Good morning everyone and welcome to the Kellogg Garden Youtube Channel! I'm Bridget
and today there's been an attack. There has been an attack on my garden,
and I'm going to show you what happens and how you fix it because this isn't my first attack.
It's distressing to wake up in the morning and come out, and you've planted something,
you're very excited about it, and all of a sudden it's been hit. It's been hit by
either a pest that is rather aggressive or diseased sometimes, but it's rough. It is really,
really rough, but I'm going to show you how you can come back from some attacks. So,
let's go look at it. Okay so, let's go look at what happened. Now, when I came out this morning
and I still have a little bit left to do, I came out to check the beds. We have,
you know, a couple of raised beds here and they need to be watered, and taken care of
this morning. And then I came over here to some pots that I have; these are going to be some
sunflowers. I think I've planted these sunflowers too close together, but we'll talk about that
later. And then, I went to this pot, and what do I see? I see that my lettuce plant is no more.
It used to be nice and tall, I'll show you what that looked like, and now it's a nub. And do you
see my poor little peas, as well? Something has been nibbling on my plant, and it went
crazy! It went after a little strawberries, it ate some of them just straight gone.
And then, some of them just a nibble.
Ah, and on top of that, look at my ornamental cabbage! This was so
beautiful! So something hungry has gone after my plants.
Okay so, what am I going to do? I'm actually going to cover this plant.
Let's walk around, and I'm going to show you
another plant. The view this morning looks pretty good.
Okay. This one right here, this is what I want to show you.
Now, it's covered, so it doesn't look that
pretty.
But, look at this!
Oh, look at that chard! It looks so good. This plant was attacked, just like the ones
I just showed you, I mean down to the nubs. You can still see some of the damage. Let me see.
Titan, oh, Titan. Right here, you can still see some of the damage right here.
But, I covered it, and i just let it go. I let it
rebuild. Now, I'm going to
take off some of this, I mean there's a lot. I need to trim it back because I've got some young
ones down here. But, I'm going to, see ,you can see look at that. That was a big bite, it
looks like a big creature but it was actually much smaller when they started going at this. But, you
can see new growth in there, isn't that beautiful? If you haven't seen Brigette's row cover video,
you absolutely need to watch it because covering your plants it just really, really helps.
And you can see down here, I had some kale and that kale got attacked quite a bit. So,
I need to make room for that kale, so I'm going to trim some of this back, but it's coming back too.
So, there's hope, there's absolutely hope.
Okay so, what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna cover this teepee and I'm gonna create a little
structure to cover that. And, I'm gonna use some of this row cover cloth to protect it for a while
so it can grow back. And really, all you need, this is some older stuff that I had,
that I used in the fall and it did get chewed a little bit,
from some field mice. But, it'll still work. Some scissors to cut it if I need it,
and then some rocks to hold it down so it doesn't blow away. I'm just gonna put this over.
If you need to you could create a couple layers of it, well for me, because I have
those holes but these holes shouldn't be a problem. I had some holes in the other one
too but I just want to make sure it covers all sides. The sun will get
through, water can get through. I did water it right before doing this.
All right, I'm just gonna secure it down.
That's it. That's what I'm going to do, and I'm going to do that to this guy
and then we'll check back in in a few weeks and see how it is.
All right so, you saw my little attack. It is crazy and I don't like coming out and seeing that.
I mean, my poor little plants, I get so excited and then all of a sudden,
bam. They're just half a quarter, a nub, of what they once were. But, I'm gonna cover them and
I'm gonna give them a few weeks like I gave the chard over here, and it will come back.
Fingers crossed. Most of it comes back, and the peas will be fine, and hopefully the lettuce will
be too. Alright, so we'll check in, you know, next week and the week after, and I'll show you what
happened to those plants. So, again don't worry. Things do happen but you can come back from it.
All right, I'll talk to you guys soon, thanks so much for joining me, and happy gardening!