Your 100 percent right

I check my plants every single day rain or shine without fail and pick any bugs and eggs off. They fly in from other places and find your plants. The bean beetles do the same.

Spot on. It takes time and lots of organic matter. I have seen an improvement in my clay soil a little every year by adding wood chips ,pine shavings,leaves and grass clippings. It just takes time.👍

thank you, helps me from making that mistake. My dirt is pretty much all clay; I had success using the hole method this year, filling it with compost.

I have heard similar advise as well Jon but thankfully never tried that either. Hopefully you save someone some heartache.

Hey guys, after watching that video, I wanted to let people know that adding sand doesn't work. I'd hate to see beginning gardeners start out doing this. Thanks for watching. Let me know what you think.

Where are you filming from... I live in Alberta Canada about the 55th parallel. Your tips for using alfalfa sound great. I am sure that Alfalfa was the missing ingredient to my soil problems. I'll give them a try. Seriously Clay, Soil is so disappointing!! Is there anything I can grow in Clay soil without a lot of amending?

Just wanted say thanks for your video and the idea of composting in place. Tilling does work if you're consistently adding organic matter in my opinion as well. Look forward to seeing your long term results.

Tilling for structure is like fucking for virginity. Why not just mulch the area? Or sow a cover crop earlier, and mow it down?

4:55 with rabbit manure could you just skip this step in waiting /making a pile? I have seen video of people just adding it in

One thing that I do differently is, I keep the entire garden covered all year. I pull the mulch aside to sow seeds or put in transplants. Means I do a lot of mulch gathering..and less weeding, but my soil is always improving.

So many people buy worm castings..and it’s good stuff, but they don’t realize covering your soil with organic matter puts those little soldiers to work! One of my favorites it’s grass clippings…and that chicken manure is hard to beat!

Hello from north Georgia. That is a great way to amend your soil! I don’t have access to a lot of manure so I mulch my garden with leaves each growing season and till them in each spring. It definitely will turn the soil a darker color and helps suppress weeds.I enjoyed watching friend! You popped up in my recommended video feed so here I am.❤️🙂✝️ Oh yeah you got my sub friend.👍

Hey guys, my garden is done for the year, but it's time to get ready for next year's garden. This worked great for my beans this year, so I can't wait to see how they do next year. Thanks for watching.

I want to try papaya

Ive always heard that night shade plants, the leaves and unripe fruit are bad for animals. Maybe the animals know and dont try to eat them as much.... except goats... that eat everything lol. my chickens will peck the plants for a second and move on. I want to grow around the perimeter of their run but the sun is shaded pretty good over there, even the mint has a hard go at it.

Sweet potatoes ?

Hey Jon, We grow mint & raspberries on the outside perimeter of our goat pen. Also comfrey, we got 5 harvests off of that this year. By the way is that the goat that bites you?

I waited all summer to see how this would turn out, and overall, I was pretty happy. Please share your ideas on what might be good to plant next year. Thanks for watching.

Excellent new content, digging up the roots to show us the pumpkin roots are three feet long. Trench method is a natural fit, as it allows long roots, but requires less work than a circular hill. I'd like to see video and description for preparing a trench! I have a place to grow them and might just follow along... subscribing... thanks

Fellow squash bug warrior over here in Ohio! The bad news is that crop rotation doesn't really seem to touch things because they can fly. I rotate every year, and I even built raised beds with all new soil in them, and I still have issues. I even had a volunteer pumpkin sprout in my compost pile that ended up with the little jerks. Now you definitely do want to clear out dead leaves and plants before winter hits. Just over the last couple of days I've been cleaning out and find tons of these guys hiding everywhere. I take a spray bottle with dawn and water, and I spritz them. I'm hoping killing as many as I can this fall will help lessen the pressure next year. During the heat of the season, I patrol my plants regularly. You can flick the adults off into a jar of soapy water, or you can vacuum them up and add a little DE to your canister (get a cheap dustbuster for the job). For the eggs, I have been using the sticky lint rollers to pull all of the eggs off of the leaves. It works so well! When I was using tape it wasn't pulling all of the eggs off, and it would get tangled in the wind. A lot of sources suggested planting squash later in the season, but I didn't really feel like that helped. This year, I plan to plant weekly or every other week. I'm scattering the plants around my garden so that hopefully the bugs will have a harder time finding them. I might also try netting and hand pollination on a couple of my plants to see how that works.

Seeing this a bit late, but those are some nice looking roots! I can’t relate to the struggles people have with clay soil..Ive only dealt with sandy stuff. But those roots look just as healthy as ours here in tomato country. Great job!

Great looking pumpkins.. . It's great that you didn't give up trying

Just goes to show you that it’s always best to keep at it-and that it’s extremely satisfying to figure things out. Congratulations! Those are some nice ones…we’re winding down in Va-still have Limas and Green beans coming, and I’m really excited about the coming sweet potato harvest. Should be our biggest to date, with four varieties. Thanks for sharing your journey…

I've made videos of how I amend my soil to get ready for pumpkins, but this fall, I'm going to make an updated one to show what I've learned since I started growing pumpkins this way. Thanks for watching.

Thanks

Top of the morning to ya.....have a fantastic day !!

I think the way I've been getting ready to plant tomatoes the last couple of years is really working well. I was very happy with how my tomatoes did this year. Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.

Thank you so much I have to try it

That’s really interesting! Never knew the roots could get so big from the nodes. Every year I keep telling myself to remember to purposefully root some with mounds of soil, and I have yet to do it 😊…thanks a bunch for showing this to me..might be just what I needed to make it a higher priority.

Hey everybody, I wanted to share this because it's a fast and simple way to give your pumpkins a great boost of nutrients. Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.

You have good analysis skills. Thanks from India 👍

Great info. That was fun. Thanks for the update.

I start checking the underside of plant leaves because squash bugs lay copper color eggs in perfect rows and i throw those leaves away.

Hello, do you grow bought seed from a specialty company or somewhere else?

Hey guys let me know what you think. I haven't harvested all of them yet but so far my potatoes have produced good. Hopefully I get enough I don't have to buy any from the store. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for the info Jon. We haven't dealt with Squash bugs yet but now I know what to look for.

I have some wood on the side of my house in a mostly shaded area, lifted up one of the boards there and saw a colony of these squash bugs behind there. I wasn't able to identify them at the time and left them alone, sooner or later I see one or two by my zucchini and the next day they're all wilted and sad looking, it's frustrating not knowing what caused it but now after watching this I could say that I now know what the problem is

Nice video. I live in a typical neighborhood in the PNW. I put my summer squash in raised beds in the back yard and winter squash in the front yard flower bed. I always get squash bugs on the summer ones and almost none on my winter. I do switch beds in the back but in the front they have been in the same place for about 5yrs now.

Can l use non brewed grounds or must the coffee be brewed? I have gophers.

I think this is just a really bad year. I planted in a ton of different beds and it happened in all of them. I do use leaf mulch in the winter tho….. we just need a really hard winter to kill off all these excessive bug issues I think

I made this video to help someone not make the same mistakes I made this year. Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.

Hey Jon…squash bugs have always been a problem for us. The only thing I do to ensure harvest is to move them around, basically sowing seeds in various places every week. I know vine borers and squash bugs will take some of them out, but they can’t get all of them. Sometimes a whole row will survive..or be taken out. But at least we get some squash! Also, as far as winter squash, I’m only growing cucerbita machado varieties…much more resilient

I tried adjusting the light sensitivity for the closing but it still seemed to always close to early. Now i have it set to L- T and adjust the closing time 5 minutes a week

Good idea by using and recycling your feed bags for planting potatoes in. Very cost effective way to limit spending money on planting pots or bags. 😊

I remember one of the first videos I watched on potato towers had a woman pulling potatoes out of plastic laundry hamper, the kind with an open weave type design cut into the plastic, looked like she had planted in dark soil and she was pulling out potatoes from top to bottom. I plant some potatoes every year, but rarely get any potatoes. Something eats them. Next year I am going to try a grow bag set in a kiddie pool with wood chips or something with water to keep the bags moist. Hope the pool will protect the potatoes from whatever eats them.

Great show and update my friend.

Well, I was hoping the potato tower would turn out a little better, but this was an honest review. I have had better results in the past, but I think there are easier, better ways to grow potatoes. Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.

Thx brotha

I appreciate the information, but I would have liked to know what brand/model you purchased.