Beneficial USES for CORN STALKS - Preparing for 2022 Corn Planting

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[@121homestead9]

I cut mine with shears, left them on top of the dirt and put a big plastic sheet on top to solarize the bed. Left it there for 7 weeks….just pulled the sheet back and the soil is gorgeous, no weeds, and all the corn stalks have broken down…..zone 9A.

[@JohnMooreVlogs]

This was my first year growing hickory king corn and I'm very happy with how it did. We had drought conditions in our area and it outperformed my other corn by a long shot. My peaches and cream wilted and had kernels abort due to drought, but the hickory king produced excellently. These heritage varieties seem to be much hardier than the commercial hybrids.

[@Latebloomershow]

I have a friend who grows that. So, I take it you rely on rain for irrigation?

[@dorafriesen7267]

I always run my lawnmower over the corn when it’s done and cut it as short and fine as I can and plant potatoes on it the next time.Always works good

[@Latebloomershow]

Great suggestion! Will do next year!

[@EventHorizon34]

That’s usually what I do after harvest and the stalks have dried. Makes great organic matter!

[@steventweed3599]

Hickory King and Tennessee Red Cob are the stuff! On a historical note, a century ago, when it was in the milk stage, Hickory King was the corn of choice for making moonshine in Appalachia.

[@farmerwayne1404]

Morning ya'll! Yes Danny, I believe corn and drying it in the living room is ok with, The Father.🌽🌽🌽

[@kristinebeedle657]

Yes I'm in South Louisiana and there's no way a back to eden system would work here for the exact reason you've shared. Thanks for sharing. Blessings

[@williamstewart2066]

Used to live in vernon parish Louisiana, we had the finest back to eden garden one could ask for... went from red clay and dog fennel to raising all kinds of crops 12 month out of the year and a superb banana plantation to top it all of.

[@mcmillinsfaithhomestead523]

Agreed! I moved from OK to Central Fl and the pest pressure is 200% more here. The amount of new to me, bugs is crazy! We had wood chips delivered and I think 1/2 the bulk was bugs. Lol

[@christyguerrero6503]

I’m a native Floridian and the pests are no joke here. They get into everything

[@Root_and_Fleurish_Farm]

Lol welcome to central Florida. My house is for sale in St Cloud right now and we are headed north. It’s a challenge to garden here but you’ll get used to it. It’s backwards. Your best growing season will be from October-March. Summers will be the time to rest because it’s hard to grow anything well with the heat and humidity. Be careful with the wood chips. Termites and ants will be drawn to that. Good luck! 🍀

[@dagnytaggart5216]

Your chickens would be in hog heaven if they could dig around in that bug infested corn stalk pile!

[@jimt6151]

They'd be adding plenty of nitrogen to the mix, too!

[@nancyfahey7518]

That's right! I let my chickens out in the spring and fall. We don't have any ticks either.

[@candacemiller01]

Genius

[@chrishamill3170]

@@nancyfahey7518 I heard of people doing this and thought this is the way it should be done!

[@nancyfahey7518]

@@chrishamill3170 yes, but you get tired of the poops on the deck, and in your shoe treads and spreading any piles of leaves you're trying to collect. They even started tapping on the kitchen door saying, "we're here, throw food scraps".

[@judyabernathy80]

Whatever video camera you are using is fabulous! It feels like I’m there! Very sharp and clear! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️

[@maplenook]

Yes!

[@maplenook]

Audio also good!

[@weathermanplus]

Good morning Danny & Wanda!

[@frogfoothollar5349]

Bugs, the bane of the south. We've seen bugs this year we never saw before. I'm really looking forward to how your corn crop will do next year.

[@barrypetejr5655]

We have japenese beetles,squash bugs, aphids.....which is why I look forward to a hard freeze and below zero temps....harder the winter seems to make less pest the following season...

[@saddleridge4364]

That's such a good idea Danny! I'm sure it will work out just great. I just grew broom corn for the first time this year. It got so tall! I grew it for the seed heads, but when I cut the stalks down, I noticed they were like bamboo stalks. I am drying them flat to see if I can use for plant supports, little flag poles, etc. Maybe even make a little trinket box out of some. :) ( youtube changed the icons, now the thumbs up turns black when you click it, instead of blue)

[@emilypsteele]

Thank you for this! I live in Lower Alabama. Gardening down here is HARD! And it's gotten much harder in the last 10 years down here. Many of the channels/guides, esp. those up north, give methods that do not work down here. I grew up in TN. Winter freezes, cooler nights, make gardening there so much easier. Tomatoes set, fewer pests, mildew isn't a problem.

[@emilypsteele]

I live in town now (grew up on a farm) and I have much less space to garden. I did find that mixing cedar pet bedding (from Tractor supply) in with mulch/clippings keeps bugs out. I guess it's the smell.

[@colleenbryant3614]

Love how nothing is waisted...what is grown of the earth is given back.

[@beckyhoffman9423]

That is the cutest tractor ever and just perfect for what you need

[@BrewmasterTim]

Hurricane moving in. Be safe.

[@faintlyartistic7803]

Funny, I was just looking up what to do with corn cobs and stalks yesterday, then this popped up. I was thinking I'd let them dry and shred for mulch. I'm in zone 5b and using BTE. I plan on letting chickens in the garden at the end of the growing season and nice days in the winter.

[@deeroc-slim4165]

I think that's a good idea as well, to let the chickens control/eliminate the bug issue... Along with that, you get the mixing up & fertilizing of your soil. That keeps harmful pesticides etc out of your soil & off your food!

[@SandysAdventures]

My grandpa always said the same thing. He used to bury the stalks in the field.

[@classicrocklover5615]

Danny - can you try to solarize the bugs? Put down layers of transparent plastic to try and cook the bugs? Or spray everything down with super concentrated vinegar? My walmart has high concentrate vinegar in the garden section. Is there some sort of natural bait you could use that they would eat and die? Hard to kill off 1 part of eco system without adversely affecting other parts...

[@tammytackitt8713]

I did that and put it in the house to dry but also I put a fan on it and it seemed like it really dried out real good then it helps circulate the air more and I love y'all's show

[@mountainpatriothomestead]

I've already got my Hickory King ordered for next year. My favorite way to fix field corn is pickled; sweet corn just don't work for that 😊 And fresh corn meal just has a better flavor to me. Love that small chipper!

[@KrazyKajun602]

Stay safe yall, we have that hurricane coming. Thanks for your videos here from Louisiana.

[@donaldatkinson7937]

Good morning Danny, nothing wrong with driving corn in the house, I did the same thing, years ago I made a 2x4 frame, with chicken wire on the top, weighs next to nothing but lets air circulate. I'm reluctant to give people advice but there's no reason to shred those cornstalks, during the year I have a compost pile started at the end of the garden, as the growing year progresses I put weeds, rinds what ever on it when I pull up corn stalks I make two cuts with machete leaving about a 5 foot stalk after putting cut sections on compost pile I pull up stalks, some will need loosening with shovel, I then put those on pile also I've never turn it, it will decompose faster if you turn it but its not necessary, I'm always looking at reducing caloric energy, plus lowering my need for petroleum energy, not because I'm some kind of green, save the world type, but because I'm always considering energy put into the garden against calories, minerals, vitamins that come out, if you put more energy, calories in than you get out, you starve. My cornstalks have always been almost completely composted by next growing season, and these are huge stalks between 13 and 16 feet tall, but cut in 3 sections with the machete. The only thing I found that wouldn't decompose in one year is large okra plants. Now don't get too hot out there.

[@frederickburns1739]

Get some Twenty Mule Team Borax and sprinkle it across the top of your fodder. Borax is a roach killer.

[@dsr8223]

I use Boric Acid powder (easy to find at Walmart) to help keep roaches and Palmetto /water bugs at bay in my FL house. The exterminator sprays the outside mulch every month, too, and he suggested we replace the Cypress mulch with river rock.

[@TMesser74]

Thanks for the tip

[@billyminter3582]

I noticed those little roaches showed up here in SC this year along with some of the biggest jumping spiders I’ve ever seen! We never saw either of them before. I’ve had great results following with corn after a clover cover crop all winter. We started with 95% sand and are building organic material into our soil every season. Thank you!

[@donaldatkinson7937]

You must live in Chesterfield county?

[@billyminter3582]

Charleston county, actually

[@theheritagehousesc]

My grandpa use to till It in a couple times and put a cover crop on top, Agree roaches are bad in the south and palmetto bugs too.

[@margaretlebs6346]

With Ida moving in may God have a strong presence in the south. Take care you 2 beautiful people.

[@overthenever4262]

Cool little garden chipper 👍

[@johnndavis7647]

They came in through the port in Tampa Florida about 25 years ago and have been spreading across the south ever since. They are attracted to lights at night. Put a light over your mulch pile to draw them in then turn your chickens on them during the day.

[@k.p.1139]

Love Hickory King. Mine failed from no rain. I have Hickory Kane as well. I refuse to stop trying because when we do we might miss the blessing that may have been set for tomorrow.

[@lynettetucker544]

🌞 Good morning Danny and Wanda thanks for sharing this video that is something to have to deal with daily.

[@tbear4557]

Stay safe down there guys. This thing headed straight for y'all.

[@lorenstribling6096]

I believe Paul Gautschi developed BTE in northern Washington state. The weather and environment there are very different from the deep south. What works for him will not work everywhere. People need to realize that just because something works for them they do not have the right to tell everyone else what they should be doing.

[@michaelhoggard591]

This info makes amazing sense! Thanks Danny!

[@lejonleonard9312]

Greeeeeeeen acres is the place to be!!!!Farmmmmm living is the life for me!!!!!..just gimme that country side and my entire garden will be mostly corn!😄

[@camperjack2620]

One year I chipped and shredded, then rototilled all that into the dirt right away. Nothing grew that year. Either it was robbing the nitrogen from the soil or it threw off the ph. I did better at another garden patch the same year with no equipment, just last year's compost and a shovel. Some years in gardens I have great success, some years not. It's a learning process for me, and a process of developing skills in techniques that work. Those bugs are incredible! I'm going to observe Danny's timing, methods and results, and see how this one comes out.

[@citylotgardening6171]

It's nice to see the videos of you guys working on your property , I could work outside all day long

[@AAHomeGardening]

excellent - nice shredder as well

[@kimnenninger7226]

I doubt if it is too warm for your Back to Eden gardening but it may be too warm and moist. 10 inches of mulch saved my corn from 120 degrees or more soil temperatures and super low humidity that we experienced during the drought. I live in the south west so shielding you crops from the intense radiation is critical. It is so wonderful to have lots of folks trying different methods of farming. I hope that everyone posts how each style of gardening worked out in their area.

[@laststophomestead2853]

Not sure if you watch the Veggie Boys channel but they do exactly just that.. put or leave plants right in field as they go through picking. They have a much larger operation but I really think you and Wanda would appreciate their style as well.

[@leadershiphelpdesk510]

I read that farmers were having trouble with fungus in beans or peanuts. They switched to corn and then went back to planting beans or peanuts and the fungus went away. They found that the corn has a fungus that eats the other fungus. (I think I got this right!)

[@oldsouthhomestead7118]

I use to go around to farmers when they got through with sweet corn, there is generally an abundance left that they have to mow down so it doesn't get in with the field corn. Our chipper is a larger variety that we actually grind feed with so I would grind the whole stalks, ears and all up for the cows.

[@maryhale7234]

In Florida they are in the mulch around the trees in public parks. Even at the ocean.

[@vivienneschnell4717]

Have you considered running chickens on it? They LOVE bugs, and they will turn it over for you.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

They would destroy the rest of the garden.

[@Lola-Rose]

@@DeepSouthHomestead yes they would destroy the rest of the garden. Would you be able to fence them in? Or you don't want to chance them getting out? I guess the roaches would just come back there anyway!

[@rozland46]

Chicken tractor?

[@FarmerC.J.]

Danny and Wanda, you can get the premiere one or Gallagher solar electric fencing to contain the chickens. My chickens run free and are my pest control.

[@jenmailsouth4155]

@@FarmerC.J. A few years ago I had a gang of about a dozen roosters that lived free range at my house. They eat a huge amount of bugs including ticks. I didn't hardly see any ticks when I had them. The only problem I had with them was them all trying to breed the hens when I let them out. They were rude. lol

[@rexchilders2265]

I'm glad you mentioned the German roaches. I have never seen them as bad as they are this year.

[@notarealfarm207]

I see all this corn and I think it’s time to make corn cob syrup for Winter Yummm!! 😋

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Grits. Cornmeal and flour

[@Williams_Workshop]

Just a helpful suggestion/idea: you could use a brush blade and a rake to help save your back on bending down every corn plant.

[@pamelamartin1081]

Found your wonderful channel a while ago. Love watching you both. Praying all your hard work will not be damaged from IDA STORM . BE SAFE LOVE from DESTIN FL.

[@chrisyoung732]

You might want to consider using a poultry net and turning some chickens loose on the roach infested area. You might also want to consider having some chickens run on your cow pastures as well. They can be great pest deterrents.

[@danagreen9264]

Stay safe i expect you are getting ready for weather events ill b praying for yall💗

[@kimberlyearls649]

This system works for me.

[@countryboycharlie9793]

I do believe u need to sharpen that, mine would spit that corn out like feathers. But Danny u are on the right road leafs are very good with chicken poop. I have been using that calcium nitrate after they get that first flower

[@deborahrutherford5244]

We chop our corn stalks with the finish mower, till in then plant winter wheat on our garden then till that in spring.

[@tbear4557]

That's awesome you have your own shredder. Not really surprised though.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Had to put a new carburetor on it.

[@tbear4557]

@Larry Harrison I thought $3.39 was bad. Wow.

[@Don77sunset]

Thank u Dan and yes its another sign of whats to come. God Bless u both.

[@cornerstone2]

I do the same process with my corn stalks here in Mississippi. I have a chipper shredder that looks about the same as yours (about 25 years old) and I too have to remove the screen to run the stalks through. I have a log section about 30" tall that I use to chop the stalks on into about 8" long pieces then run through the shredder. That makes a world of difference and doesn't add any more time to the operation because your not pushing and pulling it in and out. I also run it through the back when you drop down the chute and just rake it in. I use a machette to cut the stalks down which also goes fast. I compost it in the back of the property along the wood line. Thank God I haven't had the same roach problem here.

[@jonkoehler4200]

Sending prayers and positive thoughts for y’all during this up and coming Hurricane. Be careful and safe Brother God Bless and Protect you

[@mio.giardino]

Here the back to Eden system I don’t think would work very well because we get so cold in the winter for so long that any surface decomposition essentially ceases for several months and months over the winter. I myself have measured frozen soil up to 8 inches down below the surface during winter. The struggle at the start of each season to to rapidly repopulate the micro organisms in the soil, and I’ve been having good success with David the Goods ‘swamp water’ which he gives a source for. I’m also trying his terra preda theory under some perennial bushes.

[@mycrookedlittlehomestead8363]

I like your mini shredder we have one and I shred my old manure when I shovel it itis in clumps so we run I threw the shredder and it comes out like beautiful black soil looks like it was bought I'm growing corn for the first time so now I know what to do with the old stocks this fall thank you for this video

[@deanna4814]

We didn't end up with a roach problem here in Florida with our back to Eden garden but man oh man the termites sure loved it.

[@uncommoncents2152]

As always amazing knowledge

[@countryboycharlie9793]

The good with the bad, try this Texas heat

[@celinebridges7817]

Hey Wanda and Danny 😃 Great video.. so true about the bugs .. have you heard about the bugs that are coming in destroying crops… in five states now .. but over all your still have a beautiful crops .. Well we live in Texas and you’ll are fixing to get storm #9 or might turn into a hurricane… will be praying for you’ll .. stay safe and take care 🥰 Blessing 👩‍🌾

[@kjrchannel1480]

When I chip long vegetation. I put a fist full at a time into the long narrow chipper chute. The leaf hopper is a coarser grind. It works better for me that way. I have really tall thick sunflower trees as I call them that need chipping every year.

[@florcedillo7964]

I heard sunflower stalks make sunflower flour.

[@gerrymarmee3054]

Paul’s philosophy works. Maybe wood chips don’t work, but replenishing the soil with what works for you does. Grass clipping work pretty well for me. Following God’s ways works.

[@a-survivors-journey]

Prayers for you guys!! Hopefully you are safe!!!

[@nancytharp8213]

Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝

[@stephanieclark2934]

Yes, the roaches are horrible here, in LA as well Stay safe and stay wonderful

[@anelincoln2739]

Ida's off our coast right now. The fire ants are "hilling up", rattlesnakes are traveling across the fields and now bees are swarming in the laundry room and we are only getting feeder bands not the full storm. That's what we love about the south!

[@abou8963]

Diatomaceous earth?

[@GardeninginIdaho]

Wow.... how crazy. Can’t say I’m surprised but how wicked must they be to bring in roaches to a place that’s already battling bugs. So sorry. God bless you guys to find a solution for your land against the roaches 💕

[@dinett8294]

I’ve lived in East Tx. for 45 years and I’ve never seen a millipede here until about four years ago. We started seeing millipedes all out in the soil, now they are coming in the house so we have to spray once a month all around the house. I’ve wondered if the airplanes that were flying over so low, were throwing out these millipedes in the woods. They seem to love moist wood!

[@toddshepard3592]

I'm a big believer in tilling up the soil. The critters in there don't care. They adapt. It helps to re-establish the vital Mychorizae network under the soil. Imo just dropping stuff on the soil waiting for it to decompose may work in the forest where the trees aren't trying to grow squash and Tators but I am. I'd saturate the soil with H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) and watch the critters try to get out of that haha.

[@ginnypennington1426]

Good information.

[@AlleyCat-1]

Could you mix grass clippings with what you have & till it in & put some straw over it put some chicken's in there too (while you have no crops in there)? I know this is all well said then good on suggestions. I'd, personally, be finding a way to eliminate those roaches, naturally with D.E., chicken's, ducks, etc.

[@Latebloomershow]

They may be all I get out of my corn, grinding up for next year (though I don't have one of those chippers), as the army worms were horrible and I didn't get on top of it in time and they got stunted.

[@cindyhand6880]

Praying yall are safe. Knowing this hurricane is coming. Get to high ground now. Blessings to all.

[@aprilarmijo6967]

That also happens in New Mexico especially with wood chips

[@maltipoosoffgrid6868]

Put the chickens on the garden. I let my chickens free range and we live in the woods. I use to see roaches in the leaves, but now I have more of the chickens out I don't see them anymore

[@bethanyfields4706]

Good morning!

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

I wonder if Guinea fowl would eat them ? My daughter bought an old farmstead up in northern Minnesota and the ticks were terrible, she bought some Guinea chicks just for tick control. They roam the yard and through the woods feasting and wow what a difference it’s made ! I’m also wondering about just composting the corn stalks in a pile then spreading it out ?? Living in zone 3 🥶 my compost spends 6-7 months frozen so it can take years to be ready, I pee in a bucket and put it on the pile and have compost in a few weeks 😍😍😍 The strong nitrogen in the pee would probably burn the roaches ?? Blessings

[@tradermunky1998]

Interesting... I have also noticed a big increase in roaches starting two years ago, I'm in Texas. And spiders. But it seems like bugs are like that, they go through cyclical periods where they go gang busters. Roaches do love dead matter!

[@bloominflowers6766]

Close the boarders ! lol

[@jdollar5852]

We have a HUGE roach problem on the farm this year and it has started translating to our house so I am spraying almost daily now. Back To Eden has been a bust for us. Running grasses and nutgrass just love all those wood chips. I still think it has merit and will continue to try it in small areas to see if it truly improves soil over time. We invested in a pto wood chipper. WELL worth the money around here. All of our trimming(privet is a big deal), and my futile attempts to control sweetgum, means that we are creating a monstrous compost pile when we add chicken manure and grass clippings from the 2 acres we cut. You should try to get one of the PTO chippers sponsored for you to evaluate. We have been very happy with ours.

[@bumblebee7922]

Love the video....

[@Sheenasalesthriftytreasures]

Back to eden gardening didn’t work well here either we’re not cool enough everyone I see successful is up north we’re just too warn here I let mine break down and in spring in my front garden I’m going to til it under it’s definitely a nitrogen stealer and they say it goes back in the soil and I’m here to tell you it didn’t glad I didn’t do it in the back pasture I left the rest in a compost pile to breakdown it’s been the 7 years and it’s still not fully broken down if you do use it you better have a lot of manure and as far as bug I seen things in mass exodus I have never seen before and the amount was insane blister Beatles , Japanese Beatles, squash bugs out the wazoo, aphids, ants, worms of every kind, moths first thing I said is Lord I know your coming can you please send these somewhere else, never in the 7 years of planting here have I ever used anything for bugs it’s just crazy and we had a super cold hard winter so it makes no sense. Guess my dream about famine wasn’t far off it’s coming God bless I hope your bug issues go away too I’m thankful not to have those thank the Lord I can’t imagine

[@stephanieclark2934]

I planted alot of marigolds this year and these beauties have done a great job this year with bugs. I'm reaching more bug fighting flowers to plant with my garden!!

[@Sheenasalesthriftytreasures]

@@stephanieclark2934 I will definitely do that this spring that is one thing I didn't do this year I appreciate your help I sure don't want another year like this one

[@maddhatter1219]

Great video and good info, as always. One thing that I'm not so sure I understand regarding the B2E gardening though is that, from what I've observed, it's not solely about only using woodchips. While that is a component, really it seems that the method works because it's about soil growth and development and not leaving the soil bare. This of course differs from row monocrop gardening in the U.S. which seeks to make the soil as bare as possible. The woodchips are just one of several ground covers that can be used. I do agree though that what he is advocating isn't perfect for every crop in every area. It works in his area but his pest pressures are different than in the southern latitudes where insects abound. Part of having an abundant and balanced ecosystem though includes bugs. I'm curious though if it would be possible to put up portable chicken fencing and then using that (and chickens) to surround the area you put down the corn stalks would help to clean up the bug issue any or that would be more work than reward? Not sure what the upside/downside would be in your situation. I'm working on building out our homestead now (a loooooooooooong way to go) but I'm trying now to combine some of the B2E method with Joel Salatin's. Not sure if I can get it to work in my area or not though. The soil needs a lot of work. Keep making the great videos!!!! Always love to see a video from yall in my feed, makes my day!

[@shodson314]

As I walk the dogs through the woods I hear something small skittering through the loose dead leaves but can never catch up to see what it is. I was thinking maybe lizards but there would have to be an awful lot of them! Now I’m wondering if we have the same thing over here. SC zone 8 I wish I had thought to put our corn stalks through the shredder before I added them to the compost pile! Next time!

[@mommadirt3557]

Wow, Interesting. For sure returning as much of the plant matter as possible to the soil is an excellent practice, especially here in the South where it digests down so quickly. Up here in NE MS I have bunches of American roaches (I've had them identified by 2 separate entomologists) that run and scurry just like those do. I cover crop my fallow ground every fall. Maybe turning and cover cropping would help.

[@jimt6151]

My chipper-shredder broke me of using ethanol gasoline, too! Now, I use nothing but ethanol-free in every gasoline engine I own!

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Same here now.

[@stormbilly6767]

Just like here in sunny FL. We run into the same issues.

[@carolavant3778]

I completely get you, Danny! As for the roaches, I've been controlling them by treating the garden areas with beneficial nematodes. I apply them in the Fall and again in the Spring. They even control fire ants to a degree, but hot or freezing temperatures kill off the nematodes, and the fire ants return from the neighbor's property. I keep praying to find a way to get rid of fire ants. This year, I got a beautiful stand of sweet corn! Six 30' rows that made some beautiful ears, but harvesting was a nightmare! Fire ants were all over them! I'd pull ears and put them in my Gorilla cart and fill the cart with water and let them soak for 30 minutes just so I could shuck them without being bit. I've had to wait until now to begin pulling my sweet corn stalks - there's less of them on the stalks, but they're still there. Other than burning the field, what in the world can we do here in the deep South?

[@died4us590]

Danny and Wanda, can you pray for me and my friend who lives with me for free, and is in a hospital bed, and I have the progressive form of MS, and all the muscles on my left side have wasted to the point that it is physically hard to do anything. I have no family left to help me and I am 50, my friend has entitled kid's that came around for money, and they will not help her, and she raised them 4 kid's because their dad had porn addiction, cheated on her and left Michigan for texas, and had kid's with her, got out of paying most of the child support. I like your video's, and my attitude is like yours, just a female version. God bless you all, hope this hurricane coming misses you, will pray for y'all.

[@larrystone5749]

Good video thx for sharing Good info Be safe

[@tomjones4318]

Growing up in rural central Alabama I never saw a roach till I moved to town. Back home they are everywhere now. Just like the cities are covered in bed bugs. Lots of third worlders moving into rural areas now.

[@vickisavage8929]

I did a little research and found that roaches are most likely to be brought into balance by predators in the ecosystem as long as y’all don’t start putting out poison. It might not hurt to experiment a little with letting the chickens feed in the garden (enclosed by movable netting) because they ARE fond of catching their own fresh protein. As far as plant predators on next year’s corn are concerned, y’all might want to apply some of Billy’s bone sauce earlier in the season. Be y’all RICHLY BLESSED!

[@tristanharris205]

Keep up the good work.

[@MiscMitz]

Good idea

[@MyTNMtnHome]

German roaches love wood chips. Never put chipped matter near your house. Beetles love it too. Those red bugs that gather, I forget the name. Then they will start to live under your black weed barrier. I don’t use wood chips bc of them. We don’t use them in the chicken coops either.

[@texaschopper3091]

I liked the comment about chickens eating those roaches.