A VEGETABLE FARMER'S 2020 FROM PLANTING TO HARVEST

good morning everybody how you doing today my name's andrew i'm one of the veggie boys and i want to thank you for stopping by if you're new here consider subscribing because we can do a lot of things on the farm but one thing we can't do is grow this channel without your help we had a pretty amazing year we made it up to 30 000 subscribers by the end of 2020. have you ever wondered what a full year on the vegetable farm looks like check it out oh i see him he's coming out right there come to my voice [Music] and when he's finished tagging it then i'll be able to cover the seeds and with this germination greenhouse it'll go from this to this in under a week like candy onion that says red those don't look red that's counting how many flats we have here he has to go get tags these are all bell peppers for sales see how large the pepper plants have gotten [Music] [Music] so look at this guy this guy was recording that drone footage and he's recording for us planting this is a left-handed perspective of life plant peppers again today we have orange bell yellow bell white and purple bell bell peppers are done hot peppers sweet peppers they're all taken care of andrew how would i ever make fun of somebody wearing a camera on their baseball cap what's funny is this vegetable we're about to pick it's like one of my least favorite to pick my dad's the fifth generation in our family to be farmers and then me and my two brothers are the sixth we also have a lot of cousins that help us on the farm [Music] [Music] oh [Music] the pepper plant just gives it to you the pea plant fights you this morning i went out to the field a little earlier matt was out here a little bit and helped me we picked a few varieties of peppers we picked some italian oh some cubanelle we have some italian long hots some jalapenos and some hot hungarian [Music] wax kind of makes you sad picking these before they turn red but hey people want them look what grammy has over here a five gallon bucket of [Music] pickles yuck it's so tasty me tired jerks turkey down there as we're picking these pickling cucumbers you can see there's a lot of blossoms coming but not all of these blossoms produce cucumbers if we look down here when you see the flower with the little cucumber behind it those produce the cucumbers but when you find the flowers for example this one here that doesn't have a little cucumber behind it that one is a male and the ones with the little cucumbers those are females and the interesting thing about cucumbers and other plants like it is they are so low to the ground that wind cannot pollinate these plants so we rely heavily on honeybees bumblebees and other things like that to really pollinate our flowers my lip perch look at jake he's out there sleeping taking a bath right now no more hanging out with the mannequin girl from the other farm knock it off [Music] that felt good smells spicy out here i'm looking for long hot peppers guys [Music] i think i'm in the right place joel is working on the last basket of long haunts we have nine here on the truck he's working on ten dad got the poblanos picked you've never had poblanos you need to stuff them and eat them they're delicious what do you think of this there we go we got a nice hull now to take this home and get it unloaded those are some strange looking watermelons this stuff is tall it's like being in a jungle run jimmy run i don't think the camera's picking it up but there is steam coming off the corn like a lot of steam it's getting warm outside joel's getting the last basket we got a nice haul of tomatoes here [Music] look at this guy look how good he'd be with some googly eyes look at this plant right here [Music] turn this side over there is look at all those peppers on this one plant [Music] beautiful the petunias look great this is looking great look at the cherry peppers matt you don't need all the attention this is what's important i do need all the attention attaboy don't walk away now look this is jerry bell looking how does that make you feel [Music] i try one of these but they're too hot for me your man made the paper i know [Music] [Music] oh two full okay i can't do this one-handed we got all we need pick now we're heading back to the farm [Music] i have something i would like to explain that i think is absolutely fascinating about corn when you see the pollen on the top of the tassel here this little stuff is the pollen now those little things fall see it in the end of my finger that falls down and has to fall on the silk of the corn now this silk is dry when it's growing it's sticky anyway the silk catches that stickiness catches it pulls it down inside the ear now the goes all the way to the bottom and it starts at the bottom so it'll pull each one of those little pieces of pollen all the way down to the bottom and then each kernel needs to be pollinated so that's why when you peel your corn the hair is all the way down to the bottom so that little piece of pollen that fell off the top landed on this sticky silk it pulled it all the way down and every kernel needs to be pollinated that way now if there's an issue like right here one didn't pollinate you can see that something happened there and that's why a lot of times the end of your ears don't fill out because the pollen gets dry because of dry weather because of too much heat or other things or an animal comes and bites the silk off then the top of the ear don't fill out because the pollen got too dry [Music] so [Music] it ain't easy being cheesy [Music] and i move them around you can see all the peppers just hanging in there and then there's these plants that are the same exact way then you have to remember we planted over 8 000 of these plants and almost all of them are just like this so that's a lot of pepper [Music] and i'm gavin just to get this out of the way yes i shaved my mustache and yes it was pure pressure this variety is definitely plum crimson just about how massive these plum tomatoes are that is definitely a plum crimson bagel plum crimson tomatoes yeah this is what you like to see while you're picking tomatoes look at this guys look at all these nice ripe red tomatoes in there oh there's more underneath look at that look at that [Music] the mongoose is very versatile all right it's not bad for what 50 minutes of picking no that's not bad at all it's a nice looking wagon of tomatoes that's for sure this is what we like to see check it out a nice wagon full of tomatoes we have a saying on the farm what's worse than picking tomatoes once picking them twice so we have to be careful on the way home we don't want any of our baskets to fall over so we kind of move stuff around so the boys can make sure the sides are safe good job gavin yes sir but joel has to take care of his horses they have 21 horses that they take care of and he needs to feed him at a certain time instead of joel having to leave us and picking sweet corn with just dad and i we figured it'd be easier if we picked the sweet corn first this is exciting these are the italian el peppers the variety we are picking is called giant [Music] marconi this guys we got a nice nice picking here we got the full bin of cubanelles the full bin of italian elves look it up have you ever seen a pepper as pretty as that right off the vine beautiful beautiful they're perfect andy they're never perfect had a wagon load of eggplant now to some of you this may not seem like a lot of eggplant i know probably a lot of you guys have eggplant farms but uh this is a lot for us there's a lot eggplant here oh there's some nice ones wow look at these peppers look at that those are gorgeous i baked today she didn't give any to me joel did have a piece of pie today because i dropped it on the floor right out of my hand where is my how come he gets by and i don't i'm your son your piece is still down there on the table you never told me you didn't come in and ask for it it's like a small tree look at this thing that's a fat broccoli i mean sometimes i'll say something or i will do something that's not the smartest i just go hey babe i'm sorry then i just hand it a broccoli and it's all okay we need another basket i know how you guys love the sounds of us picking peppers but wait till you hear the sounds of the leaves coming off the broccoli i hope that was satisfying to you because i love hearing the sound of the broccoli leaves snapping off andrew will you marry me no dad that's weird come on so dad what will this broccoli go for back at the farm market dollar fifty yeah so each one of these heads of broccoli is a dollar fifty and this massive head this is also going to be just a dollar fifty that's what the price is in our farm market and the weighs about five pounds well can you [Music] [Music] andrew who did that [Music] tell him who put that bin on the wagon i put the bit on the wagon get excited it was crazy [Music] that's a nice one these plants are loaded oh my there's like one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen on this one plant daniel do you wanna water look at this guys this is what we like to see a nice full wagon load of tomatoes how many is this i have no idea i'll tell you how many are on here after i count 84 baskets of tomatoes on this wagon oh my they just missed one right here matthew's pants could not withstand the force of him jumping on the wagon and under the great pressure of his thighs his pants split and on a better note we got the wagon full of tomatoes they look really good yes they do i saw this pumpkin sitting on the ground and i was like oh how do we miss a perfect pumpkin i rolled it over and i realized oh it's not perfect at all why can't her mom get her own water no dad the mums her flowers the chrysanthemums mums i got my mom's right here i got my mom's right here i got my buttons right here that's what i like to see nice looking tomatoes hey dad how does it make you fee [Music] go down go [Music] come on yeah thank you look at these peppers it's only a few baskets are you okay the drink is getting to me pepper juice [Music] there we go look at we got some cauliflower i gotta go get another basket but look guys can you see him there's daniel and there you have it that's 20 20 on the vegetable farm i hope everybody enjoyed and i can't wait to see you next time bye bye

Channel: The Veggie Boys

Views: 1,137,465

Rating: 4.8415313 out of 5

Keywords: vegetable farming, the veggie boys, theveggieboys, vegetable farming videos, vegetable farmers, family farm, family of farmers, real farming, harvesting vegetables, sweetcorn, harvesting sweetcorn, sweet peppers, hot peppers, family owned farm, how to farm, farming peppers, farming sweet corn, farming tomatoes, farm vlog, farming vlog, homesteading, homestead, farmers, tomato harvest, harvesting tomatoes, growing tomatoes, tomato picking, tomato farming, vegetable harvest

Id: Cv9nsVBPgCs

Length: 20min 14sec (1214 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 02 2021