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Things have been a little full on this week, so I thought I’d update you all, video ended up a bit of a ramble and far more negative than I normally like! But as I always say Progress, not Perfection! Onward and upward and all those sayings lol.

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41 Comments

  1. My garden started same way bugs. We have had fly problems wasps and moth, crazy summer now i don't know if i will plant for winter.

  2. My aunt and uncle were strawberry farmers in UK..they always put straw around plants to irrigate and to also deter pests climbing onto plants..strawberries will rot quicker when in contact with soil.
    Have you considered drawing a circle moat approx 1 and half cm from plant..top with water then place a small ring of sawdust just inside the circle..the slayers will either drown when hitting the moat and won't like texture to climb sawdust..regards

  3. Woodash and broken eggs shells around the seedlings will help, but I feel the angst too as nothing seems to stop it completely.

  4. One of the things we did to reduce pests was to let the chickens out in the garden area. We would bring them out a day or two and just let 'em pick and scratch. They would take care of a lot of bugs, good for them and good for the garden. Of course you have to stay out with them to watch for chicken hawks and weasels and other predators but we locked them back up come evening.

    You can also let them out once your plants are established as well. Just don't let them around young shoots and such. That's about all I got and I hope it helps if you decide to give it go. Good luck hon, I think you're doing a fantastic job.

  5. Depending on their age, you knock off flowers and small fruit to allow the plants to put their energy into growth. I prune any cross branches to allow air to circulate in the middle of plants. Please don't feel too bad with gardening, it takes a few years to develop knowledge. Google is great way to aid learning. Sorry to hear about the ducklings.

  6. I wonder if Neem granules around the seedlings would deter the slaters/wood lice. Thankfully, I haven’t got them in my garden (in NZ) but the darn Green Shield beetles are here already! 😡

  7. I use rough crushed egg shells and coffee grounds around the base as a great homemade bug deterrent

  8. I had a greenhouse exactly like yours – from Bunnings New Zealand. I too didn’t have much success growing seedlings in it, was either too cold or too hot ( even with ventilation). I ended up mostly just growing succulents in it. Then one very windy day we arrived home to find it had collapsed in a heap. The poles ended up very rusty and had no strength in them at all.
    And you have feijoas!! They grow very very well here, we end up inundated with them. So much you can do with them.

  9. Citrus – decent stake up through the middle and tie the “leader” up to it. Prune after they finish fruiting. You can do a light trim if you want to for shape.

  10. I’m really sorry to hear that things are not going to well! I don’t know much about the growing side of things I always did the canning side & shelling of it, sounds like Cathi has the right idea on the plastic covers pushed down into the earth and lace curtains from an op shop you would be able to get those really cheap I would think, is there not something natural that can be sprinkled over the trees and plants to help with all the bugs and pests? I don’t have a clue just wondering, you can’t be the only person that has this problem. Sorry to hear about the baby ducks and best of luck with the baby chicks! Best of luck … Linda

  11. Broken egg shells. I’m sorry you going through a rough time. We have something that’s annoying us too. Bloody fleas. The rains have brought out fleas in abundance. We’ve sprayed and treated our poor dogs and cats but they still keep coming. One of my dogs is severely allergic to fleas and has lost her hair. I use milk containers and juice containers around seedlings. Hope something will come good for you guys. Wishing loads of luck

  12. Hey Nyssa, I looked up pill bugs it says try diatamaceous earth, beer traps garlic spray sluggo trap < Whatever that is LOL or clean up dead debris and use coarse mulch as they don't like the rough texture…pfft who knows maybe a mini shot gun LOL good luck

  13. G'day !!! We have the beetle looking bugs, that live in our soil that munch everything. I saw on a gardening show many moons ago and other gardening videos, homemade WHITE OIL, and cost effective, that works, home made from cooking oil, and it can be used and old, which is what I usually use with equal amounts or near enough too, less than doesn't seem to matter much, dishwashing liquid, whatever one you use, then add water. The ratio I use in an old 2 litre milk bottle with the oil and detergent covering the bottom and fill, and combine. I pour it not on the plant as the oil will coat the leaves and slow down the growth, just on the soil, kind of saturating it around the base and area. Almost immediately the beetles come to the surface, an die fairly quick. The population gets knocked down very quick. I do it every now and again as they seem to come back later. I feel bad killing them, but they were in abundance eating all the strawberry plants, 🌱 seedlings too, etc. Another thing by chance I noticed while hosing off our dogs tea tree shampoo on the grass was the same beetles coming up from the soil and dying on the grass. It was a cheap shampoo with exactly the same result. I'm not sure if they are a lawn grub in adult form. It also works on other unwanted bugs in the soil, and I haven't seen kill any good garden worms at all. Hope this helps 🙏

  14. Hi Nyssa, big hugs to you. I did all my seeds a few weeks ago, labelled everything, then placed in my small hot house. The wind blew it over and I was left with a pile of seeds and dirt in the bottom. Luckily I have had some germination happening, after I put back into the pots. Take care.

  15. Keep your chin up Nyssa, Im sure that all your hard work will come to be good in time…..we are struggling at the moment too, but only because the amount of rain we have had in the last few months has done so much damage to our gardens, but time will work its magic Im sure.
    Try and stay positive, hugs from ours to yours =)

  16. Do you ever just eat the beetroot leaves. We used to grow them just for the leaves and they grow back on the beetroot many times. So healthy.

  17. Well I would say I was a little worried about you, but your big smile at the end reassured me you will March forward and seek what you need to Save the Garden. I wish I had advice, but I always say another week in the Garden a new victory will be won.
    Those fruit trees look great. Boy last year, you just didn't know they would make it. And the Strawberries, little bug boogers. How's the ones in the Mr Stackies doing?
    It was a bummer day but keep smiling things will get better

  18. If the tops are dry down below the soil could be wet so maybe too much water and maybe they need some watering of seasol to help them grow.

  19. So sorry the pest are such a problem for your garden plans. We had a hard freeze really late in the season that caused a lot of damage along with squash bugs. Lots of hard work put in to battle those problems . It can take the relaxation out of it all. Your trees look great! Hang in there , things will start to look better again soon I bet!😊

  20. The older the seedling the less tender it is and the less enticing to the beasties. So I raise seedlings well past their first set of true leaves. If you’ve got the space and the patience I recommend it.

  21. Hi beautiful, coffee grounds or cinnamon can be used around the the base of your plants. Or you can make them a little nest ie, wet toilet roll with some organic matter to draw them away and dispose of them. Love you and bless you, your amazing

  22. Oh Nyssa I'm sorry to hear this. We grow veg in our backyard as well as having chickens rabbits and guinea pigs. Our veggies have done quite well over the years but last year we could sit outside and night and see rats running along the fence and eating the tomatoes! This pained me I love my tomatoes and to loose so many from rats was upsetting. I hope that the rest of your garden compensates with a bumper year to make up for the loss. X

  23. i had this problem a few years ago this is what i did — if u can put a few chooks in a covered run on the beds that have the slatters in them — yummy snack for chooks after that look for a iron based snail pellets and put around your little plants — u can also use crushed up eggshells ( not to fine ) they hate walking over it — another way is to mix soy sauce and cheap cooking oil put in a small container — place in your beds level with the top of the soil they fall in and cant get out again a yummy snack for chooks — good luck

  24. I have found every year brings more and more challenges in the garden. Coffee grounds are a good deterrent for slaters.

  25. So sorry to hear of the infestation destroying all the work as well as the crops you depend on to feed your family. Farming is always a mysteries even fighting unusual weather. I wish I had a solution you might have to go to powder/spray bug killers.

  26. We have cut worms. They destroy seedlings in a minute. (They are in the soil here too.) We put collars on our seedlings – toilet paper tube, duct tape turned inside out (just have to remove as the plants get bigger), cans (coffee cans etc) as we transplant them into the ground and it works. We also direct seed the cucs and zucchinis and always overplant. I'm not sure if these Canadian prairie tips would help with the slater pressure especially on your cucs, zucchinis and tomatoes? I also was overrun with slugs and diamoteous eart and slug traps worked like a hot damn. It's so frustrating dealing with pests in a non-chemical way. Thanks for the video Nyssa.

  27. Sorry about all the issues. I feel your pain about the losses. We have much the same issues here in Florida, either too hot, too cold, too much rain, too buggy. It's a battle, but one I endure every season, hoping for the best! ❤ Have faith! ♥♥

  28. A friend of mine uses Irish Spring soap. Slices it and then it deters things from eating them. Also, when it rains, it rains into the soil. Not sure if that is okay for the soil?

    Question…How do you contend with mosquitoes?

  29. Since I watched this early this a.m. I wanted to make a suggestion which I am probably off base but your starter plants even in the trays have very yellow leaves (your potatoes are dark green as they should be). Our hardware stores sell soil testing kits. I feel there is something lacking in your soil may be the problem. Now the bugs are different here so no advise there.

  30. ABC gardening, slater control. You have probably already read it, but very informative, so might be something to think about. However, with your dogs you do have to be careful.

  31. I've got the same problem with slaters and earwigs eating my newly planted seedlings, I tried youtubing a solution they said to sit out tins of cooking oil which I did, I saved up tuna tins and filled them with oil and the darn crows took every one away, so I tried again this time pegging them down with tent pegs, some how the crows took those too, grrrrrr, I had an incinerator near the apple tree which I had moved and it was full of thousands of earwigs which made holes in all my apples, OK so I shifted all that, I read where if you spread vasoline over gladwrap that you wrap around the tree trunks they get stuck in it and die, hmmm I keep forgetting to buy some. I just was given a homemade green house and was thrilled, so I started all my seedlings (as I live up near the snow in NE Vic) and all but my beetroot have been desimated and eaten. far out, don't worry if you have a crap day, we love watching you and it helps when we also have a lot of things going wrong. I notice at my place earwigs hide under cardboard, wood or any other things near my garden. I notice you have stuff on the ground and some long grass near your garden surrounds, keep trying I love your videos, oh when I remember to buy some vasoline I'm going to spread it in the base of my green house, if it works I'll let you know, keep smiling you're doing a great job xo

  32. Use Diatomaceous Earth sprinkle on the plants and the ground around the plant. It's a natural pest control. Works for me.

  33. Oh I’m so sorry….you are certainly not alone…. We live in a more rural area of our state…I tried for years to grow things….first in the ground…then in cover raised beds…then in containers…I just finally gave up…. It got to be more expensive trying to save them all than anything else…. If it wasn’t the bugs and insects destroying them… it was the squirrels, deer, bear and whatnot eating them. Now I pretty much only grow some herbs in containers just out my back door on my deck and some weed like plants like dandelion, self heal…mint etc..in the ground but that’s about it anymore. I surrendered! 😔Wishing you much luck going forward.

  34. Have you tried wrapping the bottom stalk part with newspaper? I’ve seen other gardeners that do it and it keeps thing from eating so bad.

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