How We Transplant Vegetables on our Produce Farm with a Water Wheel Planter

In this video you will see how we transplant our veggie seedlings through plastic mulch on raised beds with our water wheel planter. We grow 65 acres of produce on our farm with 8 acres of it being on raised beds covered with plastic mulch. Crops such as tomatoes, cucumber, zuchini, eggplant, peppers, cantaloupe and watermelon do very well with this method. The plastic mulch warms the soil quicker, prevents weeds, and has a drip irrigation line under it for irrigating the crop.

[@backpackingadventures4813]

Great tour of how it is all done. Very interesting! 👍. I would have to say corn is my favorite.

[@jasonwish-]

Thanks Dan glad you found it interesting! Sweet corn is by far my favorite as well to grow and harvest and of course eat. Our entire operation began with sweetcorn back in the mid 90s.

[@KN4OKadventures]

Very cool Jason and thanks for sharing. Love buying from local farmer markets and wish we were closer.

[@jasonwish-]

Thanks! Buying local has so many benifits!

[@brynnjohnson471]

My wife and I just planted our garden last weekend and are really looking forward to the fresh beans . We are in Saskatchewan so late frost date but still better than when we had a garden in The Yukon

[@jasonwish-]

Yeah, I'm sure your frost free date is much later than ours. We've been burnt before in late May but it's pretty rare. Our beans are looking great, we can't wait to start harvesting them as well! Hope you have a great growing season!

[@gretchenlopez787]

This is so cool, I love watching all these details of your farm. Thank you for sharing.

[@jasonwish-]

Thank you, glad you enjoy them!

[@donniemabry1470]

I love your greenhouse setup

[@jasonwish-]

Thanks Donnie. 5 greenhouses is quite a responsibility, it’s almost like raising livestock, you always have to be here for them.

[@edschultz5718]

Pretty cool video. Those tomatoes at the beginning look great

[@jasonwish-]

Thanks Ed, they are coming along pretty good now with all this sunshine we've had lately!

[@coalminersdaughter]

So cool to learn how all this works

[@jasonwish-]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@kirk4462]

Do you sell all your vegetables at farmers markets? Certainly looks like you know what your doing good work👍💪

[@jasonwish-]

About 75% is sold at 8 different farmers markets and the other 25% is sold at our two roadside retail stands. We no longer wholesale to stores.

[@ripvanrevs]

Sweet 100s are our favorite to have.

[@jasonwish-]

Yum!

[@justinellingson4908]

My favorite vegetable to grow is potatoes thanks for the good video

[@jasonwish-]

I wish we could grow potatoes here but our soils are so heavy and not very sandy so it makes it tough, Plus we don’t have the equipment to grow them. Thanks!

[@TOPTRAVELVLOG]

Wonderful video. Nice creation. Great work friends.

[@jasonwish-]

Thanks!

[@aprilking7250]

We love to get sweet corn (several bushels to freeze!) and tomatoes at the farmers market, and of course in the fall pumpkins!

[@jasonwish-]

Sweet corn is how it all started for us, can't wait for some fresh sweet corn this July! Tomatoes are our biggest crop now and pumpkins are the most fun to harvest!

[@aprilking7250]

@@jasonwish- Can we purchase tomatoes from you yet?

[@jasonwish-]

@@aprilking7250 We plan to be at the Logan County Market starting June 4.

[@DMSAdventures]

So in your last shot we can see 8 rows and then a larger row with no plants. Rugged Mountain Momma wanted to know what that larger row is for? Access during harvesting? just general access for maintenance through the growing season? We have farmers markets over here in Indiana obviously but we never get out to any. I always liked growing our own raspberries or blueberries. Then green peppers and snap peas were favorites also. Love the water wheel! Ingenious little bit of old-school tech!

[@jasonwish-]

There are several reasons for this; we have to leave drive rows for accessing the crop for harvest as you mentioned and our sprayer can only reach over 4 rows so when we drive down each drive row between the 8 rows our sprayer boom can reach out over the entire crop. We grew strawberries for 20 years and just quit two years ago due to difficulty finding labor to pick them and growing fruit can be very finicky....so many potential issues with fruit throughout the year that it was not worth growing any longer for me. We still grow sugar snap peas but the kids hate picking them.

[@abdoukerimamettgueye3758]

This is the main issue we're facing in the third world: How to be self-suffucient in our food consumption by our local production: dealing with how to ease labour and down or trend to 00 % the ratio between the labour working unit and the area worked unit. Good luck to be involved by alleviating world starvation.

[@donniemabry1470]

I hate to ask Jason do you have a safety video on kayaking my boy thinks it easy. love your show keep up the good work God bless

[@jasonwish-]

I do not have a kayaking safety video, I would recommend checking out River Kings. Pete Beck has some beginner kayak videos on his channel I believe.

[@donniemabry1470]

Me and my son love watching your show he ask me if you turn over how would you get back on it good question son I don't know. Stay safe keep up the good work God bless.

[@alanw9823]

Do you prefer the bato buckets or the substrate slabs for growing your tomatoes

[@jasonwish-]

the slabs are much easier to use because there is no perelite to purchase, fill the bucket with and dispose of every other year. However, with the slabs there is no way for me to test the leach EC and pH each day that comes from the slabs like we can with the bato buckets. I can be much more precise with the buckets that's why we use them for the red round tomatoes and the slabs for the grape tomatoes since the grapes seem to be much more forgiving, almost like growing in the ground.

[@atanasatanasov6969]

How do you deal with the drip hose does it not break from the wheel please explain about the drip hose.

[@jasonwish-]

The drip tape is off to the side about 4 inches and is easily avoided if you drive straight. When we do a double row such as peppers the drip tape is down the middle and we plant either side of the drip tape about 4 inches away, so you never really have a problem hitting it. If you’re interested in the farming videos, please check out Farm channel where we released three videos per week about our operation. youtube.com/@wishwellfarms?si=b-RGGeLhKHDdEKsa

[@kylehenry7813]

What size plant cells do you use with the transplanter?

[@jasonwish-]

Round 72’s for everything except Tomatoes and we use 50s for those

[@donniemabry1470]

Do you grow onions Jason I never seen any on your show what size onions do you grow big one or little one.

[@jasonwish-]

Yes we grow yellow candy onions. I don’t have any video footage of it other than what I have posted on Facebook last fall when we harvested them.

[@atanasatanasov6969]

Where can I buy this planter machine ?? My tracktor is 22 hp power Yanmar

[@jasonwish-]

Rainflow Irrigation in Pennsylvania www.rainfloirrigation.com/

[@garrycollins3415]

Tomato's, cucumbers

[@jasonwish-]

Those are certainly very popular items for us at the markets!