FOES to FRIENDS: Secrets of Florida Wildlife that will Transform Your Vegetable Garden!
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2024
- Frustrated by aphids, mealy bugs, and pests eating your Florida Vegetables. In the video Petrina from Homegrown Florida and I will talk about integrated pest management and how using Florida Native Plants to bring wildlife into the garden to help you transform your garden into an abundant oasis in the subtropics.
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I watch both of you regularly, so great you are friends. So difficult to find videos from Florida vegetable gardeners, thank you for your constant contribution.
Yay! Yep we are friends! Petrina is awesome and super amazing with vegetables! I’m super excited for hat she is getting into native plants.
The title got me. Foes to friends. Had me wondering what beef Jacqueline could possibly have with Petrina. Lol Fun video, guys! ☺️
Oh no 🙈 Definitely not! Petrina and I have been buddies for a minute!
I hade the same thought. Like is this a Biggy vs Tupac thing? 😂
I actually went Friday to a local nursery that carries native plants called Sweet Bay. Small tucked away in a cute place. It was such an expensive. Bought my fire bush, seaside goldenrod, tropical sage.
I will be going back and they have eventsI will be going to.
So good to see you girls collaborating. I enjoy both of your channels ❤
Yes ladies who garden! Definitely!
The dog in the window is hilarious!!!
Thank you for the video
I haven't even watched the video yet but I'm excited to see both these faces together! I watch you both daily. So fun!
Jacqueline is awesome. It’s so much fun hanging out with other gardeners
That makes me so happy to hear 🥰
Love the collaboration videoes
My Anoles & Skinks are going to be happy about bugs in the new garden.
Solid Anole shirt btw.
This video was fascinating! As a new gardener it gave me so much new perspective!!!
From Labelle FL we have soo sooo many wasps on our property this year since I started vegetable gardening . Last summer was tons of bees in the butternut squash they were soo loud that I would just walk by carefully to count the squash but most of the time I walked away and let them do their thing , got 25 squash from 1 plant. This year it tons of wasps and I’m soo used to it by now I don’t mind them at all I just let them do their thing and I do mine. Haven’t gotten bit once. While my husband is weary of them and gets chased around lol
Great collab! It was nice seeing both of you together. I'm considering planting some native plants like milkweed.
I had four firebushes that were in serious need of pruning as they had gone wild. I took your advice Jacqueline and took it down to the base of the plant. We got rid of everything! I have to admit it was a little scary seeing all that bare space. I'm happy to say that only a few weeks later, all the bushes have tons of new growth on them. I think all the birds and butterflies with love it when they start to flower. We did leave one volunteer firebush on the property that was relatively young and not overgrown. Not sure how that got planted where it did. I'm guessing birds. So we still had a place to keep the butterflies and birds happy until the old firebushes are able to attract butterflies and birds again. I do like that pruning the firebushes really opened up the yard and made it look a lot neater and bigger now that the tangled mess of branches are gone.
A great video so nice to have you both together what a wealth of knowledge. Thanks for inspiring me to go native I'm having so much fun in my garden. Adding a fire bush to the mix so easy. 🐝
So happy you are putting this wonderful information out for others to give the natural way a chance. . I do no pesticide and truly I started any gardening only because of discovering swallowtail cats on my mom's parsley plant. Since then , I was hooked on catapillers...and at fault trying to save as well.
Now, I trying to grow some veggies with the sole intent to share with nature and harvest if lucky. I enjoy the life it all brings. HOWEVER, I cannot stop the neighbors from Roundup usage and I wonder if all is in vain at times. I can only hope they feed here. Thank you for all you provide and share.
There IS something magical about the two of you together. Kinda like native plants and vegetable gardens? The collaboration is much richer than each alone, though I am a big fan of both.
Going out to look under neighbors' firebushes to see if I can find a "weed" to transplant.
😂😂😂 That’s how I got mine. Jacqueline picked me a “weed” from her garden. It’s growing beautifully
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I was paying attention to Wild Floridian Firebush propagation video. Glad the weed hunt is the best way (IDK Y, but seems less of an ask than, "may I cut a branch off your plant?")
@@oreopaksun2512 I know what you mean 😂
I’m slowly turning my yard into a native/edible haven. You’ll be happy to learn I saw an endangered Miami Blue Butterfly in my yard today! I’m looking up their host plants and such. So exciting!!
Great gardening day in North Central Florida. Another great video to brighten my day under the Florida sun. I saw fire bush today at scrubland farms guess I need to buy it next Sunday.
My two favorite Florida YT gardeners!
That makes me so happy to hear!
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OMG THAT WAS ME!! The comment with too much sun.... I will get a fire bush.
This was fun! Thank you for informing us
It was fun to film too!
I've found that planting tobaccos works well as a 'trap' crop for the hawk moths... they seem to choose them first for egg laying (even when planted among tomato and pepper plants) and those plants are robust, especially the broadleaf types.
Also, ladybugs will *always* find your garden when there's a problem if you don't spray. Patience is part of gardening.
I have no idea where to get a tobacco plant. Sounds like a great idea!
@@sandrabeck8788 You probably won't find plants, but look for Nicotiana seeds in garden centers, usually among the flowers. Quite a few online sources as well, including the tobaccos used for smoking instead of flowers, but both will bloom and self-seed readily.
Seeds are tiny... mix w a little sand and scatter, or just pour into hand and blow for less precise sowing.
Great video! I recently discovered Petrina's channel. Glad to see the collaboration!
Thank you! I’m so passionate about our wildlife! Petrina is awesome both for teaching and as a person
My two favorite ladies, together. It doesn't get better than that. Thank you. I watch you both all the time.
Great video! Never watched Petrinas videos before, which I am about to check out after I send this comment. You should do more collaborative videos. You have a natural way with it. And I'd Love to see you rolling your eyes at David the Good....
😂 Jacqueline is so much fun to film with. Just two friends chatting about the garden.
@davidthegood I'm up for a collaboration if he is 😄
Yea! A new Florida channel to watch ❤🙌
My Florida gardening skills are getting better and better but I still can use all the help I can get. 😂 (no big boy tomatoes planted in may! 🤦♀️ yes I did that 8 years ago in my first summer after moving down here) 😒
We have all been there. It takes a little getting used to but you got this!
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Jackie has helped me tremendously to understand Florida's planting times! Totally opposite from what I was used to in zone 6.
@@gidget8717 It’s definitely a big change when moving from up north.
You both are so inspirational! Thank you!
💚💚💚 Thank you so much
Always the best content!! 💚🌱
Thank you Samuel 🥰
Thank you both ❤ a lot of helpful information
You’re welcome Muriel!
Great Video Ladies! ❤ Love watching both of your channels….Always Amazing Information….I have learned a lot! Thank You!
Thank you ☺️ I’m so happy we are helping you have an amazing garden
Milkweed has brought a ton of life to my Central Florida garden. Though, it gets invasive. I have seen a huge difference in my pollination of vegetables. Wonderful comments in this video. Great job
Great video, ladies. Trees of the genus Prunus also are infested with a lot of insects that song birds need to raise their young. I still put out seeds in bird feeders to support the local finches during the cold weather. The last two nights here in St. Louis were below freezing and it barely got warmer during the day.
I took a course years ago that said if u had a bird feeder and a water source it would attract birds. If birds know they have a dependable food/water source they would stay and eat your bugs. This worked great I had a well and couldn't use pesticides
That is awesome!
😂 my firebush hates me. I think it's been dormant for 3 years. I moved it last month to the western edge so we'll see 🤞
Fingers crossed 🤞
My Firebush likes me very little as well.
Can someone tell me who the host is of The Wild Floridian. I just started following her and her knowledge is amazing. Just curious of her background training other than trial and error. I live on the east coast of central Florida and she has helped me immensely. ANd I have gardened for over 40 years. Love the butterflies.
Fire bush freezes back and struggles here at Top O Ridge.
This was extremely helpful and crucial information to get people to re- think these problems! Thank you so much. Also, about 16:20 you have a commercial for a scary horror movie that isn’t appropriate for your channel. Thought you’d like to know in case you have the ability to change it.
Thank you Becky!!! On the commercial, I don’t get to choose the commercials that run on the videos. RUclips picks.
The only pest you better get rid of is the lubber grasshopper. Awful, and no predator will eat. It will eat foliage and one will multiply into 50-100 the next year. If you see one, eradicate! Otherwise I agree with you on the bugs and butterflies.
I moved. I'm pretty sure that's the only way to be rid of them 🤣
LOL! I have never had lubbers but I don’t grow their host plant. Check out this post from a fellow Florida Native Gardener and read the comments. It is interesting to see the perspective of those that have lubbers in the garden and like them. Also more are capturing evidence of other native wildlife that eat our native lubbers. Happy Reading 🥰facebook.com/groups/FloridaNativeGardening/permalink/865952123957332/?mibextid=W9rl1R
@@WildFloridian thank you! I'll have to check it out. They ate everything I had, every year - to the ground 😂 I'm happy something eats them
Great info. I free range my chickens to control ticks since I am out on five acres next to a county park used for hiking, biking, horseback riding, and hunting. We have deer that give birth in our back pasture.
My biggest problem is red ants. Can you help on how to control them? They love my planters and raise beds.
First of all, I loved this video! I thought I loved all bugs but now I really love them. I actually wasn’t that interested in planting vegetables or herbs, but now I’m considering putting them in amongst other native plants to encourage the cycle 😊
I don’t know if you did a video on mosquitoes yet but I have a love/hate with them. I hate not understanding how to protect myself and my children from them without the use of nasty chemicals on our own skin (when we get bit we get the VERY big swelling) but I LOVE when the dragonflies come in the evening and hover. I assume the dragonflies are there because of the mosquitoes, but maybe you two could help shed some light on the cycle there. Please help me get over my hate for mosquitoes! 😂
Finally, I am just in love with your channel and I am a native Floridian artist that loves to do botanist illustration. If you are ever looking for someone to work with for designs for your merch, please let me know❤ it would be a dream to work with you guys
Build a pond. Leave some dead zones on the edges for mosquitoes to lay larvae. Then get mosquito minnows. It reduces mosquitoes by kore than 90 percent. Use mother nature to fight mother nature. Also provides habitat ie my cats and chickens drink and we have frogs/ drounds out neigbors blowing etc
Also make legit edges for plant cuttings and rootings in your pond. Reccomend layeeing carpet with visqueen and a pond liner or even better concrete. Harbor freight makes a great 20$ pump. I have 100$ into my 10x 6 pond also make the center 30”+ deep but edges 3-6 deep “ great for potted iris and can always raise lower woth a brick or two
@@PermacultureLongboarder thank you! We were thinking of doing a pond but I don’t have confidence in myself yet 😅 great idea though, I’ll probably push to do that next
Hi! Is there a native pine shrub that you could recommend? I have zero room for another tree. I also love the idea of having a constant supply of pine needles.
I love hawk moths, would rather have those than the tomatoes! But it’s nice to have tomatoes too… I just don’t have much room at all to have host plants. Every house around me looks like a Home Depot add. How much space would you devote to host plants, and how close would they need to be to a raised bed veggie garden?
I let a hornworm completely eat my tomato down to two stalks and it grew back so fast. So now I just plant more. Some for them and some for me.
Exactly! I feel like it makes the plants come back so heathy. Plus it helps local wildlife. Win Win 💚
Exactly!!! Happy weekend Champagne 🍾 Gardening!
Me tooo.
My Neighbors all have a lot of flowers and have for years. I planted a bunch but I am still not seeing many pollinators going round. I keep going to the nursery and picking a few more as they mainly carry Florida native plants and they have all the tables with easy to read signs. I guess just keep adding till I see something? They have not had milkweed in yet but I keep checking back.
Best pollinator plants in my garden. Firebush and Salt & Pepper are the heavy weight champions for attracting pollinators.
@@WildFloridian The only reason I did not get firebush is my neighbor across the street has a ton. It is only about 20' from my beds. But maybe it would not hurt to get another and put it at the back of my yard.
You haven't had a problem with rabbits? We have tons of them and I'd have to repair the fenceline as that's how they get in, under the fence. They demolished my sweet potatoes.
Great info. What is the fastest growing oak to plant in central Florida?
Laurel Oak... it will only have a 50 - 70 year lifespan. Southern Live Oak are the longest living at over 200+ years... potentially up to 500 years.
It’s said that laurel oaks crow the fastest, but as someone who had planted 5 species of oaks, that’s only marginally true at best. The key to live, laurel and water oaks is *TONS* of water the first year at least. Two years is better. By “tons” I mean putting your hose attachment on very low and deep watering every single day for 15 to 20 minutes the first month to six weeks. And then at least twice a week for the first year or two. Two being better.
Also, unless you’re old like me and so need instinct largish tree satisfaction, buy the youngest tree you can live with.
The younger the better.
The smallest trees I planted are nearly as large as the large trees I planted. Because the small trees weren’t so root bound in their pots.
Root bound large trees get strangled by their roots that just grow in a circle.
So, small trees that aren’t root bound in their pots grow the fastest.
I’m naturalizing another part of my yard next year. I’m only going to plant wips - very, very, small trees. If the roots have begun to circle, I’m going to straighten them out.
Anyway, my youngest live oaks, which were 1 1/2 inches in diameter are about 9 inches in diameter 6 years later.
Same with my laurel oaks. There’s just not a huge difference.
But because most folks are planting live oaks, it’s cool to plant some laurel oaks because they serve a different purpose in nature. Their “early” death is vital to tons of wild life, including owls.
I don't begrudge insects taking their fair share of my garden, as long as they leave me my fair share.
I had one firebush along the driveway. I feel guilty, I am extremely allergic to bees so I removed the firebush.
Hi, does this work for leaf cutter ants?
I'm trying to grow a Meyer lemon tree. Just before spring above came and ate all of the leaves off that I thought they were going to all go in the bloom. It was the most amazing thing I saw by eating all of the baby leaves off it's stripped almost my whole plant. The Meyer lemon bursted out with all these new baby leaves. Then it went into a big flowering I watered it I put some fertilizer the bottom of it and for some reason none of the flowers turn into lemons this is her third year the first year I got lemons second-year no lemons third-year now no lemons what did I do wrong somebody help!
How you get ride of mosquitoes?
Are you thinking of writing a book or start a group for native Florida plants? It would be helpful
I’m wrapping up my book this month. Just submitted my cover and book description!
@@WildFloridian great. You are so helpful in the journey but it would be helpful to have it where I can refer to it when I need to quick.
When a gardener finally realizes "the balance of the Serengeti" he/she has the epiphany of not working against nature but for diversity of nature.
Absolutely 👍 A balanced ecosystem is a beautiful thing 🥰
Pickle worms destroy all my squash and cucumbers 😡