And Now, Termites.

Sean learns from garden failure, gets excited about berries, and puzzles over migratory termites.
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[@waltervizsla3977]

Next time, Dig that termite stump out and feed to your chickens, they'll love it!

[@mgtmoffat8411]

Never a dull moment. Enjoy ever precious moment of Henry. There is great joy in growing your own food. 💕💕🌻🌻

[@49nfs]

Henry is so cute gobbling up those rubbies. He is growing do fast. Cherish these precious young years.

[@mommabscrochetkitchen2439]

The termites that you saw was the new brood leaving the nest. They are like bees and have a colony in the ground in the base of the rotten tree. When the new brood hatches in the early summer they leave to start another colony. You should pull out as much of the stump as possible and burn it. The poison isn't something you want in the compost. Pull out the stump and burn it. Dump a bunch of diatomaceous earth in the hole to kill the remaining termites.

[@tammysarrazin-ux9tv]

lol Sang has a Hannah and Ben(Hollar homestead) has a Buggie and you have a Henry that eats all the berries lol too cute for sure hugsssss

[@petebartlett2229]

Think you mean Meg and Ben

[@carlstevenson4232]

Linda here…your chickens would make quick work of termites. Next time just put a fence around the termites and toss your chickens in.

[@Mandy_James]

I'm with Henry--never eat "rubbies" one at a time...haha...just cram 'em all in your mouth and enjoy the bliss!

[@ShineyPenny654]

Black raspberries are the bane of my existence. It is nice to have if you can control it otherwise it will take over everything. In your bean bed, what you called "clover" was probably wood sorrel. They have a clover like leaf and a yellow flower. The plant is actually edible.

[@DaybirdAviaries]

The berrya should be renamed to "Henry's Briar Patch"

[@MrsPink64]

Cuteness overload…rubbies 😂💕🙏🏻🇨🇦

[@islandgardener158]

I think the best free mulch by far is leaf mulch. When the leaves fall, mow them up and spread on your gardens. Save the rest for the following growing season. I took a piece of 2x4 woven wire made a circle about 4’ in diameter and filled it with mowed up oak and maple leaves.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Great tip -- thank you!

[@annie.a.]

oh my gosh yeobubba scoffing rubbies is just adorable!!!

[@hollymcrae2685]

Great video, Sean. I enjoyed little Henry eating the black raspberries.

[@carlapierle8623]

It looks like little Henry had a growth spurt! He's getting so big! I'm glad he likes the rubbies! I hope you don't have any further issues with the termites. I know you'll be keeping an eye out for them. Your chickens can help get rid of them too.

[@Susan.I]

Birds eat the berries, and as they fly they poop out the seeds and that is why you have berries growing all over your land! Often called volunteers.

[@bhavens9149]

clover is a nitrogen fixer, we should all have that problem.

[@kennethsword551]

It's great you have learned to keep nature covered. You have an abundant amount of material already on your property to to not have to buy anything. Trimming your buckwheat and using it for mulch, grass clippings from mowing, leaves from trees, etc. You can designate a grassy patch to grow 2 to 4 weeks to get tall to make hay out of. You, then guarantee it is chemical free, as long as YOU don't apply chemicals. As for termites on tree stumps ... get a propane torch and a grill tank. Torch being the wand style with a veg can opening, large volume flame. Used a lot to burn weeds. Easy to torch bad insects. No toxic applications to the soil. Looks like a berry farm and market stand in your future. Best to you all.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Love the idea of a berry farm. They grow so well here!

[@jrae6608]

Thanks Danny and Wanda

[@sandracunningham2689]

Good video Sean.

[@karenvastarelli1789]

Please be careful spraying pesticides so close to the compost pile. I would hate for it to leach into the compost and end up in your food especially after you worked so hard to weed and source straw without pesticides. Sending hugs and blessings.

[@deborahlehman8617]

Rubbies he is the sweetest 💗

[@polgarauk5606]

I think Ben Hollar made a comfrey fertilizer if that helps any? Little Henry and the rubbies is so cute reminds me of Hannah Sangs little girl eating the blueberries 😂

[@margaretbedwell3211]

Henry, you have to save some of those rubbies for mommy so she can make some jam. LOL. There really is a lot of fruit on those bushes. The garden are looking great Sean and I am so glad you were able to see the termites have left the property. I hope they don't return. Thanks for sharing some of your day with us. Maybe you could get nana Jana to give us an update on what she has going on at her place...has she planted a garden over there as well? Y'all have a Blessed week.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Thank you so much, Margaret! Nana is actually planting squash behind her house; I should do a quick update on that!

[@dwighthires3163]

Glad you have blackberries growing like weeds. My grandfather was a sharecropper farmer. He farmed land in five communities, giving half of each crop to the landowner as rent. When I was a child, I remember him saying, "never farm land that won't grow weeds, because if it won't grow weeds, it won't grow crops either. When termites fly off to invade to establish new colonies in your buildings, they bore into the rafters, studs and beams. In order to enter the wood, they shed their transparent wings. The only evidence you will see after termites invade your buildings is their little wings which were shed as they enter your wood as their new home. If you see two or three wings, there are dozens more which have set up within the rafters of your structure. By tiny, I mean something about the size of ground pepper flakes but distinctively round and smooth and black. The sign that you have a mature colony of termites is tiny black pellets which have fallen out of their colony. I like to spray my exposed beams with common orange oil: it is a very effective, long-term repellent to termites. in quantities larger that enough for use as furniture polish in the State of California because it is now licensed as an insecticide. Orange oil is so effective that it is now banned for sale I hope this information works for you.

[@TheModernYeoman]

This is invaluable advice; will absolutely look into orange oil. Thank you so much, Dwight!

[@dwighthires3163]

@@TheModernYeoman It is an honor to be of help to such a fine man. My pleasure.

[@user-jo9lj1dq3l]

Comfrey is aka bone knit, the leaves are steeped similar to tea leaves but whole. The leaves are then laid over the bruised or broken bone area then the water from the steeping is soaked up in a towel and wrapped over the leaves

[@diannemiller4754]

Comfrey is great as tea, I made a salve from it. I will put some on my tomato beds. I dehydrate the leaves. This past week, I gave a plant to a friend. I also use the salve as a hand/face cream. 😊

[@whitestone4401]

I use comfrey salve every night on my hands and knees. It keeps my arthritis “quiet”.

[@diannemiller4754]

@whitestone4401 Yes, I do, too. I added Peppermint essential oil to it . I use it as a face cream also.

[@zoeshorthouse7913]

So versatile

[@shodson314]

I put some comfrey I bought from Billy around some plum trees I planted two years ago and they have put out waaay more fruit than other fruit trees I’ve planted. We plan to harvest some and plant around more fruit trees to see if it helps them. Billy’s comfrey is being propagated everywhere!

[@TheModernYeoman]

We love the comfrey -- it's really exploded!

[@frantracey8737]

Also, I put comfy leaves in an old bucket with water & a lid. Smells delicious 😂

[@TheModernYeoman]

We did that last year; the smell was eye-watering! 😂

[@sueantoine3855]

Would have been a good idea to release your chickens on the termites instead to spraying chemicals

[@user-jo9lj1dq3l]

Hello Sean, that tree looks like a red bud tree. Very good nitrogen fixer for copicing in your orchard or food forest

[@maxinedurling3425]

Strawberrys make a great cover crop, Also things like marigolds are good for insects

[@deltorres2100]

That looks like a Great ideal with the weed barrier on the outside of the high tunnel 🌱🌱

[@bhavens9149]

also can't recall where I heard this, but someone suggested the other day to grow a few sweet potatoes in with the Toms, let the beautiful vines cover up the bare ground, I'm gonna try this this week, putting in my tom garden.

[@howardcowdrick2139]

The black American raspberry was called black caps by my grandparents.

[@user-jo9lj1dq3l]

Hello 👋 again Sean, William Bond, the permaculture consultant KZbin channel suggests clover as a cover crop for chop and drop mulch

[@TheModernYeoman]

I've been looking into clover; it actually grows really well here.

[@elainekaufman2264]

Could you fence in the termite area and put in a few chickens ?

[@marienorman3731]

Splendid idea🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓

[@karencarlton7794]

As an ex Pest Control professional, this is definitely the best option. In Tennessee these are most likely subterranean termites. The flying termites or swarming termites are basically teenagers trying to start a new colony. The ones you are seeing with wings are not the ones that eat your wood. Each termite has a very specific job to do. The swarming female has to find a swarming male to start a new colony where she become the Queen and he just dies. They must mate and she must get herself under the soil line to have the babies. The overwhelming majority of swarming termites die within hours. The first brood of babies she has are grouped into work groups; some just exist to gather food, for her and younger workers. Some are scouts to find new food and "tell" the others where to go to get it. Some build the tunnels, called tubes, in which they travel above ground, anyplace not under the surface of the soil. Up a cinder block wall, along the top of a sil plate or floor joist in the crawl space of a home or structure. Up a wall stud or even the paper side of sheet rock. Termites themselves are very sensitive to light, heat and moisture. If you remove a worker termite from it's tube or a channel in a piece of wood, it will die in minutes. It cannot handle being hot or dry. They must be kept moist. That is also why to prevent a termite infection you should keep the wood that holds up your home, crawl space and the wood on the exterior of the home, door and window trim, soffit and facia boards dry and painted or protected from water or moisture damage. Termites need 'wet' wood to travel through, consume and take back to the colony to feed the Queen and the next generation. Good luck and thanks for taking us along your YoJourney. Karen (Not That Karen)

[@zoeshorthouse7913]

Thanks for the information 👍

[@theresamcgranahan8011]

Great video and content.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Thank you!

[@tracyzabelle]

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[@leahharbison4932]

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[@dawndrake5833]

Hi Sean!

[@TheModernYeoman]

Hi Dawn!

[@rebeccacook7924]

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[@lynnsweeney4529]

😊

[@annamschnetzer4036]

You need to be more proactive with the termites! You should be treating your homes/all structures with preventative chemicals. Yes, chemicals... if you don't, you will be actively growing several crops of termites! I've lived in the south since 1959, I know what I'm talking about! I've had to have termite damage repaired on my home that was only 16 years old and supposedly treated before I bought it!

[@karencarlton7794]

The chemical treatment used on new builds or around existing structures is simply poison. A hole is drilled in the ground at a specific distance around the structure, usually between 2 ft and 4 ft apart and "product" (read this word as poison) is pumped into the ground until it reaches a specific calculated saturation point. Insects, termites that cross this barrier or perimeter are killed. This does not kill any termites already on either side of the barrier. So for an existing structure, if they are already on the inside; interior wall studs, foundational lumber, and subfloors they are not affected. If they are on the outside; rotten trees, dead branches, fence boards that make contact with wet ground, untreated pallets laying on the ground are also not affected. The problem ( read as opportunity for improvement) is that this product can get into underground water systems like wells or underground streams. To the great detriment of Aquatic, reptilian and amphibian critters and creatures. The ENEMY is moisture damaged wood not the termites. Keep your crawl space dry, use a dehumidifier if needed, have a vapor barrier under the home, and keep water away from the foundation of your home with a good gutter and downspout system that pushes the rain water away from the home as far as is possible. Karen (not that Karen)

[@deltorres2100]

I tune in Houston, Texas skip July and wait till August to start pumpkins and things like that.,, I don’t win with them vine bore bug 👎🏽🌱

[@DaybirdAviaries]

Modest is hottest.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Ooh, this is a good one!

[@shodson314]

Maybe they moved from your dads to your log 😜😜

[@some_Phreak]

Termite elate flight? Check out ants Canada videos about that.

[@karencarlton7794]

If you ever want to distinguish flying ants from swarming termites. Ants 🐜 have a waist. Termites do not.

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

Do you know how much I PAY for a very small punet of these raspberries? Mother nature will cover herself, or, you can do it for her using cardboard ( or the equivalent ) in your garden beds. Unless you "grow your own", you never really know what goes into or onto your food. Comfrey 👍.

[@lisapalmer3803]

I know u mentioned in past video, but can u tell me again about your little chainsaw? I think i have watched all your videos but dont remember the little shed behind your parents❤❤

[@TheModernYeoman]

Love the battery chain saw; one of my favorite tools on the homestead. It's the DeWalt 20V; can't recommend it enough!

[@mariesheppard3750]

So nice the tractor got fixed and you could use your trailer, How do you like that battery chain saw? A Sedum plant is wonderful, Get a bite from any bug, peal the back off a leaf and put it on a bite and is second nothing . even from wasps. bites You need to look for damp spots for termites

[@whitestone4401]

Great info, thanks.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Love the battery chain saw; one of my favorite tools on the homestead. It's the DeWalt 20V; can't recommend it enough!