TRANSCRIPT:http://backtoreality.org/2020/08/03/coming-back-from-frost-kills-mid-summer-garden-update-2020/
In our previous video, I mentioned that earlier this spring we lost over half of them to an unexpected June frost. But after a few weeks, many of them looked as though they might actually make it. So we decided to leave them be, and see how they’d turn out.
Well, now a few more weeks later, we thought it might be fun to give you another really quick update, because things are finally starting to look like a garden again. So in this video, let’s take a quick look at the plants that were fighting for their lives a few weeks ago, and see where they’re at today.
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Previous video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDA6uFZNWk
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Results from our first-year Back to Eden garden: Corn, Beans, and Squash (Three Sisters Method)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqOQ-Mt9tI
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Planting mint can help with pests but if you don’t want them to become much like a weed plant them with in pots
I think the onions are a good barrier plant for a lot of creatures. Mint too…
We are having the year of the grasshopper invasion. The chickens eat as many as they can every day but they haven't even eaten a small fraction of them and as soon as they eat a bunch more hop over the fence from the surrounding fields. They have stripped off every scrap of leaf from most plants but some they don't bother. Not surprisingly, they don't seem to like the aromatic herbs like sage and lavender, but they also don't seem to eat squash and raspberry leaves. Just wondering if you have ever had to deal with grasshoppers? Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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Have missed your videos! You are so down to earth and articulate without being condescending. You are very relatable.
I was wondering if you ever harvest the Wild Carrot (aka Queen Annes Lace, white umbrell flowers) that appears to be taking over your field?
Everything looks green and healthy are still using the same manure pile left behind by the farmer? The hay mulch is working very well for you.
A quick tip about putting up fencing that we got when we put up our fencing around our garden, was to hang it up on the posts. Attach hooks on the posts at the level where the top of the fencing will be, then hang it on the hooks as you unroll the fencing…. super easy and perfect every time. We also added supports on the corners, tying the tops of the posts together as well as angles from top to bottoms.
Hey, Could you please reply how to add those animations in videos ?
I LEANED SOMETHING ABOUT THE 3 SISTERS METHOD!! Do not grow large squash with the corn! I planted a pumpkin seed and its grown up and is pulling down my corn!! AH!!!
sunflowers work great for beans
Hi this is totally off-topic, I have been watching your videos for the last few years and have come to know your voice, I was watching this video on CNBC and thought for sure it was your voice, Am I crazy. https://youtu.be/MWgFeCSvsmI
Please do another potato harvest when they’re ready!!
Thanks for the update love your garden progress
Earlier this year we spotted a pumpkin sprout coming up in the middle of the backyard. It was from when we smashed some pumpkins last year after halloween. We decided to let it just grow. I couldn't contain myself and had to put a little straw around it and keep the grass around it clipped with some shears. I started watering occasionally too. It was growing nicely. Started acting like a proper vine. I was happy. I love volunteers. Texas summer rolled around though. Started getting hot. I worried about it. it was the first time I ever grew a pumpkin plant and I wasn't even trying to. soon the leaves started wilting real bad. I would water it some daily to stop this and it just got worse. Soon watering didn't even make it bounce back. I thought I watered TOO much and hurt it. However my sister's zucchinis and yellow squashes were dying too. That's when I learned about the squash vine borer. Apparently southerners like us have a really hard time with those. Unlike squash bugs they can decimate within days. That is what had happened. However I managed to save the vine. I cut a piece that wasn't yet dead off of it and buried it elsewhere, using the natural properties of vine propagation to see if it would fix it. It did. It bounced back and resumed growing. Got a little longer. But then it started to die off slowly. I accidentally whacked the tip off. I think it just had way too much stress. Poor thing. I tried my best though. I have a few more small pumpkin vines I planted super late. Maybe we'll have jack o lanterns…. by Christsmas LOL. I wish I had some land like y'all's.
Potato rodents use mole tunnels to reach the tubers. I had the same issue last spring with my early potatoes. Unfortunately it is very difficult to get rid of moles. Next year I will try to grow potatoes in raised beds, setting a wire net below the tubers.
Very good! My husband is also doing his own garden at the backyard.
Thank you once again for sharing yet another amazing video, keep it them coming and will be back for more.
Do you plan to start gathering your own seeds?
Thanks ! Informative, concise and pleasant!
If there is one consistently common in YouTube gardeners are that they are so hurriedly non stop talking. And many of them like 30% to 80% talking stray away from main topic.
I become impatient for the non essential talk to drag the video. I click stop watching.
But this site has nothing to throw away with nonstop talking….. and very pleasant and honest about each undertook you have gone through.
And your smile is genuine too!!! I just found you and looking forward all other clips.
I doubt you'll see this but I've been watching you for years, one of my recommendations is inoculating your mulch (straw,hay,woodchip) to break it down faster and also get a byproduct of tasty fungi
Its been 2 months? Wgen r u going to share more videos new videos… love them…. and now harvedt…
You are one of the YouTubers that inspired me to start my own channel on sustainability! We live on a single acre with plenty of zoning ordinances restricting the type of lifestyle we can live. However, we are doing everything we can to live a lifestyle of self-sufficiency and documenting our journey here on YouTube. We currently have gardens, orchards, a vineyard, chickens, honeybees and hope to one day install a solar system to go off grid. I love your channel, keep up the inspirational work!
I have had the same problem with rodents in my Ruth stout garden. Between the birds and the rodents my garden was wiped out except for the garlic. So after some research, I found out that rodents get sick if when you plant, you spray the seeds with a diluted solution of castor oil. Castor oil is fairly cheap and you only use a little. So this Spring I am trying that out. I also understand that the rodents are really attracted to grubs in the soil. Apparently you can buy Nematode powder to get rid of the grubs and therefore get rid of what is attracting the rodents. But for now I will be trying Castor oil only as I have been working to build up the soil and lots of grubs are telling me that it is working…I think.
I noticed lots of ants. You can't possibly be eating all this. Do you can or sell the excess?
We live in WV and are seeing tunnels and paths where something was tunneling under the snow. My husband says they are moles. I was curious as to whether or not they would eat our plants when it comes time to plant. But I’m told they like earthworms and their appearance signifies that you have healthy soil.
Your videos are awesome!! I love how you guys use video, photos and animation/drawings to teach us through your experiences!
Inspirational
Did you plant your bean and corn seeds in the same hole? Or just very close to each other?