End of May, so Pat is bizzy catching fireflies
hey guys it’s B again at the Reed Homestead 8:30 and young man is on the Firefly hunt he’s already gotten a couple yeah so the Nets over the fruit trees are because of the Japanese beetles made their appearance yesterday started eating there’s a new container garden so we’ll do a little update about that but Pat’s on the hunt for some fireflies see any oh he’s got one he’s got [Music] one all right you’re not going to catch him that way be patient there’s more out there [Music] so the blue pool out there that’s where [Music] the that’s where the greenhouse is going to go so I’ve got some soil in there and whatnot just trying to kill the grass underneath there so we caught one so yeah anyhow he just caught another one here we are let’s see what she got in the Mason jar there’s a couple two three one at the bottom two up top oh yeah Petty make sure that Lids on all right so that’s a cherry tree right there and the Japanese beetles were already on it this a granny smith they started chewing the top of it knocked one of the apples off there’s only three or four of them first year so there’s two or three left anyhow behind it a red delicious then there’s a peach tree over here in the corner there’s a I mean a pear tree right there and then to the left of that is a peach and a cherry that’s the new containment Garden you can’t really see it from here but it’s got deer netting I put some tarp down let’s go check it out so I just repotted bought some horseradish in February and I had them in one of these there’s probably eight or so but I had them all jammed in here just to keep them alive from February until today and I separated them all out so here’s three so there’s three of them and one one of those rectangular containers and then I’ve got this huge this what one of the fruit trees came in this pot so I’ve got three or four in there nice recharged soil some compost there’s two in that one giant garlic from the winter still alive green onions here and here Ginger ghost pepper ghost pepper one you got another one yeah nice I think this is orange pratali that’s a another ghost and I think that’s a chocolate pratali and I got some corn over here for now I’ve got all my tomatoes planted up there which eventually is going to become an herbal garden it’s way too hot up there in the summer so really it’s probably probably going to be an herbal g Garden Winter Garden’s going to go here the greenhouse and then the summer Garden’s going to be down there so new additions are Granny Smith red delicious um and we also got some blueberry bushes here so these things are banging you know not just limited to the north I could tell you that so the had these for four years or so so here they are find another one not other did it get away no how many do you have so far I think I I think I have like four four isn’t too bad so here’s a Myer lemon Bush right here and you can see things banging one two I mean it’s got a lot of lemons on there they’re they’re green right now see they’re hard to tell especially in the uh the dark but you can see right here Insurance here 1 2 3 4 five I mean they’re fuing all over the place so and then uh little Strawberry Patch compost area is over here we’re going to go through some tips for beginners one of the first things you want to do is uh start compost pile because you don’t want to spend several hundred dollar on soil bought from a store compost is much better so we have a whiffle ball field in the yard that’s home plate you don’t see anymore well let’s see if we’ll look around and see if we can’t find some more huh do you see any fireflies I’m sure they’re out you’ve already got four let’s take a look so there we are let me let me see how many you got how many did you find let me see let me count one show everyone one two uh let me see count one two three so one on the bottom or maybe on the other side of the lid all right okay well it’s only it’s not even June yet keep the lid on you want to let him go no I think you can let him go shaky shaky shaky shaky shaky shaky turn it upside down and Shake I’m going to catch them again there there they go okay all right all right buddy you want to say good night to everyone good night say good night everyone good night everyone all right that’s Pat in his Firefly catch still keeping too end of May June’s coming up there’ll be a lot more don’t don’t worry about it all right everyone until the next time God bless have a good night