Have you ever dealt with army worms in your backyard garden? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 0:29 What's Eating Our Corn Plants? 2:46 How to Kill Armyworms Organically? 4:42 Adding Soil to Raised Bed Potatoes 8:45 Replanting Cucumbers in Our Raised Bed Garden 10:28 The Most Delicious Snow Peas 11:29 Harvesting Oak Leaf Lettuce
So sorry about your corn worms. All that work and now munch much. We farmed in the Texas town plainview 1,000 acres and we always worried about the corn bore. Your always on the lookout. Always had a garden plot near the house. Farm hand had his at the end of crop rows. He was hit hard sometimes. It's a roll of the dices sometimes. I had alot of companion plants around all of my garden. Plant garlic around the tomatoes. Dills marigolds nasturtium . Learned alot from the ag extension office. Elderly people came to our library to tell us their old ideas. It's green thumb growing time blessings
No shares. But it's good stuff and makes our plants grow well. In just the 8 or so months that we've had this raised bed setup, I've noticed that the plants will tend to run out of juice if I don't keep supplementing.
THE DUCKS!! ITS BEEN 6 MONTHS!!! Lol good to see them ducks we laughed when you cut to em' talkin bout "there they are" haha great editing lately guys! Anyway always good times on L.D.F. many blessings to all in the chat and to you and the fam Trav...🤙🇺🇸✌️
Chickens love army worms! They can be a big problem in NE TX at times. Whenever I notice them, it’s time to let the chickens forage. In my veggie garden, the chickens are fenced out February-December. January I give them full access, they do a great job of eliminating any insect larvae or eggs along with adding some fertilizer as they forage. I’ve never had army worms in the garden and that may be the reason.
What I’ve read is they are more likely to affect crops in reduced tillage soils. Old sod, grassy soils, etc. I’m like you. Have only dealt with ear worms myself. Good luck. 👍
Found those army worms on my asparagus last year and didn't really know what they were but I dealt with them in a hurry, they were going to town eating my shoots. First time seeing those buggers here in Virginia (or anywhere else) not sure where they came from and you are the only other person I know who has seen them I hope they don't come back! Love the channel, oh and I got my giant pumpkin & giant sunflowers seeds started so maybe I'll get some big ones this year, pretty excited and that 👍
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, Travis! I planted bush beans in March and between Brer Rabbit and a small cold snap, I got quite a few skips. I've since sprayed some rabbit repellent and re-planted the skips, so things should pretty much be tickyboo for the bean harvest! That lettuce does look amazing, by the way!
Black Velvet good stuff, and now thanks to your reference to her, every time I see a bag I'm gonna think of Alannah Myles bluesy ode to Elvis. I read she did an interview this year about legal battle to reclaim her rights to the music and plans for new album.
Travis, Very interesting find on your young corn plants ! Last June I found some of my young corn plants cut down, first suspects where rabbit or deer. I spray with Garden Insect Spray, and had no further problems. Thanks for the video and all the best from S. NH
My cukes did the same thing here in 8b in Texas. I had some limited success planting them early. I used cheap well known brands of Straight 8 and Salad More and got about 2 out of 5 per container. Pumpkins did much better. Thanks Travis enjoy the vids.
Morning Travis. Well I sprayed again the last couple of nights with Spinosad and sprayed a large part of the area where I have the cut worms. I'll finish that today. Listen to this. It came to me a couple of days ago that the area where I'm finding those worms is where I added a lot of some cow manure compost last year from a dairy in my area. I'd bet the farm those worms came in that compost. Think about that with your plot that's affected. What did you do different to it last year? We'll see what happens.
The cold damaged my early cucumbers too. The ones that I thought would recover didn't, but I went ahead and planted some backups in cell trays. It proved to be a smart decision. They weren't recovering, so I had transplants ready to put in their place.
Perfect timing Travis. I had cut worms eat my late summer corn pretty bad when they were small. Tried DE, was a waste of time and money. Finally I killed them all by hand by going out at night and catching them eating and by digging under freshly cut plants and finding them. Luckily I hadn't thinned my plants yet and was able to take some seedlings from tight spots and fill the gaps. I'll definitely go get some spinosad tomorrow as my corn just emerged yesterday.
I’ve already had to go outside with a black light. I got three or four caterpillars (or worms). Mine is just a small backyard garden but I was a little surprised I’m already dealing with them.
I'm over here in south-central Alabama and a lot of the old-timers around here plant sunflowers when they say they have an army worm problem and the next year they'll plant the corn the corn where the for some reason they claim it detours the armyworm another thing the old timers do, they plant corn behind the fieldpeas the next year climbing the corn will feed off the nitrogen I've tried it seems to work for me.
Balanced ecosystem. Lawn grass is a space for natural growth to support natural eco systems. All Lives Matter. Support healthy ecosystems. Permaculture. Love you.
Lawns are an unnatural monoculture, and decidedly unbalanced "ecosystems". They are a space in the sense that they provide a buffer between yourself and permaculture. Things to think about...
We once had army worms to take out our whole backyard sod! Hubby was sitting out,around sunset, trying to figure out what was happening to it one quiet day and he called me out and asked, “Do you hear that?” It was a faint crunching noise! We couldn’t believe it. Looked closely to the ground and there they were, a total infestation. It was horrible and expensive.
Any reason you don’t use BT for the worms? It’s the only spray I feel comfortable using in my garden. I agree with, you do you, cause I’m only eating mine lol Just wondered if there was something I’m missing
I'm already combating aphids on my fruit trees.. awful hard early for my zone but I dusted with sulphur and if it lingers I'll hit it again mixed with water next time
I had had a cutworm hiding in one of my tomato plant pots that wrecked havoc on my seedlings. It clipped all the leaves off some of my seedlings. I applied Spinosad as a drench to all of the pots. It has slight systemic activity and will move upward from root uptake. I use Spinosad as part of my transplanting water. Seeds soaked in dilute Spinosad before planting will kill seed corn maggots. I soak my onion plants before planting in dilute Spinosad. Onion maggots used to plague my onion transplants before but not now. It's an highly effective organic pesticide.
These worms ate my cucumber and tomato plants and even my basil last summer I had no clue what to do and felt defeated. This was a container bag garden in my patio concrete slab and I have no idea where they came from except from Perhaps the earth bordering the slab. This year I will be using a table and food safe plastic containers.
I get them almost every year. Ile see a potato plant wilting and then dig around in the dirt at the base and always find them hiding in the top inch of soil!
I knew I was going to have a problem with army worms and cut worms, especially the fat gray ones when I started scratching around in my garden getting ready to put down my drip tape and started turning up a large number of them. And yes, I started having my little corn plants fall over, 2 or 3 every morning. I sprayed first with Neem because it's labeled for them. A couple days later I sprayed again with Spinosad. Both seemed to work but I'm wondering if I can drench the ground with one of them since I still constantly keep digging up the fat gray ones. Probably because they are the easiest ones to see. I hilled the second patch of small plants yesterday, and turned up a dozen. What do you think? Can I drench the ground on that end of the garden? I was thinking Neem Oil. Seems they are only on that end of the garden. Not quite sure why. The only thing different about that end was, I wheel barrowed a lot of cow manure compost from my local dairy last summer. Wonder if they came in in that compost. I don't remember ever seeing them here before. I commented to you back then about the shavings in it, and asking you if you thought the shavings might be a problem. I have a phobia about pine shavings in the ground. Thanks for your opinion.
If you're comfortable using Spinosad, I'd skip the neem and spray the entire plot (plants and soil) with it. That's basically what I did. I haven't been able to eliminate them completely, but we've been able to reduce the damage considerably.
@@LazyDogFarm Yeah I love Spinosad. I was gonna spray with it tonight so that's what I'll do. Easier than using two different sprays and Spinosad does a much better job. Thanks.
Jasmine Street Farm nailed it. For strictly a worm issue, Spinosad is the cheaper organic option. I keep some Azera on hand as well, but I'll save that for the things that Spinosad won't control.
I'd like to know the answer also. Flea beetles are awful here in central Florida. I was told to use DE. The problem is that when it gets wet, you have to retreat.
I have a raised bed similar to yours that has fire ants in it on the Southside. Any worms that appear I just kick the side and bye bye worms. The biggest Buttercrunch is where the ant bed is . Hate fire ants but they are killing any other pests. Gotta be quick when harvesting.
I remember Jim saying that they had a limited supply of them this year because they were "testing the market" over here with that variety. It will be interesting to see if it takes off.
Trav… this is a celery question. I’ve never raised celery before this yr. Was told today you’re supposed to hill celery like potatoes. Is this right? Thanks!
Hilling celery is actually what they call blanching the celery a lot of people do it but I’m sure trav would agree with me it makes it loose a ton of flavor when you do it I don’t think it actually helps it to put soil to it but if you don’t it gets a lot greener and has a lot more flavor
@@joshadair4744 Aha! I don't grow celery, but (from the grocery store) there is always some amount of dirt at the bottom of the stalks, and I wondered why. Now I guess I understand--they hill it. Thank you!
@@rivercrockett343 yes that’s why the celery at the grocery store is always a whiter or lighter color towards the bottom because it was blanched . It’s a lot tastier to me and looks better if it is not blanched (hilled) so I wouldn’t even bother with doing it but to each there own
I knew it wasn't my precious compost worms. I had to see to be sure. Weird you have never seen them before. Ps when you harvest the potatoes can you show the whole plant so we can see the benefit of hilling? Thanks!!
I had an amazing pea year!!! So much i actually...yes ...ACTUALLY GAVE SOME AWAY!!!!! ALL FROM 2 .. 8 FOOT ROWS!!!!!!SERIOUSLY NEVER EVER HAD THAT HAPPEN...USUALLY WE GET LOTS TO ADD TO RICE FOR A FEW MEALS.. U ASK WHY....I SCRATCH MY HEAD AND ONLY THING I CAN SAY IS MUST BE THE LAZY DOG WAY...SO THANKS !!!! IM HOPING FOR BUMPER CORN AND CUCUMBER CROP AND THEY ARE LOOKING FANTANSTIC!!
So I'm the guy that doesn't cut or hill potatoes. Well that is changing this year. Normally I get seed potatoes that are small. Smaller than an egg and I just make a 6" hole and toss it in there and basically forget them until they fall over. But this year I ordered my seed potatoes from Holland Bulb. The seed potatoes looked great except they were huge. So I cut them up. Since I had to cut them and I have garden space I'll be hilling. So that's for the videos on hilling cause I'm going to do it just like Trav.
QUESTION: I am 2 yrs in to gardening and only have raised beds. I do compost and have to purchase soil to add to my beds. Do you find you should buy “raised bed soil”, or is that just a marketing ploy (my thought lol)…do you find a difference worth buying it for? Thank you
I think that's just a marketing ploy. I usually just get the Sta-Green potting soil because it's the cheapest and doesn't have those little plastic green granules in it that never dissolve.
Oh dear I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that pest either. Now I’m a little concerned it will show up here. My corn hasn’t come up yet I just planted a few days ago 🙏🏻 that it comes up.
@@LazyDogFarm I have a flow zone for my yard spraying I actually have two I’m thinking I may clean one out really well and make it my garden sprayer. I’m just getting started and I’m learning so much from you and others just soaking all the info in. I live near Phenix City Al so channels like yours help so much in learning disease and pest pressures in the humid south in zone 8 A. Thank you so much for your guidance and humor in your videos!
You need an area of natural pest development. Wild flowers, marigolds etc. shrubs. An area that will maintain praying mantis, lady bugs, spiders, wasps. Etc.
I don't think it was over kill . I getting hit by few things I don't normally see here for another month. I sprayed twice too . I lost my first batch of seedlings thanks to that last freeze we had . Not letting some bug get my 2nd batch . It's war time 😂
They can certainly do it. I worked at a golf course in college and if we saw them, we had to treat them immediately before they'd destroy an entire fairway.
Azera will kill worms too. But Spinosad is cheaper and works just fine if it's strictly a worm problem. Azera kills a lot more stuff than worms and we'll use it as the flying and crawling insects start to get bad.
Have you ever dealt with army worms in your backyard garden? Let us know!
SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees
0:00 Intro
0:29 What's Eating Our Corn Plants?
2:46 How to Kill Armyworms Organically?
4:42 Adding Soil to Raised Bed Potatoes
8:45 Replanting Cucumbers in Our Raised Bed Garden
10:28 The Most Delicious Snow Peas
11:29 Harvesting Oak Leaf Lettuce
Those critters won’t come munching your corn anymore. Great Sleuthing Travis. Best of luck with your continued gardening
So sorry about your corn worms. All that work and now munch much. We farmed in the Texas town plainview 1,000 acres and we always worried about the corn bore. Your always on the lookout. Always had a garden plot near the house. Farm hand had his at the end of crop rows. He was hit hard sometimes. It's a roll of the dices sometimes. I had alot of companion plants around all of my garden. Plant garlic around the tomatoes. Dills marigolds nasturtium . Learned alot from the ag extension office. Elderly people came to our library to tell us their old ideas. It's green thumb growing time blessings
I'm amazed at how much of that Nature Safe you use. You must have shares or something.
No shares. But it's good stuff and makes our plants grow well. In just the 8 or so months that we've had this raised bed setup, I've noticed that the plants will tend to run out of juice if I don't keep supplementing.
THE DUCKS!! ITS BEEN 6 MONTHS!!! Lol good to see them ducks we laughed when you cut to em' talkin bout "there they are" haha great editing lately guys! Anyway always good times on L.D.F. many blessings to all in the chat and to you and the fam Trav...🤙🇺🇸✌️
If the ducks are hanging out then there probably eating a lot of the bugs and also fertilizing for free.... That's a blessing
I've been noticing your channel is growing..congratulation..keep up all your good videos..
Thank you! Will do!
I am amazed at how much you can grow on your beds. It all looks yummy. You😊 are a Master Gardener. Much luck for a bountiful year of groceries 😮😊
Thanks Julia!
Chickens love army worms! They can be a big problem in NE TX at times. Whenever I notice them, it’s time to let the chickens forage. In my veggie garden, the chickens are fenced out February-December. January I give them full access, they do a great job of eliminating any insect larvae or eggs along with adding some fertilizer as they forage. I’ve never had army worms in the garden and that may be the reason.
Thanks, Travis. I had never seen an army worm before. Thanks for the lesson. Best wishes, Kate in Olympia, WA - 4/10/2023.
What I’ve read is they are more likely to affect crops in reduced tillage soils. Old sod, grassy soils, etc. I’m like you. Have only dealt with ear worms myself. Good luck. 👍
Found those army worms on my asparagus last year and didn't really know what they were but I dealt with them in a hurry, they were going to town eating my shoots. First time seeing those buggers here in Virginia (or anywhere else) not sure where they came from and you are the only other person I know who has seen them I hope they don't come back! Love the channel, oh and I got my giant pumpkin & giant sunflowers seeds started so maybe I'll get some big ones this year, pretty excited and that 👍
Love all your videos and appreciate your style of teaching..I am a young man of 70 years growing in East Texas
Thanks for watching!
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, Travis! I planted bush beans in March and between Brer Rabbit and a small cold snap, I got quite a few skips. I've since sprayed some rabbit repellent and re-planted the skips, so things should pretty much be tickyboo for the bean harvest! That lettuce does look amazing, by the way!
Good info. Love the garden and the bucket😂. This is my 3rd year of growing a garden so still learning but we do pretty good. South Ga also
im in NC. glad to see this , ill be ready . ill be another few weeks i think
Black Velvet good stuff, and now thanks to your reference to her, every time I see a bag I'm gonna think of Alannah Myles bluesy ode to Elvis. I read she did an interview this year about legal battle to reclaim her rights to the music and plans for new album.
Thanks. Love your style and approach to pests etc. issues.
BTW THANKS FOR SHOWING THE PESTS PICTURE.
Travis, Very interesting find on your young corn plants ! Last June I found some of my young corn plants cut down, first suspects where rabbit or deer. I spray with Garden Insect Spray, and had no further problems. Thanks for the video and all the best from S. NH
I don't know but your peas look fantastic
My cukes did the same thing here in 8b in Texas. I had some limited success planting them early. I used cheap well known brands of Straight 8 and Salad More and got about 2 out of 5 per container. Pumpkins did much better. Thanks Travis enjoy the vids.
Yes! I had army worms last year. BT got ‘em.
Black velvet with that slow southern style
There ya go!
Morning Travis. Well I sprayed again the last couple of nights with Spinosad and sprayed a large part of the area where I have the cut worms. I'll finish that today. Listen to this. It came to me a couple of days ago that the area where I'm finding those worms is where I added a lot of some cow manure compost last year from a dairy in my area. I'd bet the farm those worms came in that compost. Think about that with your plot that's affected. What did you do different to it last year? We'll see what happens.
The cold damaged my early cucumbers too. The ones that I thought would recover didn't, but I went ahead and planted some backups in cell trays. It proved to be a smart decision. They weren't recovering, so I had transplants ready to put in their place.
Good planning!
Perfect timing Travis. I had cut worms eat my late summer corn pretty bad when they were small. Tried DE, was a waste of time and money. Finally I killed them all by hand by going out at night and catching them eating and by digging under freshly cut plants and finding them. Luckily I hadn't thinned my plants yet and was able to take some seedlings from tight spots and fill the gaps. I'll definitely go get some spinosad tomorrow as my corn just emerged yesterday.
I'll bet your chickens would munch down on those worms. Happy Easter and better luck on the farm
While you were talking I watched the ducks walking through the garden and thought OH NO. Glad it wasn't them that were the problem.
I've got to learn to set up drip in my raised beds. They dry out so fast.
I’ve already had to go outside with a black light. I got three or four caterpillars (or worms). Mine is just a small backyard garden but I was a little surprised I’m already dealing with them.
Got one sweet tater growing, (Pathetic). It is 55 degrees here in Houston. April 6th. So impressed with your farm. Keep on keeping on. Thanks again.
Yeah those sweet taters like it hot. I usually don't like to plant mine until late May.
I'm over here in south-central Alabama and a lot of the old-timers around here plant sunflowers when they say they have an army worm problem and the next year they'll plant the corn the corn where the for some reason they claim it detours the armyworm another thing the old timers do, they plant corn behind the fieldpeas the next year climbing the corn will feed off the nitrogen I've tried it seems to work for me.
Balanced ecosystem. Lawn grass is a space for natural growth to support natural eco systems. All Lives Matter. Support healthy ecosystems. Permaculture. Love you.
Lawns are an unnatural monoculture, and decidedly unbalanced "ecosystems". They are a space in the sense that they provide a buffer between yourself and permaculture. Things to think about...
We once had army worms to take out our whole backyard sod! Hubby was sitting out,around sunset, trying to figure out what was happening to it one quiet day and he called me out and asked, “Do you hear that?”
It was a faint crunching noise! We couldn’t believe it. Looked closely to the ground and there they were, a total infestation. It was horrible and expensive.
Any reason you don’t use BT for the worms? It’s the only spray I feel comfortable using in my garden. I agree with, you do you, cause I’m only eating mine lol Just wondered if there was something I’m missing
I prefer Spinosad because it's usually much more effective on corn earworms. So I usually always have some Spinosad and didn't have any Bt.
My guess is they were a little too big for bt to totally control. Just my guess.
I'm already combating aphids on my fruit trees.. awful hard early for my zone but I dusted with sulphur and if it lingers I'll hit it again mixed with water next time
I need to get me one of those wheel barrahs!
I had had a cutworm hiding in one of my tomato plant pots that wrecked havoc on my seedlings. It clipped all the leaves off some of my seedlings. I applied Spinosad as a drench to all of the pots. It has slight systemic activity and will move upward from root uptake. I use Spinosad as part of my transplanting water. Seeds soaked in dilute Spinosad before planting will kill seed corn maggots. I soak my onion plants before planting in dilute Spinosad. Onion maggots used to plague my onion transplants before but not now. It's an highly effective organic pesticide.
These worms ate my cucumber and tomato plants and even my basil last summer I had no clue what to do and felt defeated. This was a container bag garden in my patio concrete slab and I have no idea where they came from except from
Perhaps the earth bordering the slab. This year I will be using a table and food safe plastic containers.
I get them almost every year. Ile see a potato plant wilting and then dig around in the dirt at the base and always find them hiding in the top inch of soil!
I use DE on them. I make a circle around the base of the plant.
I knew I was going to have a problem with army worms and cut worms, especially the fat gray ones when I started scratching around in my garden getting ready to put down my drip tape and started turning up a large number of them. And yes, I started having my little corn plants fall over, 2 or 3 every morning. I sprayed first with Neem because it's labeled for them. A couple days later I sprayed again with Spinosad. Both seemed to work but I'm wondering if I can drench the ground with one of them since I still constantly keep digging up the fat gray ones. Probably because they are the easiest ones to see. I hilled the second patch of small plants yesterday, and turned up a dozen. What do you think? Can I drench the ground on that end of the garden? I was thinking Neem Oil. Seems they are only on that end of the garden. Not quite sure why. The only thing different about that end was, I wheel barrowed a lot of cow manure compost from my local dairy last summer. Wonder if they came in in that compost. I don't remember ever seeing them here before. I commented to you back then about the shavings in it, and asking you if you thought the shavings might be a problem. I have a phobia about pine shavings in the ground. Thanks for your opinion.
If you're comfortable using Spinosad, I'd skip the neem and spray the entire plot (plants and soil) with it. That's basically what I did. I haven't been able to eliminate them completely, but we've been able to reduce the damage considerably.
@@LazyDogFarm Yeah I love Spinosad. I was gonna spray with it tonight so that's what I'll do. Easier than using two different sprays and Spinosad does a much better job. Thanks.
😆 (snort) I'm sure she was sing about mushroom compost. 😝
What is the white netting for the cucumbers. Please provide a name so I can get some
The worms have stripped all my rose bushes and started on the garden here in Louisiana. Still working on them.
I use Slugo plus to get rid of cut worms and it works amazing
What would you recommend on stink bugs? They destroyed my beans last year.
I like this stuff: amzn.to/3KK6iBB
But you've gotta use it early and kill the nymphs. The adults are almost impossible to kill.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you! I’ll get that ordered and try.
I get a headache just thinking about that soil amendment.
Did you give up on the Azera spray or does it not work for cut worms?
Jasmine Street Farm nailed it. For strictly a worm issue, Spinosad is the cheaper organic option. I keep some Azera on hand as well, but I'll save that for the things that Spinosad won't control.
Do you get flea beetles on your potato plants down there if and if so what do you use to get rid of?
I'd like to know the answer also. Flea beetles are awful here in central Florida. I was told to use DE. The problem is that when it gets wet, you have to retreat.
I'll get flea beetles on brassicas sometimes, but not really potatoes.
How bout an orange with black spots? Almost spider like legs and in groups.
I have a raised bed similar to yours that has fire ants in it on the Southside. Any worms that appear I just kick the side and bye bye worms. The biggest Buttercrunch is where the ant bed is . Hate fire ants but they are killing any other pests. Gotta be quick when harvesting.
Sprinkle some cinnamon Trav. Worth a try
very interested in how the sarpo mira comes along now thatwe have acces to them in the USA.
I remember Jim saying that they had a limited supply of them this year because they were "testing the market" over here with that variety. It will be interesting to see if it takes off.
Thanks for reminding me about caterpillars! We've been rained on for 3 days. I need to check and probably spray!
always plant a 162 tray when you plant your corn and you can fill in the gaps
Trav… this is a celery question. I’ve never raised celery before this yr. Was told today you’re supposed to hill celery like potatoes. Is this right? Thanks!
Hilling celery is actually what they call blanching the celery a lot of people do it but I’m sure trav would agree with me it makes it loose a ton of flavor when you do it I don’t think it actually helps it to put soil to it but if you don’t it gets a lot greener and has a lot more flavor
@@joshadair4744 Aha! I don't grow celery, but (from the grocery store) there is always some amount of dirt at the bottom of the stalks, and I wondered why. Now I guess I understand--they hill it. Thank you!
@joshadair4744… I will definitely try some this way & some not! Thanks
@@rivercrockett343 yes that’s why the celery at the grocery store is always a whiter or lighter color towards the bottom because it was blanched . It’s a lot tastier to me and looks better if it is not blanched (hilled) so I wouldn’t even bother with doing it but to each there own
YT hasn't sent me your updates. Hard to remember.
When you figured out it was worms, I was wondering if the ducks were enticed there to eat the worms. Maybe?
Maybe. But those little army worms were tiny. Much smaller than something like a tomato hornworm or larger caterpillar.
Be sure to use the old farmers help… tilling the ground up during cold weather so the insects will die from cold weather
My snap peas are blooming and growing well
Here, too!
I knew it wasn't my precious compost worms. I had to see to be sure. Weird you have never seen them before. Ps when you harvest the potatoes can you show the whole plant so we can see the benefit of hilling? Thanks!!
I grew up always hilling up potatoes, corn, just about everything mostly everything! You will grow bigger and more, the plants will be healthier!
I had an amazing pea year!!! So much i actually...yes ...ACTUALLY GAVE SOME AWAY!!!!! ALL FROM 2 .. 8 FOOT ROWS!!!!!!SERIOUSLY NEVER EVER HAD THAT HAPPEN...USUALLY WE GET LOTS TO ADD TO RICE FOR A FEW MEALS..
U ASK WHY....I SCRATCH MY HEAD AND ONLY THING I CAN SAY IS MUST BE THE LAZY DOG WAY...SO THANKS !!!!
IM HOPING FOR BUMPER CORN AND CUCUMBER CROP AND THEY ARE LOOKING FANTANSTIC!!
You're going to have to grow a few extra watermelon vines to apologize for blaming the ducks 😄
And please, how do you spell Spinocade (sp)¿
Spinosad
@@grandmaatthefarm125 Many thanks!
So I'm the guy that doesn't cut or hill potatoes. Well that is changing this year. Normally I get seed potatoes that are small. Smaller than an egg and I just make a 6" hole and toss it in there and basically forget them until they fall over. But this year I ordered my seed potatoes from Holland Bulb. The seed potatoes looked great except they were huge. So I cut them up. Since I had to cut them and I have garden space I'll be hilling. So that's for the videos on hilling cause I'm going to do it just like Trav.
I think you'll see much better results from hilling. But keep me updated.
@@LazyDogFarm will do
QUESTION: I am 2 yrs in to gardening and only have raised beds. I do compost and have to purchase soil to add to my beds. Do you find you should buy “raised bed soil”, or is that just a marketing ploy (my thought lol)…do you find a difference worth buying it for? Thank you
I think that's just a marketing ploy. I usually just get the Sta-Green potting soil because it's the cheapest and doesn't have those little plastic green granules in it that never dissolve.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you very much.
Did you treat the soil or just the corn plants?
I was using a fan nozzle, so I was spraying a pretty wide swath and getting the soil too.
@@LazyDogFarm thanks.
White duck is delicious!!!
Problem i had was mice was eating my corn from the trays in the greenhouse, cameras is nice to have for your garden or greenhouse.
YICKES!!!!
Oh dear I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that pest either. Now I’m a little concerned it will show up here. My corn hasn’t come up yet I just planted a few days ago 🙏🏻 that it comes up.
How can I purchase the chicken coop wagon
We made ours from scratch.
Hope you sprayed the ground around it because they are likely going to move to other plots! I’ll also bet the ducks were in there eating the worms
Yeah I pretty much sprayed the entire plot because I was using a fan nozzle on my backpack sprayer.
@@LazyDogFarm I have a flow zone for my yard spraying I actually have two I’m thinking I may clean one out really well and make it my garden sprayer. I’m just getting started and I’m learning so much from you and others just soaking all the info in. I live near Phenix City Al so channels like yours help so much in learning disease and pest pressures in the humid south in zone 8 A. Thank you so much for your guidance and humor in your videos!
You need an area of natural pest development. Wild flowers, marigolds etc. shrubs. An area that will maintain praying mantis, lady bugs, spiders, wasps. Etc.
I don't think it was over kill . I getting hit by few things I don't normally see here for another month. I sprayed twice too . I lost my first batch of seedlings thanks to that last freeze we had . Not letting some bug get my 2nd batch . It's war time 😂
You can buy a batch of praying mantis, and if you leave wasp nests alone, they'll eat a lot of those worms.
I LOVE THE DUCKS...THEY WOULD EAT THOSE BUGS...WOULDNT THEY??
I thought maybe cut worms.
That's what I thought initially until I was able to identify that little rascal online.
Army worms took ten acres of Bermuda grass out in less than 24 hours.
They can certainly do it. I worked at a golf course in college and if we saw them, we had to treat them immediately before they'd destroy an entire fairway.
The army worm ate my potatoes to the stems, night time is when they ripped through them, so keep a close eye on your potatoes!!!!
Noted!
I know you’ve been also using azera- is that not for worms? Glad it wasn’t your watermelon loving pals from next door!
Azera will kill worms too. But Spinosad is cheaper and works just fine if it's strictly a worm problem. Azera kills a lot more stuff than worms and we'll use it as the flying and crawling insects start to get bad.
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If you need some cucumbers let me know and I will bring you some
Taters will grow better if you use a vols bucket
haven't seen many worms this year. i know the dang japanese beatles are all over my green bean leafs