Cam is a good man. He builds, hauls, cuts, digs, films, and most importantly leads his family with presence and respect. The kids will carry the family name with pride and honor based on what you are instilling in them. God bless.
And Becky does most of those things too, plus grows the family's food for the entire year WHILE being pregnant. It takes more than a man to make a family.
@@breadzo oh, we’re spotting and cramping…we weren’t diminishing one in favor of the other. In fact we were simply appreciating that, in his absence, all the members of the tribe contribute…you should appreciate that, even in your basement.
@@kamifaye Except humans aren’t cats and, with sheeple tendencies, we need to lead or follow. That was and remains the foundation of a family and without roles and discipline we cannot build what this family has built, or function as a society. Look around and you will see all the barfing, pissing, and crapping you speak of, by the unled and undisciplined. It’s worth a good cry…
Girl! You’re amazing. A new mom and you’re still out there doing the most. I’d be lounging on the couch with a pint of ice cream! What a bountiful garden.
I don't know if it's the same pest, but More Than Farmers channel uses a small vacuum to suck up beetles. I thought this was brilliant! Blessings, -Kate
Thank you for your transparency regarding your garden. I celebrate your experience of planning things out and thanks for sharing the seed names as well. This has been a super cool video as usual. I "press my thumbs" (German idiom for "fingers crossed") for the winter garden challenge! Grateful to learn more! All the best and much love for your family.
As always, I was so excited to see a video pop up from you 😁 Your garden is looking so fantastic!! Thank goodness it's not as dry as last summer. Riggs is going to be such a great farmer just like the rest of the family ❤️
you are such an inspiration, and wealth of knowledge, makes me feel like a lazy bum, but know in this season of my life...doing my best. Blessings to you and your family
Hi Becky! Diatomaceous Earth works really well for getting rid of the blister beetles. I found mine at Walmart, but I imagine that any gardening store would have it!
I love your videos. I’m always so motivated to get out there and keep plucking away at the weeds. We’ve had terrible potato beetles down in the Arkansas River Valley this year. They almost wiped out my tomatoes completely. We’ve also had the cabbage worms take over almost all of our brassicas. Always lessons to learn in gardening. It’s both frustrating and rewarding. 😊
I have about 100 tomato plants, okra, tomatillos, bell peppers, hot peppers, carrots and radishes in a garden in someone's back yard nearby since im in an apartment. There's a little patch out front of the apartment and I have a few more San Marzano tomatoes, Parres Island romaine (planted last year but it never came up!), and enough herbs in pots to last me the whole year. I also got a pressure canner and am looking forward to having more options for preserving food. I have cherry peppers already, too. I just opened a jar of blueberry jam I made last summer (from store bought berries at a good price) and it was heavenly! It feels so good to look out at what you've planted and appreciating the partnership with the earth! ❤️
Oh bummer! I hope you will get some rain soon, I know your gardens success is important to you this year. How is the job search going? Have you been able to find something else?
@@TheSeasonalHomestead I had a good meeting with a dream company last week, fingers crossed there and I've been doing some freelancing to keep some money coming in on my end, my wife's teacher salary barely covers all of our bills too which is nice. Today is day 116, hopefully something comes along soon!!!
I feel sooooo lazy after watching this video! 🤦♀️😮💨 my garden is tiny, compared to yours, and it's a royal mess! The way you manage everything is super impressive! Kudos to you mama! ❤
Beautiful garden, it's such a fun surprise to have crops or flowers come up with out your effort and planting. We discovered a hubard squash plant that came up all in its own next to one of my tomato plants. I haven't planted those for two years!
I really really love that you included the end clip of starting fall seeds, I have trouble knowing what to start-when. So since I’m in 7B, I can just start my seeds a few weeks after. Thank you 😊
Your garden looks amazing! My spring garden took a back burner this year as other projects took precedence. I have been working to keep the weeds down on my summer garden this entire time, and it doesn't look as good as yours! I feel like your garden is goals!
The garden looks beautiful and kudos to you! When my kids were newborns, I was lucky to get a shower in, let alone all that you do! By the way, LOVE the US Air Force tee shirt you’re wearing. We are a proud retired Air Force family.
Stunning garden and hard work even though baby came earlier than expected. Well done. You could cold press those sunflower seed and bottle your own sunflower oil. You get an assortment of machines that separate hull and seed; and cold press them to oil for catchment. Could be extra income. Though the machine is an investment for sure. We all look for ways to diversify income streams. God bless you and yours from South Africa.
Yes, I upgraded. I had a small drone for years but could hardly use it, we get so much wind up here. New drone is not phased by wind, and has better quality. Yay!
I'm dealing with Japanese beetles really bad this year. I bought canola oil by mistake. Comes in handy with a one gallon milk jug with a big opening with the handle still attached.
Put down flat stones with your strawberries. It will retain heat which will help the strawberries, and help maintain the weeds. Hopefully you can find someone wanting to get rid of stones online.
My garden had a serious blister beetle attack last year, just a few weeks afters yours. I was trying for more of the Charles dowding style by just adding compost on each row but with the intense heat and drought last year my garden dried out bad (Sw MO). We noticed the beetles would flee if we sprayed water. So this year I mulched the rows HEAVY (like Ruth Stout style) and the garden is so much more moist and I have only seen a few beetles (which I vengefully smash immediately 😅). I only knew what they were from watching your video, I hadn't seen one before. So my working theory is a nice damp garden is the best protection and that the drought is what brought them in last year. Maybe try adding sprinklers in the potato rows? Last year when I saw you shaking those off I thought no way could I do that so I totally get not having the bandwidth!
Yes, I definitely think the blister beetles are worse with drought like conditions. Last year was awful for that. We have drip hose on the potatoes this year and luckily much more rain. We are in NW AR so are definitely experiencing similar weather patterns 😀 The blister beetles haven’t been as bad as last year but I’m still seeing a lot. They seem to peak at this time of year but eventually subside on their own.
We use drip irrigation. I’m planning on sharing about it soon, maybe later in the fall when it’s more visible (not covered with plants) and we have more time. I think we are going to tweak the system we have set up now a little bit since it has some problems.
On Potato Beetles ( no idea about blister beetles, if this helps that too..) : A commenter on the recent YT vlog about pests by No-Till Growers w Farmer Jesse Frost said that planting beans ( seemed like these were bush beans) next to potatoes ( like, every other row I would think, not just bordering a big plot) has seemed to be the reason that 1st one row and now all of their potatoes, r no longer attacked by Potato beetles. Since they made the connection that 1st time w that one row. I had had a goal of just having a sacrifice crop of them (potatoes) sometime, see if just not spraying for them for once brings in enough predators or something. I have moved several times, gardening in one place no more than 3 seasons, mostly 1 or 2 in recent years, and where no garden had recently been, so I don't think the problem was a result of my spraying ( spinosad/Bonide potatoe beetle beater). I also try to be careful to spray b4 they flower &/or remove all flowers on and nearby, to avoid harming any bees/pollinators. I have also tried not spraying and just picking them off but they'd get too bad, eating down my plants. I did hope that finally planting them early this year would give them enough time to grow b4 the bugs arrived that maybe I feel ok just letting them go, but alas - we had such a late spring and I ended up needing more soil brought in ( on basically pure, unfertile/unhealthy sand here at our rental in St. Croix Co., WI. I grew up on much better, clay based soils in western Dunn co. and this has been ... different !). Anyway, this bean thing really seems to be working for that person, so I definitely going to try it next year, probably doing it with mainly dry/shelling beans. Maybe a reg. bean on outter rows ( I otherwise do all pole beans nowadays, but there's a couple bush varieties I'd like to do again). BTW if anyone struggles w cucumber beetles, and this "cure" may also work against squash bugs ( it's what the treatment was originally for, I think) go read my comment about it on that No-Till growers vlog ( not a ton of comments to sort thru). I was is DIRE straights with them until I found this all-natural preventative ( tobacco).
My blister beetles love flowers. They are covering my Borage, calendula, and dandelions. It might be too late, but could you put those near your potatoes?
Your garden looks amazing! I did have a question though. How in the world do you keep your crops so great and bug free? Do you check them all the time? Are there specific things you do? I only have a couple things and wondering how you do that with that much food, I’m having a hard time with my little garden. Any pointers 😊
I have a question about using plastic or some other weed barrier with the strawberries. I haven’t done it yet either, because I don’t see how the strawberries will self propagate if there is a barrier. How will the runners plant themselves? Next year I plan to triple my berry patch. This is my first year at this property and the berries are just barley hanging on because we live where it is very dry and I need to get the irrigation to them going better. I have been using the former home owners set up and it is old and not watering well.
Great video as always, I got into homesteading because of you :D I am not sure if you have a video on this, but would you mind sharing the routine for "feeding" the plants? Do you use any nutrition when they are growing? Or only adding new compost before planting?
Would diatomaceous earth help with all your beetles? I used insecticidal soap plus Diatomaceous earth and had no potato bugs in my community garden even though they were crawling all over the rest of the community garden. Wear a mask when you sprinkle DE and I believe these are organic methods.
You garden is such an inspiration to me! I know you said you don't like to use black plastic but what would you recommend for virgin ground to tame weeds? It was our first year planting and our garden got overtaken by weeds.
We use silage tarp (the kind I use is linked in video description) to kill grass and weeds prior to planting on a new plot. The silage tarp comes in large sizes but it can be cut to fit your garden. It’s best if the tarp stays on until everything is good and dead underneath. The timing will vary based in the time of year. Then we remove and transplant. Cover the ground with straw (make sure it hasn’t been sprayed with an herbicide) or a heavy layer of compost. Wood chips can be used in walking paths. Nature wants the ground to be covered, so if you don’t have some sort of mulch down, the weeds will cover the ground instead. I also recommend staying away from deep tilling. Deep tillage will bring up a fresh layer of weed seeds each year.
Okay I read something about blister beetles. Ecology. Predators of the striped blister beetle include robber flies and several birds, such as the western meadowlark, eastern bluebird, and scissor-tailed flycatcher. Its eggs are attacked by another blister beetle, Epicauta atrata. So why not get yourself some birdhouses and you're going to have to put some netting over your strawberries possibly so they don't get your berries but something to think about. Also it comes from hay as well and if your animals eat it they can get sick and you can get sick eating those animals. Also maybe get some frog houses
Cam is a good man. He builds, hauls, cuts, digs, films, and most importantly leads his family with presence and respect. The kids will carry the family name with pride and honor based on what you are instilling in them. God bless.
Lol😂
And Becky does most of those things too, plus grows the family's food for the entire year WHILE being pregnant. It takes more than a man to make a family.
@@breadzo oh, we’re spotting and cramping…we weren’t diminishing one in favor of the other. In fact we were simply appreciating that, in his absence, all the members of the tribe contribute…you should appreciate that, even in your basement.
"Leads" the family lol... barf... a family is not a herd of sheep to be led, more like a herd of cats😂
@@kamifaye Except humans aren’t cats and, with sheeple tendencies, we need to lead or follow. That was and remains the foundation of a family and without roles and discipline we cannot build what this family has built, or function as a society. Look around and you will see all the barfing, pissing, and crapping you speak of, by the unled and undisciplined. It’s worth a good cry…
The garden looks so full and healthy and lots of produce 👏👏👏👏👏
Love seeing the baby out in the garden! That variety of cabbage is really beautiful. I grew it last fall. It has such pretty crinkly leaves.
Girl! You’re amazing. A new mom and you’re still out there doing the most. I’d be lounging on the couch with a pint of ice cream! What a bountiful garden.
Yessss!!! I absolutely love your garden tours. I live in the city with 1000 sq ft of growing space and I dream of the day that I have some land!
I wish I had a green thumb like you. Your plants look so healthy and happy!
Always excited to get a video from you. You’re glowing. Who glows post partum? And maintains a garden. You’re a force. So happy for the content.
Thank you💚☺️
I don't know if it's the same pest, but More Than Farmers channel uses a small vacuum to suck up beetles. I thought this was brilliant! Blessings, -Kate
Thank you for your transparency regarding your garden. I celebrate your experience of planning things out and thanks for sharing the seed names as well. This has been a super cool video as usual. I "press my thumbs" (German idiom for "fingers crossed") for the winter garden challenge! Grateful to learn more! All the best and much love for your family.
I love that you label everything in the video.
As always, I was so excited to see a video pop up from you 😁 Your garden is looking so fantastic!! Thank goodness it's not as dry as last summer. Riggs is going to be such a great farmer just like the rest of the family ❤️
Thanks!!🫶🏻
Oh lady every thing looks amazing you have done a great job, Thank you for sharing
Love the Family Energy!!
Go Team!!
🌺🐝🌺🐝🌺
Thank you for your sharing. You are amazing at what you accomplish each year! Your family is blessed by your hard work.
Fence the potatoes off, and let the chickens in maybe for a day or so?
I love your country lifestyle, greetings to your beautiful family from Mexico
you are such an inspiration, and wealth of knowledge, makes me feel like a lazy bum, but know in this season of my life...doing my best. Blessings to you and your family
Hi Becky! Diatomaceous Earth works really well for getting rid of the blister beetles. I found mine at Walmart, but I imagine that any gardening store would have it!
I could almost smell that hot summer garden air! 🤗 Living vicariously through your garden tours while praying or for plot of land to farm.
Magnificent and beautiful garden
Thank you for sharing the varieties!
I've been waiting for your video with so much passion! Incredible as always - the garden, the harvest, the kids 😂 made my day, thank you! ❤❤❤
I just love your garden! So bountiful and pristine. God Bless
Conquistou mais um inscrito! Que coisa linda ver as crianças ajudando na horta.
What a phenomenal garden, cheers and hello from Upstate SC.
Wonderful video! always love a garden tour, and you aare doing exceptionally well with a newborn, MY GOODNESS~! Blessings to ALL the Family~~💚💙💛💜
I love your videos. I’m always so motivated to get out there and keep plucking away at the weeds. We’ve had terrible potato beetles down in the Arkansas River Valley this year. They almost wiped out my tomatoes completely. We’ve also had the cabbage worms take over almost all of our brassicas. Always lessons to learn in gardening. It’s both frustrating and rewarding. 😊
A wonderful way to spend part of my morning while making my homemade green lentil vegetable stew and watch your video.
I really enjoyed the new video!
Thank you!💚
Love seeing this, so inspiring
Thanks for sharing and being sooo inspiring. Love the drone shots and your garden shed taking pride of place. Debs from Down Under
Very nice video you can tell you guys put alot of work into its stunning scenery 👌
I would love an in depth video on how you start your seeds!
So glad I found your channel. Thank you for sharing your garden.
That’s a really nice garden….👍
Noice! just havested my first snack cucumbers in my garden. baby-steps to grow my own food xD
You have an amazing garden❤
I have about 100 tomato plants, okra, tomatillos, bell peppers, hot peppers, carrots and radishes in a garden in someone's back yard nearby since im in an apartment. There's a little patch out front of the apartment and I have a few more San Marzano tomatoes, Parres Island romaine (planted last year but it never came up!), and enough herbs in pots to last me the whole year. I also got a pressure canner and am looking forward to having more options for preserving food. I have cherry peppers already, too. I just opened a jar of blueberry jam I made last summer (from store bought berries at a good price) and it was heavenly! It feels so good to look out at what you've planted and appreciating the partnership with the earth! ❤️
This video is great 👍 and this is great tip for me thank you 🙏 for sharing this
I know how much work this takes, good job!
Loving the planting tools! Great garden tour and flash back video. ❤
Your videos are amazing and very inspiring! You bring so much joy and positivity, even though we all know how much hard work has been done.
Nice! We're not doing so great, we rely entirely on rain and, well, it is quite elusive this year 😭
Oh bummer! I hope you will get some rain soon, I know your gardens success is important to you this year. How is the job search going? Have you been able to find something else?
@@TheSeasonalHomestead I had a good meeting with a dream company last week, fingers crossed there and I've been doing some freelancing to keep some money coming in on my end, my wife's teacher salary barely covers all of our bills too which is nice. Today is day 116, hopefully something comes along soon!!!
That sounds promising! Glad to hear your hanging in there, I hope you get the job!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead ☺
Excellent!
Great video.
Great to see so much of your garden with honest comments.
Thanks for snaring
Love your garden, so beautiful, really don't know how you do it, gardening, baby, kids, I guess you have a lot of energy. God bless you guys.
Omg!!! Your garden looks great
Congratulations to your new baby ❤
Had my head in my hands in frustration & your video popped up & now I think I can get through the rest of my day!!
Wonderful garden. Thanks for sharing and being real in your videos.
Your garden is blessed!
Great video.
Haven’t seen your videos in a while everything is so beautiful and congratulations 🎊 on the baby!
Thanks!
Your hard work pays off!!!
Beautiful garden beds! I keep hearing about SeedTime, I think I’m gonna have to check it out
wow so wide garden❤❤❤
love the garden and family. cant wait for more videos
You are a super women!! You grew and gave birth to a whole baby and your garden still looks AMAZING!!🥳👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I love "volunteer" plants.... Started my fall garden earlier today.
You live so close to me! We're just a few miles away - what a garden!
I feel sooooo lazy after watching this video! 🤦♀️😮💨 my garden is tiny, compared to yours, and it's a royal mess! The way you manage everything is super impressive! Kudos to you mama! ❤
Beautiful garden, it's such a fun surprise to have crops or flowers come up with out your effort and planting. We discovered a hubard squash plant that came up all in its own next to one of my tomato plants. I haven't planted those for two years!
I learn so much from you. Thank you for sharing both your wisdom and your experiences with us! God bless you and your family!
nice Garden look like lot of fun
I really really love that you included the end clip of starting fall seeds, I have trouble knowing what to start-when. So since I’m in 7B, I can just start my seeds a few weeks after. Thank you 😊
Amazing garden
Your garden looks amazing! My spring garden took a back burner this year as other projects took precedence. I have been working to keep the weeds down on my summer garden this entire time, and it doesn't look as good as yours! I feel like your garden is goals!
The garden looks beautiful and kudos to you! When my kids were newborns, I was lucky to get a shower in, let alone all that you do! By the way, LOVE the US Air Force tee shirt you’re wearing. We are a proud retired Air Force family.
Thanks! And thanks for your service! Cam's brother is in the Air Force currently :)
Great Job guys!!!😇
Your garden looks great!! What a awesome family!
strawberries, i've heard that you should cut the runners off so the plant has more energy. Also use straw mulch it will help with the weeds a lot.
Great stuff! 👍
I cannot believe you have just had your 5th baby, you look gorgeous 😊
Thank you!! ☺️
Stunning garden and hard work even though baby came earlier than expected. Well done.
You could cold press those sunflower seed and bottle your own sunflower oil. You get an assortment of machines that separate hull and seed; and cold press them to oil for catchment. Could be extra income. Though the machine is an investment for sure. We all look for ways to diversify income streams.
God bless you and yours from South Africa.
That is absolutely amazing!
يسعدكم انتو والاولاد
Someone got a drone! Loved the aerial shots
Yes, I upgraded. I had a small drone for years but could hardly use it, we get so much wind up here. New drone is not phased by wind, and has better quality. Yay!
I'm dealing with Japanese beetles really bad this year. I bought canola oil by mistake. Comes in handy with a one gallon milk jug with a big opening with the handle still attached.
❤ very great job Congratulations
Put down flat stones with your strawberries. It will retain heat which will help the strawberries, and help maintain the weeds. Hopefully you can find someone wanting to get rid of stones online.
Lots of straw helps the strawberries
I’ve had really good luck with roofing rubber it doesn’t break down at all it’s expensive but it will outlive me
Becky have u tried diatomaceous earth in your garden, it will cut the beetles exoskeletons and they will dehydrate and die
You could lay a layer of straw down between the strawberries. It reduces the amount of weeds that are able to grow.
Always a pleasure to see your garden. Have you considered using wool as a weed barrier? I believe Hew uses it in his garden.
Garden looks great 🌻
The garden looks awesome. I didn't know there was a Jacob's gold bean.
excellent
My garden had a serious blister beetle attack last year, just a few weeks afters yours. I was trying for more of the Charles dowding style by just adding compost on each row but with the intense heat and drought last year my garden dried out bad (Sw MO). We noticed the beetles would flee if we sprayed water. So this year I mulched the rows HEAVY (like Ruth Stout style) and the garden is so much more moist and I have only seen a few beetles (which I vengefully smash immediately 😅). I only knew what they were from watching your video, I hadn't seen one before. So my working theory is a nice damp garden is the best protection and that the drought is what brought them in last year. Maybe try adding sprinklers in the potato rows? Last year when I saw you shaking those off I thought no way could I do that so I totally get not having the bandwidth!
Yes, I definitely think the blister beetles are worse with drought like conditions. Last year was awful for that. We have drip hose on the potatoes this year and luckily much more rain. We are in NW AR so are definitely experiencing similar weather patterns 😀 The blister beetles haven’t been as bad as last year but I’m still seeing a lot. They seem to peak at this time of year but eventually subside on their own.
Your garden always looks great and healthy. How do you water all of your garden? It would be great to see how you do your watering system.
We use drip irrigation. I’m planning on sharing about it soon, maybe later in the fall when it’s more visible (not covered with plants) and we have more time. I think we are going to tweak the system we have set up now a little bit since it has some problems.
On Potato Beetles ( no idea about blister beetles, if this helps that too..) : A commenter on the recent YT vlog about pests by No-Till Growers w Farmer Jesse Frost said that planting beans ( seemed like these were bush beans) next to potatoes ( like, every other row I would think, not just bordering a big plot) has seemed to be the reason that 1st one row and now all of their potatoes, r no longer attacked by Potato beetles. Since they made the connection that 1st time w that one row. I had had a goal of just having a sacrifice crop of them (potatoes) sometime, see if just not spraying for them for once brings in enough predators or something. I have moved several times, gardening in one place no more than 3 seasons, mostly 1 or 2 in recent years, and where no garden had recently been, so I don't think the problem was a result of my spraying ( spinosad/Bonide potatoe beetle beater). I also try to be careful to spray b4 they flower &/or remove all flowers on and nearby, to avoid harming any bees/pollinators. I have also tried not spraying and just picking them off but they'd get too bad, eating down my plants. I did hope that finally planting them early this year would give them enough time to grow b4 the bugs arrived that maybe I feel ok just letting them go, but alas - we had such a late spring and I ended up needing more soil brought in ( on basically pure, unfertile/unhealthy sand here at our rental in St. Croix Co., WI. I grew up on much better, clay based soils in western Dunn co. and this has been ... different !). Anyway, this bean thing really seems to be working for that person, so I definitely going to try it next year, probably doing it with mainly dry/shelling beans. Maybe a reg. bean on outter rows ( I otherwise do all pole beans nowadays, but there's a couple bush varieties I'd like to do again). BTW if anyone struggles w cucumber beetles, and this "cure" may also work against squash bugs ( it's what the treatment was originally for, I think) go read my comment about it on that No-Till growers vlog ( not a ton of comments to sort thru). I was is DIRE straights with them until I found this all-natural preventative ( tobacco).
My blister beetles love flowers. They are covering my Borage, calendula, and dandelions. It might be too late, but could you put those near your potatoes?
Get planting towers great for strawberries
Your garden looks amazing! I did have a question though. How in the world do you keep your crops so great and bug free? Do you check them all the time? Are there specific things you do? I only have a couple things and wondering how you do that with that much food, I’m having a hard time with my little garden. Any pointers 😊
Have you considered mulching your strawberries with straw? I've had good luck with it.
I have a question about using plastic or some other weed barrier with the strawberries. I haven’t done it yet either, because I don’t see how the strawberries will self propagate if there is a barrier. How will the runners plant themselves? Next year I plan to triple my berry patch. This is my first year at this property and the berries are just barley hanging on because we live where it is very dry and I need to get the irrigation to them going better. I have been using the former home owners set up and it is old and not watering well.
Great video as always, I got into homesteading because of you :D I am not sure if you have a video on this, but would you mind sharing the routine for "feeding" the plants? Do you use any nutrition when they are growing? Or only adding new compost before planting?
Would diatomaceous earth help with all your beetles? I used insecticidal soap plus Diatomaceous earth and had no potato bugs in my community garden even though they were crawling all over the rest of the community garden. Wear a mask when you sprinkle DE and I believe these are organic methods.
You garden is such an inspiration to me! I know you said you don't like to use black plastic but what would you recommend for virgin ground to tame weeds? It was our first year planting and our garden got overtaken by weeds.
We use silage tarp (the kind I use is linked in video description) to kill grass and weeds prior to planting on a new plot. The silage tarp comes in large sizes but it can be cut to fit your garden. It’s best if the tarp stays on until everything is good and dead underneath. The timing will vary based in the time of year. Then we remove and transplant. Cover the ground with straw (make sure it hasn’t been sprayed with an herbicide) or a heavy layer of compost. Wood chips can be used in walking paths. Nature wants the ground to be covered, so if you don’t have some sort of mulch down, the weeds will cover the ground instead. I also recommend staying away from deep tilling. Deep tillage will bring up a fresh layer of weed seeds each year.
Thank you for your response! This helps a lot.
Okay I read something about blister beetles. Ecology. Predators of the striped blister beetle include robber flies and several birds, such as the western meadowlark, eastern bluebird, and scissor-tailed flycatcher. Its eggs are attacked by another blister beetle, Epicauta atrata. So why not get yourself some birdhouses and you're going to have to put some netting over your strawberries possibly so they don't get your berries but something to think about. Also it comes from hay as well and if your animals eat it they can get sick and you can get sick eating those animals. Also maybe get some frog houses
Put straw around your strawberries