Rachel, maybe next year cover all your brassicas when you plant them, with insect screen cloth!! That's what Charles Dowding does with his! I haven't put mine in for this year yet. But, that's what I intend on doing! Love your channel!!!
I grow all my Brassicas and a lot of other things too under row covers and wedding tulle also, which is much cheaper! Bugs love brassicas and I don't want to share my food!
Thanks Rachael for the garden chat! I am a small NW gardener, a newbie for sure, and you always have a good tip for me and I so appreciate your candid good news and bad because that's how we all learn this challenge we have dove into!
I grow short day onions in Riverside County, S. Calif, low desert for 25 years. You can lift the onions. Do not water. Let rest in loosened dry soil for another week. You can pull the onions in about a week (but you can pull them even now if you need to... you rule the onion patch... not the onions... at this stage.) When you pull the onions, leave the leaves, roots, and dirt on. Okay to shake off some dirt. Take a store nursery flat or shallow boxes. Think air flow. Lay them out in single layer with leaves covering the previous row to provide shade. Onions can touch each other, but aim for a single layer. If the messiness annoys you, you can put newspaper on the bottom of the flats. Place flats in a shady dry area, preferably where breezes will pass over them. In the next 7 to 14 days, Leaves will dry out and bulbs should get plumper. When you think they're fully dry, try pulling off leaves at the neck. It will probably be a little moist at the neck where you tore off the dry leaves. Clean up a bit (dry dirt, some of roots) and place back out in the flat. Allow to cure about another week so that bit of moisture still in the neck dries out. I plant a few varieties, and harvest them a week or two apart. That helps me have enough space to cure the onions. Before I put into storage, I clean them up one more time. I trim the necks to about an inch, rustle off excess outer leaves, trim roots if needed. I want them to look like store onions at this point. Then, I place mine in stackable milk crates. Only one layer per crate. The air flow prevents spoilage. Do remove any spoiled onions. For that reason, I use any less than perfect onions first, before spoilage occurs. Tiny onions are good for shish kabobs... so no waste. God bless and Happy Gardening!
What a shame about your cucumbers Rachael, but hooray for those carrots, they look very strong! Re challenged by what to do next in the garden, yes I get stuck too! But, I’m finding over the years that my instincts are getting stronger and I’m listening to them more and more - with great success too. Your plans sound solid and I’m sure you will have a fab autumn garden - which will include rows upon rows of those elusive beets!
Two RUclipsrs I follow, Charles Dowding and Steve's Seaside Allotment, both in the UK, use netting over all their brassicas, and they grow a lot of brassicas. I'm in CA, and the cabbage worm moth is not too happy here, it's here but I don't even start brassicas until now, and in the fall the moths are gone. What I like about both of those channels is that they emphasize starting from seed into transplant modules, so that you can move starts right into the beds as you harvest out.
Probably gone now but next spring keep your eyes open for a childs butterfly net..maybe that would help. I have seen them at the Dollar Store in spring but haven't been back there since summer started. Gardens and preserving keep me too busy.
So beets are shorter grow time than broccoli. And you have to direct sow beets. Plant the broccoli in the middle between the onions. After you harvest the onions, and you may want to do that a couple days early, plant the beets. Then make your hoop style you ban use it if necessary. Beets do well in cool weather. I would do beets in the other bed as well. Maybe down the middle. You may want to consider 2 of hoop style covers. Good luck. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
In hindsight, I will be netting my entire cruciferous bed right from the seedling stage... they don’t really need a pollinator, so no worries about bees! Could really use a break from the leaf miners tbh too!
So the start of this video just made my day 🤣 I am all too familiar with the cabbage butterfly dance. I was recently scolded by a neighbor for trying to kill them and yelling at them (they were defending pollinators not knowing at all that these guys are NOT good butterflies) so I quickly taught her a gardening lesson haha but I always wonder if my neighbors think I’m crazy chasing them around my brassicas and cursing them haha
I have a bug zapper that I use for leaf footed bugs, squash bugs and biting flies. Also mesh netting helps to keep the moths from being able to lay eggs.
I use row cover or tulle on my brassicas and summer squash until they outgrow it. This time of year, I use Bacillus thuriengensis kurstaki for catepillars. It is good for 2 to 3 yrs if stored in climate controlled area. You can find the dust form called diPel or liquid concentrate for a tank sprayer called Thuricide. You can find it under other trade names too. I would lose most cole crops and tomatoes without it in my area surrounded by forest and hay fields.
Your fighting cabbage moths and I’m fighting squash bugs like crazy!! It is unreal. I have one plant hanging on and protecting it as best I can. Your garden is beautiful as ever
my Brussel sprouts, Cauliflower, and cabbage I cover with a net since they don't need pollinating to keep the white moths off. Just put a few stakes around them, taller than the plants and drape the fine netting over it.
Too many options, not enough time! I feel ya! I just planted seeds for my second summer harvest as well as starting the seeds for my fall crops. Still almost 100° here, but I'm in that gray area, juggling too early-too late....ugh
It is too hot here for brassicas now but Liz Zorab at Byther Farm plants the brassicas for her to eat under nets and then plants some more in another place for the butterflies. Butterflies are usually out during the day and moths at night.
I understand what you mean those darn cabbage moths are a pain sometimes, anyway Its good that your carrot seedings come up they can be finicky when It comes to sowing them,
If the butterflies get to much in my part of the UK we tend to take off maybe 2 leaves from each plant they are laying their eggs and tie them in bunches and hang them in trees or even on a fence away from your veggies, it wont stop all of them but a lot of them will lay their eggs on the bunches away from your food. Give them something else to attack
Some people have had success with cabbage moth decoys. Make a plastic moth and mount it on a stake above the brassica..... The moths seems to be territorial, so they fly on when they see the "decoy moth".
I saw that making the rounds in a gardening group on FB. They used a yogurt container and cut out the shape of the butterfly. Put on a stake above the brassicas.
You should build a little greenhouse for certain plants that are vulnerable to these moths or other insects then the moths can look through the glass with their tongues hanging out of their mouths and not be able to feast on your plants. You could build a wood frame and use clear heavy plastic for the windows instead of spending a lot of money. Build one with the same idea as your chicken coup, just put plastic all the way around. You can use a heavy staple gun to staple the plastic to the wood. You could get the plastic at a builders supply place, Home Depot or Lowe’s would probably have some. Cheers
Succession planting is a great way to keep the soil covered & increase amount of food on a small of land. Interplanting short & tall crops work well too.
Please let us know when you start your spinach. I’ve never done a fall planting of spinach and I’m trying to time it right so it doesn’t immediately bolt. I’m in pretty much the same zone as you, expecting frost by October 10th.
Fill in that space with a salsa garden. Use cherry or small tomato types to make sure they ripen by first frost.. Also cilantro, hot peppers, bell peppers, basil..whatever else you like in salsa... and the onions that are currently there. Maybe that will keep you from wanting to pull them. Plan for salsa!
Someone else had suggested to make printouts of those cabbage butterflies put them on sticks throughout your garden that they are highly territorial and the bigger the more threatening I guess
I harvested my walla walla onions before the tops turned brown. That way I dried all the bulbs. And all the green tops, like large chives. And dried the tops also. Did the same with my shallots and tops. They did really well. Got about 6x the amount I planted. Pulled my green onions and leeks and dried all of them too. That way I can use them all year. Pulled 16 bins of our potatoes and so far have 95 pounds of 6 different kinds. Still have 11 more bins to go. They havent died back enough yet. First time growing potatoes in totes and bins. Only way I will ever do it from now on. I just replanted the 16 totes with more potatoes for a fall harvest. Will do the other 11 when we harvest them. Have pulled my peas, carrots and a few others out of my terraced garden with my raised bed planters made out of electrical panel boxes with corrugated metal 12" sides screwed to the panel. They have worked great. Have different length ones. I'm replanting different things in each bed. My hubby has been redoing the soil with chicken poo compost. We bought. Worked so good before, using it again. Having a great garden year so far. Cauliflower and broccoli not to good. Going they a fall crop. Garden on everyone!😊
Speaking about carrots . . . . what did you do with that mountain of carrot tops you had left from canning. If I missed it on one of your videos, please point me in that direction. Thanks!
cut up some fake ones out of the cheap paper plates, and hang them up with some fishing line. The white moth is territorial and tend to not like laying eggs in a already "claimed" area. We started this year and have noticed a decrease. Hope this helps! Great video!
OMG.... the PESTS this year! I just bought BT and Neem Oil. I usually only have to spray soap water for aphids, etc. I just pruned the dickens out of my brussel sprouts. White fly and RATS ate them like a salad bar. At least the rats were making healthy choices. So did I with some Tomcat Rat Traps. What are these tiny white flying gnat things? I had to spray BT on EVERYTHING, my new beans and cucumbers were even getting them... and my ROSEMARY. (I'm done venting with you) .
Oh my gosh! The dithering in my head drives me mad. Should I, should I not?... I am releived to hear I am not the only one. Racheal, you manage to voice what's right there in my head. LOL Sometimes I just need to "cowboy it" and go do the action. I just need to say my prayers, get into action/not thinking, and leave the results up to God. 🤠 I waste too much growing time thinking about it. And anyway, it's just as you say, the results can be chalked up to the learning curve. As it is, I am usually 98% successful, at the end of the day. All despite my mental dilemas on where, what, when, etc. So why do I second guess myself?!... 🤓 As always, I appreciate you.
My husband has a thing you load with table salt and click to shoot flies etc. Good bye moths.Rachael I ordered another 5 tier planters. On sale now and your code for $10 off plus free shipping. Win win. My beets and spinach and lettuce will go in. Romaine is perfect in it.
The cabbage white butterflies are a pain they’ve laid their eggs on my cabbages and I’m going around now squidging both eggs and green caterpillars !! Looks hot and dry over there take care cheers 🍻
you won't like my suggestion what I do, I use a bit of seven when i see the first signs of moths/japenese beetles, light sprinkles where they land. I nipped both in the bud, and after a few days rinsed it off. Staying away from flowers the best I could. it worked.
LOL I was JUST having this battle yesterday in my garden! lol I planted my carrots in the high 90's also. I'm not sure there is a place in the US that ISN'T super hot right now. :-/
Evening Rachel! How do you manage to water your garden. I'm a long time gardener but in a new location, Zone 6. As I'm older The Husband made me nice and tall raised beds but with the heat we are all getting right now my questionable garden is struggling. Keep up the great work Girl!!
next time intercrop some onions or garlic and some marigolds around your brassicas to keep the cabbage moths at bay. that's if you don't wanna spray like BT on them
The pest pressure is intense this year. I have had problems with vine borers, squash bugs but worst of all fire ants have gotten into both my raised beds and my in ground garden. We also have lots of powder mildew and some other type of fungus that I can't even identify it's a hard year. But this week we are getting a cool front supposed to have a high of 90% for the next week.
Knock over the onions, pull them next week or so. Meanwhile start your broccoli in seedling containers in the shade, by time the onions are gone the broccoli will be up and ready to transplant. Then it will be time to plant spinach,
I used some sticks and irrigation pipe and bird netting that I had laying around to make a rough and ready brassica tunnel. It won't keep aphids out, but it will keep out the moths. You've probably got eggs already though, so if you cover, keep checking for catipillars.
I'm laughing so hard at you and the butterflies, because you are me to a tee!😂 I Hate them! Yes...tent your brassicas. Otherwise, you will go insane! We have them so bad here in Virginia. I know your pain.
Decoys made from a simple paper plate, hung on fishing line works wonders. I was overrun by these guys until I hung the decoys up around my yard.
I hear a tennis racket is a pretty effective tool for open-air moth slapping.
Salt guns as well. . though for moths an electrified anti bug zappar is good as well.
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Genius! I've covered my cabbage with net but think I was too late. Thought I destroyed all eggs beforecnetting went up
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Rachel, maybe next year cover all your brassicas when you plant them, with insect screen cloth!! That's what Charles Dowding does with his! I haven't put mine in for this year yet. But, that's what I intend on doing! Love your channel!!!
you can use cheap tulle fabric from fabric store too
@@barbarasimmons4158 is this my friend Barb in North Carolina?? Sister in law to Debbie T?
@@meemo32086 no, sorry - I'm sure she misses you!
Charles dowding uses BT.
@@barbarasimmons4158 that would have been an amazing coincidence!!!
I grow all my Brassicas and a lot of other things too under row covers and wedding tulle also, which is much cheaper! Bugs love brassicas and I don't want to share my food!
Thanks Rachael for the garden chat! I am a small NW gardener, a newbie for sure, and you always have a good tip for me and I so appreciate your candid good news and bad because that's how we all learn this challenge we have dove into!
I grow short day onions in Riverside County, S. Calif, low desert for 25 years.
You can lift the onions. Do not water. Let rest in loosened dry soil for another week.
You can pull the onions in about a week (but you can pull them even now if you need to... you rule the onion patch... not the onions... at this stage.)
When you pull the onions, leave the leaves, roots, and dirt on. Okay to shake off some dirt.
Take a store nursery flat or shallow boxes. Think air flow. Lay them out in single layer with leaves covering the previous row to provide shade. Onions can touch each other, but aim for a single layer. If the messiness annoys you, you can put newspaper on the bottom of the flats. Place flats in a shady dry area, preferably where breezes will pass over them.
In the next 7 to 14 days, Leaves will dry out and bulbs should get plumper. When you think they're fully dry, try pulling off leaves at the neck. It will probably be a little moist at the neck where you tore off the dry leaves. Clean up a bit (dry dirt, some of roots) and place back out in the flat. Allow to cure about another week so that bit of moisture still in the neck dries out. I plant a few varieties, and harvest them a week or two apart. That helps me have enough space to cure the onions. Before I put into storage, I clean them up one more time. I trim the necks to about an inch, rustle off excess outer leaves, trim roots if needed. I want them to look like store onions at this point. Then, I place mine in stackable milk crates. Only one layer per crate. The air flow prevents spoilage. Do remove any spoiled onions. For that reason, I use any less than perfect onions first, before spoilage occurs. Tiny onions are good for shish kabobs... so no waste.
God bless and Happy Gardening!
Stumbled across your channel. Gardening in your sandals? A girl after my own heart! Totally love you ❤️
What a shame about your cucumbers Rachael, but hooray for those carrots, they look very strong!
Re challenged by what to do next in the garden, yes I get stuck too! But, I’m finding over the years that my instincts are getting stronger and I’m listening to them more and more - with great success too.
Your plans sound solid and I’m sure you will have a fab autumn garden - which will include rows upon rows of those elusive beets!
I think the onions are done. When they start to lay over, they can come out.
You accurately express my own frustration LOL. Thanks for sharing.
Two RUclipsrs I follow, Charles Dowding and Steve's Seaside Allotment, both in the UK, use netting over all their brassicas, and they grow a lot of brassicas. I'm in CA, and the cabbage worm moth is not too happy here, it's here but I don't even start brassicas until now, and in the fall the moths are gone. What I like about both of those channels is that they emphasize starting from seed into transplant modules, so that you can move starts right into the beds as you harvest out.
Probably gone now but next spring keep your eyes open for a childs butterfly net..maybe that would help. I have seen them at the Dollar Store in spring but haven't been back there since summer started. Gardens and preserving keep me too busy.
When I was a kid, I always loved those little yellow "butterflies." Of course now we know..... LOL
So beets are shorter grow time than broccoli. And you have to direct sow beets. Plant the broccoli in the middle between the onions. After you harvest the onions, and you may want to do that a couple days early, plant the beets. Then make your hoop style you ban use it if necessary. Beets do well in cool weather. I would do beets in the other bed as well. Maybe down the middle. You may want to consider 2 of hoop style covers. Good luck. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
In hindsight, I will be netting my entire cruciferous bed right from the seedling stage... they don’t really need a pollinator, so no worries about bees! Could really use a break from the leaf miners tbh too!
So the start of this video just made my day 🤣 I am all too familiar with the cabbage butterfly dance. I was recently scolded by a neighbor for trying to kill them and yelling at them (they were defending pollinators not knowing at all that these guys are NOT good butterflies) so I quickly taught her a gardening lesson haha but I always wonder if my neighbors think I’m crazy chasing them around my brassicas and cursing them haha
I recommend BT. You can buy it easy in the USA. Don’t forget to add a surfactant as brassica leaves are very hard to wet.
Honey, all that dancing around and hair flinging made me think of Charro. Are you old enough to know who that is? You got me tickled, ha!
I have a bug zapper that I use for leaf footed bugs, squash bugs and biting flies. Also mesh netting helps to keep the moths from being able to lay eggs.
Your onions and tomatoes are looking fabulous!
I use row cover or tulle on my brassicas and summer squash until they outgrow it. This time of year, I use Bacillus thuriengensis kurstaki for catepillars. It is good for 2 to 3 yrs if stored in climate controlled area. You can find the dust form called diPel or liquid concentrate for a tank sprayer called Thuricide. You can find it under other trade names too. I would lose most cole crops and tomatoes without it in my area surrounded by forest and hay fields.
Hahahahah OMG! You have me laughing as I LITERALLY chase those damn cabbage moths in my yard and my hubby just laughs and laughs.
Your fighting cabbage moths and I’m fighting squash bugs like crazy!! It is unreal. I have one plant hanging on and protecting it as best I can. Your garden is beautiful as ever
my Brussel sprouts, Cauliflower, and cabbage I cover with a net since they don't need pollinating to keep the white moths off. Just put a few stakes around them, taller than the plants and drape the fine netting over it.
Too many options, not enough time! I feel ya! I just planted seeds for my second summer harvest as well as starting the seeds for my fall crops. Still almost 100° here, but I'm in that gray area, juggling too early-too late....ugh
How about a butterfly net? I also have an battery operated fly killer in the shape of a tennis racket.
It is too hot here for brassicas now but Liz Zorab at Byther Farm plants the brassicas for her to eat under nets and then plants some more in another place for the butterflies. Butterflies are usually out during the day and moths at night.
I understand what you mean those darn cabbage moths are a pain sometimes, anyway Its good that your carrot seedings come up they can be finicky when It comes to sowing them,
I use row covers on cabbage, when they are small, and keep it on all season.
I totally feel for your frustration with those moths! Wretched things!
If the butterflies get to much in my part of the UK we tend to take off maybe 2 leaves from each plant they are laying their eggs and tie them in bunches and hang them in trees or even on a fence away from your veggies, it wont stop all of them but a lot of them will lay their eggs on the bunches away from your food. Give them something else to attack
Some people have had success with cabbage moth decoys. Make a plastic moth and mount it on a stake above the brassica..... The moths seems to be territorial, so they fly on when they see the "decoy moth".
EyeSea They’re butterflies.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae
I saw that making the rounds in a gardening group on FB. They used a yogurt container and cut out the shape of the butterfly. Put on a stake above the brassicas.
Those carrots and brussel sprouts are such a blessing
You should build a little greenhouse for certain plants that are vulnerable to these moths or other insects then the moths can look through the glass with their tongues hanging out of their mouths and not be able to feast on your plants. You could build a wood frame and use clear heavy plastic for the windows instead of spending a lot of money. Build one with the same idea as your chicken coup, just put plastic all the way around. You can use a heavy staple gun to staple the plastic to the wood. You could get the plastic at a builders supply place, Home Depot or Lowe’s would probably have some. Cheers
We have an electric bee zapper we use for wasp. I bet it works on cabbage moths too. Great advice at the end.
Take care and stay safe,
Rob
I’ve been seeing other homesteaders starting seeds in containers to replace crops as they finish up.
Succession planting is a great way to keep the soil covered & increase amount of food on a small of land. Interplanting short & tall crops work well too.
Please let us know when you start your spinach. I’ve never done a fall planting of spinach and I’m trying to time it right so it doesn’t immediately bolt. I’m in pretty much the same zone as you, expecting frost by October 10th.
Fill in that space with a salsa garden. Use cherry or small tomato types to make sure they ripen by first frost.. Also cilantro, hot peppers, bell peppers, basil..whatever else you like in salsa... and the onions that are currently there. Maybe that will keep you from wanting to pull them. Plan for salsa!
I have everything for salsa already growing, but thanks for the reminder because I do need to start some more cilantro
Hello Miss Rachel try a concoction of water, dr bonner castile soap and a little neem and spray them, the butterflies.
Someone else had suggested to make printouts of those cabbage butterflies put them on sticks throughout your garden that they are highly territorial and the bigger the more threatening I guess
Paralysis by analysis, I like that, oh, and I experience it also
Your garden looks awesome. Patti would pull up all those onions, she loves onions lol
I harvested my walla walla onions before the tops turned brown. That way I dried all the bulbs. And all the green tops, like large chives. And dried the tops also. Did the same with my shallots and tops. They did really well. Got about 6x the amount I planted. Pulled my green onions and leeks and dried all of them too. That way I can use them all year. Pulled 16 bins of our potatoes and so far have 95 pounds of 6 different kinds. Still have 11 more bins to go. They havent died back enough yet. First time growing potatoes in totes and bins. Only way I will ever do it from now on. I just replanted the 16 totes with more potatoes for a fall harvest. Will do the other 11 when we harvest them. Have pulled my peas, carrots and a few others out of my terraced garden with my raised bed planters made out of electrical panel boxes with corrugated metal 12" sides screwed to the panel. They have worked great. Have different length ones. I'm replanting different things in each bed. My hubby has been redoing the soil with chicken poo compost. We bought. Worked so good before, using it again. Having a great garden year so far. Cauliflower and broccoli not to good. Going they a fall crop. Garden on everyone!😊
Speaking about carrots . . . . what did you do with that mountain of carrot tops you had left from canning. If I missed it on one of your videos, please point me in that direction. Thanks!
cut up some fake ones out of the cheap paper plates, and hang them up with some fishing line. The white moth is territorial and tend to not like laying eggs in a already "claimed" area. We started this year and have noticed a decrease. Hope this helps! Great video!
That's definitely where I'm at too right now, the analysis paralysis. Hoping that my zucchini plants die already for my new broccoli plants 😆
OMG.... the PESTS this year! I just bought BT and Neem Oil. I usually only have to spray soap water for aphids, etc. I just pruned the dickens out of my brussel sprouts. White fly and RATS ate them like a salad bar. At least the rats were making healthy choices. So did I with some Tomcat Rat Traps. What are these tiny white flying gnat things? I had to spray BT on EVERYTHING, my new beans and cucumbers were even getting them... and my ROSEMARY. (I'm done venting with you) .
Have you considered growing swedes? My all time favourite root veg. They are brassica family and do well in the cold.
I feel your pain with those dastardly cabbage moths. I'm serious about annihilating them! I bought a butterfly net and took stock in BT!
Oh my gosh! The dithering in my head drives me mad. Should I, should I not?... I am releived to hear I am not the only one. Racheal, you manage to voice what's right there in my head. LOL Sometimes I just need to "cowboy it" and go do the action. I just need to say my prayers, get into action/not thinking, and leave the results up to God. 🤠 I waste too much growing time thinking about it. And anyway, it's just as you say, the results can be chalked up to the learning curve. As it is, I am usually 98% successful, at the end of the day. All despite my mental dilemas on where, what, when, etc. So why do I second guess myself?!... 🤓
As always, I appreciate you.
A very enjoyable video to watch :)
My husband has a thing you load with table salt and click to shoot flies etc. Good bye moths.Rachael I ordered another 5 tier planters. On sale now and your code for $10 off plus free shipping. Win win. My beets and spinach and lettuce will go in. Romaine is perfect in it.
Rachel, I have exactly the same bright green bandaid on the same finger!! Pruning accident.
No accident with a vegetable peeler
Get one of those big butterfly nets. You can catch a lots of moths at once with it. Strongs 💕
Check out the big ole chemtrail in the sky behind you Rachel ...
I am right there with you. I’ve been meaning to plant stuff, but I can’t decide where. I have lots of beds that are half empty.🤦🏽♀️
Tomorrow will be my big planting day!
That 1870's Homestead, okay, you first!🤣🤣🤣 I hope you post a video. I need all the inspiration I can get! Love your ❤️!😘
The cabbage white butterflies are a pain they’ve laid their eggs on my cabbages and I’m going around now squidging both eggs and green caterpillars !! Looks hot and dry over there take care cheers 🍻
They are cabbage white butterflies, not moths. Brassica's are their host plants :) which is why they love them so much haha.
I also refer to the Farmers Almanac and the long term forecast for my fall garden.
you won't like my suggestion what I do, I use a bit of seven when i see the first signs of moths/japenese beetles, light sprinkles where they land. I nipped both in the bud, and after a few days rinsed it off. Staying away from flowers the best I could. it worked.
LOL I was JUST having this battle yesterday in my garden! lol I planted my carrots in the high 90's also. I'm not sure there is a place in the US that ISN'T super hot right now. :-/
Do you know of any good recipes for butternut squash leaves?
Do you guys have different broccoli to us in Australia? We mainly grow it as a winter crop here.
I'm in the same exact boat with my onions, they definitely won't be ready for at least a few more weeks and it's driving me nuts.
netting over the brassicas next year a BRI and Art covered theirs this year a it worked great
I know theirs are amazing, I know what I'm asking for for Christmas 😆
I plant Brussels sprouts as a trap crop so they leave my other brassicas alone. They love them.
Evening Rachel! How do you manage to water your garden. I'm a long time gardener but in a new location, Zone 6. As I'm older The Husband made me nice and tall raised beds but with the heat we are all getting right now my questionable garden is struggling. Keep up the great work Girl!!
I use both an overhead sprinkler on a timer and hand watering when necessary
next time intercrop some onions or garlic and some marigolds around your brassicas to keep the cabbage moths at bay. that's if you don't wanna spray like BT on them
Oh yes I pulled my dry beans today and some still green but they had to move out of my way haha😉
Love your videos.
Oh my gosh you weren't kidding about those guys!!!! Next year I'm trying netting ??
The pest pressure is intense this year. I have had problems with vine borers, squash bugs but worst of all fire ants have gotten into both my raised beds and my in ground garden. We also have lots of powder mildew and some other type of fungus that I can't even identify it's a hard year. But this week we are getting a cool front supposed to have a high of 90% for the next week.
Man, I sure hope your attempts to recover are successful and you end up having an amazing fall garden
Pyretherin is hands down the best for the moth control
Do you make your own compost? It so nice and fluffy!
Yes, I have a specific video on it just posted recent
If the onions are a descent size I would pull them and start preparing the fall items.
Turnips,cauliflower and broccoli,will do well if planted now.
Lots of carrots, are the butterflies not good in the garden or are the moths?
I cover my broccoli and cabbage with netting, no damage.
Cant u harvest onions anytime? Its just personal preference on size.
I think they cure better when you follow the natural growing cycle but yes we've harvested many already for everyday use
Knock over the onions, pull them next week or so. Meanwhile start your broccoli in seedling containers in the shade, by time the onions are gone the broccoli will be up and ready to transplant. Then it will be time to plant spinach,
I’m a little new to veg gardening. I’m curious, what are you doing to your squash plants at the end of this clip? I’ve never seen that done before.
I'm trying for the first time this year to grow some vertically for space saving and being able to grow more in a small space
That 1870's Homestead ok, that’s kind of what I thought. Let us know how it goes. Thanks!
Do you have bird baths and feeders around? Since i began to encourage birds into my garden it has cut down on the moths.
I don't only because I don't want to invite them to eat my tomatoes
Pull the onions they are about done growing. Get the broccoli in.
They’re butterflies. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae
Those carrots look great! Well done!
The moths where nuts out here last month! I was like what the heck is going on.
I used some sticks and irrigation pipe and bird netting that I had laying around to make a rough and ready brassica tunnel. It won't keep aphids out, but it will keep out the moths. You've probably got eggs already though, so if you cover, keep checking for catipillars.
Verry good
A portable vacuum does wonders!
When do you find time to work!!!
I wake up really early, use my breaks wisely, and hit the ground running once work is done
I'm laughing so hard at you and the butterflies, because you are me to a tee!😂
I Hate them! Yes...tent your brassicas. Otherwise, you will go insane! We have them so bad here in Virginia. I know your pain.
My green beans have only grown 8 inches in 3 months. Weird.
Well I get growth and no flowers/beans, Found out do not fertilize beans!!
Just get some fabric and cover the brassicas. its made just for that job.
Well, I installed 3 nets on my brassicas.
I'll be asking for that or a bolt of chiffon for Christmas 😆
@@1870s here I already spent over 100 € in netting of different types. It is quite windy in our place and the nets give some protection.
New to your channel 👋🏻 what zone are you in?
6a
Use the tops.
So much got eaten by voles this year... any tips?
Carol Mauriello Check out Huw Richards’ channel. He lost a lot to voles and then he outwitted them.
Cynthia Fisher ill do that
pesky moths