Creating Our Flower Farm - Tilling, Drip Tape, Landscape Fabric 🚜

Today we create the new flower farm growing field! From bare grass to tilled, dripped, landscape fabric and ready to plant. Come see how we did it.
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[@laobserver]

I love that your mom and dad are helping video ♥️ Kudos to them! I'm in Rogers Co and used the landscape fabric for my watermelon last year. It worked great.

[@CoramDeoFarm]

I do too! I get so much more done thanks to them. Oh hi! I am in Rogers Co too, good to know

[@kentalexander936]

Three words; "Project Scope Creep."

[@nishan7025]

💙💙

[@lynhodge8685]

Lol the hat was hilarious

[@CoramDeoFarm]

I thought so too!

[@chariprice]

It even looks like a ton of work to me, but it looks great! RIP hat 😂

[@CoramDeoFarm]

It lived a good life

[@Thecapeonthecorner]

How wide is your Dewitt fabric? What are you planting in the 12" spacing? Flower farming in Ohio. Love your channel!

[@CoramDeoFarm]

Thank you! We have 3 foot and 4 foot rows. 12” got cosmos, celosia, gomphrena

[@terrycrissman7392]

I use drip tape in my vegetable gardens but never have used landscape fabric but thinking about using it because it's difficult to keep up with the weeds. One garden is a wood chip garden but it's still has it's own weed pressure. Do you intend on leaving the landscape fabric down year round or removing it and replacing with the silage tarp? Did you get all your supplies from Drip Depot? Have you given some thought about placing the drip tape on top of the landscape fabric? The reason I ask is that leaks develop in drip tape from varmints or accidents and having it under the landscape fabric would make it more difficult to spot a leak and/or repair it.

[@CoramDeoFarm]

We will remove everything in order to cover crop and till. Then reconstruct the fields next season. Drip depot. Leaving under I found is better for absorption by the plants. Haven’t had any critters. We have a slow leak in one row but it hasn’t prevented adequate watering of the zone so we haven’t tried to find the source. Will test when we pull the lines up in November though!

[@pamspreutels1473]

Where are your rocks😂!!! We only live 2 hrs from you in NWA.

[@belovedbytheKing]

We put a 'Tile" key finder on our drones and we can now find them via GPS.

[@CoramDeoFarm]

This is brilliant! I will tell Eric :)

[@stephanieduston7490]

Hey, Alex! Another of your vidoes saved in my files for future reference. Always such great info shared, thank you! Question: How far away is your water source from your flower fields? I think I'm going to have to have one put in specifically for my flowers. We currently only have 1 spigot for all 6 acres we're on (crazy!) and it's at the front of our house, about an acre away.

[@CoramDeoFarm]

In this video which is our old location, it was probs 100 ft from the house spigot. In our new location Eric built a water hydrant right off the main line so it’s right there

[@amandacoburn7318]

Hi Alex! How large is your growing space? :) Love your video!!

[@CoramDeoFarm]

Thank you Amanda! It is 60x30’. 10 growing rows

[@teresenorton4522]

How do you keep the deer and other animals out of your garden?

[@CoramDeoFarm]

So far no deer. No squirrels or rabbits either. We are in a fairly exposed pasture and they stick to the far tree lines.

[@terestapratt2790]

Would 6 ft landscape fabric work better that 2 rows of 3 ft fabric? Then you could forego using fabric staples or tucking one piece under another.

[@CoramDeoFarm]

Yes! We will be doing that next season

[@bethrichards4495]

I'm wondering where you got that attachment for the propane burner and also the template for burning the holes?

[@CoramDeoFarm]

Hi Beth! We got the attachment at Lowes or Ace. And we made the template. Got the sheet from Lowes, measured the hole spacing with a sharpie (we have a 6”, 9”, 12”), then drilled them with a circular bit. Didn’t take too long and has been very handy.

[@bethrichards4495]

@@CoramDeoFarm Hi again!! How large are the openings? Or I guess how big is the circular bit? Thanks for answering!

[@terestapratt2790]

Are the holes in your fabric about 3 inches? Is that what you would recommend?

[@CoramDeoFarm]

I would say that sounds about right. Yes

[@payang6599]

What's the brand of your tractor and would you recommend it?

[@CoramDeoFarm]

We actually have a whole video on that! It is in our library with lots of details

[@shelbypeters6667]

Why are you using landscape fabric? What were your pros and cons when you decided?

[@CoramDeoFarm]

No cons really. It’s very necessary in my area bc of grass and weed pressure

[@shelbypeters6667]

@@CoramDeoFarm Makes sense we have grass growing in planter boxes that I just set outside, the bane of my existence. . Do you have a plan for if you have to replace any drip lines once the field is established? BTW love the gardens and flower field!

[@CoramDeoFarm]

@@shelbypeters6667 everything will get lifted up at the end of the season. The fabric will be rolled up and stored. We will also store the drip lines. Field will get a winter cover crop then tilled fresh in the Spring. Then I will plant a new season of flowers

[@will5286]

BAGS OF COMPOST??? must have money to burn despite the frugal words.

[@CoramDeoFarm]

Chill dude

[@summermucha5207]

Hi Alex, did you dig a little well for water specific for your flower fields? I noticed the little pump nearby. If so, could you give a little explanation and then how you hook it up to irrigation strips? Thank you. Love the natural comedy sprinkled throughout your video.🥰

[@CoramDeoFarm]

Hi Summer! Thanks for watching! No we are on rural water. I think you are referring to our irrigation timer? That is just a digital timer that lets us manage different zones off the main irrigation line.