We have TRIED EVERYRHING! | The Daily Vibe With Rox and Ant

[@phyllisjohnson2938]

Fried, green tomatoes--YUM!

[@DavidGlunt]

Seven dust got rid of my squash bugs. It got rid of all the bugs and worms in the garden.

[@firefly6027]

Your garden is looking beautiful Roxanne.

[@brendamoody1309]

There are 23 types of sun flowers . Sunchokes, perennials, that comeback every year,an the regular sunflowers. The garden is looking fabulous,an the green house is beautiful great job building it Ant. You are quite the carpenter.i have watched you both build from the very first video. It has been an amazing journey.👍👍👍👍👍 Vinegar will also kill squash bugs. Good luck Rox love you guys an hour videos. Be safe catch you on the next one.❤😊🌻🌻🌻🌻

[@marywest1275]

Slice a good sized green tomato and roll slices in corn meal/flour and fry. Yum. Fried green tomato served in restaurants in the South are so popular. I ordered some and it cost $5 for 4 slices. Expensive but oh so good.

[@Carrick8986]

Also , diatomaceous earth around the base of plant will help deter The squash bugs

[@BABYGIRL19538]

Ant and Roxs keep ur garden clean please pick up all the debris away it help keep the bugs away . .

[@mildreddos-santos3822]

Hi guys, Keep the garden clean. ... Pull weeds and remove dead plants promptly. As soon as you're finished harvesting squash, pull vines to eliminate any remaining eggs and younger stages of squash bugs. Plant flowers and herbs that repel squash bugs, such as nasturtium, petunia, and catnip.

[@lcwathome821]

Oh I had flowers in my garden to keep away bugs too! Linda here❤ sone companion plants...love all y'all s post's!

[@truckinut20]

Turn your garden into a chicken resort.. they'll clean out the bugs for you and fertilize at the same time

[@kerrylynnparsons7879]

The greenhose is functional ART!!! 🥰🎶📚🎶❤️❤️❤️🌻🌻🌻🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@SusanIsaacs-v8d]

Can you make a small cage out of chicken wire and put one chicken in it to eat the bugs. That way it's portable and maybe more controllable.

[@pamlucas1326]

Eating a tomato you have just picked. It transports me back to my 2 year old self. My grandad ( a veteran of WW 1) used to spend all his time in his greenhouse as he was disabled. He was awarded the Military medal and his officer was awarded the military cross for bravery and they were honorarily discharged. He always called me in to pick the first tomato every year. The smell of tomato leaves and fresh tomatoes brings tears to my eyes. He was the best Grandpa ever❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@aminakishk6571]

Beauty Sun Flower !

[@francesskinner384]

Beautiful memory!

[@kerrylynnparsons7879]

You might have fewer SQUASH BUGS if you cut the grass in the garden??? 🥹🎶❤️🎶 YES!!! Dawn dish soap works great!!! 📚❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@Joyce-kmt3]

Plant radish near your squash and it keeps the bugs off.

[@PattyPrice-tl7bc]

Hi guys Gardens growing like the weeds I love tomato n mayo n pepper sandwich Love the greenhouse so much ❤️

[@charlottewillis9252]

Watching the Homestead Podcast with Sow the Land-Jason, Lumnah Acres-Al and Hollear Homestead-Ben and Ben said he sprayed Captain Jack Bug Killer on his squash bugs and it killed them. He got it off Amazon. Thought you might like to know.

[@StewartBellinger-rg1zl]

I LOVE THE GREEN BEANS THEY GROW SUPER FAST AND ALOT

[@jcrisley3227]

You can add neem oil to the water and dawn dish soap to help prevent any damage from squash bugs, it will smother the bugs and eggs and kill them! Also, it is recommended for natural remedies for the plants, check it out, not a poison to people and animals!

[@deestanley9836]

Happy Father’s Day on Sunday, Anthony!!😊❤

[@robinderick947]

Try planting a few Hubbard squash by your zucchini and pumpkins, the squash bugs are supposed to like them more. It’s called sacrificial planting❤

[@rebeccabushaw6698]

Morning Put some chickens in garden to eat the squash bugs. Love love the green house. Stay safe.

[@GammaCharlotte]

This is what I heard about squash bugs and I think it's worth trying. Squash bugs have a specific life cycle. We have a very long growing season in this area. So, if you plant as soon as you can, harvest what you can and then when the squash bugs come pull out the plants. Wait a month or so (I don't know the exact time) and then replant. You won't get squash bugs later in the season because then the bugs are out of season. The alternative is to do one planting later in the growing season. Zucchinis are usually prolific and you can get enough harvest for your family just by planting later. You can preserve them by freezing or freeze drying. When freezing, grate and store in measurements you usally use in your favorite recipes. For instance if you make zucchini bread andneed 2 cups of grated zucchini, freeze in bags of 2 cups each. Then you won't have to measure when baking your bread or whatever recipe you're making. Hope this helps 😊

[@Reillyspringstexasredirt]

Plant all your squash later so when they really start growing the squash bug are gone

[@mariezafonte6473]

The garden looks beautiful. The tomatoes are so big and I love the sunflowers.

[@marthajessiejamesartscraft5103]

I made apple pie filling a few weeks ago. I made 3 jars of pickle relish, 12 strawberry preserves. I have to go to Walmart and get some more jars and sure jell for more strawberry preserves.

[@bettylabeau9306]

I know you don’t want to use chemicals but seven works very well

[@glendabendel421]

The garden is lovely

[@rongray4847]

Hello Rox and Ant.👍👍❤️❤️🇨🇦

[@jenthrasher5056]

Put spearmint clock to you zucchini plants, (in a squash bugs don't like it mint plants. I soak popsicle sticks in mint oils place around all plats. Companion planting works best

[@maryfetters3719]

I heard if you plant your radishes next to the squash that helps control the squash bugs. Don't know if its true but wouldn't hurt to try it

[@TYFOLLETT]

I love the green house and yall are great and just take it easy and enjoy it because it’s going to be a very hot summer and drink a lot of water and just be blessed and take care

[@patriciaridley6810]

Morning guys❤

[@maryjemisonMaryjay1936]

Good Morning Rox’s and Ant 🐜☕️Have a Wonderful Time walking in your Backyard Garden 🪴 Garden looks beautiful 🤩

[@lindamaskus5142]

Me too Anthony! I LOVE tomatoes. I love those huge ones that one slice covers a slice of bread. Could eat tomato sandwiches every day. 😅😅

[@Hittingtheroadwithgandg]

Looks great guys and Happy early Fathers Day Anthony!

[@wandal.rodriguez7253]

The greenhouse looks good in the garden .

[@timliggett5088]

Seven dust under the leaves build a compressed air duster and blow it up underneath easy PVC canister build with a flex wand hose to deliver the dust where needed make your canister with a screw on cap for refilling purposes

[@brendasutterfield9834]

The greenhouse is looking fantastic guys. ❤ I love Roxanne garden it’s so beautiful ❤ . I’m so excited to see see the garden and the flowers and greenhouse is so beautiful ❤❤❤.

[@lindabyrne1645]

Love watching the channel!

[@tamararummel2027]

Guineas and chickens are good at keeping insects down. You might also attract toad frogs to the garden using broken clay puts turned upside down. They eat lots of insects too.

[@beverleyweatherall9573]

Nice job you guys ❤

[@kerrylynnparsons7879]

Your gardens are looking amazing!!! 🎶❤️🎶 CARROTS LOVE TOMATOES!!! 🥕 🍅 ❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@leann4925]

Good afternoon and enjoyed. Thanks!

[@patriciarussell756]

My favorite gardens had a chicken run all around. No bugs got by them!

[@FrancesJones-d5q]

I'm with u Anthony on fresh tomatoes. I picked my 1st ripe tomato and gobbled it up right in the garden . Also got my 1st cucumber, cut in round slices a d live to soak it in Italian dressing with cut up tomatoes. That is some good eating.

[@ja_Iam]

Good morning !! So glad to hear that all your hard work in the garden is paying off. Nothing better than growing your own vegetables.

[@BABYGIRL19538]

Try planting mint, chives, garlic, onion, tansy, radishes, nasturtiums, marigolds, and/or bee balm close by. Squash bugs HATE the smell of mint and chives-so they try to avoid anything close to them. I look this up. ❤

[@charlenegrady8781]

Glad you are producing enough veggies to can them for later. Awesome👍. Your garden looks great again this year. Good luck with the squash bugs✌️🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️

[@lcwathome821]

Ur garden has grown so fast love to watch it grow 💕 have u tried what most gardeners use is a cover space or cover most of their rows with cloth bugs cannot get to their cabbage broccoli and all kinds of veggies ! Justin Rhodes. Fit farmer Bri from Scratch! To keep off bugs from destroying their precious food..I have cover mine. Back when I gardened..no insecticide and no fertilizer. I had such fun! Love to get back to gardening but i hated to to deal with weeds ! Thats for sure yuk. Also I had no help with gardening! Blessings on ur garden. BTW I never heard of different colors if sunflowers 🌻 I have raised them but they were over 10 ft tall. Humongous! 😂❤

[@Vickihuskey]

I feel for you girl! I've decided to always plant squash and pumpkins in a place away from my main garden. They will get in the melons too; I guess anything with nice juicy vines. You might try growing them down at the end of the road near your flag. Savage some early squash and burn the vines. Killing them daily and inspecting is good. Hoss tools promotes specticide. Good luck sweetheart, your garden looks great! 😀

[@debbieshort9660]

A little bit of Dawn dishwashing liquid should help if you can spray them in time.

[@RhondaGrigereit]

I planted some onions I use miracle grow that did not work so Menards has some stuff and it worked.

[@geoffpalmer6424]

My granddaughter Amy was 4 years old and she came to visit my wife and I and played in the garden. We check the tomatoes and found green tomatoes all over the ground. The little sweetheart has fun picking them. My wife asked her what hand picked the tomatoes and after she was told she smacked the hand lightly and said it was a very naughty hand and not to do it again. 30 years later Amy has three boys of her own and still remembers her naughty hand. She is not allowed near the tomato plants at all!!!!

[@jtraupman7560]

PICKLED STRING BEANS are really good. ❤🌻

[@beckybuchholtz2946]

I use tape. Look under the plant and tack them.

[@jimdelong949]

I'm impressed Wishing you the best of success with the bugs Roxanne

[@barbaraslayden2277]

Great job Roxanne 👏

[@NovaBill6264]

With your green tomato you can have fried green tomatoes with your pumpkins you can have fresh pumpkin pies, awesome video God Bless you and your family Amen

[@denisemeredith2436]

Please can you waft some of that sunshine and heat over to England? It is so cold over here that I have had to put my central heating on. Am loving the lushness of Rox's garden as well as the beautiful sunflower that has popped out to say hello.

[@laurierowan1632]

Good Morning 🌞 I pick green beans last night out my garden 🪴 I love canning , I happy you’re canning too .

[@shellevaughan-hoyt4063]

We have planted are squash in two different spots it’s crazy were they well go to one plant and live all the other squash that is in a different spot

[@sheilatubbs1241]

MY HUSBAND USES SEVEN DUST.😊

[@gaylerichards7409]

What a bummer to have the infestation of the zucchini. Good work in the garden and on that beautiful greenhouse! Love it!

[@DreamCatcherDD]

After treatment cover your infested crop with a netting cover no more eggs. Use a hoop method to set it up.

[@jenthrasher5056]

Rosie, start more sunflowers now. They draw in bugs that eat bugs and larva. Also, companion planting. Plant yarrow, but look up companion g planting, so you don't put any plants that your main plant don't grow week with it.

[@redc8783]

Try some Duck in garden 😊 next year maybe mix some Severn granules in soil when your prepping soil.

[@tammynorris3093]

Hi. Marigolds are the best companion plant for tomato, kale, eggplant, .squash, potato, broccoli, cabbage. They deter pest

[@evanagy]

Your garden looks amazing! I love your greenhouse! ❤

[@sharonpaddock7582]

Baking soda and flour will help with your squash bugs but plant mint and chives will control them they hate the smell of those two plants.

[@shsharrell9267]

Love the sunflowers! Your garden looks so good except gor the squish bugs. That sucks. I love the greenhouse in the garde.garden., right where you need it. ❤❤❤

[@paulatorrens4004]

You really need to cut the grass and weed whack the garden and keep it short so the bugs have less places to breed,as they love the green.

[@godsgreenacreshomestead708]

Look up Rick and Jane Austin. I was watching a video about how they garden today and they have been growing via a food forest method, going from a conventional method back to a hunter/gatherer method of planting of fruit trees, nut trees, berries and herbs that they don't water, feed, weed or use any chemicals of any kind and use a greenhouse to grow more tropical type plants and trees. They have a hard time keeping up with preserving their bounty. Maybe next year start your squashes very early in the greenhouse and put them out early too. You may have to cover them and protect from frost for several weeks, but you should also get a crop before the bugs come out. My saying is "I'm a gardener therefore I am a gambler!" Texas Deb ❤

[@shellevaughan-hoyt4063]

We have been picking zucchini almost every day

[@redc8783]

Looks like you guys are going into your desert mode of work, up before the sun, lunch, nap time, and then back at it early evening till sun down. That’s how I did it when I lived in So AZ going to HS 😊

[@alicemcfarland2820]

This sounds yucky but I made a tea with chewing tobacco. Soak it in warm water or sit it out in the sun in a jar of water. When it darkens filter it add dish soap and tobacco tea water in a sprayer. This will help I hope. Works for tomato worms too.

[@breezegeddes7854]

Your sunflower is beautiful. My giant sunflowers only got about a foot and a half tall real weak stems and they're the size of daisies lol. None of my big sunflowers did anything so disappointed.

[@jangoslin8258]

Plain bubble wrap , keeps the green house shaded and insulated in winter , I had it in my greenhouse for years .

[@amysturgill5669]

My dad always planted peas on valentine's day ever year he planted a garden and that was many many years.

[@virginiawiedower6151]

Succession plant more squash maybe out close to the rabbit hutches. Beware: the squash bugs like pumpkins also.

[@kerriejacobs5765]

have you looked into the company plant it may you may have to have a small garden that you leave where I gather tomatoes I have a pot away and the bugs love to eat and leave the main one in peace

[@melissathomas9194]

Please do videos when you do canning.

[@kellyrizzo952]

You can put some chickens in the garden during the day and then put those chickens back in the coop at night

[@PennyTrent-mt2ym]

I've been having problems with squash bug problems as well

[@outdoorstudios2022]

Howdy Howdy, have a great weekend!

[@dkaysette]

I've never had great luck with snow peas here. Sometime, if the spring is very cool I get a few to eat right off the plant, but not enough to waste garden space on them. Squash bugs can be horrible and I've had seasons where I didn't get much. However, this year, we've already had a lot and more to come. Our tomatoes do wonderful, but going organic in Arkansas is quite challenging. Sometimes, we have broken down and pulled out the big guns. My FIL (native to AR.) used to always used 7 dust and they lived to a ripe old age. Yellow squash does usually do better here. Purple Hull peas, zipper peas, black eyed peas and crowder peas all have done fabulous. Greens (turnip, mustard, etc.) are great, too. Okra...wow. It loves the hot dry weather. We love fried okra and throw some in our Cajun gumbo, too. Your green house looks FABULOUS. Your entire place looks great! Good job, y'all!

[@rosefazio1859]

I wonder if ladybugs would fend off the squash bugs. If so you should go buy hundreds of ladybugs and release them into your garden.

[@CynBrown]

My mom always planted her squashes with nasturtiums and planted mint in the bed after the zucchini were ripped out for the year

[@lilystilo710]

The greenhouse looks so nice. You guys are doing a great job.

[@marywest2896]

to help block out the summer sun blazing in the green house making things so hot what about some old fashioned roller blinds up in the rafters, put a cup hook in the bottom and a hoop thing to the other side to hold it stretched out and up....just a suggestion, or just install a sail type of shade to keep the green house at a bearable temp. for the plants.

[@jodymerkel4940]

I’m like you Roxanne I go out a couple times a day to check for bugs,I don’t get many anymore after yrs of picking them off,just a suggestion but I throughly the eggs and bugs or spiders into a jar sometimes leaves have to go as well into jar with a lid ,then if. Had a full plant full f bugs I took the plant and burnt it ,so now I don’t get hardly any anymore ,so if your planing on doing gardening I’d get a big jar with a lid and stay diligent you will win eventually I promise! Good luck you two! Burn the plants if they are full of bugs or spiders ,this is just a suggestion I just know it worked for me! Any dish soap will work guys! 😊❤️

[@samanthmerry2639]

Hi I've just been reading about squash bugs, soapy water sprayed on or even a coffee grounds solution spray along with squashing eggs and the nymph stages and drowning adults in a pail of soapy water. It also said to maintain healthy plants with proper fertilising and watering as the bugs especially pick on weaker plants. The article also said to remove all dead leaves and stalks during the growing season and throughout the winter as the bugs hide out under rocks and dead leaves during the winter to survive the winter frosts and cold.. I know you put down a layer of dead leaves and then chop them in in the spring, maybe try not doing that for a season and see if that helps as they seem to be getting worse each year. I used to use a fine netting growing tunnel on my grow beds ( you can make them yourself to fit your beds or buy them) which once I'd sowed seeds or put in my young plants I put the nets up to help keep off those pesky bugs, carrot fly is a problem here in the UK. I hope some of this is helpful.... I love your greenhouse it is looking amazing and I can wait to see it once you have got it completed and start using it.

[@Anibor_Good_Enough_Homestead]

It is so hot here in northern Indiana too. Take lots of breaks.

[@karenbrest187]

Good morning 🌞 garden looking good & bugs are a nuisance 🥺 greenhouse looks nice 😉 have a great day 🙏🇺🇲 🌺

[@RubyMcgilvra]

Have y'all and Mel and Gary thought about going together and buying a freeze dryer. They say the food taste just like fresh picked after it's reconstituted.

[@gaildavis710]

Black pepper paste for squash bugs

[@AuntieAnn]

Good Morning ❤

[@pattymcculloch9000]

Look great job

[@jerriewyatt905]

I love fresh garden tomato, cheese and sliced sweet onion with mayonnaise as a sandwich .. and thin sliced cucumbers too..

[@donnam4260]

My snow peas did the exact same thing .. Got 3 peas...vines turned brown when heat started !!

[@kentneeley4783]

Good morning Coffee…have a great day