Today we’re continuing to plant more veggies for the spring backyard gardening season here at Lazy Dog Farm. We have some cucumber transplants that we started in our greenhouse and they’re ready to go in the ground. This is our first time transplanting cucumbers in the backyard garden, so we’re hoping it goes well!
We’ll also be direct-seeding our summer squash and providing an update on our chicken tractor. Hopefully the chickens are done mowing the cover crops so we can plant our sweet corn soon.
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I grew Tasty Jade (Parthenocarpic) for a couple of years next to a Korean OP (No clue the name as my wife gets them from Korea). I have grown them away from each other and next to each other. I can say that when they grew next to each other I found Tasty Jade with seed and they would sometime be hooked shaped (normally they are super straight). For us, it did not matter and I really did not see a difference in taste, maybe a little more wet. However, I can say that even when I grew them apart, I would get a few of these irregular cucumbers from time to time still (as bees do fly!).
Another great video! I'm just waiting on my sweet corn to come up fingers crossed!
I use the cattle panels for my cukes & pole beans. I take them down every yr & put them back up in another place. Didn’t think it is that difficult to do. I’m 70 yr old & do it by myself👍
OKREE!
I just saw at Walmart maybe 2 handfuls of okra for $5… 😳😳
I just need a squash resistant to squash bugs…they are Satan reincarnated 😡
I think I've heard soil health is more important than crop rotation. If you turn that trellis spot into no till as well I bet you have good success.
Hey, Travis! Y'all look like you're having fun out there! Now for those cucumbers. I only plant pickling cucumbers. My son won't eat them (or pickles), and I can't eat them raw or they give me atomic heartburn. I'll be putting in at least on 30' row of cukes, and hope to make LOTS of pickles this year.
My chickens love anything green, and cover cropping and letting them graze it looks like a win/win. Have you considered maybe getting some meat birds and grazing them to off-set the cost of feed? They grow out in about 8 weeks, at least the Cornish Cross do. I'm considering getting some of the larger, dual purpose chicks, straight run, grazing them, and culling the roosters, as I'm guaranteed to get 1/2 or more males that way. There are breeds that produce plenty of eggs and also get big enough in 12 weeks to do this. With the price of meat going up, this would be a great way to stock my freezer, but I'm sure my neighbors won't really like it much, LOL!
That Ty Ty ain't scared of nothing 🤣. I'm gonna plant one cuke plant for fresh eating, my son doesn't care for them and I still have loads of homemade pickles.
I’m growing mini watermelons on mine and also cantelope and on another cherry tomatoes. So many things do well. Noodle beans would be good.
How do you keep the pickleworms away? I have to grow cucumbers in my screened pool area. If I plant them outside, the pickleworms get every freaking fruit. I've tried Bt, Spinosad, and even Seven dust, but nothing stops those bastards because they apparently dig into the fruit immediately after hatching.
I enjoyed that. I was going to suggest indeterminate tomatoes suckered to one or two stems for the cattle trellis as a third family in your rotation but I see others have the same idea 💡! It’s not even time for me to sow my tomatoes under lights yet and you’re planting out cucumbers, it ain’t fair I tell you🥶!
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So nice to see a family working together in the garden… very nice! I am WAY behind in my garden this year… I have a huge Oak tree smack dab in the middle of my largest garden… and I have raked those leaves the last time… the tree removal company will be here 8:30 am… in the morning… once they are done… I'll have full sun, and no more Oak leaves…. I hate to do it, but it's time has come. I am going to turn it into firewood… so It's not going to waste. I do really hate to do it, but it's just got to go. I have a greenhouse full of transplants that are overdue… the minute they pull out… I'm gonna get busy tilling it up, and getting it planted.
Travis, I've been covering my brassicas with tulle (an inexpensive netting,) and it's worked wonders to keep away insects and protect my plants from hot sun.
Oh Ty Ty, I love pickles too! lol Travis, you could always plant tomatoes along the trellis and use it to tie them up for support. =)
So cute to see you and your family working in the garde. Can't wait to see your progress.
Your title says “How to grow pickles”. You make pickles and grow cucumbers!
Not sure if you like these crops but you can also grow sweet potato and Malabar spinach on a trellis.
Your son has convinced me that us adults have been utilizing the wrong process of taking a nap.🤣🤣🤣. Awesome video brother
You will have thousands of cucumbers if you don’t thin them. I planted 6 plants last year and we had hundreds of cucumbers. They work great on the trellis.
He sure looks like his momma
I have been transplanting my cucumbers for the last few years works good for me.
You could plant cherry tomatoes or indeterminate tomatoes 🤷♀️
My kids love to garden with me too! If only I could get my wife out there though
Travis I didn't see you put down any fertilizer. So what fertilizer do you use and when do you put it down? Thank you!!
Any cucumber tips someone can help me with, please! I can’t grow them. They are the only plant I have failed to grow. They germinate perfectly. Once they get a few more leaves, they go brownish/grey and almost look burnt. I will then try over and over with the same results. I can grow peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, onions, ground cherries, tomatoes, you name it. But cucumbers 😭😭 nope. I have tried open pollinators and self pollinating. Slicers, munchers, pickling and randoms..
Cool watching the videos with the kids – kids who've grown up eating fresh vegetables! Long-term, it will make a difference in their health and well-being.
Indeterminate tomatoes would grow great on the arch panel trelis