Perfectly Planting Cucumbers, Squash & Zucchini: Making the Planting Hole & 2 Top Mistakes to Avoid
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2019
- I show you how to make the perfect planting hole for your cucumbers, squash and Zucchini plants. I show you examples of healthy and unhealthy transplants and discuss 2 basic mistakes people make. This is how you want to plant and start your cukes, zukes and squash.
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Hi Gary, love your videos so much. Thank you.
2 part Question: What happens if you started to early from seed the root system is very good but they just started to flower as you planted them? They are growing good, but would developing flowers, and female cucumbers stunt their growth of the vine as newly established plants if any should pollinate?
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Uncooked grits works wonders even for huge ant mounds. Apply it when the ground is dry for the swelling of the grits in the ants stomach is what kills it. It is the easiest most successful treatment I have ever tried!!!!
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Thanks for the tip, do you have any for tiny black spiders in the garden?
It really works. I’ve used it for years.
I am so trying that! They're all over my strawberries farming aphids.
Honey mixed with yeast also works well, does the same.👍
For ants, surround plants with borax or diatomaceous earth. When raining, it might be a problem, because you must keep your powder dry. If you can find nests, circle entire nest with the above. If you set traps, make it so the ants have to crawl through the borax first. For sugar ants, put a big pile of sugar surrounded by borax. Also, surround their nest holes.
Any insect that crawl through borax, boric acid, diatomaceous earth will die.
Gary, i just love your videos! This is my 2nd year gardening. Last year I started from seed and nothing germinated. I’m not exaggerating. Maybe 3 sprouted then soon died. I was given one tiny cherry tomato plant and it thrived! And one tiny bell pepper plant and it only produced one pepper. And that was it for my first year. Lots of tears and frustrations.
I spent the winter watching your videos and learning as much as I can about gardening.
This year I started everything from seed and everything germinated! I currently have 3 cherry tomato plants, 4 bell pepper, 2 banana pepper, cucumbers, cantaloupe, bush beans, carrots are almost ready to harvest, strawberries, and watermelon growing. Everything is in large containers in a 100% patio garden. And I also had a “winter/early spring garden” with lettuce, spinach, onions, kale, chard. And planted tons of flowers this year and was blessed by many blooms so far.
I am in tears! So thrilled to have the experience to grow my own food.
Gardening is my favorite part of my day now.
Congrats on 2 years. So glad they germinated. And I am glad you stuck with it. Good luck this year. Cheers
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Its hard but pick your peppers asap. The plant will think it got eaten and produce twice the amount. If your season is long enough you will get a 3rd pepper session. The plants whole goal is not producing peppers, but producing seed to further its offspring for next generation. So if it thinks an animal keeps eating them it will keep producing as long as the weather holds out.
@@nshue23Good advice!!!!!🥰
As a bee keeper, I mix one tablespoon of borax with a cup of sugar water and place in an used margarine tub with holes big enough for the ants but not the bees to access. In three years, i haven't had any ants near my hives.
THIS!
Thank you Gary! I’m starting my first garden this year and your videos have been soooo sooo helpful! I’m going to be buying plants from the store, rather than starting my own seeds, so it’s great that you tell us what to look for.
Ants.... throw a handful of wood ashes right in the middle of their nest. They will move! Do it every time again until they leave your property. Worked for my garden 👍🏻😃
Thanks :)
Gonna give that a try
Yes, this does work most of the time .
Kitty Gooris fresh warm/hot wood ashes or just cooled/cold wood ashes that you can store from one burning for many uses over time?
Very quickly, take a shelvel full of ants and their dirt , from one mound to another mound. The ants will kill each other. A war between colonies. Be very carefully and quick. This was done in the South for years before poison was used.
I love your style. It's not some overcomplicated lecture on preparation and soil mixture. Thank you!!
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wow... watching you this season is so different than in the past... as you dig a hole for planting it isn't as perfect as your old garden was, but knowing that it will in a few short years is what makes the journey fun
Thanks for watching. Getting it all up to speed slowly. Digging specific holes save money and time. Eventually it will all get mixed with some home grown compost!
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Exactly right, squash and pumpkins do not do well if they have become root bound. They need to send their roots out, and they do it quickly.
My seeds I bought from your store are really taking off !
*Yeppers..... Great results with seeds. 🌱🍅🥒😁* Sharon in SC
I have found it extremely important to do some homework behind plants and be able to plant them in their prime.
Wonderful looking garden Gary - thanks for sharing .... I like to dampen my peat moss before mixing so as to avoid the dust.
We used to have ant nests. I sprinkled good amount of cornmeal right on top and around their nests. No more ants in sight after a few days. You may try sprinkling cornmeal around the plants and all over the planter box. It's all natural and won't change PH of soil or may even add nutritions to the soil. Let me know if it helps! :)
First time gardeners and we learn so much from you....planted lots indoor since February in Ontario Canada. I like how you get to the point and show how is right and wrong to grow or even shop for plants. Peppermint oil mixed with water great for ants and rodents. Keep the great videos coming, thank you.😊
Glad to share. Thats so much for the comment. Good luck this year
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Those are some great tips. Most people will go to the nursery and look for the biggest plants and flowering. Diatomaceous earth works great for the ants. You can sprinkle it around your garden or anywhere. Won’t hurt any of your plants or animals. I use it a lot around here. Thanks as always for all the great tips..!! Have a great morning..!!
Great info. According to your video, I bought my cucumbers too old. I had eight, but only three survived. The wind snapped all the big ones. Now I know. Thanks
Good luck this year
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@Gary I sprinkle regular corn meal around my plants for ants, and even in my kitchen if I ever see one, I’ll put out a bit in a milk lid, and they’re gone within a week. I’ve never not had this work, so I hope you find it helpful as well.:)
Buy some ant bait pellets designed for use in a spreader. The stuff is cheap a around $5-6 a bag. Spread it all over your lawn. They take it back to the nest and kill the queen. No more queens, no more ants. I have really bad fire ant issues here in my sandy NC soil.
Your videos are amazing! So much fun to watch and learn. I’ve been a flower gardener all my life so veggies are new to me - growing them at least. I just had a raised garden bed (4x8) built with trellis down the center. How many cucumber plants can I put in? Distance between them? Thanks for sharing all your expertise with us. Luv the info your subs share too👍👍 Thanks so much! Happy gardening!🥒🥒
I’ve started using the 7’ x 42” rebar sheet mesh panels from Home Depot or Lowes for my cucumbers and beans. The mesh is about 4 in x 4 in. They are inexpensive and pretty solid and you can easily cut them to whatever width you want. The panels are already rusted, so they are messy to work with but they look great in the garden. I cut mine into 3-mesh wide panels (I can get 3 panels per sheet) and will tether two 3-mesh panels together by zip ties and stake them in a V-configuration for my cucumbers, which I plant two per hole. So, each cucumber has a panel to attach to and grow. Just another way to achieve the same results.
Thanks. I saw that yesterday. Thanks
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Yes, I’ve been using the same mesh for over 20 years, works great for me. I tie tomato plants to it too.
I am crossing my fingers..the squash, melons, and cucumbers have 1 leaf, or are at the cotyledon stage. It’s going to freeze tomorrow night, and I have surgery on the other ankle tomorrow morning. I will find out who is in or out of the will depending on who brings them inside at night and outside during the day-and keeps them watered until they are ready for planting! It is really nice watching your garden grow from the ground up!
try putting a simple plastic bucket over your plants if it's going to freeze.
CMAenergy i had someone do that for me. I had buckets, pots, plastic juice bottles with the bottom cut out. I just have so many seedlingsthat haven’t been planted yet that it’s easier to bring flats inside. Tuesday should be the last day below 40 degrees. So different from previous years! The lows should be in the 50’s by now!
Lol
I feel the same way about the plants I started from seeds this year, they are my babies.
Thank you so much for this video. It came very handy, I'm just about to plant a whole bunch of plants.
Glad to help
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So glad I watched this video because I would have planted mine a few weeks too early. Thanks for the tips 👍
Had a pretty nasty fire ant problem awhile back, boric acid works quickly but not suitable around pets. Ended up using diatomaceous earth instead, it took quite awhile but was pretty effective. Love your channel!
Big fan of diatomaceous earth but it kills everything including beneficial insects, so have to weigh the benefits versus drawacks.
Boric acid is not toxic to pets , FYI
Gary, I like how you always encourage people that they don't have to use the exact soils, fertilizers and do things exactly the way you do it.
*I Agree he's very helpful. 🌱🍅🥒😁* Sharon in SC
I really like that he is not one of them type people that thinks one way or one thing is the best and only way of doing things. I like watching different people from different places to get ideas and then make my own out of them.
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Your video is very informative and will help lot. Thank you and mabuhay
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Thanks for the video for the ant issue mix boric acid and powdered sugar mix together and put down where the ants are. Works wonders !
Fully enjoy learning from your videos. And thank you for having the camera on your work and not on your “selfie”!
I had heard about putting a water bottle solution of borax sugar and it honey mixed with a little water placed throughout the garden area to help kill off ants. I haven’t tried yet but I need to get going on this. Just cap the bottle and add a slice in the bottle for ants to get in.
Hope we figure this out!
I have had great success using this exact method for the last 2-3 years
Greg Wakefield that’s great to hear, going to get on it tonight!
So that's why I keep seeing milk cartons in people's gardens and pots. I was wonderin what new watering method that was.
Last year my tomato plants were near a big ant hill, and i was watering the tomatoes daily (they were in containers). The ants got tired of having a wet nest and left. ByeBye!
They look awesome!
Wow can’t imagine planting in boxes . I tile a huge garden and switch plots every three years after piling manure on the resting land from the cows. Dirt looks like black gold! Grow my own plants and live off my vegetables year round by canning freezing and storing them for a family of 7!
I’ve had an ant problem where I’m at since last year and it is improving. My most successful measures have been 1. Liberal amounts of cinnamon on top of and mixed into the garden soil 2. Creating borax baits. I chemically destroy ants in the lawn but cinnamon and garlic annoys them out of my vegetable garden with toxins. Cinnamon every day for about 4 days was extremely successful for me.
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Wish me luck on my cucumber plant! 😄
Good luck it's my 1st time so I'll need luck too😎
@@calcat7375 It was the best decision to grow. Super fruitful and yummy. 💕 Wish you fruitfulness.
@@SmoreHearts Thank you you are very kind. All I'll need is someone to cook it after all the garden work I'm spent lol
U could make pickles .🙏
Love the vinyl coated shelf trellis!! Thanks for the tip!!
Glad to share
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Thanks so much for all this information.
You could use Apple Cider Vinager with water around your plants, ants, squirrels, mice don’t like the smell and your plants like it.
How much the ratio please ? Does not effect the ph of soil ? 🙏🏻
@@moussajoubi2574 I use 1/4 cup to a 2 gallon pitcher or sprayer
Cinamon powder is perfect to avoid ants. Put a circle of cinnamon powder around the affected plants and the ants will be gone.
Martha Carrillo yes, any type of bugs I’ve found (especially gnats or whatever those little flying insects are). I buy cinnamon specifically for my plants and veggies.
Cinnamon ants hate it and it is also beneficial for the plants also keeps other pests away
We have ants bad. I never knew they were bad..
Cinnamon works so well. I tried it the other day.
Thank you for this tip.... It’s awesome too know 😊
Much Love 2 You+Yours +Thanx Lots.
I planted some cucumbers in the grown there are growing everywhere all outside of my garden makes me smile....😁😚☺️😊
They should do well too
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That is a great tip on how they should look when you buy them.
It really helps with getting them strong at the stores.
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My dad has a little garden leased from the city. We used DE food grade to fight the ants
nice of your city to lease you tax payers land that you already own.
DE= ?
@@212southsherman diatomaceous earth
Great tips, Gary...thanks again..
Thanks Gary for soil ideas!
Helllo beautiful..
Look up the Dirt Doctor UA-cam channel. I tried his fire ant recipe and it actually worked. Hope that helps.
Keep up the good work
God bless you
Well darn my cucumber starts are a month old. It just keeps raining and storming here!
Have you tried diatomaceous earth
Me too so do we just plant them anyway
Thanks for sharing. I learn so much from you.
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For any ants, mis Borax soap with sugar and feed and put it near where you see them. They always follow the same trail and this works for any type of ants. Good luck.
yeah soap... why not just incinerate your whole garden with them
RagbagMcShag Obviously you are new to gardening so here is some enlightenment for you. Actually, Borax is a natural mineral that has been used as a cleaning product for several decades. It has many uses: Not only does it help get rid of stains, mold, and mildew around the house. It can kill insects such as ants in the garden and it’s a great herbicide. This is how you garden naturally without chemicals.
My squash seedlings that I grew have the beginnings of flowers. I wish he'd explained WHY it's not OK so I knew if I should replant or if they're OK to put outside now.
Ugh mine, too ...
I heard it isn't a good thing aswell but last year most of my squash grew fine. I think it's not good that the plant is small and already starting to make flowers cause it probably doesn't put as much effort into making more leaves maybe. But yeah I would just try it out, I couldn't throw em away at that point
Mine too. They have flowered- couple flowers but no fruit. I am in Alabama...been getting fair amount of rain so couldn't get them out...but gonna get it done today, some are starting to yellow.
@@2MeNew2 like for any transplant , pinch out the flowers when planting them..that way the plant will bush out & make sure to some transplant fertilizer...
Martine Arnold I tried punching out the blooms before planting my cucumbers from starters that I bought from a local nursery and it didn’t help. Honestly it just tried to put out more flower buds. I fertilized it and fed it to get some new leaves but it was stunted and I only got 1 cucumber before I had to pull it out.
You are the best in explaining. I really was looking for good information. With one difference I want to grow them in pots. I don't have money to buy every thing you need and I can't really plant them on my dirt cause it's more like sand out here. I live in Splendora Texas.
Thanks for sharing. God Bless
Mint-peppermint oil for ants
I've had good luck with spreading a line of used coffee grounds around the perimeter of the garden. I've also tried it directly on the bed. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Don't know why.
Super helpful. Thanks brother.
I’m glad you are using bait in your garden for the ants... Other formulations of insecticides can indiscriminately kill some beneficial insects... The baits that you can buy at the local Home Depot or Lowe’s are usually a boric acid or abamectin based bait which is fine but it is difficult to eliminate a colony... I own a pest control business in Montgomery County. I don’t know how close you are to me , but I could always drop off some of my ant bait stations for you to try... I work in Montgomery, Howard, Carroll and Frederick counties... My name is Kim Taylor... Thanks for the great videos!
I’ve used instant potato flakes spread around the affected area to control ants. It’s worked so far and that was a year ago.
Gary, I purchased Marketmore 76 cucumber seeds from you about 2 years ago and was only able to plant them this year. I planted 2 plants in the same hole and am growing them up a trellis. They are doing great and are producing some nice fruit. Strangely, one of my vines is producing a lot of white cucumbers. They are normal in appearance and feel the same as green cucumbers. The flesh looks normal too. And they taste no different than the green cucumbers (delicious and juicy actually). Have you ever had a vine produce white cucumbers? I think they look cool, they taste great, and figure it must be a genetic anomaly.
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Great info. Thanks Gary!
Throwing some citrus peels down in the soil really seemed to help with my ants.
THanks. I ordered some orange oil.
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Do you know why radish (French Breakfast) never grow into a radish. I get nice greenery but the radish does not develop.
After much searching, I did find those closet racks for $10 at Lowe’s. I also use outdoor ant traps around my fig trees.
Or get the ones at the dollar tree that are not as tall and use sting or something to put them all together.
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If you have a Habit for Humanity Resale store in your area, you can really get some great prices for things to use for trellises, etc.
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What specifically would go wrong if you plant one of those older starts?
The plant's roots are compressed so they're stressed out and try to flower at such a tiny size. Basically the plant thinks it has so space, so it puts all it's energy into producing a tiny fruit to pass it's genes on, and ends up killing itself wasting all it's energy on a single fruit. You could save it, but it's not worth your money to have a plant you need to baby for 2 weeks before it's caught up to the other healthier transplants in the store.
Abhay Bhatt well said! This happened to my pickling cucumber plants. I bought it from a local nursery and it was way overgrown and I kept having to water it every day for a month until I fixed up my garden bed. By then it gave 1 cucumber and then put out like a million flowers bunched up together but would die off instead of setting fruit. It was stunted and I wasn’t able to save it after a month of trying to feed it. The only 2 remaining leaves on it got attacked by spider mites and I had to pull it out eventually. Lesson learned. I’m now growing cucumbers from seed in starter pots and direct sowed them into my garden bed. So far it’s looking good.
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Cant you pinch off the flowers? Will they still grow? I hope so because all of mine look like that
The thing is with flowered plants is that the plant will start focusing on growing fruit instead of growing big! Sometimes pinching off the flower would work in making your plant grow bigger like tomatoes ! As for cucumbers the plant would produce male flowers first to attract the bees (Helps for pollinating) and then it would produce the female flowers, in case there are no bees you'll have to hand pollinate your female flowers .. as for squash and zucchini I'm not sure about it, never grew those !
Looking forward to what others share regarding ants. I moved in April and the new house has ants ALL over the grass and garden areas. I set some natural borax traps but would like to know what some of the other solutions are.
Michael P take a shovel and scoop up a chunk of one ant hill then dump it on top of a different ant hill. The ants go to war and kill each other off.
Quite a few people in the notes are saying to use cornmeal or grits, I need to try this
These are such great pointers. I have found that squash will grow their way out of having been overgrown at transplanting. But they tend to wilt for the first week in ground. Then mine perked right up and produced great.
Yeah they make it but you loose time as the struggle a bit to correct root growth.
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Can you please elaborate more on planting squash in their prime stage? You briefly mention it but don't explain why that is discouraged. Also, when shopping at the big box retailer or local nursery, if most of the plants are starting to flower but have yet to develop full fruiting flowers, would that be discouraged versus purchasing any at all?
Getting flowering plants is better than none at all if you want that crop. Chances are they will produce if you take care of them.
They stay small but produce. Can struggle as the used up all the fert in the containers. The younger plants establish qet large and produce more. You can plant what you have. They can take weeks and weeks to catch up but you get production.
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Sadly due to light conditions and a very cold wet spring this is how my seedlings did (very leggy) so I will have to plant the squash and melons and hope for the best. Things were so bad this spring I might have to buy all my tomato plants this year and pitch my own seedlings. They look awful and wont likely catch up if I plant them. I need to get started. Im weeks behind last year as it is. Next year I will finally have my own small greenhouse. Starting seeds in a house without much room for a garden as big as mine is just not working.
Unfortunately I started my zucchini seedlings to early and they are starting to flower. I am going to plant them and hope for the best. Maybe I’ll start another batch and see if it makes a difference.
Grits have always solved my ant issues.
Hi there. How does grits help with getting rid of ants?? Thank you
@@debbielente4766 the ants eat them, drink water and explode because the grits swell in them
Thanks John. I was thinking about this last night. Really!
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Saw this earlier; get a small plastic food container, with cover, drill 3 holes in side. Mix 3 part sugar to 1 part borax and dissolve in warm water. Pour over a food source, bread, waffle, etc that’s placed in the container.
Place cover on top to prevent other insects from getting into mixture and place near ant problem.
Hope this works for you
use grits for ants. they take it back to the queen, she eats it then explodes. takes some time but works great on our farm.
Uncooked
@@blessedamerican3541 yes, uncooked
I watched a video where guy took a shovel full of ants from one area and set them down on top of another area and they went to war and all the ants that did not die left
That's gotta be the most fun solution
I saw that video too! LOL I was told years ago, that to mix boric acid and sugar, will attract and kill ants. I like the other suggestions, especially the cinnamon as it is cheap spice.
My Dad used to do that! He loved to watch them "war".
@@charlenekociuba7396 I use that all over yard to keep the cats away. Because my dogs got fleas, another of cats in my neighborhood.. no more cats. But ants we have them bad even in our home. Been like that here for many generations.. our house was built in the late 1800's
@@charlenekociuba7396 dont freaking put chemicals in your garden lol
Man you really juiced up the ground for those guys... this fall I'm gonna broad fork in some peat moss just to help the dirt out... keep up the good work! Your garden has come a long way... can tell you have been working hard on it
This way I can water and let them go.
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Your seedlings look great!
My zucchini are 6" leggy ...please suggest how to handle a leggy zucchini seedling? Can we plant the stem deep like the tomatoes?
Not as deep. But you can bury an inch. They should bulk up with the sun.
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I use cinnamon for ants around my house and yard.
I bought a cinnamon extract essential oil to make it more potent :-)
Very nicely explained.
Thanks for the video. Very informative
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I sprayed with cinnamon and the ants will stay away from the plants.
I am looking to solve an ant problem also...let us know if ya find one....thanks
I am working on a plan
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Barkley Burker look at Lousiana Garden Family youtube channel. He takes a shovel & scoops up a glob of dirt from one ant hill then drops it onto a different ant hill. The ants go to war and kill each other off. It also works if you have ants in containers. Go find an ant hill and sit your container on it. The next day all the ants will be dead :) I tried it, it works!
Barkley Burker if you are looking for indoor ant problems like I have . I have pets , I use clove oil works best , peppermint oil,, mint oil. Best I ever used . For our doors. I use TerroTraps at Kroger or Lowe’s you can pick them up at . You can use these inside but hide them away from your person cabinets , closets or in drawers . I have battled ants for many years. This works. One trap does it all summer. Good luck
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Check out khang starr. He shows a diy way of getting rid of ants. He has very helpful information on his channel.
@J Bruce If you have the misfortune of stepping on a fire ant mound, you will quickly understand the why.
@J Bruce also, in my experience, ant will bring aphids and sucking insects onto your plants.
For ants, find their nests, then take a scoop of ants from one nest and dump them on the other nest. Next, take a scoop of ants from the other nest and put it on the first nest. This creates an anti war and they will eradicate each other.
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The is the American Method
Wait until they form a North and South Antland with bitter guerilla warfare and economic depression spiraling sectarian violence for 50 years lol!
Or wait until one finds oil and spray the others with Raid!
Insectarian violence 😂
@@restorenperformcoaching5983 Ohhh! One Upped me!
Excellent tutorial on planting!
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Helpful. Thanks!
Use diatomaceous earth around your plants for ants.
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enjoyed your video and your tips
Thank you Gary. Very informative/
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Thank you, I can't wait to harvest my cucumbers.
Thank you Gary ! !
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Great video ... thanks...!
Very informative, thank you very much!
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Ant problem, equal amounts of sugar and boric acid, mix in water to make a paste and spoon amounts around your framing of your raised beds. Instant grits work great too, but not if it is going to rain or you use sprinkler around raised beds.