. They put the pipe and inch into the soil and dropped the seed in the pipe and lifted up the pipe and smooth the dirt over it with their foot. Never had to get on the ground.
That wisteria looks creepy on the ground there. Invasive to the core.😳 It'll be be super interesting - and educational😉 - watching the cotton grow. Can't wait! So you've got cotton, tobacco, peaches (plus more)...sounds like Georgia to me.😊 You're an educator, historian, farmer, mechanic, and all around nice guy. And you wear all of those hats very well.🙂 Thanks for sharing your feats with us. It's always fun to add you to our day. I'm already praying that any boll weevils make a hard pass around the Old Byrd Farm.🙏🏼 Nothing to see here, you little buggers!😊
My Aunt grew cotton on her farm in California. As kids we would play around the cotton fields and pick some for fun. They are hard on your hands. I could never imagine how hard it must have been to pick acres of cotton by hand.
This is definitely educational. I knew there was white and brown cotton. But I never knew that there were other colors that occurred naturally. I can’t wait to see it start to come up! You are doing such an amazing job Robert!! 😊
Before you know it you'll be dancing the Cotton Eyed Joe. Can't wait to see it. Up in northeast Georgia I see Cotton growing off a main highway each summer.
Hi Robert! I enjoyed the video very much! I had no idea cotton grew in any other color but white!😲 I'm betting a lot of others had no idea either! Thank you for sharing! Can't wait to see it grow and thrive. 👍😊
😊Farming is hard work. It can also be diverse as you want it to be. Veggies and chickens of course provide food,along with fruits and berries. Cotton is something I have no experience with it will be interesting to see your crop progress. I wish you success.💞We are being told rough weather headed here tonight into Thursday with tornadoes,and hail. Remember us in your prayers. Praying for everyone west of here out in Oklahoma and Missouri ,whole towns just destroyed. 🌪️🌪️🌪️ It's sad. Be safe everyone.Love from KY 💕💕
Farming IS hard work! Will remember all of you in Tornado Alley in my prayers. My husband and I were caught driving in the edge of one (or a near one. We never heard if it was actually declared to be one) in NW Kansas this past Oct. That was terrifying enough (we're from Washington state). God be with you!
Hello Robert I know I haven’t made many comments lately. The property is looking wonderful but tonight was funny I was watching. The paranormal channel and I saw you crawling under a building, and there was another gentleman with you both of you heard footsteps in that 2:25 old building andboth of you crawling out from under that building like there was someone inside. It was just really interesting that I recognized your face immediately.❤❤❤❤❤
The June Columbus, Georgia heat that I experienced, going from an air conditioned hotel to outside, the heat hit you in the face like a wall! I'm from Washington state and totally not use to that hot humid heat!
Excited to see the cotton growing process. That bucket on your tractor sure is handy. So jelly. Love your hat. Where can I find one like it? Great video as always!
I’m a wishing n a hoping that those Cotten seeds germinate. Itll be so exciting to watch them grow n produce Cotten. Say our prayers NO BULL WEEVILS!!! ♥️♥️😊👍👍🌟🐾🐾🐾🐾 PS. Send some rain to Florida.
I have a couple of cotton pillow cases that I must have bought 30 years ago. What made the special is that the material was naturally a light, variegated tan. The cases have lighted after years of washing and still going strong.
I saw a cotton field near Yuma once on vacation a LONG time ago, was able to pick just a bit(!) for the sensation of it! Looking forward to YOUR field! (Trivia: Places in the Heart is a favorite movie of mine.)
Hey Robert, I used to haul cotton seed from the gins in Alabama and Georgia, up to dairy farms and coops in Wisconsin and Michigan.They mix them in with the feed mix and the milk cows love them,helps them give more milk.Of all the hundreds of thousands of pounds I hauled I never knew that there are different colors of cotton,We have always heard that old expression {white as cotton}.
The history on cotton planting was interesting and to hear there were or are different colors of it, was also very interesting as well, will be nice when it start growing. Was wondering when you would finish the wood fencing around the front of the property??. God bless you Robert.
Robert I’m glad that you are on RUclips tonight I had something that I wanted to tell you about and it’s the Hatfield and MvCoy cemetery in Kentucky and the only ones I saw on the video were the McCoys and it was really interesting and if I can remember to write the name of the channel I’ll try to let you know but I thought about you when I was watching it
Robert , I have been telling you forever that the wisteria doesn't grow in Missouri the way it does in Georgia. My neighbor has been trying for years to get hers to grow. And to buy it it is VERY expensive! If you would just pot up some starts and come up here and sell it you would have enough cash to finish the Byrd farm and clear the land and build a museum for all your old cars! Thanks hope to see you up here selling plants! Debbie C.
I am having the same problem with trumpet vine on a smaller scale. It is sending runners all over under the sidewalk and into my yard and growing up my brick house. Trying to contain it.
Just a little warning,,,squirrels will chew up the young cotton bolls just before they start to ripen and open- they love to eat the tender seeds in the bolls.
Wow, could not grow white cotton? Never knew there were different colors..Reminds me of stories that my mom told me about her chopping and picking cotton..and one time while visiting my gpa he took me to the cotton field with that big ole bag that cotton was put into once you picked/pulled off. Picking cotton was horrible work and it sure cut your hands. Now I know why farmers back in the day had slaves, they did not want to do that work. I am looking forward to seeing your cotton grow.
Like tons of other people said on here I wasn't aware of the different colors that cotton comes in. I wonder if a person could avoid using dye in cotton thread and fabric if they just used the natural colors cotton comes in. I also wonder if maybe the different colors may be of a different quality, ie. not as good or durable as your regular old white cotton and maybe that's why you don't see the different colors today.
Friend, buy a wood chipper 🤨 and stop burning. I like watching your bonfires, but just think about it. Unless you get your wood chips for free. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ PS I didn't know that cotton grew in different colors 😯 learn something new every day 😊
The dichotomy of my youtube life amuses me to no end. I'll leave you here on the farm, fighting the wisteria weed tooth and nail to the death, and head over to a channel about a manor house in Dorset England where they cultivate 200 year old prize winning wisteria vines as big around as Robert himself 🩷
Robert I went ahead and looked for the name of the channel that I was watching today and it was so interesting to watch anyway the name of the channel was “ The Hillbilly Files” Robert the video showed a cabin that was over 200 years old and it had the logs cut to where they locked in each log on the corners of the house and the name of the cemetery was “The McCoy Family Cemetery “ Robert I hope that you check it out and John and Margaret McCoy are buried in the cemetery and John Buttermilk McCoy was buried there and his wife was buried in the grave with him because she didn’t want them buried separately so they buried them together and the man telling about the cemetery was John Buttermilk McCoy was his grandfather
Robert there is organic weed killers. Why don’t you spray that ditch. Iit takes longer for it to work but it will Get rid of all those weeds and you won’t have to mow. If you want to Hold the ditch. Plant a ground cover like clover
Believe it or not, I actually did last year during the early days of the garden. Had to use organic of course to maintain my organic status as a farm. The wisteria said, “what’s that? lol”
I’m too far north to grow cotton successfully but we did have tobacco farms in the 1800s. I’m guessing the tomato worm done it in. We are pretty far north for tobacco too.
If it has been raining 2 days straight, my question is what vehicle is stuck in the mud? Would the driver have been Dan or Cecil? No I just think they support a crazy driver who likes mudsliding in a truck! Want to know if The Fishing Chicken is going to have a special steak sandwich on May 19th in honor of The Other Robert's birthday?
Be careful with wood chips. When we lived in Florida, I tried mulching with wood chips, and when I pulled the chips back to plant, I found termites galore.
Tennessee here, i remember when the government stopped us growing Tabaco. we had fields as far as you could see every year. The cotton farmers went out about the same way.. Government over reach and bull crap!
I never knew cotton actually grew in different colors, always learning. Excited to see all the crops from the garden grow and produce!
I had no idea there had been so many colors of cotton! I knew about the white, cream, and brown! I learn new things from you, Robert. 😊
Good luck with the cotton, Robert. I'll be interested to see how it grows. I had no idea there were different colors of cotton. I learned something today!
I think it's wonderful that you are bringing back plants & flowers that would have grown on your farm generations ago. I know ppl are anxious to see the house done. Me too. But you have it stable & it will keep. The land needs constant maintenance so it doesn't get away again. You seem like a truly good human being Robert. It would make my day to meet you in person. Grow on good sir.
Awesome!! Pre-Civil War heirloom cotton seeds planted! Glad the good info was included. I so hope it does well. Excited to see it grow. 👏 ❣️❣️👍👍
Wonderful video Mr. Robert. I can remember years ago taking nephews to NC and how enthralled the were about the many rows of cotton we drove past. We stopped and asked if they could each pick a boll. He gave each of them a branch. The Michigan boys were so amazed and listened intently at his tale of cotton. One still has his many years later. I'm sure he'll be amazed to know all the co.ors cotton actually comes in. Thanks for the lessons of times long gone.
Robert, You narrate very well. You take some of the simplest things and make them pretty interesting. That's a gift. My friend you got it. Your videos are very relaxing, And pretty cool, God bless
Aloha 🌺 Robert! Being someone with severe allergies, I was raised on cotton pillowcases & sheets. I still use them. Cotton has always been important in my life. Glad to learn more about it! Thank you so much!🥰🌺
Brown folks couldn’t grow white cotton??? Racism runs deep. Robert so glad you are planting cotton and educating us all!
Maybe the brown cotton was not desired by manufacturers. Maybe they could only grow for personal use. It makes you wonder. You are right, the rule was not in favor for the slaves.
I used to sell organic natural color yarn and the pale sage green was my favorite color.
Robert, I saw you on TV Sunday night on the Paranormal show!!! I had just received the 2 Old Byrd Farm t-shirts on Saturday that I ordered then there you were on my TV Sunday night. I was so thrilled to see your episode with Dan shown. I just couldn't get over it, so neat!!!
Good Luck with the cotton, Robert. Prayers it does well. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
My grandparents picked Cotton. This will be great to see. Their stories are not so fun but I love learning about what they did
oh I never heard about the colored cotton! red blue brown neat!
As always robert we so love all you do take care ❤🐈😻💯
I cant wait to drive buy and see it in bloom. I saw a someone use a 4 foot pvc pipe to put seeds in the ground. They put the pipe and inch into the soil and dropped the seed in the pipe and lifted up the pipe and smooth the dirt over it with their foot. Never had to get on the ground.
Great idea for us oldsters! I'll have to tell my husband.
Can hardly wait to see the cotton seeds grow…learning experience for anyone about cotton…
Same!😊
That wisteria looks creepy on the ground there. Invasive to the core.😳
It'll be be super interesting - and educational😉 - watching the cotton grow. Can't wait!
So you've got cotton, tobacco, peaches (plus more)...sounds like Georgia to me.😊
You're an educator, historian, farmer, mechanic, and all around nice guy. And you wear all of those hats very well.🙂
Thanks for sharing your feats with us. It's always fun to add you to our day. I'm already praying that any boll weevils make a hard pass around the Old Byrd Farm.🙏🏼 Nothing to see here, you little buggers!😊
So true
My Aunt grew cotton on her farm in California. As kids we would play around the cotton fields and pick some for fun. They are hard on your hands. I could never imagine how hard it must have been to pick acres of cotton by hand.
much luck with the heirloom cotton plants! hope it all works out well!
This is definitely educational. I knew there was white and brown cotton. But I never knew that there were other colors that occurred naturally. I can’t wait to see it start to come up! You are doing such an amazing job Robert!! 😊
When I was little we drove through Texas and seen cotton growing very interesting to see
Can’t wait to see the cotton growing 😀
Before you know it you'll be dancing the Cotton Eyed Joe. Can't wait to see it. Up in northeast Georgia I see Cotton growing off a main highway each summer.
I am so excited to see it grow. May it be boll weevil free. Thanks Robert.
This cotton is exciting...can't wait to see it grow...how about the garden and flower beds...and the peach trees? How they doing?
Nice shirt, Robert.
Cool, can’t wait to see it😊
Hi Robert! I enjoyed the video very much! I had no idea cotton grew in any other color but white!😲 I'm betting a lot of others had no idea either! Thank you for sharing! Can't wait to see it grow and thrive. 👍😊
Thank you Robert for teaching us about cotton ! Who knew ? Learning a lot from you !
Caint wait to see the growth. Love all the videos Bud, keep up the great work. 💪
😊Farming is hard work. It can also be diverse as you want it to be. Veggies and chickens of course provide food,along with fruits and berries. Cotton is something I have no experience with it will be interesting to see your crop progress. I wish you success.💞We are being told rough weather headed here tonight into Thursday with tornadoes,and hail. Remember us in your prayers. Praying for everyone west of here out in Oklahoma and Missouri ,whole towns just destroyed. 🌪️🌪️🌪️ It's sad. Be safe everyone.Love from KY 💕💕
Farming IS hard work!
Will remember all of you in Tornado Alley in my prayers. My husband and I were caught driving in the edge of one (or a near one. We never heard if it was actually declared to be one) in NW Kansas this past Oct. That was terrifying enough (we're from Washington state). God be with you!
Hello Robert I know I haven’t made many comments lately. The property is looking wonderful but tonight was funny I was watching. The paranormal channel and I saw you crawling under a building, and there was another gentleman with you both of you heard footsteps in that 2:25 old building andboth of you crawling out from under that building like there was someone inside. It was just really interesting that I recognized your face immediately.❤❤❤❤❤
You indeed had a thorough work day, accomplishing much in the GA heat (and it's not even summer yet!)
The June Columbus, Georgia heat that I experienced, going from an air conditioned hotel to outside, the heat hit you in the face like a wall! I'm from Washington state and totally not use to that hot humid heat!
Very cool! Hope it does well. I tried picking cotton and when I was a kid and it was a lot of painful work.
That's what I've heard. Apparently it takes a certain skill to be able to pick it and not get poked!
Very exciting
Love your videos and enjoy watching them Robert and working on the homestead
Boy! Your place is looking good!!!
Excited to see the cotton growing process. That bucket on your tractor sure is handy. So jelly. Love your hat. Where can I find one like it? Great video as always!
I’m a wishing n a hoping that those Cotten seeds germinate.
Itll be so exciting to watch them grow n produce Cotten. Say our prayers NO BULL WEEVILS!!!
♥️♥️😊👍👍🌟🐾🐾🐾🐾
PS. Send some rain to Florida.
I love learning new things. Thank you for showing us. Kate from OZ
I was here this day when the 2nd boll weevil apocalypse was set in motion. Absolutely breath taking.
Oh, dear, let's hope not! 😮
I use to be a cotton scout Screven Co. Looking forward to seeing the plants growing
I look forward to learn more about cotton!
Always nice to see those nasty wisteria roots being ripped out! Hope the cotton does well for you. Can’t wait to see it grow!!
Nice 👍
Thanks Robert fun to see you plant the cotton
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Mowing is a constant in springtime…even in California.
I have a couple of cotton pillow cases that I must have bought 30 years ago. What made the special is that the material was naturally a light, variegated tan. The cases have lighted after years of washing and still going strong.
What a historical moment! Thanks for sharing this with us all .I can't wait till it blossoms.
I saw a cotton field near Yuma once on vacation a LONG time ago, was able to pick just a bit(!) for the sensation of it! Looking forward to YOUR field! (Trivia: Places in the Heart is a favorite movie of mine.)
I loved Places in the Heart, too!
Planting is fun!
Poor Robert he has wisteria nightmares! 😉😂👍🏼🙌🏻👋🏼😁💞
I had no idea cotton naturally came in colors. Looking forward to a tutorial on the Boll Weevil. Thanks Robert!
Oh how exciting to see..growing Cotton ..
We don't have that here in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Those were some weird looking seeds, can't wait to see how it goes.
That is what a cotton seed looks like.
I agree! Never seen them before. Already being educated!
Thank you for sharing with us take care 🙂
This is interesting Robert. Can't wait to see what it does. I picked cotton when I was young. Also picked some later years . ❤😊
Nankeen.
Now there's a word I haven't heard in a while
Usually in britches.
The regency chino
Hey Robert, I used to haul cotton seed from the gins in Alabama and Georgia, up to dairy farms and coops in Wisconsin and Michigan.They mix them in with the feed mix and the milk cows love them,helps them give more milk.Of all the hundreds of thousands of pounds I hauled I never knew that there are different colors of cotton,We have always heard that old expression {white as cotton}.
The history on cotton planting was interesting and to hear there were or are different colors of it, was also very interesting as well, will be nice when it start growing. Was wondering when you would finish the wood fencing around the front of the property??. God bless you Robert.
Robert I’m glad that you are on RUclips tonight I had something that I wanted to tell you about and it’s the Hatfield and MvCoy cemetery in Kentucky and the only ones I saw on the video were the McCoys and it was really interesting and if I can remember to write the name of the channel I’ll try to let you know but I thought about you when I was watching it
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0:53 Need a Rumbamower?
Robert , I have been telling you forever that the wisteria doesn't grow in Missouri the way it does in Georgia. My neighbor has been trying for years to get hers to grow. And to buy it it is VERY expensive! If you would just pot up some starts and come up here and sell it you would have enough cash to finish the Byrd farm and clear the land and build a museum for all your old cars! Thanks hope to see you up here selling plants! Debbie C.
Praying for no Weevils. Keep them varmints out. I never knew about different colored cotton.
I am having the same problem with trumpet vine on a smaller scale. It is sending runners all over under the sidewalk and into my yard and growing up my brick house. Trying to contain it.
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Just a little warning,,,squirrels will chew up the young cotton bolls just before they start to ripen and open- they love to eat the tender seeds in the bolls.
Wisteria is beautiful, not on my property. 😆
It is so awesome that you’re planting cotton. What Bonnet will be to watch your cotton grow.
Wow that what cotton seeds look like. Still fright that dam plant , what it been two years?
Wow, could not grow white cotton? Never knew there were different colors..Reminds me of stories that my mom told me about her chopping and picking cotton..and one time while visiting my gpa he took me to the cotton field with that big ole bag that cotton was put into once you picked/pulled off. Picking cotton was horrible work and it sure cut your hands. Now I know why farmers back in the day had slaves, they did not want to do that work. I am looking forward to seeing your cotton grow.
Like tons of other people said on here I wasn't aware of the different colors that cotton comes in. I wonder if a person could avoid using dye in cotton thread and fabric if they just used the natural colors cotton comes in. I also wonder if maybe the different colors may be of a different quality, ie. not as good or durable as your regular old white cotton and maybe that's why you don't see the different colors today.
Cotton really depletes the soil of nutrients, so make sure you put those nutrients back into the soil before you plant anything else there.
Are you planning to do anything to the ditch out front to make it easier to maintain?
Looking good ,who is the music by who you play on your videos please
Friend, buy a wood chipper 🤨 and stop burning. I like watching your bonfires, but just think about it. Unless you get your wood chips for free. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ PS I didn't know that cotton grew in different colors 😯 learn something new every day 😊
The dichotomy of my youtube life amuses me to no end. I'll leave you here on the farm, fighting the wisteria weed tooth and nail to the death, and head over to a channel about a manor house in Dorset England where they cultivate 200 year old prize winning wisteria vines as big around as Robert himself 🩷
I have wisteria in my yard. It's taking over. I'm beginning to think about trying to rid myself of it.
Robert I went ahead and looked for the name of the channel that I was watching today and it was so interesting to watch anyway the name of the channel was “ The Hillbilly Files” Robert the video showed a cabin that was over 200 years old and it had the logs cut to where they locked in each log on the corners of the house and the name of the cemetery was “The McCoy Family Cemetery “ Robert I hope that you check it out and John and Margaret McCoy are buried in the cemetery and John Buttermilk McCoy was buried there and his wife was buried in the grave with him because she didn’t want them buried separately so they buried them together and the man telling about the cemetery was John Buttermilk McCoy was his grandfather
I am excited about your project. Do you know someone who knows how to make thread on a spinning wheel?
Robert there is organic weed killers. Why don’t you spray that ditch. Iit takes longer for it to work but it will
Get rid of all those weeds and you won’t have to mow. If you want to
Hold the ditch. Plant a ground cover like clover
Believe it or not, I actually did last year during the early days of the garden. Had to use organic of course to maintain my organic status as a farm. The wisteria said, “what’s that? lol”
I’m too far north to grow cotton successfully but we did have tobacco farms in the 1800s. I’m guessing the tomato worm done it in. We are pretty far north for tobacco too.
That reminds me someone sent me a bag of cotton boles to spin up into yarn, wonder where I put that?
Haha! You sound like me!
Your plough goes deep ?
I was wondering wouldgoats eat the wisteria
They grow it here in Southern Alabama. I wonder if they need permits?
Nice xx😊 how hot is it ?
It would be great if you had a wood chipper because you cut down a lot of trees and that way you could produce your own wood chips
Why does one need a permit to grow cotton?
Boll weevil infestation
If it has been raining 2 days straight, my question is what vehicle is stuck in the mud? Would the driver have been Dan or Cecil? No I just think they support a crazy driver who likes mudsliding in a truck!
Want to know if The Fishing Chicken is going to have a special steak sandwich on May 19th in honor of The Other Robert's birthday?
Be careful with wood chips. When we lived in Florida, I tried mulching with wood chips, and when I pulled the chips back to plant, I found termites galore.
I am thinking that what you need is a wood chipper machine.
You don't need to have a green thumb to grow Wisteria. I learned the hard way it is easy to grow and hard to get rid of😱
Tennessee here, i remember when the government stopped us growing Tabaco. we had fields as far as you could see every year. The cotton farmers went out about the same way.. Government over reach and bull crap!
But why Bert
Look for Corn gluten for weed seed suppression
🤔, interesting. I have seen some brown cotton field's in N.C but, primarily white. Whole lot of soy & tobacco.
I uses