How Small Farmers Compete + Tomato Takedown

[@PuraVidaFlowerFarm]

These have been awesome for my commute home every day. Thank you for doing these and being who you are. We have learned so much from your channel.

[@ursamajor1936]

Small gardener in NC Wisconsin driftless area here. For tomatoes in beds, I chop and drop, cover with compost and then mowed/bagged leaf shredings. Ive never had disease issues. I'm absolutely not competitive. 😊 I am, however, very creative. As I work in my garden or make repairs on my property I seek new ways of working. Sometimes it's beneficial, sometimes not. If I do find a benefit, I share it out to anyone interested.

[@poeticartist2nv]

I look forward to your show daily. Thank you

[@williamcurry185]

If everyone in the area is working together, not only do you have an entire community you can rely on for help when you need it, you can also coordinate various crops or different types of the same thing to be sold so nobody gets put out. I also agree on not talking smack. Everyone has a right to make a living, and you don’t have to make yours at someone else’s expense. Good on you Jesse.

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

[@jsunshinejull]

Losing control of the tomato vines and having to machete the tunnel back into submission in the fall... That's how my year went too!

[@janew5351]

Thick stem, tomato clips that can be reused, wire and cords, what a big tomato Mass!

[@brianbyrne7506]

It must have been the year for it. At a point we got really busy and the whole garden was let go. Even now it’s so overgrown that the tomatoes are still producing a lot of tomatoes as they aren’t getting hit by the cold like they should cause the weeds and overgrown plants are protecting them. 1/3 of my garden just looks like a giant tomato plant.

[@aaronturner901]

Thank you for your Celsius/metric conversion. 👌 Rainfall is given in millimeters 😉 Love your content and book!

[@lesliepender1726]

Competition builds resilience

[@ThinkLittleFarm]

shoutout to caves. and kentucky. and kevin richardson. Utahn here currently planning a move to kentucky. peace and love.

[@kenttodd6179]

So this year, I decided to run my tomato jungle through the multcher. To save time breaking it down. Used it to cover a bed 4ichs thick, let sit in the Socal sun for a week added 2 inches crappy top soil from striping sod from the front lawn. Then, seeded winter rye as a cover crop. And added some wood chips to control erosion.

[@lksf9820]

I hot compost all tomato plants. Lay down a woodchip/horse poo mix, then all the old tomatoes and plants, then dung n chip on top again. Turn when settled and cooled down, leave for a year, job done.

[@Metalgarn]

I compost them... semi hot, depending on what amount of mass I can get... and I never have the patience to let things sit for year. 3 months at most for me :) Of course, most of my gardens usually see a host of tomato volunteers in mid spring but they are harmless and quite easy to eliminate... replant or just let grow if they found a spot that works for me.

[@KP-jv1hy]

I agree and I grew up playing soccer religiously and always found it to be healthy competition. We must keep that spirit alive in us. I love to see people like you and it makes my dreams stay alive. I did add some poor comments then other day and was rushing. I strive to make the highest most nutrient dense food and herbs I can help cultivate. I've found patience in the garden and have made some serious life changes due it but have old behavior want to creep up here and there. I felt like a constant anxiety attack and would always be short. Changing my diet, exercise, and quitting nicotine has been the newest thing I have changed. I was addicted to opiates heavily and have been clean since March 10th, 2021. I feel I relate to more than you it's fun to admit. Keep up the podcast man. It's inspiring stuff and the music for the outro and intro are amazing.

[@notillgrowers]

Glad to hear it and glad you’re hear, friend.

[@brianbyrne7506]

Funny how similar our grow climate is. I’m in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia and oddly our climate zones are very similar. Even down to drive down the road 15 minutes and have completely different soil or plants. Appalachia is very interestingly odd when it comes to stuff like this. We can find morel mushrooms sometimes months before they should be found simply because there is a warm micro climate spot on the mountain and likewise cold spots all over the place that stay really cold even when it’s hot out. Great episode!

[@blankenmom]

Props to whatever you trellised the tomatoes with! Mine bust every year, while the tomatoes are still smallish. Next year we're going to attempt using wire. Possibly cut cattle panel.

[@denisekelley2292]

I call it free range tomato growing. I only had 6 plants (2 cherry, 2 small slicing, 2 romas). I did get good quality square cages that kept them from sprawling on the ground and cut the bottom foot of branches, beyond that I just let them go. So nice to not have lots of work during the season (past self was happy about that) was a bit difficult to get the cages out of the jungle (present self-problem). Overall, I may do it this way again, on my small scale

[@mococlimbing]

Thanks jesse. As ever, interesting pod.

[@villantifarms]

Love the shirt! I have one as well. Live in Canada but Brighton is like my second home as my wife is from there.

[@mfadel20]

Hahaha! I love your shout out to the Wildcayats and then how you quickly followed it up with a knock on the Browns. I was born in Cleveland but lived most of my life in KY. And yes, because we have no major sports team, northern Ohio has always been my "forced" pro sports teams. My father played at UK so we've usually had that winning tradition balance out the woes of being a lifelong Browns fan. Anyway, keep up the great work. Love the show and I look forward to purchasing your book for the holidays.

[@BruceGlider]

I don't ur scale, Jesse. This year I just piled up the vines in the very back of my compost area and plan to not touch them till next year. The jungle is real.

[@johnrosier1686]

I had planned on pruning my tomato plants this year and keeping up with them but life got busy and I failed miserably on that. On a positive note- I didn’t lose any, I did not deal with much(if any) disease, and we hauled in a ton of tomatoes. I wish I could say the same for some of the other veggies that didn’t do so well.

[@whydoyouwantmynamegoogle396]

Recently decided to back Brighton as my Premier league team. I feel like you almost have to pick a big 6 team and an everyone else team but my heart is definitely with Brighton. Love to see a club continue to succeed even when the league has done everything they can to stop them.

[@notillgrowers]

Nice! Welcome aboard

[@JohnJude-dp6ed]

My first time with the cover crops radishes now 9 inches above the ground and 6a Mid Ohio believe I planted September 1 and buckwheat. Question? I'm following them up with canople unless you say otherwise. I've spent most of my childhood summers in Martin county Kentucky and believe they are the nicest people in my experience. Believe I'm liking what little I've done with the cover crop so far. . Your program has been helpful Thanks

[@JacThomas1234]

Mad respect for that brighton shirt, and this is coming from a Liverpool fan! Enjoy the matches this week...but not too much ;)

[@drvinck]

So centimeter is in fact a unit of length in the SI. It is used to express a quantity of precipitation if the water is in a solid state... snow. For rain the smaller millimeter unit give a precise measurement that can be expressed with an integer number.

[@MiriamPendleton]

What about Bourbon? Kentucky is famous for that, and who wouldn't rather have a nice bump of Bourbon than greasy KFC?

[@ursamajor1936]

Amen. And bluegrass....absolutely gorgeous country.

[@MiriamPendleton]

@@ursamajor1936 And Thoroughbred horses that love that bluegrass!The best horse! My mom was from Kentucky - not the western part but Harlan County in the 1930s. Tough times. She escaped to Louisville to live with her grandmother for high school and always remembered what fun Derby week was.

[@dianeladico1769]

Northern Ohioan here...hey, we *excel* at crushing hope. It pays to be good at something, I suppose.

[@davidpenfold]

Hey, it could be worse, you could be a Tranmere Rovers fan. We're in the fourth tier of English football and are in the process of being taken over by a consortium led by Joe Tacopina. There's apparently going to be a streaming deal so we'll be the super-villains to Wrexham's good guys.

[@DavidMartin-bx6wm]

Competition against others is too much of a distraction for me. I just compete against myself and if I'm a little better everyday as best I can, then I'm satisfied.

[@goldstandard3714]

My simple mind was blown away by a recent episode (different channel) where they were describing sandy vs clay soil regarding fertilizer. I had taken many tips from Travis because he is in the same grow zone but never considered soil type /facepalm. Another great reason for soil tests instead of random advice? The thrill of competition. The agony of defeat. The measure of a man, as witnessed by the last 20 years of participation trophies. /facepalm Really enjoy the North East Louisiana climate. Only been here a year and a half. 2 summers, 1 winter. I maybe destroying the State secret by saying so. Everyone said too humid, too hot all the time, just don't go. On second thought, don't come, the weather sux. Seriously though, my neighbors, if they could see me, would think I was retarded, walking around barely clothed, smiling all the time. Ahhhh my slice of heaven on earth. Praise Jesus

[@villanella]

i just love you more that i've found out that you love premier league! i am a chelsea fan, sorry. but! i am hungarian, and there is a very talented hungarian player playing in liverpool (szoboszlai)

[@SoGaFarmstead]

My 10U Coed soccer team won the Championship last night for the County Rec league. Went to PK shoot out to decide it!

[@notillgrowers]

Congrats 🎉

[@SoGaFarmstead]

@notillgrowers thank you!

[@StSdijle]

oh man, (thnaks for the clip today) but oh boy you will have tomato seedlings for years. Not all will germinate this year. But next and the next. That is at least what I had happened from one ignored tomato some years ago.

[@nathanielgillespie2627]

I do the string trellis lean and lower method. That said, I chop and drop on a tarp designed for hydroponic tear outs. It’s about 1 meter wide by 70 meters long. In a large scale commercial operation the trap is rolled up and feed into what’s called a Biochopper, which mulches the crop for transport to the local landfill. I’ll be doing this for a Virginia based facility after this Thanksgiving. But, in my personal context the tarp will be dragged via truck to the burn pit.🤣 One thing I’ve learned from large scale ops is that is not worth the risk to compost, for reasons of disease. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXOuZqOipc-UgLcsi=dxZ4G5H4oS4Vqjt2

[@PushinUpDaisiesNZ]

First thing came to mind was whisky

[@wilbertcr]

We measure rain in milliliters Jesse.

[@dorcasrodriguez2901]

❤❤❤

[@eatttherich4653]

Farmers markets: Lets compete to make our products better....BIG AG: Lets collude for better profits...Pardon me I need a shower.

[@angelaegle2380]

🏔️Coloradans 💙 Kentucky Blue Grass 🤦🏾‍♀️Its gorgeous, but in Kentucky where there is moisture. In Colorado it contributes to water mismanagement