Can't wait to tell my children, they will love this little fact, ha. Thanks for sharing!🐞🐞🐞🐞😊 Random side note; a group of bunnies is a fluffle (perhaps you know this, but thought it equally adorable) 🐇🐇🐇🐇
Gardening fun fact. The utility of copper spray on crops was discovered by a French vineyard owner. People walking along the roads on the edges of his vineyard would poach his grapes so he sprayed those vines with copper to make them undesirable but ultimately discovered the copper sprayed vines did not develop fungal issues.
Copper is mostly safe but there is limits of how much over a period of few years per hectare and should not be sprayed within certain distance of irrigation canals or bodies of water. Also should not spray things like tomatoes during flowering.... Copper in strong accumulations is actually toxic, even though we need traces of it...
I've followed you forever. Sorry you're using instagram as I don't use it. I'll miss out, but still with you at this point. Hopefully you'll not forget us here on youtube.
I got Ladybugs a few years ago. My granddaughter made all kinds of plans to have lady bug houses and food and friends, etc. She was four. Unfortunately they ate up the aphids but I guess I didn't have enough to keep them happy. They solved my problem and moved on. My poor granddaughter spent hours looking for the ladybugs and calling them to come home. She was going to adopt the Japanese Beetles on my rose bushes but I had to emphatically explain that they were bad bugs that we wanted to chase away, not like Lady Bugs at all. She would shake her hands and yell go away and in the next breath call her Lady Bugs, promising to protect them from the bad bugs. Lots of memories made in the garden!
Great video!!!!!!! We have been gardening for 30+ years in central Texas and yes there is always something new to discover. After 10 years of releasing ladybugs in our garden we have colonies that nest during the winter. We like to go out in the evening and watch all the ladybugs come out to feed on the bad bugs. God Bless Ya'll.
It can be a tedious job, but I prevent blight on my tomatoes by keeping them trimmed. I cut any foliage below the lowest fruit, and keep the suckers trimmed out as much as possible. I find that good airflow helps to reduce the chance of blight
Companion gardening also helps with bugs. Planting basil intermingled with your tomatoes will help keep the horned worms away. It you wanted an extra income, collect the horned worms and sell them to lizard owners as pet food. Breaded dragons like to eat the horned worms.
Twitter is run by Communists, Been there, but I refuse to go there again. Fakebook is almost gone, too, as far as I'm concerned. They are useless and nefarious.
Have tried to use Instagram but can’t get past its’ home page. I have Goggled how to use Instagram but got no where, grrrr. Soooo, guess it’s uTube for now 😔😔😔
@@juliebarnett9812 Google owns RUclips, google is one of the biggest parts of the Tech Giants. Google along with the other tech giants have put a full censorship on any speech they deem offensive. They are pretty much a new branch of the government. Anything that isn't in total compliance with the liberal left will be deemed offensive. They are just about complete, and they are going after anyone (the platform that allows free speech) that posts any information that goes against the narrative of the covid vaxx. Even facts from the CDC are deemed untrue and will be censored. Any speech other than "the covid vaxx is the safest, healthiest greatest vaccination ever created and I want all my family and friends to get the jabs as many times as necessary" will soon censored or banned.
I researched the use of ladybugs, and found out that one should try to find locally raised ladybugs. The ones purchased from online sources, can carry parasites that can put local ladybugs in danger.
@Jack Jackson when have released them they have stuck around and reproduced for 2-3 years. They probably stay because I have plenty of cherry tree aphids for them and their babies to eat. I also find lots in the raspberries. I think the adults like the blossoms.
Cukes can be pruned pretty hard. I would just remove those affected leaves. Discard them or burn them, not composted. There is a chanel called Rusted Gardener, he did a video recently on pruning cukes you may be interested in.
Wow, those army worms must be desperate to chew up okra! I hope the lady bugs find your garden just the best place to reside and start breeding like crazy! Thanks for the lessons on gardening! Love all your videos!
@@AnaMaria-yc2pn will release them next year as ladybugs are the only thing I've found to work on cherry tree aphids as they roll the leaves around them
Same here! The mealy-bugs, Mediterranean fruit-fly and whitefly population has exploded! All over Cyprus, we have had dry, hot weather and wildfires have broken out. Pls pray for those who have died.
I've read when plants have low sugar levels, they are attacked by aphids, army worms, etc. Increase sugar levels with certain fertilizers minerals, etc. It's what I've read, I'm new to gardening but Research a lot.
Some how this year my eyes have grown to spot the fresh new hornworms before they get big.also getting good at spotting the eggs,usually not in clusters just individual eggs.ordered some bt cuzz pickin the little buggers every morning is getting old plus i dont have to wait till dark to spray neem oil.
Keith, I’ve found a great way to find them is when light first hits the tomato plant. Get down on your knees and look up. Their tail/horn is small but it’s a super obvious shadow in the morning. I found them all this way when they were still tiny. Moved them to a wasp hunting ground and my tomatoes have been happy ever since. Shadow! The hornworm killer. 😈
@@melissasullivan1658 yes,once you train your brain to recognize the little horn it just doesnt look right.i also follow the trail of tiny holes in the leaves they make when small.all my mater plants are in raised large planters ...no need to beat up my old knees 🤔
I am in zone five and this year I have had no issues with my tomatoes. I planted them right next to onions and garlic. It seems like those pests do not like either. I will forever continue to plant tomatoes this way. I have the best tomato season this year.
Was helping the wife weed and I was looking at this row of peppers. They were awful, covered with tiny little peppers, the plants all shrunken only a foot high. I asked my wife what was wrong with that row of peppers. Nothing she says. That row is mini peppers. She's always trying new stuff.
BT is awesome for caterpillars. Those horn worms used to be the bane of my tomato plants. I would go out at night with a headlamp and scissors and cut them to pieces until I learned about BT.
tomato hornworms are moths ... and the very reason to put up multiple bathouses for the mothers/children and the bachelor house (they live apart). Let the bats deal with the night time critters. Put up swallows and bluebird boxes - a pole with a fence height box for the bluebirds and 6-8 feet high(er) for the swallows so they don't fight for boxes. The swallows and bluebirds will deal with the daytime flying and landed critters.
I (or actually my 5 and 17 year old sons) released 1500 ladybugs earlier this year. They ate up all of the aphids, and some hung around. It always makes me smile to see them on my plants.😊
Green lacewings will also eat aphids! My mom always has a bunch of daisies growing next to her roses because they create the perfect habitat for lacewings. Before the daisies bloom the roses usually take a little damage, but when the blooms are out so are the lacewings 🤘
Stinkbugs were so bad here" zone 8b Georgia" last year that I built a outdoor screened in area for just tomatoes and self pollinated plants. Now I have perfect tomatoes.
I have learned the hard way that no matter what, there will always be at least one crop or another that will suffer during a season. It is a constant learning process.
Good morning. I just came in from the garden. Used my black light to hunt for tomato worms. I keep little ice cream buckets and coffee cans all throughout the garden with soapy water. I hand pick Japanese Beetles and put in soapy water.
When I have Japanese beetles I go out early in the morning with a cup of water(big disposable cup beetles give off a stink that will ruin a plastic drinking cup) I put a bit of cooking oil in the water to keep the beetles in. Then I dump them into the chicken pen they love them.
I tried this weedless design this year, using cattle panels, weaving the plants in as they grow. Next year all my gardens are getting the update. All the bugs drowned this year. I trimmed out all my lower growth to keep fungus off. So far so good.
We always have aphid problems but this year we had 4 different types of them and on things we've never had aphids on before. They took over our Sunflowers at an alarming rate. Another type took over on one type of Kale. It had been a few years since I got Lady Bugs so got them about a month ago. It is like Magic. Be patient, Give them a few weeks and with all their offspring they clean things up. YAY!
Here in Florida Panhandle Zone 8b has been a strange weather year, too. This is my first year here in 8b - I moved from Florida Zone 9b in January. I had the same issue with my cucumbers, but I actually got plenty for Tsaziki and pickling before they were overtaken. As for tomatoes, I didn't have any bug problems at all until the weather got seriously hot, mainly due to spraying the entire garden with beneficial nematodes - Not even one army worm or tomato horn worm, and no squash bugs! The nematodes die off in very hot or very cold temps, so I did get stink bugs, but pyrithren and/or Spinosad gets them. This is also the first year that I was able to get a decent stand of sweet corn - it's just about ready to harvest and so far, no corn ear worms, but I do a prophylactic spray of Spinosad and BT about every 7 days. So many blessings!
I think it would be helpful to show a picture of a ladybug nymph. Some might think they have a new pest infestation. I know I did and I killed lots before I knew what they were.
The best thing about lady beetles is that they will overwinter in piles of brush or weeds on your property. Then they will come back every year if you have an infestation of pests. I have released ladybugs two times in the past 6 years. They return each spring and fall when I plant certain crops. I really like the nymphs (little alligators I call them). They eat more than the beetles. Watch for their little clusters of bright yellow eggs. You don't want to take those down. 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
Sounds funny to me, because I hear people saying this all the time then turn around and order crap off of amazon every other day, so basically supporting the companies who donated to the great steal, but really you'd have to be amish to not to! Amish don't you tube, they don't google, they don't instagram, they don't starbucks, they don't black rifle coffee, they don't target, they don't support any liberal company and they don't walmart, so untill you can say that I'd say we're all helping unfortunately
Very interesting and informative. Your garden looks beautiful, so lush and green. I am not on any other social media, so look forward to your next video here.
Isn't it amusing how most YT content creators spend time pushing other platforms? I've never understood why I would need to see more frequent posts. I can't imagine when I would find time to watch more on 2 or 3 other platforms. Call me clueless...
@@rt3box6tx74 I was thinking the same thing. I spend too much time on facebook as it is. I have no time to add even more platforms. It just ain't gonna happen!
@@rt3box6tx74 - it’s called a business. They are talking about products without showing the labels so people can use their affiliate links. Sponsorship will come next. Going to different platforms allows them to gain more views , which brings more revenue. It’s a business decision.
I'm getting my yellow party cups ready to be covered with vaseline . First I will hang them around the garden then use the vaseline. Danny does it at their place , deep south, and it worked . Guess the bugs are attracted to the yellow and then get stuck in the vaseline and die. Hope it works. Thanks for sharing. God bless, and protect your garden.
Put a Chicken moat around the outside of the garden , also mix up the tomatoes in the planting so that no 2 of the same touch so if one gets sick it doesn’t spread by touch
Good morning! We use DE: diatomaceous earth (food grade) in our garden. It's natural and helps with insects. It's also good to use lots of other way including health wise.
@@zouzou8970 don't apply it when bees are active. Apply early morning or evening. Yes, can have a negative impact on beneficials. Thats why I too use DE only if its absolutely dire. However I would be willi to let a crop go if I thought it would benefit and grow the population of beneficial insects. What these people in the video are doing seems excessive. Jumping so quickly to sprays is real bad (and even DE). Throw your ecosystem out of balance. I stoped caring so much, and its unbelievable how well my plants are doing in my first full season. I'm gonna attribute it to homemade compost and worm castings (I use garlic spray more as a deterrent around the perimeter of beds). I let the flea beetles have my mistard greens, anf they left everything else alone. Focus on building healthy soil with organic materi and pests and diseases will be less prevalent. By the way I'm confident that you probably know more about agriculture than I do I was just writing more of a general response to everybody and addressing the diatomaceous earth ad pollinator /beneficial issue that you mentioned. I got into organic agriculture about 15 years ago but still consider myself a newbie because this is my first full season with my own space. Not to mention my involvement in Ag has been sporadic.
We like in St Louis County and a week ago we had a horrible hail storm blow in from the north, It did a job on my garden, luckily it didn't break off any of the plant tops but it did shred all the large bottom leaves on my okra and broke off all the lower limbs of our peppers. It was enough to make a person cry. Weird weather has became the norm for Mo, I can't remember ever seeing a hail storm in July.
It is SO fun to harvest those first fruits! We just had chicken kabobs with our red and yellow onions and zucchinis. Looking forward to the next pickins!
Garden looks great! I wish I could say the same about mine, but between the drought, weeds and grasshoppers I can say I am not sure what I will harvest. But alas, all I can do is try my best and thank God for the blessings of what I harvest, however small or big that may be. Thankfully though because I always preserve lots when the harvest is good, missing a year is not a big deal...just makes that last jar of dills a little more special! The joys of gardening! Take care, keep smiling and God Bless!
On Facebook we have a group called kemptville gardeners. Kemptville is a country town outside of Ottawa ontario Canada. I posted your link to your channel and a little fun explanation of what your all about. At least seven people right of the bat commented that they subscribed and soo many others thanked me for the link! You guys are famous man!!! And I guess it’s too early for Kevin to carry the salt shaker in his pocket!
I have to say that no matter what I learn in gardening there is so much more to learn or things I've forgot. I'm getting to that age LOL. I am from Upper Michigan and we watch close in the spring for the army/tent caterpillars and we cut the branches their nests are on and burn them that is the only way to get rid of them and keep them under control Thanks again for sharing
For squash bugs, plant a “trap” crop of blue Hubbard squash, they grow fast and the squash beetles love them! They will tend to go to those before any others, as they get large very quickly.
I have found chickens free ranging near my garden cuts way down on the bugs. I live in south east georgia. Bugs all year long and since the chickens 5years ago. Very few bug problems in my vegetables. No fleas or ticks in my yard either.
I’m having a lot of trouble with blight and aphids. I saw my first army worm this morning. Thank You for reminding me of what I need to be doing to get things in better shape. Blessings from Mississippi 🙏🏻🥰
So glad, relieved, to see I'm not the only one with more than the usual bugs this year. My summer peas (central Ga.) got infested with aphids early, and no matter what I did they were just there. Lady bugs moved in and aphids were gone in a couple weeks. I did loose several plants in the worst 2 rows but I'd rather have wild/natural help than constant spraying. First year I've been swarmed by lady bugs though. This year we went with the ground cover and drip system and learning the changes and challenges to grow things. Best part, weeding is greatly reduced! Nut grass and crabgrass, grrrrrr. Not much for diseases this summer, but the bugs! Birds are helping with worms, grasshoppers and crickets. Currently I'm arguing with ants eating the okra blooms! Irregular moisture, between flooding downpours to hard heat and bone dry and figuring out when and how long to use drip. Thank you for the gardening update and what you are using. Have a great weekend :)
For the aphids, we've also had a lot of success with yellow cups....go figure! Smear the cups (a solo cup will do) with vaseline, and hang upside down on a fence post or stake near the affected area. Aphids are attracted to the color....then get stuck!
I've had an intuition that the weather has been anomalous, at least in my area, for a year. We're below 2" precipitation for '21. May 26th we had a soft freeze. By June 7th, the high daily temp was 107. Very mild winter, with less than a foot of snow. That means in the last 12 months, we've received less than 4" of moisture. Since June 1, the high day temps have been above 90 for about 42 of 47 days. It's been the most disorienting year of my 43. The garden has needed daily babysitting. The plants, aside from beets, are all struggling. I hope it's a long fall, with a few steady, soaking rains, every week. Best to all gardeners this year, and I hope it will normalize for everyone soon.
@@melissasullivan1658 under 4" in the last 12 months is right at 30% of normal for us too. Perpetual drought is normal, but extreme drought just makes it miserable. I've never seen a year where watering my garden every day is still not enough. Hopefully it doesn't get worse.
If you place some bark on stumps around your garden the ladybugs will over winter in them...they need to have some old roots attached that will be underground. They will burrow around and hibernate and come back in the spring.
Ran across a couple of older videos RUclips recommended. Do you still harvest nuts from your trees? Do you still have your shower garden? Just curious.
I use a black light at night to illuminate the tomato worms making it easy to pick them off. The light causes the worms to glow Florissant green making them easy to spot when they are tiny before they can damage the fruit. After doing this for five years we have very few. Suggestion: They make a red film (comes in 300' rolls) when put over the ground cloth--it reduces the surface temperature during hot days and reflects certain light waves back up to the leaves that increases production.
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I just found out this morning that a swarm of ladybugs is called a loveliness. How sweet is that?
That's perfect!
Can't wait to tell my children, they will love this little fact, ha. Thanks for sharing!🐞🐞🐞🐞😊
Random side note; a group of bunnies is a fluffle (perhaps you know this, but thought it equally adorable) 🐇🐇🐇🐇
When I lived in Texas, the area, where I lived, was swarmed with ladybugs every year. After a while, it isn't so lovely.
I bet you watch Garden Answer with Laura😊
@@tonyhemingway7980 Ladybugs to some, are as raindrops to others. Cheers :)
Gardening fun fact. The utility of copper spray on crops was discovered by a French vineyard owner. People walking along the roads on the edges of his vineyard would poach his grapes so he sprayed those vines with copper to make them undesirable but ultimately discovered the copper sprayed vines did not develop fungal issues.
Hey that's neat! Thanks for sharing!
Copper is mostly safe but there is limits of how much over a period of few years per hectare and should not be sprayed within certain distance of irrigation canals or bodies of water. Also should not spray things like tomatoes during flowering....
Copper in strong accumulations is actually toxic, even though we need traces of it...
Be careful spraying copper solutions around anything aluminum or steel. Copper can induce rapid corrosion--especially on aluminum.
The ultimate.. stay off my lawn...lol
I've followed you forever.
Sorry you're using instagram as I don't use it. I'll miss out, but still with you at this point. Hopefully you'll not forget us here on youtube.
We are not stopping RUclips. We will still be doing our normal 2 videos per week on RUclips. Instagram is in addition to that.
I will not be using any forms of social media so I hope they keep their videos here !! Social media = cat poop!!
Same
More like sensormedia🤨
@@loveamerica5725 🤔 RUclips is social media. Social media in itself isn’t bad, it’s how people use it that makes it bad.
I will miss y'all as I don't do Instagram.
Blessings, julie
I only use RUclips but, I cringe even at that.
@@jjvv8650 AGREE
They still don’t post that much on Instagram! You’re not really missing out. Usually just a couple pictures in stories per day
We are not stopping RUclips. We will still be doing our normal 2 videos per week on RUclips. Instagram is in addition to that.
@@LivingTraditionsHomesteadso glad you'll still have your regular videos. Amen
I got Ladybugs a few years ago. My granddaughter made all kinds of plans to have lady bug houses and food and friends, etc. She was four. Unfortunately they ate up the aphids but I guess I didn't have enough to keep them happy. They solved my problem and moved on. My poor granddaughter spent hours looking for the ladybugs and calling them to come home. She was going to adopt the Japanese Beetles on my rose bushes but I had to emphatically explain that they were bad bugs that we wanted to chase away, not like Lady Bugs at all. She would shake her hands and yell go away and in the next breath call her Lady Bugs, promising to protect them from the bad bugs. Lots of memories made in the garden!
Great video!!!!!!! We have been gardening for 30+ years in central Texas and yes there is always something new to discover. After 10 years of releasing ladybugs in our garden we have colonies that nest during the winter. We like to go out in the evening and watch all the ladybugs come out to feed on the bad bugs. God Bless Ya'll.
It can be a tedious job, but I prevent blight on my tomatoes by keeping them trimmed. I cut any foliage below the lowest fruit, and keep the suckers trimmed out as much as possible. I find that good airflow helps to reduce the chance of blight
Companion gardening also helps with bugs. Planting basil intermingled with your tomatoes will help keep the horned worms away.
It you wanted an extra income, collect the horned worms and sell them to lizard owners as pet food. Breaded dragons like to eat the horned worms.
I will not do Instagram or Twitter. I will just have to wait for Wednesday and Saturday videos.
Twitter is run by Communists, Been there, but I refuse to go there again. Fakebook is almost gone, too, as far as I'm concerned. They are useless and nefarious.
Have tried to use Instagram but can’t get past its’ home page. I have Goggled how to use Instagram but got no where, grrrr. Soooo, guess it’s uTube for now 😔😔😔
@@juliebarnett9812 give your head a shake.
@@darlenewesley3617 What does that mean???
@@juliebarnett9812 Google owns RUclips, google is one of the biggest parts of the Tech Giants. Google along with the other tech giants have put a full censorship on any speech they deem offensive. They are pretty much a new branch of the government. Anything that isn't in total compliance with the liberal left will be deemed offensive. They are just about complete, and they are going after anyone (the platform that allows free speech) that posts any information that goes against the narrative of the covid vaxx. Even facts from the CDC are deemed untrue and will be censored. Any speech other than "the covid vaxx is the safest, healthiest greatest vaccination ever created and I want all my family and friends to get the jabs as many times as necessary" will soon censored or banned.
I'm English and we call those pretty little creatures ladybirds. Such helpful little things 🤗
I researched the use of ladybugs, and found out that one should try to find locally raised ladybugs. The ones purchased from online sources, can carry parasites that can put local ladybugs in danger.
Wow I didn't know that! Thanks!
I was reading the comment to see if some one was going to mention this. Good info that maybe is not known by some or most!
@Jack Jackson when have released them they have stuck around and reproduced for 2-3 years. They probably stay because I have plenty of cherry tree aphids for them and their babies to eat. I also find lots in the raspberries. I think the adults like the blossoms.
Also ladybugs are to be released in evening as Kevin stated. They can devour a LOT of aphids. 👍
Great point. Kinda like buying honeybees from non-local vendors. 🐝
Beautiful garden. Ladybugs will be in heaven.
Cukes can be pruned pretty hard. I would just remove those affected leaves. Discard them or burn them, not composted. There is a chanel called Rusted Gardener, he did a video recently on pruning cukes you may be interested in.
Thank you for the recommendation!
Wow, those army worms must be desperate to chew up okra! I hope the lady bugs find your garden just the best place to reside and start breeding like crazy! Thanks for the lessons on gardening! Love all your videos!
Oh what a joy to see the little lady bugs roam free!
YES, don't know basic of gardening problems. Thank you!
Ha! I love how you guys say “challenges.” My hubs and I stood in the garden this morning and said, “oh wow, we’ve really screwed this up.”
Loved watching release of ladybugs🐞🐞🐞🐞
Ladybugs ladybugs everywhere looks everywhere isn't it wonderful
I released thousands of Ladybugs on my backyard every year for garden and roses. They are amazing!
@@AnaMaria-yc2pn will release them next year as ladybugs are the only thing I've found to work on cherry tree aphids as they roll the leaves around them
Same here! The mealy-bugs, Mediterranean fruit-fly and whitefly population has exploded! All over Cyprus, we have had dry, hot weather and wildfires have broken out. Pls pray for those who have died.
I added 3000 ladybugs to my garden about five years ago. This year I have a TON of ladybugs. Good luck.
I've read when plants have low sugar levels, they are attacked by aphids, army worms, etc. Increase sugar levels with certain fertilizers minerals, etc. It's what I've read, I'm new to gardening but Research a lot.
I always worried if I bought lady bugs as soon as I release them they'd fly back to amazon.
lol
Pretty much😂
🤣
@@hollyfisler5872 ROTFL
LMBO 😂 👍
Ladybugs work for aphids, but your for in a real treat when the blister beetles move in.
pruning and planting tomato plants further apart would help with blight.
AWESOME! 🐞 Lady Bugs Rule !
Use a black light at night to easily find the horn worms
Best investment is one of these flashlights AND rechargeable batteries, they drain super fast. I go through 6 AAAs every night lol.
Some how this year my eyes have grown to spot the fresh new hornworms before they get big.also getting good at spotting the eggs,usually not in clusters just individual eggs.ordered some bt cuzz pickin the little buggers every morning is getting old plus i dont have to wait till dark to spray neem oil.
Keith, I’ve found a great way to find them is when light first hits the tomato plant. Get down on your knees and look up. Their tail/horn is small but it’s a super obvious shadow in the morning. I found them all this way when they were still tiny. Moved them to a wasp hunting ground and my tomatoes have been happy ever since.
Shadow! The hornworm killer. 😈
@@melissasullivan1658 yes,once you train your brain to recognize the little horn it just doesnt look right.i also follow the trail of tiny holes in the leaves they make when small.all my mater plants are in raised large planters ...no need to beat up my old knees 🤔
@@melissasullivan1658 you can also look for their "poop grenades". They're usually right above them.
I am in zone five and this year I have had no issues with my tomatoes. I planted them right next to onions and garlic. It seems like those pests do not like either. I will forever continue to plant tomatoes this way. I have the best tomato season this year.
Was helping the wife weed and I was looking at this row of peppers. They were awful, covered with tiny little peppers, the plants all shrunken only a foot high. I asked my wife what was wrong with that row of peppers. Nothing she says. That row is mini peppers. She's always trying new stuff.
lol, cute story
OMG!!! How adorable!! She is the sweetest...had you thinking they shrunk...🤣🤣🤣🤣 LMBO
Oh that was good!
Honey, I shrunk the peppers!
@@Wosiewose LOL!
Ladybugs are a great idea. Try letting your ducks in your garden. They’ll help with the pests.
BT is awesome for caterpillars. Those horn worms used to be the bane of my tomato plants. I would go out at night with a headlamp and scissors and cut them to pieces until I learned about BT.
Love you guys !!!!😊
A swarm of Ladybugs is called a "Loveliness". Laura from Garden Answer mentioned that in her video Q&A this morning. Cute name.
tomato hornworms are moths ... and the very reason to put up multiple bathouses for the mothers/children and the bachelor house (they live apart). Let the bats deal with the night time critters. Put up swallows and bluebird boxes - a pole with a fence height box for the bluebirds and 6-8 feet high(er) for the swallows so they don't fight for boxes. The swallows and bluebirds will deal with the daytime flying and landed critters.
I (or actually my 5 and 17 year old sons) released 1500 ladybugs earlier this year. They ate up all of the aphids, and some hung around. It always makes me smile to see them on my plants.😊
Big smiles when the lady bugs were crawling onto the plants! 👍🏻😃🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
I’m not a fan of instagram either!
Hope you follow up with the results of the ladybugs. TIA
Green lacewings will also eat aphids! My mom always has a bunch of daisies growing next to her roses because they create the perfect habitat for lacewings. Before the daisies bloom the roses usually take a little damage, but when the blooms are out so are the lacewings 🤘
The problem for us this year is RAIN
Yep.
Send some to Oregon please 🙏🏼
Same here in New England. It's been raining for weeks and more rain in the forecast for next week.
Great video, let's grab a coffee and watch your video from start to finish👌thanks for sharing 💕
I absolutely LOVE ladybugs!!
Stinkbugs were so bad here" zone 8b Georgia" last year that I built a outdoor screened in area for just tomatoes and self pollinated plants.
Now I have perfect tomatoes.
I don't do Instagram so I will miss you be here five days a week.😢 Love your content.
We are not stopping RUclips. We will still be doing our normal 2 videos per week on RUclips. Instagram is in addition to that.
I have learned the hard way that no matter what, there will always be at least one crop or another that will suffer during a season. It is a constant learning process.
Good morning. I just came in from the garden. Used my black light to hunt for tomato worms. I keep little ice cream buckets and coffee cans all throughout the garden with soapy water. I hand pick Japanese Beetles and put in soapy water.
The Japanese beetles are terrible here in Indiana.
When I have Japanese beetles I go out early in the morning with a cup of water(big disposable cup beetles give off a stink that will ruin a plastic drinking cup) I put a bit of cooking oil in the water to keep the beetles in. Then I dump them into the chicken pen they love them.
@@Emeraldwitch30 nice.
Great seeing the ladybirds being releases
I tried this weedless design this year, using cattle panels, weaving the plants in as they grow. Next year all my gardens are getting the update. All the bugs drowned this year. I trimmed out all my lower growth to keep fungus off. So far so good.
I'm trying to envision how the cattle panels equate to weedlessness.
@@juliebarnett9812 The landscaping fabric, weedless. Sorry :)
We always have aphid problems but this year we had 4 different types of them and on things we've never had aphids on before. They took over our Sunflowers at an alarming rate. Another type took over on one type of Kale. It had been a few years since I got Lady Bugs so got them about a month ago. It is like Magic. Be patient, Give them a few weeks and with all their offspring they clean things up. YAY!
I live in Missouri. The weather for the past year has been completely crazy.
The ducks are giving you a good background.
Here in Florida Panhandle Zone 8b has been a strange weather year, too. This is my first year here in 8b - I moved from Florida Zone 9b in January. I had the same issue with my cucumbers, but I actually got plenty for Tsaziki and pickling before they were overtaken. As for tomatoes, I didn't have any bug problems at all until the weather got seriously hot, mainly due to spraying the entire garden with beneficial nematodes - Not even one army worm or tomato horn worm, and no squash bugs! The nematodes die off in very hot or very cold temps, so I did get stink bugs, but pyrithren and/or Spinosad gets them. This is also the first year that I was able to get a decent stand of sweet corn - it's just about ready to harvest and so far, no corn ear worms, but I do a prophylactic spray of Spinosad and BT about every 7 days. So many blessings!
'be free', you are so sweet!
I think it would be helpful to show a picture of a ladybug nymph. Some might think they have a new pest infestation. I know I did and I killed lots before I knew what they were.
WONT THE BT BE BAD FOR LADYBUGS?
@@shanahtovah3247 I don't think so, because the BT kills critters that munch on the leaves. Ladybugs don't eat leaves, so I think they'd be okay.
The best thing about lady beetles is that they will overwinter in piles of brush or weeds on your property. Then they will come back every year if you have an infestation of pests.
I have released ladybugs two times in the past 6 years. They return each spring and fall when I plant certain crops. I really like the nymphs (little alligators I call them). They eat more than the beetles.
Watch for their little clusters of bright yellow eggs. You don't want to take those down. 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
i know what is causing the army worm problem!!! You moved your chickens!
Right kevin sarah ive been gardening for 60 plus years theres alwaye proablems so lets learn very good gardeners god bless
I personally don’t like Instagram but glad to know I might see an update.
👍🏼 Glad I'm not the only one.
Me too... I don't even have it
Owned by corrupt Facebook. Sorry, not interested in helping an evil man like Zuck.
Same here too
Sounds funny to me, because I hear people saying this all the time then turn around and order crap off of amazon every other day, so basically supporting the companies who donated to the great steal, but really you'd have to be amish to not to! Amish don't you tube, they don't google, they don't instagram, they don't starbucks, they don't black rifle coffee, they don't target, they don't support any liberal company and they don't walmart, so untill you can say that I'd say we're all helping unfortunately
SO cool!! Butterflies!! I love you guys and have learned so much!!! Thank you!!!
Very interesting and informative. Your garden looks beautiful, so lush and green. I am not on any other social media, so look forward to your next video here.
Isn't it amusing how most YT content creators spend time pushing other platforms? I've never understood why I would need to see more frequent posts. I can't imagine when I would find time to watch more on 2 or 3 other platforms. Call me clueless...
@@rt3box6tx74 I was thinking the same thing. I spend too much time on facebook as it is. I have no time to add even more platforms. It just ain't gonna happen!
@@rt3box6tx74 Amen.
@@rt3box6tx74 probably they will all leave the control freaks.
@@rt3box6tx74 - it’s called a business. They are talking about products without showing the labels so people can use their affiliate links. Sponsorship will come next.
Going to different platforms allows them to gain more views , which brings more revenue. It’s a business decision.
I never knew you could my ladybugs on Amazon! What a revelation!
Also check out lacewings for aphids. They’re an amazing long term solution. They also eat spider mites!
I'm getting my yellow party cups ready to be covered with vaseline . First I will hang them around the garden then use the vaseline. Danny does it at their place , deep south, and it worked . Guess the bugs are attracted to the yellow and then get stuck in the vaseline and die. Hope it works. Thanks for sharing. God bless, and protect your garden.
Yes, I am watching you on Instagram, but it's nothing like watching your youtube post. Miss you on here!!!
We haven't changed anything on RUclips. We still put out new videos every Wednesday. and Saturday.
Put a Chicken moat around the outside of the garden , also mix up the tomatoes in the planting so that no 2 of the same touch so if one gets sick it doesn’t spread by touch
It's funny because here in PA, my tomatoes and peppers have 0 bug issues. BUT my beans on the other hand, loaded with white flies and fungus issues.
"I'm just gonna let them crawl out"
I would have run along pouring them out over the top while screaming
😂
😂 same!
❤releasing the loveliness 🤩🥰❣️
It seems to be that kind of year, battling the bugs.
Boy howdy you guys entertain us beyond belief
Good morning! We use DE: diatomaceous earth (food grade) in our garden. It's natural and helps with insects. It's also good to use lots of other way including health wise.
It kills beneficial insects too, like bees.
It also kills the bee's and beneficial insects. Use sparingly.
It doesn’t work once it is wet though.
@@zouzou8970 don't apply it when bees are active. Apply early morning or evening. Yes, can have a negative impact on beneficials. Thats why I too use DE only if its absolutely dire. However I would be willi to let a crop go if I thought it would benefit and grow the population of beneficial insects. What these people in the video are doing seems excessive. Jumping so quickly to sprays is real bad (and even DE). Throw your ecosystem out of balance. I stoped caring so much, and its unbelievable how well my plants are doing in my first full season. I'm gonna attribute it to homemade compost and worm castings (I use garlic spray more as a deterrent around the perimeter of beds). I let the flea beetles have my mistard greens, anf they left everything else alone. Focus on building healthy soil with organic materi and pests and diseases will be less prevalent.
By the way I'm confident that you probably know more about agriculture than I do I was just writing more of a general response to everybody and addressing the diatomaceous earth ad pollinator /beneficial issue that you mentioned. I got into organic agriculture about 15 years ago but still consider myself a newbie because this is my first full season with my own space. Not to mention my involvement in Ag has been sporadic.
it does work good i use it, but you cannot breathe it or it will cause respiratory issues. so i would wear a mask when using it.
We like in St Louis County and a week ago we had a horrible hail storm blow in from the north, It did a job on my garden, luckily it didn't break off any of the plant tops but it did shred all the large bottom leaves on my okra and broke off all the lower limbs of our peppers. It was enough to make a person cry. Weird weather has became the norm for Mo, I can't remember ever seeing a hail storm in July.
Good morning from South Texas. I had horn worms take out my tomatoes over night before I even saw them.
The UV flashlight really do help. Those worms glow in the dark lol
It is SO fun to harvest those first fruits! We just had chicken kabobs with our red and yellow onions and zucchinis. Looking forward to the next pickins!
I loved watching the lady bugs! So cute. God bless yall for sharing some ways to rid of worms, they are eating up my tomato plants as well.
Wow so wonderful garden, tomatoes 🍅 grow up 🌸🪴🪴💓
Get a fogger bro to lay down your ipm sprays. will save you tons of time and you will also get better application coverage.
God Bless..from south alabama..2/11/23
I need to know where Kevin gets his shirts!! I love them 👍
French Style Green Beans are so good for canning. Great flavor. 👍
Been having the same problem with my cucumbers here in Florida zone 9b. I replanted 2x already, will be waiting to replant again in September/October.
Garden looks great! I wish I could say the same about mine, but between the drought, weeds and grasshoppers I can say I am not sure what I will harvest. But alas, all I can do is try my best and thank God for the blessings of what I harvest, however small or big that may be. Thankfully though because I always preserve lots when the harvest is good, missing a year is not a big deal...just makes that last jar of dills a little more special! The joys of gardening! Take care, keep smiling and God Bless!
Downy mildew. A fast acting fertilizer application will help them grow out of the disease as well as continuing to spray fungicides
I spray with a 1:3 solution of milk to control fungus. Has worked for me.
On Facebook we have a group called kemptville gardeners. Kemptville is a country town outside of Ottawa ontario Canada. I posted your link to your channel and a little fun explanation of what your all about. At least seven people right of the bat commented that they subscribed and soo many others thanked me for the link! You guys are famous man!!! And I guess it’s too early for Kevin to carry the salt shaker in his pocket!
You two make amazing content, thank you so much!! Loving the shirts Kevin.
I have to say that no matter what I learn in gardening there is so much more to learn or things I've forgot. I'm getting to that age LOL. I am from Upper Michigan and we watch close in the spring for the army/tent caterpillars and we cut the branches their nests are on and burn them that is the only way to get rid of them and keep them under control
Thanks again for sharing
Kevin, if there was a vote taken, you would be voted the “best RUclips t-Shirts”.
Agree 👍
Haha I agree!
Yep, I totally agree 👍👍👍👍👍
Yes, agree👍
Lady bugs perfect answer
I did ladybugs one year. In my backyard garden, I released three hundred ladybugs….the next day, I did not see one. Hope it works for you.
For squash bugs, plant a “trap” crop of blue Hubbard squash, they grow fast and the squash beetles love them! They will tend to go to those before any others, as they get large very quickly.
I have found chickens free ranging near my garden cuts way down on the bugs. I live in south east georgia. Bugs all year long and since the chickens 5years ago. Very few bug problems in my vegetables. No fleas or ticks in my yard either.
I’m having a lot of trouble with blight and aphids. I saw my first army worm this morning. Thank You for reminding me of what I need to be doing to get things in better shape.
Blessings from Mississippi 🙏🏻🥰
So glad, relieved, to see I'm not the only one with more than the usual bugs this year. My summer peas (central Ga.) got infested with aphids early, and no matter what I did they were just there. Lady bugs moved in and aphids were gone in a couple weeks. I did loose several plants in the worst 2 rows but I'd rather have wild/natural help than constant spraying. First year I've been swarmed by lady bugs though. This year we went with the ground cover and drip system and learning the changes and challenges to grow things. Best part, weeding is greatly reduced! Nut grass and crabgrass, grrrrrr. Not much for diseases this summer, but the bugs! Birds are helping with worms, grasshoppers and crickets. Currently I'm arguing with ants eating the okra blooms! Irregular moisture, between flooding downpours to hard heat and bone dry and figuring out when and how long to use drip.
Thank you for the gardening update and what you are using. Have a great weekend :)
Wasps have really been helping me out this year with cabbage loopers. I honestly don’t know what I’d do without them.
Try baseline on the stems to about 2" high. Trim leaves that touch or over lap, esp. other okra. Edit: Vaseline
For the aphids, we've also had a lot of success with yellow cups....go figure! Smear the cups (a solo cup will do) with vaseline, and hang upside down on a fence post or stake near the affected area. Aphids are attracted to the color....then get stuck!
Where did Kevin get his shirt that says "Guess what?" And points at a chickens butt? Lol...my husband wants one!
I believe Kevin had it made. It might be on their Etsy store. I love the one with a picture of the hammer and says, This is NOT a drill. hehe
Thank you! Lol, yes! I love his shirts 😄
you can help the lady bugs by putting up a ladybug house. also you can use lacewings, praying mantis, and food grade DE.
How about buying some braconid wasps to handle your hornworm problem. Once established they will take care of you hornworm problems for years.
How about picking them off and stomping their little guts out? That has always solved my hornworm problems.
Watermelon seeds can be eaten like pumpkin seeds. I love them.
I've had an intuition that the weather has been anomalous, at least in my area, for a year. We're below 2" precipitation for '21. May 26th we had a soft freeze. By June 7th, the high daily temp was 107. Very mild winter, with less than a foot of snow. That means in the last 12 months, we've received less than 4" of moisture. Since June 1, the high day temps have been above 90 for about 42 of 47 days. It's been the most disorienting year of my 43. The garden has needed daily babysitting. The plants, aside from beets, are all struggling. I hope it's a long fall, with a few steady, soaking rains, every week. Best to all gardeners this year, and I hope it will normalize for everyone soon.
Sounds like you're in the north west. Be safe.
@@juliebarnett9812 mountain west.
I’m in the west-west and we are at 30% of normal rain this year. But we are super used to drought conditions.
@@melissasullivan1658 under 4" in the last 12 months is right at 30% of normal for us too. Perpetual drought is normal, but extreme drought just makes it miserable. I've never seen a year where watering my garden every day is still not enough. Hopefully it doesn't get worse.
If you place some bark on stumps around your garden the ladybugs will over winter in them...they need to have some old roots attached that will be underground. They will burrow around and hibernate and come back in the spring.
Ran across a couple of older videos RUclips recommended. Do you still harvest nuts from your trees? Do you still have your shower garden? Just curious.
I use a black light at night to illuminate the tomato worms making it easy to pick them off. The light causes the worms to glow Florissant green making them easy to spot when they are tiny before they can damage the fruit. After doing this for five years we have very few. Suggestion: They make a red film (comes in 300' rolls) when put over the ground cloth--it reduces the surface temperature during hot days and reflects certain light waves back up to the leaves that increases production.