Hello everyone. Welcome to the Kellogg Garden Youtube Channel, I'm Bridget,
and today I'm going to do a check in on some of my plants. I did some videos recently about
plant attacks, what's wrong with my plant? I used row cover and then I also use some other methods
for the plants. So, let's check in and see how they're doing. So now this one,
I had some peas in it I also had some lettuce, and something came by, probably a squirrel since we
have about a million, gazillion, jillion of them, came by and really went to town on this plant. So,
let's see how it's doing. I've already seen it, honestly. I had to do a little a
little watering this morning, but also a little bit of fertilizing. All right so, everything has
come back nicely, of course my lettuce has bolted a little bit, so I'm going to end up pulling that.
I don't have any critters eating my plants, but it does look like I might have
a few little soft body pests that are affecting
my peas. If I could get them to let go of the row cover. I could get them off that row cover,
but they are looking pretty good. They they're going a little unruly,
and one of my pea plants does look like it needs a little bit of love. It's coming out but
it does need some some TLC. All of my strawberry plants look really good.
I even have a little strawberry growing on a couple of them, I have a couple of strawberries
growing. So even being covered somehow I still have some pollination happening in there. But,
so far so good. I'm going to show you a couple of other plants, a couple of other row covers
that maybe I left too long or didn't pay attention to. So, some things did really well and something
still got hit, so let's go look at a few more plants. Here's a close-up look at that container.
Got some little strawberries forming, you can see that the lettuce came back, but
it definitely is bolting now, and there are some peas. My peas are growing, you can see down here,
that's when it was first attacked, but up towards the top it's looking pretty good, pretty good.
Now, another plant we didn't really talk about, but right here. This is some kale that I have,
and it really got hit hard by some aphids. There's still a few. Let's come around. Actually,
this plant right here has some aphids on it you can see those little buggers.
And this one is going to flower, so I'm not as aggressive about these aphids.
Now this one, I kind of let it trap some aphids but then, I decided to use some neem oil
on it. Actually, what you're seeing right now is a lot of dead aphid bodies, there aren't
many new ones in this plant. So, I just need to rinse it off. It's looking pretty healthy,
but the aphids are under control there. So, here is one of the cucumber plants we looked
at last time, and I had some white spotting, and what I thought was probably leaf miner damage,
and i got it under control. I used neem oil on this one as well.
And, I had some really, beautiful green leaves that grew on the top, and then something came by
and ate all my beautiful leaves. That something, I believe, was a squirrel. So, I caught two of them,
and we have, like I said, a bazillion, kajillion here. So, I'm gonna have to protect them.
And, this is a little, white, miniature cucumber plant, and it hit this one as well. Just took all
my leaves off. It didn't go after my little sugar baby watermelons, but it absolutely went after
this guy. You'll have to excuse my nails, I've been digging in the soil. My tomato plants looking
super good, look at this, I got a little. This is a kellogg's tomato, and I've got a little one
going right there. It's getting out of control, I love it. I've got my first little sunflower there,
it's looking great. Some other tomato plants. Now, sometimes what I'll do, I'm in the middle of
doing some things, but this guy here which is a 'ka-koo-zi' or 'ka-koo-zuh', however they
like to pronounce that. I protected it a bit with some chicken wire because my squirrels are getting
bold. Now, this works with squirrels it does not work with field mice, field mice can get
through that no problem. So, I'm not sure they like this plant because I do have another one
that I haven't covered yet and they haven't touched it yet. We'll see what we need to do here.
The final thing we're going to look at is, we're going to look at a row cover I did over here. Now,
this one really got it. You see that right there? That is squirrel damage. Those squirrels just went
to town on this one. Absolutely crazy. They really went after, if you look closely, they went after,
these are some beats that I had under here, they went after some of my beets.
See if I can get you in there. And then, got in here, in the middle,
and went after some of these. Last time, part of the reason I covered this is my sorel is
really eaten up, again down to the nub. Now it's back. Most of my beets are doing pretty good, but
I'm going to have to get a bit craftier and I'm going to end up, maybe caging this a bit more.
So, we're gonna build some some little cages for this. But, when those squirrels want something,
they will get it.
Okay so, there's a garden update for you guys. We looked at some of the damage that I showed you
earlier, which was some of the soft-bodied pests, and then also an attack, which could have been
a squirrel, it could have been grasshoppers, it could have been a bunny rabbit, it could have been
mice, it could have been anything. So, a couple of things that I did to mitigate the damage,
I used neem oil, I used row cover. I could have used dimaceous earth, I could have used,
I could have brought in some of my good bugs like my lace wings or lady beetles, but I didn't have
enough, I thought, for the ladybugs right now, or for those guys. So, I still may have to bring
them in later, because of course, I showed you one plant that has some fresh aphids on them,
so as more and more grows, I might need to bring them in. And then, the row cover does work
really well. Not against squirrels though, not if they're super hungry. And, I would say not against
field mice, maybe bunnies. But, I caught the squirrels, I mean, Icaught them red-handed. So,
I know it's squirrels right now. So, one of the things we're going to be working on next,
is we're going to be building some caging, some boxes. And, I'm excited, I've already gotten what
I need for Evan to help me do that. We started with one, but I had him use this chicken wire,
but for the field mice they can get through it, so I think I want to go with something that
is more of like, you know, your wire mesh, or maybe even screen. I haven't decided on that. But,
field mice get through holes this size, and we do have some field mice here, so I need to think
about that as we're building it. But, the great thing about this is going to be that I got some,
I got some hinges that are slip rod hinges, so I can just slip them up and down. And, I'm gonna
be able to build these boxes almost modular, so I'm really excited about that, and I think
that'll help me a lot this season. Especially because our ground squirrels are crafty,
and as this garden really starts going they will start, it's like a buffet, okay? They just come in
and they just start picking. We even had a fat one last year that would just take bites of things.
It was ridiculous, you can eat the whole thing guy, you don't have to just take a bite.
Now, I do expect that I'm going to share part of my garden with the natural world around me,
I just want to share only a little bit, and then keep more for us. So,
that's what we're going to be doing. Next, we're going to be building some of these,
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