Groundhogs really got us last year and being in the city and having a small yard, we're limited in our solutions. But, watching James n Tuck keep us positive and inspired! Let's gooooooo!
I had trouble with birds going after my new leafs on my starts. I placed plastic snakes in my raised beds. I moved them around so the birds didnt get used to them. It worked!
Careful where you place them! One of the kids tossed a rubber snake on our lower roof and someone called the cops for it. Everyone did have a nice laugh about it though
Update- two successes with these techniques. Have our first ever Cherry 🍒 harvest thanks to the reflective tape. Don’t tell the birds!! And red rocks is also keeping the birds away. The ants 🐜 are harder to trick unify😏. Great tips James 🤩
For the love of terriers! They’re so good at pest control. Tuck is awesome!!! 🐕Great video dude! I love how it’s like a tactical manual. Super clever and interesting presentation. Thanks for sharing
Just to let you know last year I was canning like crazy and I saved the seeds from apples plums and peaches. I started them in a bucket and now have 4 inch tall trees.
I love that you talk about sprays as a last resort and being an "extreme" measure. It feels like so many people eagerly head straight to BT and Neem oil at the first sight of pests. I don't try to eliminate every single pest but keep things in balance.
I hand pick before spraying even “organic” pesticides. If I see wheeled assassin, and other predators in other parts of the yard I move them to the garden. Assassin bugs eat Japanese Beetles.
@@joe8133 The previously mentioned assassin bugs eat hornworms as well. I would imagine cabbage worms, and any insect is on the menu (unfortunately I have also seen them eating ladybugs). I’m the only one in my family who truly likes cabbage. As a result I haven’t tried growing them.
@@joe8133 If you plant stuff, or allow wild plants to grow (in areas where you don’t crop) that attract pollinators they will attract the predators too.
James this video is superb!! I am so glad that you gave us waaaay more than 3 tips and tricks. The red rocks for the birds was the most humorous and are literally FREE! Thanks for your valuable advice!💯💪
Great video as always, thanks for sharing! To help save money my family and I have started a small backyard garden. We're learning how to homecan, seed save, make compost, and preserve what we grow. Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to begin growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency. Thanks again for all you do, your channel definitely helps keep me motivated for my family. God bless!
I can't help but smile every time I hear "What's goin' on, Growers?" Plus I know I will always learn new tips even though I've been gardening for decades. Thank you, James!!
ten years of youtube almost and all the knowledge you shared and learned and taught us, thanks for everything you done until today, you are an inspiration!
I have watched a groundhog scale a chain link fence, 4' in just a couple seconds flat. I love the cold frames fitted to the raised bed area, and have used the wire cloth vs gophers (works so far!) I feed sunflower and safflower to attract a certain category of birds .. they fight off things like crows, blue jays, ect - the strawberry thieves! Finches, wrens, robins, thrushes, and chickadees do some serious insect hunting to feed their young - so naturally we put in water and habitat for those birds as well. Houses for finches and wrens have 1 1/8" entrances - allowing them security without blue jays stealing their nests .. they set up camp all over the place anyway 😉🕊
I have never seen a woodchuck climb a fence (although my husband is sure they can), usually they dig under. I actually had a woodchuck cut down a current bush very rapidly last year. I had planted it near the hole and apparently it thought the bush was in the way because it just chewed through the stem and didn't eat it at all.
Great informational video as always. I might add that using a blacklight at night helps to find hornworms on those tomatoes. Tuck is always a blessing to see in your videos, like icing on the cake!🐶💕
Thank you for the inspiration, James! I'd like to find an alternative to the PVC piping. Just wanted to add-- Wasps eat caterpillars and lots of other problem bugs and EGGS-- they just cleaned off a massive caterpillar attack on our chard, which is now putting out new and clean growth. We had aphids in a weedy section, I worried, but then ladybugs showed up all on their own and totally cleaned up the problem. I totally agree with James about only using insect sprays, even organic ones, as a last resort, because wiping out one problem can sometimes cause other imbalances. I'm big on physical removal. I get out and patrol, with light gloves on, and grab and kill the leaf-footed bugs and their offspring (they look different at different phases) (they suck the juices out of tomatoes etc and cause spots and disease). You have to sneak up on the adults and give a good twist, but the young are easy to smush. Just the early work with physical removal we did has made such a huge difference this year. One thing to be aware of is that there are a group of insects called "assassin bugs" that eat bad bugs. Those can look similar to some of the younger versions of the bad bugs. You don't want to kill these. Look up what your local assassin bugs look like (they vary regionally), familiarize yourself, so you don't kill them as you pick off baddies. A main difference is assassin bugs have a longer neck with more articulation in it, so that helps me. Assassin bugs won't bite you if you leave them alone, I did get bitten once before I knew what they were, and it hurt, but it went away quickly-- so don't be afraid of them, just give them space and tell them you know they are your friend and mean them no harm. They hear you.
You're right about the wasps killing the tomato horn worms, if you plant a sweet alyssum in you're garden be it will attract black wasps. They lay their eggs on the worms back, when they hatch they eat the worms alive. It works.
@@lindaobrien2659 That's great to learn about the black wasps laying eggs that eat the tomato hornworms! Other wasps actually directly eat small caterpillars and eggs too. When they are hovering or crawling around green leaves, they are hunting for other insects' eggs and the smaller instars of caterpillars. I just wish they'd eat the squash vine borer eggs before those monsters hatch and destroy my squash.
I am a cannabis cultivator by trade but have recently gotten into home gardening,partly due to James and Tuck and their amazing energy! Keep encouraging us all to get out into the garden and work with nature and not against it! Thanks for the info
You make me smile with your energy! I appreciate you giving so many wonderful tips! We also use marigolds and basil interplanted in our garden to help with pest control! Your garden looks amazing!
Hi! Working in the garden today. How are you? Where do you live? We live in Kentucky. Today’s plans are to place netting over the greens to keep the pests out and plant some flowers.
It’s nice to meet you also. How do you like Miami? I have traveled there several times back in my partying days for Ultrafest. It’s early spring so the weather is cool and favorable here. Do you garden in Miami?
hey there james. Im all the way from capetown South Africa. i love watching you and tuck. your videos really inspired my wife and i to start our own food forest and we cant wait to start
I’m super impressed that Tuck cornered a groundhog! Thank you for mentioning putting a hardware cloth barrier under raised beds. Our old raised beds were devastated by tunneling groundhogs. Barriers are going in under our new Birdie’s tall 6-in-1 beds from Epic Gardening. 👍
My Yorkie mix "might" bark at a groundhog, but that's' it. I trapped two G hogs last season and gave them a nice new ZIP code at a park. How do I stop the birds from pecking my ripe potted tomatoes ?
I wish my biggest pests were rodents, bugs, and birds. Waking up to find the damage done by deer and elk overnight has made me cry on more than one occasion! Do you know how high those beasts can jump?? Love your food forest! I discovered your channel this winter and have been binge watching your videos! Putting a lot of your methods into practice! SW Nebraska is no New Jersey. The past three years have been droughts with 10-12 inches per year. Dreadful winds (a week+ of sustained 50 mph with gusts up to 76 mph!) this spring with dust bowl like conditions. Lots of fires on neighboring communities, one burning 30,000 acres and another 44,000 acres. Praying for a change of weather and a bountiful harvest for my husband on the farm and for myself in my backyard food forest. :)
Deers can jump pretty high. I have 4' fence around my veggie garden. In there I stick stakes randomly so that the deers don't have enough room to land if they decide to jump in. That seems to work so far.
Yep, it is impressive to see a deer jump. I am not sure how high they can jump, but my parents have a 7 or 8' fence. I can say if deer want to get in it is very hard to keep them out! They are also not deterred by human hair at all in my experience, and neither are my local rabbits.
I put out 20 tomato plants on a Wednesday this spring. Wednesday night an armadillo came in and dug them all up (I lost about a 1/4 of them). Thursday I strung an electric wire around the whole garden. Its been about 6 weeks and I haven't had an issue since that first night.
Hi James! I love your channel and your suggestions! We're battling wildlife here on my little seed farm in Connecticut. Three times already my carrot beds were completely turned over by critters digging for grubs and other deliciousness... ugh. I'm not setting up the protective row covers to keep my fourth planting safe! I love your recommendation on using a balancing approach to pets: I have yarrow, chamomile, cilantro and other plants interplanted all throughout our farm to boost the beneficial insect population and deter pests. My goal is not to eliminate them completely as years of farming taught me this was a dead end - literally! I could spend time and money trying to kill every pest around and all it would do is to make my entire ecosystem more prone to their attacks. Keep going with the awesome recommendations!
I just love you and Tuck! You both have inspired me to start my own garden this year. I am starting with different varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, and squash. I’m trying not to start with too much , that way I don’t get overwhelmed, but I have learned everything from you two guys, from building beds, to growing, and protection, so don’t ever stop! Lol. I am in Lexington, Ky., zone 7b and our climates are very similar. Keep supervising And working Tuck bc my Basset Hound Daisy is learning from you too and so far has loved every minute of it 🐶
Hi James & Tuck, row covers are the ticket. I used your suggestion last year and put hoops on all of my raised beds. No bugs or pest. Thanks guys. 😊 ❤🥰
you seem like such a nice person, and I love watching your videos. I'm happy your channel is successful, and I appreciate you sharing your gardening methods with us :)
Your videos truly inspire me. I live in the UK but I love to watch you and tuck.so nice to watch you and all the great tips you give.keep it up because we would miss watching you and tuck .busy bee
Really enjoy your videos. Love to see the beautiful Tuck gardening with you. So wonderful to see him eat all of the varieties of vegetables. Keep up the good work!
Another great video, James! My wife and I are already implementing some of your suggestions from earlier videos and this one has gems in it too! Have a great season, James and Tuck!
Great ideas. I think of my fence as a trellis. My entire yard is surrounded by a trellis. (Change your perspective and now that chain link fence is a thing of beauty!)
I missed this when it was first uploaded because my internet was down for about a week. 😣 Thankfully, that's been fixed. This was full of so many great ideas! I'm gonna try the red rocks with my strawberries because the birds didn't leave me any last year. I also want to get some heavy duty netting or even wire to cover my crops too like you suggested. Fortunately I don't have too many bugs in my garden (I think because we have such a healthy lizard population in my area). But the bigger animals - like possums, birds, and raccoons - can ravage my garden in one night. PS give Tuck a pet for me. 😊
big fan brother, love the energy and the approach. I'm doing very similar on a smaller scale in PA, 2nd year garden now, butttt, I'm going back home to Thailand in a few months and hope Dad will grow some things or maintain it at some level. I built all my raised beds with old logs on slope and hugelkulture style.
I've really been getting into companion plants. Chives are pretty good at creating a protective barrier. Last year I grew shoo fly plant and almost nothing will touch that or anything that grows near it. One shoo fly will produce enough seed to plant pretty much your entire property next year. I don't even know how much shoo fly seed I have now but its a lot. Also chases off mosquitoes and you can make a bug spray out of it. Only downside is its toxic to livestock but my only livestock is an obnoxious little cat who will only eat selected gourmet food and snacks. I've also been allowing the neighborhood cats to roam as they mostly seem to hunt mice and leave my plants alone.
I mow my unused pastures every couple of years because of multi flora rose, and it takes forever because I mow around the mantis nests. Our biggest pests were deer, and finally last spring we put up a 7 ft deer fence.
Hey i just wanted to commend yu on your positive energy and for expressing such enthusiasm for growing food. Th humility is right on point. Yu inspire me my EARTHling brotha. Thank yu indeed
Can you do a video on the clay application? How to spray it? Do you have to reapply after it rains? How many times per year? Tips for good application? I have a little backyard orchard it could help with. Thanks!
You’ve covered all the bases, great advice. I don’t use chemical sprays because I believe that residues end up in the food. For me, one of the purposes of growing my own veg is so that me and my family can eat “clean”. The kaolin is interesting, I’ll look into that. Slugs and snails are my main problem, beer traps are pretty effective. The point you make about protecting the beneficial insects is so important. Did you know, if you have healthy, happy plants, they are less vulnerable to attack, that means keep mulching and using compost teas to increase your soil microbiology, that is also a line of defense. If only the Ukrainians could use a kaolin spray! Love your energy, keep it up 👍👏🥦🥬🌱
This was a great video as always! Thank you, James and Tuck, for all the wonderful pest prevention ideas! I don't like using pesticides at all. We need to be good stewards and protect the bees and butterflies. Happy Gardening! It's the best therapy I know!🥰🌱🦋🐞
That clay is sold as a beauty-product also, and in a lot of other health-products to. Versatile! I use natural soap with water on my trees and bushes, also works as a sticky solution that the bugs can´t handle(well at least not all of them).
Moved to Iowa with my parents on The 10th month of last year and we have really late frost dates here. I am starting a garden this year so I hope every thing goes well hoping to grow cucumbers green beans peas and cauliflower
@@8thcelisabeth o really thats nice. Im not familiar with the state's around me yet hope to learn more as the years go by. I was born and raised in pa so its a big chang for me.
Hi James, my plum tree got canker really bad, it's gone and I will need to destroy the branches and trunk. The sap was oozing from many many spots. I will try pots. I will try to get some mantis, already have lady bugs.
I caught a tiny rabbit in the garden by hand. It squealed like crazy. I walked the little guy to the edge of my property and let it go. Tomorrow is putting up chicken wire. Already have and electric fence all the way around the house to keep the deer out too.
I made the very same mistakes you mentioned. No fence, no lining, no protector plants. Deer came in and ate most of my garden in early spring. I just put up a couple posts with some string around the perimeter and it kept them out. It was also lot of work trying to manage the asparagus beetles and worms on my lettuce. Thanks for the tips.
Thank you for taking the time to share all of your hard earned knowledge. Your presentations are always top notch I really enjoy going with you around your garden. I have used so many of your helpful tips and continue to look for more, best wishes happy Spring!
@𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧𝗦𝗔𝗣𝗣 𝗠𝗘 +①②①⓪②③⑨⑦④③② I fell asleep farmer's hours haha. I am searching for that clay you use on tour fruit trees. All about the natural methods you shared for pests. Thanks again!
Really great video buddy 👍I'm in NE Florida and attempting my first year of gardening. You're always so informative and so sweet. I appreciate you so much.💖
There are many pest resistant varieties of both trees and garden plants, and if we can know which ones are resistant, it will help others if this is shared. In my own yard, I have a star fruit tree. Because it is so prolific, even though the squirrels and birds eat some of it, there is still a truckload of star fruit for me every year, sometimes twice a year. That is not resistance, but at least I have a bounty without worrying about it. Another tree that has visitors but seems insect resistant for the most part is my ever bearing mulberry. Nothing eats the leaves, and the only insect I have seen eating the berries is the stink bug. But it's not bad. The tree has so much fruit, that even though the birds visit every day, there is still plenty. Tomatoes seem relatively pest free, as does the Malabar spinach. I think that green peppers and chilis do well. Every area has it's own pests, and they vary from place to place. Sometimes sacrificing some of the plants/fruit to whatever is eating them is not a problem, so if you plant more than you need, maybe it won't make you lie awake at night devising ways to foil them. I like the scare tape, though. Thank you.
What zone do you live in? and where did you purchase your everbearing Mulberry? A tomato I have found excellent is the Everglades tomato, prolific and delicious! Thanks for all the info.
I don't mind sacrificing some of my bountiful harvest to nature, but when the birds and squirrels or mice take one little nip out of multiple fruits it puts me on war time footing.
Hi @james. Can you talk about your soul and the walkways? How have you layered your growing soil and mulch coil over the years. Awesome content and inspiration!
Sent this to my sisters. My oldest sister (78) is starting to garden this year in raised beds so she is going to need a lot of information. I have also brought in ladybugs in the past but they did not proliferate as well as I had hoped - but I will do it again this year. I also want to bring in praying mantis. Thanks for sharing your garden, Tuck, and the information.
I got the kneeler! Shipping said like a month but it arrived in 10 days. They look sick, like workers at Trader Joes, but it's Trader James Prigioni's FOOD FOREST! Got here in time for Mother's Day, shh don't tell my mom!
I have to go out early every morning and pick off Japanese beetles from my roses and cranberry bush. I drop them into a cup of hot water (very satisfying). 😬
I'm in northern NJ and haven't even started seeds yet. This weather has been crazy! So, I'm late again this year, but it'll all work out. Thanks for your help, James and give Tuck a big hug from me!
That 1 million coming soon James...LET'S GOOOO!
I can’t hear anyone say “LETS……..” without immediately thinking “GO!” And James and Tuck lol
I just Subscribed idk why anyone wouldn’t. The Tomato tree video got me. Cherokee purple tomatoes. No one talks about those. Amazing 🤩👏👏👏👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
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Groundhogs really got us last year and being in the city and having a small yard, we're limited in our solutions. But, watching James n Tuck keep us positive and inspired! Let's gooooooo!
Glad to hear you garner some inspirations from the videos Jake. Thanks for contributing brother that means a lot ❤
I had trouble with birds going after my new leafs on my starts. I placed plastic snakes in my raised beds. I moved them around so the birds didnt get used to them. It worked!
Hello Barb
Careful where you place them! One of the kids tossed a rubber snake on our lower roof and someone called the cops for it. Everyone did have a nice laugh about it though
I have plastic lizard however dose not help my squash
I did this for my strawberries worked so well!
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Update- two successes with these techniques. Have our first ever Cherry 🍒 harvest thanks to the reflective tape. Don’t tell the birds!!
And red rocks is also keeping the birds away. The ants 🐜 are harder to trick unify😏. Great tips James 🤩
For the love of terriers! They’re so good at pest control. Tuck is awesome!!! 🐕Great video dude! I love how it’s like a tactical manual. Super clever and interesting presentation. Thanks for sharing
Just to let you know last year I was canning like crazy and I saved the seeds from apples plums and peaches. I started them in a bucket and now have 4 inch tall trees.
I love that you talk about sprays as a last resort and being an "extreme" measure. It feels like so many people eagerly head straight to BT and Neem oil at the first sight of pests. I don't try to eliminate every single pest but keep things in balance.
I hand pick before spraying even “organic” pesticides. If I see wheeled assassin, and other predators in other parts of the yard I move them to the garden. Assassin bugs eat Japanese Beetles.
I agree! Wish More was advertised about these consequences, especially from the state extensions. 😒
@@joe8133 The previously mentioned assassin bugs eat hornworms as well. I would imagine cabbage worms, and any insect is on the menu (unfortunately I have also seen them eating ladybugs). I’m the only one in my family who truly likes cabbage. As a result I haven’t tried growing them.
@@joe8133 If you plant stuff, or allow wild plants to grow (in areas where you don’t crop) that attract pollinators they will attract the predators too.
Yes!
James this video is superb!! I am so glad that you gave us waaaay more than 3 tips and tricks. The red rocks for the birds was the most humorous and are literally FREE! Thanks for your valuable advice!💯💪
OMG! I HAVE MISSED YOUR ENERGY. So great to find you and Tuck again. Looking forward to a new planting and growing season.
Hello Malinda
Great video as always, thanks for sharing! To help save money my family and I have started a small backyard garden. We're learning how to homecan, seed save, make compost, and preserve what we grow. Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to begin growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency. Thanks again for all you do, your channel definitely helps keep me motivated for my family. God bless!
I can't help but smile every time I hear "What's goin' on, Growers?" Plus I know I will always learn new tips even though I've been gardening for decades. Thank you, James!!
ten years of youtube almost and all the knowledge you shared and learned and taught us, thanks for everything you done until today, you are an inspiration!
What a kind comment, thank you my friend! ❤️
Yes, the wind has been so bad and there’s no rain. We are on Long Island, it’s never been this dry. Thanks for the encouragement, I’ll keep planting:)
Hello Shamma
I have watched a groundhog scale a chain link fence, 4' in just a couple seconds flat. I love the cold frames fitted to the raised bed area, and have used the wire cloth vs gophers (works so far!) I feed sunflower and safflower to attract a certain category of birds .. they fight off things like crows, blue jays, ect - the strawberry thieves! Finches, wrens, robins, thrushes, and chickadees do some serious insect hunting to feed their young - so naturally we put in water and habitat for those birds as well. Houses for finches and wrens have 1 1/8" entrances - allowing them security without blue jays stealing their nests .. they set up camp all over the place anyway 😉🕊
I have never seen a woodchuck climb a fence (although my husband is sure they can), usually they dig under. I actually had a woodchuck cut down a current bush very rapidly last year. I had planted it near the hole and apparently it thought the bush was in the way because it just chewed through the stem and didn't eat it at all.
I'm right over the bridge in Philly, and these cold nights have hit me HARD. Thanks for the encouragement and positivity.
Great informational video as always. I might add that using a blacklight at night helps to find hornworms on those tomatoes.
Tuck is always a blessing to see in your videos, like icing on the cake!🐶💕
I would love to see a video demonstrating how you spray the kaolin clay. Great tips!
Me too, I just received some and there’s no application suggestions on the package.
Thank you for the inspiration, James! I'd like to find an alternative to the PVC piping. Just wanted to add-- Wasps eat caterpillars and lots of other problem bugs and EGGS-- they just cleaned off a massive caterpillar attack on our chard, which is now putting out new and clean growth. We had aphids in a weedy section, I worried, but then ladybugs showed up all on their own and totally cleaned up the problem. I totally agree with James about only using insect sprays, even organic ones, as a last resort, because wiping out one problem can sometimes cause other imbalances. I'm big on physical removal. I get out and patrol, with light gloves on, and grab and kill the leaf-footed bugs and their offspring (they look different at different phases) (they suck the juices out of tomatoes etc and cause spots and disease). You have to sneak up on the adults and give a good twist, but the young are easy to smush. Just the early work with physical removal we did has made such a huge difference this year. One thing to be aware of is that there are a group of insects called "assassin bugs" that eat bad bugs. Those can look similar to some of the younger versions of the bad bugs. You don't want to kill these. Look up what your local assassin bugs look like (they vary regionally), familiarize yourself, so you don't kill them as you pick off baddies. A main difference is assassin bugs have a longer neck with more articulation in it, so that helps me. Assassin bugs won't bite you if you leave them alone, I did get bitten once before I knew what they were, and it hurt, but it went away quickly-- so don't be afraid of them, just give them space and tell them you know they are your friend and mean them no harm. They hear you.
You're right about the wasps killing the tomato horn worms, if you plant a sweet alyssum in you're garden be it will attract black wasps. They lay their eggs on the worms back, when they hatch they eat the worms alive. It works.
@@lindaobrien2659 That's great to learn about the black wasps laying eggs that eat the tomato hornworms! Other wasps actually directly eat small caterpillars and eggs too. When they are hovering or crawling around green leaves, they are hunting for other insects' eggs and the smaller instars of caterpillars. I just wish they'd eat the squash vine borer eggs before those monsters hatch and destroy my squash.
I am a cannabis cultivator by trade but have recently gotten into home gardening,partly due to James and Tuck and their amazing energy! Keep encouraging us all to get out into the garden and work with nature and not against it! Thanks for the info
Tuck is so loved! And so are you James!🥰🥰
You make me smile with your energy! I appreciate you giving so many wonderful tips! We also use marigolds and basil interplanted in our garden to help with pest control! Your garden looks amazing!
Hi! Working in the garden today. How are you? Where do you live? We live in Kentucky. Today’s plans are to place netting over the greens to keep the pests out and plant some flowers.
It’s nice to meet you also. How do you like Miami? I have traveled there several times back in my partying days for Ultrafest. It’s early spring so the weather is cool and favorable here. Do you garden in Miami?
My day just got 20x better seeing this video pop up in my feed. ❤️❤️❤️s for Tuck of course too!
Faux strawberry rocks! How cool is that!! I just love that idea! Your videos are always amazing, each and every one of them.
Thanks for the support Suzanne! ❤️
Wow genius stuff in here!
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I love the red rocks in the strawberries!
Your passion for growing is heartwarming and so helpful. And you and Tuck are lucky to have each other !
Glad to see another great video. So WINDY here it is hard to make a video.
are you on the prairie too?
This year I have planted my first garden. I also planted some raspberries, blackberries and figs. I am praying that they come out.
Man, I just live your vibe. Your videos always puts me in a better mood!
hey there james. Im all the way from capetown South Africa. i love watching you and tuck. your videos really inspired my wife and i to start our own food forest and we cant wait to start
I’m super impressed that Tuck cornered a groundhog! Thank you for mentioning putting a hardware cloth barrier under raised beds. Our old raised beds were devastated by tunneling groundhogs. Barriers are going in under our new Birdie’s tall 6-in-1 beds from Epic Gardening. 👍
My Yorkie mix "might" bark at a groundhog, but that's' it. I trapped two G hogs last season and gave them a nice new ZIP code at a park. How do I stop the birds from pecking my ripe potted tomatoes ?
I wish my biggest pests were rodents, bugs, and birds. Waking up to find the damage done by deer and elk overnight has made me cry on more than one occasion! Do you know how high those beasts can jump??
Love your food forest! I discovered your channel this winter and have been binge watching your videos! Putting a lot of your methods into practice! SW Nebraska is no New Jersey. The past three years have been droughts with 10-12 inches per year. Dreadful winds (a week+ of sustained 50 mph with gusts up to 76 mph!) this spring with dust bowl like conditions. Lots of fires on neighboring communities, one burning 30,000 acres and another 44,000 acres. Praying for a change of weather and a bountiful harvest for my husband on the farm and for myself in my backyard food forest. :)
Try spreading human hair around your garden. It has worked for me to ward off the rabbits and it may work for the deer!
Deers can jump pretty high. I have 4' fence around my veggie garden. In there I stick stakes randomly so that the deers don't have enough room to land if they decide to jump in. That seems to work so far.
Yep, it is impressive to see a deer jump. I am not sure how high they can jump, but my parents have a 7 or 8' fence. I can say if deer want to get in it is very hard to keep them out! They are also not deterred by human hair at all in my experience, and neither are my local rabbits.
Thank you for keeping the learning curve simple, for folks like me, who have little knowledge of gardening!
I put out 20 tomato plants on a Wednesday this spring. Wednesday night an armadillo came in and dug them all up (I lost about a 1/4 of them). Thursday I strung an electric wire around the whole garden. Its been about 6 weeks and I haven't had an issue since that first night.
You're definitely onto something! Great idea!
Greatest gardening channel on TH-cam. Let's go!
Wow Spring is taking over and the feeling is magical ,I wish everyone a great experience growing and making beautiful food like this guy.
I love how positive you are, and how well you explain all of your great ideas!! You will go so far ❤️ I share you with my gardening groups 😃
You got a call out from Huw Richards today - he's discovered the felicities of raw asparagus for the first time
Hi James! I love your channel and your suggestions!
We're battling wildlife here on my little seed farm in Connecticut. Three times already my carrot beds were completely turned over by critters digging for grubs and other deliciousness... ugh. I'm not setting up the protective row covers to keep my fourth planting safe!
I love your recommendation on using a balancing approach to pets: I have yarrow, chamomile, cilantro and other plants interplanted all throughout our farm to boost the beneficial insect population and deter pests. My goal is not to eliminate them completely as years of farming taught me this was a dead end - literally! I could spend time and money trying to kill every pest around and all it would do is to make my entire ecosystem more prone to their attacks.
Keep going with the awesome recommendations!
I lol’d on the birds watching! So true but I love my birds lol. Love this idea. Worth a try.
It’s amazing! It’s like they are just sitting waiting for me to finish setting up their lunch 😂
They come in droves when I turn the compost!! Keep the shovel close by to throw them the grubs. Just that many less Japanese Beatles
James, please consider a video explaining how to construct your raised bed cover structures.
He's already done that. You need to search the channel.
Another video FULL of relevant information! Tuck is a warrior!! 💕💕💕
I just love you and Tuck! You both have inspired me to start my own garden this year. I am starting with different varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, and squash. I’m trying not to start with too much , that way I don’t get overwhelmed, but I have learned everything from you two guys, from building beds, to growing, and protection, so don’t ever stop! Lol. I am in Lexington, Ky., zone 7b and our climates are very similar. Keep supervising And working Tuck bc my Basset Hound Daisy is learning from you too and so far has loved every minute of it 🐶
Love the rocks for strawberries!! Breaking out the paint!!
Hello Janet
Just what I needed to see AND hear!!! Love it! Ty. Kisses and hugs to Tuck. I absolutely LOVE him and he is so precious to watch. Ty
Hi James & Tuck, row covers are the ticket. I used your suggestion last year and put hoops on all of my raised beds. No bugs or pest. Thanks guys. 😊 ❤🥰
Hello Linda
Tuck is so cute. I love seeing him! Thanks for all the great info! Love the videos!
I absolutely love your knowledge and respect for the insects!!
Thank you James & Tuck for teaching this ol’ dog some new tricks.
@DavidGreg 1184 well thank you. Alls well I’m in the garden.
@DavidGreg 1184 I’m just an old gardener living in the Pacific Northwest. 🌻
I look forward to your videos, so much energy!
James and Tuck are the best! Let’s Go!!!!!
you seem like such a nice person, and I love watching your videos. I'm happy your channel is successful, and I appreciate you sharing your gardening methods with us :)
Another great videobJim.Weather been bad all spring good luck with the garden.
Your videos truly inspire me. I live in the UK but I love to watch you and tuck.so nice to watch you and all the great tips you give.keep it up because we would miss watching you and tuck .busy bee
Excellent presentation on pest prevention, James. Best I've ever seen.
Excellent video! You have given me more tools to fight pests with. Thank you James and Tuck! God bless.
Thanks Pat! We appreciate the support! Good luck this year!
Hello Pat
Tuck is healthy cause he eats his veggies. Love ya Tuck!
Really enjoy your videos. Love to see the beautiful Tuck gardening with you. So wonderful to see him eat all of the varieties of vegetables. Keep up the good work!
Another great video, James! My wife and I are already implementing some of your suggestions from earlier videos and this one has gems in it too! Have a great season, James and Tuck!
Great ideas. I think of my fence as a trellis. My entire yard is surrounded by a trellis. (Change your perspective and now that chain link fence is a thing of beauty!)
I missed this when it was first uploaded because my internet was down for about a week. 😣 Thankfully, that's been fixed. This was full of so many great ideas! I'm gonna try the red rocks with my strawberries because the birds didn't leave me any last year. I also want to get some heavy duty netting or even wire to cover my crops too like you suggested. Fortunately I don't have too many bugs in my garden (I think because we have such a healthy lizard population in my area). But the bigger animals - like possums, birds, and raccoons - can ravage my garden in one night. PS give Tuck a pet for me. 😊
big fan brother, love the energy and the approach. I'm doing very similar on a smaller scale in PA, 2nd year garden now, butttt, I'm going back home to Thailand in a few months and hope Dad will grow some things or maintain it at some level. I built all my raised beds with old logs on slope and hugelkulture style.
I've really been getting into companion plants. Chives are pretty good at creating a protective barrier. Last year I grew shoo fly plant and almost nothing will touch that or anything that grows near it. One shoo fly will produce enough seed to plant pretty much your entire property next year. I don't even know how much shoo fly seed I have now but its a lot. Also chases off mosquitoes and you can make a bug spray out of it. Only downside is its toxic to livestock but my only livestock is an obnoxious little cat who will only eat selected gourmet food and snacks. I've also been allowing the neighborhood cats to roam as they mostly seem to hunt mice and leave my plants alone.
You're literally my favorite TH-cam channel. I've been waiting all winter for you to start recording again
I mow my unused pastures every couple of years because of multi flora rose, and it takes forever because I mow around the mantis nests. Our biggest pests were deer, and finally last spring we put up a 7 ft deer fence.
Awesome video, Tuck. You are one of the best sources for home gardening on the web. It's amazing how trained you have James. He's a great asset, no? 😁
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We all love your real person you know cool garden friend energy and teachings. Thank you!!
Hey i just wanted to commend yu on your positive energy and for expressing such enthusiasm for growing food. Th humility is right on point. Yu inspire me my EARTHling brotha. Thank yu indeed
I've only see like 1 bee so far this spring, but lots of carpenter bees are in the garden.
Can you do a video on the clay application? How to spray it? Do you have to reapply after it rains? How many times per year? Tips for good application? I have a little backyard orchard it could help with. Thanks!
You’ve covered all the bases, great advice. I don’t use chemical sprays because I believe that residues end up in the food. For me, one of the purposes of growing my own veg is so that me and my family can eat “clean”. The kaolin is interesting, I’ll look into that. Slugs and snails are my main problem, beer traps are pretty effective. The point you make about protecting the beneficial insects is so important. Did you know, if you have healthy, happy plants, they are less vulnerable to attack, that means keep mulching and using compost teas to increase your soil microbiology, that is also a line of defense. If only the Ukrainians could use a kaolin spray! Love your energy, keep it up 👍👏🥦🥬🌱
Thanks for all the great information James! You’re one of the reasons I started gardening!
This was a great video as always! Thank you, James and Tuck, for all the wonderful pest prevention ideas! I don't like using pesticides at all. We need to be good stewards and protect the bees and butterflies.
Happy Gardening! It's the best therapy I know!🥰🌱🦋🐞
That clay is sold as a beauty-product also, and in a lot of other health-products to. Versatile! I use natural soap with water on my trees and bushes, also works as a sticky solution that the bugs
can´t handle(well at least not all of them).
Love your positive energy James - always such great, easy tips for successful gardening- much appreciated
Hello Jackie
Moved to Iowa with my parents on The 10th month of last year and we have really late frost dates here. I am starting a garden this year so I hope every thing goes well hoping to grow cucumbers green beans peas and cauliflower
I bet it will go great! I am next door to you in South Dakota. Happy Gardening!
@@8thcelisabeth o really thats nice. Im not familiar with the state's around me yet hope to learn more as the years go by. I was born and raised in pa so its a big chang for me.
Thank you for all you guys do! About to buy some marigold!! I didn't realize they're good for pests and just learned Mosquitoes!
Hi James, my plum tree got canker really bad, it's gone and I will need to destroy the branches and trunk. The sap was oozing from many many spots. I will try pots. I will try to get some mantis, already have lady bugs.
Always a joy to watch, learn and be inspired!
I caught a tiny rabbit in the garden by hand. It squealed like crazy. I walked the little guy to the edge of my property and let it go. Tomorrow is putting up chicken wire. Already have and electric fence all the way around the house to keep the deer out too.
I made the very same mistakes you mentioned. No fence, no lining, no protector plants. Deer came in and ate most of my garden in early spring. I just put up a couple posts with some string around the perimeter and it kept them out. It was also lot of work trying to manage the asparagus beetles and worms on my lettuce. Thanks for the tips.
Thank you for taking the time to share all of your hard earned knowledge. Your presentations are always top notch I really enjoy going with you around your garden. I have used so many of your helpful tips and continue to look for more, best wishes happy Spring!
@𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧𝗦𝗔𝗣𝗣 𝗠𝗘 +①②①⓪②③⑨⑦④③② I fell asleep farmer's hours haha. I am searching for that clay you use on tour fruit trees. All about the natural methods you shared for pests. Thanks again!
Really great video buddy 👍I'm in NE Florida and attempting my first year of gardening. You're always so informative and so sweet. I appreciate you so much.💖
Love your positive, can-do attitude
Great ideas! I definitely plan to use the painted rocks in my strawberry plants.
There are many pest resistant varieties of both trees and garden plants, and if we can know which ones are resistant, it will help others if this is shared. In my own yard, I have a star fruit tree. Because it is so prolific, even though the squirrels and birds eat some of it, there is still a truckload of star fruit for me every year, sometimes twice a year. That is not resistance, but at least I have a bounty without worrying about it. Another tree that has visitors but seems insect resistant for the most part is my ever bearing mulberry. Nothing eats the leaves, and the only insect I have seen eating the berries is the stink bug. But it's not bad. The tree has so much fruit, that even though the birds visit every day, there is still plenty. Tomatoes seem relatively pest free, as does the Malabar spinach. I think that green peppers and chilis do well. Every area has it's own pests, and they vary from place to place. Sometimes sacrificing some of the plants/fruit to whatever is eating them is not a problem, so if you plant more than you need, maybe it won't make you lie awake at night devising ways to foil them. I like the scare tape, though. Thank you.
What zone do you live in? and where did you purchase your everbearing Mulberry? A tomato I have found excellent is the Everglades tomato, prolific and delicious! Thanks for all the info.
I don't mind sacrificing some of my bountiful harvest to nature, but when the birds and squirrels or mice take one little nip out of multiple fruits it puts me on war time footing.
@@jperin001 Give them another source of water.
@@iguesi A bit of olive oil will suffocate mosquito eggs in standing water.
Hi @james. Can you talk about your soul and the walkways? How have you layered your growing soil and mulch coil over the years. Awesome content and inspiration!
Hello James. Thank you for your tips. Greetings from the south of Chile
Sent this to my sisters. My oldest sister (78) is starting to garden this year in raised beds so she is going to need a lot of information. I have also brought in ladybugs in the past but they did not proliferate as well as I had hoped - but I will do it again this year. I also want to bring in praying mantis. Thanks for sharing your garden, Tuck, and the information.
I got the kneeler! Shipping said like a month but it arrived in 10 days. They look sick, like workers at Trader Joes, but it's Trader James Prigioni's FOOD FOREST!
Got here in time for Mother's Day, shh don't tell my mom!
You have the personality that needs to be on tv (streaming). Keep it up
I have to go out early every morning and pick off Japanese beetles from my roses and cranberry bush. I drop them into a cup of hot water (very satisfying). 😬
I'm in northern NJ and haven't even started seeds yet. This weather has been crazy! So, I'm late again this year, but it'll all work out. Thanks for your help, James and give Tuck a big hug from me!
Great tips. I was looking to way to prevent birds from my berries. Thank you.
We're live... let's go!!
thanks for the info i live in the Caribbean i need some tips for cool weather crops
Thanks!
I love your sweet dog I'm glad he can dig down and cool off love to see him eat carrots I miss my big cat that use to follow me around
Wow so much passionate info here!! How does one go about getting
praying mantis nests?
Thank you James and fellow Growers 💜