Emma appears to be a very conscientious and dedicated worker. Not easy to find these days and you're lucky to have her. Enjoy your off season.
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
I am very blessed fortunate to have her helping on the farm this year and she told me she’s coming back for next year!
@DDL27282 ай бұрын
I'd be your best customer if I lived there!! I'm so impressed with your success - how incredible a feeling to grow such beautiful crops!! Congratulations! May God continue blessing y'all!! 🙏♥️👍
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. I really appreciate your kind comments!
@DDL27282 ай бұрын
@wishwellfarms I'm so impressed with your success. My hubby & I tried to grow tomatoes one time - bought special soil & fertilizers, etc 🫤 That's my no comment face!! Failure!! So, I appreciate your success & knowledge!! 👍🌟
@AhTechus2 ай бұрын
I didn’t realize this could be so fun to watch
@wishwellfarmsАй бұрын
Thanks!
@marthabarr90322 ай бұрын
I use crappy hay bales or straw to mulch under my tomatoes so they are not sitting on the ground. I gave up on stringing them up. They do really well! Your cauliflower looks beautiful!
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
We put straw down the aisle ways between the tomatoes for years and years, but just got tired of doing it. Staking and stringing does not take long at all when you only have several rows like me and I probably get two or three times yield by keeping them up off the ground. We finally had a great cauliflower year, thanks!
@erikajegl27622 ай бұрын
I watch your channel and I watch veggie boys channel faithfully, and today you were surprised to harvest more tomatoes although they’re muddy and on the ground, but the veggie boys do that and they get a lots of tomatoes as of today . to me it is amazing that they can harvest so many vegetables because their ground is covered in rocks. It’s amazing. You have very nice vegetables in your farm!!!😊
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching our channels faithfully. I really appreciate that! The veggie boys do a really good job, six generations of experience! Even though I’m a fourth generation farmer, I am a first generation vegetable farmer. And Even though I’ve been doing it for 25 years, I still learn something new every year!
@beckyumphrey26262 ай бұрын
Great video. Congrats on 12k.
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Growth has really slowed but I’ll keep plugging away!
@steveddavis2 ай бұрын
Bonus time 🥦🍅 I hope your brief break/road trip was enjoyable! Thanks for sharing.
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Yes, very! Back at it now!
@WillieBrownbentKamalaDown2 ай бұрын
I noticed that variety "de purple" almost matches the morning glory flowers. What a beautiful feild; just Inspiring as all get out. I was getting a little tiny bit burnned out at the end of season but 💕 Definitely going to look for these seed varieties you went over today. ❤️🇺🇲💪😎
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
The Morning Glory is a pesky weed but it is a pretty flower. De Purple adds some beautiful color to the market table!
@Thaddy622 ай бұрын
Andrew and the Veggie Boys grow 80 acres in Vegetable. Been Watching them for 8 years give him a call he will be glad to help in any way that's the American way!! goodluck
@wild_insomnia2 ай бұрын
look,Jason's employees would run away from him in a hurry being coerced to pick tomatoes in that mess of stalks and leaves.
@allotmentjoy2 ай бұрын
I think the VB have their tomatoes on plastic. Still, it's good you can harvest a few more 👍🍅🍅🍅🍅
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
They are on plastic, but eventually the late fruit will sprawl off of it
@kingrigidthedeplorable27202 ай бұрын
I'm disappointed that you're disappointed in the no stake method. I was really hoping for an alternative to the additional labor and the damnable stringing. Maybe fall/ paste varieties could benefit from the practice?
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Yeah, Roma tomatoes might be OK because the plant always seems to be a little smaller and I think they would stay on the plastic. The non staked tomatoes are on the plastic for the most part early on, but the later ones tend to be off the plastic so in my opinion, it is so worth the effort to stake and string, my yields are 2 to 3 times higher when I do
@gregholl50112 ай бұрын
15:20 15:32 I did no stake last year. Had plenty of tomatoes but yes some bad ones that I tossed out of the tomato patch. Planted potatoes there this year where I had thrown culls last year. Ended up with a good sized patch of volunteers bigger than last years and better than my transplants this year! I grow heirlooms no hybrids. 😊
@beckyumphrey26262 ай бұрын
I watch Veggie Boys also. The seem to leave a huge amount of tomatoes in the field at season end. Maybe those are the ones that have touched the ground and rotted. Broyans does not stake field tomatoes either but stake their greenhouse tomatoes.
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
I don’t understand why they don’t stake, it doesn’t take much effort at all and it pays off huge in yields, at least ii does for us. Every commercial grower I’ve ever met stakes them…I guess it works for them.
@JLRobbins2 ай бұрын
I have heard the Veggie Boys say they don’t hit the dirt just the plastic and that they plant determinate tomato’s. I think this year they did three plantings of determinate tomatoes.
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Yes. We plant two plantings of determinate, but half of them end up off the plastic if we do not stake and string
@wild_insomnia2 ай бұрын
you in Ohio are about at 40 degree of northern latitude, it's approximately the latitude of Naples or Madrid. No wonder that your tomatoes were able to ripen in October. I live at 49 degree latitude and I had to pick all my tomatoes green . Now we have a stretch of sunny chilly days and cold nights, under zero Celsius, there was no chance for tomatoes to turn red. I was waiting for that ,for the colour,but gave up .
@Redmapleleaf1132 ай бұрын
I live in Canada and later on in the season I deal with the same thing. As soon as the tomato starts to blush, I bring it in and it usually finishes ripening. Personally, I don't notice a difference in taste if it's fully vine-ripened or if I pick it in the blush stage.
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
October tomatoes definitely don’t ripen as fast but it sure is nice to have them at markets!
@suave472 ай бұрын
I've always had a hard time growing broccoli and cauliflower. This year was the first time I was able to harvest all my cauliflower but my broccoli still suffered. Seems as soon as the heat starts to turn on, they immediately bolt. Most of mine where just starting to head up (had a nice cool spring this year so had great starts on all barasicas) but as soon as the heat kick in, boom, bolting and flowering. Any tips or tricks to keep them under control. Or could that just b a variety type issue. I thought I went with a shorter season heat tolerate variety this year to help combat that, but still had the same old issue. Thx for the video
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Hey Eric, in my experience, the shorter season varieties tend to Bolt faster than the late season varieties, they tend to be a tighter bead or a smaller bead and tighter head. And when I’ve grown spring broccoli in the past, it definitely does not hold in the field very long it will bolt Pretty quickly that’s why we only do fall now
@michaelpardue24002 ай бұрын
You know the vege boys used at biodegradable corn silk type of row
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Yes
@daveklein28262 ай бұрын
So?
@michaelpardue24002 ай бұрын
Caifflower and Broccoli looks pretty good it hard here in Tennessee get purple Caifflower
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Thanks! Maybe it’s harder to grow in Tennessee because of the longer days of heat, I don’t know
@madampolo2 ай бұрын
The field tomatoes you did not stake looked amazing to me. The tomatoes are living on top of black plastic and should not be affected by dirt. I think there must be something wrong with the way you are growing them for them to be in the dirt enough to require washing. I love the Veggie Boys and their beautiful produce.
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
Early on all the tomatoes are on the plastic when not staked but as the plant continues to set later fruit at the top they tend to be off the plastic. We grow some of the exact same varieties as veggie boys and Broyans, and they are the only two growers I’ve ever seen not stake tomatoes…all commercial growers I’ve ever met stake them and from my 25 years of growing experience I have found that we get 2-3 times the yields if we stake and string so well worth the extra effort…to each his own.
@dwainavance2 ай бұрын
While I see the veggie boys tomato plants sprawling, the tomatoes are still on the plastic most of the time.
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
The early ones are always on the plastic, but the later ones tend to grow off the edge and be in the dirt. Veggie Boys and Broyans are the only two farms I have ever seen in my life to not stake and string, every grower I’ve ever met strings them up and from my experience I get 2 to 3 times the yield by putting in the extra effort
@skeeet57582 ай бұрын
So is it you get more yields on the hydroponic tomatoes then the field tomatoes... To justify spending the time and money I noticed there was a lot of maintenance. Is that the first round of tomatoes for the year???
@wishwellfarms2 ай бұрын
We get many many more times Tomatoes in the hydroponic greenhouses, probably triple the yield, and the harvest goes on for a very long time compared to the field Tomatoes, which all come on at once and then dwindle down to near nothing. We plant hydroponic tomatoes five times so we have a very long harvest window of max production