1 tomato in the bowl, 2 tomatoes for Kevin, 1 tomato in the bowl, 3 tomatoes for Kevin.....😂😂❤❤

@LivingTraditionsHomestead

4 күн бұрын

I like the way you think! - Kevin

@tamararoberts9307

10 сағат бұрын

Lol

it's great to see experienced gardeners have real life issues. nothing is more discouraging that seeing other peoples perfect gardens all the time when we are here struggling LOL

For the last couple of years I have been placing onions in between all my plants. It seems to have decreased the bug amount by about 90%. I have no proof this is what caused it but I never see any bugs on Onions here so I think it may be warding off insects from neighboring plants. Onions are cheap. Give it a shot

@jeas4980

4 күн бұрын

I do that with radishes too. Works really well.

Missouri here & I also grow in the tubs. I have found that my plants do a lot better against bug’s & disease if I don’t group my plants. My squash are scattered throughout the garden between tomatoes, peppers, green beans, flowers etc.

Videos like this is why I trust and love y'all because this is real garden life not just the perfect plants and harvest. Thank y'all.

@anitakleinman7542

4 күн бұрын

Greetings from Mesa, Az. I would appreciate a future video on liquid or dry fertilyzer....how much, how often. I appreciate you sharing your experiences and wisdom😊

You should not compost the rust damaged plants. Burn it to kill the fungus spores first 😊 It's looking pretty good still in the greenhouse!

I watched a recent KZreadr show how he gets rid of them - my plants grew so beautiful and then started looking awful - this guy said to put water in a spray bottle and put some Dawn dish soap in - shake it up and spray on the stem and on the bugs - I did this the other day and it worked fabulously!! My plants quickly regained their vigor and are blooming like crazy - this was the best remedy I have seen!

@Dianatorres6990

4 күн бұрын

Yes Dawn I good for getting rid of fleas and oils on dogs. I know right? 👍

@lidip8700

4 күн бұрын

FYI: Castile Soap is easier on plants. Tip: keep that Dawn Soap water away from pepper plants. I used it once for bugs and my peppers nearly died.

@debbymullies8381

4 күн бұрын

@@lidip8700 oh thank you for that info!!

Hi! From New York ! Yes, squash bugs were destroying plants...found out a couple of years ago to plant squash later in season (early July) It worked! Hallelujah!!! 😊😊

@corinne7126

4 күн бұрын

Upstate NY also and started planting squash plants in July

@amysheffield9583

4 күн бұрын

@@corinne7126 I am from upstate ny as well. I am Rochester NY area where are you located?

@amysheffield9583

4 күн бұрын

I am in Rochester NY area where are you located?

Thank you, Kevin and Sarah. Harvest is always the really fun part of gardening. It was fun to watch.

@sharonsnyder367

5 күн бұрын

Do you still have rabbits

When you did the "milk" video, my two yellow zucchinis plants were almost dead from powdery mildew. I started spraying them with 40% milk and 60% water once a week. They have made a miraculous recovery and all the new leaves are healthy and the plants are starting to pump out more zucchini. I'm now a big believer in spraying milk for PM. I didn't have an aphid problem, but it sure works well for PM. I also use it on my winter squash, melons and cukes.

I especially enjoy the random plants. I have 2 tomato plants from my neighbor throwing scraps over for the animals. They are doing better than the ones in my garden.

God Bless you and your hard work. I learned so much from this video. Both of you are wonderful teachers.❤

@LivingTraditionsHomestead

4 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

Your videos are always filled with great information. I hate to say it but I think we need a good cold, snowy winter. The bugs are just out of control this year in Michigan.

@leahtruckenbrod1279

4 күн бұрын

Same in Illinois! I tried to help build my newly turned over lawn soil by mulching with shredded leaves and combined w milder winter I had a horrendous start to garden, replanting so much. IIncluding marigolds!!

@juliemcgugan1244

4 күн бұрын

Same in Paphos, Cyprus. It just doesn’t get cold enough for long enough to kill any of the pests. And then they come back earlier and are stronger every year!

You can eat the squash plant flowers. Bread them and fry them. They taste just like the squash. Delicious!

@chrismoore9686

4 күн бұрын

You can also stuff them with sausage and/or cheese! MMMM

@edwardantrobusjr2253

2 күн бұрын

Stuffing them sounds great. Breading doesn't fit into a keto diet.😢

@PortCanon

2 күн бұрын

@@edwardantrobusjr2253We have used crushed pork rinds for “breading” in keto recipes. There are some other alternatives.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that pouts over having to pull plants. 😆 But, the facts are, the stink bugs have moved in here and they have begun to ravage the fruits and the plants. Time to get the plants gone before the bugs start laying their eggs in the soil.

@Maria-ql3fc

4 күн бұрын

Here in lower Alabama it's leaf footed bugs, I haven't seen any squash bugs but plenty of pickle worms and vine borers.

Do you have to worry about squash bugs staying in the soil after pulling the infected plants out?

Squash bugs destroyed my pumpkins, zucchini etc. I have to start over too. Cucumbers still kicking, no aphids but flea beetles issues on many plants. I had hundreds of volunteer tomatoes... They're growing everywhere!

One thing I found that controls squash bugs is a 60% milk to water ratio sprayed on plants weekly as they grow before there's an infestation. Making sure to get the underside of the leaves.

Kevin, good idea for a t-shirt. Tomato with a macron above the A. Another down below it. That will get all the middle schoolers & teens wondering. What is that? Better yet put it in cursive! Lol 😆 🤣

To get rid of squash bugs, spray the leaves, top and bottom, with Dawn soap and water. Kills them in 30 seconds. Check them daily if you see any bugs.

We pulled our squash and zucchini yesterday. Squash bugs were no problem. We just don't have anywhere to put all the darn squash! We try to put up enough to have squash 2x a week throughout the year and we've already put up 100 pints. Planting purple hull and zipper peas today. Cantaloupe is making 2-3 per day. Okra and tomatoes are just getting going good. Our green beans finished 2 weeks ago. We put up all we need for the year. Geez at the cucumbers! We are getting 8-10 a day. This is all in raised beds here in Georgia. June has been exceptionally hot and dry, so my water bill will be high. We got 2" of rain from a thunderstorm yesterday and that's the most we've had since May.

@juliehall2343

4 күн бұрын

Find a recipe for squash relish and canned it is wonderful to eat with peas or put in your chicken salad tuna salad just delicious

Another KZread channel, Celebrating Appalachia, She made a homemade concoction that was working pretty well for squash bugs

I will be starting to spray milk today on my Amish Paste tomatoes. I have had to trim yellow and dying leaves and branches last night. I didn’t see any bugs but I am going to start now before I have a huge problem. Last night I had a start into Japanese beetles on my green beans. We got rain last evening so spraying wouldn’t have done much. But today is a new morning and I am going to get right on them. Thank you for all of your tips that you are passing on. I am 4-5 weeks behind your growing season, I’m in the very northeastern corner of Indiana. Thank you Kevin and Sarah!

You just look so dang cute with that big hat on. Your green house looks amazing.

Happy seeing you all .lv and Prayers.

Tomatoes are also super easy to root from a cutting off a healthy one for a head start on a replacement plant.

@Maria-ql3fc

4 күн бұрын

Yeah I like doing that instead of starting new seeds. I pick suckers from my best producing and best tasting plants.

I grow in the soil in a greenhouse. Each year, before planting, I put the chickens in the greenhouse for a couple of weeks. They eat every bug, every bug egg, and every weed and every weed seed. And poop all over the place. We start every year bug free. When the state inspector came into our greenhouse he was sure we were spraying something bad because our bug population was so low. I had a hard time getting him to believe that all we use is chickens. I had to show him the chicken poop to get him to understand the nature of my system.

I found squash bugs on my cucumbers Thursday evening and none on my zucchini or other squash plants!! It was only 2 bugs but they had already laid eggs on a number of leaves. So got that all cleared out. Planted onions with my tomatoes and so far no hornworms, praying it keeps working. Greenhouse growing would be wonderful. God bless and protect.

In SE Virginia we had squash bugs until November....so it really depends on location...😅

Thank you so much I always have trouble with squash bugs. Since I'm a new Gardener I didn't realize that I could replant and they would have time to come up and produce. I love watching your channel.

The 70’s called and they want their mustache back. 😂

In the ground we rotated our plant. Never grow in the same spot of dirt every year. Because it encourages the bugs to come to the same spot.

I have lived on a farm all my life in west Tennessee an i absolutely love all these homestead videos of families are gardening an growing their own food. An I'm always amazed with all the techniques an idealogy of what the best setups are. Im no horticultural type person strictly learned from my parents an grandparents. I myself have never had the kind of problems people have i know that may sound funny to most. But please don't misunderstand me when i say i guess we had the squash bugs an aphids an rust an all the other things but we always had a game plan that took care of any problems. An for many years we i was a child it wasn't even a obtion to go to the garden without a wheelbarrow cause buckets an other tote things just wasn't going to work.

❤🎉Thanks for Sharing about the Good & the Bad, Kevin & Sarah.. GOD BLESS 🙌 🙏 😅always Enjoy seeing Kevin Grazing in the TOMATOE PICKING!! ❤ MO right here too..HAPPY GROWING!!

From Montreal, Quebec, Canada, starting to preserve herbs, herb tea, and soon the cherry tomatoes and cucumbers!! 🎉

Congratulations on the “tomato recovery”. As far as the squash bugs go, delayed planting is such a great strategy that I’m surprised how few people actually know about it. However, I’m trying out a strategy discussed in a Missouri Extension article I read recently. They recommend planting a “trap crop” at the 4 corners of your main (squash) “cash crop”. The “trap crop” they recommend is the Blue Hubbard Squash which the SVB apparently PREFERS above all other varieties👍 What an adorable hat, Sarah-it looks great on you❤️

Sarah, you look so much younger without glasses ❤ i used to but now in my 60s 😊 but at this age i don't care as much 😉. Great harvest !

I love zucchini. For some reason I never had issue with squash bugs. I raised a zillion kids, so I always planted a big garden. 1 year I only had 8 hills zucchini, but the yeild was phenomenal. We had zucchini pizza (zucchini & bread crumbs for crust), zucchini lasagna (long cut zuke as noodles), zucchini pickles, zucchini jelly, zucchini relish, zucchini bread, zucchini cakes, and in baked goods & mixed in with pumpkin, °fried, boiled, baked, as & in soups, with everything. 1 day I went to garden & no zucchini... As in no plants. I hollared & out came 5 sheepish kids. They had gotten sick of zucchini (even😄 with the variety) & had beat me outside to do chores. They had pulled out vines & fed to the pigs & chickens. I was upset, but laughing. 😂😂😂. So a few months later, we had zucchini in the form of eggs & meat🎉🎉🎉

Hey guys! Just a tip, remove the top few inches of soil in each infected tub before you reseed ( that is if ya want to go to the trouble), there's gonna be tons of eggs in the soil, I almost bet that's why they linger later. Those microorganisms & nematodes in the soil will eat their eggs too, that's why I said milk was good for the plants...vitamins for the plants AND feeds the good stuff in the soil! My Lg. Cherry tom plants have little greenies on them...I haven't staked them yet, I really need too BUT, haha, both are growing really close to a couple pretty sturdy & not too talk & in full bloom (done goin up, enough anyway) Sunflowers! So I've kinda been holding out because a few days ago when I went to check on everybody their little arms were almost long enough to tie to the sunflowes! So win win & easy lesson to plant a sunflower seed or two in the fall beside where where each tomato's gonna go & by the time I go to plant toms, the guy is established, it's roots shouldn't be tooo long to dig by yet & by the time it needs staked it shod be close enough to hold out & bam! Problem solved lol...we will see anyway :) ( I plant a 5/6' -ish varieties.) I don't have a greenhouse and I love your guys', can't wait to buy a house!!! Hope you're enjoying your weekend! Be safe! ✌🍅😁

I watched a gardeners video Seven Sparrows Farm. His job was to take duct tape and scissors into the garden. He lifted all the leaves every few days. Any squash bugs eggs he pulled them off w the tape and it kept them free from an infestation. I tried it w green frog tape cause that’s what I had it worked fantastic! Up until about three years ago I’d never had them. That year they came in like a plague. Her advise worked very well!

Kentucky Wonders are my favorite bean very prolific n tasty🌱 Don't know if you have tried cucumber chips 🥒 very delicious n keto friendly: wash cucumber slice thin with a mandolin pat dry, cover with olive oil n seasonings of your choice bake at 350° for 10 to 15 minutes enjoy 🎉

Jeez, since last week, it looks like you are in a jungle! Beautiful! God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister 🙏🏻 ☦️ 💙 ❤️

I saw that Kevin... One For The Bowl And Two For Me, One For The Bowl And Two For Me. What a plan! Much Love and Blessings

What a gift yaaay! I love free compost plants❤️

Have you tried introducing ladybugs into your garden? You can order thousands of them.

@tammyb520

5 күн бұрын

They did that before. They could try that again

@AussieTracy

5 күн бұрын

They did that a few weeks back.

@suesmyder

4 күн бұрын

I've had millions of ladybugs this year in Colorado. In the garden, around my currant bushes. Just amazing to see them.

Appreciate your realism in gardening. The good, bad and ugly of the whole process. My first year doing this and i have learned a lot from the two of you.

Hi Kevin and Sarah, My family of 3 (myself, husband, and teenage son) are vacationing in Branson Missouri and I’ve thinking of y’all! I’ve been subscribed to your channel since you first started on KZread. it’s beautiful here! I still am loving your channel. Thanks for sharing all your homesteading experiences.

Heat in Ga is killing my squash and cucumber plants even though I water them. other plants are surviving fine.

I’ve switched to jade beans too. I find they produce very well and they seem to taste and can better. I was always a blue lake girl, but I’m a definitely a jade believer.

That was a wonderful harvest. Hope the second round of plants provide many more meals.

Yes I really like the Jade beans too. Haven’t heard much reference to Baker Creek this year from you guys.

Please take this the right way.... Watch this video and your back structure while you are harvesting cucumbers and peppers. I worry about your hunch backs. Love you both

Great job! Blessings to you, too!🙏

My first garden is doing ok. Bugs have been a problem. Gonna try the milk idea. U guys have the best garden and channel

I USE A CORDLESS VACUUMN CLEANIER TO VACCUUMN SQUASH BJGS UP AS WILL AS OTHER BUGS. WORKS WELL FOR WASPS.

I used to plant a whole bunch of squash & zucchini, then deal with the mountains of squash & zucchini. Now I plant 3 hills at a time, killing any bugs that I see & removing any eggs. I mix Sevin w/ DE in the spring and sprinkle it ONLY on the stem at ground level. That old farmer is right. The squash bugs diminish as the season progresses and I wind up using only DE & injecting Bt by July. When I see blossoms on the first 3 hills, I plant the next 3 hills. Keeps us in a nice supply of squash till frost. Now if someone could find a cure for " pickle worms"....😊

In our area, the joke about dropping off baseball bat zuchini on the porch of the neighbor is often a reality. Even so, old school gardeners used to plant 2 rounds of zuchini with the second one going in the ground during mid July. We have higher heat and dry droughts which tax zuchini plants and lead to both fewer and lesser quality zuchini.

@NoPsychoticBabble

5 күн бұрын

😂 "Baseball bat".

Good morning ❤

From everything I've read and tried rust is a fungus, the only thing that seems to work is to not plant things too close so that air can circulate more readily and dry the leaves between waterings.. I also remove the lower leaves from beans so that they don't touch the ground.

Great harvest hopefully you'll have another great one. Thanks for sharing.

I love it when you harvest the veg and to see all your lovely plants in the Greenhouse

Thanks for the info. My squash looks like yours, also in Missouri.

I enjoy learning the successes and failures you guys face. It helps to keep my interest in getting out there to try and grow some food for my family. Thanks for the tips and where to find the best products and seeds. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in fighting the bugs. You have not mentioned the Japanese beetles this year. I must have trapped a thousand bugs this year!

Welp I know what im doing this weekend. Thx for the reminder. Loved the music that went along with the pucking today.

Always so much fun watching you two working out problems and working together starting a second crop. Never gave it a thought to do like you folks have done with a greenhouse and how you care for your gardens. It's amazing the amount of food you grow for you and your families. Thanks for sharing with everyone. Fred.

Amazing that you did this! This morning I took all my squash plants out and replanted them. The squash bugs were crazy this year! Glad to see I'm not alone in doing this!

Thank you ! Good show 😊

You should try green blaze green beans from Hoss tools. They are good for high heat and mine are doing great outside in drought conditions. No rust , lots of tasty straight beans with usually two or three harvests.

@CassieDavis613

3 күн бұрын

I love Hoss products

Great that you have time to start over. What goes on you plants can go in you. Great choice to not put highly chemical sprays on your garden.

Sarah, I know JUST how you feel. I feel awful even thinning my seedlings...lol. Good luck with your second rounds, and God Bless!

I am in zone 8a, planted 2 butternut and 2 spaghetti squash plants in spring. It has been a battle with the squash bugs but I think overall I won. Went out daily inspecting leaves for eggs and pulling live bugs to drown in soapy water. I just put my zucchini in last week. Hopefully they won't require as much since it is late for the bugs. The aphids messed up my pepper plants and out of 15 plants I have 3 that are doing well.😢

Fantastic visit with you as revamp & harvest in your greenhouse! Thanks for sharing! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦

As usual a very informative video. The wait is over for harvesting all the hard work.

Been gardening in Missouri and Arkansas for close to 30 years. Squash bugs are here until the first frost and even after (have found them in empty pots, still alive, in winter). They are alive and thriving on the dead plants I pull out at first frost. I keep hearing this idea to plant later, but it must be for a different growing zone than we are in. The only solution is to spray them, I have tried the organic route, picking them, etc. They just reproduce too quickly to keep up with if you have any volume of plants.

Oh yes! I really enjoy your videos! And I’m so glad both of you still stay in the subject of homestead lifestyle. Help me to remind me what to do in my garden. And tips that I learned before and forget about it. But mostly I learn a lot from you 💕 thanks 🙏 great team work job.

My mother gardens out of doors, although she starts seeds indoors on her radiant heat floor. She picks off or smashes slugs, snails, bugs, beetles, eggs,... that are pests. She feeds some to chickens or ducks OR puts in salt water in a 20 oz/ 1/2 L bottle.

@user-kv2pt4lu9y

4 күн бұрын

The youngest local grandchildren are pretty good helpers on pest patrol, too.

How are you doing guys you have beautiful vegetables is nice to watching you.

I before following any accounts will look to see if l get any vibes, l got very positive and warm vibes from you both and now become your number one fan 😊

I've found out that squash bugs don't like the smell of borage. I've planted borage in between every plant and tomato no squash bugs.

Haha, Kevin, your shirt made me laugh today!

Thanks for sharing! Shalom and Blessings!

Greatful you share

Thank you for the information about the squash bugs! I will be replanting now 🎉

Great info, Tks for sharing your knowledge!

I will try late squash, too. Thanks for the tip.

Enjoyed the video, it’s great the tomatoes plants are doing better now crazy that milk did wonders.

Love Vegega! Great advice on the plants!

Really enjoyed watching 👍👍

Beautiful harvest 👍

Thx

This year we planted double our shelling Peas and decide to use our trellis for pole beans until after the Peas were done and harvested. By planting early always done by July 1st. We way, way over planted Peas to the point the plants were slow to mature because they were so over crowded. The date is important because that's when the Japanese Beetles arrive. By the hundreds. This year we've seen about 1 dozen, but this year there were no beans to great them. We were expecting our Peas to take a hit but only minor at the end of their picking, but we didn't expect zero damage, I mean none. The intent was to minimize the damage, not eliminate the damage. They are usually gone by the end of August. When the Peas are done our beans will get planted, germinated, covered for a few weeks and still get our beans in. Happy dance every day!

Very nice looking garden

Recently was told by a horticulturalist who has a greenhouse business to use citric acid (vitamin C) on tomato plants. Never knew about milk either.

I always learn something from you folks. Jade beans sound like a good producer. Great harvest! Val C

Hi you 2, Love your video's, so much great info that you share. I wanted to share with you something I did to help my pole beans. I have food grade H2O2 and I used this to save them from a rust problem. I saw it starting and I used a diluted H2O2 Peroxide, I sprayed them for 3 evenings in a row and to my surprise this stopped it and my beans finshed the season really strong. I hope this helps if you are open to trying it. Thank you for all that you share with the gardening community.

I really had to laugh around the 3 minute part. On the one plant you are growing boob tomatoes 😂 . Did anyone else see that? We love your videos and all the amazing tips and recipes. We never miss a new video. God bless you two and your families.

Jade Green beans are divine fresh and even after pressure canning they are even sweeter than at fresh picking. They look prettier then any of the other type of green beans, in my opinion. Glad y'all giving them a go.

@lynnschantz9185

5 күн бұрын

I also grow Jade beans

@debbymullies8381

4 күн бұрын

@@Frankie_902 Jade are my favorite they grow fast and prolific producer

@Frankie_902

3 күн бұрын

@@debbymullies8381 yes they certainly are prolific. We love them around here.

Squash Bugs……I have always felt the reason there is less as summer continues, the parents (early ones) have courted and laid there eggs in the soil. No more work for them. Spring warms as eggs hatch, so another large sighting of the nasty Squash Bugs. Do you ever answer questions on your email???? I have written last spring and early this spring to no answer. My question??? Have you ever found the type of sprinklers in your greenhouse that you got from Amazon. They have never been able to get more in since 2023. I need the continued pressure and cannot find any. Any help would be very appreciated. 😊🙏🏼. Please keep your videos coming as the variety keeps me coming to see what next.

Nice harvest guys. Going to start over also. I live in FL. Long growing season

I don't know if you all know but if you take the all the green tomatoes at the end of the season or during if you want to take some sooner that are green and stick them in a Brown paper bag with some apples those apples ripen those over time.

@suesmyder

4 күн бұрын

Bananas work better.