I used to have a daycare in my home and also had a small garden in the backyard. Unfortunately, we had tons of slugs and snails. After unsuccessfully trying multiple things to dissuade them I decided to use the resources at hand. The children who were big enough (no longer put things in their mouth) were each given a halo cup and whoever collected the most would get to pick a prize from the treasure chest. As a bonus, if anyone found a tomato hornworm they would also get a prize even if they didn’t win for quantity. I would dispatch the slugs and the kids would go straight to the bathroom to scrub their hands before snack time. We would have this game at least every 2 weeks. It was great way to help them learn about beneficial and destructive insects as well as connecting them with food through gardening.
I'm a breast cancer survivor, and I struggle with autoimmune issues (autoimmune thyroid disease and lichen planopilaris). I'm growing an organic garden to heal my body and to help teach my children the importance of healthy eating. I would love to hear more about your health journey. Do you have videos on that?
Natures way pms supplement has nutrition that will help your body naturally balance your hormones. It’s also handles heavy and painful periods without pain relievers. Like almost everyone your diet will never be enough to do the same, best of health to you.
Thyroid disease, and struggling with autoimmune is really a challenge when it comes to figuring what to eat or even what buy to eat. I wish you well on your journey 🙏 to recovery too.
Have you thought about putting a double fencing around the orchard? Deer do not like to jump double fences, will stop the tree damage and you can put your chickens in the middle of the fencing as a chicken run. Double duty that space. Just an idea.
Darling, thanks for the videos! I know this video is about a year old and maybe you're practicing this now, but I wanted to give ya a tip on your onions/garlic 4:21. When the stalks start to fall over then trim them down (1/2-3/4) and let em keep growing! They'll get 2x bigger, then cure as normal :)
@@veronical3135 yes depending on growing area it's different times of the year good to give the greens a nice trim I just say when they start to droop and touch the ground and for sure at least get that flower stalk off beginning of summer so it doesn't seed (unless you want seed) 🙌
@Notsure🕶hockypuckmary🏒 i dont know but gonna test this...i also found out from a guy who grows competition potatoes that if u want a big potatoes your seed potatoes should only have one eye..and if u want smaller ones use aeed that has 5 to six eyes!! Gonna test that too...but since he wins...he should know.
If I haven't mentioned this before: Here in zone 4a you can stack small square bales to create a tunnel over your carrots and dig them most of the winter. I saved this video (and many others) to watch many times to get new ideas.
@Greg Holl.....another cool SAVE for using Vegies overwinter:....we lived in No.Illinois.....abt 100 miles from chicago.....when serious freeze warnings went out.......we pulled our tomatoes up out of the soil. GENTLY shake loose dirt off.....not vigorously...... Take into ur unheated basement and hang upside down on a nail in the darkest corner of the basement....the baby toms and the green ones continued to grow to ripe size and reddened up and we had fresh tomatoes on out thanksgiving table🖐🏻☺️ And/or u can bring some nice big green ones up to sit on a kitchen window seal in the sun to redden up....🤗
Beer traps work exceptionally well. Slugs don't care how stale or cheap the beer is, either. We don't drink beer, but we always have some around. We save individual plastic yogurt containers. Bury the containers up to rim in soil, close to troubled plants. Fill 1/3 with beer. Next morning, it will be full of drowned slugs! Just dump it out (not in garden!) and refill.
The hog panels making a tunnel is a great idea, I might steal!!! I can't believe you only use 2 bulbs of garlic a month. I could not live like that, lol. It's just my husband and I, and we use 1-2 bulbs a week! We love garlic. We put 4-6 cloves in sauces, on top of garlic bread, on all types of meats, in scrambled eggs, and in salsa.
@@CHARISSAJACOBSON Definitely not toxic to the dogs I've had throughout my life. They all lived long healthy lives and stole open beer whenever it wasn't guarded. They were Labs, German Shorthaired Pointers and German Shepherd Dogs. The beer thing works great for slugs which then go to the chickens or used for fish bait.
Another solution for snails slugs and earwigs, are yoghurt containers, tin cans, milk containers, pop cans, etc.. Cut a 1-2” hole about 1/3 down from the top of these containers. I like yoghurt and other like kinds cause they have lids. Add about 1-2” of cheap cooking oil, baited with soy sauce. I also add a tablespoon of Asian fish sauce. Bury them tilted enough to prevent water from entering the hole you have made, replace lid. I place them about every 6 feet directly in the garden, covered with some leaves to further prevent water, and for aesthetic reasons. Works very well.
Hi. I'm in Oregon. We have 7 of us, but only I am wanting a garden. Although I'm almost 70, I'm kind of new to gardening. This winter, I've listened to at least 2-3+ videos every night and feel like after listening to yours, that this was the best. Especially about succession gardening. We have a little under 9 acres but most of it is an old riverbed full, very FULL, of rocks. I have, over the last couple of years, purchased wooden raised beds 18" x4' about 3 feet off of the ground (14 of them) and little kids' wading pools (16 of them). I really liked the idea of planting companion plants to get more out of the beds. I was told I need to plant corn in 4x4 plots for better pollination. I bought the kind of corn I can grind to make tortillas... I'm going to try to use a no till method on the soil I have and hopefully build it up so the corn can grow grouped together. Also want to try the 3 sisters idea with corn, beans, and squash grouped together. God willing, we will have food to store. I'm going to definitely saving your info. I'm planning on binge watching your videos. Oh! And the tower! I'm going to check that out. We have free range chickens and I hope that tower will help keep stuff from getting eaten by the chickens before we get any! Thank you.
You know if you like bulk food from a little space, Try a 3 foot wide row of solid and tight Carrots, or Onions... In a 3 foot by 12 foot row of carrots that I sowed a heavy amount of carrot seed like grass; I ended up with 32 quart of carrots. The row was completely tight with carrots... And the Taste was amazing!
I wish I had found this site earlier. I have moved around a lot. The movers hate me because I grow so much in huge planters .I mix my flowers and veggies in the same pots like brussel sprouts, Japanese eggplant, geraniums, heather, petunias & have them in front yard . I am getting a lot of ideas that I can tweak to fit my lifestyle. I have 4 planters for potatoes: white, red, yellow & sweet I compost everything in a small area in backyard. Today I learned why my raspberry leaves turn yellow. All local pros say, "Plant them in the ground!" Now I know what to feed them.
@@carolinebarnes5578 interesting point about raspberries, I love blueberries and live in E-TX where they grow well. They grow much better for me in large pots rather than in the ground! But there are "u-pickem" farms of blueberries here and those are all planted in ground. I am 140 miles due east from my last home and blue berries didn't grow well there. temp averages 3-5 degrees cooler in summer and a lot more rainfall. sandy soil- they love acidic soil. Other gardeners here grow raspberries - I have never tried.
Oh my word. I didn't hear a word Melissa said because my ears kept going to the birds singing. It's fall here in Ohio now, and one of the things I miss so much is the birds, especially the robins. Thanks so much Melissa for sharing your life and your knowledge with us.
Thank you for the information on cornmeal, Terri (and everyone who replied to Terri’s comment)!! I watch a gazillion RUclips videos and spend an obscene amount of time researching gardening topics on the internet; I have never seen even one mention of cornmeal in anything having to do with either gardening or home maintenance prior to your comment...
Charles Dowding practices for higher yields . He has been doing this for over 20 yrs.. (and no dig method) His gardens are amazing .. glad to see it’s working for you too!
When I moved from sunny sub tropical FL to eastern WA, I struggled with my desire to garden , especially since I am on a 3rd floor and my garden would all be in containers. Your videos have helped me so much on how to garden more efficiently here in the Inland North West! Thank you for all you do to share and teach!
Ya, good info in her videos and I did subscribe but way too much information in each one. I think things would stick better in my brain if she only mentioned a couple things in each video let me get that down then the next video a couple more things 20 30 different things in each video is just too much information!
Thanks for the table of contents. Feel bad for the slugs. Wish there was a better way. Maybe just chucking them away alive at the other end of the plot. They are snails and very slow.
Melissa Norris i saw ur video and you said you didn't have a root cellar. Try burying a broken refrigerator in the ground with the door 1 inch above ground. Seal up holes with wire . Put straw in it and stack ur food in ur root cellar. Cover the lid in summer with straw etc to help keep ut cool . I hope this helps .Michael in louisiana
Your tomatoes have the most healthy looking leaves that I've seen on any show this Spring. You are doing something right for sure. A lot of growers say you don't need many leaves, and do a lot of pruning on them. Bot how healthy then are the tomatoes to eat. Best to fertilize more and let photosynthesis take its course and improve nutrition. Great looking gardens. My cousin In Pennsylvania put salt on their lg. Slugs to melt them, that seemed cruel-- even if they are slugs.
July in Florida here. You’re in a sweatshirt with a vest, harvesting broccoli. I’m drenched in sweat through 100+ temps, and even my sweet potatoes are struggling. 🥵
For those who have raised beds, copper tape is the answer to slugs. Their equivalent to our hemoglobin is copper based and they avoid contact like the plague.
@@CarolineLeinster I live in an area which is highly popular with slugs and snails - but the one Hosta that is barely affected is H. 'Bressingham Blue.' (British hybrid, but since it's quite old now I'm sure it will be available in many other countries by now).
scatter eggshells around your plant and what you can also do is dig in a plastic cup with beer they are more likely to go to the bear than to crawl on your trunk😎
Subscribed! I’m learning so much. I’m a new gardener as well. Small space back yard but doing what I can. So happy and encouraged to find another person healing them selves through food.
Can someone tell me what is in my garden they are like little white balls the soil around them get kinda hard if you dig it you it all white moldy looking
Beer traps work, I use the spreadable butter tubs, cutting the sides a bit so when the lid is on it looks like a pillar box. Fill with old or new alcoholic beer and the slugs with drown in the beer.
Wow. Those slugs are HUGE! Have you considered raised beds? IT’S A GARDEN GAME CHANGER. So much less work in smaller spaces. Square foot gardening, by Mel Bartholomew. Uses less space for the same harvest. And you aren’t wasting your time weeding between garden walkways. SERIOUSLY. IT CHANGED MY GARDENING LIFE!!! I truly can’t tell you how much time and effort it has saved. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hello Melissa, just up the road in Vancouver BC and we also went overboard on tomatoes! I am just on a city lot, so not a lot of room, but still managed to place 34 plants, most along our fence line. For double cropping, the top thing I have found that works with my garlic (we put in 100 and they are huge, we have been saving bulbs for 15 years) is squash. I put in the small squash plants with a pile of compost at the edges of the garlic patch in May. It is now August and I already have a mature crop of squash, turban and acorn. As soon as the garlic is pulled the squash take off and they already have established roots since they have been hiding in the garlic for two months (I pulled the garlic earlier than usual this year, mid July as they were getting rot and were already fully developed). I also trellised cucumbers beside the garlic, and they also had a head start protected by the garlic leaves and then took off for a great long crop. Best combo so far. Along the edge of the garlic patch there are tomatoes every second year as well. A row of Jalapenos planted with rich compost have done not too bad, though hoping to extend their life by putting them in a little greenhouse soon. Thanks for your channel.
Finally a homesteader in washington state! I live in washington as well and was looking for someone that would have the same climate as me. Seriously so disappointed by this cool weather. Where is the summer?
Or you can let your grass grow tall and make it hard for slugs and snails to move around in your garden. Don't plant all the greens in one spot. Spread them out throughout the garden. Grow something less delicious to the slugs and snails, like mustard green, daikon, radish, ... Interplant greens with garlic, leek, chive, and other herbs.
Your slugs are huge!! Mine are half that size, but I tend to have more trouble with snails here in north Georgia. Hand picking is really the best and safest way to manage them. Great video!
I live in Washington too. I’m a new gardener. I’d pay for a written out direction on what to plant, when and crop rotation options as well. Like all written out for me to use as a guide. This is so much great information!
Nice to meet you Tara. Check out my book the Family Garden Plan, it has planting, companion planting and crop rotating charts plus a lot more 😊 familygardenplan.com
I think it could be interesting to see you preparing the soil for the carrots you plan to plant next to the self seeding dill. Thanks much for the information.
Melissa, In South Louisiana the nursery sends seeds back to the supplier in June whick means that last fall I had to plant Broccoli plants which were expensive. So... After harvesting the first head, I allowed it to continue to grow and harvested two more times and allowed the broccoli to bloom to attract bees. My hens love broccoli leaves so took a handful down to a neighbor for her hens. She thanked me and said that she had not had Broccoli green leaves in years and would be cooking them. I asked her to save me a taste. It tasted wonderful and is just saute'd as with kale or cabbage. I then saved 4 broccoli plants for seeds. After they finished blooming and the seeds dried, I picked and place loosely in a large plastic tote. I think there must be a million seeds. I enjoyed this video tonight. Sending best wished from South Louisiana.
I usually get three to four crops per bed per year. I do a high rotation system and use low tunnels over my beds for crop extension. I do market gardening and grow most of the food we eat. I love this video. Keep doing what you are doing it is great.
I have a tip.. put a few cups or bowl type container placed near and in between the plants. keep them filled halfway with beer. Slugs tend to choose the beer over the veggies first and take a drink and die happy LOL. Just collect the slugs from the beer and usually i get most of them, though I do check the plants as well. I get a couple once in a while but they mostly gravitate toward the beer.
@@joybeum7177 I've grown those and absolutely agree. My mom and I have a garden and next year we're planting more of those, because we go through them so fast :P They rarely make it in the house.
I kept Australian native snails as pets for some time and they loved to munch on eggshells for the calcium so I totally agree that they won't deter them, it may distract them haha!!
You just convinced me to expand my NY garden.😂. Seedings are on 20x10 heating pads and light on timer. Very excited for this year's garden. Happy Growing🌿
Love what your doing! I'm doing same thing growing more than we ever have to make sure of having enough for entire year.. and we are growing on cattle panel and planting under them as well as on outside!! And I love succession planting .. I. Going to do more of that!!
Awesome garden Marissa I’m growing cherry tomatoes okras peas heirloom Lima beans egg plant scallions sunflower lettuce 2 types fennel strawberries which is done radish thyme rosemary mint collard greens lavender and sweet potato. Everything is in a bin. I’m so excited that I can do so much. I have a compost also. Thanks for all the tips
I would just love to visit and take an physical garden tour!! Everything looks amazing and even if it needs a little work you know exactly what your plants needs!! Love watching your videos, thanks for spreading your knowledge! I'm trying my first year of saving seeds from garlic so we will see how it turns out!!
I also like in the PNW and I started planting in late March. I've had nothing but problems with my brassicas nothing has grown and ate up by the slugs. My cucumbers are just now starting to flower but they are only 6 inches. My first time with this size garden so I'm learning and replanting for a fall crop
Bailing twine is the best! I use it on everything too. The garden looks great for all the cool weather we have been having. You are going to have an amazing apple harvest this year! That stinks that the deer got to your trees.
@@rhondaarnold4089 I am in NE FL. I always wondered how people store things for long term without a root cellar of sorts. I am thinking of adding a cold room when I get a place. Janice
Great Videos Melissa. I've heard that diatomaceous earth sprinkled around the base of Your plants will stop those slugs from ever getting up in them. You know so You won't have to pick them off and risk spraining Your wrist due to their size and weight!
leave a small mug with water and soap in the garden the slugs will just go in there then on your plants , this has worked well for us in the past with our lettuce , hope this tip helps love , Im loving your videos !!! thank you for posting
For slugs and snails plant in raised bed gardens with two rows of copper tape about 5 inches apart. Copper has a reaction with the bottom of snails and slugs that literary cooks the slugs or snails as the cross it
I found the sweet potatoes almost impossible to harvest - without them breaking into a few greatdeal.... Also not sure about storage for them. Red potatoes (the Adirondacks) produced abundantly from a 8x8 patch ! and many huge ones. Stored great in the root cellar!
@@carolmartin2503 try raised beds and storage totes for sweet potatoes. It's much easier to harvest that way. I have them in my raised bed and going to start more in a few storage totes for a fall harvest 😁.💖🍠💖🍠
Disposable to-go chopsticks are great for nabbing slugs. Great chopstick practice too! I just stick the sticks in the ground when I'm done and they're easy enough to replace if they get too gross.
Just found your channel and I'm enjoying it. I'm a small container gardener in the suburbs of Washington State but we're a bit hotter in Yakima :-) for slugs , which we don't really have a lot of problems with, we use really ground up egg shells. I just dry them and put them in a coffee grinder or the blender. Then just sprinkle them all around the soil near my peppers tomatoes and lettuce. Works great haven't had any problems in 4 years now. As for ants I use diatomaceous earth around the plants with great results. It just grinds their bodies up as I walk around with that crushed material in their joints. Keep up the great work and I look forward to watching more of your videos :-)
Your climate is so funny to me. I live in NWArkansas. You said something about possibly getting an early Friday in September. Here, it's easily 80-90 degrees yet. I got married in September 1985 and it was 105 that day. Lol we really don't get a full killing frost until late November. Tender plants are dead by October, but hardy knew are still rocking. I took cutting from my fig trees in November bc they were dormant but not dead. By the time we get a killing frost, the figs die completely to the ground and return from the ground in April.
Melissa, your garden looks great. I'm out on the Island where you get your coffee☕ Our weather CAN really differ from our neighbors (when you get rain we will get nice warm days and vise versa) This year we also have been rather cold but we have also hit some really nice days, but not enough. QUESTION: Your apples I see that you are also wrapping them individually, what do you use to do this with and what method do you use? I've been using pantyhose (we have squirrels something FIERCE🤬) Some folks think they are cute 🤨The ONLY time I think they are cute is when they are DEEP IN THE FOREST ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN VERY FAR from my homestead !!!!! For example🤔Australia?? China?? LOL would suit me just fine. Thanks for sharing, you do a great job God Bless Deb
They are maddening. I especially hate how they take ONE bite from each almost ripe peach and throw them down. Of course they don't taste good-they aren't ripe. If you'd wait a few days I'd be glad to share with you but now neither one of us has any. grr.
Shade cloth worked very well over my brassicas last year however this year i didn't use one and many of them bolted. Hoping the rest will come good soon. BS looking great in my lower shady garden where i also have Collard Greens and Kale also a potato experiment and some squash. Potatoes placed on cardboard over grass and then 15cm of grass cuttings topped up from time to time.
Hey did you know that you can sprinkle salt on a slug and watch them melt... literally they will melt..when I get plagued with slugs I go hunting with the salt shaker. Lol it works.
Whew girl! You're making me sweat. I'm in Fort Worth and it got to 100° yesterday & more days to come. I planted my first raised bed gardens this year. Even the store bought starts didn't grow. I'm gonna turn the beds over again and start some more seeds again in a week or so. It's probably gonna be too hot, but if I don't try I sure won't get anything.
I'm dealing with some of the same stuff, but in Missouri instead of Texas. Quite a few crops really struggled this year, and some simply didn't grow. I've been steadily reseeding, but am still struggling with getting some to even take, let alone produce food. The gardens I'm working in have been used for years now, so it's really strange. I figure a late planting is better than just giving up, so I keep trying. I hope your second planting is successful, and that you harvest a bounty from it.
Right??!! Lol, I'm over in the panhandle and we've been consistently in the 100s! Keep trying! We just re-seeded green beans for the 3rd time! Ours is due to critters though!
Crafts and Crabgrass try covering your new seed rows after watering with temporary landscape tarp. You may have to cut it to fit. It helps with germination. Just keep checking. Slowly harden off and remove when your seedlings are about an inch or so. Works beautifully. No-till market gardeners use large tarps on their rows for the same effect. It works!! No till is more advantageous than the raised bed we have been using. Good luck!!
Beer traps, cheap larger or beer in swallow trays. I use the butter/butter spread tubs, cut the tip sides to leave the corners and you can put the lid back in case of rain. 6 pots or trays Should clear the site in a few weeks
You can try beer in a container with slits on the side with the lid on it do the rain does not go directly in the container and overflow the beer, I have tried it and it worked wonders against slug.
Just watched today a vid on slugs. Take those copper scouring pads, stretch it out and put around your plants, they hate it because it shocks them and they hate the copper as it cuts their slimy little bodies. tc love your channel.
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I used to have a daycare in my home and also had a small garden in the backyard. Unfortunately, we had tons of slugs and snails. After unsuccessfully trying multiple things to dissuade them I decided to use the resources at hand.
The children who were big enough (no longer put things in their mouth) were each given a halo cup and whoever collected the most would get to pick a prize from the treasure chest. As a bonus, if anyone found a tomato hornworm they would also get a prize even if they didn’t win for quantity.
I would dispatch the slugs and the kids would go straight to the bathroom to scrub their hands before snack time. We would have this game at least every 2 weeks.
It was great way to help them learn about beneficial and destructive insects as well as connecting them with food through gardening.
Lovely!! This is what I'm planning to do for older students. They all need to learn about growing their food and learn their academics in the garden.
LOL I love it 😉
Love it, esp the bit about "no longer putting things in their mouth".
I'm a breast cancer survivor, and I struggle with autoimmune issues (autoimmune thyroid disease and lichen planopilaris). I'm growing an organic garden to heal my body and to help teach my children the importance of healthy eating. I would love to hear more about your health journey. Do you have videos on that?
Natures way pms supplement has nutrition that will help your body naturally balance your hormones. It’s also handles heavy and painful periods without pain relievers. Like almost everyone your diet will never be enough to do the same, best of health to you.
@Acti Sami Please watch Dr Brooke Goldner's videos.
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Thyroid disease, and struggling with autoimmune is really a challenge when it comes to figuring what to eat or even what buy to eat. I wish you well on your journey 🙏 to recovery too.
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This is a life changer.
Have you thought about putting a double fencing around the orchard? Deer do not like to jump double fences, will stop the tree damage and you can put your chickens in the middle of the fencing as a chicken run. Double duty that space. Just an idea.
Excellent idea!
It's still very cold in our area
I.planted GARLIC but not very tall yet. It unusual for us to be this cold yet
Irish spring soap will deter deer
@@kelligray1848 Permapature farms channel has a bone sauce that keeps deer out..
Darling, thanks for the videos! I know this video is about a year old and maybe you're practicing this now, but I wanted to give ya a tip on your onions/garlic 4:21. When the stalks start to fall over then trim them down (1/2-3/4) and let em keep growing! They'll get 2x bigger, then cure as normal :)
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Hi, do you mean the onion and garlic bulbs will grow bigger if the stalks are trimmed? And how long after that should they be harvested?
@@veronical3135 yes depending on growing area it's different times of the year good to give the greens a nice trim I just say when they start to droop and touch the ground and for sure at least get that flower stalk off beginning of summer so it doesn't seed (unless you want seed) 🙌
@@thebitcoingarden Thank you for the reply, much appreciate it. Will try that with the garlic I grew this year.
@Notsure🕶hockypuckmary🏒 i dont know but gonna test this...i also found out from a guy who grows competition potatoes that if u want a big potatoes your seed potatoes should only have one eye..and if u want smaller ones use aeed that has 5 to six eyes!! Gonna test that too...but since he wins...he should know.
If I haven't mentioned this before:
Here in zone 4a you can stack small square bales to create a tunnel over your carrots and dig them most of the winter.
I saved this video (and many others) to watch many times to get new ideas.
@Greg Holl.....another cool SAVE for using Vegies overwinter:....we lived in No.Illinois.....abt 100 miles from chicago.....when serious freeze warnings went out.......we pulled our tomatoes up out of the soil.
GENTLY shake loose dirt off.....not vigorously......
Take into ur unheated basement and hang upside down on a nail in the darkest corner of the basement....the baby toms and the green ones continued to grow to ripe size and reddened up and we had fresh tomatoes on out thanksgiving table🖐🏻☺️
And/or u can bring some nice big green ones up to sit on a kitchen window seal in the sun to redden up....🤗
Grass clippings make wonderful mulch cover.
Beer traps work exceptionally well. Slugs don't care how stale or cheap the beer is, either.
We don't drink beer, but we always have some around.
We save individual plastic yogurt containers. Bury the containers up to rim in soil, close to troubled plants. Fill 1/3 with beer. Next morning, it will be full of drowned slugs! Just dump it out (not in garden!) and refill.
And the bonus is that chooks tend to love beer marinade slugs and snails
Snail juice for Quark...
Lilly are you serious?
Genuine question from a soon-to-be first-time outdoor gardener who has wanted to own chickens his whole life 😂
@@UmBungo yes absolutely
Why not dump in garden? Great fertilizer, at least add to compost pile.
The hog panels making a tunnel is a great idea, I might steal!!! I can't believe you only use 2 bulbs of garlic a month. I could not live like that, lol. It's just my husband and I, and we use 1-2 bulbs a week! We love garlic. We put 4-6 cloves in sauces, on top of garlic bread, on all types of meats, in scrambled eggs, and in salsa.
Girlfriend, beer in tuna cans!! They are drawn to it and they drown themselves. It’s crazy cool! Try it
Understand keep those cans slightly above ground so good bugs don't climb in n drown...
@@CHARISSAJACOBSON Definitely not toxic to the dogs I've had throughout my life. They all lived long healthy lives and stole open beer whenever it wasn't guarded. They were Labs, German Shorthaired Pointers and German Shepherd Dogs. The beer thing works great for slugs which then go to the chickens or used for fish bait.
@@nadnavlis240 ya my dogs always drank beer . it runs in the family . 🤣
this is what I've done for years it works
@@nadnavlis240 Same here. Mine will drink it every chance they get. Never bothered them.
I Love this women and appreciate her pod casts . She looks and talks like my Mom and brings back my memories of her . 👍
Yes... i want to do this on the microfarm collective for sustainable living. Being around like minded preppers.
I love seeing your dog out with you, seems like a happy doggo
Another solution for snails slugs and earwigs, are yoghurt containers, tin cans, milk containers, pop cans, etc.. Cut a 1-2” hole about 1/3 down from the top of these containers. I like yoghurt and other like kinds cause they have lids. Add about 1-2” of cheap cooking oil, baited with soy sauce. I also add a tablespoon of Asian fish sauce. Bury them tilted enough to prevent water from entering the hole you have made, replace lid. I place them about every 6 feet directly in the garden, covered with some leaves to further prevent water, and for aesthetic reasons. Works very well.
Holy crap! Those slugs should have a halter and bit.
I agree! They are huge!
Lol, they were huge. Janice
🇬🇧 I've never heard of slugs on brassicas before. They love runner bean seedlings. And the beer.
@@nanajane9612 Not really for this area.
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I loved listening to you speak in this video. So much more calming than your newer videos.
You tones are soothing back a few years ago🥰
Your birds are singing their hearts out.
Hi. I'm in Oregon. We have 7 of us, but only I am wanting a garden. Although I'm almost 70, I'm kind of new to gardening. This winter, I've listened to at least 2-3+ videos every night and feel like after listening to yours, that this was the best. Especially about succession gardening. We have a little under 9 acres but most of it is an old riverbed full, very FULL, of rocks. I have, over the last couple of years, purchased wooden raised beds 18" x4' about 3 feet off of the ground (14 of them) and little kids' wading pools (16 of them). I really liked the idea of planting companion plants to get more out of the beds.
I was told I need to plant corn in 4x4 plots for better pollination. I bought the kind of corn I can grind to make tortillas... I'm going to try to use a no till method on the soil I have and hopefully build it up so the corn can grow grouped together. Also want to try the 3 sisters idea with corn, beans, and squash grouped together. God willing, we will have food to store. I'm going to definitely saving your info. I'm planning on binge watching your videos.
Oh! And the tower! I'm going to check that out. We have free range chickens and I hope that tower will help keep stuff from getting eaten by the chickens before we get any!
Thank you.
You know if you like bulk food from a little space, Try a 3 foot wide row of solid and tight Carrots, or Onions... In a 3 foot by 12 foot row of carrots that I sowed a heavy amount of carrot seed like grass; I ended up with 32 quart of carrots. The row was completely tight with carrots... And the Taste was amazing!
The Joy of Gardening......70s. Wide row gardening is still a huge secret in many gardens!
I wish I had found this site earlier. I have moved around a lot. The movers hate me because I grow so much in huge planters .I mix my flowers and veggies in the same pots like brussel sprouts, Japanese eggplant, geraniums, heather, petunias & have them in front yard . I am getting a lot of ideas that I can tweak to fit my lifestyle. I have 4 planters for potatoes: white, red, yellow & sweet I compost everything in a small area in backyard. Today I learned why my raspberry leaves turn yellow. All local pros say, "Plant them in the ground!" Now I know what to feed them.
@@carolinebarnes5578 interesting point about raspberries, I love blueberries and live in E-TX where they grow well. They grow much better for me in large pots rather than in the ground! But there are "u-pickem" farms of blueberries here and those are all planted in ground. I am 140 miles due east from my last home and blue berries didn't grow well there. temp averages 3-5 degrees cooler in summer and a lot more rainfall. sandy soil- they love acidic soil. Other gardeners here grow raspberries - I have never tried.
Oh my word. I didn't hear a word Melissa said because my ears kept going to the birds singing. It's fall here in Ohio now, and one of the things I miss so much is the birds, especially the robins. Thanks so much Melissa for sharing your life and your knowledge with us.
Loved your garden tour, for slugs we sprinkle alot of cornmeal around plants. Works in TN.
Cornmeal also breaks down into the soil and makes a great fertilizer.
Haven't tried but read cornmeal works to eradicate weeds in driveway cracks etc.
Works on ants too!
Thank you for the information on cornmeal, Terri (and everyone who replied to Terri’s comment)!! I watch a gazillion RUclips videos and spend an obscene amount of time researching gardening topics on the internet; I have never seen even one mention of cornmeal in anything having to do with either gardening or home maintenance prior to your comment...
@@brookescott9598 one says great fertilizer,,,another says kills weeds....Im going to bath in it...
Cherokee Trail of Tear Beans are our family's absolute favorites. I hope you love them as much as we do!
Charles Dowding practices for higher yields . He has been doing this for over 20 yrs.. (and no dig method) His gardens are amazing .. glad to see it’s working for you too!
When I moved from sunny sub tropical FL to eastern WA, I struggled with my desire to garden , especially since I am on a 3rd floor and my garden would all be in containers. Your videos have helped me so much on how to garden more efficiently here in the Inland North West! Thank you for all you do to share and teach!
💥⌚️ *GARDEN TIMESTAMP* ⌚️💥
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3:18 ...Melissa goes on a Slug hunt
4:21 ...Garlic
6:25 ...Onions
7:17 ...Dill Patch > Carrots
8:18 ...Lettuce
9:25 ...Calendula / nasturtium
9:51 ...Snow Peas
10:30 .. *Brussel Sprout video > **ruclips.net/video/bSjuj8P71C0/видео.html*
11:05 ..Sprinkler / Snow Pea & Broccoli & onion starts
12:16 ..Lettuce
12:47 ..Nasturtium / Dill / Winter & Summer Squash / Acorn and Spaghetti squash
13:48 ..Zucchini *Garden tour Video > ruclips.net/video/rBl5zuGywKg/видео.html
14:51 ..Inner Cropping with Trellis's / Heirloom Beans
15:53 ...Permaculture Design with Lettuce and Brocolli ? Beets ? Carrots
17:04 ..Mock tunnel for tomatoes & lettuce & Pickling cucumbers
19:26 ..Mulch with sawdust > Radish / Beets / Onions
20:16 ..Hi Tunnel > Cherry tomato plants / brandy wine tomatoes /Pepper plants / jalepenos
23:11 ..New GARDEN SECTION #1> Heirloom black cherokee Trail of Tear Beans / Kale / Radish / Brussel Sprouts
25:35 ...New GARDEN SECTION #2> Corn and Potato patch
28:59 .. *Perrenials garden* / Fruit Trees /
30:12 ..plant fruit tree video > ruclips.net/video/K8EDL8NeWaA/видео.html
31:22 ..Blue Berries & Raspberries /Rhubarb
33:43 ..Asparagus
34:14 ..VERTICAL PLANTER > Strawberries / Basil
35:34 ..Seedless White Grapes
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*Thank you Melissa & Family, have a Great harvest season*
Ya, good info in her videos and I did subscribe but way too much information in each one. I think things would stick better in my brain if she only mentioned a couple things in each video let me get that down then the next video a couple more things 20 30 different things in each video is just too much information!
Thanks for the table of contents. Feel bad for the slugs. Wish there was a better way. Maybe just chucking them away alive at the other end of the plot. They are snails and very slow.
Thanks for this!! This is a very packed, impactful lesson! 👍🏽
loved loved loved this video I am hooked!
You forgot the time the dog peed on the crops lol
Melissa Norris i saw ur video and you said you didn't have a root cellar. Try burying a broken refrigerator in the ground with the door 1 inch above ground. Seal up holes with wire . Put straw in it and stack ur food in ur root cellar. Cover the lid in summer with straw etc to help keep ut cool . I hope this helps .Michael in louisiana
I love how clean and neat your garden is, it looks so good.
Dang Im jelly I work fifty hrs week . Dont have time
Your tomatoes have the most healthy looking leaves that I've seen on any show this Spring. You are doing something right for sure. A lot of growers say you don't need many leaves, and do a lot of pruning on them. Bot how healthy then are the tomatoes to eat. Best to fertilize more and let photosynthesis take its course and improve nutrition. Great looking gardens. My cousin
In Pennsylvania put salt on their lg. Slugs to melt them, that seemed cruel-- even if they are slugs.
Agree, the salt thing bothers me too. I did it once and felt so awful, never did it again.
July in Florida here. You’re in a sweatshirt with a vest, harvesting broccoli. I’m drenched in sweat through 100+ temps, and even my sweet potatoes are struggling. 🥵
Really like your generational seed saving, that is so powerful and wonderful for you to be able to keep the tradition going. Happy gardening!!
For those who have raised beds, copper tape is the answer to slugs.
Their equivalent to our hemoglobin is copper based and they avoid contact like the plague.
It does work but it's very expensive, though if it is tape you can use it several years. I have wrapped copper tape round a pot with a hosta in it.
@@CarolineLeinster I live in an area which is highly popular with slugs and snails - but the one Hosta that is barely affected is H. 'Bressingham Blue.' (British hybrid, but since it's quite old now I'm sure it will be available in many other countries by now).
They don't like diatomaceous earth either and it's a lot cheaper.
scatter eggshells around your plant and what you can also do is dig in a plastic cup with beer they are more likely to go to the bear than to crawl on your trunk😎
How do you apply copper tape? Tyia
Your homestead is remarkable. 💗 Good job! You should be proud of your work!! Obviously. That's amazing 👏.
Melissa- how did you make your 2 yr old garden - is it a lasagna bed?
Subscribed! I’m learning so much. I’m a new gardener as well. Small space back yard but doing what I can. So happy and encouraged to find another person healing them selves through food.
Can someone tell me what is in my garden they are like little white balls the soil around them get kinda hard if you dig it you it all white moldy looking
@@terrylafond2381 do you have a picture or better discriptiin... maybe i can help. fiber59freak@gmail.com.
@Op Hs yes.. i learned this too. Our body needs certain nutrients that are lacking or less in modern processed food.
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@Op Hs Yes I have extreme excema have to wear gloves 24 hrs a day or my hands are not workable at all , can someone help Ive tried everything?
Beer traps work, I use the spreadable butter tubs, cutting the sides a bit so when the lid is on it looks like a pillar box. Fill with old or new alcoholic beer and the slugs with drown in the beer.
She needs to look up the Slug & Snail beer trap.
A pan with beer poured in it draws them in but they don't get out.
That's amazing! Gonna try that.
It works👍🏼
How's the beer taste afterwards? Asking for a friend...
@@throngcleaver lol!
Put a board down next to your crops, in the morning turn the board over and most of your slugs will be waiting for their Spa Treatment.
slugs only come when your plants are not nutrient dense And filled with water
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Svetla Nikolova why is that?
David they are natures clearer uppers
I just saw this on You Tube as well! It’s such a great idea!!
I dehydrate my onion and garlic tops when they are growing for spices
Did not know you could eat the garlic tops but appreciate your expierence to try dehydration. Thanks
Wow. Those slugs are HUGE! Have you considered raised beds? IT’S A GARDEN GAME CHANGER. So much less work in smaller spaces. Square foot gardening, by Mel Bartholomew. Uses less space for the same harvest. And you aren’t wasting your time weeding between garden walkways. SERIOUSLY. IT CHANGED MY GARDENING LIFE!!! I truly can’t tell you how much time and effort it has saved. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hello Melissa, just up the road in Vancouver BC and we also went overboard on tomatoes! I am just on a city lot, so not a lot of room, but still managed to place 34 plants, most along our fence line. For double cropping, the top thing I have found that works with my garlic (we put in 100 and they are huge, we have been saving bulbs for 15 years) is squash. I put in the small squash plants with a pile of compost at the edges of the garlic patch in May. It is now August and I already have a mature crop of squash, turban and acorn. As soon as the garlic is pulled the squash take off and they already have established roots since they have been hiding in the garlic for two months (I pulled the garlic earlier than usual this year, mid July as they were getting rot and were already fully developed). I also trellised cucumbers beside the garlic, and they also had a head start protected by the garlic leaves and then took off for a great long crop. Best combo so far. Along the edge of the garlic patch there are tomatoes every second year as well. A row of Jalapenos planted with rich compost have done not too bad, though hoping to extend their life by putting them in a little greenhouse soon. Thanks for your channel.
Finally a homesteader in washington state! I live in washington as well and was looking for someone that would have the same climate as me. Seriously so disappointed by this cool weather. Where is the summer?
I grow Calendula with my cabbage and broccoli and they have stayed away.
Calendula is great for the skin, and eczema!
Or you can let your grass grow tall and make it hard for slugs and snails to move around in your garden. Don't plant all the greens in one spot. Spread them out throughout the garden. Grow something less delicious to the slugs and snails, like mustard green, daikon, radish, ... Interplant greens with garlic, leek, chive, and other herbs.
I like seeing that straw in the garden conserves moisture and a great weed barrier
Please try your young broccoli leaves~they are so delicious sauteed with some garlic!
Yeah the whole plant is delicious. Stalks, leaves, crowns🤤
even the little flowers in salad are awesome
Yes they are
Yes they are! I cook them with kale and radish leaves!! They are delicious
I chop and eat the leaves with my homemade ramen noodles
Yes!!!! The rain in the PNW wiped out my tomato garden this fall... came back from a trip to all my tomatoes covered in blight 😔
Your slugs are huge!! Mine are half that size, but I tend to have more trouble with snails here in north Georgia. Hand picking is really the best and safest way to manage them. Great video!
That’s PNW for you!!
In the northwest trees are big and so are slugs.
Ooohhh! You said slugs. I thought you said ..
Nice to have someone from PNW gardening. Enjoying your vlog!
Lots of good info. Love hearing the birds in the background. :D
Beautiful red rich soil. Ideal soil environment. Loved yr video. Inspiring
I live in Washington too. I’m a new gardener. I’d pay for a written out direction on what to plant, when and crop rotation options as well. Like all written out for me to use as a guide. This is so much great information!
Nice to meet you Tara. Check out my book the Family Garden Plan, it has planting, companion planting and crop rotating charts plus a lot more 😊 familygardenplan.com
@@MelissaKNorris oh yay! Thanks going to check it out now!
@@MelissaKNorris I just purchased your book 📖
I’m getting that book too (The Family One) & the Beginning Gardner Book!! I have No idea what I’m doing!! 🤗🙌🙌😍🥦🧄🍅🥬🍠
thanks for the string line over corn tip. I had given up growing corn, but will try again using your string method
I think it could be interesting to see you preparing the soil for the carrots you plan to plant next to the self seeding dill. Thanks much for the information.
Melissa, In South Louisiana the nursery sends seeds back to the supplier in June whick means that last fall I had to plant Broccoli plants which were expensive. So... After harvesting the first head, I allowed it to continue to grow and harvested two more times and allowed the broccoli to bloom to attract bees. My hens love broccoli leaves so took a handful down to a neighbor for her hens. She thanked me and said that she had not had Broccoli green leaves in years and would be cooking them. I asked her to save me a taste. It tasted wonderful and is just saute'd as with kale or cabbage. I then saved 4 broccoli plants for seeds. After they finished blooming and the seeds dried, I picked and place loosely in a large plastic tote. I think there must be a million seeds. I enjoyed this video tonight. Sending best wished from South Louisiana.
I usually get three to four crops per bed per year. I do a high rotation system and use low tunnels over my beds for crop extension. I do market gardening and grow most of the food we eat. I love this video. Keep doing what you are doing it is great.
I have a tip.. put a few cups or bowl type container placed near and in between the plants. keep them filled halfway with beer. Slugs tend to choose the beer over the veggies first and take a drink and die happy LOL. Just collect the slugs from the beer and usually i get most of them, though I do check the plants as well. I get a couple once in a while but they mostly gravitate toward the beer.
Loved: "I'm going to grab a snack real quick". Absolutely one of the best perks of growing our own food in our own garden! :)
I have absolutely never gone into my garden to pick off the ripe fruit without snacking on some of the grape and cherry tomatoes I picked.
That's why I grow Super Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. The only way I ever eat them is straight from my vines! Best flavor ever ... Like eating candy. 👩🌾
@@joybeum7177 I've grown those and absolutely agree. My mom and I have a garden and next year we're planting more of those, because we go through them so fast :P They rarely make it in the house.
I kept Australian native snails as pets for some time and they loved to munch on eggshells for the calcium so I totally agree that they won't deter them, it may distract them haha!!
I would LOVE videos of how you make and can all your tomato items!
Great Videos! 👍
Looks like you have some hidden gems in your garden.
Dandelions & Purslane!
Can you make a video about seed saving, and how you store them?
You just convinced me to expand my NY garden.😂.
Seedings are on 20x10 heating pads and light on timer. Very excited for this year's garden.
Happy Growing🌿
Love what your doing! I'm doing same thing growing more than we ever have to make sure of having enough for entire year.. and we are growing on cattle panel and planting under them as well as on outside!! And I love succession planting .. I. Going to do more of that!!
All I can say is WOW! Love it all. Your passion for what you do is incredible, and so is your knowledge.
My goats LOVE bitter lettuce!! I harvest my bolting lettuce to feed the Goats when i am seed saving from them!
Many don't seem to know about seasonal and successional planting, defo a point that needs pressing home.
get indian runner ducks ...they will eat your snails and wont make a damage to your plants
Awesome garden Marissa
I’m growing cherry tomatoes okras peas heirloom Lima beans egg plant scallions sunflower lettuce 2 types fennel strawberries which is done radish thyme rosemary mint collard greens lavender and sweet potato. Everything is in a bin. I’m so excited that I can do so much. I have a compost also. Thanks for all the tips
I would just love to visit and take an physical garden tour!! Everything looks amazing and even if it needs a little work you know exactly what your plants needs!! Love watching your videos, thanks for spreading your knowledge! I'm trying my first year of saving seeds from garlic so we will see how it turns out!!
You don't plant garlic seeds but rather the cloves.
I am in the pacific northwest and 1st time gardener so your video's are so helpful to me!
I also like in the PNW and I started planting in late March. I've had nothing but problems with my brassicas nothing has grown and ate up by the slugs. My cucumbers are just now starting to flower but they are only 6 inches. My first time with this size garden so I'm learning and replanting for a fall crop
you are really great and lucky to have this garden
Bailing twine is the best! I use it on everything too. The garden looks great for all the cool weather we have been having. You are going to have an amazing apple harvest this year! That stinks that the deer got to your trees.
Just the sound of birds singing brings tears to my eyes. The birds have disappeared around here and I haven't seen or heard any for a few weeks
We don’t have a root cellar either. I would really like to see how you store your root crops in your pantry.
Same, because we won't have a root cellar for a few years, yet.
I would to like to see how you store your food
Yes I’m in Florida and will be trying garlic this fall & need to prepare a place for when I harvest them. Thank you
@@rhondaarnold4089 I am in NE FL. I always wondered how people store things for long term without a root cellar of sorts. I am thinking of adding a cold room when I get a place. Janice
In a dark cool place
Wow! Those are some super slugs! I discovered some slugs in my garden area afew days ago that were no larger than my pinky finger nail.
this is so informative and inspirational. I will certainly be taking your ideas on board
Beer traps work a treat, any cheap beer and larger.i use plastic butter pots with holes at the top of the sides but the lid on to stop rain
Great Videos Melissa. I've heard that diatomaceous earth sprinkled around the base of Your plants will stop those slugs from ever getting up in them. You know so You won't have to pick them off and risk spraining Your wrist due to their size and weight!
leave a small mug with water and soap in the garden the slugs will just go in there then on your plants , this has worked well for us in the past with our lettuce , hope this tip helps love , Im loving your videos !!! thank you for posting
I'm sooo excited to find a Homesteading Gardner in the PNW like me! :)
I love this! You are not alone!!! Let food be thy medicine......
New subscriber here and I think it’s funny how the headline says how you do this “one thing” lol.
I still don’t know which *thing* it is ...
Crop rotation
For slugs and snails plant in raised bed gardens with two rows of copper tape about 5 inches apart. Copper has a reaction with the bottom of snails and slugs that literary cooks the slugs or snails as the cross it
Brilliant on the high tunnel! We already have the cattle panel trellis's up, so we'll be copying that!
Nasturtium chips, prepped like kale chips, ARE AMAZING! I dried two paper grocery bags of just nasturtium chips. And I think they lasted three weeks🤣
Will you plant sweet potatoes? They love the heat and grow without any care. The leaves are edible as well. Great ground cover, too.
We're too cold here to grow sweet potatoes unfortunately
I found the sweet potatoes almost impossible to harvest - without them breaking into a few greatdeal.... Also not sure about storage for them. Red
potatoes (the Adirondacks) produced abundantly from a 8x8 patch ! and many huge ones. Stored great in the root cellar!
@@carolmartin2503 try raised beds and storage totes for sweet potatoes. It's much easier to harvest that way. I have them in my raised bed and going to start more in a few storage totes for a fall harvest 😁.💖🍠💖🍠
This video made my day. Having trouble waiting for spring thaw. Our ground is froze solid. Minnesota zone 4b here.
Hi there I am also in the N.W in the Columbia Gorge area, where are you. Nice to follow another NW gardner!
I wish people would at least put their state in their about page.
Disposable to-go chopsticks are great for nabbing slugs. Great chopstick practice too! I just stick the sticks in the ground when I'm done and they're easy enough to replace if they get too gross.
I would pour fish fertilizer once a week to keep away nibblers😀
Just found your channel and I'm enjoying it. I'm a small container gardener in the suburbs of Washington State but we're a bit hotter in Yakima :-) for slugs , which we don't really have a lot of problems with, we use really ground up egg shells. I just dry them and put them in a coffee grinder or the blender. Then just sprinkle them all around the soil near my peppers tomatoes and lettuce. Works great haven't had any problems in 4 years now. As for ants I use diatomaceous earth around the plants with great results. It just grinds their bodies up as I walk around with that crushed material in their joints. Keep up the great work and I look forward to watching more of your videos :-)
Ground egg shells have never detered our slugs, they go right over them. DE works unless it gets wet, which is often here
Used coffee grounds on the soil helps with slugs in my garden... but I have normals slugs, not those giant ones😳😂
It definitely repels slugs and emails.
Thank you I will try that.
@@jimwilleford6140 emails? 🤔🤣🤣
Cup of stale beer buried up to the lip attracts slugs into it. They die happily drunk 🥴 ☺
Your climate is so funny to me. I live in NWArkansas. You said something about possibly getting an early Friday in September. Here, it's easily 80-90 degrees yet. I got married in September 1985 and it was 105 that day. Lol we really don't get a full killing frost until late November. Tender plants are dead by October, but hardy knew are still rocking. I took cutting from my fig trees in November bc they were dormant but not dead. By the time we get a killing frost, the figs die completely to the ground and return from the ground in April.
Melissa, your garden looks great. I'm out on the Island where you get your coffee☕ Our weather CAN really differ from our neighbors (when you get rain we will get nice warm days and vise versa)
This year we also have been rather cold but we have also hit some really nice days, but not enough.
QUESTION: Your apples I see that you are also wrapping them individually, what do you use to do this with and what method do you use? I've been using pantyhose (we have squirrels something FIERCE🤬) Some folks think they are cute 🤨The ONLY time I think they are cute is when they are DEEP IN THE FOREST ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN VERY FAR from my homestead !!!!! For example🤔Australia?? China?? LOL would suit me just fine.
Thanks for sharing, you do a great job
God Bless
Deb
The bags are basically like nylons but it's to prevent apple maggots. Though should deter squirrels too!
They are maddening. I especially hate how they take ONE bite from each almost ripe peach and throw them down. Of course they don't taste good-they aren't ripe. If you'd wait a few days I'd be glad to share with you but now neither one of us has any. grr.
@@vgil1278 I have to agree with you, rotten little monsters. They are greedy to🤨
I like them best when they're breaded and in my frying pan. Yum Yum. 😃🇺🇸
You can use wolf or coyote urine to repel squirrels.
Shade cloth worked very well over my brassicas last year however this year i didn't use one and many of them bolted. Hoping the rest will come good soon. BS looking great in my lower shady garden where i also have Collard Greens and Kale also a potato experiment and some squash. Potatoes placed on cardboard over grass and then 15cm of grass cuttings topped up from time to time.
Hey did you know that you can sprinkle salt on a slug and watch them melt... literally they will melt..when I get plagued with slugs I go hunting with the salt shaker. Lol it works.
You little slug killer 🤣🤣😂😂
haha but the gross sticky melted slug sticks around and isn't very attractive looking hahaha
Then you have salty ground, plants don't like that.
Feed slugs to the chickens 🐔
I agree to eat as much whole organic foods, as possible. Your garden is awesome.
Whew girl! You're making me sweat. I'm in Fort Worth and it got to 100° yesterday & more days to come. I planted my first raised bed gardens this year. Even the store bought starts didn't grow. I'm gonna turn the beds over again and start some more seeds again in a week or so. It's probably gonna be too hot, but if I don't try I sure won't get anything.
I'm dealing with some of the same stuff, but in Missouri instead of Texas. Quite a few crops really struggled this year, and some simply didn't grow. I've been steadily reseeding, but am still struggling with getting some to even take, let alone produce food. The gardens I'm working in have been used for years now, so it's really strange. I figure a late planting is better than just giving up, so I keep trying. I hope your second planting is successful, and that you harvest a bounty from it.
Right??!! Lol, I'm over in the panhandle and we've been consistently in the 100s! Keep trying! We just re-seeded green beans for the 3rd time! Ours is due to critters though!
Having unusually hot days and chilly nights here in southern New Mexico. Nothing likes it.
Crafts and Crabgrass try covering your new seed rows after watering with temporary landscape tarp. You may have to cut it to fit. It helps with germination. Just keep checking. Slowly harden off and remove when your seedlings are about an inch or so. Works beautifully. No-till market gardeners use large tarps on their rows for the same effect. It works!! No till is more advantageous than the raised bed we have been using. Good luck!!
Soil pH is a critical factor.
If nothing grows I'd guess pH is not correct.
Beer traps, cheap larger or beer in swallow trays. I use the butter/butter spread tubs, cut the tip sides to leave the corners and you can put the lid back in case of rain. 6 pots or trays Should clear the site in a few weeks
What are your favorite seed sources (the ones you dont save yourself?)thanks!
You can try beer in a container with slits on the side with the lid on it do the rain does not go directly in the container and overflow the beer, I have tried it and it worked wonders against slug.
Great informative video. At 31:25 is a good example of why you should always wash your veggies, even home grown...LOL
But he was just helping by applying some extra fertilizer!!😂😂😂
Just watched today a vid on slugs. Take those copper scouring pads, stretch it out and put around your plants, they hate it because it shocks them and they hate the copper as it cuts their slimy little bodies. tc love your channel.