Love your unified delivery of clear organized planned information. Refreshing to see ur high respect for each other & unified cooperation. I’m downsizing as our 7 children have moved out of our home. Seeing the simplicity & order of ur home & property is absolutely encouraging. Can’t wait to try many of your gardening & harvest storing tips. Thank you & God Bless you both.
I use marigolds and other plants to repels. Add them and let them grow along side veggies. When i do a harvest i would cut up a few if the marigolds leafs to mask the harvesting sent as well. I plant my marigolds first then plant my veggies. The squash get extra marigolds plants.
I am also a big fan of fish emulsion and like the Alaska brand. Another reason why this should be done in the morning while its cool is because the stomata are open. Plants actually have pores (stomata) and they will most effectively take in the foliar spray when its cool and the stomata are open.
I heard they open in morning between 7-10am. If you are foliar fertilizing during that time, they take the nutrients into the plant while open and it feeds systemically. Is that correct?
@@joanies6778 Timing will depend on your geographic area but yes before the sun gets too intense and hot. The plant then closes the stomata to conserve water. Absorption and movement is going to depend on the water and minerals available in the plant. That's why you want to thoroughly cover the plant with a foliar spray. To give it the best opportunities for the nutrients to reach the plant cells. :)
@@melvinajessop696 yes you can. In fact, there is less evaporation occurring at night so a possible great absorption. I just happen to be a morning person so that schedule suits me best.
I have had limited success controlling squash bugs until this year. An oldtimer told me to plant radishes around my squash and it has worked. This was my first year growing it like this so only time will tell if it works time after time. I am in E TN.
Did the same, planted a single row of radishes just about one ft. from the cucumbers and and then did succession planting of radishes here in south east PA they are moderately heavy. It kept them down and I also shake my plants every night, don't know if that helps or not but my zucchini and summer squash are doing well right now. I also put the squash in relatively late, mid June. I am getting a harvest as of last week.
Such a wholesome way of life. Fresh food, fresh air and the bountiful harvest. When I see the smiles on their faces and hear the enthusiasm in their voices, I so can relate. Life on the homestead is good. Keep up the excellent work guys!
WOW! The growth on the plants is amazing. I looked back on when you showed the planting and it was only like a month ago that they were only inches high. Now they are as tall as you are with ripe fruits.
I was laughing about the bugs. We moved from Southern California to East Tennessee. It's like the bugs were the welcoming committee. 😂 A very persistent welcoming committee. Congrats on the good harvest you guys!
Welcome to East Tennessee,our state bird is the mosquito! Lived in Knoxville my whole life, and summer is just the time for bugs! I'm fighting with squash bugs this year,and have pretty much just given up. Maybe next year will be better.
Your garden looks amazing! Ours was overtaken by weeds this year, so we'd talked about using the black woven covering like you use. After seeing your gardens, I'm making that a priority for next year!!!
I have found that growing nasturtiums in among the squash deters the squash bugs from ever getting the idea that your squash is their smorgasbord. The more nasturtiums, the fewer bugs. They seem to hate the smell of the nasturtiums for some reason. An added bonus is that besides being edible flowers, they can also be dried, crushed, and used as a pepper-like seasoning in all kinds of dishes.
Beautiful tomatoes! Was so excited to hear y'all start talking about squash beetles then.....BAM! Disappointment.....all my zucchini died from those little buggers this year and still no solution (and hand picking doesn't work for growing 6 plants either ☹️) Thinking of skipping a couple of years and see if they just go away. I live in the city and no one in my immediate area has a garden. Every year they seem to get worse. Be blessed! And Sarah, you are looking so beautiful and healthy since your surgery! So happy for you!
Thanks for this video. I wrote everything down. I have already ordered the ground cloth you use as well as the Jet Star seeds I will plant next year. I talked my hubby into plowing up our bottom field the other day. It's the only one that isn't all clay from not until next Spring I will be amending the soil down there and next Spring I will be using that to expand and increase my production. I got the ground cloth for that area and that is where I will plant my Jet Stars.
Thanks for this video. Im excited to see that you use some of the methods I've gleaned over the years (Epsom salt) I added neem oil and fish emulsion and chicken manure to my fertilizing regimen this year and they are working out well. I bought some BT last year but was hesitant about using it so thanks for that info. Im going to add the Jet Star to my tomato plan next year. The Celebrity is my go to type. I planted Pink Girl for the first time with AMAZING results this year. I took lots of notes!. I'm in the St. Louis area !
Years ago, I read that if you collect some caterpillars or bugs and blend them up with some water, then spray that concoction on your plants works great. I never did it because I didn't want to put bugs or worms in my blender. lol
Gorgeous crops and yummyyyyyy looking! Tomatoes are my fav and I could just almost taste it as Kevin took a bite! BLT"s and yummmm So excited for you all and enjoy the fruits of your labor! Beautiful work and lots of hard work. So happy you can enjoy it all and share with the family! Blessings
I live in New Mexico, at 7500 ft elevation. Gardening has been tough but getting through. Now for the first time I had major bugs. Horn worms just about destroyed my tomatoes, but I found in another bed I had none. The reason is I have calendula and citronella in the bed. No bugs at all. Now I also had bugs eating my cucumbers, I read lemon balm was a possibility. So I took my pot of lemon balm and put in the middle of my cucumber plants. No more bugs. I had millions of moths. They were thick, I took my bug zapper , plugged it in st night, no more moths. Now your garden is bigger but you can then mine. But citronella is easy to take cuttings , keep in doors then then take cuttings from that plant , once plants root put in garden. Lemon grass works to but I prefer lemon balm. Hope this helps. Love you videos. I started watching your new potatoe video. Got disconnected and cant find it now. Stay safe
Jobes also makes it organic fertilizer they sell it at Walmart. It’s around five dollars for a bag the size of what you had. I’ve used it for the last two years and it really does work well. Just another option in case You can’t find that one time
@@joanies6778 Yes to Jobes. Good all around fertilizer. NPK, 3-7-4 Tom and Veg. Important part is twice the Phosphorous, to Nitrogen. Not recommended for Beans or Carrots. Beans create their own Nitrogen, and Carrots will tend to be small and hairy (multiple roots) with a lot of leaf instead of root.
I am in east Tennessee. I learned by accident squash bugs like to congregate under random objects after leaving an overturned bucket in the garden. Now it doesn't exactly prevent them from doing damage but it does help you take out a good bit of the population. Just lay random wood boards, or tarp pieces, or buckets throughout your garden and they will gather there and you can kill them.
I am impressed by your tag team collaborative presentation style. I like how you both stop and listen to the other and LOOK at each other. It's very heartwarming. (Your garden is lovely and your tips are good, too!)
So far since moving here(MO), I have found the best thing for the bugs is the traps. Also allowing a trap crop of that glorious(sarcastic tone here) pigweed/amaranth SAVED all my beans and pepper plants! The bugs seem to prefer those even before my precious veg plants. I discovered that by accident when I got busy and didn't get to weeding fast enough to pull them. So I lived with ugly weeds thru June, then I pulled most of them(thankfully they pull easy enough) I did, however, leave some and the bugs still flock to them first. Saving my Cucumbers, Beans, Peppers, and even Corn plants from a lot of bug pressure(I also got blessed with Pink Lady Beetles on my corn). Now I(as a notation) DID grow my sweet corn in the woven weed fabric and I must say, that sure is nice :) So I am happy to swap notes come end of the season on whether y'all will want to do it next year, or just keep things the way you did it this year.
We used to have sliced tomatoes from our garden every day out of the garden. Yum! We sprinkled ourrs with a little bit of sugar, not salt. Try it. We put sugar on the tomatoes and salt on the watermelon!
In a FB group I'm in a lady said she had major problems with squash bugs and vine borers so she decided to inject BT directly into the squash stems. After that, she didn't have anymore issues.
I love watching you guys get so excited about your harvest and food preserving. I haven't seen the Thursday video in a while. Are you so busy with your gardens coming in and farm expansion to think about the Thursday video? I'm very happy with your garden production and love seeing all the animals too! Take care and God bless!
You two are special! The way you equally honor each other & share in a balanced, non-competitive way is a true example of how a Christian marriage should be done. A lot of love shines through your eyes for the other. That is rare! Plus, you have a great channel.
I am from Houston Texas and this is my first time gardening I have a raised bed garden and I'm having a lot of fun I have broccoli peppers tomato yellow squash and zucchini and onions so I'm just seeing what happens
I was told of a remedy for bugs on plants that worked for me this year. I took orange peels and soaked them in white vinegar for two weeks. I then put the liquid in a spray bottle and sprayed my plants weekly
Great video! My advice would be to Try growing summer squash now. We are planting them now to get a late summer harvest of them. Since the life cycle is winding down for squash bugs, you should get a much better harvest! I’ll let you know how it works (we are in southern Missouri now!)
One homestead said put card board under your plants and the next morning all the bugs will be hiding there. Early in the morning just step on the cardboard and it crushes them. I personally put two tablespoons of Dawn detergent in with water and spray the leaves underside and top. It works for me.
One thing that we do that works great is to use a water soluble organic fertilizer distributed with a dosing bottle connected to our drip system. We have manifolds so each Garden can receive a custom blend of whatever fertilizer, for example if I want to water my corn then I'm going to mix up a high-nitrogen blend. If I'm feeding carrots I can mix up a high phosphorus and potassium blend. You can customize your nutrient schedule with a dosing bottle in a drip system.
I love tomatoes! When my family grew them...I didn't need salt. Just grab a fresh one, no need to cut it up! Just eat it like a messy apple. Tug it off the vine, bend over a bit and BITE! YUM! Never helped much with the tomato canning as my mom and dad we very fussy about how it was done. Although snapped many a green bean for canning and and cut corn off the cob for freezing. I miss it.
With all that extra pasture, have you given any thought to raising a couple of beef calves or even getting a couple of cows to have your own beef herd? Maybe Hope's calf will be a heifer. I think I remember she was bred to a beef breed. Those tomatoes sure make my mouth water! Ours will be starting soon. Love them!
We're in mo. Too, for squash bugs , we used the traps last yr. Caught bags of them , still had bugs but not as many. Love your show ! We're in Warrensburg mo.
Here in NW Fla, we not only have the squash bugs, but also vine borers and stink bugs. I'm 72, been gardening for nearly fifty years, and haven't found anything that works. This year I had two twenty foot rows and I think we ate squash twice. My dad used DDT, but it is no longer available. One thing I haven't tried is fine netting. That might work. Of course, you'd have to pollinate by hand.
Hi. Great first harvest !! Your spraying methods work. Yeah squash bugs are super bugs. Try growing in cooler weather, under light fabric, to protect from birds n maybe hand pollinate, n just keep covered til no squash bugs seen. Replant potatoes in that open bed again (not by the greenhouse ). There - plant lettuce n other greens where they don't need as much light. Peace to you and yours
I recently watched your video about your pond you were wanting to put fish in, and you may want to check and see but I believe duckweed is very nutritious and good for your chickens which would be good chicken food
I would also recommend a water soluble fertilizer called organic plant Magic you can find it on Amazon it's a little costly but it goes a long way mixed up in your dosing bottle your plants will like it.
love all the information!! I live in NW Kansas and we don't have too many insects to deal with, mainly I have problems with diseases. My nectarine tree has some kind of disease and I'm going to have to treat it this year.
Did you try mixing Cayenne Pepper and Garlic with neem oil in a Jar and shake it up. Leave mature for 24 hours and apply to your plants..? Works a treat for many hard to get rid of bugs.
Hello all! I'm in zone 5b. I've done a lot of research and I think I have the squash bugs about beat. Migardener has an older video about pruning your plants, specifically squash plants. So I just cut off the leaves with eggs. Burn them or dispose after rubbing them to nothing. Another thing you can paint something like a aluminum pie pan yellow and cake on petroleum jelly. The bugs may take the bait. Attach upright to mimic a sunflower. I'm definitely planting some radishes around my squash in the morning. May all of you be blessed with wonderful bounty and stay safe.
Best way to deal with squash bugs in the mid west/south east is to obtain and or attract Trichopoda Pennipes , the young are parasites of the squash bug. You might be able to get some through your local ag extension possibly they are native and the adults like to eat pollen from dill , queen ann's lace , carrot flower etc.
This may be silly, but if the squash bugs lay eggs on the leaves of your squash, then they're adult sized bugs. Perhaps using mosquito netting over the squash bed might work? They make mosquito netting in "tents" to fit over sleeping beds, it seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to arrange a "fourposter" kind of arrangement over a single bed. And you'd be able to simply slip through the opening and work in there as needed. Just a thought. :)
Living Traditions Home 🏡 for now I will say that I am so happy that I tuned into your channel 👍 which caught my attention when you did a watermelon 🍉 and sweet corn 🌽 harvest video. I think that you offer some information for anyone that is just a novice gardener or an organic market gardener such great tips and advise, and your harvest are really the proof in the pudding so to speak. From I've seen you have a wonderful Homestead! Thanks so much for sharing 😌 your knowledge and experience.
You should increase the number of ducks and use them for pest control, especially the squash bugs. once they get too big and start to squash the plants- then use them as meat birds.
I grew up in NJ and the old timers there said crush the beetle and make a tea to spray on the leaves with it...I'm old enough to be an old timer now but I never tried it...But they swore by it.
Your garden is doing great! Wow those tomatoes are gorgeous!, We moved from New Jersey to Central Virginia 4 years ago. Thank you for all the tips to fight those crazy bugs 🐛 Jersey
Enjoy your channel. You two really work hard at growing your own food. Your vegetables are absolutely beautiful. My wife and I would like to enter for the freeze dryer give away. Thank you.
Your first harvest looks delicious! Where did you get the Jet Star seeds? Thank you so much for all the details of caring for your garden. You’ve answered my questions so well about feeding and schedules for feedings. And I’m going to try the oil and suds mixture, thank you thank you. Blessings as you harvest 😊
Do you use wheat straw mulch on your tomatoes? As you go into the hotter dryer period of summer that will keep the ground cooler, and decrease the amount watering needed, as well as increase field production. As you probably know extreme heat will cause the plants to quit blooming, I've heard of gardeners placing a light colored awning over tomato plants to keep them cooler so that the plants will continue to bloom and set fruit, have you tried that method?
Ah! How I miss fresh tomatoes!! I live in an apartment and we used to be allowed to have small container gardens. Unfortunately, new management came in and stopped all that. I always had 3 or 4 tomatoes plants planted. Every year I looked forward to fresh tomato sandwiches! I miss that so much. Those things they call tomatoes at the stores are horrible. Thanks for your awesome videos!!
thanks for all your video. we live in the panhandle of Florida and plant a garden every year this year we decided to put in the drip tap and is working great with the woven ground cover.But the ants are driving us crazy .
Good Morning you beautiful family.. PRAYER.. PRAYER PRAYER .. Pray works better than all .. STand over each row every morning and Pray Thankful Prayer over it.. Give Thanks for the Harvest that you see in your mind. Pray from your heart. Thankfully ask the insects to stay away from the crops.. see them leaving and praise them for it.. Praying over your harvest is not a new thing.. Pray over it Daily.. Standing there patiently and giving praise and Thankfulness. :)) hugs to you guys..
I I love your videos and I have been watching and following you guys and fit farmer as well for a couple of years now. I have learned so much from all of you guys 💯🥰 .. But have you tried to see if the neem oil would help you guys protect your watermelons and other melons yet??? And your food looks so delicious right out of your garden 😋 ... Happy Gardening 🤗
A secret my grandpa taught me: Tomato plants will root all along the stem (that's what the hairs are on the stems). Plant them as deep as possible, all the way up to the first branch, even horizontally if you don't want to go deeper. They will grow many more roots this way and take up more water and nutrients, and give you a higher yield.
Your garden looks great and y'all have given us wonderful ideas.. Super excited for next year to try some of these things.. In Georgia we get a lot of rain and it winds up eventually killing our garden mostly by August. Do you have any suggestions?
Beautiful bounty! Now, I'm wondering how you spray all these different foliar products. Do you use the same sprayer or do you have several different ones? One thing about squash bugs and those types in general, is they love mulches! I notice you don't use that, but for those who do and have an extreme problem with them, make sure you burn the left overs at the end of the season to kill any surviving bugs and their eggs. I know, seems like a waste of good organic material.
This was our first year to find armyworms, and oh my word!! There was a TON of them one 1 plants. we also found a tomato moth worm too. they are brown and more the size of a tomato horn worm. My son and his grandpa (my father in law) went catfishing and they found out that tomato horn worms make good fish bait.
I want a BLT sandwich after watching this vid . YUM !!! The both of you work so hard, and your homestead looks so neat and efficient . Be be ready to protect all that . You live in Missouri , too . Yikes.
I wondered if you used help to fertilize and organically deter pests. This was great information. Will have to make notes for next year’s garden. Question...how is your square foot garden doing? I plan to do square foot gardening next spring.
Hi, thanks for sharing your wealth of information! I was wondering, do you have a video showing how you put the fabric down? I'd love to see that, thinking about doing that this year, the weeds are just too much! We live in SW Missouri, outside of Lamar. And ironically, I grew up in Arizona! I lived in Payson, went to high school there, and then lived in Mesa for a while. Also had family in Phoenix and Tempe, I miss it down there! Especially Payson!
Curious, what does the black tarp do for the garden? Also, I remember seeing a video of you guys saving your own seeds, how do you go about protecting cross pollination?
Love your unified delivery of clear organized planned information. Refreshing to see ur high respect for each other & unified cooperation. I’m downsizing as our 7 children have moved out of our home. Seeing the simplicity & order of ur home & property is absolutely encouraging. Can’t wait to try many of your gardening & harvest storing tips. Thank you & God Bless you both.
I use marigolds and other plants to repels. Add them and let them grow along side veggies. When i do a harvest i would cut up a few if the marigolds leafs to mask the harvesting sent as well. I plant my marigolds first then plant my veggies. The squash get extra marigolds plants.
I am also a big fan of fish emulsion and like the Alaska brand. Another reason why this should be done in the morning while its cool is because the stomata are open. Plants actually have pores (stomata) and they will most effectively take in the foliar spray when its cool and the stomata are open.
I heard they open in morning between 7-10am. If you are foliar fertilizing during that time, they take the nutrients into the plant while open and it feeds systemically. Is that correct?
@@joanies6778 Timing will depend on your geographic area but yes before the sun gets too intense and hot. The plant then closes the stomata to conserve water. Absorption and movement is going to depend on the water and minerals available in the plant. That's why you want to thoroughly cover the plant with a foliar spray. To give it the best opportunities for the nutrients to reach the plant cells. :)
@@foxruneec Thank you!
Can u add spray this at night after the sun goes down?
@@melvinajessop696 yes you can. In fact, there is less evaporation occurring at night so a possible great absorption. I just happen to be a morning person so that schedule suits me best.
I guess it's the dad in me, I can see the excited little girl in Sarah when she is doing the gardening. Best wishes you guys.
I have had limited success controlling squash bugs until this year. An oldtimer told me to plant radishes around my squash and it has worked. This was my first year growing it like this so only time will tell if it works time after time. I am in E TN.
Oldtimers know what they're talking about. Hoping you have a plentiful bounty
I'd forgotten this. I did plant radishes around them last year and it did deter them somewhat. I need to write notes more on my garden. Blessings.
It's worth a try! 😊
Did the same, planted a single row of radishes just about one ft. from the cucumbers and and then did succession planting of radishes here in south east PA they are moderately heavy. It kept them down and I also shake my plants every night, don't know if that helps or not but my zucchini and summer squash are doing well right now. I also put the squash in relatively late, mid June. I am getting a harvest as of last week.
Will give this a try. Thanks for sharing!
Such a wholesome way of life. Fresh food, fresh air and the bountiful harvest. When I see the smiles on their faces and hear the enthusiasm in their voices, I so can relate. Life on the homestead is good. Keep up the excellent work guys!
WOW! The growth on the plants is amazing. I looked back on when you showed the planting and it was only like a month ago that they were only inches high. Now they are as tall as you are with ripe fruits.
Guys, I lost rack of your channel for a long time. It's great to be back!
I was laughing about the bugs. We moved from Southern California to East Tennessee. It's like the bugs were the welcoming committee. 😂 A very persistent welcoming committee. Congrats on the good harvest you guys!
I live in East Tennessee also.
lol Sorry to hear but great sense of humor.
Welcome to East Tennessee,our state bird is the mosquito! Lived in Knoxville my whole life, and summer is just the time for bugs! I'm fighting with squash bugs this year,and have pretty much just given up. Maybe next year will be better.
@@feliciascraftyadventures4734 😂😂😂. Thanks!
I'm in NE Tennessee also!
I love gardening so much.
Your garden looks amazing! Ours was overtaken by weeds this year, so we'd talked about using the black woven covering like you use. After seeing your gardens, I'm making that a priority for next year!!!
I have found that growing nasturtiums in among the squash deters the squash bugs from ever getting the idea that your squash is their smorgasbord. The more nasturtiums, the fewer bugs. They seem to hate the smell of the nasturtiums for some reason. An added bonus is that besides being edible flowers, they can also be dried, crushed, and used as a pepper-like seasoning in all kinds of dishes.
Beautiful tomatoes! Was so excited to hear y'all start talking about squash beetles then.....BAM! Disappointment.....all my zucchini died from those little buggers this year and still no solution (and hand picking doesn't work for growing 6 plants either ☹️) Thinking of skipping a couple of years and see if they just go away. I live in the city and no one in my immediate area has a garden. Every year they seem to get worse.
Be blessed! And Sarah, you are looking so beautiful and healthy since your surgery! So happy for you!
We gave up on squash/zucchini here in n/e Texas. Poison doesn't even help. We can make eggplants so, close enough.
Thanks for this video. I wrote everything down. I have already ordered the ground cloth you use as well as the Jet Star seeds I will plant next year. I talked my hubby into plowing up our bottom field the other day. It's the only one that isn't all clay from not until next Spring I will be amending the soil down there and next Spring I will be using that to expand and increase my production. I got the ground cloth for that area and that is where I will plant my Jet Stars.
Thanks for this video. Im excited to see that you use some of the methods I've gleaned over the years (Epsom salt) I added neem oil and fish emulsion and chicken manure to my fertilizing regimen this year and they are working out well. I bought some BT last year but was hesitant about using it so thanks for that info. Im going to add the Jet Star to my tomato plan next year. The Celebrity is my go to type. I planted Pink Girl for the first time with AMAZING results this year. I took lots of notes!. I'm in the St. Louis area !
i love farming,cause it is the best,special life method.
Can you tell my wife Debby that she could move to MO. It would be ok! I want that garden!
Years ago, I read that if you collect some caterpillars or bugs and blend them up with some water, then spray that concoction on your plants works great. I never did it because I didn't want to put bugs or worms in my blender. lol
Gorgeous crops and yummyyyyyy looking! Tomatoes are my fav and I could just almost taste it as Kevin took a bite! BLT"s and yummmm So excited for you all and enjoy the fruits of your labor! Beautiful work and lots of hard work. So happy you can enjoy it all and share with the family!
Blessings
I live in New Mexico, at 7500 ft elevation. Gardening has been tough but getting through.
Now for the first time I had major bugs. Horn worms just about destroyed my tomatoes, but I found in another bed I had none. The reason is I have calendula and citronella in the bed. No bugs at all.
Now I also had bugs eating my cucumbers, I read lemon balm was a possibility. So I took my pot of lemon balm and put in the middle of my cucumber plants. No more bugs.
I had millions of moths. They were thick, I took my bug zapper , plugged it in st night, no more moths. Now your garden is bigger but you can then mine. But citronella is easy to take cuttings , keep in doors then then take cuttings from that plant , once plants root put in garden. Lemon grass works to but I prefer lemon balm.
Hope this helps.
Love you videos.
I started watching your new potatoe video. Got disconnected and cant find it now.
Stay safe
Jobes also makes it organic fertilizer they sell it at Walmart. It’s around five dollars for a bag the size of what you had. I’ve used it for the last two years and it really does work well. Just another option in case You can’t find that one time
I was unable to get the brand I had before, so I just bought the Jobe's organic fertilizer at Walmart, too. Definitely more affordable!
@@joanies6778 Yes to Jobes. Good all around fertilizer. NPK, 3-7-4 Tom and Veg.
Important part is twice the Phosphorous, to Nitrogen. Not recommended for Beans or Carrots. Beans create their own Nitrogen, and Carrots will tend to be small and hairy (multiple roots) with a lot of leaf instead of root.
I am in east Tennessee. I learned by accident squash bugs like to congregate under random objects after leaving an overturned bucket in the garden. Now it doesn't exactly prevent them from doing damage but it does help you take out a good bit of the population. Just lay random wood boards, or tarp pieces, or buckets throughout your garden and they will gather there and you can kill them.
I am impressed by your tag team collaborative presentation style. I like how you both stop and listen to the other and LOOK at each other. It's very heartwarming. (Your garden is lovely and your tips are good, too!)
So far since moving here(MO), I have found the best thing for the bugs is the traps. Also allowing a trap crop of that glorious(sarcastic tone here) pigweed/amaranth SAVED all my beans and pepper plants! The bugs seem to prefer those even before my precious veg plants. I discovered that by accident when I got busy and didn't get to weeding fast enough to pull them. So I lived with ugly weeds thru June, then I pulled most of them(thankfully they pull easy enough) I did, however, leave some and the bugs still flock to them first. Saving my Cucumbers, Beans, Peppers, and even Corn plants from a lot of bug pressure(I also got blessed with Pink Lady Beetles on my corn). Now I(as a notation) DID grow my sweet corn in the woven weed fabric and I must say, that sure is nice :) So I am happy to swap notes come end of the season on whether y'all will want to do it next year, or just keep things the way you did it this year.
We used to have sliced tomatoes from our garden every day out of the garden. Yum! We sprinkled ourrs with a little bit of sugar, not salt. Try it. We put sugar on the tomatoes and salt on the watermelon!
In a FB group I'm in a lady said she had major problems with squash bugs and vine borers so she decided to inject BT directly into the squash stems. After that, she didn't have anymore issues.
This is the best life. Wonderful!
I love watching you guys get so excited about your harvest and food preserving. I haven't seen the Thursday video in a while. Are you so busy with your gardens coming in and farm expansion to think about the Thursday video? I'm very happy with your garden production and love seeing all the animals too! Take care and God bless!
We love to see you enjoy your Homestead too. We would like to know how you attach the tomato plants to the panel.
You two are special! The way you equally honor each other & share in a balanced, non-competitive way is a true example of how a Christian marriage should be done. A lot of love shines through your eyes for the other. That is rare! Plus, you have a great channel.
I am from Houston Texas and this is my first time gardening I have a raised bed garden and I'm having a lot of fun I have broccoli peppers tomato yellow squash and zucchini and onions so I'm just seeing what happens
I was told of a remedy for bugs on plants that worked for me this year. I took orange peels and soaked them in white vinegar for two weeks. I then put the liquid in a spray bottle and sprayed my plants weekly
Great video! My advice would be to Try growing summer squash now. We are planting them now to get a late summer harvest of them. Since the life cycle is winding down for squash bugs, you should get a much better harvest! I’ll let you know how it works (we are in southern Missouri now!)
You guys have so much knowledge! Thanks for sharing.
One homestead said put card board under your plants and the next morning all the bugs will be hiding there. Early in the morning just step on the cardboard and it crushes them. I personally put two tablespoons of Dawn detergent in with water and spray the leaves underside and top. It works for me.
That dehydrator looks super handy!
I love how you two explain. Its so helpful for folks. Thank you.
You too are awesome, love your enthusiasm garden so great ,wish I had one ,❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Have you tried a trellis for squash and cucumber? It gets the fruit of the plant off the ground, and out of reach of many of the bugs.
One thing that we do that works great is to use a water soluble organic fertilizer distributed with a dosing bottle connected to our drip system. We have manifolds so each Garden can receive a custom blend of whatever fertilizer, for example if I want to water my corn then I'm going to mix up a high-nitrogen blend. If I'm feeding carrots I can mix up a high phosphorus and potassium blend. You can customize your nutrient schedule with a dosing bottle in a drip system.
I love tomatoes! When my family grew them...I didn't need salt. Just grab a fresh one, no need to cut it up! Just eat it like a messy apple. Tug it off the vine, bend over a bit and BITE! YUM! Never helped much with the tomato canning as my mom and dad we very fussy about how it was done. Although snapped many a green bean for canning and and cut corn off the cob for freezing. I miss it.
Do you prune your tomatoes at all? Do you just weave them into the cattle panel? Everything looks great, especially you - Sarah - don't overdo.
With all that extra pasture, have you given any thought to raising a couple of beef calves or even getting a couple of cows to have your own beef herd? Maybe Hope's calf will be a heifer. I think I remember she was bred to a beef breed. Those tomatoes sure make my mouth water! Ours will be starting soon. Love them!
I mix dawn dish soap with water in a hand sprayer and spray directly on squash bugs. It works perfect.
I live in Amarillo Tx.
We're in mo. Too, for squash bugs , we used the traps last yr.
Caught bags of them , still had bugs but not as many. Love your show ! We're in Warrensburg mo.
Your turkeys are looking wonderful guys I love the gray slate ones
I north texas, squash bugs and vine bores are unstoppable.
agree in DFW
Here in NW Fla, we not only have the squash bugs, but also vine borers and stink bugs. I'm 72, been gardening for nearly fifty years, and haven't found anything that works. This year I had two twenty foot rows and I think we ate squash twice. My dad used DDT, but it is no longer available. One thing I haven't tried is fine netting. That might work. Of course, you'd have to pollinate by hand.
I m in Wa state..and my biggest tomato until now was 12 oz... beautiful one
Hi. Great first harvest !! Your spraying methods work. Yeah squash bugs are super bugs. Try growing in cooler weather, under light fabric, to protect from birds n maybe hand pollinate, n just keep covered til no squash bugs seen. Replant potatoes in that open bed again (not by the greenhouse ). There - plant lettuce n other greens where they don't need as much light. Peace to you and yours
God is so good! Many tomatoes from few seeds!
I recently watched your video about your pond you were wanting to put fish in, and you may want to check and see but I believe duckweed is very nutritious and good for your chickens which would be good chicken food
I would also recommend a water soluble fertilizer called organic plant Magic you can find it on Amazon it's a little costly but it goes a long way mixed up in your dosing bottle your plants will like it.
Salt and freshly ground black pepper is delicious on tomatoes. 😄
Lovely tomatoes
try south louisiana. where the bugs seems to never die and the ground never freezes.
As a Phoenix gardener who grew up in MO... I so get it!
love all the information!! I live in NW Kansas and we don't have too many insects to deal with, mainly I have problems with diseases. My nectarine tree has some kind of disease and I'm going to have to treat it this year.
This is a wonderful and thorough video thx
Did you try mixing Cayenne Pepper and Garlic with neem oil in a Jar and shake it up. Leave mature for 24 hours and apply to your plants..? Works a treat for many hard to get rid of bugs.
Neem oil in a soap solution I found is good for the animals as a shampoo. I found it clear up skin infection or mange...
Oh Yummmmmm, my mouth is watering 😋 Nothing like a fresh picked tomato off the vine and a salt shaker in hand 🤗
Grow the squash in containers INSIDE a sealed greenhouse....I do that in Arizona
Hello all! I'm in zone 5b. I've done a lot of research and I think I have the squash bugs about beat. Migardener has an older video about pruning your plants, specifically squash plants. So I just cut off the leaves with eggs. Burn them or dispose after rubbing them to nothing.
Another thing you can paint something like a aluminum pie pan yellow and cake on petroleum jelly. The bugs may take the bait. Attach upright to mimic a sunflower.
I'm definitely planting some radishes around my squash in the morning.
May all of you be blessed with wonderful bounty and stay safe.
Beautiful homestead
Best way to deal with squash bugs in the mid west/south east is to obtain and or attract Trichopoda Pennipes , the young are parasites of the squash bug. You might be able to get some through your local ag extension possibly they are native and the adults like to eat pollen from dill , queen ann's lace , carrot flower etc.
You guys are rocking it x n
This may be silly, but if the squash bugs lay eggs on the leaves of your squash, then they're adult sized bugs. Perhaps using mosquito netting over the squash bed might work? They make mosquito netting in "tents" to fit over sleeping beds, it seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to arrange a "fourposter" kind of arrangement over a single bed. And you'd be able to simply slip through the opening and work in there as needed. Just a thought. :)
Living Traditions Home 🏡 for now I will say that I am so happy that I tuned into your channel 👍 which caught my attention when you did a watermelon 🍉 and sweet corn 🌽 harvest video. I think that you offer some information for anyone that is just a novice gardener or an organic market gardener such great tips and advise, and your harvest are really the proof in the pudding so to speak. From I've seen you have a wonderful Homestead! Thanks so much for sharing 😌 your knowledge and experience.
You should increase the number of ducks and use them for pest control, especially the squash bugs. once they get too big and start to squash the plants- then use them as meat birds.
Plant basil amongst your tomatoes, and you will not have any horn worms.
Good to know!
I grew up in NJ and the old timers there said crush the beetle and make a tea to spray on the leaves with it...I'm old enough to be an old timer now but I never tried it...But they swore by it.
great couple / videos i've been following them for quite a while love the recipes sarah tk s, kevin i love your technical info , like new well videos
Can’t remember the ratio, but say 2 TBLS spoons of dawn in 2 gal of water. Spray under the leaves and on the ground under you plants. Kansas
Your garden is doing great!
Wow those tomatoes are gorgeous!,
We moved from New Jersey to Central Virginia 4 years ago.
Thank you for all the tips to fight those crazy bugs 🐛
Jersey
Enjoy your channel. You two really work hard at growing your own food. Your vegetables are absolutely beautiful. My wife and I would like to enter for the freeze dryer give away. Thank you.
Your first harvest looks delicious! Where did you get the Jet Star seeds?
Thank you so much for all the details of caring for your garden. You’ve answered my questions so well about feeding and schedules for feedings. And I’m going to try the oil and suds mixture, thank you thank you. Blessings as you harvest 😊
Do you use wheat straw mulch on your tomatoes? As you go into the hotter dryer period of summer that will keep the ground cooler, and decrease the amount watering needed, as well as increase field production. As you probably know extreme heat will cause the plants to quit blooming, I've heard of gardeners placing a light colored awning over tomato plants to keep them cooler so that the plants will continue to bloom and set fruit, have you tried that method?
Ah! How I miss fresh tomatoes!! I live in an apartment and we used to be allowed to have small container gardens. Unfortunately, new management came in and stopped all that. I always had 3 or 4 tomatoes plants planted. Every year I looked forward to fresh tomato sandwiches! I miss that so much. Those things they call tomatoes at the stores are horrible. Thanks for your awesome videos!!
thanks for all your video. we live in the panhandle of Florida and plant a garden every year this year we decided to put in the drip tap and is working great with the woven ground cover.But the ants are driving us crazy .
Early girl tomato to me are the best tomato. Nice size and I always got so many. We never even fed them anything
hopefully the german pink tomatoes will do good me this year
Good Morning you beautiful family.. PRAYER.. PRAYER PRAYER .. Pray works better than all .. STand over each row every morning and Pray Thankful Prayer over it.. Give Thanks for the Harvest that you see in your mind. Pray from your heart. Thankfully ask the insects to stay away from the crops.. see them leaving and praise them for it.. Praying over your harvest is not a new thing.. Pray over it Daily.. Standing there patiently and giving praise and Thankfulness. :)) hugs to you guys..
Very good content. We are in Indiana. It’s been a good tomato year for us as well!
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Y'all have some healthy looking tomato plants!
I used the same fertilizer in my garden and have been very happy with it too!!!
I I love your videos and I have been watching and following you guys and fit farmer as well for a couple of years now. I have learned so much from all of you guys 💯🥰 .. But have you tried to see if the neem oil would help you guys protect your watermelons and other melons yet??? And your food looks so delicious right out of your garden 😋 ... Happy Gardening 🤗
A secret my grandpa taught me: Tomato plants will root all along the stem (that's what the hairs are on the stems). Plant them as deep as possible, all the way up to the first branch, even horizontally if you don't want to go deeper. They will grow many more roots this way and take up more water and nutrients, and give you a higher yield.
Your garden looks great and y'all have given us wonderful ideas.. Super excited for next year to try some of these things.. In Georgia we get a lot of rain and it winds up eventually killing our garden mostly by August. Do you have any suggestions?
Beautiful bounty! Now, I'm wondering how you spray all these different foliar products. Do you use the same sprayer or do you have several different ones? One thing about squash bugs and those types in general, is they love mulches! I notice you don't use that, but for those who do and have an extreme problem with them, make sure you burn the left overs at the end of the season to kill any surviving bugs and their eggs. I know, seems like a waste of good organic material.
This was our first year to find armyworms, and oh my word!! There was a TON of them one 1 plants. we also found a tomato moth worm too. they are brown and more the size of a tomato horn worm. My son and his grandpa (my father in law) went catfishing and they found out that tomato horn worms make good fish bait.
I want a BLT sandwich after watching this vid . YUM !!! The both of you work so hard, and your homestead looks so neat and efficient . Be be ready to protect all that . You live in Missouri , too . Yikes.
Dang, those a great lookin' tomatoes. It makes me drool just watching you eat it.
Insect netting works on bugs. They can't get to the plants. I love it
I wondered if you used help to fertilize and organically deter pests. This was great information. Will have to make notes for next year’s garden. Question...how is your square foot garden doing? I plan to do square foot gardening next spring.
Love the tomatoes
Do you weave the tomatoes up wire fencing to keep the upright? They were so beautifully kept.
Hi, thanks for sharing your wealth of information! I was wondering, do you have a video showing how you put the fabric down? I'd love to see that, thinking about doing that this year, the weeds are just too much! We live in SW Missouri, outside of Lamar. And ironically, I grew up in Arizona! I lived in Payson, went to high school there, and then lived in Mesa for a while. Also had family in Phoenix and Tempe, I miss it down there! Especially Payson!
Curious, what does the black tarp do for the garden? Also, I remember seeing a video of you guys saving your own seeds, how do you go about protecting cross pollination?