GIANT WORMS ARE INVADING THE FARM!! HELP ME..WHAT TO DO FOR SQUASH BUGS..GARDENING TIPS

hey guys this Josh sty Ridge farmer we want to take you through the garden a little bit today we've got a string up our Tomatoes our Gardens right over here want to also talk to you about a few problems we're having with the garden I'll show you how we string up our Tomatoes I'm going to ask you for some solutions I've got squash beetles and squash beetles are squashing my squash plants it's not cool I'll show you what's going on with them it's been really windy really rainy and some of my squash plants actually blew off the ground and separated from their root due to the squash beetle larvae eating at the bottom like at the bottom of my squash plants so let's take you through the garden we'll show you how we're stringing up our Tomatoes this year I'm a little bit behind I'm getting these strung up but I've got a lot of stuff going on and haven't had time it's a shame to let these tomatoes grow across the ground so we got to get to work I'll show you what we do and we'll show you these squash plants and show you the Harvest that we're getting right now and if any of you guys know what I can do about squash beetles let me know I I want an organic solution to this uh I've heard soapy water I've heard other things what have you done to keep the squash beetles off of your squash plants let me know so let's go in the garden we'll show you what we're Bridge St woo so guys here's my squash plant it blew off of its little Roots uh I've still got squash on this plant it's I just don't get it I don't understand but the squash Beetle eats right here and just just destroys the uh root right here we'll throw this in the chicken coop let the chickens eat it but man disappointing very disappointing but at least we got one good squash out of the deal can you hear my [Music] rooster he just won't shut up still got a crowing rooster that just won't shut up down here at the chicken coop whatever we're going to give him some squash plant give him some greenage make them eggs taste yummy here you go guys eat that squash get you some squash birdies you want some don't you this is my rooster right here and he has an attitude problem just so you know you're not the boss here buddy he's giving me the dirty stair guys got Japanese beetle problems too look at this tree it's just destroyed decimated by these Japanese beetles crazy let's shake the tree and see what happens so here's the tomatoes we already staked up I'll take you and show you what we did uh basically we're just using bailing twine and there's a prior video I'll post it somewhere at the end here you can dig back through but there's a prior video that shows you how we did this um basically how we made the yarn balls that we're going to use to uh stake up our tomatoes and this row has been staked or excuse me this row has been strung and this row hasn't and this row has most of our Roma tomatoes and this one has most of our like eating tomatoes like big boys better boys and stuff like that so let me uh Cruise the camera by and you can see what's going on so it's not really supporting too well right now uh right here is how we did it we basically just made three rungs and ran all the way down the row of tomatoes just like this um but we're not getting a lot of support like I'd like I think we're going to have to rethink this do some tomato cages or something like that down here it seems to be doing very well but where the tomato plants aren't doing so well uh we don't have a whole lot of support so really you should walk your garden every day and try to support your tomato plants something that we haven't been able to do because of work obligations and a lot of rain so guys first thing we're going to do we're going to go down about five inches off the ground we're going to tie our first string on you don't have to use a fancy knot I just use a couple grany knots to get her tight then as we go we'll walk all the way down the end of the row and we'll wrap around each post and we'll go to the next post over okay so you've got support in the middle and support all the way down the side so we're going to get busy and get that done also you might see back here behind me we've got uh tape caution tape ran All Over the Garden we had a deer problem and until I can get an electric fence up we're going to use this caution tape to deter the deer that and the dog and I put some uh spotlights some solar spotlights over here so should be pretty cool it's keeping the deer out so far our cantaloupes are doing well our watermelons are doing well and I think we might plant a little bit of corn today too we'll see but today's all about supporting our tomatoes so I've got Mrs Stony Ridge and she's going to go ahead of me and hold the tomatoes up while we string them [Music] up all right so the question goes what do we do when we get to the end right here and basically what we do when we get to the end right here is we wrap it up we go up one more rung to support and then we head back down the next row boom we just keep doing this and wrapping them up raising the tomatoes up on these uh uh pieces of twine until we get our Tomatoes all wrapped up and staked up so it helps to have a good partner to help you hand off the string when you're going through here if I had to do this over again I would have these spaced a lot closer together I'd probably have them at about 16 in I think they're at about 22 24 in right now it's just too far to support these tomatoes and I actually probably could just run one uh row of steaks and support them with one string each and maybe next year I'll do one row like that and one row like this and see how they do exciting doing this I'm looking forward to getting myself some delicious tomato sauce some good spaghetti sauce good homemade spaghetti sauce basically at this point we've got everything all wrapped up um we've got our twine wrapped around our post and we're going to go around and we're going to support our tomato Vines up on the twine and make sure they stay in place if we have to tie one on we'll tie one on and that's basically it but I do have one final thing I want to show you real quick so in the South we've got a specific kind of worm that you don't really see very much anywhere else I think it's called a tobacco worm check this thing out it's a monster so here's the worm I think you called it a tobacco worm and I don't know for sure that they don't see let's break this sucker off and what kind of worm is it oh gross we're going to see what the chickens do with it so the good thing about having your chicken coop near the garden is you can put all kinds of delicious goodies in for the chickens and we'll put in there for him so guys that's kind of it for the farm Vlog today I wanted to show you what we're doing in the garden basically we're just weeding out the garden a little bit uh stringing up our Tomatoes going to have to figure out a better way to support these guys I think I'm going to get some little zip ties and tie the tomato plants on because it's just not holding them up like I'd like it to next year when we do this we're going to do it totally different so stay tuned for next year's Vlog about how to support the tomatoes I I did this before when I lived in a had an urban farm in the city of Greensboro North Carolina and I'm going to do it again here basically you run one uh string across the top and drop strings from it and you let your tomato Vine climb really really awesome maybe we'll do that later on in the year with some late tomatoes so we'll see so guys thanks a lot for coming watching the video today I just want to come and take you through the garden show you a little bit show you how we're supporting our Tomatoes we waited a little bit too late to support them and some of the vines had grown into the ground so kind of a bummer but we'll have plenty of tomatoes I think we have about 140 something tomato plants something in that range I haven't counted them in a while my rooster still won't shut up whatever thanks for watching come back and see me don't forget to click that like button subscribe to the channel down here or down there or wherever the heck the video is and love my rooster got to name that rooster he won't shut up give me a name for him thanks a lot guys wo we come on down to the Stony Ridge bring your wife bring your kids we living life pure and sweet that's the way it's supposed to be Stony red