Getting my Veggie Garden ready
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- Getting my Veggie Garden ready
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You should do weekly garden vlogs!
Glad to see new Spring gardening videos, so important for 'homestead survival'.The tomato frame looks good, and the copper rings are a good idea.Have you ever used crumbled eggshells around your plants to keep the slugs away? The sharp edges cut the slugs when they try to ooze over, and the calcium in the shells feeds the soil.
Creative problem solving! One of the many joys of gardening.
Hopefully those tomatoes will use those poles for a Florida Weave Support System. I tried it last year and it works awesome. Best wishes 😁
Sehr schlau und einfallsreich liebe Lilly! Toll gebaut alles! Beste Grüße, Sepp
You could always buy copper roof flashing from your local home center or roofing supply.
I've heard of using salt around green houses & plant beds to keep snails & slugs out of plants too. You do have to be careful not to put it in the soil you are growing in, but you may be able to spread some inside or just on the outside edge of your green house or around the outside of the individual beds themselves.
Channelling your building skills for my veg bed. Tfs 😀
I have seen a organic garening video a few years ago. They were using "hedgehogs". In the evening they released the hedgehogs in their garden. The hedgehogs eat all the insects, slugs, and snails. Those slugs and snails are in the fertizer soil you purchase! Maybe, sifting the fertilizer soil before using them in your garden would be good idea.
Take the slugs & snails fishing, ( they are the bait).
Very interesting. Have you ever thought of cutting the base out of two-liter soft drink bottles (soda) and putting them over your lettuce? I have never seen radishes transplanted before. I get my radish seeds in tapes like we do beetroot. Just lay them on the surface. You have me intriged.
Could you not just run copper strips around the top of your raised beds? Or would that not be cost-effective? Always enjoy your videos. 🤓
Maybe a sharp mulch would detour them? I will have to think about this because I can put a ring around all my radishes hahaha. It is a wonderful idea though and looks pretty around the lettuce. God bless!
Use sharp sand or crushed dry eggshells but they can burrow under such barriers.
Hello Lilly, I'm not a gardener, although I've always wanted to have a garden & I might actually have one this year, but I was thinking, you said the slugs & snails don't like the onions and garlic plants, so would planting onions & garlic as close together as they can & still grow properly around the perimeter of your bed then plant the radishes in the middle of the bed work. It would be like the onions & garlic are like a fence around the radishes to keep the slugs & snails out.
I've heard bird-song in these gardening videos. So I'm surprised the birds don't keep the numbers down. Thinking about the garden I grew in, it also had a lot of green-tree frogs. Slugs and snails were just not a problem. But this was sunny DownUndersVille [BrisVegas] and so fruit-fly were our issue. Eventually, we just didn't grow very much that attracted these pests. I wonder if you could train/encourage some crows to come down for a feast? I don't have much of a garden atm but I am supporting two magpie families.
It was a long time ago. I just remembered, my mum, in the early days, tried a saucer with some cheap fruity white wine in it. The slugs and snails were attracted and got drunk and did not eat the plants. In the morning they were still drunk on the saucer and so were easily disposed into the compost heap. But the crows would rake over the compost and eat them.
Unfortunately any slugs and snails that you collect on your patrol will return to your garden unless you kill them, tests have shown that if you only remove them to another location they can and do return for as much as a mile, obviously some will be eaten by birds enroute but given enough time they will return. Salting, drowning, flattening, or feeding to pet chickens are the only sure way of stopping them. The barriers that you are using will help but they can unfortunately tunnel underneath them.
Thank you for this information Andrew. What if Lilly attached the copper material to the outside of the raised beds. Would that prevent slugs from getting into the beds?
@@kele1264 as Lilly has already made a video on this subject, I would have thought that you would know the answer to your own question, however I can say that whilst putting up an electrical barrier in place as you describe, will stop some of the pests, others will find there own way of bypassing the barriers. This also avoids the fact that the soil and compost used to fill the containers is also infested with the eggs and infant slugs/snails. In short there is no way to completely remove the pests, all that you can hope to do is to mitigate the problem and be vigilant about disposal of the pests.
Hi Lilly! Question: Instead of putting a copper ring around each plant, can you put one large rectangular ring around all of them? Could you also attache the copper to the outside of raised bed, like you did with the copper tape last year? Thank you for your time. I love your garden and the tips you give.
It's not going to work. Those pests are in the soil. I have noticed last year, they were in the fertilizer soil. Maybe, sifting the fertilizer soil before using in the garden.
@@young-soonkim6730 Thank you for your assistance. Can you recommend anything to stop them? I used a product called Sluggo Plus. It worked very well. But it's a chemical, and I didn't really want to use chemicals.
I have seen organic garden where they used the "hedgehogs" and released them into the garden in the evening. The hedgehogs eat all the pests in your garden. Also, good idea to fence the garden before you use the hedgehogs.
@@young-soonkim6730 Thank you!
I used to have a sort of a raised bed on the side of my house. Pretty simple, made it out of 8” wide manufactured (I.e. plastic/recycled) wood (I wanted something that wouldn’t rot). Had a tremendous slug issue. Would use beer traps but they would literally fill up overnight (until I got 3” deep ones but they take a lot of beer). Went and got some 6” wide copper sheeting (like Lily’s) and tacked (copper tacks, not really needed but I was going for looks too) on the rails overlapping the top. With age it looked really cool. Still kept the beer traps for a while as the rails were just an outer frame (interior 4’ x 16’) after a while there was no slug issue. I only used composted cow manure as a supplement to the soil (all organic otherwise). Try coco shell as a mulch (on second thought maybe not as dogs may get sick from it) but otherwise it’s a great mulch, lasts a long time, looks good, is a slug deterrent (sharp edges) but is a little costly. Compared to common wood chips these last at least twice as long but may not be available in your area. Had many adventures with my “garden” including gourmet groundhogs, ravaging deer, thieving neighbours and literal over abundance of tomatoes (red currant tomatoes (about the size of a very large blueberry (1/2” round) with the plants running 10’ tall and literally 100’s of fruits daily in season, we called them “poppers” at work but kind of acidic and addictive so lots of sore tummies). They were dynamite additions to salads though.
Lily, although I applaud your humanity (or is it slugmanity) if you want to eliminate them you need to be a little ruthless or take them miles away. Beer traps give them a euphoric ending (yes you must convince yourself that that is true but let’s face if if you had to die wouldn’t you rather be totally inebriated?)
Beer traps a lot of animals
I’ve never seen anything but slugs, what other animals/insects/etc are you referring to.
@@primordial_platypus
The two legged kind;)
If they want to drink slug infused beer they’re more than welcome to it. I tend to drop it in the sewer as it will clog the household sewer.
@@primordial_platypus
Ha!
maybe on the right evening..
ist das nicht ein Tigerschnegel, der andere Schnecken frisst?
schön wärs. bis jetzt haben die immer nur meine pflanzen gefressen
I’m sorry you’re having such a hard time with those nasty pests. Will it make you sick if you eat plants that the snails and slugs have touched?
quit drinking all your beer and put a shallow dish of beer out at ground level
gigantic slug, ugh ugh ugh