hello everybody this is Danny and Wanda from Deep South homestead we're out here
today trying to hoe this garden it's something that we have to do here all
the time because we have exposed soil weeds come up it sure would be nice if
we could do back to Eden and it worked here oh I know and you know I was with
our ants and termites and things we've tried it it doesn't work even with the
leaves are back to nature are back to nature yeah we still had weeds come
through the leaves so why don't we just show them a little bit about so the
weeds in the leaves and how they come I'm losing the termites how they've come
through why don't we go to Starrys can we go to Starrys you want to go to Starry
I think we'll go Starrys I love her garden let's start with Starry about back
to Eden and how she does it and why we can't you know what let's do this come
on sorry here we come girl what did you do
well wrong story Channel oh my god story STARRY and here we are I don't know
how it happened but look who I found in the in the virtual reality world and we
are kind of in a like a termite back to Eden
in a virtual world and we're going
to talk about termites and back to Eden gardening and look at that are
you guys ready yeah me and they've been saying the same thing starry starry
we're using back to Eden Garden method and we're getting carpenter ants we're
getting termites and so why don't you share your termites story with everybody
so you know they don't feel alone it's like a it's like a it's like a support
group the termites support group you're ahead of it
but this time you have to realize is where we live at here in our southern
climate and in south missippi we have a lot of heat you had a lot
of humidity termites are really bad here what is it
they're just in the soil and the carpenter ants
there they follow all over the deck and all over the house Wow I mean they do all these things to me
they're just in the soil your mind if on the head the termites are in the soil
the carpenter ants are in the soil they live in the soil so if you live in an
area where you already have these insects in the soil if you put a pile of
mulch I don't care if it's wood wood chips if it's bark if it's a rubber is
that it should been shredded sawdust that actually creates a environment for
them to live it doesn't create termites it creates an environment which they
really like in fact I wrote down mulch doesn't attract but it invites it in a
invites this is about you we had saw the brought in two years ago
neighbor ahead of saw me with rotted and hauled it and we did one lot harder to
put it around something and it was full of termites unbelievable unbelievable well yeah
that is incredible so I think the great discovery for a lot of people who are
wanting to do the back to eden garden method and they're frustrated because
they're getting ants and termites it's not the method it's not the method the
bottom line is no cover is going to work unfortunately you know if you live in an
area like like you guys in Mississippi that already have those those insects in
the ground you know we are doing what we call it back to nature garden okay just
which is about five six inches deep of leaves and we're going to show that all
our video here even though we do that and we drive our wooden sticks and
ground to stake our tomatoes with or anything like
that we pull our saved up let me show you a clip right here of what our stakes
look like when we pull out of the ground there's actually termites in it
you see this stake here this stake was driven in the ground in March of this
year this is July the termites have completely began to riddle and eat this
see those termites coming out of the end this state look at them they're already
in this one see them coming out I've had people contact me about the fire ants -
yeah why because that stuff heats up
and fire ants love the warm enviroment so they get up into those beds
it doesnt matter if we do it four or six inches deep
we have certain weeds here even one of them is called the mimosa weed
it will come up through six inches deep of mulch properly yeah this is the
mimosa weed it is an invasive weed it has been here now for about five years
we didn't have it before it came in I don't know if those were migratory birds
storms what brought it in here but this thing has ant root system on it
that's just out of this world let me shake some of the dirt off of it you see
the root alright people but this is what Starry and Danny and Wanda want to
make sure that you know that there's hope there's hope we always hope
yeah you know we get so wrapped up in the back to Eden Garden method and if
it's not working there's alternative things that we can think about so number
one I just want to real quickly before we go back to the Danny and Wanda the type of
wood chips that you can use they're actually some ones that termites don't
like believe it or not there are a couple species but you still have to be
very careful with implementing them in your garden from my research I found out
that Cypress I think it's called Cypress heartwood is termite resistant and some
cedar and Danny pointed out to make sure it is red and not Western but Danny even
talked about you still have to be very careful with those types of woods
because they dirty termites they're terrible right I'm you know
you're terrible do you like everything will we actually have
you've got this our lives here we have a Berlin termite and a flying termite okay I
don't want to hear any more because you guys are really cursed with these termites I
see come on we have stink bugs that's all
we've gotta get termites that's unbelievable but besides there's
hope and choosing some of these termite resistant woods Dani and Wanda have a
huge gorgeous garden gorgeous garden and you know what they do they just use the
conventional gardening method which is why do you just explain what you do for
you want for you guys here we have lemon grass on the left of sweet potatoes we
have okra coming up there and that peppers cucumbers and squash there and
these are our field Peas I think I'd put the whole field to welcome to our garden
start cutting hay for you we go in we break the ground do it up
there you go we put our amendments into the soil, here you go oh we go back we plant directly into the
dirt when it comes up you know its called a hoe people use hoes? I
don't know that . and method we pull weeds we often sit and talk to one another in the garden and wonder what it would be like
if we just did the Back to Eden Garden
yeah yeah yeah and you know what go ahead
we also do like several gardens and we
dont dont just have a small garden
we have about three acres of garden yes yeah we couldnt do that Back To Eden bcause it would
cost a fortune yeah it was good to do that so you have
to pull weeds or you have to plow or you know let it get that high okay one of the and
I'm so glad you're talking about that because um you know you go on YouTube
and everybody's on the bandwagon with the
no-till and the back to Eden and and yeah we want less labor less work with
our gardens and we want to conserve water and build soil and the back to eden
woodchip method no-till really does that but but it doesn't mean that the
old-fashioned pulling weeds and tilling and using the whole doesn't work it's
worked for centuries so you know if you're in that area where you have
termites and ants there's hope you just go back to what what men and women have
been doing since the pioneer days yes right there you go there you go awesome
awesome yeah yeah yeah but you know but but look at the fruits of your labor you
know that you know that is labor that is feeding you and it's an investment in
yourself and you're doing it you're doing it don't be discouraged exactly
you do have to pull weeds and but we have canned so much food out of our
garden and if we don't go buy any vegtebles from the store and then amazing it's
amazing you buy we buy nothing like that how the garden we all yeah so you know I
guess the bottom line is that we want people to know that if the back to
Eden garden method is failing you and you're having problems with termites and
ants that there is hope there's hope and you do have to think outside the box and
sometimes you have to go back into the past to revisit the old-fashioned ways
which still do work and Wanda and Danny are living proof of that and it's all
about being self sustainable in any form or way and using whatever method works
right that's what we try to tell people story is that whatever works for you yes
you're enviroment do it say Amen don't go oh sorry
create nothing it doesn't work for you yes what works about it over yes well
you know you know when we're presenting what works for it like me at
you know our host and what works for you and your homestead it may not
necessarily work for them and we were talking about one size shoe doesn't fit
at all and you got to make it work for yourself got to make it work for
yourself and there's great hope out there so all right we're going to we're
going to go we teleport ourselves because I need to go back home to Idaho
okay all right you guys god bless you thank you so much for spending time and
I think this is really going to help people I really do
it's going to open some doors and some options all right
yeah god bless for my homestead to yours yeah I'm sorry Hildur off-grid bye-bye