(Kevin and Jacques laughing)
- Another day, another dollar, right?
It's the Corn Fed Boys. (bites corn)
And we're here to build-
- The Amazing Maize maze.
(laughing)
- You heard us right guys,
the Amazing Maize maze also known as the corn maze.
Jacques has gotten dressed up for this.
- Why don't you- - Oh yeah.
- Talk them through the fit?
- I mean, what we got here is a one piece overall.
I got some stretch, some airflow
and I got something in my pocket.
Maybe I'll show you later.
- He's got a little, little dirty pocket right there.
Myself, I'm just getting, you know, something
I can do some squats in, nothing serious here.
What are we doing?
Well, we have all sorts of different corn beans.
And then some starts over here
of what squash-
- Squash.
- Pumpkins, melons, cantaloupe.
- Exactly.
- All the goodies.
- Everything good.
- So here's what we wanna do.
We wanna have a bench right about here.
If you find this bench,
many treats will be bequeathed upon you.
(Jacques laughs)
But it's gonna be hard to find because we're gonna
plant out a corn maze going in a sort of a, I don't know,
just like a standard maze, right?
- Yeah. Pretty standard.
- Not, no fancy pathways, no fancy quarters around there.
- I think we maybe imagine this was bigger in our heads.
- We thought this was a couple acres it's-
- But anyway.
- 20 feet by 20 feet.
- We don't have to get into that.
- Nevertheless, why don't we walk 'em through the varieties?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Here we have the three corn contenders for this crop.
And this really is the staple of the maze
'cause you need something to grow tall and thick
to kind of obscure the path.
- It's the maize of the maze.
Now we have Bloody butcher.
So this one is supposed to be quite a good
eating flower corn.
- Yep.
- But at the same time it has this nice red color.
Hence the name.
Now we also complimented that with Oaxacan Green
which is same sort of story.
Just the cob is, is green.
- Yeah. Makes green tortillas.
- Green tortillas. - Really cool.
- Really cool.
And then we have Hickory Cane.
This is more of a standard white corn
except for the fact that it grows 15 feet tall.
(Jacques laughs)
So we haven't actually grown personally here.
I've grown quite a bit of corn
but none of it has even gotten,
I would say more than about seven feet tall.
- Yeah. I'd say that's about right for me too.
- So if we could get to 15,
we'll throw this on the backside
I think that'd be an incredible feat.
- So in this hand I have Bush beans.
So these are gonna go around the perimeter.
We don't need as much light.
So those are gonna be planted today.
- Yeah.
- And then the rest here are pole beans
and those will actually grow up on the corn.
But first we have to wait for the corn to emerge.
- Yes.
- So they won't be planted today.
They'll probably be planted next week
but we could definitely go in with the Bush.
- Yes.
- Tiger's eye looks really cool.
And then this one, I don't have a picture
but it's Jacob's Cattle Trout beans.
- The easiest way to build the maze is to
come in just slightly.
- Yep.
- Maybe about a foot interior
and plant a block in a sort of square stripe around.
So I'm thinking maybe, you know, if,
if you're walking in the maze right here, right.
We want this edge for our melons
and our cantaloupes and stuff like that.
Yep. So if we plan about
at least a foot block row down this way.
- Okay.
- And just do an interior foot around this whole thing.
It's gonna be a little bit of work.
- Yeah.
- But I think it should work.
So this first row is gonna be Bloody Butcher
straight down the line.
- Let's do it.
So I've got a specialized tool site here.
These are two garden markers.
They're gonna be the dibblers.
Boop.
- Don't break your back.
(Jacques laughs)
That Bulgarian back.
- It's okay.
I got my suspenders- - That's true.
- Holding me up.
I'm gonna get a little bit of a, a quad work out here.
- You're gonna get some quads?
- I'm feeling it, that backwards walk.
Make sure you get my good side.
(Kevin and Jacques laugh)
- That peach.
I thought the Fruit Tree Fiesta was a couple episodes ago.
I didn't realize there was such a big peach in town.
- I always just say, I always keep it in my back pocket.
- Let's just say
(Jacques laughs)
the juiciest peach is always on the tree.
(jaunty music)
Phase one is done.
The corn is in.
We think we've done it in a pretty intelligent way.
Only time and mother nature will tell though.
Now we have the watermelon.
I have some random stuff in here.
And then poppy J.
- I'm gonna Bush it up with these beans.
I'm gonna go around the edge. Loader up.
- Loader up.
I've actually got three full flats
of selections here, Jacques.
So I'm gonna grab these and be a little-
- Little loose
- Little loose. - Little freeform.
- Little carefree. - Little sweet.
- Little jazz.
(Jacques laughs)
You know, first of all, we have silver Yamato.
And second of all, we have Janosik.
It's a interesting mix of melons here.
It's a dilemma. - Unique.
- It's a dilemma because what if we plant them too close?
- Mm. I know you want your melons.
- I don't want weird melons.
Trust me.
We all like well shaped melons.
If you know what I'm saying, you're with me.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. (laughs)
I mean, look, you like what you like Jacques.
- I mean.
- Not for me to say.
- I, I know what I like.
I'll tell you that much.
(computer beep)
- Black tail mountain.
- That's a good one.
- All right.
- I've grown that before.
- All right.
I'm ready to climb the mountain.
- Let's just say this 0% seedless in this, this patch here.
- Seedless. (clicks tongue)
We don't do that.
- I don't know a lot of people I don't think have,
have even experienced a seeded watermelon nowadays.
- The crazy part is that's how it always was.
- It's literally the only option.
- I mean, first of all, botanically speaking
that is how it always was.
But I'm talking culturally, like-
- Yeah.
- The nineties, you're having seedless?
- We were spitting seeds.
- What are you?
- The future.
- Papa John with 20 million to your name?
(Jacques laughs)
- Jubilee Blush.
- Oh, sign me up.
- I'll tell you this.
The luxury, the gardeners' luxury guys.
I can just put this many in the ground.
How crazy is that dude?
- I mean.
- There's six different types of watermelons here.
Oh, more orange glow.
- Oh, that one's a good one.
- So here's a real question.
How much watermelon are we gonna eat?
Not this much.
- I mean-
- But we could have a party.
- If you let me take some home, I'll eat it.
- In we go with the watermelon border here.
I'm gonna be biasing towards this ditch area
because I don't wanna mess with the corn too much.
And what we had success with last year
with our watermelon patch,
if you guys remember, is just planting them
multiple per mound and planting them on a mound.
So what I'm gonna do is come in on this corner.
We'll dig in a little bit, just like that.
I'll actually sprinkle in some fertilizer.
Where'd it go?
(computer beep)
And we're back.
We've got the plant tone.
I get kind of crazy here.
I just pop in what, what feels right.
And mix it in a little bit.
And I'm gonna loosen these up just slightly.
Not too much, but you really wanna make sure,
especially with these watermelon,
you can't, especially when planting directly in ground,
you can't just settle these perfectly in.
You kind of need to build around them a little bit
make sure this doesn't dry out.
Cause we don't have irrigation set up here, remember?
So I'm gonna kind of mound them, just like this,
put 'em together, and I'm gonna start
building this mound around them like this.
It's like I said, it's not a crazy mound.
It's just enough.
But it allows me to kind of level this surface as well
which is nice.
I'm gonna space these,
I think honestly roughly where they are.
You can make a good case for spacing them
a little further apart but
we're gonna try to have these
kind of spill over this way.
And maybe we, we skip the channel
of beans on this front row. - Yeah beans there.
- Just do the out row.
(jazzy music)
(water running)
- [Cameraman] That form is solid, Jacques.
- You like that little two-step?
I don't even know what a two-step is.
(cameraman laughs)
I'll tell you the truth.
- Look at this dancing man.
Wow.
- Not, no hands.
(mariachi music)
- Look at this guy.
I've never seen a more coordinated man in my life.
(mariachi music)
The problem is I don't think you were like feeling the vibe.
You didn't, you didn't.
A little bit of this, little bit of that.
- [Jacques] But can you get low?
- Can I get low?
Hold on.
(Jacques laughs)
Let me just say this.
My squat depth, unmatched.
Watch this.
- How low can I get?
- Can you come up though?
But can you not move your-
Can you not move your, your knees apart?
- What's the secret.
- Don't bring your knees apart.
Can you hit that?
- Whoop. (laughs)
One leg?
- Can you pistol?
See you got me 'cause I can't do that.
- Do that right there.
- Is this a dancing zone?
- Yeah.
- Okay. We have the manifold staff of destiny.
You can see how it works.
Very powerful tool.
All the gods and goddesses want something like this
but we have it here at Epic.
So in we go.
Now, is this the most efficient way to,
to meter out water to an area?
Actually it's not.
You would prefer to have something like drip irrigation
but we would also be forced to run that drip irrigation
and this overhead watering system,
I think is gonna be a lot stronger
for this particular use case.
- [Jacques] Yep.
- The only challenge is turning it on
and then getting outta here by the time it launches.
So Jacques clear the area.
Thanks for tuning in my friends.
Please subscribe and stay tuned
because this is going to be an ongoing saga here.
And we might do something very special in October.
And with that said,
good luck in the garden and keep on growing.
Ah!
- Make sure you get my good side.