TODAY FELT LIKE A FARMING MARATHON!

Filmed on June 10, 2024. Another long day of farming with a liitle bit of everything. We start the day off with tomato picking and packing then I load our trailer for market, seed some more zucchini, repair an irrigation leak, show you some of the hail damage on our crops and finish the day off planting more sweet corn and greenbeans...just another day on our vegetable farm.

[@scottmoore8400]

One of my favourite things about your channel, which also makes it stand out from other vegetable farming KZbin channels, is your transparency on cost-revenue, fertilizer, and chemical applications. The ladder two are vastly misunderstood by the general public for how important they are for food security.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks, Scot. I appreciate that, I’ll continue to be as transparent as I can about our fertilizers and chemicals and costs and revenues.

[@suave47]

Thx for the video. This chilly weather slows so many things down. We even had frost in multiple areas of our province the last few nights. Nothing near us, but close. Forcast says we get some heat next week. Here's hoping.

[@wishwellfarms]

Yeah, we finally got the heat, it’s been mid 90s and humid all week, absolutely brutal

[@DurgaPrasadYadav-nt7ly]

Hello ❤ I'm from India..... Your all videos already watched..... Super with your Hard work 💪 ❤

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you!

[@Boldo75]

Another great video, wish I could send you some of this Alabama heat..

[@wishwellfarms]

Ha ha we don’t need it, remember these videos are coming out a week after the fact, we’ve had mid 90s all week here in Ohio, absolutely brutal

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks!

[@hawkeye7435]

😊😊😊😊😊

[@richardfrank9317]

You might think this is crazy, but the 72 cell trays you use are the same ones I use to plant my first planting of sweet corn each year. It's something I've been doing for the last couple of years. I fill the trays about half full, press the dirt down so the cells are about half full, put a corn seed in each tray, fill with dirt, water, and put on heat mats. The corn is up in about 2-3 days then put them outside to harden off for 3-4 days then plant them into the garden. Don't wait too long or the tap roots grow down through the bottom of the cells and really slow down the transplanting process. This changes 75-82 corn to 55-60 day corn! I've thought about cutting the stalks above the cobs, after the tassels have dried up to speed it up even more, (like when hybrid seed corn is grown, females detasseled, and are ready to be combined in mid-September instead of late October.) but other projects always get in the way. Still, the goal is 1st week of June harvest for sweet corn, a month before anyone else, and it has worked for me. Just something to think about. I grow, Wild Violet, Ambrosia and Peaches and Cream.

[@wishwellfarms]

I thought about covering some early sweetcorn ground for many years but just never pulled the trigger. I know a grower in northern Indiana that grows his first 10 acres with transplanted sweetcorn, I don’t think I’m ever interested in transplanting sweetcorn but I would be able to get it a week or two earlier if I just put row covers over it, but it’s a lot of extra expense and labor that I’m not sure I want to mess with. As long as we get our corn around Fourth of July or the week after, I’m usually pretty happy.

[@danrussell9207]

Really enjoy the updates!

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks, Dan!

[@billking5407]

Jason you can get battery acid that napa store 5 gal for $46.00 . i try others 15 gal was $100.00 plus shipping and $200.00 hazardous materials handling.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks Bill, but you can’t get 5 gallon boxes any longer around here and I was told that they are no longer being made, some places may just still have old inventory. Anyways, I like my 93% strength acid that comes in 15 gallon jugs, so much less product to mess with compared to the much weaker version from auto parts stores. I can pick mine up about 1.5 hours down the road so don’t have to pay shipping…they were $186 per 15 gallons.

[@westtexashomesteading4624]

Just found your channel. Really like all you are doing. Can’t wait to see how many zucchini you get. Those are some long rows

[@wishwellfarms]

Hey, thanks for checking out my channel, the zucchini have been coming on strong, yesterday‘s pic gave us about 600 pounds, I’ll try to film a good zucchini and cucumber harvest again soon

[@chetreed2198]

So did you have a good weekend markets? Great video!

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you, the markets were pretty good. I’ll try to remember to start including more of that in the videos about how they did.

[@alanw9823]

It seems to be cold everywhere , here in Northern Ireland it also cold but a heatwave is forecast for next week .But a heatwave here is like 22C (72 F)

[@SWMDAjaxRacing]

Funny seeing someone else from NI watching this 😅

[@wishwellfarms]

The heat wave finally hit us here in the Midwest, mid 90s F and humid all week, absolutely brutal!

[@SWMDAjaxRacing]

@@wishwellfarms 66 to 70 currently here, looking to hold out for the next week or so, which is a nice change 🙌 hope the good weather helps your crops 💪

[@simplegreen6596]

Can you discuss in one of your upcoming videos what your inputs are for your fields to add organic matter? Looking back through your videos i only see disking and fertilizer. You also mention the hard pan being fairly close to the surface and repeated shaping of beds using a the plastic mulch layer has had its effect on the ground. Curious how you all combat that.

[@wishwellfarms]

For many years we applied poultry litter compost and gypsum for our high pH soils but the application process was compacting our soils too much so for the past 5 years we’ve went back to using conventional fertilizer. Any issues we may be dealing with or wanting to change and improve are going to be for the next generation, at this point in my career I’m ready to slow down and just keep doing what works for me. A good deep rip would certainly help the hard pan.

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

Why don't you pack down the soil in the trays before putting the seeds in? It seems as if you would get the same result, but you would not have to worry about the seeds accidentally getting lifted back out of the tray. I realize that it is very easy to notice a zucchini seed that got removed, but it is probably harder to tell with some of your other seeds that you plant that are smaller.

[@wishwellfarms]

Two reasons, first it’s an extra step that’s not necessary and second of all when you drop more than one seed in it makes it very difficult to pick it up because it’s down inside the impression… when the seed is sitting up on top, you can just easily pick it up and move it or slide it over. I’ve done it this way for 25 years and it works great for us. I am all about efficiency and minimizing the steps involved at everything I do and my younger brother is 10 times worse than me and I guess he’s rubbed off on me a little bit ha ha ha.

[@ryan_farm]

Any good videos on how to efficiently build the tomato boxes? Takes me way too long!

[@wishwellfarms]

Sorry, can’t help you there. I’ve never built a tomato box

[@ryan_farm]

@@wishwellfarms I'm talking about the 10lb tomato boxes. They come flat and need to be folded into a box

[@wishwellfarms]

@@ryan_farm Oh ok, yeah I will try to show that in an upcoming video. We used to have races amongst the crew even doing it with our eyes closed

[@benrobertson2467]

I want to see how the corn does after the hail? I have been hit three year with hail? Devasting for me.

[@wishwellfarms]

I do show it briefly in one of the upcoming videos here soon, some of the leaves were shredded a little bit, but I don’t think it’s going to affect the overall corn, fortunately our hail was small enough, and the duration was pretty short, I can imagine how devastating a bad hailstorm can be on a sweetcorn crop and other vegetables for that matter.

[@mikewalter8547]

Great video. We have been growing Mirai sweet corn for over 20years we can no longer get the seed. I tried a couple differant kinds last year customers were not thrilled, What would you recommend for super sweet and tender? Already spraying silks on bolt in plastic.

[@wishwellfarms]

Mike, we planted a few different Mirai varieties many years ago but the cold soil emergence was terrible on those and genetics have come along way since then so I'm guessing that is part of the reason that Mirai is going by the wayside. And in my opinion, there are many augmented super sweets out there that eat just as well if not better than any of the Mirai vareties that I guarantee your customers will not know the difference or even like them better. Nirvana is the most tender and sweet variety I think I've ever grown, and a very easy snapper, but sometimes will give you a slightly smaller ear than others...it likes a little more space to grow, like 18-19,000 seeds per acre and weeds will really impact the size of ear. Xtra Tender 274 is a huge ear and comes on right after Bolt and Kickoff. By the way, Kickoff is a few days after Bolt and is the best early corn out there, other than Bolt. Xanadu is another new favorite one from last year that we are planting a lot more of this year. We've also planted Caliber and Anthem for the last 6 years or so and they yeild great but can yank off the stalk a little hard sometimes and they are just slightly cruncher kernels. This year we also tried Signature, Epiphany and Stamina for the first time and looking forward to trying them out because lookin for a replacement for Caliber and Anthem. Troubadour is really good too but the stalk is about at foot taller and I don't like that. For late corn we use Matriarch and it is amazing! Very small and sweet kernels and I would plant it all season if my customers wouldn't make such a fuss over gmo corn. It is the attribute corn with insect and herbicide tollerance, so very expensive. Hope that helps.

[@mikewalter8547]

@@wishwellfarms Thanks for taking the time. Muchly appreciated.

[@wishwellfarms]

@@mikewalter8547 forgot to tell you we started spraying our Bolt last week as well. Going out to spray it again tonight hopefully picking in two weeks if we get some rain.

[@carcymartaylor3466]

What is two-four damage?

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

It is an herbicide used to kill weeds.

[@beckyumphrey2626]

It is a very potent herbicide that is 10 times stronger than roundup. In the hands of an irresponsible user it can drift long distances. Agent Orange used in Vietnam was 50% 2-4-d.

[@wishwellfarms]

Most row crop growers growing soybeans use 2-4,d to control broad leaves and since our Farm is surrounded by many soybean fields, there’s always a risk of some of it drifting towards our farm if the wind is blowing just right

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Great video...sorry about 2-4-d plant.kill. That stuff is no joke, especially in the hands of an irresponsible user.

[@wishwellfarms]

Yeah, that stuff can carry quite a ways on a breezy day, and I hate that we have to use it in our soybean fields surrounding my vegetable fields and greenhouses, not good