I don’t care for football or sports in general but what you all converse about in between rowing and growing is what makes it special to me. I recently found your channel and in less than a month it has become my favorite! I can learn and be entertained as well. This is like “Sitting on the Porch chatting with a very knowledgeable neighbor “. Grab a glass of tea and get rocking on the porch… it’s a good thing! Thanks to you and your family for sharing your knowledge and thoughts to the rest of us. God bless!
Thank you for what you guys do! I’ve learned so much. I’m glad to see less complaining this time. Y’all honestly, they shoot over 100 videos a year to help us learn, and Thursday’s are the only time they’re sitting down. Someone having a snack or making a football joke isn’t going to kill you.
Fertigation is a great way to grow . Overhead irrigation is not optimum and besides it's a waste if good water. The Smaller more intensive grower is the way of our future . We "GOT" to return the smaller grower back to their communities ! And reconnect to our Mother Earth ! As you can probably tell I'm old school tree huggin hippie gardener from East central Florida and I championed drip Irrigation to our area in the 70s. And have always seen this as the way to go . The sepperation and divide occurred when the fossil fuel Cos that are the makers of our sprays and fertilizers did the dirty deed of marketing politically and sepperated us for marketing interests and saw an easy target with the organic movement that was begining to trend at that time ! Welcome to my world Gents ....Ladies ! How bout the Hoss growers ! Love yer show fellas ! Doing a great service to your community. Thanks !
I know you can't ignore the complainers but I wish you could! I enjoy it when y'all talk a minute about anything. It adds so much personality and likability to the videos. Y'all are funny too. I love watching these videos and I always learn something. Also, I would love to know which beet is your favorite!
Your videos are always so interesting. NOw, I dont know what a fresh fig tastes like, but I do know I like Fig Newtons! I love that Tshirt by the way, thats Great
Place bio char in the bucket you use to make your compost tea for a couple of days or even longer. Then place the char in your garden. Especially in a gourd pit if you're doing small gardening.
I am a new viewer! I’ve been binge watching your show during my Christmas vacation. Today, while trying to work, I’m laughing too loudly! I have already learned so much and placed my first order last week. Thank you for an awesome show! Throughly enjoy it!
Onion question 🤔 I'm growing 3 trays like you all for green onions. Do I just plant each cell together or do I separate the plants and plant them thick to make green onions or should I plant them apart for big onions next spring? I'm growing in a high tunnel( unheated) here in NE Kansas. Love the show and thanks for putting videos out!
Just purchased this fertigation device and have to say - this container is built like a tank. I have a raised bed garden and this thing is going to save me a lot of time and sweat.
Do you have a video showing how you have your irrigation and fertigation set up? I want to try it next growing season, so want to get my plan and supplies in order before next season. It would be nice to see how you get water to your plots with a main line and how you hook up to your drip tape lines. Drip tape is new to me, but I REALLY think it can be a game changer. Thanks for the videos I learn a ton and its always fun watching The Stallion and The Colt! 😂
@@gardeningwithhoss I found the drip tape playlist and am working through that now. Great info! Is there a way to substitute the normal drip tape row starts with the drip tape row start valves in the 8 mil drip tape irrigation kit? Thank you!
I am always excited to watch your video's. I want to thank you for your support of Shed wars, I got involved late in the season but have learned a lot. I am one of the larger gardens in shed wars, I do most of my work with a tractor. Having watched many of your videos, I'm thinking of adding a wheel hoe. I may not be able to add it next season but defiantly have it on the list. Thank you for all you have done for the industry.
I would love to see a tour of your current and new facilities. Living in Md. as I do, I probably won't make too many local visits. Great show, and I agree about the biochar. I got very little benefit that I could see, but I think if I had soaked it in a compost tea or something similar, the net result may have been different.
Y’all make gardening so fun for so many different reason!!! This Mama of two and expecting the third loves fertigation for the time saver. @HossTools do y’all have your fertilizer recommendations written down any where? That’s something I would buy! I have a hard time keeping up with it all!
Great show guys, this year is the first year to grow fall garden and waited till fall to get the drip tape. I wish I had bought this drip system year’s ago next will be the inline fertilization .question, what should I use for white flies as I still have peppers in the ground and am battling them
I'm battling white flies too. I used horticultural oil soap. It really didn't work well. I'm using neem oil now. They're about to win the battle here in Florida.
White flies are tough because they fly away when you start to spray the plant. Even if you have a spray that will kill them, they fly away before you can hit them.
@@gardeningwithhoss Absolutely correct. I'd rather have aphids or spider mites any day. I'm going to try and make some yellow sticky things to set next to the plants. I hope it works but not doing anything doesn't work. Wish me luck😁
Hey Travis - I hope you get a laugh out of this, but I might suggest a single fix for less than $2.00 that will go a long way toward solving most of your audio issues. I noticed the mic placement on Greg is about 3 inches lower along his shirt as compared to your mic placement on your shirt. Greg's mic placement is in a good place, kind of like the usual Georgia or Alabama standings in SEC football. Your mic placement is not so good, kind of like Vandy or the vols, to put it in SEC football terms. I've done some work with audio and the mic placement can be critical when trying to pull off the type of audio you need for your show. For example, try taking that mic on your shirt and get it lower and further away from the crew neck of your chin. With Greg's dialogue, the mic is down closer to his stallion chest and the audio comes through pretty smooth, but with your dialogue the mic is up near your adams apple and it pics up all your secondary sounds like nostril snortin', heavy gasps of breath, lips smackin', burps, and your faint nose whistle. All this secondary sound does come through and it generates too much disruptive noise while Greg is talking and sharing stories about his stallion stuff. (And people do need to hear those stallion stories) From now on, you might try placing that microphone somewhere further down on your shirt, or get you a pack of $2.00 moleskin and tape some of that over the microphone to muff out all your extracurricular sounds. Lots of audio techs do use moleskin to fix audio noise. I believe this single fix would go a long way toward fixing most of your audio issues. Cheers and thanks for sharing all your great knowledge during the show. -jm
I am planting some 1015 onions. I’m in southwest Oklahoma. Can I move them in and out of the greenhouse depending on the weather? If I can do this when should I plant them?
Awesome! Love the fig talk! What varieties do you guys have and willing to sell cuttings? I make compost tea once a week and use the Ortho Dial and spray
We won't be selling any cuttings this year. We plan on taking all our cuttings to plant more and more trees. We have several varieties now (those we've mentioned on the shows) and hope to add more each year.
Seems to me, most backyard or beginning gardeners have a difficult time understanding fertilization rates per “x” square feet due to variances in garden configurations/sizes and as it pertains to the number of and type of crops they’re growing which mandates that particular plant spacing and row widths. It might be more understandable to give fertilization rates in “linear feet” if possible (Since the rows are planted in linear feet). As you have taught us, SUCCESS PROBABILITIES Dramatically increase when proper and correct irrigation, Quality seed selection, fertilization, disease/insect control, and cultivation techniques are utilized. Tim
Greg and Travis I saw a couple of onion videos today from some pretty popular people on RU-vid, I won't say the channel names here for their protection. They absolutely insist that topping the onions causes the bulb to be bigger. Have you ever heard of this method of growing onions, I never have but I know I'm no expert. They take shears and cut the leaves to about 8 inches above the ground. I understand from their breakdown it stops them flopping over and stopping the bulbing process. They do this when the onions are 16 to 20 inches tall and fully leafed. I'd like to know if you have seen this done by anyone?
I would say those folks don't understand the onion growth cycle very well. The goal is to maximize vegetation during the vegetative phase. That will in turn produce a larger bulb during the bulbing phase. More leaves = more rings on the onion = a bigger bulb. I think it's silly to do anything that would inhibit that vegetative phase. If it really worked, you'd see all the commercial guys doing it.
@@gardeningwithhoss I agree, but I saw the onions they still had in the ground and they were very large. It did look like they waited on cutting them back until they had huge and many leaves. You would know one of those channels very well I bet if I named it. I'm going to stick with what has worked in the south for a long time. One of the channels that showed their cut back onions is in Michigan. My Plathoras have popped up and I'm just waiting on planting time. If the weather cools down and looks like it will stay cool I'm going to try getting them in around first of Oct. The day length might be a problem, I didn't use all my seeds so I can do some later.
Hi Travis, are y'all going to have onion seed for intermeadate onions? Wish I could plant some short day onions cause you have a great looking selection. Blessings.
We have several great intermediate-day varieties. You can see them here: hosstools.com/product-category/premium-garden-seeds/onions/?filter_onion-type=intermediate-day
test your crops and see what they have in them. NPK looks good, but it can lack many nutrients, that is why organic and pesticide free are gaining market share. Slow process. great show watch all the tme.
Hey, young Stallions (LOL) I got a head-scratcher for Y'All. I got 11 inches of rain (from Ms. Sally) but when I transplanted, the soil was only damp 1.5 inches down. Below was bone dry and when I threw some more water on it seemed to react like salad dressing (oil n water). It's not runoff, My ground was more exposed this summer than I like. What do you think causes that water to soil separation? Zone 8b Mobile Roll Tide Alabama!
When soils get very, very dry, they become "hydrophobic." This basically means they repel water. Has something to do with the ions in the soil. I've seen this with really sandy plots that have had a tarp on them for a long time. With the addition of enough water, they will usually get back right pretty quick.
I gotta question for ya.... how about with all this rain I can't use my injector because its already wet.... can I sprinkle 20-20-20 dry without any troubles?
We do use some granular. We'll often apply our Complete Organic Fertilizer (hosstools.com/product/complete-organic-fertilizer/) as a preplant fertilizer. But the injection is the most effective way to deliver nutrients quickly.
It seems that all planting guides focus on frost dates. Either first or last for fall or spring. In Tampa, there is no frost date. Is there any place I can get get a planting guide based on say earliest or latest 90 degree day. Maybe select varieties on their likelihood to be ready for harvest before the Florida sun roasts them in the ground. I'm a desk-bound total newbie so maybe this question is off base. I'm really interested in leafy greens, onion/garlic and nightshades.
We use 20-20-20 for the first month or two, then switch to Ammonium Sulfate (hosstools.com/product/ammonium-sulfate/). Works great for any allium -- onions, garlic, shallots, leeks.
My celeste fig has a closed hole on the bottom and I have a large fig not sure about variety but it is dark brown almost black and get huge in central Florida zone 9b. As soon as it gets warm the open hole In the bottom gets bugs in it and turns it into vinegar inside. Is the tiger closed end type? How bout that big green one? I need a larger closed end variety.
Guys: I have used an injection system on my farm and also on my lawn with a 25gal sprayer that is a positive way to grow beautiful crops and lawn, it is more direct to the needs of the plants and can be adjusted more readily throughout the seasons. I had an older system for my crop garden and I am thinking of changing to your injecter system...ie much more efficient. Do you offer a system for 3/4 acres? (Twenty Pines Farm)
I have always wanted to go to drop irrigation but it's just not in my budget. I really wish y'all could have a lay away plan for broke folks like me lol. Just kidding love y'all keep on keepin on!
On my 2nd two gallon injector tank. When this one cracks and I have to get the new one gallon tank, do I change the amount of fertilizer I put in the one gallon tank? Can I expect it take more or less time to empty the fertilizer out of the tank. FYI. It takes around 6 hours for the water to be clear in my tank. Yes, using the correct flow discs. Will have to run 2 tank fulls to get same water and fertilizer as I did with 2 gallon tank? Thanks guys.
The amount of fertilizer and time to empty should be the same. The only difference is the fact that you can dissolve more fertilizer in 2 gal of water than you can in 1 gal of water. But we think the higher-grade components outweighs that.
Some of these comments are hilarious. Ppl are so ridiculous 😂 I'm a Bama girl that loves the show, love the football talk (Roll Tide) ( I had too), the gardening info, all the info in general, looking at the stallion 😉, and honestly .. Travis's noises don't bother anyone.. My lord. 😂 *Snowflakes shouldnt be allowed to comment .. Ever😂😂 The show is great just the way it is, y'all are doing people a service!! Thanks guys!!
You Tube controls the ads and you have to pay to not see them! I’m not a football fan but gosh I want you to have fun!! Gardeners shouldn’t be so grouchy!
I had Sent a email about my beets not germinate my cylinder beets germinated But the round ones heirloom Did not But I know your job or busy so didn't want to bother you
