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26 Comments
Because of your videos I planted things other than vegetables with my vegetables.
Basil for the repellent and marigolds for attractive…. that's what I use and it works 😊
I plant flowers for pest control, edible flowers, pollinator draws, and those to make my heart happy.
Companion planting, always
Marigolds are so easy… they give you a ton of seeds each year
Thanks
I put in some perennial flowers in this year. Normally here in St Louis we don't put anything in until the beginning of May. I took a chance and put in 8 tomato plants and 8 cucumber plants in the second week of March and rest of my plants in the second week of April. I have 30 jars of pickles and tomatoes almost red.
Zinnias do not deter dogs! 😂I I videoed our dog behind my back chewing on a zinnia. I didn’t know until I was editing the video. I think she may have been jealous of my attention!😂
Thanks for video.
Just wondering Is this video recorded now or couple weeks before?
This is one of the best videos I have ever watched of yours!!! Thank you so much! EXTREMELY GOOD information! I can't say thank you enough! ❤😊❤
I was anti-annuals for many years. Waste of time, money and space. Not. Any. More!! They're everywhere, in between the tomatoes, decorating the beans.
About walnut trees and juglone.
An experienced walnut grower once told me that walnut trees release significant amounts of juglone mainly when the soil is not fertile enough. In that case, the tree may use it as a way to reduce competition.
I have a garden with a walnut tree nearby (Juglans regia). It is about 30 years old. Within a 20-meter radius, we grow all kinds of fruit trees, vegetables, and berry bushes you can imagine, and everything thrives.
So perhaps it is true that soil fertility influences how much juglone is released by the tree? What do you think?
I love growing my zinnias!
I usually just plant marigolds in the veggie garden and the flowers in only my flower garden…but not anymore! Today I will go out and plant zinnias and cosmos in the veggie patch. And move the marigolds around to the cabbage and broccoli. Thank you Luke for the incredible information.
I plant marigolds, nasturtiums, borage, zinnias, sunflowers every year! I am happy cuz all of this self seed. I planted cosmos once but it took too long before it blooms so I might consider them again next year
I have Shasta daisies I got d seeds from u but d flowers are small. do u know why? I love daisies cuz they're perennials. I started Echinacea last year and I'm hoping to bloom some this year. cuz they say if u grow Coneflower from seeds, it will grow foliage first year and blooms d 2nd year
Are mexican zinnias also useful as regular zinnias?
I’m growing marigolds as a cover crop, then bury the whole plant with compost and crab meal before planting my next crop to try to deter RKN
My Golden State Zinnia I bought from you just bloomed today. So pretty!
I love to plant French marigolds and dwarf strawflowers in my veggie beds. I like dwarf strawflowers more bec I don't use them for cutting, and they look better this way in a bed rather than taller scraggly plants. The pollinators absolutely love strawflowers ❤❤❤
wish i knew about the sunflowers. im planting some watermelon amd cantaloupe near them. im not hoping for fruit, that will be a bonus. i love in the low desert of az and just want the micro climate of plants. and the living fence benefit.
What should I do to stop my flowers from wihering away after planting? Almost every flower I plant does this. I can't seem to get a good established bed of flowers. I might get a sad one or two but most if not all disintegrate and die. I don't know if it's the heat and humidiy, nutrient deficiency, or some disease in my soil.
Another flower you might consider is Yarrow. Aside from it's myriad health benefits both as food and in the medicine cabinet, it has a host of benefits in the garden. Lift info from Morag Gamble gamble – a great homesteader also here on yt, listed benefits as:
* improve the soil – its deep roots accumulate potassium, phosphorus, and copper from the subsoil.
* compost activator to speed decomposition – a few leaves in each layer of the compost
* fertilising tea – soak yarrow leaves in a bucket of water for a few weeks, and used 1 part tea to 10 parts water
* bee and good bug attractor – habitat for lacewings, parasitoid wasps, ground beetles, spiders, ladybugs, and hoverflies
* pungent odour repel pests
* a drought tolerant plant – use as a living mulch in dry areas
* under fruit trees as a cover crop to help fertilise and enhance fruit production
* chop and drop mulch helping to build soil
* as a nourishing green leaf added when making a no-dig garden
I have a 1/4 acre lot. Of the free yard space 1/4 is in native prairie. I also have many bird houses and gourds I grew for roosting. They are always in use. I also have mixed flower beds all over the rest of the yard along with my raised garden beds. My tomatoes have always done well, and I have even found horn worm skins with little white nodules on the back. I have a wren who has made my yard its preferred area. She can have up to 5 broods a year. I love seeing them eat all the pests on my produce. I have so many types of bees and wasps, as well as many other bugs in my yard, that I have become a migration stop over for a lot of critters. The most spectacular being my yard swarming with migrating common green darter dragonflies. I have planted my yard differently in the various areas. I also have small zone planted with native shrubs and a native climbing rose on a ceder that only has one living trunk left. I use herbs and flowers like marigolds as fillers next to my other veggies and plants.
I have been using your seeds for the last couple years and have had great results!
I have a red vein sorrel that's survived 2 winters in Delaware.
I get they are just bugs, but being eaten alive by parasitic wasp larve just seems kinda like a really bad way to go. I tend to do them in quick by feeding the hornworms to my chickens