ʾrog ʾro ʾchod ʾod Halt! Hey everybody! This is Learning Hat Maker. And today I'm going to be planting my corn. I'm going to try to cover up the rows that have been tealed. Now my original plan was to, and I'm probably still going to get some cardboard and do a different bed, just straight overgrouse and flowers and stuff like that. But I've got this bed where I planted some gray squash. And the squash isn't doing too well, so when we did the soil test, there's still just a ton of nitrogen and a few other chemicals that were enthrased amounts. But apparently the squash don't like that. Because this was a soybean field, and who knows what the soybeans were treated with with some of the things that they were treated with. I mean, it was close to organic, but there were still some things that are mixed in with some of the treatments for the um, that are required by the insurance company when you ensure your crop. So there are certain things that you have to do, certain things you have to add at certain times. And that stuff is still in the soil even two years later. I'm hoping that next year I'm able to plant in that area more than just, you know, corn or tomato. So let's get started. It's going to be a hot one today. I think it's going to be like 93. I'm wearing long sleeves, mainly because when the sun, the earth comes out, there's to be about two hours. It's going to be late, so I'm hoping that I don't get sunburned today. So this is the Guatemalan corn that Maggie Holmes said adventures sent me. This is only 25 of them. Some of them get them come up. They might be upside down. I tried to plant them the way they would grow out, but you know, sometimes plants don't want to listen. So all check and see if, um, look at that. The one from this one, the roots are going straight through the other one. They're ready to be planted. So I came over here to, you know, kind of check out the area I'm going to be covering over and look what it popped out of the ground. One of the squash actually popped out. So I don't know if the others are going to squash you or not. I don't know how many trees you're feeling here. How many are viable? How many are? How many are going to be able to pop out? My role of thumb is just they come out of seeds. They do okay, but when I transplant them into this from a different medium, they don't do that well. So last year I had a total of 13 squash and they were zucchini and the yellow, straight neck and cropped ends. So this year I was trying to plant more squash and do it out here, but the only way I think I'm going to be able to do it out here is if I trench it into my own soil land. So anyway, like I said, I think I'm going to seek a few original because I see no more that are popping out. I don't see anything else popping out. So squash and the corn are going to collect this. What little squash is already out here, I'm going to leave it. Thankfully I only planted seven per row. So I didn't lose as many seeds as thankfully I could have lost. Yeah, I see no more popping up and they might all surprise me and try to pop through those the paper after I lay it. It's just like these flowers over here last year when I planted wild flowers, they didn't come up to this year. So I've got flowers in here, some of them are wild, but most are perennial and I'm seeing none of them. I see bind leaves coming out and it should even be here. All right, this day isn't getting any cooler. I need to get started. I'm going to get started. I'm going to get started. I'm going to get started. I'm going to get started. I'm going to get started. I'm going to get started. I do have a little barrow, but I don't feel like these. I don't know if you saw, but I broke a leaf on that one right there as I was pulling it up. When saw me lose, so I didn't realize that all I had was, I didn't realize these were 30 foot rows. I just did the size bed I wanted to do. So I actually need to go and get some more 30 foot packing paper, which is what this is. It's still brown paper. It's not a thick cardboard, it's pliable because it's used to wrap packages and things like that. There's no plastic in it, which I really like. The downside, of course, is that it's a rod where I'm getting it from, but I need to get three more if I'm going to do this correctly. So I was spreading this mulch with my hand, just kind of moving it around, and this lady jumped out. And I don't know if you can see that, but she's actually as big as my thumb, like my whole thumb, her body. This camera just doesn't do her justice. I think I'll be using the shovel in the hose from now on. That's a big spider. And so you can see from here, it has gotten the wheelbarrow to make short work of covering this paper and the corn and the spline. So you can see the mulch is in there, there's a few ants that as a side of the egg come out. There's going to be diesenations earth grown out here. Otherwise the ants are going to bring acids. They're good for doing stuff like that. So there's a few gray squashes grown out here, and the corn is faced in such a way that we can still get to the wash. If there are some kind of corn bugs or whatever, now I know stink bugs like to get on the corn. So hopefully it's faced wide enough apart that I can get to it. So out of 25 that we try to transplant, eight of them had molded over with peat. That's kind of what you get. But we haven't gone to get any more of the packing paper, but I really like that a whole lot better than the rolls of paper, the really dandroll. They'll disintegrate faster, the dandroll wheel, but they're harder to work with. The wind blows them up easier. Anyway, I'm really happy with not happy with this. It's gone right there. Look at that slug. Dude, where do you think you're going?