Kallstrom Sweet Corn here in Washington state . We are not organic growers BUT we use cattle manure . In parts of our field where we are able to use manure the plants are greener , taller , more ''lush '' thicker bigger plants . When we used manure on wheat the plants were the same, much better then non manured areas AND the yields were much HIGHER
It's my first time trying sweet corn. I pray that something survives. I am glad that I found you again, I wondered. You all have made this first time gardener more knowledgeable. I truly thank you. My garden, looks amazing. May GOD Bless You and Yours.
I think you’re going in the right direction with your move to more organic and long term fertilizers. Glad to see it. As for pesto, the best, in my opinion, is to use half basil and half spinach. It’s less bitter and more rounded flavor. Loving the channel 💗
I love the transition to organic fertilizer! I’ve learned a lot about chemicals in our food and it’s changed the way I grow and purchase things. It’s made a huge difference for me. I’m excited to see what you do next!
@@LazyDogFarm down to earth fertilizer works well in my experience as well...they also have a line of water soluble products you could run through the drip tape
Great video! I agree with the other comments that this is a great thing you're doing to transition a bit to organic. We bought a bag of alfalfa pellets and sprinkled it over the beds right before the rain yesterday. It fluffed up then dissolved and looks nice and green. Let's see if it helps! Your family is lovely!
I Love the white corn ..tried to grown a little patch and wow was it good...omg..wish we were not in this heat..and drought. I broke down and used up my salt based fertilizer..cause my dogs go destructo nuts when i use natural occuring ones....even when i put up temporary fences.
I have a new plot this year that I only tilled once to break up the bahia grass( it will be no till from now on) with nothing but cover crops for this summer. Instead of tarping it, I scattered about 20lbs. of iron clay peas and every leftover seed I had from past years in it. So far I have iron clay, English and snow peas, kale, turnips, radish, borage, several types of lettuce, kholrabi, watermelon, seminole pumpkin, butternut, 3 or 4 types of corn, crimson and dutch clover( which volunteered as I have tons on the property), a bunch of different flowers and who knows what else. All on overhead water. Not for production...just soil building. It will be fun to watch it and see what happens. This fall I'll sow it with berseem and rye and move my okra patch up there next spring. I'm really curious about how your corn turns out as I have never grown it organically(or no till for that matter). The less synthetics the better I say...good luck :)
Enjoyed the video Travis. Nice to see the whole family in the garden. Great tips on side dressing and hilling the corn. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the reasons and the methods. I had a question on one video and sure enough you answered it in the next video. Thanks for making my life easier, researching chemicals and processes gets overwhelming and frustrating..
Travis, are there any fig updates? I don't know how deep you got into figs, but if you are still growing different fig varieties, that might be an interesting show to talk about the different types and flavor profiles. I only recently discovered how diverse figs could be, and it's really fascinating. The Malta Black you had last year is on my wish list.
Another great video I saw the new fertilizer and it’s ok to me it’s cheap 50 lbs for $34.00 plus shipping all in all like $50 bucks and will last a long time. Love seeing the whole family in the gardens thanks for quality time with you guys
That pitcher has been around in your vlogs for quite a while! I think you got your money’s worth out of that purchase Travis , LOL !! Great information thanks once again!
Travis, I have taken your advise on trying to minimize the amount of salt being put into my garden. Unfortunately up here in Canada it is hard finding large bags of organic fertilizer. Of what I have used so far, my plants seem to have taken to it well. My corn is nice and green. Tomatoes, peppers are flourishing. Thank you.
I agree on the basil front. I had some great basil plants started from seed. Best looking I'd grown. I had transplanted some and was going to transplant the rest but a frost came in and wiped them out. Some of the tomato plants and pepper plants got nipped, too, but have recovered. I sure was looking forward to the basil.
Hi Travis. If you still have Old Troy in the shed you can get a hilling atchment for it quiet reasonable off the web. Use your Grillo for tilling and Troy for a dedicated billing tool. Just a thought. John S.
Cool to see you focusing more on soil health...those slow release fertilizers would start releasing sooner and release over a shorter time in your no till plot...alfalfa pellets are another good thing to use this way and it has a lot of trace minerals in it
ive heard alot of good things about alfalfa feed,, comes in pallets or meal, and at about $15. for 50 lbs, def cheap enough, im planting sweet corn tomorrow as a matter of fact,, i have calcium nitrate for the corn and i'll use that as planed. but im gonna stop in at the feed store and try out the alfalfa for the rest of the garden. my beds are mostly home made compost, i do use fertalizer but not alot, if the alfalfa works like ive heard, that will maybe kick all the other fertalizers to the curb for me. i've heard you mention that you don't mulch as you don't wanna move the mulch out of the way, well if you can find a sorce for fall leaves, you can use half done leaf mould as a mulch and just leave it there when you replant. i save up all the leaves i can in the fall and use for mulch and leaf mold as well as in my compost piles.
@@LazyDogFarm brother buy you a leaf vaccum and head to a forest in any national park or hell just on the side of an old country road somewhere. You can collect tons of leaves in a few hours and its the best free fertilizer and mulch in the world
Interesting alternative with the fertilizer. Look forward to your results. You might have to shoot some water to it and get the fertilizer where the roots can take it up better and quicker??? Also a thought was with the organic fertilizers, was from my past experience, you might have to give it another treatment sooner than you would have with the nitrate you normally use. I have not planted my corn yet (this weekend) but will adjust my fertilizer application on the late crop in June based upon how you do with your trials. Thanks Travis. Good luck on it.
We'll be getting rain all day tomorrow, so that should soak it pretty well. Definitely might need to add another round. We'll just keep an eye on the corn and see.
I wish you would have done half rows with the nitrate and other half with the other fertilizer, I would have loved to see the difference in how it grows! I love your videos I learn so much from them! I also have auto immune disease would love to hear more about that too!!
I will be trying alfalfa pellets this year. The corn won't go in the ground until May 15th so it will be a while before I can say how well it works. I put some alfalfa pellets down a week ago so it can begin breaking down before the corn goes in.
Hi Travis, I'm no expert on growing corn, but have you thought about using a mix of bio-char, feather meal, azomite, alfalfa meal, kelp meal ? A cup of bio-char has the surface area of a tennis court..mix with other fert supplements and it will give you a longer window in your fertilization needs...I use this method for my brussel sprouts, brocholi,( long term crops), wet your biochar and other ingredents
I have not ever used biochar, but am making an attempt to be more organic with my fertilizations. Trying a lot of products and formulations that I haven't tried in the past.
We must be talking about a different kind of pigweed. Around here, pigweed is slang for wild amaranth. We have purslane too, but doesn't look anything like what we call pigweed.
@@LazyDogFarm Ohhhh. Right. pigweed can mean that horribly prickly wild amaranth. Nasty stuff. Portulaca - purslane is also called pigweed by some. Growing up in Tifton we had a hairy kind of purslane. Where I live now it is smooth and a great food. All the best in your new ventures.
I like to harvest all my basil and make pesto sauce and freeze it in ice trays. After it freezes, I’ll remove from trays and put in a zip lock in the freezer. For a quick meal, I’ll cook chicken breast. Then cook a pound of pasta and throw in 4 pesto cubes and they sliced up grilled chicken. Quick, easy and good.
I use blood meal in my soil mix for my container garden because it is a slow release and provides a steady nitrogen source for the entire growing cycle. That being said, i still use 20-20-20 commercial fertilizer for all of my side dressings, using them in combination works amazingly well! The only drawback is the excessive cost of blood meal, there is no way i could use it in the row garden. I can buy a 40 pound bag of 20-20-20 for what three 15 pound bags of blood meal costs and 5 pounds of 20-20-20 will go much further than 5 pounds of blood meal which is another benefit.
One of the things I've noticed (very subjective) is that with the 20-20-20 you can dang sure grow more, and turn something around quick, but I swear they don't seem to taste the same. I'm thinking I'm going to stock some of both, and try to use mostly natural fertilizers, and trying desperately to build my sand into soil (cover crops, amendments, etc), but if a crop seems to be struggling, I'm gonna hit that vein, with some quick juice, to hold it over till the slow release can kick in.
No doubt the 20-20-20 works. I haven't noticed the taste difference you mention. But I do think you have a solid plan -- use it sparingly only when necessary.
Look at them GROWceries! You may already be familiar with Steve Soloman but he has pretty good info and resources for mineral balancing and growing nutrient dense food... keep up the great work, love the videos!
Your Yellowstone corn looks terrific! The variety I’m growing this year is Cherokee White Eagle. Our growing zone is behind yours. My corn is only up about about two inches. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/3/2021.
Hello, your baby boy doesn't care to eat nor taste a flower. I haven't tried to eat one as yet either. I can't get past the mental part. Thank you for sharing your family.
I know you have a Grillo,, as I’ve seen it in other videos in the background. You can use the Aldo Biagioli Adjustable Ridger for the Grillo between the rows to hill. I have one, and it works nice. 😀
No synthetic ferts in my corn. Some very well aged cow manure, or what I call, barn scrapin's, before planting, maybe a side dress if needed. Got 3 different corn plots, trying different things with them. The more you experiment with learning how it all fits together, the more possibilities. Ever see corn with 3 or 4 tillers and the tillers grow ears? Playing with alfalfa meal in one, maybe a little bone meal. Have another plot, no till deep mulch.... that's going to be some monster corn.
Our corn only seems to "sucker" or form "tillers" when our nutrient delivery or watering isn't timely. My perspective has always been that no suckers means I'm doing something right. Never seen the suckers form additional ears.
@@LazyDogFarm You just helped me connect some dots. My understanding of tillers is a bit different, but watching your other video on your no till garden also helped put it together for me. Now to grow out the season and observe. While I'm not ready to draw any conclusions just yet I may have a new hypothesis on this. I'm still learning a lot and I encourage you to keep exploring "no till" though I share your opinion on dogmatic gardening practices. It's all parts of a whole. Thanks much!
At this point I’m usually starting my side dressing with urea. Cheap, natural and a ton of fast acting nitrogen. I’ll dress one more time with urea just prior to tassel when corn is about 4-5’ tall. Needs to be watered in well though
You can see the sweet corn harvest in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d1F0JNYkicM.html And an update on our organic popcorn in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b7-7vJzLXEo.html
Very interesting video! My biggest problem here is making myself not inject fertilizer - The only thing my soil needs is nitrogen, so this "animal feed" might be a good option for me this year.
Hey Travis, love seeing your family on this video. Not familiar with that kind of corn. Is it a one ear or two ear variety? What are we talking about 250-300 ears. Wow. I never thought about salts in the fertilizer. I am curious to see your harvest results and timing. Thanks for the info!
You should do the same treatment on the basil as you did to the zinnias. Cut off the center stalk to make pesto and side branches will develop. Basil will get very bushy if you keep taking off the tops.
@@LazyDogFarm I'm good with basil. You might find it starts to look bad with high heat and humidity, and is easily damaged by heavy rain. Once it starts to look bad it's not worth trying to save, just pick it down and replant a fall crop. Traditional basil, with the lush, green leaves, has a high water content. I raise mine in a Vertigro hydroponic system with a constant water and nutrient supply. You might find good results if you planted it in your tomato plot with drip irrigation and regular food injection.
i think its great you are trying the organic slow release , you may not get good results yet because of a lack of soil biology right now but dont give up too soon, it is my understanding that synthetic fertilizer will cause harm to the soil microbes wich are necessary to make the organic fertilizer to a usable form for the plants to use, you might try running some fish hydrolisate thru your injector instead of the 20,20,20 in a future experiment thanks for your videos
@@LazyDogFarm if you get a chance research the difference between fish hydrolysate and emulsion, supposedly the emulsion is heat treated but the hydrolysate is not and so retains some biology as opossed to just n,p,k values, i am in the early learning stages also and find your videos very helpful as we deal with the hot and humid conditions here in north central fl, we also use your complete organic fertilizer and are having great results thanks
@@bobkernahan6340 I've used both the "emulsion" and the "hydrolysate." I tend to call them both fish emulsion, although there are obvious differences in the processes to make each. Yes, the hydrolysate is supposed to have more biological activity.
@@LazyDogFarm yeah I don’t think I feed it enough and pollination is weird for me. I have yet to get a full cob. I might just be growing the wrong types. Who knows. I’m in central Florida now but will be moving to northern Alabama this year so hopefully will have better luck
It sure is. I started looking at the nitrogen needs curve for corn. That guano fit right in the mix when I say it. I was just going to alternate calnite and urea.
In the past I have watched you on your "other gardening channel" use the fertilizer injector tank to fertilize crops. I noticed that you put the hose bib connector directly on the spigot and then hooked the garden hose to the other end of the hose bib connector. I have tried this technique with minimal success. The research that I have done on this says to put the hose bib connector on after the filter regulator. So in other words the fertilizer tank is near the main line tubing of the drip irrigation system. Do you know anything about this? Didnt know if you were having the same problems or not. Thanks
I've never had any issues with having the hose bib at the spigot. Because I have 10 different plots, I don't want to have to move that hose bib connector each time I fertilize a different plot. So I put it at the spigot and am just moving the hose from plot to plot, not the injector itself.
Was going to spray for bugs today. Noticed many ladybugs and bees. Do not want to disturb. What and when do I need to spray. Squash, cabbage in zone 9A.
chilean nitrate does contain a fair anount of sodium. it is a mined resource and therefore not synthetic, for all those who care about the distinction. there's many elements that are considerred salts per se, but salts doesnt mean much as i found out. Just like metal doesnt mean much to a non chemist, as calcium is an alkaline earth metal. Sodium salt and even chlorine are actually required as micronutrients. All about amounts that plants evolved to use. The only completely unnecessary element for plant (and animal) growth is fluoride..so dont give them toothpaste ;) Keep up the good work. Pesto! if you're making own, use mortart and pestle. machine cant cream the basil like the mortar snd pestle. takes a lot of work but nothing like machine made pesto. You do eat flowers already, lol, cauliflower, broccoli.
Yes, sodium is a required micronutrient -- everything in moderation. Here's a good article with lots of peer reviews at the end: www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Sodium%20Nitrate%20TR%20General%202002.pdf
@@LazyDogFarm : chilean nitrate is one of the inorganic inputs allowed in organic agriculture, lol. additionally, it's a non renewable resource that organic farmers need to rely on for winter production. yeah baby, that organic koolaid :) i managed to get off the organic koolaid, but only because i started caring about the truth, as far as it will go. unfortunatelly it's very difficult to get people off it, as it's a whole ideological system just like religion, to which people cling tightly. i guess all you can do is appease them by doing things more "organic", as you will not likely reach them, no matter if organic trial showed sub-par results.
Thanks, real hard time with germination of okra, peas, beans and watermelons. All planted on 4/18 and very little growth. Think I need to cut my losses and replant all.
I've heard people using alfalfa pellets. I'm wondering if powered milk could be used for plant's that need calcium. Just trying to think of more organic.
Sodium Nitrate (Chilean) vs Calcium Nitrate -- so the main difference is the ion (Na vs Ca) that the nitrate is attached. Calcium Nitrate is useful for crops that need extra calcium -- peppers, tomatoes, eggplant and even broccoli.
In your fertilizer calculation, you decided that since the organic has a similar concentration as the inorganic you have been using, you'll just put them on at the same rate. Shouldn't you also be considering the period of time over which that nitrogen will be released? In a very simplified example, consider fertilizers A and B, which contain the same amount of nitrogen, but B releases at half the rate of A. Then to have the same amount of nitrogen available to the plants you need to initially use twice as much fertilizer B as you would fertilizer A, but on the second application you can use less than the initial application because there will still be some fertilizer B remaining in the ground.
It will be nice for the viewers to understand that organic farming involves chemicals too and organic farming widespread results in escalating food prices and famine. If you don’t believe me, please do some research about Sri Lanka and what happened to their food security.
This stuff right here: www.amazon.com/Monterey-LG6150-Garden-Spinosad-Concentrate/dp/B000BWY3OQ/ref=asc_df_B000BWY3OQ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198107334619&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15170391175176905606&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011392&hvtargid=pla-343191223834&psc=1 Spray the silks every week (late in the evenings) when they develop.
Yes, pigweed is in the amaranth family. But I've never heard of anyone eating it. I've heard of folks eating purslane, which is also a tough weed for us, but never pigweed.
@@LazyDogFarm yeh we steam it down with coconut milk...eat sometimes as part of our east indian cosmopolitan culture. Rice. Roti. Curry. When its steamed down n seasoned it's called bhagi