Wishwell Farms Produce

The winter storms that blew through Ohio on December 22nd with high winds and brutal cold, caused signigicant damage to the poly covers on three of my five greenhouses. In this video I will show the process of removing the old damaged poly and how we install the new poly sheets.

Installing New Greenhouse Poly on one of our greenhouses

Got a little too close to the ditch!

A quick glimpse into how sap is collected and turned into maple syrup!

Need to pay more attention next time!

Know where the treeline is before turning around!

Lots of chains and horsepower!

Some pumpkin shooting at close range with a 12 gauge and then with a 1/2 lb of tannerite.

Just having some fun in the pumpkin patch! We find it faster to pull the vines off of the plants vs cutting them, and not only will the stems remain fresher longer, it often leaves behind a cute little curly tendril on the stem.

Here's what happens to a pumpkin that is dropped from a 60' silo.

Pulling out our JD Combine from a sink hole. The chain could have snapped causing serious injury or death...should have used a tow strap or put a tire around chain to absorb energy and recoil if snapped. Full length video here that went viral with 1.7 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ry8auxCTF4&t=5s

In this video you will see how we transplant our veggie seedlings through plastic mulch on raised beds with our water wheel planter. We grow 65 acres of produce on our farm with 8 acres of it being on raised beds covered with plastic mulch. Crops such as tomatoes, cucumber, zuchini, eggplant, peppers, cantaloupe and watermelon do very well with this method. The plastic mulch warms the soil quicker, prevents weeds, and has a drip irrigation line under it for irrigating the crop.

Have you ever had an insect outbreak in your garden and wanted to eliminate them without using harsh synthetic pesticides, then this video is for you. These are my favorite four products that help me keep the bugs at bay in our fields and greenhouses using organic methods. I will also share three other alternatives that have worked well for me in the past as well. There are five main pest that get in our greenhouses that can get out of control very quickly if left unchecked, they are thrips, spider mites, aphids, white flies and hornworms. I will show you what rates to use with these products and how I spray them on the plants.

Improve the way you grow indeterminate tomato plants imediatly with these six steps. In this video I explain the six weekly task that must be done for growing and maintaining greenhouse tomatoes. Although ours are grown using the hydroponic method, most of these steps can be applied to soil grown and garden grown tomatoes as well.

During the winter there is still plenty to do on the farm, but we always make time for some traveling. This one of the ways our family enjoys some time away from the farm...two weeks on Lido Key in Sarasota Florida, and Colonel's family comes down for a visit! 0:00 Intro 1:30 Arrive at the beach 2:26 Pulling a prank on my buddy 6:09 Eagle Beach Campground 7:59 Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg 11:33 Sawgrass Lake Park and an armadillo 12:27 Day 4, a sunrise and walk on beach 13:47 Hiking at Mayaka State Park and on the Florida Trail 15:53 Blakes backflips and our best timelapse sunset on beach 16:50 Colonel's family driving to Florida 17:59 Colonel arrives at Suntide Island Beach Club 20:13 Riding the waves-boogie boarding 23:09 Colonel got burnt! 25:02 Kayaking at Siesta Key 28:02 Final Day - eating at the Cortez Kitchen with everyone 30:33 Car ride back to resort and our final sunset at Bradenton Beach 32:58 Colonel's family leaving Florida at 3 am to beat impending winter storm 34:48 A farewell to Lido Key...time to head home 35:53 Colonel signing off from cold Kentucky on the way home

Today was our first grape tomato harvest for 2021 in our 30x96 DeClouet greenhouse. We use coconut coir bags for our growing media in this greenhouse. The varieties grown are Jolly Girl and Ruby Crush, both determinates. Times Lapse Greenhouse Build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAvF2PQ7_vk

In this video I will share our fertilizer recipe that we are using in our hydroponic growing system as well as the quantities of each nutrient and how we mix and deliver them to the tomato plants in the greenhouses. We use a Crop King Nutrient Injector System to deliver the fertilizer solution to the plants. There is not a reservoir system and we do not recirculate our leach water in our operation. We currently grow 6 different hybrids in 14,000 Sq.ft. of greenhouse space using the Dutch Bucket growing method for the beefsteak type tomatoes and coconut coir slabs for our grape tomatoes. #hydroponicgrowing

In this video we will explain the process of seeding tomatoes into rockwool slabs and how we get them to germinate in just four days. We sow our first of four plantings of tomatoes during the first week of January and they will be ready for harvest in late April. Please subscribe to our channel for more videos explaining the entire process of growing hydroponic tomatoes at Wishwell Farms Produce.

Compilation of the top 12 biggest accidents, failures, disasters and mishaps on and around our farm. This video has track loaders and combines stuck in the mud, a near tractor roll over, a greenhouse that blew apart, a truck going through the ice, and much more!

We grow 4 acres of pumpkins, winter squash and fall ornamentals. In this video we will show you how we harvest our pumpkins and keep them healthy throughout the growing season, as well as having a little fun!

In this video, at Wishwell Farms Produce, we will show you how we bring cantaloupe and sweet corn from field to cooler. We use a John Deere 3020 and a John Deere 4010 for pulling our flatbed wagons during harvest. Sweet corn is planted every 7-10 days from mid April until mid July giving us a fresh patch to harvest from each week throughout the summer, finishing for the season at the end of September. Cantaloupe are seeded in the greenhouse three times beginning in mid April with the final seeding at the end of May giving us a harvest window from late July until shortly after Labor Day.

In this video you will see our Oxbo BH100 one row bean harvester in action as well as a Pixall Even Feeder & Vibrating Table in the packing shed to get the beans washed, cooled and packed into one bushel crates for sale at the Farmers' Markets.

We have a had a very good growing season on the farm so far this year. Check out the progress and see many of the vegetable crops that we grow at Wishwell Farms Produce.

Come along with us as we prepare for several Farmers’ Markets on a Friday and then on Saturday as we attend and set up at three different style of markets and how they are dealing with Covid-19. As well as a greenhouse tomato update! Even though Farmers” Markets have been deemed essential businesses, many of them have implemented safety guidelines that require all orders to be placed on-line and picked up at drive-through Farmers Markets. Now that restrictions are beginning to be lifted some markets are opening up as a normal walk-up style market with some safety guidelines to follow.

Sweet corn is where it all began for us on our produce operation nearly 30 years ago! Today we planted our first of 10 plantings for the 2020 season. This was a 6 acre planting of our 35 acres of sweet corn that we grow for over a dozen Farmers' Markets and roadside stands that we set up at during the summer. We use a 1964 John Deere 3020 and a 1979 John Deere 7000 four row planter. Check out this funny video below about keeping in shape during a pandemic. JK is Hikings' channel has been changed to John Kelly: Keeping Active in a Pandemic: We’re All In This Together? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnGxfSp7V0w&t=15s