TERMINATING MY $100,000 HYDROPONIC TOMATOES: A HEARTBREAKING DECISION

[@rhondavigil795]

I love that you hire youth to work your farm. In the 80s I was detassling corn and walking beans. Long hot day but what a great foundation for a strong work ethic.

[@wishwellfarms]

I hear about de tasseling all the time, something I’ll never get to experience with modern machinery We have now. I’ve been fortunate to have nearly 300 teenagers work for me over the last 24 years but it’s getting harder and harder every year to find good help that wants to actually work. My biggest problem is finding kids that are not in sports or other activities, which makes it tough to work around their schedules.

[@rhondavigil795]

@wishwellfarms yes! Working was expected when we were growing up. My son, when he was younger, mowed 13 yards a week for years. Paid for his lineman school. Now he is a young man with a great work ethic and career.

[@jasonwish-]

@@rhondavigil795 I also had a lawn mowing business all through high school and part of college and along with selling sweet corn out of the garage I was able to pay for college.

[@billking5407]

A great video Jason a lot of useful information , a lot of folks dono't know all the work you do, thanks again for sharing

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks a lot, Bill! I really appreciate you watching and commenting

[@_Elijah_1979]

I find it very useful and informative when you describe how and what you do with your crops and farming operations - good video (keep em' coming) 😀👍🙏

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you I’m really glad you find it enjoyable and interesting, I will keep them coming!

[@johnsandell4501]

Fantastic channel and wish you a successful season. You and your team are hard workers👍👍👍

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you I appreciate that!

[@mar1video]

Great info ! Thanks for sharing !

[@wishwellfarms]

You are welcome, thanks for watching and commenting!

[@chetreed2198]

Another awesome video I love the harvest and the info on tomatoes

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you! I’ll keep cranking out all the info I can about our Farm!

[@ManMountainMetals]

I'd heard of draggin' wagons. First 😮 time seeing 👀 one.

[@laker185]

Such a neat operation.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks Mike I appreciate that!

[@RIMMedia69]

Great video, sometimes it really is deciding between a rock and a hard place, but even then we have to choose so we can head toward the future

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Great video Jason. The produce looks amazing.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks Becky! I’ve been daydreaming every day about fall backpacking lol

[@cinm9565]

Another informative video…thanks!

[@wishwellfarms]

You are very welcome thanks for watching!

[@JohnDeWeese-lq4pf]

That's really a great video! Thank you. What do you plant in there after tomatoes?

[@caseyarmstrong7064]

I watch pretty much all your videos, and don’t recall ever seeing anything on your bell & jalapeño peppers. I struggle with peppers. Great video

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks for supporting my channel through viewing the videos Casey I really appreciate it. I just filmed a segment of me picking our jalapeños and bell peppers that will be out soon. I fortunately I’m having one of our best pepper crops in history. Hopefully yours will come around.

[@dnawormcastings]

I love your farm🇳🇿🌱

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you!

[@cassowaryind]

Great video

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you!

[@newporg6887]

..I enjoy your videos.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you, glad you enjoy them!

[@umarabdulrehman3395]

Good

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks

[@hightunnelandfieldtomatopr6796]

Great video. I am in the Arkansas Ozarks and grow tomatoes in a "Hightunnel". I use a 50% shade cloth starting in June. I grow Florida 7514 and never have "concentric circling". Do you use a shade cloth". I asume you heat your greenhouse?

[@wishwellfarms]

We used to put a shade cloth on for June and July but I quit doing it many years ago because we start wrapping up our harvest in late July in the greenhouses and get ready for field tomatoes. Yes, we heat our greenhouses late January through May.

[@hawkeye7435]

😊😊😊😊😊

[@jerryriggedadventures3173]

What kind of crop rotations and cover crops do you use on your farm? If any

[@wishwellfarms]

Crop rotation with the vegetables is tough. We try to always put sweetcorn where soybeans were the year prior and green beans will often be a mixture of prior-year soy beans or sweetcorn. But the vegetable crops on raised beds they’re always in the same field, but I try to move them around to different areas within that field. as far as cover crops, we have used radishes and English peas, and rye and a few other things, but can’t think of what they are off the top my head.

[@papawillys]

You should put bearing buddies on those trailer wheels. Harbor Freight/Walmart/any boat store will have them, about $13/pr. They keep the bearings greased, and the water out.

[@wishwellfarms]

All my trailers already have those, that one was missing because it fell off when the bearings burned up. Both trailers are completely greased and tightened and ready to roll now.

[@mikewalter8547]

Man I hate to hear about the bird damage to your corn. We just got done with 5 days over a 100 degrees did a number on my green beans and deer decided to come thru canteloupe patch and take one bite out of 300 canteloupes.

[@hightunnelandfieldtomatopr6796]

Bifenthrin will take care of the spider mites.

[@wishwellfarms]

Yes, I use that on my watermelons if I ever get a spider mite outbreak. I keep my greenhouses organic so I can’t use that, but we normally are finished picking long before they move in. Never had an issue with it in the field.

[@hightunnelandfieldtomatopr6796]

@@wishwellfarms Thanks, God bless

[@Boldo75]

An idea, time consuming tho, pick one plant to video next year at certain times. Do a compilation at the end of the year from planting, transplanting, harvest, prune etc. Showing that one plant through it’s life cycle and what it produces.

[@wishwellfarms]

Yeah, that would be really cool but I don’t have the patience for that ha ha, thanks for the suggestion

[@Boldo75]

@wishwellfarms patience? Never heard of it...

[@wishwellfarms]

@@Boldo75 🤣🤣

[@tucobenedicto109]

Visited the farmer market yeasterday here in the northeast. Gren beans $9.00/lb, 12 last week. Corn was $1.00 per ear at one farm, 1.50 at another and 2.00 from one other. One may be organic. Small market. Did However manage to get sliced pickles, bread and butter chips sour Kraut and cole slaw no mayo. Good corn better than the stupid market. Squash was scarce.

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Wowww! $2 an ear for corn?

[@wishwellfarms]

Yeah, in Ohio one dollar per ear is going price at most nice farmers markets. I’ve never heard of green beans being that expensive, 3-4 dollars a pound is probably on the high end around here. To be honest with you, for Farmers to earn a good living reflective of the risk and hard work and capital investments to even be able to Farm should be earning 2 to 3 times more for everything than they are.

[@Dwade689]

I can remember corn being a dollar a dozen 😮

[@Free.to.choose.001]

why does google maps say your farm is permanently closed as you are putting out new content it cant be true

[@wishwellfarms]

We have decided to close our home based farm stand in 2024 for many reasons...a video coming soon will explain all of this. Our home farm stand only accounted for about 5% of our farms gross revenues but 75% of my headaches, so we are soley concentrating on our 9 Farmers' Markets around Columbus Ohio and our retail satelite location in Marysville Ohio.

[@Chris-jh3tg]

Curious what you pay those high school kids? Seems the young generation demands a high rate. I live, and teach in a rural district, so just curious.

[@TomBoillat]

i was also wondering

[@wishwellfarms]

Great question! Yes, to be competitive as an employer, I’ve definitely had to raise my pay rate quite a bit over the years, and I don’t mind paying well for kids who take initiative and our hard diligent workers that are consistent and efficient, that is the name of the game in vegetable farming, and when it comes to sales, I look for very friendly bubbly personalities with great people skills. I start off highschoolers 16 and over with no experience at $12 an hour, and the rest of my employees fall somewhere between $13 and $20 an hour depending on how many years they have worked here and how good of a job they do.

[@Chris-jh3tg]

@@wishwellfarms I appreciate the reply. Rural kids just seem tougher than suburban and city kids. I swear it's all about the parents--upbringing, pull up your pants, roll your sleeves up, get dirty but it pays off in the end.

[@daveklein2826]

It's none of your business