#latebloomer ~ #Vineyard | June Garden Update Part 4 – What’s eating my GRAPES?! City girl sharing life on my Tennessee homestead! Subscribe so you won’t miss out! Music by Megan Wofford, Epidemic Sound Library.
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Dobra ultra. Ka gi la? (Good morning. How are you?) Thinking of our Russian & Ukrainian families in an unnecessary war because one man has a vision of returning his country to it's previous land mass. MRGA. He's losing.
Stuffed grape leaves, (dolmathess in Greek). As the grapes begin to grow, trim off the largest green leaves. Wash, pat dry, put them in a zip seal plastic bag & freeze them. The grapes are looking good but clear the ground to dirt. No hay, weeds, or flowers at the base. Before winter trim vines back to the trunk except the arms. Leave 6 to 10 inches long. Stay cool m'homestead honey. See you at my next visit.
Good Morning Kaye – thanks so much for the update on your grapes and hope the added pest deterrents start working. Those beetles have been attacking my raspberry bushes so will try the Jack's bug brew to keep them at bay. Don't know how you keep up with everything you have going on and you just do the best you can. If you get something to eat at the end of the day, I call that a success. Wishing you a blessed week and take care in the heat…
We call them June Bugs,as kids we tied strings to their legs and they would fly around.
I am so happy your garden is doing well,I live in Ky and am having a hard time this year.I’m wondering if my soil I bought for my raised beds is contaminated,it is very heart breaking!
Awesome video. You're doing great! Keep working and you will have grapes.
I live in the AZ desert and am always out in the garden before daybreak.
It's always a battle for our food! We discovered leaf spot on kidney beans and starting on cucumbers and zucchini in our high tunnel. So spent morning removing all the bad leaves and spraying all the plants. Praying you can get the problem with your grapes under control. The fruit is beautiful. Bugs be gone!!
Hello fellow Tennessean 👋
Those Japanese beetles are a destructive bunch. This year I’ve been introduced to “milky spores” by Doug and Stacy offgrid. It’s a two year process that’s supposed to combat them. Good luck and blessings.
Girlfriend! Try not to stress, and be sensible about getting everything done. I completely understand, because I do 99% of the work around my homestead, including the yard work. My son unloads trucks for a living, so about the only thing I can get him to help with is trimming the hedges. He will do whatever I ask him to do, but I only ask him when I really need help. Soooo….Right now, I'm pretty busy, to say the least. We've now gotten a few days of no rain, however, our temps are in the mid-90's to high 90's right now. My garden is about done – July is the death nell here for the garden. I may get some sweet corn. I may not. Depends on if all that rain kept it from pollenating. If I don't get much of a harvest, I might plant for a Fall crop. Regardless, I'm not going to stress over it. I'm canning tomatoes as they ripen. I've pretty much picked all that's worth picking, and the weeds are getting deeper. It's just gonna have to be that way! My time is prioritized to my chickens – It takes time to socialize pullets and hens, and the little girls are only 10 weeks old. They don't realize they are just about the same size as my smallest hen, and these new chickens have such really mild temperaments. Even the boys won't stand up to my two hens, so I'm out there in the morning and evening playing referee, and of course, out several times a day to put frozen bottles of water in their waterers. Late June through mid-September here is brutal. So what I'm saying is, do the best you can, but be mindful that you don't hurt yourself. A perfect garden and orchard are not worth hurting yourself for. Concentrate on the produce you want to preserve, and do that. If you hurt your back, you won't be canning, now, will you! I concentrated on putting up green beans, squash and cabbage, and now, I'm working on tomatoes and peppers. The peppers will keep making until the first frost here in November, so I just need to keep them happy. Set your priorities, and aim for those. As Mary Kay Ash used to say, "If you shoot for the moon, you're still gonna land among the stars!" ❤
June beetles are eating min and my okra too. I usually put ut traps that do pretty good, but our Lowes was sold out of them. I need to spray mine too. I have some Captain jacks.
To kill the weeds, instead of mulch, straw, try tarp.
Keep your chin up, dear Kaye! Thank you for being so real! Gardening is always a risk. So is farming, on a bigger scale. My daddy had Concord grapes that he labored over extensively, on top of raising cattle, and keeping a HUGE garden. 16:47
Kaye, Have you tried a drop of dish soap and vegetable oil and water in your sprayer? BT is very very bad for the pollinating bee's. I used an organic product with BT in it and then I had a problem with my tomatoes not being pollinated. I have a different problem…..my grapes get eaten when they are smaller than BB size. Probably my fault because I haven't sprayed anything on them. For your grapes being only two or 3 years they look fantastic!!!!!
Very informative. Thank you!
I love how your cats are always with you where ever you are in your garden or porch sitting. 😀 Good morning!
Hi Kaye ! I remember a friend that has grape vineyard I think in west Texas; didn’t she bring you a few of her grape vine cuttings? Are those part of your current lovely vineyard?
Still lovin your videos
Kathryn in Spring, Tx
Sorry about your grapes. Bugs and bugs.
From the middle of June until the end of August my Raspberries and roses are hit by the Japanese beetles. I fight them every year. Five years ago I did the milky spore (EXPENSIVE) thing. I did milky spore two years in a row ($$$$) and only found it mildly effective. It's really not worth the cost and I don't know how in the world one with so much ground to cover could afford to treat it all. Milky spore is suppose to become more and more effective each year and to be reapplied within 5 years but frankly, I never did see any difference after all my efforts. AND, you have to time it just right and apply in May. So, it's row covers on my raspberries, and I prune my roses way down once the beetles arrive. By the time their life cycle concludes, my roses are growing back nicely. I've been known to work from dusk to way after dark in the summertime. Having the patio lights across my garden and around the two sheds makes gardening in the dark almost fun. When gardening in Florida, I worked in the heat of the day. I just jumped in the pool between jobs, or stepped under the hose. Those days are long gone! LOL
The spots on the grapes are a fungus called anthracnose (common name birds eye spot). It will appear on leaves and stems as well, and is common in hot humid weather. They will need an anti-fungal spray to control it.
Your leaves look like mine. Grape Leaf Skeletonizing Caterpillars which are (mine are so young they are tiny) yellow black and white horizontally striped caterpillars are the culprits here (Mine were much younger but same as you showed Kaye). I sprayed B.T. on the vines and leaves 6 days ago and will dose again tomorrow. Also saw 1 adult grasshopper on a grape leaf (grapes on the dirt alley bordering chain link fence which were planted there by a former owner) so it may have come from weeds in the dirt alley. The vine looks to be 20+ years old and is huge and it is loaded with fruit. I hope you have good success. I have seen dead Japanese Beetles here last year but never saw more than one live one. Maybe I have that on the grapes too? I'll look. Thanks.
Thats sunscald after a bite into the grape by the bugs Kaye, I get the same here!
hello Kaye nice to see your homestead
your hard work has don you proud,,,,
i often wonder what is going eat my hard work before i get to
but im thankful i can grow and at lest get some reward,,,,,
i like your videos from way back when you had a postage stamp size garden and produced soooooo much ,magical
hands in the dirt
head in the sun
heart in the garden
hugs ,,, Ed