That 6-cell plunger reminds me of something but I just can't put my finger in it...on it I mean...Can't wait to see the corn harvest! Thanks for sharing.
The Bermuda grass patch you can smother with multiple layers of cardboard after CAREFULLY applying a blowtorch to the grass. Wet down the area, blowtorch it til cooked, dig a foot wide foot deep trench to prevent re-rooting, then smother with as much cardboard as you can pinned down with landscaping staples. Top with good soil and compost and plant native wildflower seeds for an Epic Pollinator Patch
Burning it is a good idea! Bermuda grass is ruining my life right now, but that sounds like it might actually work. My whole yard is currently covered in plastic in an attempt to solarize it, but I've heard mixed results on that being successful.
That’s what I was thinking! I tho it was faux sunflower “vines” because it was so incredibly beautiful! I need Eric’s.... I mean Kevin’s 👀 secrets on how to get my sunflower seeds to look this beautiful!
I love the overhead views! It would be cool to get some drone shots to provide us inspiration about layout possibilities for our own plots. Thank you Kevin!
I have started transplanting my corn because I think some wildlife is eating the corn. 2 years in a row, no corn came up. Prior had no issues. So far so good doing this.
I liked the rooftop view of the garden sections at the end. I would love to see the area between the citrus hedge and dragon alley (currently Bermuda grass) become a mini meadow of native plants.
I feel like a quick overhead few of the garden a few different times of year (beginning of season, middle, end of season) would be a really cool perspective!
Idea on the poppies- if you love them but hate how quickly they fade you should try an Icelandic variety. They’re a perennial that keep blooming all season 👍🏼
I planted 72 corn seeds the other day. I made the holes with a stick and i did it in about a 6x7 area. It may be a little crowded 🤷♀️ 3rd year into gardening. Northern WI.
Based on research only and not personal experience, I’m going to say you’ll be fine with a very colorful harvest for a lot of mystery-variety corn meal. All those varieties are great for dry storage and grinding, so you’ll still end up with corn meal. You just won’t be able to save seed AND know what you’ll get next year. You can still save seed as an experiment, but you will simply have no idea what will grow from it for at least one generation.
Cayenne pepper spray on the plants or pepper flakes around them, I'm doing both to keep cats, raccoons, squirrels and mice out. And the bears out of my melons too, hopefully.
Oh man, I’m with you on the Bermuda. I have no idea where it came from but it has just taken over. My asparagus patch is a nightmare by the time fall rolls around. I don’t dare stick my hands in the asparagus bed to do any kind of weeding once it ferns out because my garden is filled with snakes, so I just let it go, and It’s a mess!
I love a Before and After on garden/homestead transformations! Especially when it's directly patch for patch, rather than first half of the video Before and second half of the video is After. I adore the bird's eyes view of how beautiful your gardens are looking!
I have become obsessed with coreopsis!!! They take a while to get going but the blooms are prolific, very long lasting and vigorous and the pollinators love it❤❤
Kevin, try dwarf cosmos with your poppies. By the time the poppies are popped, the cosmos with be coming up. As with poppies, it's easy to save seeds or just let them reseed themselves, and the pollinators LOVE them. Maybe BI should start selling the dwarf varieties. Hmmmm...
Salvia! You’ll want to deadhead to keep the blooms going, but they can get pretty tall. And the hummingbirds and pollinators love them. You could also let herbs go to seed or use blue basil.
Planted out my corn seedlings yesterday. I’ve been doing no dig as my rental had garden patches already. So unfortunately my dogs have already trampled through trying to eat the pellet fertiliser. Hopefully my efforts in blocking them off work before all the seedlings are squashed.
Those dogs. Mine are doing the same thing! I just started closing the gate after me, because one is clumsy and clueless and the other likes to sniff around and dig wherever she thinks there MIGHT have been a critter.
I love your videos! Looks like you need a drone, so you don't have to stand on your roof! Your garden looks great. I haven't tried corn yet. Lack of space.
I saw someone grow 6 dwarf plants each in two 20" wide containers and they looked great! So I found a short variety (4 foot tall, two ears per plant) and I'm giving it a go in my non existing garden this year. Then again I also grew cantaloupes,watermelons and zucchini in containers last year. I don't believe in there's not enough room 😂
Wow! You should be so proud of your homestead. I would love to see more before and after pictures. Ha ha and I think about that one spot that you haven't done anything with all the time. 😂
That’s how we store potatoes over here in the UK as they cure in the ground once the foliage has died back; never had a problem storing them just have to make sure it’s been dry for a few days before harvesting so they are not wet after the two weeks which is where it is harder for us over given it doesn’t seem to want to stop raining at the moment 😅
Wouldn't that tool contribute to soil compaction? Maybe an improvement to the design would be a hollow style that could remove the block of soil instead 🤔
I got 2 types of corn and they finish at different times .. one finishes about 20 days sooner than the other ... we planted both at the same time in hopes that they will pollinate far enough apart
I had some corn starts last year that I transplanted and noticed I had a lot of empty space so I planted seed to fill the space. The seed in place corn caught up to the starts and made the entire starting time worthless. It has value if you don’t have space to dedicate to the seed at the beginning of the year. To each their own. That seems to be the moto of the gardening world. You do you and what suits you is just fine.
A 6 cel dobber! Could be importable to Canada! 😅 Another thing to do with corn, when your growing season is long enough, is stagger the planting dates with harvest dates so they dont x pollinate each other & at harvest time(s) you can stagger the harvest so you can enjoy fresh over a couple of months instead of having to process them all at once...i love the views from your roof. The place where bermuda grass is left could maybe be choked out by a sprawling cover crop of yams and sweet potato slips. Let them sprawl wildly like some of Jaques garden does and like daikon radish, they can prep the soil for a future crop of something else after they are harvested. Great to see you Kevin . 🎉
We are at the very end of Autumn here in Western Australia and the heat of summer has only just started to cool. No rain for 7 months and this week torrential rain and hail! 🎉
You might want to look into using something like Sethoxydim on the Bermuda. It's a grass-selective herbicide so it won't hurt the stuff you're growing.
For a fun flower to replace the poppies, check out "Globe Gilia" (Gilia capitata). The foliage is delicate and lacy, and the flowers bloom in blue puffball clusters up to a couple inches across. The pollinators love these things in my yard and they're visually interesting.
I heard that planting peppers hot and sweet next to each other affects flavor this year, the seeds that develop are much like corn and can get the hotness from when they pollinate
A super random thing you mentioned in the video - but I'd love to learn what you end up doing with the bermuda grass. I am battling it myself and would love some tips!
Hi Kevin,😁👋🏼 Thanks for another great video. I'm in South Africa so we have totally different seasons going on but I like putting on your videos in the background while I garden as motivation like a plant-along with EH & EG. Question: what's the best way to clear a corn bed? Do you leave the roots in over winter and let them compost or pluck out the whole plant? I've left the roots of mine in and covered the bed with a thick layer of grass clippings but I'm also concerned they'll be a hindrance in spring 'cause I'm not sure if they will have broken down or rotted weird... I just dunno. Open to any suggestions and comments from other folks too.
Is it true that planting a popping corn close to something like a sweet corn will ruin both? Makes the popping corn kernel too soft to pop and the other too hard to be good to eat? I've only grown popcorn and never mixed.
I planted an ambrosia sweet corn in a small patch 7 weeks ago. Didn’t get solid germination, so just seeded a small baby orchard corn this past weekend. Any experience with those little corns?
damn didnt know you cant put different varieties next to each other and i threw sweet corn rigt next to "normal" corn that we get for feeding our chickens
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That 6-cell plunger reminds me of something but I just can't put my finger in it...on it I mean...Can't wait to see the corn harvest! Thanks for sharing.
Sticks "tool" in the hole and says "that is so satisfying" lol
All that talk about getting demonetized and then he introduces that new toy, I mean tool.
you mean a butt plug?
🍑
HAHAHAHA
The Bermuda grass patch you can smother with multiple layers of cardboard after CAREFULLY applying a blowtorch to the grass. Wet down the area, blowtorch it til cooked, dig a foot wide foot deep trench to prevent re-rooting, then smother with as much cardboard as you can pinned down with landscaping staples. Top with good soil and compost and plant native wildflower seeds for an Epic Pollinator Patch
Oooh, a weed burner would work for that!
Burning it is a good idea! Bermuda grass is ruining my life right now, but that sounds like it might actually work. My whole yard is currently covered in plastic in an attempt to solarize it, but I've heard mixed results on that being successful.
Good tip! We have a burner so we'll give this a shot
I would love a video covering Bermuda grass or other weeds and how to get rid of them. My backyard is getting destroyed by Bermuda!
@@epichomesteading oh my gosh wow!! I can’t wait to see the results!
That sunflower looks kinda magical
I want one now it was like a unicorn 🦄 😮
That’s what I was thinking! I tho it was faux sunflower “vines” because it was so incredibly beautiful! I need Eric’s.... I mean Kevin’s 👀 secrets on how to get my sunflower seeds to look this beautiful!
It really does
Never taken knee pads, and butt plug to the garden before
You've never gardened then
Would have been interesting to see him on International Naked Gardening Day earlier this month. Lol.
@@epichomesteading 😂🤣
@@epichomesteading 😂😂😂 greatest response ever!!
What do you think of the dibber tool? I personally find it deeply satisfying 😂
Glad that it's flared on one end. Very ergonomic 😆
U should probably make it pointy at the end so it doesn’t compress the soil right under the seedling, idk though probably fine
Things you can't say on youtube is what that tool looks like. LOL, sorry my brain went into the gutter.
@@camcassidy4309 good suggestion
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love the overhead views! It would be cool to get some drone shots to provide us inspiration about layout possibilities for our own plots. Thank you Kevin!
I have started transplanting my corn because I think some wildlife is eating the corn. 2 years in a row, no corn came up. Prior had no issues. So far so good doing this.
I’m replacing my Poppies with Salvia once they are done. Also before and after “Laura Style” yes please.
The homestead has come a long way! An area tour would be a fun and instructive way to show how each zone has evolved, so I hope you decide to do it!
😳 didn't know you loved corn *that* much
HAHAHAHAHA
Please do make a video of the before and after of your garden. ❤
I liked the rooftop view of the garden sections at the end. I would love to see the area between the citrus hedge and dragon alley (currently Bermuda grass) become a mini meadow of native plants.
Inspired me to plant 6 fruit trees and countless raised bed/containers of all kinds of plants over the last 4 years! It’s been fun! Thanks!
The really tall ones are fun because you can make outdoor rooms
I feel like a quick overhead few of the garden a few different times of year (beginning of season, middle, end of season) would be a really cool perspective!
Idea on the poppies- if you love them but hate how quickly they fade you should try an Icelandic variety. They’re a perennial that keep blooming all season 👍🏼
I planted 72 corn seeds the other day. I made the holes with a stick and i did it in about a 6x7 area.
It may be a little crowded 🤷♀️
3rd year into gardening.
Northern WI.
Best of luck w/ it!
I started corn when the birds planted it for me.
Whoops 🤭 looks like I'm going to get some weird corn 🌽 I planted Hopi blue, Bloody butcher and some gem popcorn all next to each other 👍 😬😅🤦♂️
I'll get Bloody blue, Pop butcher and Hopi gems.
I think it’s fine to cross pollinate, odds are you’ll get something tasty anyways
You might make an awesome new variety
Based on research only and not personal experience, I’m going to say you’ll be fine with a very colorful harvest for a lot of mystery-variety corn meal. All those varieties are great for dry storage and grinding, so you’ll still end up with corn meal. You just won’t be able to save seed AND know what you’ll get next year. You can still save seed as an experiment, but you will simply have no idea what will grow from it for at least one generation.
@@DracoTriste ☝
You can plant different corn together you just have to make sure their maturity dates are at least 14 days apart to avoid cross pollination.
Yes! Or just plant 2 weeks apart.
Thanks Kevin, cheers from Australia!
Trying to grow corn again this year...praying the defense sprinklers I got keep these racoons from chewing the stalks 🙌
Same, but with squirrels. Someone around me feeds them cookies and they have no fear.
Cayenne pepper spray on the plants or pepper flakes around them, I'm doing both to keep cats, raccoons, squirrels and mice out. And the bears out of my melons too, hopefully.
Oh man, I’m with you on the Bermuda. I have no idea where it came from but it has just taken over. My asparagus patch is a nightmare by the time fall rolls around. I don’t dare stick my hands in the asparagus bed to do any kind of weeding once it ferns out because my garden is filled with snakes, so I just let it go, and It’s a mess!
I love a Before and After on garden/homestead transformations! Especially when it's directly patch for patch, rather than first half of the video Before and second half of the video is After.
I adore the bird's eyes view of how beautiful your gardens are looking!
I have become obsessed with coreopsis!!! They take a while to get going but the blooms are prolific, very long lasting and vigorous and the pollinators love it❤❤
Kevin, try dwarf cosmos with your poppies. By the time the poppies are popped, the cosmos with be coming up. As with poppies, it's easy to save seeds or just let them reseed themselves, and the pollinators LOVE them. Maybe BI should start selling the dwarf varieties. Hmmmm...
Great call
Maybe add some spikes to the plunger so it loosens rather than compresses the soil…and to make it look less sus 😂 it’s a cool concept tho
Salvia! You’ll want to deadhead to keep the blooms going, but they can get pretty tall. And the hummingbirds and pollinators love them. You could also let herbs go to seed or use blue basil.
You can also get 'groundcover' salvias (around a foot tall), if the height is a concern.
Honestly, salvias have saved me from so much weeding 😆
Good to see you guys branching out on your merchandise! …I just didn’t expect it to go in this direction so soon. 😅
JAJAJAJA
@@epichomesteading why you laughing in Spanish? 😂
Dibble tool - cool! Kevin, I'm constantly inspired by you and Jacques, and I've been a serious gardener for over 40 years. Keep on, guys.
I direct sowed some corn like 3 weeks ago and it still hasn't germinated so I started some more inside for transplanting, hopefully it'll work
I started 30 seeds outside last week, only 7 sprouted. I planted 30 more seeds two days ago, hopefully more germinate before the ants eat them.
I've had better germination using seed trays. Also, once you plant there aren't any empty places in the rows.
Oooh, could be crows or blue jays. Those guys LOVE corn seeds and sprouts.
My ambrosia corn took forever to germinate. It was gorgeous until yesterday's major storm broke them in half. 😢 Luckily I can start more.
I agree about it not feeling like spring. I’m just a few hours North West of you, and it’s been cold and rainy
Planted out my corn seedlings yesterday. I’ve been doing no dig as my rental had garden patches already. So unfortunately my dogs have already trampled through trying to eat the pellet fertiliser. Hopefully my efforts in blocking them off work before all the seedlings are squashed.
Those dogs. Mine are doing the same thing! I just started closing the gate after me, because one is clumsy and clueless and the other likes to sniff around and dig wherever she thinks there MIGHT have been a critter.
i started Buhl corn in the epic 16 cells about 2 to 3 months ago and then planted them about 1.5 months ago and they're doing great now!
Love to hear it!
I love your videos! Looks like you need a drone, so you don't have to stand on your roof! Your garden looks great. I haven't tried corn yet. Lack of space.
I saw someone grow 6 dwarf plants each in two 20" wide containers and they looked great! So I found a short variety (4 foot tall, two ears per plant) and I'm giving it a go in my non existing garden this year.
Then again I also grew cantaloupes,watermelons and zucchini in containers last year. I don't believe in there's not enough room 😂
Great idea
Yes to naming the areas to show how it changes over time :)
A garden update by section sounds interesting Kevin... The Homestead is looking great!!
I planted Peaches and Cream sweetcorn... It is about 6 -8 inches high already.
As soon as my 1st round of sweet corn is done I'm ripping it out and planting some glass gem corn for a 2nd round planting
Love your talkative hen!
lol I love how she was hanging out and taking a stroll around the garden🤣🖤
Wow! You should be so proud of your homestead.
I would love to see more before and after pictures.
Ha ha and I think about that one spot that you haven't done anything with all the time. 😂
I keep thinking that Kevin's saving it for more fruit trees 😁
Or maybe that's where he buried Eric? 🤔
Yes! Would love to see the section by section videos.
That’s how we store potatoes over here in the UK as they cure in the ground once the foliage has died back; never had a problem storing them just have to make sure it’s been dry for a few days before harvesting so they are not wet after the two weeks which is where it is harder for us over given it doesn’t seem to want to stop raining at the moment 😅
I started my corn in butter cups and transplanted them. They look healthy and happy 😃
Almost forgot to mention your sunflowers!!!! They’re just lovely 🥰
Sunflowers are crazy this time of year!
Wouldn't that tool contribute to soil compaction? Maybe an improvement to the design would be a hollow style that could remove the block of soil instead 🤔
Loosening up beforehand, doesn't seem to be a big issue!
I got 2 types of corn and they finish at different times .. one finishes about 20 days sooner than the other ... we planted both at the same time in hopes that they will pollinate far enough apart
I love that Chety is just free range now 😆
Had to pause the video to say that is an AWESOME hybrid sunflower and I would be interested in buying the seed.
Beautiful video it filled me right up to the brim thank you Kevin and Eric you both have done a wonderful job🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍🤎🤍
zinnias, echinacea, and cosmos are great in my garden... I love red and blue salvias also. (mine did not come back this year)
The homestead looks incredible Kevin! So inspiring, please give us a more in depth tour 🤗
I planted my corn at the beginning of spring and it’s already like a foot or more
I planted a decent sized patch of corn for the first time this year in MI, planted on May 1st and they’re doing well
Can I suggest 4 o'clocks? They self seed like a nasturtium. They look very tropical and u plant once and ull have them popping up every year❤
Definitely want to see the section by section comparison. Thank you!!!
I had some corn starts last year that I transplanted and noticed I had a lot of empty space so I planted seed to fill the space. The seed in place corn caught up to the starts and made the entire starting time worthless. It has value if you don’t have space to dedicate to the seed at the beginning of the year. To each their own. That seems to be the moto of the gardening world. You do you and what suits you is just fine.
100%. Tons of different approaches
Looks so amazing - love seeing how everything has grown
Loved that Garden Answer video! Please do it for the Homestead garden!
A 6 cel dobber! Could be importable to Canada! 😅 Another thing to do with corn, when your growing season is long enough, is stagger the planting dates with harvest dates so they dont x pollinate each other & at harvest time(s) you can stagger the harvest so you can enjoy fresh over a couple of months instead of having to process them all at once...i love the views from your roof. The place where bermuda grass is left could maybe be choked out by a sprawling cover crop of yams and sweet potato slips. Let them sprawl wildly like some of Jaques garden does and like daikon radish, they can prep the soil for a future crop of something else after they are harvested. Great to see you Kevin . 🎉
Thank you. 😊
Yes do a Garden Answer garden type tour please
We are at the very end of Autumn here in Western Australia and the heat of summer has only just started to cool. No rain for 7 months and this week torrential rain and hail! 🎉
Love that seed cabinet. Great repurpose !
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You could have totaly sold more seed pack varieties showing maturity dates and cross polination prevention sowing. Good for you keeping it humble.
How do you keep the bugs out of your corn
You might want to look into using something like Sethoxydim on the Bermuda. It's a grass-selective herbicide so it won't hurt the stuff you're growing.
Im growing that popcorn one. It has beautiful pink silks and the corn is hefty. Keep up on the mulch.
That is very satisfying
We love seeing the updates, been a great source of inspiration for us!
Perfect timing. Im about to plant my own corn patch today.
Ooo! I would love the seeds from that hybrid sunflower, you get the best of both worlds there
The top view was great I'd love to see a comparison
Finally, he introduced me to the garden map from the roof.
While being barked at by a dog
It's like the Lord
It's quite spacious😧
For a fun flower to replace the poppies, check out "Globe Gilia" (Gilia capitata). The foliage is delicate and lacy, and the flowers bloom in blue puffball clusters up to a couple inches across. The pollinators love these things in my yard and they're visually interesting.
Thank you!
Furthermore corn is only grass
Garden daddy really out here for us
You could try clarkia. I have had good luck with it blooming consistently for most of the summer, but it does need support.
Please plant done straw flowers I want to see a video on they are so interesting
I heard that planting peppers hot and sweet next to each other affects flavor this year, the seeds that develop are much like corn and can get the hotness from when they pollinate
Just planted corn today! Corn vibes!😂
I love the sunflowers
I’ve missed corn for this year I think. I really wanted to plant it too. Oh well this is a tomato year in NJ!❤ Honey and Cream looks so good!
Sugarbaby is amazing ❤
I can't believe how fast the year has gone already. 😭
A super random thing you mentioned in the video - but I'd love to learn what you end up doing with the bermuda grass. I am battling it myself and would love some tips!
Great suggestion!
It would be great if the thingy that you use to make the holes for planting the corn was made from recycled plastic
If we make it, it will be! All of our trays are recycled plastic
Anyone know where I can buy the cool plunger thing… asking for a friend!
Hi Kevin,😁👋🏼
Thanks for another great video. I'm in South Africa so we have totally different seasons going on but I like putting on your videos in the background while I garden as motivation like a plant-along with EH & EG.
Question: what's the best way to clear a corn bed? Do you leave the roots in over winter and let them compost or pluck out the whole plant? I've left the roots of mine in and covered the bed with a thick layer of grass clippings but I'm also concerned they'll be a hindrance in spring 'cause I'm not sure if they will have broken down or rotted weird... I just dunno. Open to any suggestions and comments from other folks too.
i TEND TO LEAVE THE ROOTS IN MINE
I'm on the right path then, thanks again.😊
Some farmers in Central pa do 3 rounds of sweet corn
Yes please a named section of garden tour. How about putting cardboard down to smother that grass. Next year plant a lavender field?!
If you can get it, try ‘Goldcrest’ next season. 👍🏻🤙🏻
That corn hole plunger is amazing 💀
Is it true that planting a popping corn close to something like a sweet corn will ruin both? Makes the popping corn kernel too soft to pop and the other too hard to be good to eat? I've only grown popcorn and never mixed.
Bermuda grass makes me feel that same way...
Cleaning out the garbage pile ❌
Hiding the garbage pile ✅
Expert technique
I've got nasturtiums hiding my rubble pile 😂 it's definitely the benefit of gardening!
You need to call that new... device 'The Cornholer'
LOL
I planted an ambrosia sweet corn in a small patch 7 weeks ago. Didn’t get solid germination, so just seeded a small baby orchard corn this past weekend. Any experience with those little corns?
Sometimes!
Sticks the "plunger" in the hole and says thats "so satisfying", butttttt good video.
damn didnt know you cant put different varieties next to each other and i threw sweet corn rigt next to "normal" corn that we get for feeding our chickens
Plants some Truckers Favorite dent corn and make some grits out of it.