Michael Bloomberg said all you need to do is put some seeds in the dirt and water them. Guess he's never watched Stoney Ridge Farmer. He could have learned something if he did.
I’m not sure if someone has already mentioned it, but as a heavy equipment operator I’ve learned that when working a stockpile with any type if loader you can save a lot of time if you unload (move/spread) the stockpile in the direction you are wanting it to go. I noticed in the video you were filling your bucket then backing up and turning to dump. If come from the back side of the pile and scoop a bucket then slightly turn to go around you save time with avoiding turning and backing up. Each person has mastered a way that is effective and efficient for them, but in the construction industry every little thing that saves time saves money in the end. Keep up the great work! Love the content!
very good point.... sometimes I have to make over accentuated moves in order for the videos to look better and less boring....a whole new game when video comes into play...takes me twice as long to get things done too!
Thank you Josh for the continued videos and positivity in light of what is happening in our country. Watching your videos really lifts up my spirits and I’m sure many others, and takes my mind off the virus pandemic. Keep on being positive and doing what you love.
My wife and I both watched this video and we are just waiting for the ground to dry up and we will be following your lead with our own garden this year.
Good looking Tilled Soil Josh I sure can't wait to see you bed your rows in your garden for planting your crop. That's what it is all about nothing but pure country living on the farm. I sure can't wait to get my garden ready here in Georgia if it ever stops raining and this is my 8th year raising vegetables and planting and garden. Be blessed Josh and good luck with your garden and I will be on the lookout for your upcoming videos on bedding and planting. Wooooo!
Great educational stuff, as usual. It’s great to see a farmer outdoors working his land. Mr. Suburbanite here hasn’t been out of the house much recently. With the population density here in the Minneapolis- St. Paul area it’s best if I stay put. Both bosses, meaning wife and daughter, have told me to stay put.
You have a good thing going there, nice equipment for your work, ect, actually makes work fun with all the nice things, thanks for sharing, be watching!
That should grow some vegetables for ya! Love the old tractor. Wood chips are great for the air in the soil and the organic compost and manure are gonna supply the nitrates. If I can make a suggestion, Don’t till so deep next year and microbial growth will soar and your garden will produce well year after year. The amendments are going to slingshot the garden into operation brother.
That's the way to make a great garden. My Daddy and my brother put 4 pickup loads of on the new garden at are new house. A few years later Daddy and I put 5 more loads on it. I didn't help much on that first one because I wasn't old enough to do much, but I was on the second one. That garden would grow anything you planted in it. The barn Daddy and I cleaned out had been in it so long the guy had forgot it had a concrete floor in it. It was like digging dirt. It was two feet deep.
I feel you should clarify one thing. I live in upstate South Carolina. I have red dirt (alias clay) here. I tilled the soil as you and then planted my seed. Then there came a hard rain and then the sun. The surface became as brick and the plants could not emerge. I now use a disc harrow after breaking up the ground. However, I really enjoy your posts!
Try adding a lot of composted sawdust worked great for Oregon clay when I was a kid. Took a couple of years of doing it along with the manure but we had a great garden and good soil after that.
Josh, I lived in VA, 50 miles north of Charlottesville. I had 1.5 acres and some of the best garden soil on the planet. I wish I hadn't sold the homeplace...I could put out a bigger garden than you have. I would need help, but, sharing food is a way to get assistance. It had been a garden for 50 years...a dose of lime, and Miracle Grow or fertilizer, I could grow enough to feed 10 people. Love what you have made out of unkept ground.
Ha Farming is so easy. Takes me all year to get the micro carrot in the fall. They only get half inch long. So needless to say i have some work to do. Farming teaches you alot. Thanks for all the great videos.
Save the best looking tire or two, because if you pop or wreak one of the new tires, you can change it out and keep working while the other tire is getting fixed.
Looks like y’all have dried out some. I noticed that in TFW videos from NE of you too. Good to see things getting back to normal. Sadly, we’re still stirring mud in the western Ozarks.
Looking excellent Josh. One suggestion though...as corn is a heavy nitrogen feeder, I would suggest planting this garden to only 1/2 the corn and the rest in the other garden. Then next year switch sides of each garden and every year switch back and forth. Or alternatively switch whole gardens each and every year. I like the idea of 1/2 gardens as some plants benefit from companion planting with corn (cukes, squash, etc). Just an unsolicited suggestion!
Till in some lime. It will help with the acidity. If not already mentioned get with your local soil and water conservation and get a soil analysis. They will give you recommendations on what to add to get the soil optimal with additions in nutrients. Well worth the few dollars it costs. Rototiller works amazing.
I learned a LOT about building a garden, but I gotta say man, BRAAAVO on the high-quality video! The camera work, editing and transitions are completely on point! Great job!
We had black Angus on our property 3 1/3 acres in Bakersfield California but I had to get the cow manure with a wheelbarrow and a shovel to put on our garden then spade the garden with a shovel hard work 😓 but I loved it
yeah youre right, the no till method guy started with an already ammended land and it takes a few years to build it up before no till can be maintained.
How will you irrigate the corn garden? Corn takes a lot of fertilizer (natural or commercial) and a lot of water. If successful, you'll have a lot of corn this year!
Love your videos Josh, I would name your skidloader little John. I love the melody of that tune you played at the end of this video and you play it alot in other videos, what is the name of it ? Wouldn't the spreader have been better to use with a more even spread vs the skidloader. It is sure nice to watch You tube nowadays vs TV as all that's on is virus 19. We haven't thought about garden stuff yet as we have gotten 9 inches of snow in the last week to 10 days here in Nw Iowa plus the ground is saturated from rain last fall and all the snow over the winter. Have you ever tried planting potted vegetables plants in rotten square bales, they say it works well. You should try it along the side or end of your garden once. Do you ever get raccoons in your corn ? I have heard of using barn lime or put up a electric fence around the corn patch and we always had to have it in a different spot every year. Love your videos and God Bless we can all get through this if everyone would just listen to what they are telling you to do. Also I think people need to start gardening more again instead of relying on the grocery stores and canning your own vegetables and raising your own beef,pork,chickens and eggs as we never know what could happen.
Hey Boss, great content. I'm a fan of no-till BUT I can't stand know-it-all's. Glad it works for them but I'm sure you made this channel to share what works for you and I thank you for doing so! I do have an experiment idea though, if you'd like . . . COMPOST TEA. Freakin' miracle in a can and it can work wonders ESPECIALLY if you're already making beds. Take your kitchen compost fill up a pail of it, cover the solids with water and leave it overnight. Drain off the liquid the next day and spray a light mist on your garden beds. You're 'seeding' the beds with the microbes and let the micro herd prep the bed for you. They should get the pH just about right and put all that manure and woodchips to good work for you. If you spray half your veggie garden and don't spray the other half the contrast *should* be pretty amazing. The sprayed beds should have a fluffier consistency and blacker color like moist chocolate cake and the untreated beds will be denser & browner. Try it and see, would make great content and there's tons of instuctions online for making your blend of tea. Best of luck and thanks for sharing all about the heavy equipment. I learn so much from your channel.
Why have people moved away from plowing and risking? We always plowed every year. We planted a cover crop and turned it in along with any compost we spread in top of it.
Think because there might be more benefit's of No-Tilling, you'd have to research the benefit difference versus plowing/tilling. One benefit of No-Tilling is the time and expense you save versus plowing/tilling before prepping to seed.
I think you named it Mr. SRF. Skiddy the skid steer. I wish i was much closer. I'd love to get back on a real farm! Keep it up Mr &Mrs SRF!!!!! Wooooooo
Good video. I think personally I would have bottom plowed it under then chisel plowed it to mix. If you put 4 inched down and unless your tiller goes down 8 to 10 inches soil mixing is minimal. Just my opion to each there on.
Good video SRF. I need to do a channel. Been planting the garden after days of amending, tilling, fertilizing. Building chicken/rabbit tractors.quail/ rabbit cages. Just hatched 60 more quail. Only 1 fully formed baby didn’t hatch, he was scared of the pandemic!!! My tumak rabbits will be ready to Pick up soon then I’m moving to pig and sheep. I’m a 30 year construction guy but bought land and wanted to live off it for long time. Suddenly all my small kids have an interest and God just says start doing it. We get the quail and other things in the works and boom this pandemic crazyness hit. We need younger people to have the knowledge available to them, I’m teaching mine but many don’t care. If we build up enough videos from different areas and perspectives it could possibly save some lives some day.
My experience with Horse manure is it made the garden extremely green but the vegetable yield was very poor. When researching it, cow manure is much better for vegetables while horse manure is awesome for flowers
You are tilling your garden and talking about planting and I have snow on my lawn and we had a very mild winter. We won't till until the end of May up here in Maine. God bless you all! Jesus saves!
No saw mill here ! Ahhhh....and no tractor sponsor ...but we've got lawnmowers covered lol The Morgans are good people for sure...me and Mike talk on the phone from time to time
Josh, the experts are predicting a summer of hard to come buy fresh items such as fruits and vegetables. Maybe consider going a bit larger and letting your neighbors help with labor and spoils of that labor. u do that anyway but maybe more. Heck if i lived near u I would help and give money to help offset the cost of all that.
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I know right lol. Heck some of them folks aint got nothing better to do right now and it's the great outdoors so it's built in social distancing.
So we have horses and manure sitting. Is there a good way to know for sure that my turned manure is ready for use? Thx Stoney Ridge we love the videos, keep the, coming👍😀
