Hey Travis, I planted a row of treated zipper cream peas and and a row of white acre side by side, one seed per hole on both and was watering by hose every day. The white acres germinated about 80-85 percent while the zipper cream germinated at around 45-50 percent. Thanks to you , now I think I know why. On a separate note, I have an old field with poor, powdery soil. I have just planted buckwheat in a portion of it 2/3rds of an acre. I spread the seed, pulled a drag over it and then watered for an hour that next evening. The next afternoon when I got off work the the dirt was powdery dry again. So I watered for 2 hours that evening. Next afternoon, Powdery dry so I watered 3 hours. Now, I see a lot of people talking about how fast buckwheat germinates and grows but so far I am just getting a 1/4 inch sprout here and there. I am wondering what I am doing wrong. Do you have any advice for this situation? I really want to transform that 2 acres of dead, depleted dirt into healthy living soil. Thanks for everything you share brother.
Buckwheat does usually germinate fast -- sometimes in 2 days with ample water. If you're really wanting to build the soil during the warmer months, I'd suggest sorghum sudangrass. It can be mowed repeatedly so that the green material is chopped and dropped to help add organic matter to the soil. I like it better than buckwheat because it lasts longer, whereas buckwheat usually matures in 4-6 weeks.
@@LazyDogFarm I just may do that in another section. I also wanted the buckwheat to attract honeybees. I have wanted to try the SSG since seeing the video on "the other channel". I am growing in containers and in ground cover this year so I have the 2 acres to plant in ground covers. Thank you for the video and the advice. Happy Mother's Day to Brooklynn.
I cant believe how long you are able to let your Kale grow. Here in central TX, come march when it warms up, the aphids and bugs just engulf them. gotta pull and burn em before I plant anything for the spring.
So happy for you. I DIDNT get to them fastest enough . Hoping they have extra .. God bless you Mrs Josette Tharp Montgomery County , Texas 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Mustards... I roto tilled the Florida Broadleaf mustard into the plot and didn't have to spray the taters either...it's pieces of Mustard greens coming up between the rows as 'weeds" in my garden...everywhere! And, I've always heard you should pick the flowers off for better taters precious! :- ) Also, when my potatoes...uh... I mean, taters are mature enough to dig, I cut the tops (greens ) off the mound and leave for a week before digging them up. This I understand makes the skins tougher and less likely to "skin" when you dig them. Prrrecious taters!
It was meant for me to see your video.!!!! I planted 2 short double rows of zipper peas. And watered them every DAY and sure enough only a few came up. Guess I will till it up and replant them. As far as the tator situation. My dad (90 years old and grew up on a primative farm) says that he has always cut the blooms off the plants. AND if there's really tall plants he would brake the top off. He says it stops the plant from growing up and ALL the energy go to the production of tator
Awesome video Travis! You know how the old saying goes - you learn far more from failure than successes. It’s great that you were able to deduce the problem with the pea germination, adjust your process and then have a successful replant. Also glad to hear that you are keeping that plot as a no-till. I’ve read that natural soil structure has micro layers with different structure and biology and when you till it takes time for the soil to re-adjust. I know it has taken some time but the no-till and compost approach sure looks like it is paying off.
@@LazyDogFarm was it you that said kennabecs don’t do as well for you? I did notice today they were loaded with blooms, whereas all other types we planted were not. They were sporadic. So we shall see.
Me and Dad planted a 150ft row of Zipper on 4/8, and hardly any came up. He replanted on 4/23 and we had almost full germination. He definitely didn’t overwater the 1st planting. If anything, they were under watered. Might have been soil temperature that caused the difference.
The Zipper Pea info. was very good. I will remember it. I would have done the same thing as you did the first time without this info. The tater plucking info was also good. I always thought it was bs. but apparently some one did the study. Science is the same everywhere so no reason to doubt it. Thanks for the good tips gg :)
If I don’t use drip tape, but I feel like I need water at germination, I put a temporary soaker hose right on top, or in the middle, if planting a double row. I’ll remove the hose once they sprout and are doing well. The key to a soaker hose however, is to make sure you pressurize it from both ends. 😀
We are gonna have highs of 90 degrees here in Augusta, GA the squash, tomato and pepper plants love the heat, but I must say that it's a little too hot for me. I am sure it is hot there too Travis stay cool.
You are going to laugh but here goes...I am very heat intolerant but I love gardening. I put up a very small intex pool. Could be a kiddie pool if you want. Just enough to cool off in. When I get hot/over heat....I sit in the water, cool off and repeat. I am 64 yrs old. Lol. But when most are indoors because of the heat, I can continue to work at my hobby.
With the erratic weather and my unheated greenhouse, I had to reseed most of my peppers this year .I found it was better to wait until the weather got warmer and stayed that way for most of the days. You're right about that most likely it's grower's error. Thanks for all your tips, experiences and knowledge. I'm south of you and seems like we're getting into the 90's so early this year.
I often make that mistake with lettuce in the fall. Try to get it started too early when it's still too hot and they won't germinate in warm soils in the greenhouse.
Haven't tried those, but they do look like they'd work well. All of my plots are small by design for many reasons. One of those is that I can water the entire plot with one of those tripod sprinklers.
That’s good info on them peas and the potatoes!! I’m hoping them sunflowers shoot to the moon for ya, go call on your spacing for them cause last year I might have given them 18” and the roots grew into each other which kind of helped them stand when they got tall and the wind blew. The T-post bamboo sounds like a really good idea, cause once them heads gets on they will sag the stem 2-3’ especially when the heads get 18”-24” wide.
I just might experiment with that potato flower plucking deal and do half plucked and half unplucked, then we will know if it is giant waste of time. Now with pepper plants I find removing that first pepper always brings lots more peppers so plucking potato flowers might bring me more lbs. of potatoes. Awesome video.
I had really bad luck with the onions I bought. First batch failed miserable, I should have known not to go back, but tried the replacements, worked hard to grow them,, seriously. decided I just had bad or was sent weak starts.. sometimes it's trial and error. glad you figured it out about your peas and shared. I am about to get ready to start my field peas and needed that advice
I had one variety of onions that didn't germinate for me last year. In that case I deemed it was the seeds because all my others did just fine under the same conditions.
Hey Travis, you MIGHT remember my telling you my ducks ate all my potatoes in my Ruth Stout type patch. I was mowing that are this weekend and I just about mowed those “weeds” down. Low and behold, them there was potato plants!!! Duck have learned - Mess with Mama’s garden, go to the duck jail .
Hi Travis, I've been planting potatoes for several years, mostly bought seed potatoes from Wood Prairre bc they grow the best for my micro climate. When I plucked the bloom buds from my plants they did produce more taters, or larger potatoes..depending on the variety..example Huckleberry Gold vs Prince Harry.. HG produced more taters..PW produced larger ones..I'm trialing Charolett variety in addition to Caribe to compare 1st earlies..can't wait for weight comparison of harvests. I'm in zone 7b/6a on the growing border..we've had cold dry April..I've had to water my spuds which is rare in April..hopefully May will be better...blessings.
My potatoes have not emerged from the soil yet. Never thought of removing the flowers from the potatoes. Might try that out this year. I hope my Kennebec have better germination than what you got. I came across a few potatoes when I was transplanting my celery and relocated them to this year's potato bed. There always seem to be some that escape during harvest time. 😁
Kennebec usually does pretty well for us. I think it was the fact that we used our own saved seed stock and they weren't ready to sprout -- instead most of them probably rotted in the soil.
I don't have a choice with the potato flowers....I don't know what is doing it...but when they blossom something comes along and cuts them off. Each day a blossom gets clipped 🤨
Some people soak their peas and beans a few hours before planting. I have soaked mine in the past, but I don't see a huge difference in germination. We got a few sprinkles from that front that came through, just enough to cause issues with the winter squash, you know how quick the mildew can take over in this high humidity.😟. I had my chickens in that space all of 2021, so I'm hoping they scratched up all the vine borers pupae. Those borers are really bad in my area but when I lived on my small homestead in northwest Florida I never had problems with vine borers. I just ordered some flower seeds for planting in and around my little garden.
I tried soaking peas my first year and noticed it was, like, maybe 1.5 days earlier. To me that’s not enough to really justify the extra work so now I don’t bother.
Chickens love Sunflower heads🐓 Hope the potatoes are growing under the ground.👌 Good lesson on the seeds poor germination, most would blame seeds, but make sense 👍 Makes sense to remove flowers, like scapes with Hard Garlic 🤔
I think they weren't ready to sprout since they were just harvested in the fall. We probably should have done something to stimulate sprout production.
I have put them on drip. But I no longer do it because: 1) I'll tend to overwater them, making the soil around the actual sweet potatoes too moist and they'll rot. 2) Sweet potatoes are pretty drought-tolerant and a splash with the overhead every now and then is usually sufficient, even in the heat of summer. 3) Pulling up the drip tape when it is covered with sweet potatoes vines can be a pain. Without the tape there, harvesting is much faster.
Last year I had a hard time finding Kennebec potatoes. I have always had great luck with Kennebecs. However when I did find them the yield was very poor. I am wonder if Kennebecs are just having a couple of bad years. Anyone else have trouble with them?
That Darkibor kale looks pretty healthy. I’m growing Dwarf Curly kale and Russian Kale. Is the Darkibor kale good eating and fo you think I’ll do will in the southwest desert? Thanks for the video!
Travis, please, I need advice. About 2/1, I ordered several varieties of seed potatoes from 😡 Gurney’s. Also a few blackberry plants. They haven’t either been sent out from Gurney’s yet! I’m in your zone, in southeast Louisiana. I think it’s just too hot to grow potatoes in 8 b in summer, and I’ve tried to cancel the order. I don’t have a cool or cold storage area to hold seed tubers over until October or November for planting. What chance would seed potatoes have in a Gulf South summer? Thanks, good buddy.
No chance. That's the disadvantage of ordering from someone like Gurney's who has their potatoes drop shipped from another suppliers. Buying from a grower like Wood Prairie has it's advantages.
One concern about the flowers vs. not flowers issue is that there's also a fruit vs. no fruit issue. Setting fruit (poisonous green berries in the case of potatoes) and seeds is more energetically intensive than simply showing a few flowers. Did the paper address that? Most gardeners probably won't see a lot of potato berries even if they leave the flowers because they're not planting a lot of varieties and most commercially available potato varieties do not set viable pollen--they have a genetic condition called cytoplasmic male sterility. Some potato varieties do set pollen, though, and if you have one of those there's a chance to set fruit on both that variety and any other flowering potatoes in the garden. On bad seeds I have had seeds before that were visibly bad when compared to the same variety from another supplier. As I anticipated, they did not germinate under the same conditions as the apparently good seeds.. I no longer use that supplier.
The paper did not address potato seeds from what I remember. The actual production of seeds seems pretty rare. I've never heard of anyone harvesting any of those seeds.
@@LazyDogFarm I saved them just for the challenge in 2014. They grew very well and are still showing good germination after 8 years in storage. A fun experiment.
I suck at getting flowers to grow I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Sunflowers are different though. I grew some Russian mammoth sunflowers last year and they got 10-12 foot tall
I had sugar snap peas (Burpee)they were a year old. I start in the fabric pods. I’ve done it for years with no issue. The first set only about half germination, I bought new ones and had the same issue🤷🏼♀️ I had two peas in each pod🤦♀️ they were all in the same conditions. Also I’ve noticed that there are also snow peas in the mix which I know is an issue. Can you recommend a source for them. I do t need a large quantity
I know you have been really high on your nature safe fertilizer. I live in Colorado and I have looked for the nature safe fertilizer everywhere and cannot find it and have tried to contact nature save directly with no good results. I was really planning on trying this fertilizer, but I guess I will have to look for some other brand, any recommendations?
That is definitely an issue with the Nature Safe fertilizers. They only sell in 50 lb bags, so the shipping is high. Try emailing or calling the rep from your area as opposed to emailing the general company email. I'll also contact my rep and see if there are any possible solutions for a dealer listing on their site.
Hey Charlie, I think I can help. Instead of buying through Seven Springs, try New Country Organics who have a distribution center in Lubbock, TX. I bought both 8-5-5 and 13-0-0 and saved over $50 in freight to the Front Range.
Thanks for the video, I don't believe that story of better yields when removing potato flowers. The flowers also assimilate and contribute to the growth of the plant. If berries are formed later, I can imagine something and you can still pick them off when they are formed.
It wasn't a story, it was a peer-reviewed paper in a reputable scientific journal. But if your goal is to hopefully collect the berries or seeds, then you'd definitely want to leave the flowers.
@@LazyDogFarm I think there is more profit to be made in other ways. We assume a minimum of 20 stems per square meter. (2 per square foot) thanks for the response. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Good video as always. What’s the name of that new pest control stuff you’ve been using? I’m already eat up with squash bugs, cucumber beetles and yes potato bugs. I’ll be trying the mustard cover crop for sure. I don’t why ,but we have better luck with peas and beans in the fall. Spring I’ll grow a bunch of plant and no beans or peas. Strange.
It's called Azera. It's a little pricey, but I've found that you don't have to apply it as frequently as other organic options. So the cost balances over time.
Have you thought about companion planting? I plant my potatoes in rows but on each side of my potato bed I have garlic and the other side onions. I have had zero problems with potato bugs. Also planting basil close or under your tomato plants yields more tomatoes.
I planted my top-pick pink-eye purple hull peas (from Morgan County Seed, as you recommended in a recent video), and I honestly think I got 99% germination within 4 days. I only planted about 30' of them, so I took the time to plant them one-by-one with the eyes facing down this past Thursday evening. I kept the soil moist, and suddenly this afternoon (Monday), they were 2" tall. It's in the 90s here in FL, so I hope they like the heat!
I did three different germ methods for those choppee, even in same trays with my other okra which all came up without issue. Choppee seeds had nothing. I also got ghosted by SESE on every email I sent them. Lost a customer.
Sorry to hear that. That's not very good customer service at all. I wonder what happened with their Choppee okree stock from one year to the next. Mine germinated really well last year.
It's pretty rare that I get what appear to be bad seeds, even from second tier seed vendors. Grower error is almost always to blame. Sometimes I will forego buying fresh seed if I still have that particular cultivar left over from the year before. Generally, that's a mistake as I find germination rates and seedling vigor will have fallen off noticeably. New policy is to only save my heirloom seeds and always buy fresh hybrid seed every year. Jasmine Street Farm
I've not had terrible luck with leftover hybrid seeds as long as I keep them in those mylar bags in the fridge. But I do usually plant doubles in seed trays on a saved batch just in case.
Well, I don' t have a clue about potato flowers. But, since you planted them all the same way, in the same soil, same row, on the same day, same rainfall/irrigation, same hilling, etc., splitting the group by plucking flowers from half of a variety, while leaving the other half of the same variety, should give you a good representative test.
i have had taters with blooms and without,, i have pulled them off and i have left them alone,, idk if it effects the yield or not, but,, i'd say if it does, it's not enough to worry about. and idk if it's so, but i've heard that sometimes the blooms will turn into a tomato looking fruit, i've never seen it myself but i do recall seeing a youtube video where they had some. but they said that you can't eat them or you will get sick. but if i have blooms, i'd like to see that, so i leave them alone.
Travis, I seen a lot of Irish Potatoes planted and planted my share in my time, and we never pinch off the flowers.. recently I heard people say the flower makes a tomatoe looking ball from the flowers and that it is true potatoe seed 🤔, never seen that happen either in my 58 years growing up farming and always being around farming in Avoyelles parish in Louisiana. I'll compare mine to yours when its tater time😁.. Interesting video. ✌🏻
Most potato varieties are male sterile, i.e., they don't set viable pollen. If you have at least one variety that isn't sterile, then any of the potatoes in your garden that flower can develop poisonous green berries that contain tiny seeds. The seeds can be collected from the mature fruit (which is usually green and thus hard to determine maturity on) and grown into potato plants. It takes a couple of seasons to produce full sized tubers. Potatoes are not hybrids in the same sense as hybrid corn, but they're functionally the same in that the seeds will never be true to the original type--they'll grow into a wide range novel varieties that most of the time will not be as good as the carefully selected variety you started with. This process is likely only worth your time if you're looking for a hobby rather than for lots of decent quality potatoes.
@@bobbun9630 interesting, do you know of a variety that is not sterile i would enjoy trying this out. I not saying it's not possible, just have never seen it!! And when i say i been around a lot of Irish Potatoes being planted, in my teenage years we would cut at least 4 to 6 - 50# sacks of seed potatoes to plant between us and our neighbor. They would run a rotary cutter (bush hog) to cut the vines then we picked behind a one row pull behind digger that would open the row, the potatoes would run about six feet on bar chain and fall to the ground pretty clean, then we would put them in 1 bushel wooden potatoe crates and then hand load all those crates on the back of a one ton flat bed truck, keep what we would use for the year and bring the rest to a fellow who would buy them and ship them to whomever would buy in quantity from him. I would get .25 cents per crate I picked and a nickle a crate to help load.. man that was the good old days when everyone worked together to help each other out. They done the same with cattle, milk cows, meat chickens and hogs. And after the harvest I thought I was rich. I miss those days😊. ✌🏻
@@markb3129 I replied earlier, but don't see the reply any more. I don't know of a particular variety, so you may have to do a search to find an appropriate one. There's a lot of good information about this topic at Cultivariable. It's definitely worth visiting there and reading the information even if you're not interested in his seed offerings.
I'm 64 and was told by my grandparents that when the flowers are there that is a signal that potatoes are developing. Not to dig until the plants die back/start turning yellow.
I pluk potato Flowers when they show up to keep cross pollination down one year I don't do it and had throw them to the hogs because they were to bitter don't no why but I should have lesson to the old man which was my grandfather he warned me about this .I just know we didn't eat the potatoes and neither did the hogs .they just set there and rotted away but the smell was unbearable for about three months finally we got dug a hole and burned it with old wood from the farm we never did that again.
Why do you leave the soil bare and exposed? You should cover it with woodchips or something. You will get weeds if you don't and your soil will get fried by the sun. It's just weird to me to see bare, exposed soil between your rows of veggies. Here in Florida if I did that the weeds would immediately take over and the sun would have that soil dried out within a few hours. I see your garlic has mulch.
Several reasons ... We grow year round and are replanting every 3 months or so. We'd rather not move wood chips every time we need to replant. We also grow a lot of cover crops in the summer months and you can’t plant a cover crop into wood chips. And cover crops are much better for our soil than wood chips would be.
@@LazyDogFarm If I had the space like you do I would try the cover crops but I have no room here. I have to use fabric pots. Nice thing about those is I can move my plants around. Saved my banana plant from the January cold spell we had down here. Now instead of 1 banana plant I have 5! All sprouted since January of this year and 1 of them is already over a foot tall.
@@LazyDogFarm Rye (grain) is grown in Georgia, and probably not far from where you bought it (transportation costs). Maybe it's Rye-Grass straw just cut and bundled.
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Hey Travis, I planted a row of treated zipper cream peas and and a row of white acre side by side, one seed per hole on both and was watering by hose every day. The white acres germinated about 80-85 percent while the zipper cream germinated at around 45-50 percent. Thanks to you , now I think I know why.
On a separate note, I have an old field with poor, powdery soil. I have just planted buckwheat in a portion of it 2/3rds of an acre. I spread the seed, pulled a drag over it and then watered for an hour that next evening. The next afternoon when I got off work the the dirt was powdery dry again. So I watered for 2 hours that evening. Next afternoon, Powdery dry so I watered 3 hours. Now, I see a lot of people talking about how fast buckwheat germinates and grows but so far I am just getting a 1/4 inch sprout here and there. I am wondering what I am doing wrong. Do you have any advice for this situation? I really want to transform that 2 acres of dead, depleted dirt into healthy living soil. Thanks for everything you share brother.
Buckwheat does usually germinate fast -- sometimes in 2 days with ample water. If you're really wanting to build the soil during the warmer months, I'd suggest sorghum sudangrass. It can be mowed repeatedly so that the green material is chopped and dropped to help add organic matter to the soil. I like it better than buckwheat because it lasts longer, whereas buckwheat usually matures in 4-6 weeks.
@@LazyDogFarm I just may do that in another section. I also wanted the buckwheat to attract honeybees. I have wanted to try the SSG since seeing the video on "the other channel". I am growing in containers and in ground cover this year so I have the 2 acres to plant in ground covers. Thank you for the video and the advice. Happy Mother's Day to Brooklynn.
I’ll remember the Steele company for next year. I just ordered from a company I’ve bought from for the past two years.
Good deal. Hope your sweet potatoes produce well this year!
My grandmother never lived long enough to even know about the internet, but she would have been addicted to your channel.
Thanks. I'm sure you have great memories of your grandmother in the garden.
I cant believe how long you are able to let your Kale grow. Here in central TX, come march when it warms up, the aphids and bugs just engulf them. gotta pull and burn em before I plant anything for the spring.
Surprisingly, kale is one of the few greens that we don't have to worry about pests. Nothing seems to bother it.
Just letting you know that my fig plant arrived in the mail today and it looks great. Thanks again! 😀
So happy for you. I DIDNT get to them fastest enough .
Hoping they have extra ..
God bless you
Mrs Josette Tharp
Montgomery County , Texas 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@Lowcounty Gardener Great to hear! Thanks for the order.
Mustards... I roto tilled the Florida Broadleaf mustard into the plot and didn't have to spray the taters either...it's pieces of Mustard greens coming up between the rows as 'weeds" in my garden...everywhere! And, I've always heard you should pick the flowers off for better taters precious! :- ) Also, when my potatoes...uh... I mean, taters are mature enough to dig, I cut the tops (greens ) off the mound and leave for a week before digging them up. This I understand makes the skins tougher and less likely to "skin" when you dig them. Prrrecious taters!
I've heard that about sweet potatoes too -- mowing the vegetation supposedly makes the skins tougher and they hold up better during harvesting.
We always pinched ours off because it takes energy from the potatoes 🥔 , my grandad used to tell us that.
Makes sense.
The weather looks nice.
It was meant for me to see your video.!!!! I planted 2 short double rows of zipper peas. And watered them every DAY and sure enough only a few came up. Guess I will till it up and replant them.
As far as the tator situation. My dad (90 years old and grew up on a primative farm) says that he has always cut the blooms off the plants. AND if there's really tall plants he would brake the top off. He says it stops the plant from growing up and ALL the energy go to the production of tator
Hopefully the next planting will do much better.
Awesome video Travis! You know how the old saying goes - you learn far more from failure than successes. It’s great that you were able to deduce the problem with the pea germination, adjust your process and then have a successful replant. Also glad to hear that you are keeping that plot as a no-till. I’ve read that natural soil structure has micro layers with different structure and biology and when you till it takes time for the soil to re-adjust. I know it has taken some time but the no-till and compost approach sure looks like it is paying off.
It's definitely a slow process, but it does seem to have a payoff after a while.
Good information 🤠
Interesting (plucking or not plucking) 🤔
Man, I’ll be cutting my potatoes blooms tomorrow! Thanks for the tip!
Definitely let us know if you think it makes a difference.
@@LazyDogFarm was it you that said kennabecs don’t do as well for you? I did notice today they were loaded with blooms, whereas all other types we planted were not. They were sporadic. So we shall see.
Me and Dad planted a 150ft row of Zipper on 4/8, and hardly any came up. He replanted on 4/23 and we had almost full germination. He definitely didn’t overwater the 1st planting. If anything, they were under watered. Might have been soil temperature that caused the difference.
Probably was soil temp in your case. I would have went with that theory had we not had the really great germination at the end of the row.
Excellent information as always. Thank you 😉
Our pleasure!
The Zipper Pea info. was very good. I will remember it. I would have done the same thing as you did the first time without this info. The tater plucking info was also good. I always thought it was bs. but apparently some one did the study. Science is the same everywhere so no reason to doubt it. Thanks for the good tips gg :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Things are looking good.
Thanks Sue!
If I don’t use drip tape, but I feel like I need water at germination, I put a temporary soaker hose right on top, or in the middle, if planting a double row. I’ll remove the hose once they sprout and are doing well. The key to a soaker hose however, is to make sure you pressurize it from both ends. 😀
I can see where that would definitely help to reduce overwatering.
Interesting
Got my fig today in the mail! Looks great! Thank you so much!
Glad it got there safely! Thanks for the order Karen!
That is some beautiful kale! Thanks for the pea tip, I either overwater or underwater everything. And worry about doing both while I'm watering.
Haha!
Great info especially the potato flower
Glad it was helpful!
I was told when the potatoes flower time to give a little fertilize. Also the color of the flower tells you the color of the potatoes.
My purple/blue potatoes throw white flowers... 🤷♀️
Alright alright alright...thanks for sneakin that in brother lol
No problem 👍
I want to see you use the weave
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We are gonna have highs of 90 degrees here in Augusta, GA the squash, tomato and pepper plants love the heat, but I must say that it's a little too hot for me. I am sure it is hot there too Travis stay cool.
Looks like we're gonna hit 90 in the next couple days. Time to get ready, summer is here.
You are going to laugh but here goes...I am very heat intolerant but I love gardening. I put up a very small intex pool. Could be a kiddie pool if you want. Just enough to cool off in. When I get hot/over heat....I sit in the water, cool off and repeat. I am 64 yrs old. Lol. But when most are indoors because of the heat, I can continue to work at my hobby.
Thank you for another very informative video. I have learned more from you than any other channel. Will be picking potato blooms off as well.
Wonderful!
Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
Thanks for joining us Nancy!
I would like you to put together a list of what goes on the drip tape and what doesn't. So it would help me out on watering.
Might try and do a blog of that on our website, but not a bad idea for a video either.
With the erratic weather and my unheated greenhouse, I had to reseed most of my peppers this year .I found it was better to wait until the weather got warmer and stayed that way for most of the days. You're right about that most likely it's grower's error. Thanks for all your tips, experiences and knowledge. I'm south of you and seems like we're getting into the 90's so early this year.
I often make that mistake with lettuce in the fall. Try to get it started too early when it's still too hot and they won't germinate in warm soils in the greenhouse.
New subscriber/ gardener, where did you purchase that cool sprinkler ?
The link is under the description, Amazon
I got mine at lowes about 45 dollars
@Barbara Goodman Here's a link: amzn.to/3s5F3ru
YOu ever try wobblers? i use minis that overlap and they do a good job, not perfectly even but quite good for overhead.
Haven't tried those, but they do look like they'd work well. All of my plots are small by design for many reasons. One of those is that I can water the entire plot with one of those tripod sprinklers.
That’s good info on them peas and the potatoes!! I’m hoping them sunflowers shoot to the moon for ya, go call on your spacing for them cause last year I might have given them 18” and the roots grew into each other which kind of helped them stand when they got tall and the wind blew. The T-post bamboo sounds like a really good idea, cause once them heads gets on they will sag the stem 2-3’ especially when the heads get 18”-24” wide.
I'm hoping they get as tall as those pine trees! lol
@@LazyDogFarm that’d be awesome 😎!! I hope they do too!
I do hope you followup on these sunflowers and other stuff when it gets really big.
We surely will!
Enjoying your channel since I found it, but where is that dag gum lazy dog at.🤣
They'll make random appearances in the background of the videos on occasion.
I just might experiment with that potato flower plucking deal and do half plucked and half unplucked, then we will know if it is giant waste of time. Now with pepper plants I find removing that first pepper always brings lots more peppers so plucking potato flowers might bring me more lbs. of potatoes. Awesome video.
Definitely share your results if you test it!
@@LazyDogFarm Will do.
I had really bad luck with the onions I bought. First batch failed miserable, I should have known not to go back, but tried the replacements, worked hard to grow them,, seriously. decided I just had bad or was sent weak starts.. sometimes it's trial and error. glad you figured it out about your peas and shared. I am about to get ready to start my field peas and needed that advice
I had one variety of onions that didn't germinate for me last year. In that case I deemed it was the seeds because all my others did just fine under the same conditions.
Very informative and I enjoy your videos. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Hey Travis, you MIGHT remember my telling you my ducks ate all my potatoes in my Ruth Stout type patch. I was mowing that are this weekend and I just about mowed those “weeds” down. Low and behold, them there was potato plants!!! Duck have learned - Mess with Mama’s garden, go to the duck jail .
Good to hear you set those ducks straight!
Hi Travis, I've been planting potatoes for several years, mostly bought seed potatoes from Wood Prairre bc they grow the best for my micro climate. When I plucked the bloom buds from my plants they did produce more taters, or larger potatoes..depending on the variety..example Huckleberry Gold vs Prince Harry.. HG produced more taters..PW produced larger ones..I'm trialing Charolett variety in addition to Caribe to compare 1st earlies..can't wait for weight comparison of harvests. I'm in zone 7b/6a on the growing border..we've had cold dry April..I've had to water my spuds which is rare in April..hopefully May will be better...blessings.
Thanks for sharing your results Linda!
My potatoes have not emerged from the soil yet. Never thought of removing the flowers from the potatoes. Might try that out this year. I hope my Kennebec have better germination than what you got. I came across a few potatoes when I was transplanting my celery and relocated them to this year's potato bed. There always seem to be some that escape during harvest time. 😁
Kennebec usually does pretty well for us. I think it was the fact that we used our own saved seed stock and they weren't ready to sprout -- instead most of them probably rotted in the soil.
I don't have a choice with the potato flowers....I don't know what is doing it...but when they blossom something comes along and cuts them off. Each day a blossom gets clipped 🤨
Hmm. That is odd.
Some people soak their peas and beans a few hours before planting. I have soaked mine in the past, but I don't see a huge difference in germination. We got a few sprinkles from that front that came through, just enough to cause issues with the winter squash, you know how quick the mildew can take over in this high humidity.😟. I had my chickens in that space all of 2021, so I'm hoping they scratched up all the vine borers pupae. Those borers are really bad in my area but when I lived on my small homestead in northwest Florida I never had problems with vine borers.
I just ordered some flower seeds for planting in and around my little garden.
I tried soaking peas my first year and noticed it was, like, maybe 1.5 days earlier. To me that’s not enough to really justify the extra work so now I don’t bother.
We never really have issues with borers here. It's mostly squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs.
BTW I have a perfect stand of peanuts all 8 rows looking really nice!
Nice! Maybe I'll get that with these Valencias.
Chickens love Sunflower heads🐓
Hope the potatoes are growing under the ground.👌
Good lesson on the seeds poor germination, most would blame seeds, but make sense 👍
Makes sense to remove flowers, like scapes with Hard Garlic 🤔
These sunflower heads are supposedly supposed to be huge, so they should love that!
What caused issues with the kennebac potatoes
I think they weren't ready to sprout since they were just harvested in the fall. We probably should have done something to stimulate sprout production.
Travis, why do you not put sweet potatoes on drip line water?
I have put them on drip. But I no longer do it because:
1) I'll tend to overwater them, making the soil around the actual sweet potatoes too moist and they'll rot.
2) Sweet potatoes are pretty drought-tolerant and a splash with the overhead every now and then is usually sufficient, even in the heat of summer.
3) Pulling up the drip tape when it is covered with sweet potatoes vines can be a pain. Without the tape there, harvesting is much faster.
I wonder if that also holds true for sweet potatoes.
Not sure. I might dig around and see if I can find any research on that.
Hey Travis, what company did you use to get your sweet potato slips
Right here: www.sweetpotatoplant.com/?ref=2c1LrVP9UKW8CB
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you 👍
Are there any flowers that self seed
Lots of them. Zinnias will self-seed along with marigolds, sunflowers and many more.
I’m confused on garlic. I live in a 6 zone. When should I plant garlic and when can I harvest
It should survive the winter underground. Plant in the fall and overwinter it. Just cover it with mulch to protect from snow.
You can google it and it will tell you.
Last year I had a hard time finding Kennebec potatoes. I have always had great luck with Kennebecs. However when I did find them the yield was very poor. I am wonder if Kennebecs are just having a couple of bad years. Anyone else have trouble with them?
Our Kennebecs did very well last year. But this saved seed stock we used from our fall crop didn't sprout very well.
That Darkibor kale looks pretty healthy. I’m growing Dwarf Curly kale and Russian Kale. Is the Darkibor kale good eating and fo you think I’ll do will in the southwest desert? Thanks for the video!
Darkibor is excellent for eating. We eat kale and sausage at least once a week it seems. I think it should do fine for you.
@@LazyDogFarm I appreciate the information. Sounds like a variety to try. Have a good one!
Travis, please, I need advice. About 2/1, I ordered several varieties of seed potatoes from 😡 Gurney’s. Also a few blackberry plants. They haven’t either been sent out from Gurney’s yet! I’m in your zone, in southeast Louisiana. I think it’s just too hot to grow potatoes in 8 b in summer, and I’ve tried to cancel the order. I don’t have a cool or cold storage area to hold seed tubers over until October or November for planting. What chance would seed potatoes have in a Gulf South summer? Thanks, good buddy.
No chance. That's the disadvantage of ordering from someone like Gurney's who has their potatoes drop shipped from another suppliers. Buying from a grower like Wood Prairie has it's advantages.
@@LazyDogFarm Absolutely! I saw their site after you recommended them & I’ll send in a fall order. Thanks so much!
One concern about the flowers vs. not flowers issue is that there's also a fruit vs. no fruit issue. Setting fruit (poisonous green berries in the case of potatoes) and seeds is more energetically intensive than simply showing a few flowers. Did the paper address that? Most gardeners probably won't see a lot of potato berries even if they leave the flowers because they're not planting a lot of varieties and most commercially available potato varieties do not set viable pollen--they have a genetic condition called cytoplasmic male sterility. Some potato varieties do set pollen, though, and if you have one of those there's a chance to set fruit on both that variety and any other flowering potatoes in the garden.
On bad seeds I have had seeds before that were visibly bad when compared to the same variety from another supplier. As I anticipated, they did not germinate under the same conditions as the apparently good seeds.. I no longer use that supplier.
The paper did not address potato seeds from what I remember. The actual production of seeds seems pretty rare. I've never heard of anyone harvesting any of those seeds.
@@LazyDogFarm I saved them just for the challenge in 2014. They grew very well and are still showing good germination after 8 years in storage. A fun experiment.
How long does the mustard need to grow to help with potato pest?
You'll want to have some nice-sized leaves on it. I usually don't incorporate it until it starts to flower.
Do you reuse drip tape or is it "one and done?"
We reuse it for several seasons.
I suck at getting flowers to grow I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Sunflowers are different though. I grew some Russian mammoth sunflowers last year and they got 10-12 foot tall
aren't those just ..can you believe it huge
Zinnias and marigolds are really easy. Ageratum too!
@@LazyDogFarm I have tried both and not having success they will sprout out and then just die
I had sugar snap peas (Burpee)they were a year old. I start in the fabric pods. I’ve done it for years with no issue. The first set only about half germination, I bought new ones and had the same issue🤷🏼♀️ I had two peas in each pod🤦♀️ they were all in the same conditions. Also I’ve noticed that there are also snow peas in the mix which I know is an issue. Can you recommend a source for them. I do t need a large quantity
I've never really grown snow peas, so I don't have a good recommendation on variety or source.
Do you have to water Mississippi hill peas a lot? So dry here in upstate sc
Some, but not as much as something like corn.
I know you have been really high on your nature safe fertilizer. I live in Colorado and I have looked for the nature safe fertilizer everywhere and cannot find it and have tried to contact nature save directly with no good results. I was really planning on trying this fertilizer, but I guess I will have to look for some other brand, any recommendations?
I contacted them and the rep emailed me back fast. Unfortunately there is no local retailer and shipping is sky high.
That is definitely an issue with the Nature Safe fertilizers. They only sell in 50 lb bags, so the shipping is high. Try emailing or calling the rep from your area as opposed to emailing the general company email. I'll also contact my rep and see if there are any possible solutions for a dealer listing on their site.
Hey Charlie, I think I can help. Instead of buying through Seven Springs, try New Country Organics who have a distribution center in Lubbock, TX. I bought both 8-5-5 and 13-0-0 and saved over $50 in freight to the Front Range.
@@markware4933 thanks Mark, I will definitely give them a try really appreciate it.
Thanks for the video, I don't believe that story of better yields when removing potato flowers. The flowers also assimilate and contribute to the growth of the plant. If berries are formed later, I can imagine something and you can still pick them off when they are formed.
It wasn't a story, it was a peer-reviewed paper in a reputable scientific journal. But if your goal is to hopefully collect the berries or seeds, then you'd definitely want to leave the flowers.
@@LazyDogFarm I think there is more profit to be made in other ways. We assume a minimum of 20 stems per square meter. (2 per square foot) thanks for the response. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Good video as always. What’s the name of that new pest control stuff you’ve been using? I’m already eat up with squash bugs, cucumber beetles and yes potato bugs. I’ll be trying the mustard cover crop for sure. I don’t why ,but we have better luck with peas and beans in the fall. Spring I’ll grow a bunch of plant and no beans or peas. Strange.
It's called Azera. It's a little pricey, but I've found that you don't have to apply it as frequently as other organic options. So the cost balances over time.
Have you thought about companion planting? I plant my potatoes in rows but on each side of my potato bed I have garlic and the other side onions. I have had zero problems with potato bugs. Also planting basil close or under your tomato plants yields more tomatoes.
I planted my top-pick pink-eye purple hull peas (from Morgan County Seed, as you recommended in a recent video), and I honestly think I got 99% germination within 4 days. I only planted about 30' of them, so I took the time to plant them one-by-one with the eyes facing down this past Thursday evening. I kept the soil moist, and suddenly this afternoon (Monday), they were 2" tall. It's in the 90s here in FL, so I hope they like the heat!
That's great germination, especially on field peas which can be a bit more stubborn. They love the heat, so they should do great!
I did three different germ methods for those choppee, even in same trays with my other okra which all came up without issue. Choppee seeds had nothing. I also got ghosted by SESE on every email I sent them. Lost a customer.
Sorry to hear that. That's not very good customer service at all. I wonder what happened with their Choppee okree stock from one year to the next. Mine germinated really well last year.
Might not water the garlic this late in your season.... could shorten storage life
I thought about that. I probably need to adjust the angle of my sprinkler so it only gets the flowers and not the garlic.
It's pretty rare that I get what appear to be bad seeds, even from second tier seed vendors. Grower error is almost always to blame. Sometimes I will forego buying fresh seed if I still have that particular cultivar left over from the year before. Generally, that's a mistake as I find germination rates and seedling vigor will have fallen off noticeably. New policy is to only save my heirloom seeds and always buy fresh hybrid seed every year.
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I've not had terrible luck with leftover hybrid seeds as long as I keep them in those mylar bags in the fridge. But I do usually plant doubles in seed trays on a saved batch just in case.
Well, I don' t have a clue about potato flowers. But, since you planted them all the same way, in the same soil, same row, on the same day, same rainfall/irrigation, same hilling, etc., splitting the group by plucking flowers from half of a variety, while leaving the other half of the same variety, should give you a good representative test.
I’d have to be careful talking about plucking flowers. If I said it too fast I might say something bad. LoL
Hah!
Now thats funny!!!
i have had taters with blooms and without,, i have pulled them off and i have left them alone,, idk if it effects the yield or not, but,, i'd say if it does, it's not enough to worry about. and idk if it's so, but i've heard that sometimes the blooms will turn into a tomato looking fruit, i've never seen it myself but i do recall seeing a youtube video where they had some. but they said that you can't eat them or you will get sick. but if i have blooms, i'd like to see that, so i leave them alone.
I've heard that about the fruits too, but have never seen them.
Travis, I seen a lot of Irish Potatoes planted and planted my share in my time, and we never pinch off the flowers.. recently I heard people say the flower makes a tomatoe looking ball from the flowers and that it is true potatoe seed 🤔, never seen that happen either in my 58 years growing up farming and always being around farming in Avoyelles parish in Louisiana. I'll compare mine to yours when its tater time😁.. Interesting video. ✌🏻
Most potato varieties are male sterile, i.e., they don't set viable pollen. If you have at least one variety that isn't sterile, then any of the potatoes in your garden that flower can develop poisonous green berries that contain tiny seeds. The seeds can be collected from the mature fruit (which is usually green and thus hard to determine maturity on) and grown into potato plants. It takes a couple of seasons to produce full sized tubers. Potatoes are not hybrids in the same sense as hybrid corn, but they're functionally the same in that the seeds will never be true to the original type--they'll grow into a wide range novel varieties that most of the time will not be as good as the carefully selected variety you started with. This process is likely only worth your time if you're looking for a hobby rather than for lots of decent quality potatoes.
I've had potatoes produce the green berries after flowering.
@@bobbun9630 interesting, do you know of a variety that is not sterile i would enjoy trying this out. I not saying it's not possible, just have never seen it!! And when i say i been around a lot of Irish Potatoes being planted, in my teenage years we would cut at least 4 to 6 - 50# sacks of seed potatoes to plant between us and our neighbor. They would run a rotary cutter (bush hog) to cut the vines then we picked behind a one row pull behind digger that would open the row, the potatoes would run about six feet on bar chain and fall to the ground pretty clean, then we would put them in 1 bushel wooden potatoe crates and then hand load all those crates on the back of a one ton flat bed truck, keep what we would use for the year and bring the rest to a fellow who would buy them and ship them to whomever would buy in quantity from him. I would get .25 cents per crate I picked and a nickle a crate to help load.. man that was the good old days when everyone worked together to help each other out. They done the same with cattle, milk cows, meat chickens and hogs. And after the harvest I thought I was rich. I miss those days😊. ✌🏻
@@markb3129 I replied earlier, but don't see the reply any more. I don't know of a particular variety, so you may have to do a search to find an appropriate one. There's a lot of good information about this topic at Cultivariable. It's definitely worth visiting there and reading the information even if you're not interested in his seed offerings.
So the question is why does the potatoes flower at all?
Still a mystery to me ...
I'm 64 and was told by my grandparents that when the flowers are there that is a signal that potatoes are developing. Not to dig until the plants die back/start turning yellow.
Heck, we're gardeners, it's always SOMETHING ELSE'S fault! Just couldn't be us! If all else fails, we've always got the weather to blame! ;)
The weather is always the easiest scapegoat.
My potatoes are just breaking thru the dirt. Flower or not? Ummmm.
Might be a while before you see any flowers.
Advice for LIFE. Be OBJECTIVE, be OPEN-MINDED, RIGHT BRAIN REASONING. Who benefits? How? What could I have done? Am I overreacting? etc....
Good advice!
Pluck that chit 😆
Hahaha!
I pluk potato Flowers when they show up to keep cross pollination down one year I don't do it and had throw them to the hogs because they were to bitter don't no why but I should have lesson to the old man which was my grandfather he warned me about this .I just know we didn't eat the potatoes and neither did the hogs .they just set there and rotted away but the smell was unbearable for about three months finally we got dug a hole and burned it with old wood from the farm we never did that again.
Interesting. Never heard of potatoes being bitter.
Why do you leave the soil bare and exposed? You should cover it with woodchips or something. You will get weeds if you don't and your soil will get fried by the sun. It's just weird to me to see bare, exposed soil between your rows of veggies. Here in Florida if I did that the weeds would immediately take over and the sun would have that soil dried out within a few hours. I see your garlic has mulch.
Several reasons ... We grow year round and are replanting every 3 months or so. We'd rather not move wood chips every time we need to replant. We also grow a lot of cover crops in the summer months and you can’t plant a cover crop into wood chips. And cover crops are much better for our soil than wood chips would be.
@@LazyDogFarm If I had the space like you do I would try the cover crops but I have no room here. I have to use fabric pots. Nice thing about those is I can move my plants around. Saved my banana plant from the January cold spell we had down here. Now instead of 1 banana plant I have 5! All sprouted since January of this year and 1 of them is already over a foot tall.
Whoever sold you the straw did a horrible job in threshing.....hope they realize all the $$ they are blowing right out the window!
The folks who sell the wheat straw down here don't grow it. They just resell it. Not sure where this wheat straw is actually grown.
@@LazyDogFarm Rye (grain) is grown in Georgia, and probably not far from where you bought it (transportation costs). Maybe it's Rye-Grass straw just cut and bundled.
Anytime a plant is producing flowers it is putting energy into making them. By taking them off the energy is going back into the plant.
But some people let those potato blooms produce berries. The berries produce seeds that are true potato seeds you start them like tomato seeds.
@@joeyl.rowland4153 yes put even to make flowers and then seeds it still takes energy.