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Grasshopper wars in progress, lettuce is awful!, mutant broccoli, Mrs Nutnfancy's sun scratching, squash coming in nice, strawberry fail....

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Charles Steimle

Trim those maters!!!! Take out all lower branches and leaves. You want that stalk to get air flow. Dirt to first branches about 8-10 inches. Love the garden !!! We bailed on the city 2 1/2 years ago and started a homestead. I have a hard time keeping up with your vids these days but will always support your content. Love this next direction videos!! The French got really funny especially when my 7yo walked in just as it dropped 🤦🏼🤣

Randy Hendershot

Nutn, warmest regards to you and the Missus. You know the worth of a human by the way they treat their pets. Your dog in the boat vid was priceless, and I hate boating. I am a sucker for a good gardening vid, so keep them coming. It looks like challenging conditions. I recommend the Hollis and Nancy's Homestead videos. Great people and amazing gardening.

Mark Higginson

I would invest $15 in a pressure sprayer. It gets quite annoying using a finger sprayer. Never tried cinnamon oil and cinnamon on my plants.

Moe Mansour

No scorpion peppers? 🌶️ 🦂 I always enjoy the smell of fresh garden veggies.

hoplite ⚔️

Nice progress. Looking lush. Nice work you two! Inspiring.

GrizzlyRising

Take all of the stuff like the lettuce, and stuff that produce any usable vegetables and compost them, for the next seasons garden. Rabbit poop is a great fertilizer as well.

Brian Driver

Nice work Nutn. I grew lettuce twice. Both times it was so bitter that I had to spit it out. I tried all the YouTube tricks. Nothing worked. I have had luck with cucumbers though. Tomatoes, not so much. In Florida it gets so hot that the plants stop producing. I have learned that the secret to growing corn is to plant lots of it. Planting just a few corn seeds won't produce corn. This is my third year having a garden and It's trial by error. I have learned that you can't grow enough to survive, but you can supplement your long term storage.

Seeker Keyl

Noice! Our pests are slugs, aphids, and chipmunks mostly. Diatomaceous earth works well against bug pests. Larger ones we try to catch and relocate. This year, we have voles and those are harder to deal with... Trying castor oil. We'll see.

Neal Denison

In central Montana our spinach is starting to bolt, more versatile than lettuce which comes in later.

PTL SCIENCE

Some plants like lettuce needs part sun, not full sun, to be sweet. Water well the night before harvest to plump/juice up veggies and fruit.

Todd Strelka

We went out to the Copperton Parade last night and the grasshoppers were all over the place.

ThePreparedPatriarch

Hey, Nutn'! I'm in suburban North Jersey. Soprano country. I've got an attempt at a mutant garden too. If I post a video on my lame little channel about it, can I @ you?

BadgerTails

Mariglods; plant marigolds in there, they have a natural oil that repels bugs. It works for us for almost 30 years now, it works everywhere. Deadhead the plants in the fall and you can place them all over your house for bugs AGAIN, they still emit the smell that bugs hate.

Anthony Schaad

Also can sprinkle Cayenne pepper or just regular pepper on your plants Nutn… works great!!! Also if u don’t mind it you can go to a Farm store and get some 7-Dust .

Derek W Tiller

Tomatoes are funny. They like acidic soil and heat. Used to live next to an old Portuguese lady that mixed up sand, dirt, and pine needles in 5 gallon buckets and then put them on her blacktop driveway. Best damn tomatoes I've ever had and there was a TON of them!

N. M. Robertson

I think every garden I've ever planted has been a mutant garden!

N. M. Robertson

Peppermint oil repels a lot of insects as well. I don't know about grasshoppers though, but that's something you should check out.

Ruben Lopez

⚡️⚡️⚡️Hey Nutn and TD! Old Apprentice here with an date. Just finished my 7th term, 3 to go! Also just got my last Apprentice raise and now make $51.23!!! Started at $19.20. Thanks again for all your positive words and encouragement! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

JFire

Good update and just what the wife and I needed for insect repellent for our new garden

RafterW

Grass hoppers are no joke here on our end too. I hate to put down chemicals, but I bent and put on seven dust, they had the eggplant and broccoli leaves eaten down to nearly nothing. I'll give that cinnamon mix a try on my next application! Squash are coming in hot and heavy here as well. Cucumbers have been abundant. Tomatoes are starting to set fruits. We've had some weird cross pollinations with melons and cucumbers over the years.

BadgerTails

Not sure, but now that you mention it we don't have much of a mosquito problem either. However, we've found that eating lots of garlic stuff, and having THAT in your blood and emitting *something* they don't like repels them just the same. We've expanded garlic production now to 60-70 plants coming up this year; make a garlic pesto, drop into gallon zip locs and freeze, or suspend them in jars of honey, while of course just snacking on cloves year long. It's really good for your heart and blood and lungs.

BadgerTails

Try an aero-garden indoors

Pat McGroin

My aero garden only lasted 2 yrs and crapped out. It was cool though.

Pat McGroin

Nice garden. What is your garden carry?

Michael B warner

Hey Nutn I noticed something about your tomato plants. It looks like some of the leaves are curling up there edges. That is a sign that they're getting too much sun and heat, my plants were doing the same thing it's a defense mechanism they have. What you should consider doing is building a structure above them to hold a sun shield mesh. I made a simple structure out of pine furring strips super cheap. You can find sun netting on Amazon that only blocks 20 to 30% UV, I got a 20% shield for my garden and that was just perfect. Your environment is a little dryer and hotter so you might want to go a little heavier maybe 30 or 40% protection. Either way the netting is super cheap you can experiment with a couple different ones. Blocking a little bit of sun from them will reduce stress on the plants and boost fruit production.

DudeDudeDude

Need a magnum bug-a-salt-rifle.

TxEinstein

Every year your gardening skills will get better!

Chris Kales

One method I've had some success with, is late evening/night watering and early morning harvesting. I've noticed especially with my greens that they are particularly bitter when harvested after the morning hours or if they didn't receive water the night before. Watering them at night ensures that the plant is maximally hydrated with better sugar retention right before the harvest.

OE

My Mrs. was the one who brought it to my forefront that watering during the day, especially when the suns really cookin', bakes your plants. Super interesting to hear about the taste profile though. It's a little late, but we're working on our beds as first-time homeowners. Some better than none I suppose. Thanks for your insight Sir.