After learning a lot from you I’m happy to be able to teach you something hahaha you should always release the ladybugs at night because they don’t leave their habitats at night and many will stay where you want them to if released at night. During the day a good amount will fly off elsewhere! Apparently after establishing their “bed” the first night they’ll make that area their home...cheers!
@@LaFanfanTulipeyes its true but i recommend doing research before releasing these. some environmentalists are saying its not wise to release them. but im not sure what to believe! lol
Just thought I'd let you know...I tried your painted stones idea around my strawberries. The fact that in the last two and a half weeks, I harvested 19.75kg from my front garden proves that it absolutely worked!
@@jamesprigioni I really could use some help with my orange trees in Florida starting to get fungal disease. The problem we run into down here is that we're a lot of rain and have had issues in the state with fungal issues. Which in turn starts to affect all of our plants from tomato's , okra and so on. If I spray Copper fungicide how long can I wait before I get some ladybugs to keep the aphids and other insects away? Sorry to comment on someone's comment, I just cant tag you otherwise. This is a very very big problem that seems to decimate my whole garden.
So lucky to find this chanel a year ago and took it into action. I started it with couple pot of veggies, now I have 5 established raised garden bed 🥦🌱🐞 Some fruit trees, citrus start to produce and the rest go dormant (as it's close to winter here down under) 😅 Got 1 worm bin, 3 chicken & 4 quails that keep giving me eggs and free fertilizer. Never aiming to fully self- sustainable, but I am so grateful to have what I have now. Especially during this pandemic. *best time to plant yhe tree is 7 years ago, the second best time to plant it today* 🙏 James & Tuck 👩🌾🐝
First year we moved into our house, the first rainy day revealed the ungodly amount of slugs and earwigs invading our modest terrain. Gardening was a futile nightmare that summer. There were also tons of mice around the house, many of which kept getting into our walls. Previous owner would diligently clean all of the fallen leaves, including the small wooded sections and secluded corners. Bf and I turned out less zealous and left the leaves alone in those areas. The following year those leave beds began crawling with an army of shrews. Slugs and earwigs are now a rare sight when I garden, and the mice mostly vanished. Now I leave strategic ''leaf bridges'' around the house so that the few remaining shrews (most of them left after the bug invasion was taken care of) can comfortably remain hidden while patrolling around the sensitive areas I need them to. Wonderful little garden allies these guys are!
Whenever my chickens are laying down under my patio I don't wanna go outside because I know they'll get up in curiosity. They're so peaceful. Today one even had her head tucked in her wing sleeping and that other one right next to her chilling sitting guard.
James, I love your channel! I have a bunch of Food Forest and Tuck shirts that I wear all the time. I really love that you actually share your mistakes and failures with us. A humble person doesn't act like a know-it-all....although it's very obvious you know a LOT!!!
Thank you, James. Your skilled teaching and experience have been a great help for me as I begin my first vegetable garden at age 72. Congratulations on your fine work!
I would hang or put irish spring soap and I cook hot peppers, onions, garlic and strain and let eggs sit in a gallon of this stuff till its stinky, put around plants.
I tried the Irish Spring soap. Didn't seem to deter the bugs at all. But I think it may help with the bigger pests (like the raccoons and other digging creatures).
I just learned “A LOT” with this video, every time I saw any bug I would loose my mind and my first reaction is to kill them. Didn’t know lady bugs were good. I get a lot of them. Thanks. By the way, your garden looks great. My biggest pain in the *** are chipmunks and squirrels.
This year I started fighting back against chipmunks. I got my first one within minutes of setting my first trap: A five gallon bucket with water in the bottom, and sunflower seeds. Make ramps long enough to allow sunflower seeds to stay on the ramps and not slide to the ground. Leave some seeds at the base of the ramps, up the ramps and on the surface of the water. Peanut butter can act as a "glue" for some sunflower seeds on the ramp. Chipmunks can't resist and fall into the bucket going for the seeds. If you want to relocate them, don't put more than a couple of inches of water in the bucket. Be careful, they won't survive long if the water is higher than they can reach standing.
An electric fence is a must for us to get rid of the wild pigs and my husband also made a big bird cutout made of metal that he painted black and a bit of white to imitate the real bird and hang it in a pole over the garden,so it looks like a big birs flying and this is effective in scaring the small birds that are already starting to eat the cherries and we also put annet around the fruiting cherry trees, but despite the net, the birds still find their way. But atleast they're still enough left for us compared to last year.
One of your most practical videos. I planted two 10' low hoop tunnels in early spring with beautiful cool weather plant starts. In one weekend the voles mice and a mole wiped it all out. I guess they thought in was a cozy spring shelter too. Great to be encouraged by your positive attitude even when your hard work is destroyed.
I came here because I had a groundhog eat 5 tomato plants, all of my romaine lettuce, and even some of my leeks!! I fenced it up now and planted some onions in with my lettuce, thank you for this video!
James, You are definitely an inspiration. My blossoming family (I am 36, wife is 33, baby girl is 4 months) just purchased a 1 acre property in MA (both grew up nearby) and I am using the lockdown to begin building us a self sustainable type property where we can try and live off the grid as much as possible. We get an abundance of sun exposure here during the day, especially in the backyard area where I am starting with a series of raised vegetable gardens. We are starting with essentially a blank canvas in the yard, with fairly rocky terrain, and I am finding guidance in your videos. You give great detail and show everyone that they can do it too. Thanks for putting the extra effort in to share your work with us. It's very easy to just do your own thing and not try to help others. Looking forward to future videos. Jeff G. Ludlow, MA
31 birds disliked this video. I love that you "try" without outside input, I do it a lot, and I find new knowledge all the time that way. Like dealing with my bermuda grass. Keep it up James, good stuff! Regards from the South of South Africa :)
interesting and useful videos for novice farmers like me. plant pests sometimes sometimes bother farmers. thank you for sharing. greetings from oncu farm in indonesia.😊👍
Absolutely! When we first put down a garden on our rural property, NOTHING touched it. We had zero safeguards. We were naive and the wildlife gave us a break for 2 years. After that, it was ON! The deer, the groundhogs, the field mice, the rabbits, the birds, the bugs. . . I almost gave up!
I remember that day! I spent... gosh about $180 on hostas and other shade garden plants. The deer destroyed them in ONE NIGHT! I cried. I seriously cried it was such a waste of money at a time when I didn't have money to waste. 17 years later I keep bears off blueberries, Rabbits off strawberries, squirrels off pecans, deer off Apple trees, mice out of chicken grains, and slugs off potatoes as a routine! I've even developed methods to surface grubs before planting (wet black plastic), bate squash bugs (nitrogen, straw and sticky flowers) and white flies were really my last frontier...someone suggested lace wigs... I'll give it a try!
I don't have garden, because i live in high rise building ,but, yet i like to watch some gardening shows. Its therapeutic for myself. When I was a kid the school i went, used to give us pice of land so we can grow staff learn about how plant grows, on top of that. Our teachers used to makes us compete for the best grade. You know the saying goes, " everything i learn in life, I learned it in kindergarten " its so true. One more thing, there is a saying, if you end up lady bug landing on you, you meet very important and respectful female near future.
If you want to garden lots of things can be grown even in a high rise apartment. Look into microgreens, sprouts, plastic bottle gardening, salad greens, window gardens, terrace or balcony gardens if you have a terrace or balcony, cooking herbs, etc. Lots of veggies make cool looking house plants: carrots are a pretty plant with feathery tops, rainbow chard, Malabar Spinach is a nice vine plant, Basil of all kinds grow fast & smells wonderful, etc. Lots of options even in an apartment.
I love this guy. SO excited about gardening and a dog person to boot. Go James! This is by far the best gardening channel I have found. I have a small garden but big dreams
Your enthusiastic greeting at the beginning of your vids always brightens my day - thanks for the great attitude and huge amount of info you put out! I've honestly learned so much from your channel! Hope to have a better garden this season, and when I bring in those veggies you'll be someone I have to thank for that!
Wow, I'm here since you only have 2.3k subs, and now 400k plus. Wow, James keep up the good work and may your channel grow more, you and Tuck deserve it. ❤
Hey JP! Besides all the good advice in the vid, just wanna say thanks for the much-needed shot of energy! Just can't help but smile watching this channel, Tuck, and your intro/outros
Here in the UK we have cabbage white butterflies. They lay tiny eggs on brassicas and when they hatch they _decimate_ the plants. Parasitic wasps can kill them, but the wasp lays their eggs in the caterpillar in a way that doesn't kill it for some time so as to get more food for the wasp larvae. The only predators of these caterpillars are some birds, but the caterpillars build up chemicals which make them taste awful so most birds won't eat them. The result is that if you make the brassicas accessible to the birds, the caterpillars will still decimate your crops _and_ the pigeons will go to town on them as well. I cannot see any naturally harmoneous way of dealing with them so we have a cage of fine netting around our annuals beds. I would love to find an alternative but I have not been able to find one in all my searching.
See if you can find some bacillus thurengensis. Spelling may be off a little bit, but it's close. It's a bacteria that doesn't bother anything but those flies you mentioned, and it eats them alive from the inside out. It's a powder that you can just dust on all cabbage family plants.
INSECTS ARE THERE TO eat weak sick plants. Feed you corps micorizy, SeaAgri trace elements,, foliar nutrition, use biochar etc; don't use nitrogen or NPK etc. THese last unbalance the plant making it weak. Insects can come from miles away on the infrared frequency, they detect the weak plant.
O wow! So, this is a new vid! Im used to watching and commenting on the old ones...im glad to see you and Tuck doing well this quarantine..new subscriber from the 🇵🇭! Thank you so much for sharing! 💜
I'm a virgin garden grower. I have 2 raised beds 3x6 and live in Kentucky. Hoping to learn more and learn from my mistakes. One thing I've been advised about is every year is different. Hope everyone has a good harvest. Good luck and thank you good sir for this informational video.
Perfect timing James, I was hoping you would cover this topic! I gotta get busy improving my fence to keep the bunnies out. Looking forward to see how your food forest grows this year!
I luv this channel! I cant believe how much I've done in the last 2 weeks and what has helped is this channel ...I love lavender so I planted a few ...its been so tricky..I cant tell if underwater or over watered...but I'm not giving up on especially the lavender...I do have some drying inside so I'm happy bout that.
Awesome and informative video! When it comes to good companion plants, I HIGHLY recommend trailing nasturtiums. In my experience, they are great at repelling soft bodied insects such as aphids. Plus, they form a nice groundcover, making them an excellent understory plant for taller statured, erect crops such as kale or tomatoes.
I find one of the best ways to keep pests out of the garden is to grow plants that pests don’t like, plus growing a lot of different things tend to confuse pests.
So glad you are back with all the enthusiasm that you are known for and great tips... I have practically lost all my brassicas to the white butterfly...at the moment here in Australia we're having an abundance of insects life after the fires then the rain....lovely butterflies everywhere but unfortunately the white butterflies like my brassicas!!! anyway shall find a solution...
I use my left over essential glass warmer bulbs and put in lemon grass oil or any other oil that repel bugs. The heat of the day warms up the bulbs and releases the scent to keep the critters of my plants.
I’m inspired by you I have 13 acres in Quebec going to get it going 3/4 of it is wooded. Started two years ago cleaning up the wood taking the Rottenwood out cutting small trees leaving room for the bigger ones big project I can I plant the same things you do it’s colder.
Probably takes me twice as long to watch your videos because im always rewinding to make sure I take it all in. I like to watch/listen while staying busy around the house. Looking forward to watching your food forest grow this season!
Dont forget about lace wings. Those boogers will devour white flies, aphids, and baby caterpillars. Then when they mature, they turn into pollinators. Best of both worlds
Awesome tip! Thank you. Tit for tat: Non organic high nitrogen fertilizer attacts squash bugs. I left a bag of straight nitrogen (32-0-0... the stuff you have to sign for) out in pile of straw and they swarmed that bag... stayed out of my squash and cucumbers. An accident has now become a warning and a bait trap. I never use synthetic fertilizers and I now cover a strawbale away from my garden in straight nitrogen and yellow construction paper "flowers" (fan pattern folded) covered in double sided sticky tape. I burn it in fall. Been working great for 3 years now!
I forgot to mention mites. Lace wings are awesome for those too. And susceptible plants such as roses. They eat mites like candy. Anyone ever seen lacewing learvea? They look like little alligators. They are predators with huge appetites, then they transform into winged insects that feed on pollen and nectar. Awesome for the garden along with ladybugs.
It is nice to see another person from New Jersey gardening and you have a lot of great tips so I'm a new subscriber looking forward to watching your videos and thank you
Love your videos. Tuck gets so much healthy food from the garden. I saw on someone else's video that they laid hardware cloth down before filling up their raised beds so no moles or other animals could burrow in. You have so many good tips.
James, you're great and my wife and I love your channel, attitude and enthusiasm. Proud to say we painted some rocks red and put them in our strawberry pots. You're right, they do actually look nice, it's so silly but we think it works, too. Thanks for doing what you do, happy gardening!
I also have a problem with birds in my strawberries. So I started companion planting with onions. As soon as the onion greens pop up, the birds leave the berries alone.
I’m trying to grow a bunch of veggies and roses on our 2nd floor deck. The squirrels and chipmunks just tease us all day by walking up the steps and eating everything!! Nothing works to deter them. Since we’re all working from home now, our hobby is to catch and quickly release at a park far away. I actually think it may be working a little too!
@@2pugman Relocating wildlife is never as simple as it appears from the human perspective. Timing is very important because they could have babies and you may not be able to get close enough to tell if you've trapped a lactating mother or not. So it really is best to relocate later in the summer, after babies are less of a concern. You also want to be sure the animal is being relocated to a sustainable spot- one with a source of food that is not hostile.
Thanks James!! I’ve been learning so much from your channel. I really wish I had found last year but not even sure I would have gotten my garden in then anyhow. This lockdown has given me the time (sadly, away from my business) to immerse myself in my other love which is gardening. Now, the Coronavirus and the state of our country and the fact that this may go on for some time has given us a sense of urgency to DO THIS! So we have started relatively small, our original garden plot but are planning on starting a food forest. We definitely have the room. We live on 2.5 acres and already have a few fruit and not trees.
I live in Texas and the plum curculio is a huge problem in our Permaculture orchard. I tried using kaolin last year, but it didn’t really work. This year we tried using hop extract which has been proven to prevent oviposition of the curculio and the Michael Philip’s spray, but we still lost almost all of our plum crop to the curculio. Next year, hopefully some type of invention that prevents them from even coming up the tree will work. Love your videos! Keep up the great content!
Do they climb the plum trees? Put a band of foil or something around the trunk a foot from the ground and smear it with Vaseline or something to trap it
Thank you, James. I am having a groundhog issue, so I searched your channel first because I knew you'd have some great tips. Thank you for inspiring me to go bigger with our garden this year. :) Thank you, from Joplin MO
I have a worm tower in the center of one of my raised beds. It's awesome but in the spring the birds dig up the soil around it to get to worms that have gone on a day trip. That with a ground-hog problem (more than one) - it's discouraging. I may relocate my raised beds and put a fence around them as well as mesh under the area. they sit. Lot of work.
Hi, tip for a future video: could you take us up in the air? Make a tour with a drone? I would very much like to see the total set-up. Greetings from Holland.
Surround is the best! I couldn't begin to grow apples organically in the Boston suburbs until I started using it. What's amazing is that when I planted some apples in my new yard about 15 years ago, I started off with Surround and always had a great, clean crop that filled a couple of wheelbarrows, but I was never exactly sure how much of the credit went to Surround and how much was just a lack of pests in my then new neighborhood. Well, in 2018 I changed jobs and missed spraying the clay onto the trees that spring and in the fall I didn't get a single decent apple. [Insert look of horror here.] That answered that, lol. Now I have the sprayer and bag of Surround waiting for pedal fall and then BAM! Right onto the tree. I do three or so applications, letting the tree dry a bit between applications, building up the clay layer until the trees are basically white. 'Just did it yesterday for this season. (The tiny apples are so completely vulnerable right after the flower bloom is done. Don't be late getting a Surround cover on the tree(s).) It's great stuff!
Thank you so much for making this video. I've been wondering the last couple of weeks what I can do better to deter insects from my garden. I live in Tennessee and we just had a frost this morning, hopefully this will be our last one and I can get to more planting. I repotted 24 Apple tree seedlings into their own container pots a couple of weeks ago and had to bring everything in the house last night LOL. Better that I get my planting done late than never. 😊
Hope you make some more specific videos on dealing with pests..love to see what you're doing against specific pests and what's working for you! We've got some specific videos here in the midwest and it's always fun to see how creative and unique people can get to solve pest problems around the country!
Okay, I’m loving the rock idea. I can hardly wait to get some paint. I made the mistake of feeding birds and squirrels for years. Now i want to grow some things on my patio so i have to retrain the birds and squirrels. I have changed the time of day that they eat. But now i have to move them further away. But i want to put some rocks just in case they get curious. Thank you so very much!
