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@@evansacreshomestead That’s great! Mine is growing like crazy too. Ever since this video they have grown again and need another harvest! There’s so much you can do with basil! And I highly encourage you to get a freeze dryer. It was one of the best investments I ever made. I freeze dry so much. Happy harvesting and dehydrating!! Preserving your food is one of the best homesteading skills and you’re saving money!! ✋🏻🤚🏻”high five” 😃🌻

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much! I love my metal beds. Here’s a link to where I purchased them. The benefit to these particular beds is you can take the pieces and build them into any shape or size that you need to fit your garden space. I made two different sizes. I made some 8 x 10 and two of them 4 x7’s. And they have different heights I chose the highest height so I wouldn’t put strain on my back bending over. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.😃🌻 shop.epicgardening.com/products/birdies-large-raised-garden-bed-29-tall

Hi!! Following you too!! Love community!! ❤️🌻

I know… I’m starting to like the broccoli leaves just as much as the broccoli, especially the small tender ones!! 😁

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much!! That is so encouraging!! I love gardening it’s so beautiful and rewarding in many ways. Have a blessed day!! 😃🌻

@@Mustardseedhomesteading you too! I too love gardening! I have a gardening channel as well @evansacrehomestead I’ll follow you from that page as well.

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⁠@@PropertyProsperityHubThank you!!Following you too!! I love having a community of other gardeners it’s sooo encouraging!! 🤗🌻

Hi! And Welcome!! My goal was to show everything this way so everyone could see the flowering and fruit as well as the health of the plant. 😃🌻

Thank you! 😁

Hi! And Welcome!! Thank you so much. I have fallen in love with gardening! I am zone 8B. 😃🌻

I learned about that too. I actually bought one for that reason. Great idea thanks for sharing!! 😃

I learned about that too. I actually bought one for that reason. Great idea thanks for sharing!! 😃

I know what you mean! I think the basil could be a hit or miss which is why the best thing to do is just check your garden every day for a few minutes. But I am experimenting right now where I’m allowing one of my basil plants to flower and grow really tall along the tomato plant and so far that particular tomato plant has had no hornworms. So I will see how that goes if it works I will start to do that instead. Maybe make an experiment of your own and allow one of your basil plants to grow really tall and don’t harvest it and then compare it to the ones that didn’t. And that’s good that you kept the tomatoes pruned on the bottom. Let me know how it goes! 😁

Great advice!! Thank you for sharing!! 😃

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much!! ❤️

I know me too…😅

@@Mustardseedhomesteading. I'll have you know, that's my best Arnold impersonation to date. In gardening years of course!

⁠@@mtpocketswoodenickle2637 lol!! To funny!! 😄

It’s the best way!! ✋🏻🤚🏻 “high five”😁

Good advice!! Thanks for sharing!! 😃

They do look animated!! lol

Very nice, chickens can be so helpful!!! Thanks for sharing!! 😃

I have read that they do eat pepper plants. I personally have not found them on my pepper plants, but I have found them eating my potato plants in the past. Thanks for sharing and I hope that helps! 😃

@Mustardseedhomesteading oh. My. Gosh! I've never even seen a horn worm before. This is very troubling. And I have basil planted near my peppers and my tomatoes. The tomatoes don't look like that, though. Very interesting.

⁠​⁠@@Mardon551 I know I’ve never seen one before until I started gardening. They were a little intimidating at first, but they’re very harmless and that’s good that you have basil planted by your peppers and tomatoes, but even with that… the best line of defense is just to daily walk your garden even for just a few minutes to keep a watch out for them and just take them off. You could also use a blacklight at night because they are hard to find during the day unless you look for poops or bitten leaves. 😊

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much!! Nice to meet you too, have a blessed day as well!! 😃🌻

Thank you for sharing! There was another comment in the thread that helped me to notice the difference too. Super helpful information!! Appreciate the feedback!! 😃

Thank you so much for sharing!! This is really helpful information I did not know that, those tips are going to help me remember!! 😃

Oh I know, if you mean that little horn in the back it’s one of their defenses. But I have thankfully never felt concerned. Thanks for sharing!! 😃

@@jessicaschroeder5961 If you see a hornworm with little egg-like blobs on their backs, those are the cocoons of a parasitic wasp that is a natural predator of the hornworm. An adult wasp laid eggs under the hornworm's skin, the eggs hatched and the babies ate the hornworm from the inside, so it is doomed and will not live. The wasp larva then spin their cocoons on the outside of the hornworm. When they come out of their cocoons they'll be an adult wasp that is small and feeds on flower nectar. They will prey on other hornworms, laying their eggs under the skin, and the cycle will repeat. Plant flowers like yarrow (with many tiny flowers) to feed those wasps and they'll keep your hornworms under control. But as I wrote elsewhere, the moth that a hornworm grows into is very nice, like an insect hummingbird.

Thank you! 😊

Oh yes, that’s another great point. I have seen pictures of that! Predatory wasps are great to have in the garden! And I agree bugs are definitely interesting. I’ve learned so much since I started gardening! 😊❤ Thanks for sharing! 😃

@@Mustardseedhomesteading **parasitic** wasps, my bad

⁠@@rwedereyet It’s ok I knew what you meant 😁

I did not know that! Thank you for sharing!! 😃

I know!! The first time I learned about them, it was eating one of my potato plants. They definitely love their greens and I agree they do have a tight grip. Thanks for sharing! 😃

They can definitely be destructive if you don’t catch them on time! 😁

So we should let them destroy our tomatoes. Great advice. Go hug a tree

I did not know Cardinals ate them. Thank you for sharing! 😃

Hi!! And Welcome!! I’m so glad that you did. Thank you!! 😃

Our chickens wouldn’t touch them

My chickens ignore them or avoid them.

Thanks for sharing! I love that idea!! 😃

@@oldauntzibby4395 Thanks for sharing! Do they like other insects? I’m just curious because we plan to get chickens next?

@@Mustardseedhomesteading My chickens love grasshoppers, crickets, and other bugs that apparently taste good. But they won't touch bugs that are strong smelling like stink bugs (western pine beetle) or box elder bugs. I suspect that hornworms may taste bad to the hens since they eat poisonous nightshade plants (tomato and potato foliage is poisonous, though some animals or pests will eat it). My chickens won't eat Colorado potato beetles either. Or maybe they just find the size of the hornworms daunting. Usually I just transport the hornworms far from my garden and hope they'll find something else to eat that's in the nightshade family. Buffalo bur, other nightshade weeds.

Thank you! 😊

I did not know that! Thank you for sharing! 😊

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much. It sure is a lot of work, but I enjoy it 😅 And there’s nothing like home grown food it is the best!! 😃🌻

Your welcome!! I hope it helps!! 😃

@@containingmygarden Thank you!!! I can’t wait to plant onions again!!

@@farmergirlofchickens8779 I know me too!! 😄

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much!! 😃🌻

Thank you so much!! I was surprised that they grew as big as they did, the leaves were massive!! I’m looking forward to growing them again! 😁

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much!! 😃🌻

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much!! I transplanted them from my garden bed into grow bags, cut some of the branches off and all the leaves and just stuck them in my garage before the frost came. And I didn’t do a lot of maintenance with them in my garage they did tend to get aphids on them but I would just clean them up as much as I could. And then once it was warm enough to have them outside, I took them out and then they just started blossoming. I hope this helps. 😃🌻

Hi!! And Welcome!! Thank you so much I love to garden! And absolutely I will definitely have to make a video on the grow bags because I think they’re very easy to use and you can move them around if you need to. In my description, I do have the Amazon link to the exact grow bags that I purchased and those are my favorite. 😃 🌻

Hi and Welcome!! Surprisingly, I have not had any deer issues or groundhog issues so far, and I do have houses on each side of me and in front of me and behind those woods further out are a street of houses so that might help a little. I do know deer do go through that back area thankfully they have not come near my garden. BUT I have had squirrel issues, especially in the winter and springtime they ate a lot of my broccoli. And unfortunately there’s not much to do about squirrels that I know of. The only thing I did purchase to help with the squirrels were fake owls I think that kind of helped but I can’t say for sure because some of my broccoli was eaten. Now if I did start to get deer issues, I would definitely put a fence around my garden and if I had a groundhog issue I’d have to probably put some sort of a metal grid under each of those beds. Which I hope I don’t ever have to do. 😅 I hope this helps!! 😃

Hi and Welcome!!!! And thank you, I’m growing some new varieties this year and I’m excited to see how they turn out!! 🌻😃

Hi! Those are from a company called Garden in minutes. I love them and they were worth the investment, they have saved me a lot of time with watering. I am hoping at some point I can offer everyone a discount code. Here is a link to their website. I hope this helps! 😁 gardeninminutes.com/

Hi Jennifer!! Welcome!! 😃 And THANK YOU, gardening has become one of my favorite things to do!! 🌻

Thank you so much!! I have been enjoying the Greenstalks very much!! 😊🧄

Thank you so much!! 😊 Congratulations to you to your doing amazing!! 🎉🎉