My Biggest Beet Harvest

Is a human these are banana hots not sweet banana. Oh my goodness beautiful Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to Brian's farm. Dad and I are gonna pick some jalapeno We've cleaned a lot of these off and the hail also got a bunch of them So there's not a ton on but we're gonna get what we can We're gonna try and get some banana now These are banana hots not sweet banana Down in these weeds are actually pretty good kind of protected Or maybe I got lucky with that one bush Because these are really cleaned off soft This first granite for the farm work There's some cukes They're all just borderline If you guys are interested in wanting to support the farm, I do have t-shirts on my website, which is broinesfarm.com right here This is what they look like. I have all sorts of different colors. I have white gray tan yellow green blues And I also have hoodies. I have maroon pink blue gray white. So go check it out And this is what they look like on the back So it's the next day Frank and I are gonna start out here in the cauliflower Seems like we're going through this about every day, but we just have to wait for it to keep getting bigger Here's one of those self-wrapping heads You can see it in there That's mostly just that way When we get a lot of Sun, it doesn't turn the cauliflower yellow. It stays nice and white Just makes it more difficult to cut Now we're on to the purple Which is my favorite Beauties Gonna grab some Brussels sprouts run to the new variety. These are I think a lot nicer just more uniform But after you get them cut I'll take my knife turn down my fingers What I'm doing right now is taking the tops out of the Brussels sprouts That puts more nutrients to these little tiny baby ones at the top Instead of putting them to either the top which is just leaves or to the bottom which the Brussels sprouts are already to a nice size I Just went through and did all these you can see all the heads land We used to always snap the leaves off at the base here We found that they look just as nice with the knife and it's quite a bit faster So this is why we do it now as long as you don't cut our fingers So as you can see Frank and I are now in the cornfield Not sweet corn. This is field corn and We're not harvesting the corn. We're actually harvesting the corn stalks for decoration We have some orders today. We've got a bunch of bundles in here ready to go. We have a bunch out there What we're doing just taking the loppers cutting them down as low as we can I'm cutting Frank is piling three four five and six whoops So he's taking those six laying them on the ground Which she's kind of a maybe you gotta take them out. We don't bend them and Then we're gonna come with binder twine right here and right here on the same bundle and we'll tie it in two places that way it's nice and secure and Then the customers can buy them and decorate wherever they want The biggest thing is that like especially on the outside of a cornfield. They're kind of small and skinny We want to get the nice big tall corn stalks that look nice and are full That's why we're in here. You can see how tall Frank is. I don't know how tall he is But I would say these are at least eight foot tall which is really nice for decorating Frank and I are now moving into the zucchini Yes, it is raining. It's been raining for the past like three days Just miserable Zucchini is monstrous though. We weren't thinking it was gonna grow so much in this cold rainy weather But it is This variety here is new for this year. It's got like a darker skin instead of having like, oh my goodness Nothing's enormous. Now. That's the normal zucchini and you can see how this is the different kind. We like them both a lot They will have the same flavor We're gonna have to break out the crates to put these babies in As we get further out through the patch here zucchini Actually get a little bit smaller which is okay because they were extra large jumbos in the beginning there I Wouldn't pick any smaller than that one. I just picked Frank still got some nice ones though on his side. You can see that one right there Now we're transitioning from the green into the yellow. We have one more green right there Frank's gonna get These are a little small here That guy there's a nice size Yeah, cut that guy these are hard because the stems are more buried in the vines or not vines but leaves and stems They see just pull a corn stalk or a corn and ear corn off of a corn stalk I couldn't get my GoPro on fast enough Anyway now we're moving into the Gouda or Lebanese squash Now These are a lot smaller like that's a big one right there or nice sized anyway But compared to the zucchini, they're about well, some are only a quarter the size most from about half the size of a zucchini. I Explain to people as it's more tender and I think it's just a little bit sweeter And we sell them for a little bit cheaper So I always tell the customers it can't hurt to try one if you don't like it Again, but usually they come back and say they want more Dice use what pop? What pop? so I'm back down here now with my string Frank's actually up picking red beets and Usually I use binder twine and this is a form of binder twine But I like this better because it's more waxy and it doesn't get all like frayed and puffy when it gets wet And we are in very wet applications here. So This is gonna work really nice. I already put my string on the bottom now, I like to come up just above the ears of corn About a foot and then I'll tie it again nice and tight Because these are gonna dry out more and they're gonna shrink and it's gonna get loose again Anyway, and then I'll make a fairly big knot. I think with the red string it makes it look nice Just a regular knot like you tie your shoes that way if the customer wants to Separate them or you know retie it again. They can it's not gonna be all knotted up and hard to come apart And so then I brought my wagon down. I lay them right on here like that. Oh my gosh, that's not even right Is that human? Look at it. What that's bigger than the one I got last time. I thought I thought that was the record That's the record just that's a reference This is like a medium to large beat and then you know, there's that thing extra large. I'm paying to market. I'm selling This is half a basket right here Can you believe that I could believe when I came up to it I just came up to it Please know these got to be kidding. So this isn't the biggest one, but it's another monster. I Just want to see what's inside Looks pretty normal Frank's been working on red beats now Well since the beginning of the season and we were kind of picking here and there now He's just about cleaning these rows all the way out through. He's basically like I said just going through you can see there's not much Left he left those two little ones But for the most part, they're just Giants and some medium to smalls We like to get a good variety because not everybody wants big not everybody wants small and that way they can pick and choose We have our baskets on the table. Yep, keep throwing around that pile. I just never seen red meat picking like this To finish up the day Frank and I came out here to the pumpkin field We're gonna try and get some pumpkins if they're ready Definitely some of these sugars are ready and Then obviously you've just seen we're getting some stackers. There's like this grayish blue. We have pink. There's whites. There's oranges over there We got to grab see a nice one and So we just want to get an assortment of everything. We got two big bins in the back of the truck We're just gonna go to town Now this is I think new This ain't this is that's how that one's like supposed to be kind of almost like a cotton candy Beautiful over here. We have what you call a goose cord. I Know I just seen one they kind of camouflage themselves right? Here's one You can kind of tell if they're ready by their necks like that shouldn't really wiggle like that. So that's not ready. Oh We have white pumpkins over here to Frank. We got a grab