They Could Destroy My Garden | Managing Pest Organically

[@nedrabonner23]

That 1870's Homestead. Is a great place to find wonderful information. This was very helpful.

[@1870s]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ttocselbag5054]

Just found your channel. Been doing some basic gardening research and you showed up in my recommendedl list. . I really enjoy your easy-going presentation style and your love of gardening shines, so thank you so much for the inspiration. 🍅🥕🥬☀️🌦

[@1870s]

I do love it

[@Eyes2C.]

“That 1870’s Homestead” 😊 I just bought that netting! My cauliflower was infested to the point I had to throw it away. I hope it works for the both of us. You’re garden looks great! Looking forward to the onion video!!!

[@1870s]

Lol, the comment goes in the comment section of the purchase unfortunately. But glad you got some. May the odds be in your favor as you battle the beast 💪

[@dianekeweshan4760]

Love your enthusiasm and even when the little buggers want to feast on your cabbage! Thanks for sharing your gorgeous garden, it's so healthy and prolific! 🌱

[@1870s]

Thank you, I love sharing the garden

[@nancyhickman1458]

Thanks for reminding me about the cabbage caterpillar. I've been busy planting flower and squash seedlings the past week and forgot to cover my brassicas. I use PVC hoops with light weight row cloths from now until harvest. Thank goodness they hadn't found my plants yet; I'm in central Massachusetts.

[@1870s]

That's great! Happy gardening

[@nancyhickman1458]

@@1870s I love your videos, glad I found you.

[@alizanderson02]

I can't wait to see how to grow onions. I never knew you should cut the greens!! I always learn something new from your videos.

[@1870s]

Just filmed the video, hope to have it out this weekend

[@beckywatt5048]

Mi gardener has some good tips also .

[@emelineklick8824]

White Cabbage Butterfly...cover before they start flying. I use metal stakes and drill holes in small lunchbox juice bottle caps and stick a rebar stake in...the bottle bottom protects the insect net from tearing or injury. I garden in raised beds so I clamp the bottom of insect netting to the frame, easy to remove and no need for weights. The metal (rebar) is easy to stick in and pull out and easy to store for reuse. The caterpillars will ruin all of the brassicas if not caught early.

[@1870s]

Thanks for sharing

[@loritanner4478]

My hubby and I made our greenhouse out of one of those frames that we were given. Its 10 x 16. We used the corrugated plastic panels to cover it. Got a storm door at habitat restore for the door. Put a window in the other end with a heat sensitive arm. I left the floor dirt as I am going to plant tomatoes and peppers, okra, and my ground cherry plants in there. The things that can handle more heat. As I live on the southern oregon coast and it doesnt get above 70 most of the summer. We got the greenhouse done in February this year. So i got to use it to raise my own plants from seed this year. We did heat it at night with an indoor propane heater. Worked so good. My tomato plants are about 3 ft tall right now. Already have tomatoes on some of them. I have about 125 plants of about 40 varieties. Love the greenhouse so much, I've only wanted one for 30 years or so. We attached it all on 4 x 4's. And they are all attached to the ground. It's not going anywhere. We do get some big wind storms. So make sure it is secure. Garden on everybody!🍈🍓🍅🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅

[@sues6847]

I have to add that I feel your pain with the green caterpillars. LOL I always harvest broccoli first thing in the morning so I can blanch them out and recover from the visual before dinner.

[@1870s]

Nice!

[@fallenangelwi25]

Try salt water baths!!! It brings them out and doesn't precook the food

[@sues6847]

@@fallenangelwi25 Thank you so much for that! I had no clue and I love to munch on raw broccoli.

[@fallenangelwi25]

@@sues6847 you're welcome 😊 ❤️ we love fresh raw veggies too!!!

[@lisabrown8026]

Luv the netting! Also cannot wait for onion video!

[@MommaJessiesCraftyHomestead]

That big netting is amazing! I definitely need to get some for our next garden.

[@1870s]

It seems like it'll hold up pretty well for multiple seasons

[@sues6847]

Your garden looks awesome! I don't know if you are into wild edibles or not but I have to share with you that at 6:58 my eye went directly to the creeping charlie (ground Ivy) growing in your fence. I also have this plant in my yard and the small leaves taste great in a salad. That is the only way I've used it so far but with time on my hands I'm learning more and more every day. I had a head of iceberg lettuce from the store and added the creeping charlie, baby dandelion leaves, baby plantain leaves and baby common mallow leaves along with grape tomatoes and some home made lemon basil farmer cheese. I didn't even put dressing on it lol.I can't wait for my lettuce to grow to ditch the store lettuce as it tastes like well, not much.

[@sues6847]

p.s. use wild greens sparingly if you don't like strong flavors and try just a bite before you add any of them to a salad cuz you don't want to ruin an entire salad by adding something you don't like to it.

[@beckywatt5048]

Lime mixed with. Garlic powder works very well to keep them under control , sprinkle in the morning w/the dew on .

[@pattigsbh4392]

Garden looks great! Glad you found the pest before they destroyed your plants. I have heard good things about insect covers for crops this year. I haven't grown cold crops before because of insects so I'll have to try it. Thanks for review. I'm looking forward to onion video. I need help!! ❤🙏

[@1870s]

Hopefully will have up this weekend, too hot the next few days to work out there. It takes a while for as many onions that I have

[@pattigsbh4392]

It has gotten hot here also. Working now early morn or late evening mostly. Take care❤

[@shelleycatlin3727]

Looking forward to your onion video, this is my first year growing them. 😊

[@tinafisher]

sometimes I just use sprinkles of seven here and there, because otherwise I lose all. Just gotta do what i got to do.

[@kelliwebb2870]

We don’t have spring st all where i live...zone 10a. Our fall is kinda like your spring. But we had ninety degrees throughout the month of November and by March we were back in the nineties! I’m not complaining cuz i don’t like cold and i can’t stand that white stuff!! I didn’t know onions needed hair cuts. I’m going out tomorrow to do mine! They are all laying down cuz they are so heavy! I have some with fourteen leaves on them!

[@NeverEnoughThyme]

Looking forward to the onion maintenance video. What zone are you in? Would you please include when how you started them (seeds, sets, starts) and when you planted them out? Your garden is beautiful. 💕😊

[@1870s]

We are zone 6a I believe, and I will definitely cover that subject

[@kebunibutita]

I like gardening verry beutiful your garden

[@1870s]

Thank you

[@freedomhomesteadky]

Looking forward to the onion video! I want big onions this year ^_^

[@1870s]

Hope to have out this weekend because the job has to get done!

[@preppedforeternityhomestea2848]

That 1870’s Homestead I have been picking those same worms off my greens too

[@1870s]

I'm at least glad I'm finding them this year, last year I could never seem to find them

[@Citystead]

Have to trued growing Malabar spinach, we did last yeah and it's very heat tolerant

[@1870s]

No but every year I say I'm going to and forget to order seeds

[@marionsgray]

Over the weekend I saw those green caterpillar on my bolted Bok Chow later on in the day they were gone. Today I saw a hornet devouring one. Then 10 minutes later the white butterfly had the audacity to be flying around my garden.

[@markkristynichols845]

That’s my problem too!! They are on my nasturtiums too!-Kristy in Missouri 😀

[@daniellesunley4807]

We always plant nasturtiums to attract the butterflies away from the crops that we wanted to eat. They grow so vigorously that they could cope with a lot of caterpillars and they are very pretty to look at. That way the butterfly get to live and be beautiful and we still got plenty of food.

[@PharmSilver]

Put plastic cups upside down over your wooden posts before laying the netting. It’ll save your netting from getting snagged or torn on any sharp wood parts or splinters. Everything looks great tho!

[@1870s]

Your so smart! I'm gonna see if I have some and will do that!!

[@esauer1014]

You might try a fall planting of spinach to enjoy another planting.

[@1870s]

I will, I did last year and it lasted a nice long while

[@TJtheHAWK]

Similar situation here in New England with the short springs.. Southern New Hampshire... practically all of my Spinach has bolted. In the midst of thinking about what to put in their place once I pull them.

[@1870s]

I'm gonna try beets

[@debbieb.8708]

I've never cut my onions like that or whatever this spooning is. Mine grow huge. Can't wait for your video about onions to see why you do all that.

[@1870s]

Do you grow long day or short day varieties?

[@debbieb.8708]

@@1870s I don't have any idea about that. I didn't know there were long and short day varieties. I grow white onions.

[@lisastewart4364]

I've been using a neem oil/dawn/water combo in a spray bottle per recommendation of a garden youtuber. I nearly lost my entire kale bed to those blasted lil green worms. After I water I wait until the leaves dry a bit then give them a good spray top and bottom. I harvested for the first time in2 weeks this morning! It saved the day!

[@1870s]

Fantastic!!

[@marionsgray]

Spooning? This is my first year doing onions. Planted bulbs on Mother's day. I need that video. Thanks for sharing

[@1870s]

Filmed. Edited. Ready to post. Next couple days it'll be out.

[@markkristynichols845]

That 1870’s Homestead 😀

[@MommaJessiesCraftyHomestead]

Jess from Roots and Refuge has a lot on vertical gardening if you need any suggestions or tips.

[@natashak8281]

Oh! Can you make a video on how you're growing your zucchini's vertically I'm going to do the same thing. Also my beans, except for maybe six or seven (out of the huge amount I planted) came up, so I had to replant them!! When I went to dig up the soil to replant, they weren't there! Very odd ♥️

[@1870s]

Ok I'll will definitely film at some point how I'm going to do it

[@diannerichard5568]

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[@1870s]

It has to go in the comment of your purchase order. Kinda tricky like that

[@LeeCraftyHomestead]

I hope you took care of that bug on your back right shoulder. lol!

[@1870s]

Just one of our honey bees, I'm happy to see them in my garden

[@LeeCraftyHomestead]

@@1870s he must think your sweet. lol!

[@natashak8281]

LOL those onions were just feeling the quarantine hairstyle! 😂

[@1870s]

They sure are

[@carolynmoody9460]

BLESSINGS

[@shellyaltman6279]

Anxious for the onion video. I've never stopped mine. Coincidentally I've never gotten big bulbs. Is that why?

[@shellyaltman6279]

Topped*...stupid auto correct

[@1870s]

I've found 4 things to ensure that I get big onions: 1) starting from slips 2) hair cuts 3) regular feeding 4) spooning. I'll cover them all in an upcoming video

[@GreenLadyDV]

💚💚💚

[@MommaJessiesCraftyHomestead]

I don't think we have the true 4 seasons any more lol.

[@1870s]

Definitely not

[@sandygrubb203]

That 1870s homestead

[@neveahc.4787]

I've been having problems with slugs and flea beetles!!

[@1870s]

I see the flea beetles are getting bad this year

[@neveahc.4787]

@@1870s they decimated my poor green beans.

[@sentimentalbloke7586]

If you allow a couple of each of your plants go to seed then you have your seed for the following year.

[@fallenangelwi25]

I have planted so much and everything is sprouted but seems to be growing so slowly except my peas. Why is this? I amended the soil, I even went and fertilized it with fish fertilizer. What am I doing wrong?

[@1870s]

I'm not sure. How's the rain been? If you aren't getting good rains try watering but only deeply 2xs a week. A good deep watering is better than many light waterings. There is such a thing as over fertilizing too so careful not to over do it. Other than that, there is alit of season left so just he patient

[@fallenangelwi25]

@@1870s the rains have been almost perfect, not too much or too little. However we have to hand carry watering cans all the way out there as we don't have a hose hookup. It kept blowing when we moved here and it would shut down water to the whole house so we capped it to get water in the house. I will water more thoroughly and see if that helps

[@themosthigh_wil3945]

Neem oil

[@sharondisanto8136]

"That 1870's Homestead"

[@1870s]

Sharing I'm sorry but the comment goes in the comments section of your purchase to be entered to win. Not our rules, but the companies. If I get more I'll do a giveaway on our channel for a chance to win without a purchase

[@somanyveggies]

I've tried cheesecloth for bug covering but something chews tiny holes bug enough for the moths to get through. I'll have to try this.