Garden With Me | Not a Carrot, Topping Peppers, Cucumber Beetles
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- It's just an ordinary morning in the garden, my routine of daily harvest, pest checks, pruning and checking in on how everything is growing. I get these look alike carrot weeds every year I grow carrots, does anybody know what they are? I am almost wondering if they aren't some type of mutation on seeds that can occur. The leaves are identical to carrots but the stems are fuzzier and thicker than a typical carrot would look. I am excited to see what our surprise tomato is that we have growing. Stay tuned for all the harvesting and new plantings that will be going on. It seems this garden season is flying by, time to check on the canning supplies and make sure we are ready.
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Every year I get these "look alike" carrot weeds in my carrot beds, does anybody know what they are? I am almost wondering if they aren't some type of mutation on seeds that can occur. The leaves are identical to carrots but the stems are fuzzier and thicker than a typical carrot would look.
Thoughts?
Queen Anne's lace plants look exactly like carrot tops until they bloom.
Queen Ann’s lace!
If it has a fuzzy stem then its still a carrot, but probably not the same kind, since pollination creates crazy things
Feverfew looks similar to carrots
Hemlock looks almost identical to carrots, but it is poisonous
and it does Not smell like a carrot.. 🌿💀🌿
That's my motto this year, anything that's past its season or anything that's failed gets replaced by beets!! Pickled beets all around this year!!
We call the onion flowers scapes they are a delicacy chefs love them 👍😎
Thanks for sharing 👍😎
I grow my squash and zucchini in a tomato cage , grows straight up and also gives the the fruit something to rest on instead of sitting in the dirt.
I make my cabbage rolls with a meatloaf like mixture and uncooked rice in them. Cover with you homemade tomato sauce then take extra leafs and cover and bake. Yum,yum.
Sounds yummy
Planting petunias at the base of your cucumbers and squash repels cucumber beetles like a champ!
Dont worry about your zucchini too much as long as you trim them without stake they will be fine and gives you more zucchini fruit
I always top my peppers, no matter the variety. Makes the plants much bushier and stronger, which helps the plant better able to support the fruit.
I see the wheels a turning! Sign of a good gardener :) Never gotten "look alike" carrots.....at lease I don't think so! Cedarwood essential oil for beetles!
Try raising broccoli plants in the future for your fall garden!
Many thanks to you Rachel for the tips on broccoli and cabbage leaves. I got seven jars of your recipe canned today and made and froze a ton off stuffed cabbage leaves. Keep the recipes coming!!!
I am drying carrot tops also. I have been watchin Rain Country videos and she dries them and adds them to her dried green mix to use during the winter. I did not know about the aluminum foil around the squash plants so put some around mine tonight. Thanks. I just have a courtyard garden. Nancy
Have you tried Captain Jacks Bug juice? Or Ace Hardware sells just Spinosad spray, It's organic but does have harvest after spraying restrictions for some veggies. It should kill the cucumber beetles sa
Good to know about wrapping foil around zucchini plants. I did not know that will help with borers killing the plant.
The vegetable garden is looking really good.
Thank you
A tomato in the carrot bed made me instantly think of that book Carrots Love Tomatoes
They must
I love taking my silver bowl out to my small garden and harvest. I learned from the best. 😉. I am growing a spinach that is doing wonderful!! It is very heat tolerant. Amaranth multicolor spinach. Love your videos Rachel.
That is awesome! Have a wonderful week ahead
Add some chopped garlic in the soapy water it won't kill The cucumber Beatles but Will deter them well that's what I have found
I really like your hair, it looks really pretty on you.
Thank you
Rachel, have you ever grown parsnips.? I like carrots, but I love parsnips. You should try parsnips. If you did you’re going to be hooked as I., Lol
I haven't
Rachael maybe trim any leafs and stems close to the ground on those squash. I think it help keep the pests down.❤
Gurney's has a Blue Ribbon Goliath Broccoli hybrid that is nothing less than awesome, but you must grow these under a fine screen cover with buried edges. There was a bug that stripped every one of mine down to a lace skeleton of veins in no time.
You should try alfalfa in a small patch for cereal of dried powdered leaves, stems and seed heads.
Great content....love your videos!
Guildbrook Farm mentioned Lizard Spinach in a recent video being very heat tolerant. It must be a similar variety to Crocodile Spinach. I have these on my wish list to grow.
BLESSINGS
I use gauze on my squash plants. Works great!
What does the gauze do?
Your garden is really looking nice. I have had those carrot weeds before, I'm excited for the carrot harvest and the onions too Rachel. Those bugs are a pest, I have had problems a few times with them and I tried everything to get rid of them. I did like you, kill them little buggers as I find them.
Chickens love carrot tops!
Yes I know but this year I'm attempting to use all of my harvest the best I can
That's some damage for such a teeny tiny bug. Hope you find a safe way to get rid of them
I thought it was Jess at Roots and Refuge too.
You should look at the channel everything homemade she uses shelving on things like squash and such . She has other great ideas that she uses. She did videos on how she plants and what she does series this year . It might give you ideas to use in your garden to help .
Have you tried Neem oil for the cucumber beetles? I had the Mexican bean beetles on my green beans and the Neem oil and water, with a little dish soap mixed in, seemed to do the trick.
You could make some carrot top pesto :)
We dehydrated and turned into powder: facebook.com/1870sHomestead/photos/a.606334526468283/1060334447734953
Jeez, gardening with a rock like that on your hand is like running a marathon wearing ankle weights.
Did I miss why you put foil around the base of your zucchini plants? Is it for pest control? Thanks! Your garden is wonderful. I also enjoyed the chicks. I have Welsh Harlequin ducks and I am considering buying another 40 next year.
Yes it deters the squash vine borer
I bought my White Dixie Butterpeas from Hoss Tools.
That's where I got mine from too
Very curious to see how your peppers do, because I’ve heard topping is great but don’t do it in northern climates! Love when my fellow Michiganders try stuff like this!
Oh no!!! Hopefully it'll be ok
@@1870s I've heard not to top in short growing seasons, so I decided to experiment (I'm zone 6 in MA). So I topped half of my cayennes and jalapenos so I can compare the results.
Make some carrot tops pesto. Just look for a recipe that sounds good for you. It was delicious!
I'll try that
Hey y'all!!!
Hello
We have trouble west of you with japanese beetles! Uugghh! They were destroying my green beans so we used bag a bug and captured three huge bags of them. Beans grew more leaves, blossoms and beans. I was picking them in November! Will try the tin foil. I get big bugs on the squash, size of thumb nail and gray. Yuck. Would neem oil work on those?
try making water and hottest peppers oil or sauce you can find mix in spray bottle and spray away
Hmm interesting
I topped my peppers back also but have yet to have any flowers on them.
I hope we both have great success
Please update us about the pepper experiment!
Will do 👍
Hi I just subscribed to your page. Awesome content!!
Thank you and welcome. Where are you located?
That 1870's Homestead thank you for replying, you didn’t have to I know you have a lot of followers. My family and I are from VA and are constantly learning new things about homesteading.
Have you tried the yellow sticky paper to get rid of the cabbage beetle? Just a thought maybe it will work.
I am loving the channel. Question, why do you wrap with foil. Can you cover this for me. Thanks.
I did a video titled Squash bugs are the devil within the last 2 weeks it goes over everything
What state do you live in.your way ahead of us .
Michigan
Onions bloom the second year! It is best to grow them from seed!
These were grown from starts, so that's odd
Several homesteaders are having the cucumber beetles problem and they are not able to find anything to control or get rid of them.
Me too!
I use 2 tbls 100% cold pressed organic neem oil in 1 gallon water and a little dish soap. Spray on leaves and beetles will eat and then die. You can also use peppermint oil around the plant, the beetles don't like the smell.
What does the aluminum foil do around the zucchini plants? I don't remember hearing you talk about that before. I picked my first zucchini today!
It’s to protect them from a bug, there are multiple kinds, called Borer Bug
It is supposed to keep the squash vine borer from laying eggs! But it doesn't work very well!
Hi Rachael I was wondering if you side dress your onions with anything? I know OAG uses Ammonium sulfate (cant find here) and I accidentally bought aluminum sulfate. Yea, I put it on the onions, opps!
I do, they get fish fertilizer and ammonia sulfate and a bit of bone meal
That 1870's Homestead Thank you 💖
is there a vid on why you wrap the zuchs in foil? thanks so much
Yes it's called squash bugs are the devil 😂
I seen a product online called zevo. I don't know much about it.
Thanks for sharing
I cant post a picture here but what about a cattle panel hoophouse.. if a guy in Chicago can do it at 25 below.. I can do it here
I may I got an old frame from one of those modular carports I could use, I just don't know if that's what we want to do or not
I am really enjoying your channel. May I ask why you foil the stems of the zucchini’s?
To keep squash vine borers away, this is the first year I'm trying it
I've never heard of the tin foil trick. Will give it a try this year. Only planting two plants this year. Neighbors are getting tired of the garden fairy making midnight drop offs on their porches!
Can you explain the use of foil on your Zucchini. Have not seen that anywhere else.
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Have you ever tried Broad beans? They are also called favas or faba beans. They are delicious and great to eat fresh or dry and preserve. Very popular in Europe. I’m planning some this year. I love them! They are part of the eastern Mediterranean diet around 6000 BCE or earlier. They are often grown as a cover crop to prevent erosion because they can overwinter and, as a legume, they fix nitrogen in the soil. They are very hardy and it can withstand harsh and cold climates. Here is some info about them.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_faba. Give your peppers a lot more space than that. I never cut mine down and they grow to about 4-5 feet in each direction and have more peppers than I can eat. I plant one at every bed or two and they get huge. They like space
I haven't tried broad beans. I implement square foot gardening principles for high density planting. Your pepper plants sound super
@@1870s Amazon sell the dwarf broadbean variety The Sutton which only grows to 12 inches tall . It's planted in October in the UK and in the Spring beans can be harvested. The small 3 inch beans can be eaten pods and all or left to grow larger. Keep picking to encourage more beans to grow. Dig the roots back in to the soil and Leeks are a good crop to follow on with as they like nitrogen .
Why did you wrap the stem of your zucchini plants?
to keep the squash vine borer bugs from getting into them
Hi! So how do you think it went with topping your peppers?
I have so many mentioned experiments that I need to follow up on with you all. It worked really well the lowest topped peppers did way better than the lightly topped ones
@@1870s okay good to know! And yes, I think that would make a good video!
What is the aluminum foil for?
To keep out squash borer bugs.
What does the foil do?
We use it to deter vine borer beetles from digging into the stem base.
When do you plant carrots seeds? I am in zone 8a. Thanks
We are zone 6a and I believe I planted them the first week of April
@@1870s thank you!
Why do you wrap your zucchini in tin foil?
I tried 2 things this year to protect my squash plants from vine borers, one was tinfoil and the other was knee high panty hose, the panty hose worked! The tinfoil not so much
Wow thanks for letting me know you teach us all so much thank you.