Debbie,, It’s looking good. You better get the canning and processing mindset on. Y’all are going to be busy with all that. But it’s looking good for as fast as y’all had to get it in.
Thank you and yes, I am trying to get the canning mode in gear. I canned cinnamon plum butter and sauce a couple of days ago. Working on the mountain of cucumbers and squash. Tomatoes are starting to come in, but we've mostly been fresh eating them so far.
I think that can turn out to become a mistake to not use pesticide. I heard using fertilizer, and compost is suppose to be good, for plants. Plants require nutrients, for it to grow healthy, and if you deprive your plants of what it needs then you can only blame yourself if something bad happens. I been doing a lot of research on growing food. I am planning to get a piece of property, but I am not sure where exactly yet. Regarding myself I had several bad experiences to grow food, and one of them was a poorly made decision to not use pesticide with my outdoor plants, and now I no longer have any plants. My plants were eaten by pests, and I allowed this to happen, but next time I start growing food then I will not allow this to happen! It is your garden, so you can do whatever you want with it. Pests, or the wild life can approach your garden if they like the smell of what you are growing, and they can have a good meal if you allow this to happen! If you carefully look at your plant's leaves, and you see holes, or it is torn apart on the outer edges of the leaves well I would suspect you have unwelcomed visitors in your garden.
I have never used pesticides or fertilizers in any of my gardens over the past 40 years. Pesticides are what is destroying our honeybee populations and other necessary insects. It also poisons the soil and can destroy water supplies. Take for example locations in Wyoming with high nitrates in their soil and water supply causing reverse osmosis filtration in order to use their water supply. There are large beet farms in Wyoming and loads of pesticides and fertilizers are used. What use is it to keep growing and shortening the life of your soil and water by continuing to use products that we know are destroying future crops and killing pollinators. Companion planting, strategic planting, and physical vigilance is the best preventative. We just have to many decades of testing, education, and examples. There are years of my crops every year here on the channel to see how things went in prior years. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion and your method of doing things.
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead You just like me have a choice to make. If none of us choose to use a safe pesticide on what we choose to grow then what can happen is our herbs, or plants, or tress can be eaten and maybe die. Our food could also end up being eaten, or maybe contaminated as well, and only we can blame ourselves, for not caring, and trying to protect what we choose to grow. The point of using pesticide is to rappel insects, and hopefully animals from eating our plants, and food, and this includes pollinators. Truthfully speaking pollinators are not needed to grow food. I could manually pollinate a plant because I spent my time learning how to pollinate a plant, so I do not need any pollinators. I can explain how a human is able to pollinate plants. It's not difficult to do, but it looks like to me you lack knowledge in agriculture then what I suggest you do is not try to pollinate what you grow.
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled you and I will not agree on this stance you have. There is no denying the fact that poison leaches into soil and examples have been made. Now, when you say "safe" pesticides...only if they are natural and organic, such as Neem, Diatomaceous Earth, etc. Insects breathe through their skin. You can dust your Brassicas with pot ash, Diatomaceous Earth, even flour, and it will work to repel insects and kill what is already on there. But, I am pretty researched on chemical pesticides and they are not good.
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead You don't know what my perspective of pesticide is, and you have no clue about what I am thinking of. Yes, insects will not like it, and probably animals as well, but it will not harm the soil. It will not even harm insects. It will just turn them off from approaching whatever I choose to grow.
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled I am pretty sure that I know your perspective on pesticide with this statement you made "I think that can turn out to become a mistake to not use pesticide." You also made a statement about use of fertilizer and compost. If you had noticed in any of my other videos, I mentioned that the only fertilizers that I choose to use on occasion is compost AND fish fertilizer, only if it is all natural. I welcome conversation and growth through knowledge, research, and having an open mind with critical thinking skills, but I will not tolerate accusations, assumptions, or flat out insults.
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Debbie,,
It’s looking good. You better get the canning and processing mindset on. Y’all are going to be busy with all that. But it’s looking good for as fast as y’all had to get it in.
Thank you and yes, I am trying to get the canning mode in gear. I canned cinnamon plum butter and sauce a couple of days ago. Working on the mountain of cucumbers and squash. Tomatoes are starting to come in, but we've mostly been fresh eating them so far.
I think that can turn out to become a mistake to not use pesticide. I heard using fertilizer, and compost is suppose to be good, for plants. Plants require nutrients, for it to grow healthy, and if you deprive your plants of what it needs then you can only blame yourself if something bad happens.
I been doing a lot of research on growing food. I am planning to get a piece of property, but I am not sure where exactly yet.
Regarding myself I had several bad experiences to grow food, and one of them was a poorly made decision to not use pesticide with my outdoor plants, and now I no longer have any plants. My plants were eaten by pests, and I allowed this to happen, but next time I start growing food then I will not allow this to happen!
It is your garden, so you can do whatever you want with it. Pests, or the wild life can approach your garden if they like the smell of what you are growing, and they can have a good meal if you allow this to happen! If you carefully look at your plant's leaves, and you see holes, or it is torn apart on the outer edges of the leaves well I would suspect you have unwelcomed visitors in your garden.
I have never used pesticides or fertilizers in any of my gardens over the past 40 years. Pesticides are what is destroying our honeybee populations and other necessary insects. It also poisons the soil and can destroy water supplies. Take for example locations in Wyoming with high nitrates in their soil and water supply causing reverse osmosis filtration in order to use their water supply. There are large beet farms in Wyoming and loads of pesticides and fertilizers are used.
What use is it to keep growing and shortening the life of your soil and water by continuing to use products that we know are destroying future crops and killing pollinators.
Companion planting, strategic planting, and physical vigilance is the best preventative. We just have to many decades of testing, education, and examples.
There are years of my crops every year here on the channel to see how things went in prior years.
Of course, you are entitled to your opinion and your method of doing things.
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead You just like me have a choice to make. If none of us choose to use a safe pesticide on what we choose to grow then what can happen is our herbs, or plants, or tress can be eaten and maybe die. Our food could also end up being eaten, or maybe contaminated as well, and only we can blame ourselves, for not caring, and trying to protect what we choose to grow.
The point of using pesticide is to rappel insects, and hopefully animals from eating our plants, and food, and this includes pollinators. Truthfully speaking pollinators are not needed to grow food.
I could manually pollinate a plant because I spent my time learning how to pollinate a plant, so I do not need any pollinators.
I can explain how a human is able to pollinate plants. It's not difficult to do, but it looks like to me you lack knowledge in agriculture then what I suggest you do is not try to pollinate what you grow.
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled you and I will not agree on this stance you have. There is no denying the fact that poison leaches into soil and examples have been made.
Now, when you say "safe" pesticides...only if they are natural and organic, such as Neem, Diatomaceous Earth, etc.
Insects breathe through their skin. You can dust your Brassicas with pot ash, Diatomaceous Earth, even flour, and it will work to repel insects and kill what is already on there.
But, I am pretty researched on chemical pesticides and they are not good.
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead You don't know what my perspective of pesticide is, and you have no clue about what I am thinking of. Yes, insects will not like it, and probably animals as well, but it will not harm the soil. It will not even harm insects. It will just turn them off from approaching whatever I choose to grow.
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled I am pretty sure that I know your perspective on pesticide with this statement you made "I think that can turn out to become a mistake to not use pesticide." You also made a statement about use of fertilizer and compost. If you had noticed in any of my other videos, I mentioned that the only fertilizers that I choose to use on occasion is compost AND fish fertilizer, only if it is all natural.
I welcome conversation and growth through knowledge, research, and having an open mind with critical thinking skills, but I will not tolerate accusations, assumptions, or flat out insults.