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Great video Curtis thanks.
Definitely something to see; the manual turning of beds. As someone who is really looking in to doing urban farming, it would be nice to see things done manually since not all of us, myself included, would have access to enough capital to buy a tilther.
Nice gnome
Hey Curtis, I was wondering if you ever have wildlife pressure at any of your plots?
Curtis, your videos have taken me from weekend warrior to converting my 1/2 acre for production – jut ordered your book. Quick question regarding crops: With all the heat you have, how do you plant arugula in the summer, is it that you're harvesting it young, and cutting it down before it bolts? Thanks!
could you please provide a link to the planter you're using?
I've been listening to your podcasts with Diego on his site, it's fantastic content and the amount of detail is superb.
Major Bummer Curtis!
I just don't get the tilther. Those electric hand drill are not meant to run continuous for one and for the price of tilther, you can get a cheap Mantis 2 stroke tiller. They are only US$150 or so for the really cheap one. Or be bit spendy I think you also own a BCS, so why not use it instead. Set the depth to only 2 or 3" or so.
I have a rotary harrow attachment for my BCS 850 (Harrow needs the power) but it REALLY DOES the job prepping for seeding. And the harrow does a very nice job at ripping apart any weed remnant… Well worth every penny. Talk to your friend JM 😉
Disclaimer: I am a farmer who owns a BCS, Troy built tiller, a compact tractor with lots of attachment for the PTO and a cat1/2 class diesel powered tractor also with lots of attachments. Oh my compact also runs on diesel.
Curtis, when are you going to start rocking the Diego Footer look? lol great vid!
My second cut of spinach always have a lot of half cut leaves from previous cut. Do you have the same problem? Maybe i'm cutting it to low…? For now i'm only doing 1 cut…
Last winter I tried Speedy hybrid form William Dam and this spinach is really amazing. Its really quick and I harvested around 60lb in one cut form 50'. Did you try it?
I use my flame weeder a lot. Not like yours, it is a single wand torch. I found the torch works best "bursting the cell walls of weeds" which kills the pant A quick pass is best. If a person tries to incinerate the weeds it does not work as well. When I do it the weeds don't look much different immediately, but within an hour take on a dull look that tells me it worked.
Grass weed are normalized to have their tops burned and then they sprout from the roots again. But a fast quick high temperature flame is different, it sort of poisons the plant with its own dying tissue exposed to rotting microbes.
It is hard to explain, so it takes some experimentation. Expecting a flame weeder to kill the soil seeds or sterilize the soil might be asking a little too much.
Where it works really well is around property edges after a rain. You can singe the weeds without setting fire to anything else.
great videos Curtis really inspiring and I am really appreciative, can't wait to farm on a bigger scale in the future.
I have an idea that would make the wheel width adjustable. Maybe you can suggest it to your friend. He could have the horizontal bit of pipe that now has the wheels on both ends but with wheels that you could screw/clamp onto that pipe. Kind of like a simple screwable woodclamp or with holes just like a hight adjustable simple electric lawnmower where you just screw the fastener into one of the many predrilled holes so you can screw the wheels onto the horizontal bar wherever you want, making it fully width adjustable and no need for individual width customization for seperate customers. A sliding system would be nicer as the drill holes would make the pipe prone to rust, screw thread fatigue or weaken the pipe structurally.
Garden gnome cameo…
your best vlog yet!
In your book you list a two wheel tractor as an expected expense but I no longer see you using it (in these videos atleast). Being a big chunk of money would you recommend it outside of initial prep of a site (maybe rental would be more economical?). Thanks
Curtis, how about a Tilther 101 – don't see where you've demo'd the Tilther.
A cropping bed flame weeder designed by local organic farmers. More efficient that an open flame but the same idea right —https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2yd79vv7Y
Was it any easier pushing the flame weeder vs pulling it?
do we win a prize if we notice the garden g just joshing funny to see him in there though
I like the music too, you have good taste 🙂
I would've just bought a new tilther
Buy two and keep one in the shed for breakdowns. Looks like they do a great job on the top inch or two.
how do you secure your walkway paths? stakes?
Once you are banking profit double up on important tools maybe "Two is One, One is None" kinda thing?
Lol love the garden gnome!
Need to keep back up tools 2 is 1 and 1 is none. Keeping replacement bearings on hand is also a great Idea.