How to beat pumpkin fly & powdery mildew on cucurbits 🍉🍈🥒

Pumpkin fly and powdery mildew can decimate you butternut, cucumber, pumpkin and melon harvests. The battle against powdery mildew is real. In this video I show you how to fight these pests and diseases organically.

[@elisemenne8758]

SAVING THOSE BEAUTIFUL SWEET BUTTERNUT BABIES MUST BE SOOO REWARDING!! THANKS FOR DOING IT! AND FOR SHARING!! BAIE DANKIE! YOU MAKE ME MISS MY FATHERLAND HERE SO FAR FROM IT, IN AUSTRALIA!! WISH I HAD YOUR LOVELY RICH EARTH, WONDERFUL WEATHER AND BEAUTIFUL GROWING CONDITIONS, COMPARED WITH THE SAND AND EXTREME HEAT HERE IN PERTH!!! BUT!! GUESS WHAT!! I HAVE LEMOENPAMPOENTJIES - GEM SQUASH GROWING HERE SO HAPPILY, AND AM WAITING FOR THE HUBBARD SQUASH AND FLAT WIT BOERPAMPOEN TO SEEDLINGS TO GROW TO A SIZE I CAN PUT OUT IN THE HARSH SUN. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR VEGGIES!!

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

Ah so lovely to hear form a fellow South African living on the other side of the world! Glad to hear you can at least grow Boerpampoen! It's tough growing in hot dry conditions...sounds a bit like Oudshoorn 😀. If you could build a shade house from 30% shade net that might just allow you some more veggie growing options 🤔

[@etiennelouw9244]

Ah, that's great

[@waguregamage6863]

Thank you

[@grospace-onlinefarmersmark8399]

This is incredible! Thanks for sharing

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

A pleasure! Thanks for watching!

[@alexycurtis6323]

Thanks for the tip

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

Such a pleasure! Thanks for watching 🤗

[@veggiesandherbswithruebenm2065]

Great video! Thanks for sharing will definitely try this method!

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

Thanks for watching! Let me know how it works out for you 😃

[@MaggiePhigeland]

O Brigette I didn't know what to do with mine so at the end I removed the vines from my garden.What a great solution.Thank you.I will try to plant a few seeds just to see what happen. Your plants look so green ... What else did you plant ?Remember I'm follow your tips as I learn so much from you.

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

Thank you so much for watching my videos and I'm so pleased that you find them useful! At the moment I have a lot of sweet potatoes maturing. Waiting for the temperatures to cool down so that I can start planting for autumn.

[@Simply_living24-7]

Thank you so much this was helpful

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

Such a pleasure! I'm so pleased that ypu found the information in my video helpful!

[@danssv8]

Mooi man

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

Dankie!😀

[@fernandadeehan9466]

Just found your channel! Thanks for the great tips. Do you make your own bags? If so,.what fabric would you suggest
please?

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

Welcome to my channel! Yes I do make my own bags from old net curtains.

[@fernandadeehan9466]

@@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709 thank you

[@purrmaculture]

I'm growing zucchinis and I have this issue with melon flies laying their eggs into the flower and before the female flowers can even bloom the flower falls off (I know it's the larvae because i open them up and there are all these larvae inside feasting on the inside!) . I wonder if it would protect the flowers if i cover the petals and fruit with foil . i am going to try this tomorrow. Thankful I found your video!!

[@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709]

You'd have to hand pollinate the flowers then. I reckon you may as well go straight with placing bag over the unopened flower 🌼 then hand pollinate once the flower has opened.

[@purrmaculture]

@@sherwoodurbanfarmsouthafri8709 great suggestion. Will go get some netted fruit bags today. Even the male flowers are not safe!