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  1. Thanks Kraftsman. the goosefoot or Lamb's quarters is my favorite, it really is quite good compared to garden veggies. It seems to be good from head to toe, even when a bit older.

  2. The garden is looking very well Roosevelt. It is nice to see it coming along so well. You have put a lot of work into it and it is showing.

  3. Did you mean garden rows perhaps? I have 8 or 9 rows of vegetables, I have a hard time remembering how many. 🙂

    As far as the ambrosia, I don't know if it is beneficial to the garden or not. I noticed the vegetables that have Goosefoot growing around them seem to not get eaten as bad by animals and bugs, I'm not sure if the Ambrosia would have the same or similar effect. Also, some wild plants offer habitat for beneficial insects as well. It's a deep subject and I'm just now learning it. 🙂

  4. That sounds awesome, to be able to provide that much food right from your own little part of the world. thanks!

  5. The purslane is getting out of control here, I had to thin it out as it was overtaking my beans and lettuce. It is supposed to be great for the garden though according to companion planting experts.

    I'm alomost certain the moonflower is actually a husk tomato or tomatillo, I may have two varieties, one wild and one cultivated, the flowers look like Physalis spp.

    A week makes a huge difference, especially with warmth and rain which we now have plenty of both.

  6. i'm surprised they spray the Lamb's quarters as it's supposed to be very good for the garden, especially good for corn, and in my recent experience real good for bush beans as well. The ants eat the Lamb's quarters and leave my beans alone…for now. LOL!

    Pigweed / Amaranth can take away from veggies as it can get pretty big, but the lamb's quarters here seems to not take much away from the garden.

    the lady next to me let the weeds grow and doesn't have the squash bug issue.

  7. 🙂 Sunflowers are weeds. They volunteer in this garden everywhere. I didn't have any, but the guy up front can't keep them out of his garden. LOL! MAny here dislkie the one lady because she grows lots of sunflowers and they know they'll get volunteers. tHe mayor is using one to stake his tomato plant.

  8. that plant sounds familiar, maybe what I thought was wild cucumber. some plants can get out of control.

  9. Thanks!

    Now that you had to ask I'm sure I will have voles, 🙂 I have everything else pest wise. LOL! I haven't seen any voles, wouldn't know exactly what to look for, but the moles are still running rampant in my garden. Every time I plant or work a row the moles go through it. It's like they are drawn to newly worked earth. I have not been successful controlling the moles. 🙁 As a matter of fact, I had a nightmare about them.

  10. those are marigolds and they repel bugs, nematodes, and a few other things if I recall correctly. I've since collected the seed heads, dried them and planted them around the entire perimeter of the garden. Plus, I've had a few self sowers as well. there a great plant for the garden, not sure if they attract bees, I would assume so, but the smell of marigolds is supposed to repel pests, plus they exude something from their roots that stays in the soil for years and repels nematodes.

  11. French marigold flowers are edible, but I have not tried them myself. I like the look and smell and that's about it. thanks!

  12. Thanks,

    If I can keep the critters out and neighboring gardener (s) from sabotaging my work all should go well.

    There is jealousy in the garden neighborhood., it seems that some are green with envy, but not in the thumb. LOL! The competitive nature of people, man AND woman, extends right into the community garden here in southern Michigan.

    I harvested over 20 pounds of summer squash and pickling cucumbers today along with a small grocery bag of sugar snap peas. But, the deer are eating them.

  13. I have those 5 foot tall tomato cages running in the middle of my patch. the birds sit on those and eat bugs all day long. they also poop on my tomato plants that I wash off when I water. nitrogen foliar feeding is how I justify it to myself. yeah mature buffalo bur is all fangs and claws on a half ton bulldozer nasty kinda weed indeed

  14. It just may be that if they spent a little more time IN the garden they wouldn't need to be jealous. LOL

  15. I don't see many birds near my tomatoes, wish they would, and wish they would eat the tomato horn worms, I just found two more tonight, ate big holes in two tomatoes and nearly stripped a plant of leaves since this morning. I spotted them by looking at the black plastic weed barrier, there was green poo all over under the plant. As big as those horn worms are, they sure blend in well, near perfect camouflage.

  16. nice look around Roosevelt and some nice wilds foods there plus other not so nice. how are you coping with the heat wave i hear you have over there , while we seem to be having your rain

  17. Thanks! Our heat wave ended yesterday, but the temps are back on the rise. It's unusual to have temps remain over 100 F for an extended period here in Michigan, but you do the best you can with it.

    When I'm working outside I don't notice the heat and humidity as much, but inside it's quite noticeable.

    We have no air conditioning, so it's a matter of running fans, keeping curtains drawn shut to prevent the light and some heat from entering. Open the windows at night, close them in the day.

  18. Ragweed..is it the same as our ragwort..the leaves looked similar but ragwort is usually about two feet tall with yellow flowers and is really toxic to horses?
    Btw Nettles are really good and basically the same as spinach (loads of iron) and you get them everywhere!

  19. Sorry your channel is kinda bringing back heaps of stuff to.me like Nasturtiums (Tom.Thumbs) are totally edible…leaves flowers and seeds having a nice peppery taste..Marigolds are edible and like nasturtiums make for colourful salads and borage is a good substitute for cucumber and the flowers are also edible.

  20. Voles are aggresive little buggers..I.used to live in a cottage in the middle of nowhere and these voles had discovered a hole in the wall at either side of the cottage (we never found where). Anyhoo the voles used it as a safe track from the front garden to the little field out back. Thing was, if a vole going one way met a vole going the other way they would have a huge.fight..and even our cat didn't deter them..its as if voles have tunnel vision..if a vole meets another vole they will fight and dont care who or what is around them…the cat used to sit watching in amazement! Lol!

  21. Hi. What a pleasant visit to your garden. I am very interested in wild plants this year. I have kept a lot in my garden, partly because they are edible, and I want to test them out, and partly to give to my goats! I was excited about the plant at 1:43 minutes that you were wondering about. I have many of them and I sense they are bad. My goats never eat them. They grow dark purple berries which birds do not eat. I pull them out, but I am interested to know what they are. I do know they are not jimson weeds. I actually have some jimson weeds growing at my front door every year. They are a slender pale green vine that creeps up other plants or a trellace, and they can get long, with big light green leaves. I forget the flower. They have a pod with spines (not sharp) sticking out all over, and have the famous dark seeds inside. It is so amazing to learn what plants are growing around us. It makes the outdoors even more interesting. By the way, I identified a water hemlock plant in my field, at the edge of the woods. I was glad to know what it is! Thank you for showing plants and naming them. It helps me.

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