0:00We have a bed here that's ready for planting. And so in this video, we're going to be showing the process for marking out the bed and planting using a couple of different techniques. So,

0:08what's the first step? Well, I like to this is where I I definitely like to have the string line. So, we just roll

0:16that out, tie that off. Then, we've got a couple options here. Of course, you

0:24can, you know, if you're really on a budget, you can just move your string and use your string to mark your rows

0:34and just use like a rake or something or something like

0:41the zipper or Johnny's has their own version of this that you can just use to

0:49mark your bed this way. That's a lot more work, but it's doable. Just kind of eyeballing it,

0:58it would definitely encourage if you are in this for making money that you want

1:06to go the next step, and the next step would just be to use your standard 30-in bed rake.

1:14And you have these uh pieces of PEX pipe that you just put over at

1:23whatever spacing you're wanting. Follow your string line down the bed.

1:31And then you can come back and do your cross grid. And that's a lot faster and

1:37more accurate. You need a 30-in bed rake anyway. You can go to the the hardware

1:44store and buy two feet of PEX pipe and have all of these you need. The fastest

1:52way to mark a bed would be with some kind of gritter. And

1:58these are available from either never tools or Johnny's has one that goes on the conne.

2:09And so this is a Neverink tool gritter with a custommade handle from Caleb.

2:16Yes, your little brother is becoming a welder fabricator.

2:21It's got this nice little marker that you just put above your string there and

2:28just roll it out. One of the downsides with the gritter is you kind of have to have a dedicated gritter for each different spacing layout that you're

2:36going to be Well, you don't have to. I mean, you can switch them out, but that's always a pain. And so, that's why Caleb came up

2:46with the the handle. So, we have we have a separate gritter for every spacing. Now,

2:53okay. How many different spacings do you have gritters for?

2:59I I mean pretty much the two we call this the two one because it's got two

3:07wheels marking the corners and then three and four. Okay,

3:13those are the main one. We do have the five one as well.

3:16But this is not necessarily just you could use this gritter for many different spacings, right? Because it's just giving you reference. So you could

3:23do one on the cross but one in between or one in between here. Yeah, it's I mean reference line.

3:30There's so many ways you could go, you know, you could do uh a five dice. You know, you can think of

3:39this as a dice and do something like that. You know, you can do nine.

3:46So yeah, you just think of this square as your dice and you're trying to do

3:53them evenly spaced apart. So we're talking about fall planting here and all

4:01our bronas are planted. So I actually literally scred this off the compost.

4:08Okay. Oh, they still look like they're they're plantable. You know, this is a

4:14good size. I'm pretty sure this is uh well, I was gonna say collards, but it

4:23could be cabbage, I guess. So, we like to plant our cabbage close. Normally,

4:32um for big heads, they would say two rows 18 in apart. Well, this gritter

4:40does 15 in, but that's close enough. So I would do something like this

4:49stagger. You know, this side would be on the grid and this other side would be in the middle.

4:57So 15 15 in apart staggered.

5:00Yeah. And that's going to give you big heads. Yeah.

5:04What we have found for our market clientele, you know, they don't know what to do with a a huge head of

5:12cabbage. So we plant them three three rows per bed basically. Wow.

5:19Um 10 inches apart. So we use the three gritterder which is uh yeah 10 in spacing.

5:28Um and and that'll make these small heads that people feel are manageable.

5:35So at this point, if your soil is a little harder,

5:41this right angle T from Glosser is is really handy. And you're just,

5:50you know, you don't have to be fussy with them. Just you're just trying to cover the the um root ball.

6:02But if your soil's good, it's a lot faster just to use your fingers. Just

6:09use two fingers and that's it. You know, you get them planted. Um,

6:20if you want if you have the insect netting to cover them, that's always good just to keep the worms off the well

6:29keep the the butterflies off so they don't get the worms. Or um,

6:38you know, if if you haven't hardened them off, you can cover them like with a row cover or something for a day or two.

6:46That's kind of a little bit of a transitional period. Um,

6:52so for a crop like this, bras going in in the fall, weed pressure is going to be a lot less. So, not as much of a concern maybe, but um, you know,

7:03recommendation would be to think about putting down uh, landscape fabric or we,

7:07you know, quick plant fabric that we sell um, with the pre burned holes in it just to eliminate that that weed pressure.

7:16um eliminate splash. If it's outside crops, you eliminate the dirt splatter up on the on the crops. So, something to

7:24think about as well. But if you're planting into bare soil like we are here, this is the process that uh we

7:31utilize for marking the rows and planting. Any other last tips? Yeah, one little trick with with fall brassica,

7:40it's not a trick, but just a tip that uh we do, and that this is why we do our fall bras into bare soil. As Jonathan

7:50said, there's uh less weed pressure. But what we'll do is cultivate for a couple weeks, two or 3 weeks until the plants

8:00are a little bigger, you know, say foot tall or something. And then we'll come back and we'll sew crimson clover. And

8:09the crimson clover will germinate and grow under the brasacas. Mhm.

8:15And by the time the brassacas are finished mid- winter,

8:20um the crimson clover has taken over underneath and come spring you get a nice crop. So it's kind of uh the market

8:29gardener's version of having your cake and eating it too. And well, and the clover is a beneficial crop that's putting nutrients, nitrogen into the soil, right?

8:38Yeah. It's a a leguminous cover crop,

8:41so you're not worried about it vying for uh nutrition really.

8:45Well, I Yeah, that's a whole another subject, but um it it stays small enough

8:53and shallow rooted enough in the fall that you know, as long as the bronas have a good head start, it's not an issue.

9:01Yeah. Cool. That's a good pointer. All righty. Well, I hope this video has been helpful. If you have questions, put them down below and maybe we'll answer them

9:09in a in a future video like this. Until next time, happy growing.