Planting Uncle Jessy’s peas and corn

My uncle Jessy told me one day hed love to have a garden but due to back problems he cant work it. So i told him id plant a garden on his place and plow it and he could pick whatever he wanted and the lady next door could pick in it. Its a good place for the watermelons we already planted. This is a tried and true till method where we make furs with my old Ford 2000 tractor in tilled soil and apply fertilizer ( we are using 6-8-8) and hill it back over with cultivators and plant on top with a single row John Deere planter.

[jayrice]

I agree with you 110%. I had people telling me that I shouldn't till my garden...I was ruining my soil. Well, I laid off for a year or two and didn't harvest enough to feed myself. This year I went back to the old ways of working the ground the way my Daddy did years ago and so far my garden is looking great. I have to give the most credit to the Good Lord for what I have...He has seen me through some bad times. I've planted collards, yellow squash, Patty Pan squash, okra, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, Blue Lake beans, Roma flat beans, Cherokee Tan Pumpkins, beets...I've got green bell peppers, banana peppers, and hot peppers coming on. Thanks so much for your videos...I really learn a lot and I notice we think the same on most everything! Keep up the good work and may God Bless you and your family!

[jerryhuntjj]

Looking good wish my spot was tilled up and ready to plant

[charlesezelljr]

The only thing bad about using your planter to fertilize is it will corrode or rust it out. I used my three point seed spreader to throw fertilizer, I washed it out with water and oiled it still ate it up. Hope you don’t have that happen, good luck.

[larryreese]

A fellow living out needs to be a pragmatist and a jack of all trades, carpenter, mechanic, farmer, rancher, hunter, fisherman, butcher, and it doesn't hurt a fellow to know how to cook, wash, and pick up a dish. The wife appreciates it. Same thing for a girl. My youngest was a five foot four Tom boy who hunts with me every fall. At 7 she was up on the house with me, pig tails flying, helping to shingle the house. She turned 16 I got her a 4 foot piece of hollow pipe to use for a lever on the 4 way to tighten the lug nuts and before she could drive the car she had to show me she could change the tire. Now she thinks she can tackle anything. Last summer the airconditioner went out at her house. She works in an office now but first thing she did was look up the problem on utube, ordered the part and fixed her airconditioner. Where there's a will there's a way and if we ever stop learning and trying, we're dead. By the way, be grateful for that good deep soil. Where I live 18 inches down you're on hardpan, deeper than that you're on bedrock. Around here the only reason we plow our fields is to see if we can find any dirt.

[larryreese]

Oh! Forgot to tell you. Noticed that your rows were straight as could be. Up here by the time we dodge around all the rocks and plow gets through getting slammed side to side we have the gosh awfulest and crookedest rows you've ever seen. Looks like a stick of dynamite had an epileptic seizure. But one thing we've found out. You can grow more stuff in a crooked row. We've been growing bumper crops ever since.