BURY THESE PLANTS TO SAVE THEM!

[@wallybruns4035]

I soaked my sweet corn seeds with a little hydrogen peroxide and water Thursday and planted them Friday afternoon. Monday morning a good bit were already popping out of the soil. Thanks for all the videos, you're helping a lot of home gardeners.

[@valchris11]

Thanks for always stating the date for each video. It does help the viewers who are trying to grow in the same zone or similiar.

[@hardstylzz5024]

Agreed, I'm in the neighboring county it helps me track for time frame to plant.

[@LazyDogFarm]

You're welcome! Sometimes these videos are shot a week before they air, so it helps to put a little time perspective on it.

[@mutantryeff]

I expect our 60F temps to jump to 90F really fast in several weeks.

[@ginaeaton6680]

We got down into the 20s, for a few nights last week. I covered my potatoes with hay. Some still got bit back pretty good. I removed the mush and pulled the hay back . Today, they are looking great. They are several inches tall again. Zone 7b, north Mississippi. In the past, I have completely covered them with soil and they grew back just fine. Good luck and God bless you all!! :)

[@kevdimo6459]

How lucky am I here in Western Australia (Perth)! We don’t get frosts or Arctic blasts, as we are right on the coast of the Indian Ocean. But we do get 40 + degree days, and that causes trouble at times in the Veggie Patch. But like you all we just battle through it. Great channel thanks for sharing your experience.

[@naomi2646]

Good morning yall, enjoyed the visit. You speak my language, always feel at home with yall. Hope we all have a great harvest this year.

[@maryvt3075]

Love MI Gardener seeds

[@venitaeck8558]

Wallerin round in the parsnip leaves!!!! I Love It!!

[@joewilson1457]

Last year it was 27 degrees for two nights I covered my potatoes and dug them out two days later and I made the best potatoes ever and I been gardening for 65 years

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

Back in November I had some potatoes that had sprouted and I buried them thinking they wouldn't emerge before Feb or March or they would just rot. Well they did come up and was about 6 inches tall when the polar blast came through in December. A good friend at church told me to cut the tops off and bury the whole thing, and I took his advice. We ate new potatoes in February just as I was planting for this year. This last freeze burned a lot of the leaves on my taters even with frost covers over them, but I think they will be okay as long as the stalks themselves didn't freeze.

[@lindanizamoff7981]

I love parsnips.

[@ronwilliams729]

Bless you all for being so willing to share your knowledge with us ! Thank you from a rookie gardener!

[@janetlavoie2441]

My favorite is roasted parsnips! So good.

[@SquishyTheSlime]

I need to learn that Florida weave thing!! Great video as usual!! Thanks!

[@79PoisonBreaker]

I am getting excited for spring now , today we got above freezing for the first time this year, about to start seeds indoors .

[@Mrbfgray]

We've had unusual cold early Spring in farther N. Commifornia. 37 low yesterday, typically around 50 to 75 highs now.

[@cliftonmcandrew8984]

Hey Travis, it’s supposed to be 35 here in California where I live haven’t seen that cold in March and I don’t know win we have had a rain storm after a rain storm after rain storm I planted my potatoes in between didn’t expect them to come up. I figured they were right. I seen today that it came up. Yay I’ve already planted my tomatoes half of them will plant other half at the end of the month my raised beds are made out of 2 x 8 so they’re almost like inground field half with dirt half a compost one of the roots to get into the main soil

[@lindanizamoff7981]

snow peas should do alright in the cold night weather .Here in Ct.I planted my snow peas 2 weeks ago and we got nigh freezes and the seeds are now about 1/2 inch tall.

[@henrib723]

I love your videos. You give very clear instructions so it is easy for me to follow them. Thanks for all you share.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Glad you like them!

[@saraschoen9818]

In East tenn. we just got down to low 20’s three nights in a row. My whole yard looked like a dang Halloween setup 😅. Every tarp and thing from our linen closet was in the yard. But other than some of the blueberry blooms I saved everything.

[@MimsysGarden]

So you DID like my mushroom compost idea! 🤪 looks good, doesn’t it! 💚Mims

[@LazyDogFarm]

I love it!

[@david.6040]

I’m in 8b also Travis, and I have one raised bed with taters we covered them with a sheet and there doing fine.

[@emeraldwaterlifehomestead2180]

I’m in the west panhandle of Florida and hilled my potatoes to almost the top. After the chill the tops of my potatoes got bit well. I hope they continue to grow well. Crazy weather. 😎

[@briankubik5041]

Here in Michigan we grow carrots every year in spring and it doesn't seem to matter. Our turned woody also fall is definitely proper time I say to grow carrots.

[@bobbun9630]

Nice. Mine weren't up when it got to 20F here, two nights in a row. I still covered with a couple of layers of frost blanket to protect any shoots near the surface. I spied my first green shoot today. Average last frost date here still isn't for about three weeks, so... Fingers crossed and covers ready.

[@singncarpenter6270]

It went down in the 30s two nights last week (killed my cucumbers) then today it went up to 88F. Hail storms, cold spells then heat. It's a kaleidoscope of weather around here. Texas 8B

[@waynespringer501]

On your raised bed taters if you aren't expecting rain with the frost you might try going out at dark and putting your germination heat mat over the top of the plants then take it off it the morning. Heat mats generally only raise about 10F above ambient.

[@seedsower3857]

Thank you! My potatoes are growing and I've been wondering about this exact topic.

[@manfredaddleman3035]

You were lucky I got down to 28 in Pensacola on the 19th

[@suzyhall3349]

I didn't cover mine and they weren't touched by the frost!! 😊 I covered a volunteer tomato in a raised bed and everything else "warm season" spent one more night in the greenhouse.

[@joelhenderson5404]

Travis I have relisted and bury the whole plant to keep from getting them eat up by the frost. It want hurt em they just root out more and make more tators.

[@marthaadams8326]

Wow, I am in TN and it above 50 degrees tonight

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yeah it's warmed back up here now.

[@rickjay4639]

Jurt is curious: why don't you use pine straw to cover plants? I've used it and have had good luck with it. Especially when it's only getting down in the high 20s. Hope everything worked out for you.

[@LazyDogFarm]

That's not a bad idea. Thankfully, everything made it just fine.

[@billelrod1779]

I wonder if it would do any good to hill them like you did, then cover the leaves with straw?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Probably would protect them even more.

[@carolfryer9494]

The like button is stuck today trav. I really enjoy your channel allot.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Carol!

[@circledot-kc8il]

You really should try salanova or eazy leaf lettuce. They make other every lettuce look like a weed.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Have you ever buried potato plants to protect them from freezing temps? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 1:11 Protecting Raised Bed Potatoes from Frost 6:12 Checking Our Sweet Corn Germination 7:31 Protecting Our In-Ground Potatoes 9:22 Snow Pea Growth in Our Raised Beds 9:54 Harvesting Leaf Lettuce in Our Raised Beds 11:23 Harvesting Parsnips in Our Raised Beds

[@robinharrison9358]

Good morning sir! A question about sweet corn spacing. I planted the seeds basically 6” apart. I have them on top of drip tape with 12” emitter spacing. So I planted one seed on top of each emitter and one in between. Do I need to thin these out to a 12” spacing? What is the optimal spacing? Thank you!! Robin in Bergheim, TX

[@LazyDogFarm]

No need to thin. Just make sure when you're watering, that you let the drip run long enough to cover the gaps.

[@shirleyk623]

Two questions: Some of my potato's stems are turning yellow and dying, do I wait until they are totally dead or can I harvest them now? Will the potatoes get larger if I wait? Other question: some of my garlic is laying over and the bottom 2 or 3 leaves are brown. Are they ready for harvest or will they be ok in the ground for a while longer? It seems like it's too early to harvest. I'm in central Florida. Thanks for your help.

[@LazyDogFarm]

According to Jim at Wood Prairie Farm, the potatoes will "size up" quite a bit as they plants start to die. But if you're expecting a ton of rain, you might want to go ahead and get them so they don't rot.

[@shirleyk623]

@@LazyDogFarm Thanks for the information

[@lisafahrner8257]

Hi, as my yellow squash grows do I need to add more dirt? I wish I could post a picture here. I have a trellis for them to grow up.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I usually don't hill squash.

[@robertantolik2146]

Wish I had known this last week. My potatoes all died. However they are just starting to sprout again.

[@LazyDogFarm]

They should make a comeback. Sorry to hear they got bit so bad though.

[@outlawjjsmith]

Where do you get NATURE Safe Fertilizer

[@LazyDogFarm]

I get it locally from a big fertilizer distributor.

[@trippnbilly7130]

My Taters got bit back some last week. Will they recover? And should I fertilize to help them?

[@LazyDogFarm]

They should recover. I'd wait until they recover to fertilize them though.

[@trippnbilly7130]

@@LazyDogFarm thank you. They look way better today, maybe lost one out of 15. So I just pulled it and buried another one

[@robinhite5468]

Hey Travis I saw you on some Hoss Tools videos, are you affiliated with them?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I used to work there. Resigned in early 2021.

[@gardeningsimplified]

I don't know how well you faired during your cold spell, but our 29 degree prediction turned out to be 25 degrees. When it comes to protecting potatoes I hill them as high as I can, burying them if I can. I never uncover them, they spout back out in 4 or 5 days with a vengeance.

[@LazyDogFarm]

We only got down to 31 here and had minimal damage. Just a few small burnt spots on the leaves. We fared better than most, even those that were south of us.

[@russeellbowman9498]

Straw ought to work well, but who has it around?

[@davidlucas598]

My potatoes are just now breaking the ground going to be 34 at night for one night they should be fine you think

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yeah they should be good. Might get burned a little, but it won't hurt them long-term.

[@sonnyamoran7383]

You can only do so much and the weather guessers don't know anyway.

[@mattshepherd8586]

Im gonna borrow the term weather guessers thats a good one! Thanks

[@sonnyamoran7383]

@Matt Shepherd my husband did the reports while in the navy. He presented them first the admiral for the 7th fleet. He was better than the "degreed" meteorologists. He called them "weather guessers".

[@MissBetsyLu]

I'm thinking you mean to plant parsnips in the garden in the fall, not anytime at all that you're planting carrots🤔🤔🤔🤔????? Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.

[@loristrout4741]

My Brain misunderstood what you meant by DOGS Bucket! I thought to myself doesn't he know that he should not be putting fertilizer in his dog's food bucket? Oops!

[@sislertx]

My corn is 1.5 foot tall...except one plot..its sporadically dying i can not figure out why...EXCEPT I.ADDED ABOUT 6 INCHES OF SUPPOSED WELL COMPOSTED COMPOST..THO I HAVE TOMATOES AND PEPPERS IN THE SAME STUFF AND THEY ARE THRIVING... I CAN NOT FIGURE IT OUT.. MAYBE U COULD COVER THINGS LIKE THIS...KINDA WHEN THINGS GO WRONG...THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO U IVER THE YEARS

[@Gordie1450]

I’ll remember to not Waller in the parsnips

[@LazyDogFarm]

Depends on the plant. Brassicas like plenty of nitrogen. Cabbage needs plenty to make a big head. Brussels sprouts seem to be very hungry for it too.

[@barbaraflagg983]

Travis, why do you waste so much of the space in your raised bed gardens?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Because I like for it to look neat and organized.

[@mariatorres9789]

You're going to burn them with that fertilizer.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Not with that fertilizer. If it was a synthetic fertilizer, it might burn them.

[@nolawarren3560]

60 bucks for a twig. Way out of my life style. And 27 dollars for potatoes. Guess you are Californian. Geez

[@nolawarren3560]

Unsciribed

[@melissam450]

Bye! 👋🏽