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Not sure if it will work with fire ants but when I had an invasion of black ants in our house I put out bait traps with a combination of water sugar and baking powder in a sort of syrup. I would pop a little dollop down on the ground and they would swarm and drink from it then take it back to the colony where I guess they met their end as they never returned after the first feeding. Maybe give that a go in the coop since it's non toxic for the chickens :)
Time to place boiling hot aluminum down the ant hill hole. They get vaporized and you get some cool ant hill art or melt again and vaporize some more ants.
I like how it was supposed to be a chill gardening vlog from the start but now there’s like 3 videos of how fire ants plotting how to mess everything up 💀
@@GoHerping hmmm I heard Kepler 22-B is nice this time of year lol Edit: I just remembered fire ants can have multiple queens, not only that but because of there invasive nature in most places, they don’t have there natural pressers that would normally push them toward high biodiversity witch allows them to form super colonies witch can cover hundreds of kilometers and are made up of billions of Individuals. lol
This channel took me to ants Canada and I've learned a lot about fire ants, all of that is true. Multiple queens and super colonies so even if you take out one queen the colony is fine and recovers in no time and they eradicate not just other species of ants but everything literally everything in their path it's really horrible.
My spider, her name is Miss Ma'am and she's a Steatoda triangulosa, will happily take ants! She's one of thefew spiders that will take them, and even then not all S. triangulosas will eat them. I guess she's just good at what she does. Lol
@@SnakeDude. She's great. She started as a "bathroom buddy" who I would check in on multiple times a day because... she lived in my bathroom! I actually started feeding her when we had a minor ant problem in our kitchen. Eventually I decided to just call her mine and give her a proper enclosure. Since then I've gotten another spider, who has really shown me just how good of an eater Miss Ma'am is. 😅
As a gardener and ant enthusiast. I usually make a few trips back and forth with boiling water. You need to locate as many fire ant nest entrances as possible. This can take a day or so of observing the ants, however once you do you can just take a few pots of boiling water and pour it slowly over all entrances. I then take extra time to pour more around it. Essentially saturate the ground with boiling water. I repeat this process over a few days as long as I see fire ants in the area. Tracking them down and observing them is the true key to begin exterminating them at the source nests. If you let fire ants continue out of control they will grow absolutely massive underground colonies. If this is the case with the ones you're dealing with you will most likely need a professional. Flooding fire ants with normal water will not work as their original habitat is prone to floods and they are highly adept at surviving them. They even make entire rafts out of ants to float the colony to safety. They are invasive though so I always reccomend getting rid of them. I try to avoid ant poisons in general since I don't want to kill the native ant colonies more than the fire ants already are. As for all the plant instructions, they're there to help your harvesting. Collecting the food in a tangle of plants is annoying and keeping pests, specifically pest insects, out of a mass is also annoying. Plants also compete with eachother and choke eachother out to grow larger so the spacing helps keep unessacary plant deaths out of the equation. Plants may be older than humans but a lot of them are modified by humans so they don't actually always do well by just letting nature take it's course tons of crops need attention depending on why type of species of a crop you got. There's tons of corn types you could get but they're all way different from the original wild corn found so long ago. I'm super excited to see how this is going to go though! I hope it all works out and I definitely reccomend trying to boil the fire ants away from the chicken coop, they could cause injuries to your chickens too! Edit: some ants will protect aphids, a food source for them, which are a plant pest. So you may have trouble with your garden if fire ants choose to live in it. I don't remember if they farm aphids or not, but aphids are an annoying plant killer.
hello yes, welcome to like, everything this man posts. he makes a point of doing things as chaotically and wrong as he can (e.g. his reptile unboxing videos)
I work around ethanol (alcohol) and poured some on fire ants before and it worked. It also killed the grass, but since the chicken coop has no grass you could try. The ethanol I used was 95%
I’m all for chaos gardening but this was a bit much even for me😂 Seeds want to grow, it’s their only job but you can overwater or bury them too deep. Yours are probably fine tho. “The ants are taking over, again.”
Something I can actually (kind of) help with. I grew Cucumbers in FL like 2 summers ago it was super easy and they grow fast, they need lots of water and SUPPORT. That thing you saw in the TH-cam video was a trellis, cucumbers are like a vine and they've got these little tentacle things that'll grab and wrap themselves around whatever is nearby. Sometimes other plants! So yeah you'll definitely want to get one of those, it's kind of fun watching them grow and climb up the trellis like a ladder.
You don't really need a trellis. I've grown many cucumbers and they've done fine without anything holding them up. The thing is, they sprawl really out so having a trellis saves space because it takes the plant upwards instead of outwards
Gourds like cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melons can grow on the ground, but trellises prevent them from getting diseases from the soil and improves aeration so they don't die as fast. 🙂
I am so HEAVILY invested in this saga- I know nothing about plants, gardening, or imported fire ants- but seeing you battle tooth and nail to kill these fuckers and plant some squash is the highlight of my days
You need a cauldron. A cauldron of boiling water. Several. Set them up all over the yard with a complicated system of pipes, pulleys, and ropes. Flood the entire property with boiling water in one fell swoop. They will never see it coming.
Do what is keeping you happy. At whatever point something is making you feel bad, put it in your notes and remember not to continue that. You don’t owe any of your subscribers anything. If it makes you happy to vlog- vlog. I guarantee the most of us will be here to see the self growth.
Next video: The ants have overtaken the new garden and have turned the house into their new fortress. They have eaten most of my food and supplies and soon I know they will find me. All is lost.
if you don't thin out your carrots, you'll only get nubs the size of your fingers. the leaves on that tree will be perfect to maintain your beds over winter, as they will provide awesome cover for all the good bugs. I know this is just a hobby, but germinating your seeds first and then planting will ensure a better rate for harvest.
Lettuce needs light to grow, and carrots are supposed to be planted under hardly any soil as well, so those were likely planted too deep. It's probably too late in the year for cucumbers because they thrive in hot summer weather, and don't be surprised if the broccoli doesn't pop up, either because you started it outdoors/too late in the season. Just keep the beds moist and hope you get something! If nothing pops up within a week or two, look up a planting chart for your climate zone (NC has 4 or 5 zones) and it'll tell you which vegetables and how late you can plant them in your area. You can get more lettuce, carrot and whatever seeds you want and replant. Keep an eye out for dwarf versions of vegetables, as well as they'll grow faster (like short or round varieties of carrots).
I've used ground black pepper to get rid of ants before. Rotor tild the ground and pepper together. My guess is that the pepper isn't fun to handle so they avoid the areas that have pepper. The black pepper shouldn't hurt your chickens either. Best hurry though so that they don't take over that section too. I feel for you though. Sorry you're going through this. You may have to contact the professionals for this. I haven't dealt with those small fire ants. Good luck I hope you figure out how to win back your yard. Being a homeowner has lots of responsibilities. You're doing great 👍🏻
don't worry about getting the carrots to grow, they're very hardy plants. Here in michigan wild carrots grow in sidewalks all over the place. Queen Anne's Lace flowers are actually flowering carrots and they grow everywhere
Alex planting seeds completely chaotically only to later make a video about how frustrated he is about them not growing due to not following directions. 🤣🤣🤣 This isn't the content we want, it's the content we need!! 💞 I hope I eat my words later and you have a GORGEOUS yummy garden 🥰🥰 (PS y'all I'm teasing, I'm also a very chaotic gardener and I'm successful at it, it drives my measuring tape garden friends nuts 🤪)
You should definitely plan to impulse drive to the beach! Especially now when it's warm and beautiful out. Your seedlings should really be thinned after they are about 2-3 inches tall. just pull out the skinny puny ones. It will give you bigger broccoli heads and fatter carrots. Gardening rule #1 never plant veg that you won't eat. How about green beans? You will need a trellis or tomato cage for the cucumbers. The bugs will eat them if they lay on the ground. Good luck! You can do this.
I have to admit, I love these vlogs. Just watching you do some gardening is pretty relaxing and I just love your dark humour. Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing more vlog stuff
Try ground up orange peels! (Any citrus fruit will work) And is pet/chicken safe. Kills fire ants *good*. And if you eat oranges regularly, you should have a ready supply. Pop them food processor for a bit - then sprinkle!
seed sowing is pretty easy if you remember one thing. Seeds want to be about as deep as they are big. So a tiny broccoli seed or lettuce seed will be only just covered with a sprinkle of dirt as thick as they are, while a larger seed like a pea, bean, pumpkin, wants to be under the soil a little ways with the same thickness of dirt on top as they are thick. To know how far apart to plant the seeds there is 2 methods, you can sow them close and heaps, but you will have to pull out a bunch of little plants once they are up so that there is room for what gets left in to mature, OR think about how big the mature plant will be and space the seeds so that they are about that far apart. So a carrot only needs a small spacing, while a broccoli needs a large spacing cause the adult plant gets BIG. Hope that helps.
“They’re going to grow with what they get, or they’re going to slowly suffer and die. Because that’s how you parent.” Alex are you ok dude? Maybe we should unpack that…
I have the same ant issues in my outdoor tortoise enclosures, it’s a pain. Tried bait outside the enclosures, diatomaceous earth, and even a flamethrower. Watching every vlog to see if you figure it out 😅
Try boiling water. It may take persistence but if you keep applying it to any fire ant nests you see you may hit the queen and kill the colony or beat the colony out by killing them faster than they can produce. So you might have to throw a pot of boiling water or 2 in the nest entrances for a few days or weeks. It can take alot of time depending on how big the colony is though so if it's too large it might not work. Works better if you saturate the entrance and a small area around the entrance as well as finding as many entrances beforehand by observing the ants and hitting them all in one go.
I forgot about this channel until you popped up on my FYP. Glad to see you still making content!
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Broccoli plants get big. Very big for annual veggies, you will probably have to reduce them to like 6 or 8 if you want a decent head from them. But don’t forget to have fun, that’s important too 👍
I need you to know that in the recommendation sidebar one of the vids I see there is titled "Unstoppable Invaders - The Red Imported Fire Ant | Free Documentary Nature" and I feel like that couldn't be anymore fitting.
Carrots "should" be planted in a small raised 'hill' because that gives them more room to grow straight downward. They're fine without it but there's a chance they can turn out more twisty without the hill planting I guess
After watching your gardening, I understand why your specialty is snakes. With snakes, you put them in a plastic bin and give them a rat every saturday.
Overcrowded vegetables really do grow shit though. We've been selectively breeding many of them to grow a certain way for millenia so they're really not wild. My overcrowded broccoli plants grew 5ft tall and the biggest head I got was the size of a golf ball. I'm actually going to follow the instructions for the carrots.
btw about the planting and babying plants. My mother bought some lettuce seeds and wanted me to use it in my tegu vivarium so I just dumped the entire thing in there without even burying it. My tegu took care of it and after a week I had tons of sapplings....That she quickly ate. But it was still cool
If you get garden hay you can put it on the beds but you want to make sure they don't have any seed in them, other wise you'd be planting weeds in your beds. My favorite gardening channel is epic gardening and he's come a long way since I've started watching him!
Antscanada used boiling water to kill fire ants. But he also found the main nest to pour it on. Might need to invest in bigger pots or use every pot in the house to boil water and run em out to the chicken coop one at a time
This saga of ants reminds me of that one text meme- Ant: hey can we make a pile in your yard Sent: NO Ant: sorry. there's already 2 piles out here Ant: we're making a third pile Ant: third piles done lol. gonna work on a fourth pile Sent: STOP IT Ant: we are going to come inside your house later
Be careful with the cucumber's, depending on the type they will vine out a lot... it would be good for them to grow onto and around the wire fence if you can train them to grow on it.
If you like radishes, plant those. They grow quickly - like 3 weeks. I suggest you scatter the seeds and lightly rake. 1/8 inch deep recommend so that method should work for your "casual" gardening. I suspect once you get some harvest you will be hooked and will study up. Square Foot Gardening is a tried and true method
Hey Alex if you want I’ve got a porta potty here in PA that you can move into if you want to escape those red daddy ants. The backyard is fertilized with human skin so you can use it to create some new beds.❤
I remember I got a plant from class and I watered it TOO MUCH and it died so I was just like "oh no" watching you spray the garden. I'm sure it's fine, it was a really delicate species, but it brought up some memories!
The easiest way to plant seeds is just to take a stick with a rounded end called a dibble shove it about an inch into the ground, put the seed in and give it a pat and your good, but you did really good.
Food grade diatomaceous earth is used by chicken owners to manage mites in their feathers. They essentially take dirt baths. Food grade can be bought at farm and feed stores and is brown.
So I’ve had issues with ants too. Use food grade diatomaceous earth. It’s basically really finely ground up chalk. You’ll have to use it basically after every rain, but it will kill the ants as long as you sprinkle it heavily around their nests. It gives them micro cuts, and they basically die from dehydration and blood loss. You can also help by encouraging herps that eat ants to hang around your garden. I like toads personally.
alex is like "oh fuck these instructions this is bullshit im gonna do what i want" and then in like 2 months hes gonna be like "i dont know why they didnt sprout.. i did everything i was supposed to.."
for mosquitos try wearing long sleeves and pants treated with permethrin, then you don't have to wear sticky big spray. I went on a 2 week canoeing trip and it worked. You can buy them pretreated i think or just buy the bottle of spray and choose a thin loose shirt that you'll wear working (I went to bass pro). It lasts like 50 washes or something. Good luck with all your allergy things and garden work! I definitely understand what you are saying about uncertainty at the moment for people our age definitely i think.
Yes cucumbers grow upwards. When they start sprouting a few leaves try buying a trolling or something to help them climb. If you let them grow on the ground they can become misshapen or small but if they climb they grow long.
Grab fire ant bait (I use Extinguish Plus) and either spread it very very lightly around the outside of the chicken coop, or inside and stand next to it and wait for them to pick it up. Once its picked up you will get about 6 months of control.
I have a concentrated bug killer that basically gets micro crystals attached to the ants and they take it make to the nest where it basically cuts them up and kills them which is nuts but it works lol
ant update 33983- the ants have taken over the world and everybody except for goherping is dead. the ants are closing in closer and closer as he meets his final moments, all this was for nothing.. until..
I know my mom a long time ago had a fire ant outbreak in her yard and nothing worked. She ended up pouring gasoline on them. She said it worked. Not sure if you should try that with the chickens but... that might be something to think about?
This is because you used the wrong product, your goal is to get the product to the queen which can be 10 feet underground. So bait is the best option so they bring it down to the larva, then proceed to feed it to the queen.
Raise angora bunnies for wool and you'll have someone to feed all that cabbage to. And the carrots as treats! I have two house rabbits and I have to buy those baby spring mix salad greens for them. I'd love to be able to just grow my own.
Not necessary. I was raised on a farm in the south and continue to grow now as an adult. I never germinate inside. It can result in weak, leggy seedlings. The growing season is long enough here to not need it. The only thing I don't direct sow is tomatoes. Those I plant in solo cups (outside) and gradually add dirt to as they sprout for root growth, then bury most of the plant in its permanent place.
I'm sure you get endless suggestions, but have you tried Dish soap and water I used dawn in my planters and the ants left, it isn't GREAT for the plant to do it offten but you do what ya gotta do, and nothing bad happened the ants just got outta my pots, I put up the pots and sprayed the ground haven't had any issue since.
Legendary farmer, the best of the best. I think straw gets moldy when you spread it out and saturate it like that. Don't quote me on that though, I'm not the greatest gardener!
Alex you should contact a pest control professional. It will be best for the safety of you and your animals. They can discuss treatment options and how to get scheduled for regular maintenance to keep your yard safe. You will be able to garden in peace
Coghlan's or some other bug netting suit might be helpful with the mosquitoes. It's still kinda hot, but if you get the khaki color it's certainly better than a full sweater
Cucumbers will vine everywhere so I do recommend getting something for them to grab onto (Trellis) unless you want them to cover your entire garden walkway 😵💫 P.S. Make sure you thin the plants that need it. Learned that lesson with our Tomato and Pepper plants this year. If they get too dense it creates a better environment for disease and pests to thrive. I spent all spring battling pests and diseases on all of my plants, not just those two. -I highly recommend being diligent with Pesticides, Fungicides etc this year. From what i’ve heard, It’s just been a terrible year for gardening (so it’s not just me). Some years are apparently just worse than others with pests and disease and this year is one of those years. I’ve grown tomatoes, strawberries and blueberries in previous years and never needed any pesticides or anything, never had a problem, but this year all of them are looking pretty sad.
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You should buy luffa seeds :3
I got a pack a month ago and they are doing wonderful
Not sure if it will work with fire ants but when I had an invasion of black ants in our house I put out bait traps with a combination of water sugar and baking powder in a sort of syrup. I would pop a little dollop down on the ground and they would swarm and drink from it then take it back to the colony where I guess they met their end as they never returned after the first feeding. Maybe give that a go in the coop since it's non toxic for the chickens :)
Don't forget to blue people's license plates lol
Time to place boiling hot aluminum down the ant hill hole. They get vaporized and you get some cool ant hill art or melt again and vaporize some more ants.
Ever tried repeatedly pouring boiling water on their nest?
I like how it was supposed to be a chill gardening vlog from the start but now there’s like 3 videos of how fire ants plotting how to mess everything up 💀
Might wanna consider contacting a local professional pest control. Fire ants are really hard to get rid of.
“Buying a new house because the ants won’t leave”
i've been in a lot of forums and apparently almost all of nc is experiencing this. i'd have to move planets
@@GoHerping north Texas is experiencing something similar but with crickets
@@GoHerping hmmm I heard Kepler 22-B is nice this time of year lol
Edit: I just remembered fire ants can have multiple queens, not only that but because of there invasive nature in most places, they don’t have there natural pressers that would normally push them toward high biodiversity witch allows them to form super colonies witch can cover hundreds of kilometers and are made up of billions of Individuals. lol
This channel took me to ants Canada and I've learned a lot about fire ants, all of that is true. Multiple queens and super colonies so even if you take out one queen the colony is fine and recovers in no time and they eradicate not just other species of ants but everything literally everything in their path it's really horrible.
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Fun fact about most spiders: They will not eat ants, as the ants fight back and it’s too much hassle
Bloody useless spiders
@@pthomps01 ah yes, it is a useless spider for not wanting to die :P
My spider, her name is Miss Ma'am and she's a Steatoda triangulosa, will happily take ants! She's one of thefew spiders that will take them, and even then not all S. triangulosas will eat them. I guess she's just good at what she does. Lol
@@sleeplessavenue Oh that’s neat! She sounds cute :)
@@SnakeDude. She's great. She started as a "bathroom buddy" who I would check in on multiple times a day because... she lived in my bathroom! I actually started feeding her when we had a minor ant problem in our kitchen. Eventually I decided to just call her mine and give her a proper enclosure. Since then I've gotten another spider, who has really shown me just how good of an eater Miss Ma'am is. 😅
As a gardener and ant enthusiast. I usually make a few trips back and forth with boiling water.
You need to locate as many fire ant nest entrances as possible. This can take a day or so of observing the ants, however once you do you can just take a few pots of boiling water and pour it slowly over all entrances. I then take extra time to pour more around it. Essentially saturate the ground with boiling water. I repeat this process over a few days as long as I see fire ants in the area. Tracking them down and observing them is the true key to begin exterminating them at the source nests.
If you let fire ants continue out of control they will grow absolutely massive underground colonies. If this is the case with the ones you're dealing with you will most likely need a professional.
Flooding fire ants with normal water will not work as their original habitat is prone to floods and they are highly adept at surviving them. They even make entire rafts out of ants to float the colony to safety. They are invasive though so I always reccomend getting rid of them. I try to avoid ant poisons in general since I don't want to kill the native ant colonies more than the fire ants already are.
As for all the plant instructions, they're there to help your harvesting. Collecting the food in a tangle of plants is annoying and keeping pests, specifically pest insects, out of a mass is also annoying. Plants also compete with eachother and choke eachother out to grow larger so the spacing helps keep unessacary plant deaths out of the equation. Plants may be older than humans but a lot of them are modified by humans so they don't actually always do well by just letting nature take it's course tons of crops need attention depending on why type of species of a crop you got. There's tons of corn types you could get but they're all way different from the original wild corn found so long ago.
I'm super excited to see how this is going to go though! I hope it all works out and I definitely reccomend trying to boil the fire ants away from the chicken coop, they could cause injuries to your chickens too!
Edit: some ants will protect aphids, a food source for them, which are a plant pest. So you may have trouble with your garden if fire ants choose to live in it. I don't remember if they farm aphids or not, but aphids are an annoying plant killer.
Sowing carrots and broccoli in august/september and like.. 2 inches deep. As a semi pro gardener, this is stressful content to watch.
I know nothing of gardening and even I was like *stressful laughing*
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I was looking for a comment like this lol
I work around ethanol (alcohol) and poured some on fire ants before and it worked. It also killed the grass, but since the chicken coop has no grass you could try. The ethanol I used was 95%
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So basically that hard-core grain alcohol stuff
Hell yeah 🔥
Drunk chickens
What happened is the ants did the process called “budding”. You didn’t kill the entire colony so they split off and moved.
I’m all for chaos gardening but this was a bit much even for me😂 Seeds want to grow, it’s their only job but you can overwater or bury them too deep. Yours are probably fine tho.
“The ants are taking over, again.”
welllll i sprinkled some on top and dug some underneath, so i'm guaranteed lettuce now
Something I can actually (kind of) help with. I grew Cucumbers in FL like 2 summers ago it was super easy and they grow fast, they need lots of water and SUPPORT. That thing you saw in the TH-cam video was a trellis, cucumbers are like a vine and they've got these little tentacle things that'll grab and wrap themselves around whatever is nearby. Sometimes other plants! So yeah you'll definitely want to get one of those, it's kind of fun watching them grow and climb up the trellis like a ladder.
oo a trellis, i saw them on Stardew valley but never actually thought about what they would be in real life 😆
You don't really need a trellis. I've grown many cucumbers and they've done fine without anything holding them up. The thing is, they sprawl really out so having a trellis saves space because it takes the plant upwards instead of outwards
@@MachewDunf and having the vines grow upwards keeps the cucumbers off the ground which can prevent some rot/pest issues
Gourds like cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melons can grow on the ground, but trellises prevent them from getting diseases from the soil and improves aeration so they don't die as fast. 🙂
“Attempting to grow food I won’t eat”
that's the most realistic title
Alex just headed out to relax in his garden
_everything changed when the fire ants attacked_
I am so HEAVILY invested in this saga- I know nothing about plants, gardening, or imported fire ants- but seeing you battle tooth and nail to kill these fuckers and plant some squash is the highlight of my days
The leaves from that tree dropping in your garden might be a good thing . When they decompose it'll be like natural fertilizer
They can also contribute to the ant infestation to though.
You need a cauldron. A cauldron of boiling water. Several. Set them up all over the yard with a complicated system of pipes, pulleys, and ropes. Flood the entire property with boiling water in one fell swoop. They will never see it coming.
Do what is keeping you happy. At whatever point something is making you feel bad, put it in your notes and remember not to continue that. You don’t owe any of your subscribers anything. If it makes you happy to vlog- vlog. I guarantee the most of us will be here to see the self growth.
Next video: The ants have overtaken the new garden and have turned the house into their new fortress. They have eaten most of my food and supplies and soon I know they will find me. All is lost.
if you don't thin out your carrots, you'll only get nubs the size of your fingers. the leaves on that tree will be perfect to maintain your beds over winter, as they will provide awesome cover for all the good bugs. I know this is just a hobby, but germinating your seeds first and then planting will ensure a better rate for harvest.
Thinning out isn't as crucial as having loose soil. Compact soil = nubby carrots. They need loamy or constantly aerated dirt.
Lettuce needs light to grow, and carrots are supposed to be planted under hardly any soil as well, so those were likely planted too deep.
It's probably too late in the year for cucumbers because they thrive in hot summer weather, and don't be surprised if the broccoli doesn't pop up, either because you started it outdoors/too late in the season. Just keep the beds moist and hope you get something!
If nothing pops up within a week or two, look up a planting chart for your climate zone (NC has 4 or 5 zones) and it'll tell you which vegetables and how late you can plant them in your area. You can get more lettuce, carrot and whatever seeds you want and replant. Keep an eye out for dwarf versions of vegetables, as well as they'll grow faster (like short or round varieties of carrots).
I've used ground black pepper to get rid of ants before. Rotor tild the ground and pepper together. My guess is that the pepper isn't fun to handle so they avoid the areas that have pepper. The black pepper shouldn't hurt your chickens either. Best hurry though so that they don't take over that section too. I feel for you though. Sorry you're going through this. You may have to contact the professionals for this. I haven't dealt with those small fire ants. Good luck I hope you figure out how to win back your yard. Being a homeowner has lots of responsibilities. You're doing great 👍🏻
don't worry about getting the carrots to grow, they're very hardy plants. Here in michigan wild carrots grow in sidewalks all over the place. Queen Anne's Lace flowers are actually flowering carrots and they grow everywhere
Alex planting seeds completely chaotically only to later make a video about how frustrated he is about them not growing due to not following directions. 🤣🤣🤣 This isn't the content we want, it's the content we need!! 💞 I hope I eat my words later and you have a GORGEOUS yummy garden 🥰🥰 (PS y'all I'm teasing, I'm also a very chaotic gardener and I'm successful at it, it drives my measuring tape garden friends nuts 🤪)
He planting right before fall. Ready for failure.
@@EarthsGeomancer depends on the zone tbh, some people can get away with an early fall harvest
You should definitely plan to impulse drive to the beach! Especially now when it's warm and beautiful out. Your seedlings should really be thinned after they are about 2-3 inches tall. just pull out the skinny puny ones. It will give you bigger broccoli heads and fatter carrots. Gardening rule #1 never plant veg that you won't eat. How about green beans? You will need a trellis or tomato cage for the cucumbers. The bugs will eat them if they lay on the ground. Good luck! You can do this.
this was very kind! boosting so hopefully he sees this
I love how u just showed ur whole license plate to the whole internet like I wouldn't notice
people frequently recognize or take pics of the car in person, so there's no hiding it
@@GoHerping you know you've really made it when people recognize and take pictures of your car in public
@@drewydecimalsystem terrifying tbh
@@GoHerping ehehehehehe
I have to admit, I love these vlogs. Just watching you do some gardening is pretty relaxing and I just love your dark humour. Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing more vlog stuff
watching you drown those seeds is killing me lmao
wishing you luck, i hope these seeds beat the odds and you succeed
Try ground up orange peels! (Any citrus fruit will work) And is pet/chicken safe. Kills fire ants *good*. And if you eat oranges regularly, you should have a ready supply.
Pop them food processor for a bit - then sprinkle!
seed sowing is pretty easy if you remember one thing. Seeds want to be about as deep as they are big. So a tiny broccoli seed or lettuce seed will be only just covered with a sprinkle of dirt as thick as they are, while a larger seed like a pea, bean, pumpkin, wants to be under the soil a little ways with the same thickness of dirt on top as they are thick. To know how far apart to plant the seeds there is 2 methods, you can sow them close and heaps, but you will have to pull out a bunch of little plants once they are up so that there is room for what gets left in to mature, OR think about how big the mature plant will be and space the seeds so that they are about that far apart. So a carrot only needs a small spacing, while a broccoli needs a large spacing cause the adult plant gets BIG. Hope that helps.
“They’re going to grow with what they get, or they’re going to slowly suffer and die. Because that’s how you parent.” Alex are you ok dude? Maybe we should unpack that…
“being stubborn against nature” or “still fighting with nature”
that'd probably be upcoming, since there ain't much fighting in this one
@@GoHerping I would never have thought you the kind of person to type out "ain't," you have a very northern-American accent
I have the same ant issues in my outdoor tortoise enclosures, it’s a pain.
Tried bait outside the enclosures, diatomaceous earth, and even a flamethrower.
Watching every vlog to see if you figure it out 😅
Try boiling water. It may take persistence but if you keep applying it to any fire ant nests you see you may hit the queen and kill the colony or beat the colony out by killing them faster than they can produce.
So you might have to throw a pot of boiling water or 2 in the nest entrances for a few days or weeks.
It can take alot of time depending on how big the colony is though so if it's too large it might not work. Works better if you saturate the entrance and a small area around the entrance as well as finding as many entrances beforehand by observing the ants and hitting them all in one go.
"moving to mars because ants have took over earth" "New mars gecko species" "Geherping first to colonize mars with crested geckos"
I forgot about this channel until you popped up on my FYP. Glad to see you still making content!
Broccoli plants get big. Very big for annual veggies, you will probably have to reduce them to like 6 or 8 if you want a decent head from them. But don’t forget to have fun, that’s important too 👍
I need you to know that in the recommendation sidebar one of the vids I see there is titled "Unstoppable Invaders - The Red Imported Fire Ant | Free Documentary Nature" and I feel like that couldn't be anymore fitting.
I think you might have found out why they sold the house. The absolute invasion of fire ants
You 100% are going to need something for the cucumbers to climb onto
Those red flowers are trumpet vines. They can be destructive. 😆
Carrots "should" be planted in a small raised 'hill' because that gives them more room to grow straight downward. They're fine without it but there's a chance they can turn out more twisty without the hill planting I guess
"Theyre going to grow with what they get, or they're going to suffer, and die." Goherping 2022
After watching your gardening, I understand why your specialty is snakes. With snakes, you put them in a plastic bin and give them a rat every saturday.
Fallen leaves are actually decent mulch! Good to preserve the soil biodiversity over winter
i haven’t watched your videos in over a year and just came back. Content is still amazing!
Overcrowded vegetables really do grow shit though. We've been selectively breeding many of them to grow a certain way for millenia so they're really not wild. My overcrowded broccoli plants grew 5ft tall and the biggest head I got was the size of a golf ball. I'm actually going to follow the instructions for the carrots.
After the seeds germinate, you can put more straw around them to ceep weeds out. It helps ceeping the soil moist too
btw about the planting and babying plants. My mother bought some lettuce seeds and wanted me to use it in my tegu vivarium so I just dumped the entire thing in there without even burying it. My tegu took care of it and after a week I had tons of sapplings....That she quickly ate. But it was still cool
If you get garden hay you can put it on the beds but you want to make sure they don't have any seed in them, other wise you'd be planting weeds in your beds. My favorite gardening channel is epic gardening and he's come a long way since I've started watching him!
Antscanada used boiling water to kill fire ants. But he also found the main nest to pour it on. Might need to invest in bigger pots or use every pot in the house to boil water and run em out to the chicken coop one at a time
This saga of ants reminds me of that one text meme-
Ant: hey can we make a pile in your yard
Sent: NO
Ant: sorry. there's already 2 piles out here
Ant: we're making a third pile
Ant: third piles done lol. gonna work on a fourth pile
Sent: STOP IT
Ant: we are going to come inside your house later
Be careful with the cucumber's, depending on the type they will vine out a lot... it would be good for them to grow onto and around the wire fence if you can train them to grow on it.
If you like radishes, plant those. They grow quickly - like 3 weeks. I suggest you scatter the seeds and lightly rake. 1/8 inch deep recommend so that method should work for your "casual" gardening. I suspect once you get some harvest you will be hooked and will study up. Square Foot Gardening is a tried and true method
Hey Alex if you want I’ve got a porta potty here in PA that you can move into if you want to escape those red daddy ants. The backyard is fertilized with human skin so you can use it to create some new beds.❤
I remember I got a plant from class and I watered it TOO MUCH and it died so I was just like "oh no" watching you spray the garden. I'm sure it's fine, it was a really delicate species, but it brought up some memories!
The easiest way to plant seeds is just to take a stick with a rounded end called a dibble shove it about an inch into the ground, put the seed in and give it a pat and your good, but you did really good.
Food grade diatomaceous earth is used by chicken owners to manage mites in their feathers. They essentially take dirt baths. Food grade can be bought at farm and feed stores and is brown.
So I’ve had issues with ants too. Use food grade diatomaceous earth. It’s basically really finely ground up chalk. You’ll have to use it basically after every rain, but it will kill the ants as long as you sprinkle it heavily around their nests. It gives them micro cuts, and they basically die from dehydration and blood loss. You can also help by encouraging herps that eat ants to hang around your garden. I like toads personally.
alex is like "oh fuck these instructions this is bullshit im gonna do what i want" and then in like 2 months hes gonna be like "i dont know why they didnt sprout.. i did everything i was supposed to.."
for mosquitos try wearing long sleeves and pants treated with permethrin, then you don't have to wear sticky big spray. I went on a 2 week canoeing trip and it worked. You can buy them pretreated i think or just buy the bottle of spray and choose a thin loose shirt that you'll wear working (I went to bass pro). It lasts like 50 washes or something. Good luck with all your allergy things and garden work! I definitely understand what you are saying about uncertainty at the moment for people our age definitely i think.
Yes cucumbers grow upwards. When they start sprouting a few leaves try buying a trolling or something to help them climb. If you let them grow on the ground they can become misshapen or small but if they climb they grow long.
Grab fire ant bait (I use Extinguish Plus) and either spread it very very lightly around the outside of the chicken coop, or inside and stand next to it and wait for them to pick it up. Once its picked up you will get about 6 months of control.
More interesting series than some tv shows
I was really rooting for you bro 😭
I have a concentrated bug killer that basically gets micro crystals attached to the ants and they take it make to the nest where it basically cuts them up and kills them which is nuts but it works lol
These videos are low key addicting
ant update 33983-
the ants have taken over the world and everybody except for goherping is dead.
the ants are closing in closer and closer as he meets his final moments, all this was for nothing.. until..
I know a thing or two about instability😭😂 you're not alone lol at least theres that!
I know my mom a long time ago had a fire ant outbreak in her yard and nothing worked. She ended up pouring gasoline on them. She said it worked. Not sure if you should try that with the chickens but... that might be something to think about?
Can't wait to see if or how these grow!
Would not have guessed the One wheel could serve as a useful hauling tool
There are numerous people on youtube who melt down aluminum cans and pour the melted metal into ant hills. Then they dig it up and can sell it as art.
Cool idea
In my experience, it seems like even when you poison ants it gets many of them, but they just wind up moving to another spot.
This is because you used the wrong product, your goal is to get the product to the queen which can be 10 feet underground. So bait is the best option so they bring it down to the larva, then proceed to feed it to the queen.
Raise angora bunnies for wool and you'll have someone to feed all that cabbage to. And the carrots as treats! I have two house rabbits and I have to buy those baby spring mix salad greens for them. I'd love to be able to just grow my own.
you should really germinate the seeds before sticking straight into the ground it gives them a way bigger chance to grow
Not necessary. I was raised on a farm in the south and continue to grow now as an adult. I never germinate inside. It can result in weak, leggy seedlings. The growing season is long enough here to not need it. The only thing I don't direct sow is tomatoes. Those I plant in solo cups (outside) and gradually add dirt to as they sprout for root growth, then bury most of the plant in its permanent place.
Imagine what Alex would look like in 20 years with a full face of facial hair. 😅
I still imagine Alex with a baby face.
Careful that the ants don't end up harming your chickens
I'm sure you get endless suggestions, but have you tried Dish soap and water I used dawn in my planters and the ants left, it isn't GREAT for the plant to do it offten but you do what ya gotta do, and nothing bad happened the ants just got outta my pots, I put up the pots and sprayed the ground haven't had any issue since.
"Does it actually turn into plants? Seeds are kinda crazy. - this will be Alex's best line of 2022.
Legendary farmer, the best of the best.
I think straw gets moldy when you spread it out and saturate it like that. Don't quote me on that though, I'm not the greatest gardener!
Thank you for the laughs “compose is toxic waste” had me cracking up!
Alex you should contact a pest control professional. It will be best for the safety of you and your animals. They can discuss treatment options and how to get scheduled for regular maintenance to keep your yard safe. You will be able to garden in peace
You plant seeds exactly how I do and it’s worked for me so you’ll be good
Is it possible for you to try a controlled burn or is that against the ToS?
You should try the ortho insect killer that connects to your water hose, just retreat every so often
What I find funny is that he is criticizing the plant videos, yet he managed to kill cactus before xD
Leaves are great compost! Uncover the plants, but leave the leaves (ha!) on the beds to decompose.
Alex I have a traffic cone now and I'm super happy also when I was towing it back home on my bike, a guy in a white Model 3 waved at me!
"When in doubt, pull out" - GoHerping
Loving the farming videos
In my experience most veggies will grow pretty much no matter what as long as they get water and plant food and you keep the animals out.
Coghlan's or some other bug netting suit might be helpful with the mosquitoes. It's still kinda hot, but if you get the khaki color it's certainly better than a full sweater
I just noticed the wall you built in your garage is gone
indeed. i actually have a whole garage segment in an upcoming vlog
Alex, you plant the seeds, then you water them, and then you wait for them to grow.
Try sprinkling cayenne pepper flakes around the perimiter of the garden. It's basically ant poison.
You just push them to a new area. Mine wasn't in a massive area and i ended up digging it out then treating it. Maybe not if you're allergic.
The demolition ranch vet guy put liquid flex seal over an ant hill during a texas summer and it baked them all. Don’t think any of them survived.
You should grow stuff in your garden to feed your reptiles to save on cost for food with the more Omni/herbivore reptiles!
I tried growing my garden like this but you have to germinate the seeds inside first because nothing grew except the carrots lol
This old' man thought he could take on the fire nation!
Cucumbers will vine everywhere so I do recommend getting something for them to grab onto (Trellis) unless you want them to cover your entire garden walkway 😵💫
P.S. Make sure you thin the plants that need it. Learned that lesson with our Tomato and Pepper plants this year. If they get too dense it creates a better environment for disease and pests to thrive. I spent all spring battling pests and diseases on all of my plants, not just those two.
-I highly recommend being diligent with Pesticides, Fungicides etc this year. From what i’ve heard, It’s just been a terrible year for gardening (so it’s not just me). Some years are apparently just worse than others with pests and disease and this year is one of those years. I’ve grown tomatoes, strawberries and blueberries in previous years and never needed any pesticides or anything, never had a problem, but this year all of them are looking pretty sad.