Why Won't This Broccoli Get Bigger?!

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@irili100 11 ай бұрын

This is exactly what is typical of Loess soil. Its grains are very tiny and become a thin layer of opaque crust that prevents water from seeping later. Lots of organic matter on the surface. Helps slow water penetration. We have a whole village in the desert with the same problem, who found this solution to the problem and his whole garden is treated this way. This solved 75% of the irrigation problem. Only 25% of the irrigation is through water from a well, the rest from rainwater in the winter.

@desertflower9557 11 ай бұрын

They are beautiful cauliflower!

@allantrafford6262 11 ай бұрын

My broccoli is smaller than normal also. I assumed maybe the colder than normal days were the cause. Zone 9. Mine seems to do best when it’s cool but not real cold.

@smellslikedirt525 11 ай бұрын

Clean and freeze your ginger. It is so much easier to grate frozen and then toss back in the freezer what you did not use.

@davidward1259 11 ай бұрын

Now Travis, you know in Georgia we don't measure fertilizer mixed in a dawg's buck in ounces..... It's "glugs" not ounces! I'm like you, I hate to toss out seeds even after a few years. I will try to get them to germinate and use them if I can. I do buy some new to keep in stock rotation, but I just hate to toss seeds as it's wasting money. If they fail to germinate, then that's another thing. As to broccoli, mine is smaller than normal also. I did get a last start on transplanting it, so I figured that was why. Still checking it for progress and will at least get some heads even if they are not huge (Green Magic is variety)

@AnenLaylle7023 11 ай бұрын

I'm growing around 1000 broccoli plants right now here in the Augusta, Ga. area. I trialed two kinds of sprouting broccoli this fall and I'm planning on ditching the heading broccoli altogether this Spring. I grew two types of sprouting broccoli (as previously mentioned), a purple called Burgundy, and a green sprouting broccoli BC1611, and the yields on both of these plants are insane. The side shoots on Burgundy in particular are surprisingly large. You also get a harvest about a month earlier than you do on traditional heading broccoli. It's a game changer for my business, and I'm really excited to go all in this spring and grow 500 both kinds of sprouting broccoli I mentioned! If you are growing head broccoli in the south grow Castle Dome or Belstar. They perform the best for me, and believe me I have tried them all. For Cauliflower this year I grew a new early purple called Purple Moon, and it was ready a month before the broccoli. For white Cauliflower Song TJS-65 is unmatchable for a southern Farmer. It is a green stem cauliflower and it's taste is comparable for Fioretto. You could make a cool video on Fioretto Cauliflower Trav. Have you ever grown it? It sells itself. In general broccoli makes a lot of money and grows well in the South. Surprised there is not more people farming it. Anyhow, Happy Growing!

@kelliwebb2870 11 ай бұрын

My purple sprouting broccoli never sprouted last year. I still have two purple sprouting broccoli left over from last spring that survived our brutal summer here in zone 10a. Maybe it will sprout in 2024??? But to wait a year is more than I can fathom. Anyway my other broccoli and cauliflower are kickin butt!

@wallybruns4035 11 ай бұрын

1000? holy cow. Must have a mighty big garden. Nice.

@andreaharper3975 11 ай бұрын

Where do you buy your seeds of these?

@AnenLaylle7023 11 ай бұрын

@@andreaharper3975 Johnny's Seeds.

@AnenLaylle7023 11 ай бұрын

@@wallybruns4035 It took me ten years to get to the level I am at and compared to conventional farming I am still VERY small.

@desertflower9557 11 ай бұрын

Broccoli info is very helpful for me.

@alabamagirl2725 11 ай бұрын

Oh lawd. The dawgs bucket again 😂

@joeyl.rowland4153 11 ай бұрын

I was always told what comes out of a dawg should not go on a garden.😂😂😂😂( Sorry Travis I couldn't help myself)

@joycebovee5818 11 ай бұрын

Happy New Year!🎉🎉🎉🎉

@marysurbanchickengarden 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful purple broccoli Travis! I'm not feeling jealous of your onions now because mine are looking as good as yours. If nothing happens to mess things up I should get a few big onions in 24. I fluffed the soil around my onions as well because the good Lord sent us some beneficial rain. I think we might be out of the serious drought, barring the rains keep coming.

@davidmaxwell7029 11 ай бұрын

Good info as always. I think I may start some ginger this year.

@becky3086 11 ай бұрын

Your broccoli and cauliflower look great! I do hope I get some this year but it has been cold here with lots of frosts. I think most of my cole crops are going out more towards spring.

@ptngarden 11 ай бұрын

thank you for sharing.happy new year

@FosterFarmsOk 11 ай бұрын

my broccoli struggled this fall too. not sure what happened.

@izaacdreddpimp 11 ай бұрын

What's up Travis?! Happy New Year brother. I too am harvesting some broccoli, infact grabbed 2 pretty heads today. Man was the heads hard an beads were tight!! That particular type was Covina F-1 hybrid. It truly is,as advertised, highly resilient. Temps been up, down, frosts... sshizz.. we Even suffered a flood 1 week b4 Christmas. An those Covina broc. Marched on . An "NO" I am not sponsored by them in any way! But i think so far they are looking like a possible go to for me an mine. That said we are growing 6 types of broc. this fall/winter. Aswell as 2 kinds of Chinese broccoli. Kai Lan, an a beautiful purple variety called HonTsaiTai, which has delicious greens. God bless you an your family an your followers. Stand Strong in 24

@allantrafford6262 11 ай бұрын

Speaking of the dawgs bucket. Hopefully FSU will shut up now about being left out of the playoffs. Those dawgs emptied several buckets of whoop ass on them noles

@irili100 11 ай бұрын

@Lazy Dog Farm I am curious to know about the type of soil in your garden. If every time it rains, the soil hardens, have you tried covering it with mulch, shavings, or straw to prevent compaction? In our desert, there is a soil called Loess, which is sealed when the raindrops fall on it and every additional drop of water cannot penetrate inside and thus a flood is caused. The solution to this problem is a thick layer of organic material that slowly absorbs the water into it and into the soil without fear of flooding.

@LazyDogFarm 11 ай бұрын

The soil doesn't necessarily harden, but a light crust does form on the top when we get heavy rains. Our soil is pretty sandy.

@lindyjourde7411 11 ай бұрын

Great vid! Happy New Year from beautiful New Zealand. 👌⭐❤️

@Detour4it 10 ай бұрын

Question. Where'd you get your large black plastic sheet you pit down to kill weeds?

@LazyDogFarm 10 ай бұрын

Agri-Supply. If you have any billboard places nearby, check with them too. Sometimes they have the old billboard plastic for cheap.

@Detour4it 10 ай бұрын

@@LazyDogFarm BIG Thank you 👍👊

@annhendrick8681 11 ай бұрын

Travis, are you going to have any more of the giant squash seed this year?? What about walking onions or turmeric? Are you going to have more to sale?

@LazyDogFarm 11 ай бұрын

Yes, I hope to have more giant butternut seeds. We also should have turmeric plants in early summer and we'll have more onion bulbs late next summer.

@hazeysgarden 11 ай бұрын

I’ve been wondering how much I should fertilize my onions. I side dressed them with a little bit of bone meal yesterday. I still haven’t decided if I want to go organic or not. I’m doing an experiment with Brussels sprouts where I grow some 100% organic and some in a separate bed using synthetic fertilizer and unfortunately my synthetic ones look a fair bit better. Which makes me wonder what I should do lol .

@wallybruns4035 11 ай бұрын

My broccoli plants have only been growing for a month..We've had a few days below freezing and so far they look fine. Been covered on those really cold nights. I figured you all wanted to know. lol

@joeyl.rowland4153 11 ай бұрын

I have ginger too. It is not as prolific as turmeric.

@TheExperimentalHomestead 11 ай бұрын

Maaaan i gave up on broccoli 3 years ago. It just takes up too much space :p 😜

@Tennessee101AB 11 ай бұрын

My broccoli is all leaf no heads I’m given up on it just no luck with it. All that’s left for my garden is my garlic beds and the last ginger is coming out, for next spring, I don’t leave it in the beds cause like it to have the pink showing to pickle it to get the best young tenderness and get a pink color in the sugar/rice vinegar brine.

@kathymc234 11 ай бұрын

That is what's happening to my broccoli, this year. I've never had that happen...

@whitestone4401 11 ай бұрын

I just don’t have the room for broccoli, unfortunately. I did plant a little nub of ginger and had a nice plant starting. My grandson walks up to it, says “weed” and broke it off right at soil level. 🤷🏼‍♀️ We’ll wait until next season.

@davidgagnon2849 11 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking; but a story you can share with him later on when you can both laugh about it a little.

@cuznclive2236 11 ай бұрын

My experience growing broccoli and cauliflower in EarthBoxes, or DIY SIP containers is good to great. They don't require too much room and are easy to amend for a couple of runs.

@davidgagnon2849 11 ай бұрын

Happy New Year Travis! You said the broccoli seeds may have been 3 or 4 years old. How do you store your seeds? In the freezer in airtight packaging?

@LazyDogFarm 11 ай бұрын

Happy New Year! I just keep them in my office.

@leslierowell392 11 ай бұрын

The colder fall here in Georgia zone 7b/8a has onions in slow growth mode since being transplanted the first of December. More cold weather in the 10 day forecast Does this effect when i fertilize them again?

@bpfsu 11 ай бұрын

Travis, you get a new knife for Christmas?

@LazyDogFarm 11 ай бұрын

Got it a couple months ago. Lost my old Benchmade after many years of good use. I waited several months to find it, but finally bit the bullet and replaced it.

@kelleclark 11 ай бұрын

Why no mulch in your onion rows??

@LazyDogFarm 11 ай бұрын

Not really necessary for us. We've got drip irrigation and they're not hard to weed around.

@kelliwebb2870 11 ай бұрын

Are you going to sell the ginger? That cauliflower looked awesome. That purple cauliflower melts in your mouth! Store bought cauliflower tastes like disappointment!