A look at a number of different things that I’m growing in my backyard. Grape vines, kiwi vines, horseradish, mint, meyer lemons, tomatoes, shallots, asparagus, and plums
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I think your beetle might fall into the family of Chrysomelidae which are commonly known as leaf beetles. They are probably the most common type of beetle. I wouldnt worry too much about getting on or two, a bird will come along and eat them after a while.
Your Kiwi might have a water problem but it is hard to know if it is too much or little. If it is not too wet now maybe give it a watering of seaweed extract. This is good for all your plants once a fortnight
Thanks for your comments. Yeah I think you're exactly right about the beetle after doing abit of research. I'm going to try adding some nutrient to the kiwi along with steady watering to see if that can salvage it.
just checked all your videos you have some nice plants, I wish I new you could grow kiwi years ago as i lived in the area many call cabbage town, I just had me some kiwi's and saved the seeds wish me luck 🙂 Thank you for sharing I look forward to more updates and i hope success stories 🙂
Those are commonly called Japanese beetles on you grapevine. They leave nothing but the leaf skeleton if you don't get rid of them. Not sure what got at your lemon tree. Either a large locust of animal. Nothing seems to touch my citrus tree leaves. I'd get some bird netting over the plum trees. Prune them to a manageable height and you can use a pole to drap the netting over it. I did that real quick with my peach tree instead of the cage this year.
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Thanks for showing us your garden.
I think your beetle might fall into the family of Chrysomelidae which are commonly known as leaf beetles. They are probably the most common type of beetle. I wouldnt worry too much about getting on or two, a bird will come along and eat them after a while.
Your Kiwi might have a water problem but it is hard to know if it is too much or little. If it is not too wet now maybe give it a watering of seaweed extract. This is good for all your plants once a fortnight
Thanks for your comments. Yeah I think you're exactly right about the beetle after doing abit of research. I'm going to try adding some nutrient to the kiwi along with steady watering to see if that can salvage it.
just checked all your videos you have some nice plants, I wish I new you could grow kiwi years ago as i lived in the area many call cabbage town, I just had me some kiwi's and saved the seeds wish me luck 🙂 Thank you for sharing I look forward to more updates and i hope success stories 🙂
Those are commonly called Japanese beetles on you grapevine. They leave nothing but the leaf skeleton if you don't get rid of them. Not sure what got at your lemon tree. Either a large locust of animal. Nothing seems to touch my citrus tree leaves. I'd get some bird netting over the plum trees. Prune them to a manageable height and you can use a pole to drap the netting over it. I did that real quick with my peach tree instead of the cage this year.
Yeah I think I'll look into some bird netting for next year. It was a real shame to see about 200 fruit disappear from one of the trees.