It Happens Every Year In The Garden
Every year the story is the same with just different characters. You never know which ones will fall in battle. The garden is a battlefield with your enemies being moles, packrats, groundhogs, armadillos, mice, birds, Japanese beetles, aphids, and hornworms just to name a few! Yes, the enemy is well equipped and will choose to invade and take it's toll on your hard work of growing food for your family!
Of course, you have counter measures to discourage your foe but even still, there are casualties. This is the cost of growing a garden. It will happen. A TRUE gardener, battle hardened and tested prepares himself/herself mentally for this sad inevitability.
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Thank You for sharing what all is going on with the garden Zac, love that you grow and know your foods! Resteemit!
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That's a real bummer about the potatoes and squash. Thanks for the tip on the Egyptian spinach I will try it next year for sure. I'm always battling squirrels for my tomatoes and sweet peppers. Next year I am planting twice as many tomatoes hopefully there won't be twice as many squirrels.
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So true about something going bad each year. I try so hard to make everything come out perfect but there is always at least one thing that has a bad year. Oh well such is the life of a gardener.
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Cabbage worms are my greatest enemy every year.
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I have a question on compost can i use fishing worms or is there special worms i need to buy to help with composting
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wiener dog that'll find that mole .
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I had gophers do that to my green beans. They tunnelled underground and tried to pull the plants under. All the plants broke off at soil level and died. That year I only got one mess of beans for dinner. Very disappointing. I think the answer is raised garden beds lined with some type of barrier that will allow for water circulation but keep the critters out. I guess it's trial and error to find out which plants, such as potatoes, zucchini, or beans, the critters like and then plant them in the raised beds.
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Those poor potatos got destroyed bro, hope next year they dont get attacked.
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Growing stuff is tough but try to grow things here in Arizona. It is like trying to grow something on Mars.
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Great video guys as always. Keep them coming as theses are vital skills we need to share.
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@mericanhomestead Thanks for the update Zac! And thank you for turning me on to Steemit! I think it is awesome! I have been a longtime YouTube subscriber and hope to have an off-grid homestead like your guys' someday soon. My "garden casualty" this year was the snow peas....not quite sure what happened either! Are you guys going to continue with the Seasons of shows? Keep up the great work!
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Our tomatoes have been taking a hit from Wilt this year. Otherwise, nothing too out of the ordinary. Thanks to your sharing Neem Oil & Sal Suds a year back!
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nature..red of tooth and claw.
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Great Post! We have a large amount of Japanese Beatles that we are contending with, so we will see how things turn out.
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Amazing garden even with the casualties. Your tomatoes look awesome. Mine are doing well this year also. Last year they really didn't do well. Haven't heard much about the "Row that wouldn't grow". Did you manage to get anything growing there? Maybe I missed a posting. Anyway thanks for sharing. Everything looks great! Oh btw I also started spraying my tomato plants with SILVER since I also have a Silver Lungs unit. I believe that may also be helping with disease this year. Not sure yet.
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I've had more than a few gardening disappointments this year but there's still a lot growing. It looks like watermelon will be the awesome treat here this year. Your garden looks great! Keep up the good work!
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Is that turnip called Hakurei?
We grow it and eat it raw, sliced into a salad. Last year I let one grow to seed and the turnip got huge and stringy. I cooked it but it is best to eat it raw when it is young.
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Zac, for me it is the battle of the chipmunks!!! I have caught 4 so far, and I saw another one yesterday. They dig through everything, in fact I lost all my pepper plants this year because of them! ALSO how are the achocha's doing? I have 3 plants that made it, they seem to be growing slowly but overall they seem healthy. Can you put an update about the achocha's in one of your next garden videos? Thanks!
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Another great video! Perfect example of why you grow more than you can use. Bad year, you will have enough. Good year, you can give more to others.
Stay away from the beard butcher!
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Thanks for sharing this video. I remember the video when you caught a packrat hehehe. I was wondering if you will start a new season soon.
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Followed you hop u follow back and upvote my comment
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