The Neon Chicken... either a rock band or a trendy restaurant. You could develop a cover crop specifically designed for chicken grazing/fertilizing and call it Neon Chicken Blend. Develop a whole line of cover crops for interplanting and call your company the Neon Chicken. Make some neon green merc with black chickens. Better buy that domain name, quick. Your ideas about interplanting cover crops with single harvest crops make so much sense.
A green chicken means hardship and change. Not neccessarily bad tho. Change is hard sometimes. The black chicken is good fortune. The fact that both birds were alive is also good fortune.
Hahaha!! 😂 The neon green chicken! I love that you shared your dream about the chicken. Maybe it was green because it is eating so much vegetation. Maybe Stella likes the chicken because it was so full of good veggies! ❤️
Here's my take on your dream. Stella personifies "Lazy Dog Farm". The way you have always done things has come to an end as embodied by a black chicken. A new way symbolized by a spectacular, never before seen, neon green chicken has now appeared. This new way is being integrated into the farm and is shown by being swallowed by the Lazy Dog. It's a very positive dream!
Stop putting hot sauce on your ice cream before bed Travis - LOL I have some weird dreams myself and have decided that either I'm mentally disturbed, or they don't mean anything except that I have an active imagination. Your gardens look amazing!! Really enjoy the videos. Blessings always, g.
Not in a millions years would I have guessed that a LDF video would include a story about a neon green chicken being eaten by your dog!! Now that made me laugh. I used to work with someone that interpreted dreams and I told her a few of my strange ones, and her interpretations creeped me out. I decided to quit telling her about my dreams. So back to the gardening stuff - have you ever thought of or tried the 3 sisters planting combo of corn, beans and squash? I know it’s not the right time, but it’s similar to what you are doing with the intercropping cover crop. I think the intercropping is a fascinating technique, it makes a lot of sense and has a lot of benefits. Plots are looking good and can’t wait to see what they look like in a couple of weeks. Fall is definitely here!!
@@LazyDogFarm Yep it definitely takes some planning. You plant the corn first and once it gets 4-6 inches tall, you plant the beans. Then you plant the squash last. Most of the guidance I've seen on planting uses individual mounds where there are four corn seeds, four bean seeds and two squash seeds per mound. There are other patterns when you have large plots like you have. it might be cool to take your smallest plot and carve out say a 20 x 20 area to try it. Would be interesting to see your results.
Travis, I think you need to stop working so hard and relax. Get up and daybreak with your coffee and enjoy the beautiful gifts that God has blessed you with. 👍🇱🇷🐓
Two things- if I saw a neon green chicken, I would figure someone out here messed up the fracking!!! Cold weather and the north- put your dang coat on! They can’t deal with our 100+ temps with 90% humidity. I learned the hard way, 60 degrees in the south is more like 40 degrees in the north- humidity! One final thing, I am going to try some cover crop in my raised beds. I blame you for that crazy experiment. LOL
I was wondering why you are no longer on Row By Row? Missed you! I just have found you here! Glad to see you! Really like the knowledge and advice you give on gardening..Thanks!
Neon 🐔🐓🐣 chicken. Our brains sorts data while we sleep. Sometimes there is misc data that has no place to go. I am thinking neon is a color options for a T-shirt with a black chicken guarded by the dog. Sweet Dreams, Travis.
Gardens look great Trav! I’m not a psychologist but I think dog symbolizes loyalty and I think the color green in dreams symbolize harmony with nature and peace… sooo maybe something that has been a burden or a weight to you symbolized the black chicken, harmony and peacefulness ( green chicken) was restored by a loyal friend/significant person (Stella) ? Heck I don’t know lol however I’m hilling up my giant marigolds now thanks to you! Mine are wobbly and I wasn’t sure of what to do!
I would love to hear what y'all think of the flavor. My "GO TO" stir fry sauce is: 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce, salt/pepper/garlic powder to taste.
Psychology.... that's my field of expertise.. but I'll have to get back to you on the dream there's a yellow flamingo in the kitchen demanding to be fed.
Just watched this on Saturday morning after finishing a cool hour harvesting pre-refrigerated veggies from my no-till beds here in zone 7b. I brought in a couple of dozen tomatoes in from better boy, Kellogg’s breakfast, green zebra and Bella Rosa, all that started bearing in early July and still going strong. These will get planted again next year, for sure! But the thing that intrigued me about your video today is how it paralleled one of my more successful experiments this year! On May 16, I planted 8 rows of serendipity sweet corn, and interplanted along the same rows a pretty thick overseeding of zinnias and cosmos for cut flowers. Then, on May 27, I came back in and planted between the rows a 3 to 1 mix of moon and stars seedless watermelons and Charleston gray pollen-donors. the corn did its thing very well and stocked the freezer for the winter, and the zinnias started pretty soon along with the ears of corn. Then the cosmos came along later in July and have been great as well. But I have truly been amazed at the watermelons...I culled all but a few of the fruits from the Charleston gray to keep bloom frequency high, and harvested our first moon and stars on August 10. Not remarkable at all, until you know I harvested my biggest one yet this morning (oct 30) and have 3 more with browning tendrils that should beat the frost expected next weekend! While this is a pretty distant cousin from the “three sisters” of lore, I am loving that a finicky seedless melon will bear for almost 3 months under a heavy planting of corn and cut flowers! This again is a no till garden that I gave zero fertilizer to, just the annual fall compost spreading...I will certainly repeat this experiment again in 2022, lord willing!
At this time of year I envy you your warm weather. Our fall garden is producing but it won't be for much longer. Don't know why but my peas are not performing this fall. It did have a warm start so took awhile to get going but it has just real!y started to produce. Frost this week, shouldn't be a hard freeze but we are always a few degrees lower than the forecast. Rant over. Come July I will be very happy to be gardening up here in New York.
Pak Choi is the English(UK) name; in the US it is typically called Bok Choy (at least on the west coast). My son makes a couple great meals using it. One is a ginger/garlic soup that has noodles in a veg broth with I don't know what else he puts in it; the other is a thickened garlic sauce that he quickly heats/wilts the greens in a pan until tender.
Can you share the soup recipie please. I have both home grown garlic and ginger, I'm looking for recipies to try, my ginger did well this year. Thankyou. Blessings.
Good morning, we all get funny and crazy dreams at time, hope someone can help. Thanks for the tour of the garden. The intercropping of the potatoes and cover crop seems to be working well and especially with the drying corn seem to be well. If the cover crop NPK wise can help the crop you could mow with a side shoot towards the crop and as it sits on the floor as it’s breaking down. Just a thought, but will cover base of potato plants.
I like pelleted seeds with Actinovate Ag it's a great Biological fungicide but most times I water with it. The only thing I can think of that can be swallowed and neon green is antifreeze. Your dream does reminds me of how life is though. You stop one thing from happening and then you turn around and something worse is happening that you can't stop.
Come on Travis, we know you're not cold hardy down there in South Georgia. :) The cover crops and the Gem corn are really looking good. I'm putting the 2nd layer of plastic on the hinged double hoop house tomorrow since we will be below freezing at night in the week to come.
@@LazyDogFarm we are actually late for the cold weather since it's been unusuallywarm. Most of the trees still have leaves when they should have dropped a month ago..... Not that I'm complaining.
Cover crop , peas clover vetch brought in a lot of amazing biology to my soil. A lot of organic matter. The only thing was with the life came the pests. Wow it was a slug city in there. I grew some up into existing crops that where quite tall already and they did fine. Btw I’m pretty small scale
We are fortunate that we don't have many slug issues around here. As far as the cover crops go, we usually don't have hardly any pest pressure on them.
For things that are single harvest, cabbage, potatoes, etc. I like to plant my rows close together so the desired vegetable foliage covers the ground- may 18 or so row spacing. But I think this cover crop interplanting is a neat idea.
Alot of thinking about green cover crops and integrating the chickens lately, and this year. Might be a sub-conscience reflection of that. If your dog is anything like my dogs, they have to be reminded every time something changes in the garden to leave S#!# alone!, otherwise it's a toy lol. Interplanting food with cover is a great method, I do it alot. This year I planted peppers into sorgham sudan and just kept the grass mowed down...worked pretty good, even though it got trampled a little when picking and I was gone for a month in July, I didn't have to weed.
I live in Ohio - there is no shame in wearing long sleeves in 55-degree weather! I'll be interested in watching your Brussels sprouts; in the spring, I planted 2 plants of what was labeled broccoli that turned out to be Brussels sprouts and they were not what I'd call a success. The plants grew HUGE - possibly because I didn't realize until late in the game that I did not actually have broccoli. I joked all summer that it looked like Jurassic Park in my garden. My two plants seemed to multiply into three or four and grew to four feet tall with stalks that were probably about three inches in diameter. The sprouts formed, but it was so hot here in mid-October that most of them started opening up and trying to form more plants, which I did not need. I got one mess of sprouts to cook but they weren't very good and I finally pulled up the plants last week. Adventures in gardening!
Wow sorry, you are having dream problems! While I haven't a clue about dreams, I will be very interested in hearing the final take on the meaning of the dream :) Great gardening information as always.
I'm in zone 7, TN and my peas are done already. I did great with Burpees first thirteen peas. Killed my back digging the sweet potatoes out of the heavy clay, but had great yield. For a year that started out cold and weird, everything ended up well. Using Hoss hairy vetch for cover crop this fall.
I'm loving the cool weather! You'll do anything for click bait Travis 🤣. Dog gone you just reminded me I needed to spray my plants and fully intended to but forgot. 🙄
Maybe your dream means you need some green birds like green peacock. Lots of them. Then you won't sleep (cause they are noisy)and you don't have to worry about dreaming.😂😂😂. Lol
Great video. I love how you incorporate flowers and vegetables. My marigolds always seem to be insect magnets. I dare not bring them inside. Great top on avoiding weeds with the cover crop. Thank you
Do you ever eat the greens or sprouts of your cover crops? Seems like if they're beans, mustards, and peas you should be able to eat them for salads and stir fry greens?
Justin Rhodes does this with the cover crop in with the main crop. I though his garden was just unkept lol, now I realize he was keeping the soil covered very nicely. Definitely looks like a win. I can't wait to have a real garden. Thanks for sharing always. I don't know about the dream. I have some kinda crazy dreams myself lol.
That dream sounds like a medley of a couple of worries you are working through. I think the main worry is obviously predators on your chickens and the second worry is up coming Halloween holiday represented by neon green chicken. Halloween will be over soon so it is a minor worry. Have you actually noticed any predators or signs of them? Sounds like past experience is amplified your worry about the chickens. Great video as usual!
do you ever have issues planting your collards on every emitter? was going to do the same but at every foot seems it would be tight when they're full grown so i just did every other. i might direct seed in between before they get to big and give it a shot.
Haven't ever had any issues with the 1' spacing. We do pick ours relatively small in the beginning though, when the leaves are a little bigger than the size of your hand.
Beautiful garden. I can’t plant a garden like that were I live but we have slugs all year long. They range in size 3-6 inches and we also have banana slugs that grow from around 6-10 inches long and they can destroy your garden. We have used slug killer but it rains here to much
Beautiful lettuce! And that clover oh my! That is gorgeous to look at it all day. I wish I had an answer or an idea on the neon chicken. But Stella and the black one does sound like a predator issue that you may not know you have right now. I did get that Caliente mustard from a different supplier, but they are just next door so that's good. Should be here any day now. I may need to get some of that Sakata broccoli. I have either broccoli or brussel sprouts that had struggled to survive but are looking better with these much cooler temps. That glass gem corn is starting to look better too. I see now what you meant by the bands on the carrots. I've got some HT envy carrots and some random carrot seeds from our feed store. Can't wait to see those come up. I'm hoping they do well enough to get atleast a good side dish or two. And maybe some to ferment when you do yours next year. I remember the ones you had on RxR. It was funny watching your dad try them. Maybe that neon green has something to do with all that beautiful 🍀. Hopefully it is a good dream. Thanks for sharing your concerns! But I hope you get clarification before it stresses you too much. Love and prayers from Louisiana!
That was my initial thoughts before experimenting with this technique. But it doesn't seem to be the case. The plants look nice and healthy and don't seem to be nutrient-deprived at all.
I know from experience that the Lord gives me very vivid dreams as way to give me a message as what is to come. I think it means that you need to go in a quiet place and ask for knowledge. I would also keep an eye on your chickens because of predators. The Lord will let you know what needs to be done. I will pray for you as well. God Bless you.
I think your dream is a concern over the chicken tractor not being predator-proof. I have seen electrified chicken netting used along with a chicken tractor for predator protection. The netting looks like it is pretty easy to move, so you would just adjust it as you move your chicken tractor. I hope this helps! ;)
With our previous chicken tractor, we used the electric netting to help them roam during the day. But we had some serious predator issues when they were free-roaming within the netting -- mainly hawks. I think the current chicken tractor is pretty secure, but I do worry about it a little.
@@LazyDogFarm Oh, okay. I was thinking about something digging under the tractor. The netting certainly would not stop aerial attacks. We have fishing line strung up over our chicken yard to stop that from happening. It's a constant battle with wildlife in this lifestyle, for sure. Keeps your brain a working!
I think you ate a bad burrito. On a serious note. Does fall sweet corn usually turn out smaller? The plant was shorter and the corn is tiny on some. I gave it lots of natural fertilizer and calcium nitrate and 2 applications of nitrogen liquid fertilizer. The variety is illusion white corn. Very tasty but small.
Brother Travis is there a cover crop that would take over a lawn good enough to wipe out burweed "stick"weed? that mess hurts bare feel and pets too. Begins to appear this time of year and by the end of winter crowns with a needle like spur that is unbearable. When hot summer heat arrives it peaks then disappears and comes back when fall weather arrives. Last resort herbicide recommendation? TY
We call them "stickers" around here. They appear in the spring and are usually dried and gone come mid-summer. I had a guy spray my lawn for them one time, but have no idea what they used. Haven't been able to find anyone to spray them the last few years, but they are certainly aggravating.
I've tried a bunch, but it seems like this variety did the best for us a few years ago: www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/brussels-sprouts/hestia-f1-brussels-sprout-seed-3271.html
Travis, I have root knot nematodes in my garden. I have planted a cover crop of Kodiak brown mustard. Are there any other plants that I can plant that will help control nematodes? I live in East Coast Florida. Sugar sand soil. I use horse manure to build up my soil. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. I enjoy watching your videos and have learned a lot.
@Shine Chessher you can go on line and get the benifical nematodes after you try the brown mustard trick. The benificals will eat the unwanted pesty root knot nematodes. I've done both, and have had great results. Blessings.
Hi lazy Dog Fam, i need a recommendation for a cover crop in coastal SC. I have a couples of acres that are all covered with weeds. I am hand picking them best I can. But it seems to a never ending job. I would like to do a series of cover crops to decrease the weed pressure and improve the soil. I do the work by hand without a tiller. So they need to be covercrops that I can work in by hand. Any suggestions? Thank you, Karen
Incorporating several acres of cover crops by hand sounds like quite the daunting task. As far as cool-season cover crops go, Winter Rye and Clover are some of the toughest to terminate, even with a tiller. So in your case, I would stay away from those. You might want to try something like Austrian winter peas or hairy vetch or a mixture of the two.
I'm no dream interpreter but I'm thinking you ate one of those chili peppers I sent you and it caused you to dream about the Astros winning tonight and the neon green could have something to do with pea cans, go Stros............
You stay on top of things hence you saved the first chicken but there is something Unique and special to you that your are neglecting and you will watch it slip away. But what do if know I wear overalls everyday
We have lots of deer in our area -- so many that it is legal to bait them with corn for hunting. But we're surrounded by hundreds of acres of commercial farmland, so they'd have to travel a long way through open spaces to get to our garden.
I'll stay away from dream interpretation. No good can come of dragging them into the daylight. That clover patch would make anyone stand proud. I truly think that this new practice of interplanting select field crops with a compatible cover crop will yield healthier soils and diminish water and nutrient usage and save on cultivation labor. I can sure see why you're excited.
Asfor the dream, I think you should let her bite you. She obviously gave that chicken super powers by biting it. Then she ate the evidence so you wouldn't know.
Chickens do represent knowledge and wisdom, Stella eating the chicken represents loss. So you might have someone who has mentored you become sick, maybe a Parent, Ex Coworker you respected, or teacher recently. Someone you looked up to and learned some skill from basically.
Dream interpretation Your utube channel is a money maker...and ur subconscious is telling u that u are not taking.enough advantage of its potential ...IM SERIOS..ur subconscious is telling u to take another look at the potential. Your black dog represents yourself...the chickens your efforts and specifically your gardening...and neon is the gardening...thus i say your gardening channel..
If your worried about northerners making fun of you for wearing long sleeves in 50-60 degrees, just ask them if they can stand working outdoors when it gets over 100. Speaking from personal experience as some one who spent most of their life in zone 9b, and marrying someone from near the Canadian border, they have no concept of this. To them a blistering hot summer is in the 80's. They also have no concept of the 3 P's (pets, pipes, and plants) and are amazed when we say that we get no snow and it seldom drops in the 30's. So when I get a snide comment about being cold in 50-60 degrees, I just turn it around on them and make comments about their summer heat tolerance. That usually shuts them down real quick.
Excellent point! Reminds me when I was in college and worked at a golf course. We had an intern from Texas who came to work with us for the summer. Although most of Texas is hotter temperature-wise, he had a hard time with the humidity. Unless you've felt it, it's hard to explain.
I'm too old to care what others think, if I'm too Hot or too cold I'm going put on or take off what-ever I need. Man, we don't even want to go into the weird Dreams I have, I try to somewhat try and figure them out and I always come up with the conclusion that I have NO Idea where they came from, Cosmic Rays or something bombarding my skull or similar?
Dreams: Freud believed that dreams were the results of unconscious mind expressing through symbolism of unacceptable desires and wishes that would be too anxiety provoking if expressed consciously. Ok, that said, it could be the result of too much spicy foods or worries and fears from day to day stressors. Most often it's the spicy foods! 😃 Symbolically, the black chicken you saved is overcoming hard times to find as a result, good times (neon green... green color of new beginnings; prosperity; neon green a false prosperity ) only to be swallowed up wholly by bigger and greater hard times. And that may be true for all of us :=0 And that is about as much as you can make of dreams. Those peppers are probably the probably the cause. May God bless.
The Neon Chicken... either a rock band or a trendy restaurant. You could develop a cover crop specifically designed for chicken grazing/fertilizing and call it Neon Chicken Blend. Develop a whole line of cover crops for interplanting and call your company the Neon Chicken. Make some neon green merc with black chickens. Better buy that domain name, quick. Your ideas about interplanting cover crops with single harvest crops make so much sense.
I agree with the neon chicken blend idea!
@@cynthiaedwards5149 Yes.
The Soil Friendly, Chicken Yummy Cover Crop for Elite Discerning Birds Everywhere.
I like that name "Neon Chicken." Branding would be easy for a name like that.
A green chicken means hardship and change. Not neccessarily bad tho. Change is hard sometimes. The black chicken is good fortune. The fact that both birds were alive is also good fortune.
Hahaha!! 😂 The neon green chicken! I love that you shared your dream about the chicken.
Maybe it was green because it is eating so much vegetation. Maybe Stella likes the chicken because it was so full of good veggies! ❤️
I like that! The chicken ate so much clover that it turned green!
The neon chicken? Are you growing and eating SHROOMS? 😂😂😂
Haha. I would one day like to get into growing non-psychedelic mushrooms.
Here's my take on your dream. Stella personifies "Lazy Dog Farm". The way you have always done things has come to an end as embodied by a black chicken. A new way symbolized by a spectacular, never before seen, neon green chicken has now appeared. This new way is being integrated into the farm and is shown by being swallowed by the Lazy Dog. It's a very positive dream!
I like that interpretation!
I saw Stella walking past earlier in the video. She looks like she could swallow a whole chicken. I love big thick beautiful dogs.
Go DAWGS!
She probably could! Go Dawgs!
When we have those type dreams it’s usually been due to too much pizza for supper. LoL
Haha. I don't think I ate pizza that night. I did eat a big bowl of mustard greens though!
Tell that to Pharoah and Nebuchadnezzar lol. I had the same dream for 30 years. It came true 3 years ago.
Husband said you have been out in the sun to long. Referring to the chicken dream.lol
Hahahaha!
Buddy, you had a Funky Chicken on your mind. Bust a move!
Don't just stand there!
Stop putting hot sauce on your ice cream before bed Travis - LOL I have some weird dreams myself and have decided that either I'm mentally disturbed, or they don't mean anything except that I have an active imagination. Your gardens look amazing!! Really enjoy the videos. Blessings always, g.
Thanks Gail!
Not in a millions years would I have guessed that a LDF video would include a story about a neon green chicken being eaten by your dog!! Now that made me laugh. I used to work with someone that interpreted dreams and I told her a few of my strange ones, and her interpretations creeped me out. I decided to quit telling her about my dreams. So back to the gardening stuff - have you ever thought of or tried the 3 sisters planting combo of corn, beans and squash? I know it’s not the right time, but it’s similar to what you are doing with the intercropping cover crop. I think the intercropping is a fascinating technique, it makes a lot of sense and has a lot of benefits. Plots are looking good and can’t wait to see what they look like in a couple of weeks. Fall is definitely here!!
Have never tried the three sisters technique. I'm still trying to work out all the details and timing of that system in my mind.
@@LazyDogFarm Yep it definitely takes some planning. You plant the corn first and once it gets 4-6 inches tall, you plant the beans. Then you plant the squash last. Most of the guidance I've seen on planting uses individual mounds where there are four corn seeds, four bean seeds and two squash seeds per mound. There are other patterns when you have large plots like you have. it might be cool to take your smallest plot and carve out say a 20 x 20 area to try it. Would be interesting to see your results.
Travis, I think you need to stop working so hard and relax. Get up and daybreak with your coffee and enjoy the beautiful gifts that God has blessed you with. 👍🇱🇷🐓
Dude,
Clearly the Neon Green Chicken is a T shirt merch design dream. Don't over-think it.
I like the way you think!
Two things- if I saw a neon green chicken, I would figure someone out here messed up the fracking!!! Cold weather and the north- put your dang coat on! They can’t deal with our 100+ temps with 90% humidity. I learned the hard way, 60 degrees in the south is more like 40 degrees in the north- humidity!
One final thing, I am going to try some cover crop in my raised beds. I blame you for that crazy experiment. LOL
Had some friends visit Wyoming last week and they said it was in the 30s there, but not near as cold as our 50s here because of the humidity.
@@LazyDogFarm we used to live in Corpus Christi TX on the ocean. When it was 60 degrees we had the fire place roaring.
I was wondering why you are no longer on Row By Row? Missed you! I just have found you here! Glad to see you! Really like the knowledge and advice you give on gardening..Thanks!
Glad you found us Shaggy!
Neon 🐔🐓🐣 chicken. Our brains sorts data while we sleep. Sometimes there is misc data that has no place to go. I am thinking neon is a color options for a T-shirt with a black chicken guarded by the dog. Sweet Dreams, Travis.
The neon chicken was definitely some miscellaneous data ... lol
Gardens look great Trav! I’m not a psychologist but I think dog symbolizes loyalty and I think the color green in dreams symbolize harmony with nature and peace… sooo maybe something that has been a burden or a weight to you symbolized the black chicken, harmony and peacefulness ( green chicken) was restored by a loyal friend/significant person (Stella) ? Heck I don’t know lol however I’m hilling up my giant marigolds now thanks to you! Mine are wobbly and I wasn’t sure of what to do!
That's a very deep and thoughtful analysis. Hill those marigolds and they'll be good to go!
My marigolds got so big this summer I had to use the fla weave on them👍
@@LazyDogFarm yea sorry bout that lol I’m usually not that deep 😂
Those peas look marvelous! They are bred to have those tendrils which are used in stir fries.
Did not know that. Thanks for sharing!
I would love to hear what y'all think of the flavor.
My "GO TO" stir fry sauce is: 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce, salt/pepper/garlic powder to taste.
Fantastic
Wait a minute neon green chicken cool beans
Odd stuff for sure!
Alright, Alright, Alright..... Go Braves!!!!
Yes! Big win last night!
Your dream sounds like the crap I dream Travis...LOL
Sometimes you just wake up and shake your head ... lol
Psychology.... that's my field of expertise.. but I'll have to get back to you on the dream there's a yellow flamingo in the kitchen demanding to be fed.
Gotta keep the flamingo happy!
Just watched this on Saturday morning after finishing a cool hour harvesting pre-refrigerated veggies from my no-till beds here in zone 7b. I brought in a couple of dozen tomatoes in from better boy, Kellogg’s breakfast, green zebra and Bella Rosa, all that started bearing in early July and still going strong. These will get planted again next year, for sure!
But the thing that intrigued me about your video today is how it paralleled one of my more successful experiments this year! On May 16, I planted 8 rows of serendipity sweet corn, and interplanted along the same rows a pretty thick overseeding of zinnias and cosmos for cut flowers. Then, on May 27, I came back in and planted between the rows a 3 to 1 mix of moon and stars seedless watermelons and Charleston gray pollen-donors. the corn did its thing very well and stocked the freezer for the winter, and the zinnias started pretty soon along with the ears of corn. Then the cosmos came along later in July and have been great as well. But I have truly been amazed at the watermelons...I culled all but a few of the fruits from the Charleston gray to keep bloom frequency high, and harvested our first moon and stars on August 10. Not remarkable at all, until you know I harvested my biggest one yet this morning (oct 30) and have 3 more with browning tendrils that should beat the frost expected next weekend! While this is a pretty distant cousin from the “three sisters” of lore, I am loving that a finicky seedless melon will bear for almost 3 months under a heavy planting of corn and cut flowers! This again is a no till garden that I gave zero fertilizer to, just the annual fall compost spreading...I will certainly repeat this experiment again in 2022, lord willing!
That is awesome! Love to hear that your experiment worked and has given you some ideas for the future.
Love the thumbnail...very creative, Travis
Thanks Linda!
Maybe the chicken was neon green from grazing on the lush cover crop?
A very plausible explanation. The chicken ate so much clover that it turned green.
50 60 degrees ! I'm moving to Georgia
Stella is your garden guardian.
If you have a neon green chicken. She will eat it to protect you from the neon green eggs.
Sounds good!
Hey Travis I agree with what Sue Patterson said about you could develope your own chicken feed cover crop.
Not a bad idea!
At this time of year I envy you your warm weather. Our fall garden is producing but it won't be for much longer. Don't know why but my peas are not performing this fall. It did have a warm start so took awhile to get going but it has just real!y started to produce. Frost this week, shouldn't be a hard freeze but we are always a few degrees lower than the forecast. Rant over. Come July I will be very happy to be gardening up here in New York.
Indeed. Your garden in July and August looks much better than ours.
your right travis for sure i would have something to say if you had long sleeves on. they clover looks great i love to use the clover.
Haha!
Pak Choi is the English(UK) name; in the US it is typically called Bok Choy (at least on the west coast). My son makes a couple great meals using it. One is a ginger/garlic soup that has noodles in a veg broth with I don't know what else he puts in it; the other is a thickened garlic sauce that he quickly heats/wilts the greens in a pan until tender.
I love Bok Choy, especially when it's young and tender
Can you share the soup recipie please. I have both home grown garlic and ginger, I'm looking for recipies to try, my ginger did well this year. Thankyou. Blessings.
Man, that soup sounds amazing!
Good morning, we all get funny and crazy dreams at time, hope someone can help.
Thanks for the tour of the garden.
The intercropping of the potatoes and cover crop seems to be working well and especially with the drying corn seem to be well.
If the cover crop NPK wise can help the crop you could mow with a side shoot towards the crop and as it sits on the floor as it’s breaking down. Just a thought, but will cover base of potato plants.
If you matched the row spacing to the width of your mower, you could certainly go in there and mow between the rows like that.
I like pelleted seeds with Actinovate Ag it's a great Biological fungicide but most times I water with it. The only thing I can think of that can be swallowed and neon green is antifreeze. Your dream does reminds me of how life is though. You stop one thing from happening and then you turn around and something worse is happening that you can't stop.
Hopefully this was just a blip and not a sign of anything to come.
Come on Travis, we know you're not cold hardy down there in South Georgia. :) The cover crops and the Gem corn are really looking good. I'm putting the 2nd layer of plastic on the hinged double hoop house tomorrow since we will be below freezing at night in the week to come.
Freezing already?! We're supposed to hit 39 later this week, which seems crazy this early in November.
@@LazyDogFarm we are actually late for the cold weather since it's been unusuallywarm. Most of the trees still have leaves when they should have dropped a month ago..... Not that I'm complaining.
Man, I hope those potatoes are bountiful, that's a really good idea.
Me too! It's going to be very exciting when we dig them to see what we have.
Cover crop , peas clover vetch brought in a lot of amazing biology to my soil. A lot of organic matter. The only thing was with the life came the pests. Wow it was a slug city in there. I grew some up into existing crops that where quite tall already and they did fine. Btw I’m pretty small scale
We are fortunate that we don't have many slug issues around here. As far as the cover crops go, we usually don't have hardly any pest pressure on them.
For things that are single harvest, cabbage, potatoes, etc. I like to plant my rows close together so the desired vegetable foliage covers the ground- may 18 or so row spacing. But I think this cover crop interplanting is a neat idea.
That works too. We do some of that as well. That's the whole concept behind much of our double row planting for carrots, beets, lettuce, etc.
Yes, never seen so many tendrils..
Its been in the 30s in Maine...and I would have laughed! 😊
You keep all that up there! lol
They weather is nice.in Chicago it is 40 so your weather is nice.the sun looks too.
We got in the 40s last night and looks like fall is finally here.
Stay warm
Alot of thinking about green cover crops and integrating the chickens lately, and this year. Might be a sub-conscience reflection of that. If your dog is anything like my dogs, they have to be reminded every time something changes in the garden to leave S#!# alone!, otherwise it's a toy lol. Interplanting food with cover is a great method, I do it alot. This year I planted peppers into sorgham sudan and just kept the grass mowed down...worked pretty good, even though it got trampled a little when picking and I was gone for a month in July, I didn't have to weed.
I'm trying to think of a good one to plant between my tomatoes and peppers this next spring ...
I live in Ohio - there is no shame in wearing long sleeves in 55-degree weather!
I'll be interested in watching your Brussels sprouts; in the spring, I planted 2 plants of what was labeled broccoli that turned out to be Brussels sprouts and they were not what I'd call a success. The plants grew HUGE - possibly because I didn't realize until late in the game that I did not actually have broccoli. I joked all summer that it looked like Jurassic Park in my garden. My two plants seemed to multiply into three or four and grew to four feet tall with stalks that were probably about three inches in diameter. The sprouts formed, but it was so hot here in mid-October that most of them started opening up and trying to form more plants, which I did not need. I got one mess of sprouts to cook but they weren't very good and I finally pulled up the plants last week. Adventures in gardening!
Brussels sprouts are one of the trickiest cool-season vegetables to grow IMO. We always plant them and just hope for the best.
Love your garden. We planted a number of Hoss seeds in our first fall planting ever.
Thanks for joining us!
Wow sorry, you are having dream problems! While I haven't a clue about dreams, I will be very interested in hearing the final take on the meaning of the dream :) Great gardening information as always.
You and me both!
Your garden looks excellent
Thanks Lawrence!
I'm in zone 7, TN and my peas are done already. I did great with Burpees first thirteen peas. Killed my back digging the sweet potatoes out of the heavy clay, but had great yield. For a year that started out cold and weird, everything ended up well. Using Hoss hairy vetch for cover crop this fall.
I'm hoping our peas make. They look good now and are flowering finally, we'll just have to see.
I'm loving the cool weather! You'll do anything for click bait Travis 🤣. Dog gone you just reminded me I needed to spray my plants and fully intended to but forgot. 🙄
I forget to spray mine all the time.
Maybe your dream means you need some green birds like green peacock. Lots of them. Then you won't sleep (cause they are noisy)and you don't have to worry about dreaming.😂😂😂. Lol
Haha. I don't see any peacocks in my future.
Great video. I love how you incorporate flowers and vegetables. My marigolds always seem to be insect magnets. I dare not bring them inside. Great top on avoiding weeds with the cover crop. Thank you
Ours haven't been too bad except for a sluggish bee here and there.
That balansa clover will get 3-4 foot stems
Wow, didn't realize it would get that tall. But I'm all for it.
Goatee coming in nice brother!
Haha. I'm the least hairiest person I know. Takes a long time to get something going.
Do you ever eat the greens or sprouts of your cover crops? Seems like if they're beans, mustards, and peas you should be able to eat them for salads and stir fry greens?
We don't because we usually have plenty of other greens to eat. But I guess you could.
Maybe you've been watching some of them alien or zombie movies but that is a crazy dream we all have them All the plants are looking real good
Abram does like to watch some of the old Godzilla movies. Maybe that had something to do with it ... lol
When you dream about neon chickens and black chickens it tells me you need a chicken dinner.
Sounds like a plan!
I’m excited to try iron clay peas or another nitrogen fixer in between my corn next year. The crabgrass always gets in my corn. Great ideas!
I'm thinking white dutch clover might work too, as it is typically slow to bolt as temperatures warm.
Justin Rhodes does this with the cover crop in with the main crop. I though his garden was just unkept lol, now I realize he was keeping the soil covered very nicely. Definitely looks like a win. I can't wait to have a real garden. Thanks for sharing always. I don't know about the dream. I have some kinda crazy dreams myself lol.
Best of luck with your new "real garden."
Neon green chicken.....uhh Sir, what else you growin' down there you ain't tellin' us about.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha!
Neon green chicken represents money.
Haha. Haven't seen any of that yet ... lol
Go Braves
Chop on!
That dream sounds like a medley of a couple of worries you are working through. I think the main worry is obviously predators on your chickens and the second worry is up coming Halloween holiday represented by neon green chicken. Halloween will be over soon so it is a minor worry. Have you actually noticed any predators or signs of them? Sounds like past experience is amplified your worry about the chickens. Great video as usual!
Haven't had any predator issues so far with this chicken tractor. Hopefully it stays that way.
So will you tell me about the string thing I have about 18 pea plants different types out. I also have about 8 Pak Choy
Just run a line of string along the ground to help them lean closer to the trellis and find it better. Works pretty well.
do you ever have issues planting your collards on every emitter? was going to do the same but at every foot seems it would be tight when they're full grown so i just did every other. i might direct seed in between before they get to big and give it a shot.
Haven't ever had any issues with the 1' spacing. We do pick ours relatively small in the beginning though, when the leaves are a little bigger than the size of your hand.
Beautiful garden. I can’t plant a garden like that were I live but we have slugs all year long. They range in size 3-6 inches and we also have banana slugs that grow from around 6-10 inches long and they can destroy your garden. We have used slug killer but it rains here to much
We have lots of pests down here, but are fortunate to not really have any slug issues. Sounds like quite the battle.
Beautiful lettuce! And that clover oh my! That is gorgeous to look at it all day. I wish I had an answer or an idea on the neon chicken. But Stella and the black one does sound like a predator issue that you may not know you have right now. I did get that Caliente mustard from a different supplier, but they are just next door so that's good. Should be here any day now. I may need to get some of that Sakata broccoli. I have either broccoli or brussel sprouts that had struggled to survive but are looking better with these much cooler temps. That glass gem corn is starting to look better too. I see now what you meant by the bands on the carrots. I've got some HT envy carrots and some random carrot seeds from our feed store. Can't wait to see those come up. I'm hoping they do well enough to get atleast a good side dish or two. And maybe some to ferment when you do yours next year. I remember the ones you had on RxR. It was funny watching your dad try them. Maybe that neon green has something to do with all that beautiful 🍀. Hopefully it is a good dream. Thanks for sharing your concerns! But I hope you get clarification before it stresses you too much. Love and prayers from Louisiana!
I'm not stressed too much about it, just thought it was odd.
@@LazyDogFarm I understand I've had weird dreams and they just seemed to stay on my mind for a day or so. Then I'd just forget about them
Does the cover crop not take the nutrients from the vegetable crop?
That was my initial thoughts before experimenting with this technique. But it doesn't seem to be the case. The plants look nice and healthy and don't seem to be nutrient-deprived at all.
How many eggs a day are you getting? Do you give layer feed too? Do you feel they are with trouble? Thank you
No eggs yet. They do get layer food too, but they don't eat much of it because they're foraging so much.
Did you wait to plant the cover crop in your potatoes until after you had hilled them once or twice?
I waited until most of the potatoes had sprouted, then planted the cover crop. I had only hilled them once.
Thanks!
I know from experience that the Lord gives me very vivid dreams as way to give me a message as what is to come. I think it means that you need to go in a quiet place and ask for knowledge. I would also keep an eye on your chickens because of predators. The Lord will let you know what needs to be done. I will pray for you as well. God Bless you.
Thanks for the wise words Angela!
You had too much sugar before bed and fell asleep with the TV on. 😄
Had too many Oreos before bed ... lol
Go on and put those long sleeves on. I am in a sweat shirt in North Alabama.
I'm definitely wearing long sleeves today. It got cold last night!
I think your dream is a concern over the chicken tractor not being predator-proof. I have seen electrified chicken netting used along with a chicken tractor for predator protection. The netting looks like it is pretty easy to move, so you would just adjust it as you move your chicken tractor. I hope this helps! ;)
With our previous chicken tractor, we used the electric netting to help them roam during the day. But we had some serious predator issues when they were free-roaming within the netting -- mainly hawks. I think the current chicken tractor is pretty secure, but I do worry about it a little.
@@LazyDogFarm Oh, okay. I was thinking about something digging under the tractor. The netting certainly would not stop aerial attacks. We have fishing line strung up over our chicken yard to stop that from happening. It's a constant battle with wildlife in this lifestyle, for sure. Keeps your brain a working!
I think you ate a bad burrito. On a serious note. Does fall sweet corn usually turn out smaller? The plant was shorter and the corn is tiny on some. I gave it lots of natural fertilizer and calcium nitrate and 2 applications of nitrogen liquid fertilizer. The variety is illusion white corn. Very tasty but small.
Brother Travis is there a cover crop that would take over a lawn good enough to wipe out burweed "stick"weed?
that mess hurts bare feel and pets too. Begins to appear this time of year and by the end of winter crowns with a needle like spur that is unbearable. When hot summer heat arrives it peaks then disappears and comes back when fall weather arrives.
Last resort herbicide recommendation? TY
We call them "stickers" around here. They appear in the spring and are usually dried and gone come mid-summer. I had a guy spray my lawn for them one time, but have no idea what they used. Haven't been able to find anyone to spray them the last few years, but they are certainly aggravating.
Maybe a pre emergent such as Tenacity. Make sure it doesn't get into your garden beds just your lawn. I double check if you have St Augustine.
@@LazyDogFarm TY for the reply Lazy Dog; You're the best!
2-4D?
What variety of Brussel sprouts do you recommend?
I've tried a bunch, but it seems like this variety did the best for us a few years ago: www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/brussels-sprouts/hestia-f1-brussels-sprout-seed-3271.html
What is is the name of the spray. Y’all use ?
I use neam. ,BT , Spain now
Been rotating Spinosad and Azera.
@@LazyDogFarm Thanks
How many chickens do you have in your chicken tractor?
We've had as many as 6 hens in there, but have 5 now.
Neon green chicken? Not washing your hands after spreading pelletized seed? Needing a trip to Las Vegas to see the neon and go to the Chicken Ranch?
Haha. I think I'm good on the Chicken Ranch.
Travis, I have root knot nematodes in my garden. I have planted a cover crop of Kodiak brown mustard. Are there any other plants that I can plant that will help control nematodes? I live in East Coast Florida. Sugar sand soil. I use horse manure to build up my soil. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. I enjoy watching your videos and have learned a lot.
@Shine Chessher you can go on line and get the benifical nematodes after you try the brown mustard trick. The benificals will eat the unwanted pesty root knot nematodes. I've done both, and have had great results. Blessings.
@@lindahipple4817 thank you for the information. I'll try that.
@Shine Chessher What Linda said. Also, rotating nematode-susceptible crops will help alleviate the pressure if you have enough room to rotate.
Hi lazy Dog Fam, i need a recommendation for a cover crop in coastal SC. I have a couples of acres that are all covered with weeds. I am hand picking them best I can. But it seems to a never ending job. I would like to do a series of cover crops to decrease the weed pressure and improve the soil. I do the work by hand without a tiller. So they need to be covercrops that I can work in by hand. Any suggestions? Thank you, Karen
Incorporating several acres of cover crops by hand sounds like quite the daunting task. As far as cool-season cover crops go, Winter Rye and Clover are some of the toughest to terminate, even with a tiller. So in your case, I would stay away from those. You might want to try something like Austrian winter peas or hairy vetch or a mixture of the two.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you
I'm no dream interpreter but I'm thinking you ate one of those chili peppers I sent you and it caused you to dream about the Astros winning tonight and the neon green could have something to do with pea cans, go Stros............
Haha. Go Braves! Our pitching staff threw a gem last night!
You stay on top of things hence you saved the first chicken but there is something Unique and special to you that your are neglecting and you will watch it slip away. But what do if know I wear overalls everyday
Sounds like those overalls are quite the thought-provoking apparel choice!
Why do you have separate garden plots versus one big plot?
It makes things much more manageable for us and makes it much easier to rotate crop families.
@@LazyDogFarm I have thought about making separate ones as well. Do you have any cons about that setup
Where’s Joseph and Daniel when you need them :D
Haha!
1st once again! Ever think about Aswad Eggplant for next year?
Haha. I'm not sure I can forget at this point.
Gators are green?
Go Dawgs!
You must not have a problem with deer! If I had open plots of greens like this, deer would completely devour every leaf…south central Alabama😫
We have lots of deer in our area -- so many that it is legal to bait them with corn for hunting. But we're surrounded by hundreds of acres of commercial farmland, so they'd have to travel a long way through open spaces to get to our garden.
What have been eating before bed (alien chicken nuggets)
Usually just some milk and cookies.
I'll stay away from dream interpretation. No good can come of dragging them into the daylight. That clover patch would make anyone stand proud. I truly think that this new practice of interplanting select field crops with a compatible cover crop will yield healthier soils and diminish water and nutrient usage and save on cultivation labor. I can sure see why you're excited.
It'll definitely reduce labor and help keep "things" in each plot.
Stella represents the Dawgs. The neon green chicken represents the gators. Dawgs win?
Dawgs by 17
Ok, the difference between northern and southern cold is HUMIDITY.
For sure!
Asfor the dream, I think you should let her bite you. She obviously gave that chicken super powers by biting it. Then she ate the evidence so you wouldn't know.
Haha. I've never seen her bite anyone or anything. That might be hard to get her to do.
@@LazyDogFarm that's because she knows she has a magic bite. She's a responsible pup.
A neon green chicken? Uh, you haven't been burning any strange weeds growing round there lately have you? LOL
Haha! Haven't seen any of those.
It's kind of nippy to be a hippie y'all stay cool
Had to put on the long-sleeves this morning! Quite chilly down here.
Chickens do represent knowledge and wisdom, Stella eating the chicken represents loss. So you might have someone who has mentored you become sick, maybe a Parent, Ex Coworker you respected, or teacher recently. Someone you looked up to and learned some skill from basically.
Interesting …
Dream interpretation
Your utube channel is a money maker...and ur subconscious is telling u that u are not taking.enough advantage of its potential ...IM SERIOS..ur subconscious is telling u to take another look at the potential. Your black dog represents yourself...the chickens your efforts and specifically your gardening...and neon is the gardening...thus i say your gardening channel..
If your worried about northerners making fun of you for wearing long sleeves in 50-60 degrees, just ask them if they can stand working outdoors when it gets over 100. Speaking from personal experience as some one who spent most of their life in zone 9b, and marrying someone from near the Canadian border, they have no concept of this. To them a blistering hot summer is in the 80's. They also have no concept of the 3 P's (pets, pipes, and plants) and are amazed when we say that we get no snow and it seldom drops in the 30's.
So when I get a snide comment about being cold in 50-60 degrees, I just turn it around on them and make comments about their summer heat tolerance. That usually shuts them down real quick.
Excellent point! Reminds me when I was in college and worked at a golf course. We had an intern from Texas who came to work with us for the summer. Although most of Texas is hotter temperature-wise, he had a hard time with the humidity. Unless you've felt it, it's hard to explain.
Your preventative spraying has me confused and curious
If you know you're going to have issues, it's good to spray before you see adults -- when the nymphs are there and easy to kill.
Travis you're working to hard can't rest at night. You are having unheard of dreams like
I do sometime.
Probably right.
@@LazyDogFarm Yep. ruclips.net/video/0dtCgYRrAUw/видео.html
I'm too old to care what others think, if I'm too Hot or too cold I'm going put on or take off what-ever I need. Man, we don't even want to go into the weird Dreams I have, I try to somewhat try and figure them out and I always come up with the conclusion that I have NO Idea where they came from, Cosmic Rays or something bombarding my skull or similar?
Definitely cosmic rays ... lol
You may have a critter get in your chickens
Hopefully not. Fingers crossed.
Dreams: Freud believed that dreams were the results of unconscious mind expressing through symbolism of unacceptable desires and wishes that would be too anxiety provoking if expressed consciously. Ok, that said, it could be the result of too much spicy foods or worries and fears from day to day stressors. Most often it's the spicy foods! 😃 Symbolically, the black chicken you saved is overcoming hard times to find as a result, good times (neon green... green color of new beginnings; prosperity; neon green a false prosperity ) only to be swallowed up wholly by bigger and greater hard times. And that may be true for all of us :=0 And that is about as much as you can make of dreams. Those peppers are probably the probably the cause. May God bless.
Thanks for the complete analysis Herb!
@@LazyDogFarm LOL :-) You're welcome... take it with two grains of salt and call me in the morning !!!
OkY so I’m 100 percent perfect on dream interpretation results. I have come to the conclusion that what your dream meant is your dog is hungry
She's always hungry.