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@HoofbeatsWaggingtailsRanch

2 ай бұрын

@TrueGritAppalachianWays I just subscribed to your channel. Great channel.

If anyone ever wanted to know what a match made in heaven look no further than Andy and Meagan. Whole family is beautiful. Love y’all and the videos y’all work hard for our pleasure. Thank y’all ! ❤

@susiet2150

20 күн бұрын

I agree!

I'm not a safety police type of guy just for the record but as a 65 year old guy that never bought into the whole skin cancer thing you might want to start wearing a wide brim hat and at least during the heat of the day either wear sleeves or some sun screen. I'm paying the price now for my own decisions but you guys are still young. Love your channel guys.

@katrinagarland5219

Ай бұрын

Best to wear 'natural' sunscreen... the chemical sunscreen is almost worse for your body than skin cancer.

I always hate it when your videos come to an end. I could watch them for hours.

Great Tip!!! The tip you asked for. Get a long piece of PVC pipe the length from your hand to the ground. Then run your twine trough it. Feed from top down to bottom. Tie the twine coming out of the bottom to your T-Post. Then give the twine some slack walk to your next post and wrap around the post then pull tight. Then go to your next post and so on. No more bending going down the rows.

For the voles, go buy some castor oil (make sure it is NOT the odorless or tasteless kind), add a tablespoon to a gallon of water and a small squirt of dish soap. Shake it up and spray everything, veg, grass, mulch it's not going to damage anything. How it works is by changing the taste and smell of their foods and their territory. It won't hurt them but it runs them out of the area. You might need to do it often at first, especially if you get a lot of rain. But once you get them pushed out of your gardens you will just need to maintain it with a good spray right before it gets cold when they want to live in your mulch for winter. Spray early morning or evenings. I tried everything to get rid of mine for years and this worked, you just have to stay consistent with it. Good Luck!

The wire worm are the larva of the click Beatle They will bore holes through all your root crops and turn them to mush/rot..

We live on the top of a Ridge line with lots of heavy clay and rocks. We till every year and constantly adding in shredded leaves, homemade compost and we can finally grow lots of root veggies.

I love how the kids get involved in the daily chores. God bless your family ❤

Id cover your garden in Diatomaceous Earth every couple of years. That helped my growing tremendously. Neem oil didn't do much in my part of the country but the DE sure did. Love your channel!

Megan my raised bed has beautiful tomatoes okra and beans .flowers herbs praise the lord.can't believe it. They were all from seeds I started.Watching y'all got me going .god bless.

I had the same problem with my pepper plants this season, once they eat the top out of them, they are pretty much done.I grow organic whenever possible but I will not tolerate a complete crop failure to avoid pesticides, it ain’t worth it for all the hard work you put in. I dust them with some Seven powder and let them ride. For everyone who will not use pesticides in an emergency situation, have fun admiring your pepper nubs.

I'm glad you decided to keep the corn. I hope you'll get enough.

Whatever bug is eating your peppers it's also eating my peppers and green beans.

I bake small carrots in the oven with balsamic vinegar and honey brushing it on them every ten minutes it is delicious.

Those black eyed peas will taste good this fall . Good luck with growing them .

When she says "that’s right”-it can make a believer out of anyone. 👌🏼

And don't forget that you can take the sucker branches, especially the thick sucker branches, from the tomatoes to make new tomato plants with strong main stems. I just use a broom handle, poke a deep hole in the ground, maybe a 10" to 12" deep, fill it with water, then take the sucker (which I've kept stuck in my watering can until I plant it), strip the leaves but at the very top, then pop it down in the hole, and keep filling the hole with water until it's had all it can take. Now the sucker will look wilty for a few days, but it will stand right up again and supply you with later-in-the-season tomatoes. Be sure to water the sucker in the ground every day for a few days until it grows roots along that stem. One year I planted eight tomato plants and ended up with over twentyfive just from suckers, had tomatoes all the way to Thanksgiving (in Southern California). My mom, raised on a farm, taught me that over 60 years ago, bless her. Also, cabbage and asparagus like wet soil, so if your ground gets boggy after rains, no worries. Have you tried planting persimmon trees in your boggy soil? They seem to do well here when it rains and the ground gets marshy (I know CA is dry as heck, but when it does rain, it RAINS, as happened this year). We grew Hachyias and Fuyus. Mom used Hachyias for breads and bread puddings, and the Fuyus you eat like an apple and can bake apple-like pies with them.

Here's a little tip for you use zip ties to fasten the cattle panels to your tea post. I enjoy watching all of you in the garden and it warms my heart to see your kids helping. That's so awesome. God bless.

Andy I'm like you I like to till my garden before planting. I like the old ways.

Your pest is called a onion maggot according to (Rodale’s- vegetable garden problem solver) book

Yes rolliepollie I have 1000 of them and I use Slugoo on my plants and strawberries or they will eat it down every time.

@snarky_farmer

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. I couldn't remember the name!

Those T-Post are a workout on their own ! Great job everyone everything looks amazing

..I'll tell u what..what u don't see is megan standing at the kitchen window yelling at daddy how to do things..😮 ..no sir..SHE'S OUT THERE LIFTING PULLING and HAULING.. ..proud the woman isn't afraid of breaking a nail or two...💅💅😎..

Good morning yes i've had exactly the same problem with peppers this year... The culprit was Earwigs. I get rid of them by spraying Around the outside of the Planter so they don't climb up The planter at night and eat the leaves. They tend to Live underneath the mulch and planters themselves in the dirt and come out at night.

Your garden is looking beautiful. This family is the picture of goodness. Love ya'll❤️

Great vid! Bugs and critters definitely love nice gardens! Thank you

I absolutely love your way of life, you are all a huge inspiration that I just can't put into words. Life is worth living when i see the beauty of what you do , such a wonderful family. Thankyou. ❤❤❤❤

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

Ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

I just love how your garden is so close to your house 🌱🌱🌶️🫑

Granulated caster oil to detour moles and voles. They hate the scent.

Plant some watermelon and cantaloupe in that bottom of the corn. It should do well there.

Use some sevin dust on your peppers. I know it’s synthetic stuff but look better some peppers with it than no peppers without it. My grandma used it every summer garden and we all survived no cancers or anything in the family. I know it’s cliche now a days but it serves a purpose when it’s absolutely necessary. Just a little old school information lol. Leslie Florence Alabama

Enjoyed this, as always! I’ll tell you a few things that absolutely changed my carrot life: 1. I got out of the ground and into containers. No matter how much broadforking, tilling, breaking I did “in ground” compaction was still a problem. In containers I can control my soil consistency (lots of perlite and a little peat in the mix) and get lots fewer “mutants” and more long, straight carrots. Fire ants are a nuisance in some of my containers , especially the black ones. I think it’s a heat thing they are looking for. 2. I plant early and overwinter my carrots. Mid October is what I shoot for. I’m in N Central Alabama and have had good luck with this schedule. I’m harvesting about now. 3. I plant only pelleted seeds now and am able to get proper spacing. I haven’t thinned carrots in years! I’m after Greg at Hoss to get pelleted carrot seeds back! We’ll see how that goes. They used to carry them but not now. Pelleted seeds can be a little hard to find but Johnny’s Seeds always carries a good selection. These few things made a WORLD of difference for me! You’ll also be surprised just how many carrots you can fit into your containers. I use plastic 55 gal drums cut in half and pots that trees are grown in. My brother is the Director at a nearby Botanical Gardens and is able to get plenty of “tree pots”. Give it a try and see what you think!

@annehollier4632

2 ай бұрын

I second that!… pelleted seeds and containers 🎉

I like your attitudes about your garden "fails". It's all good fun anyway the garden comes out.

You. Both work together so well.

I planted carrots in an above ground horse trough and they were so big I could not even give them all away.

Always learning so much from watching your videos.

So love these videos!! It’s good to see that common sense and the old fashioned ways are still around and being used!! Appreciate you all for sharing your daily lives with us. God Bless!!

Always learn something ❤️❤️🌽🌽🌽

Good morning from soggy Oregon!! Have a great day😊

Spray your peppers with crushed aspirins, baking soda, dash of dish washing liquid, and drop of oil for leaf eating pests❤❤❤ Love your family and channel❤❤❤

Roley Poleys have an exoskeleton, put some of that white powder down around your peppers. Diatomaceous Earth.

If you have never done garden work like hilling and hoeing the rows people would be surprised what a job and a workout it actually is. I have approximately a 40-50x70-80 garden and it’s full. Believe me I have been getting a workout haha. Everything up your way looks marvelous. Good luck with the bounty and God bless y’all today and everyday! ❤️🙏🏼Leslie Florence Alabama

Much love from Appalachia Kentucky. Meg is a gripper, as my Daddy would say. Love you all’s family.

Good people living a good life. Hands down my favorite channel. God bless!❤

I have using Food grade “Diatomaceous earth” for 4 years. When I started gardening, I had the same problem with my peppers or something eating them. Though I could never see what was eating and I did also have a a problem with roly-poly. DE does work. You need to wear a mask on a windy day.

Your whole family is such a great team, congratulations on 50,000🎉

Glad to see this new video uploaded. I love seeing the everyday struggles of self-sustaining gardening, mainly to watch for how you decide to correct the problems. It's not like I will ever do any of this for myself - at my age - but I am pretty sure there are many, many others who will watch and learn from your solution decisions. Thank you for the upload.

I always "like" ya'lls videos before I even watch them. 🙂 Good job.👍

They’ll come back. Mine did the same thing. Slugs. I poured the 20-20-20 to them and now they’re loaded with peppers. Love watching your videos. Keeps me going on my place. Now I’m fixing to make some pone bread. Love your farm!

I just love the way you two work together

I absolutely love watching your channel. I am planning on retiring in a few years and relocating to NC. I am so tired of Florida living! I want peace and cooler weather.

Its the rollie pollies eating your peppers!! Theyre eating everything in my garden. I have been reading in gardening forums since the spring and everyone is having rollie pollies galore!! And theyre eating the plants, not just the dead debris. I tried removing mulch but they still eat the plants. When is rollie pollie season over?! PS, yall are great! I just love how normal (to me) that you both are.

Oh you all the best in gardening know love your animals please go in cool off slow down I know I went full speed but I did not stop I was a great mom and never stopped love my family we love you all so close to my heart ❤️ Maggie she is precious Jake so precious and go getter where is the puppy he is darling go eat and rest and you doing a great job

The only way I can grow carrots here in VA is in deep, raised beds. They grow big and beautiful. Best to you!

Sprinkle wood ash on your pepper plants it helps deter pesky bugs and it is a good natural fertilizer

Hey sometimes you just miss things.. I love your videos and look forward to them .. God Bless

Voles r the worst thing I’ve dealt with in gardening. They’re so bad here in the SE part of NC that I have to grow everything in raised beds with hardware cloth stapled all over the bottom of the beds to keep the voles out. I also grow in grow bags. They live around the bases of trees or large bushes here so they’re worse near the woods. That’s why they’re bothering the stuff on the edge of your garden more I do believe. The carrot harvest still looked great. Take care y’all

I never knew how absolutely beautiful a pea plant and the flowers are. I got a gift for Christmas that was a box that had different seeds and it said grow the rainbow. There were a few pea seeds and I got several little pea pods full of peas they were sugar snap peas. I ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY will be planting those next year and many more of them! I started trellising my cucumbers last year and that’s the way to go for sure!

I can't remember what kind of tomatoes yall planted. I found a new variety last year that we loved. I have never been able to plant enough tomatoes to can, but last year, it happened. I got Amelia tomato plants from our local high school horticulture class and fell in love with them. They are disease resistant and produced a lot of fruit.

There's a product called VoleX that's safe around pets, fowl, children etc that works great at deterring voles and mice.

On bugs on pepper plants. They were eating them up. I used 7 dust dust it slow them down and they made a lot of peppers but come to find out they were the old stink bugs.

Them cattle panels are the handiest thing there is. I actually arched mine over my cucumbers this year.

I missed you guys so much wondering what you were doin! We had a bad storm;, tree took our electric out and internet. Finally got the internet yesterday. Don't fret so much over things give yourself grace it's not your fault it just ornery pesky critters eatin. Thank You so much for sharing your family with us. Hugs, God Bless Rebekah

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

Ай бұрын

Glad your back!

GOOD MORNING BEAUTIFUL FAMILY 🌞 YOUR WORK IS NEVER DONE ⁉️😂 RIGHT THE KIDS ARE AMAZING 🥰 THEY WORK RIGHT ALONG WITH YOU GUYS AMAZING 🥰 BLESSING TO YOU ALL 🙏❣️

Missed seeing the kids today. They are good little helpers!

@delphine88313

2 ай бұрын

I saw Maggie and jacob.They are doing chores .

Good morning ❤

The worms in the onions are wireworms. Larva of the click beetles. They will get into your potatoes also. I’ve noticed that they like red onions and potatoes more than white.

That corn looks much better Andy. When all else fails, plow it. I tore my right rotator cuff back in February and while it's much better, it ain't there yet. I bought a t post driver exactly like yours to drive my tomato stakes with and it was a life saver. Y'all's garden looks great especially the tomatoes. That worm looked like a wire worm. I had them hit some tobacco on my aunt's farm one time. They used to like to eat the roots of my cucumbers just after they came up. They like to bore into the stalk underground and usually you'll notice the plant just withering down and dying. Y'all have a great day!

Yeah, ya need a broad fork to loosen it up enough to pull em out ( carrots, garlic )

I have always trellised my cucumbers. that's the only way to go! Seeing the weeds in the corn field brought back memories of my youth , I used to hire out to "walk both corn and beans" yes before the days of herbicides those weeds were hoed out by hand. I was paid .50 cents / hour. Good money in the day when a dollar still bought something.

My peppers are doing the same thing they look just like yours. Not sure what's eating them .I thought at first it was the birds.then like you something in my straw was eating them!

Cucumbers are great fried like squash. Meal and flour. Mmmm so good.

You guys work so hard, and yet you keep smiling! 😍

You can build a raised bed for your carrots, and put some fine mesh metal screen on the bottom before you put in the dirt. That way the critters can't get at them from the bottom. But that's expensive, so maybe a trap or two first.

This year my peppers plants are similar..pest the ones in the beds .. I have two overwintered peppers in plants chairs, big platters on my porch now those are doing great. I guess cause I watch them every day fertilize every two weeks and I am getting great cooking peppers off of those two trees. I would say now cause they’re overwintered, they got stocks on them. I pull off10 of them and there’s a whole bunch growing again People freak out Plan trees on my porch, but I like them. They’re very pretty to 🌱🌱🌱

We always till the garden before we plant I’ve never known any other way to do it. Love your videos!

I also pull the dirt away from the stem of my onions when they start bulbing helps them get bigger.

We use hog panel and T post for cucumbers and for spaghetti squash. We have never had luck with carrots or garlic. Corn is looking a lot better. I wonder if that plow shoe on the Kubota has a specific angle/degree, you might be able to look up and adjust it. Those clods would bust up with a walk behind tiller pretty easy, I bet. Stay safe, and God bless

I use the cattle panels and t posts for my cucumbers, runner beans, and tomatoes. Hope I never have to go back to staking everything. Bought a gas cultivator yesterday to help battle weeds.

oh! Thank goodness! That's a lot of hard work lost if you gave up on the corn. Do the best you can with the blessings you are given and you won't have to worry. It's when we start wanting too much and wanting to control too much that we become dissatisfied. Don't fear what you might think you are missing out on...just appreciate every little victory... My 90 year old Dad says worry is the biggest waste of anyone's time. The time we spend being worried could have been enjoyed.

@miephoex

2 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Too much negativity coming from Andy. Thank goodness for Meghan.

@sues6847

2 ай бұрын

@@miephoexI don't see Andy as negative though. They have a longer season than I do and he probly has time to scrap it and start over.

@davebryant8050

2 ай бұрын

It's not greed or negativity to want your plants to produce when you actually depend on your farm to feed your family.

@sues6847

2 ай бұрын

@@davebryant8050I agree with you 100%. If anyone thought I was implying that Andy was being greedy that thought wasn't even in my head. Being up north I've learned to work around the good plants and plant others where I've lost plants but I don't have time to give up on the good ones. Andy and Megan are the kind of people anyone should be happy to have as neighbors.

I remember you trellising your tomatoes last year and because Andy’s so tall, he may not get up when he’s done. Lol sorry Andy, I just thought it was funny ❣️🙏

Those rollie pollies are making their rounds this year. There are so many on KZread posting about the bug pressure this year so far.

When you plant your onions put a handful of Epsom salts in the hole . This keeps the bugs away.

I used to do the Florida weave... started using cattle panels... easier to use the panels to tie tomatoes to. Put the panel up first... then planted tomatoes next to it.

Good Morning

I think I would grow a cover crop of hot mustard in that no-till bed. Once it gets ready, mow it down and till it under immediately. That just might take care of your pest issues. You could ask Greg with Hoss Tools and see it he thinks it might help you.

I just love watching your beautiful family and all the information you put out.Thank You ❤We have the same problem with those nasty voles here in S.E. Az.

Great video. I love how you Meghan and your husband compliment each other. I have trouble growing carrots 🥕. For the past 2 years I stopped trying. To grow them I don’t know what it is but I can’t grow a proper carrot 🥕. Love your videos.

Yes maybe till it and spread (epson salt), maybe that’ll help get them worms out of that soil 🌱🌱 You do what you need to do no till till it’s your garden, you do what you feel is best

Hi guys!! Usually save the comment about the food for last but HELLO!! That chicken looked absolutely amazing!! You are almost convincing me to raise my own …almost 😆 lol mmmm!! Great idea about the cucumbers with those cattle panels-we used old woven wire it worked pretty good too. Like you said waaaay better than picking them off the ground! My father in law did plant his peas very early and the got tall like yours did this year, because they prefer and can stand cold/cooler temps like broccoli and cabbage . Your cabbage plants make me so happy! they are beautiful! So glad you left your corn 😀 . Sweet boy mowing grass. What a good worker you have in he and Maggie 😍 you and Andy are great examples ,God bless y’all . Praying for you!

I am glad to hear you are not going to plow up the corn. On that video I saying NO NO at least you will have some for your hard work and time. Prayers for a bountiful harvest. ❤❤

Hey y’all. I feel your pain with the onions. I planted 200 last year. They were beautiful big bulbs and the voles/moles/“rodents “ moved in and ate every one of them. I was mad! The positive, I had planted around a slow growing raspberry bush. I don’t know if it was me or the rodents but all the soil being “tilled” my raspberry has sent runners everywhere. I have a huge raspberry bush now. Of and that reflective tape y’all showed last week. I ordered some and run it all around that raspberry bush. It is working to keep the birds out. I am getting a great harvest ( it’s an ever bearing) so yeah!! I have had the same problem with my peppers in the ground this year. I also have a problem with a family of rabbits eating my flowers, so I am blaming them. The peppers I have in pots are fine so it’s not birds. It’s got to be rabbits or mice. I even set up a trail camera trying to catch what it was, lol. No pics but my pepper plants are eat to the ground. Interesting through the peppers I planted in between my tomatoes didn’t get damaged.

That worm in the onion looked like a mealy worm but I just got a short glimpse. Never seen them in the garden though. Strange!

I use wood ash on my peppers from time to time and works good for me with anything that is eating my peppers. Good luck.

I was told to put China bottle traps in. Afids,flee Beatles,crickets and grasshoppers

Get a roll of the horta-nova trellis and you'll never need cattle panels again. putting it up is a one person job.

Mornin guys, have had problem this year with garlic too, but just not gettin bulbs formin, Im north of yas in WV weather beens crazy this year, but tryin everything new i can think of. Keep your chins up, you guys make my day!

I've seen the florida weave start at a post go one side of a plant, crosses to the other side of the next plant and so on down the line then back on all the opposite sides. So each plant has your diamond instead of groups of three like you have. They used a scrap of plastic water pressure pipe about two foot long the string ran through like a wand so no bending over either.

gracious yall sound just like my cousins from Clinton, love your channel and the family!