AlboPepper - Drought Proof Urban Gardening's video: Battling Squash Vine Borer - 2016 Aug 6th Urban Garden Edible Landscaping Walk-thru -Albopepper

The mid-Summer heat has been taking its toll. We haven't had a drought, but even still the plants have needed lots and lots of water! I can't imagine growing crops in containers without a self-watering reservoir. The sub-irrigated planters have made for easy gardening. xD This is my first serious season for growing squashes. I've tried both Summer Squash and Winter Squash. Zucchini, spaghetti squash, acorn squash and red kuri. They've grown fast and pumped out a bountiful yield. But the larger concentration of cucurbitas has become a beacon to new pests. Squash Bugs have been on the prowl. And the most destructive has been the Squash Vine Borer. Squash vine borers will lay small individual eggs under the stems of your plants. If you are not vigilant, the emerging larvae will then eat your plants from the inside out!!! In this video I show a quick tip to prevent squash borers. Also I show how one of my squash vines was able to survive even though the base of the plant had been destroyed. I love my annual vegetable garden. Every Summer it explodes with massive growth! But then the plot is open and barren in just a few months. I'm enjoying my research into permaculture and edible landscaping as I've begun planting various edible perennials. Most won't grow quite as quickly in the 1st year, but they offer an element both stability and beauty in your yard. They can really round out your gardening experience. In this video I show a glimpse of my comfrey which have been a great biomass accumulator. And I have several edible vining perennials. The hardy kiwi is slowly establishing itself. My Chinese yam (air potato) is already making tiny bulbs on the vine. But the show stopper has been the passion fruit (passiflora). This FAST growing beautiful vine has remarkable sweet smelling flowers. The pollinators love it. And I'm excited to try my first ripened fruit!!! Here are few annual vegetables featured in my urban garden: 00:56 - Red Kuri (Winter Squash Heirloom) http://shrsl.com/?di0t 03:59 - Sweet REBA Acorn (Winter Squash) http://shrsl.com/?di0v 07:59 - Onion Ailsa Craig Exhibition (Long Day Heirloom) 12:09 - Crimson Sweet Watermelon (Heirloom) http://shrsl.com/?di0y 13:14 - Orient Wonder Bean (Pole Yard Long) http://shrsl.com/?di0z These permaculture perennials are shown in my edible landscape: 09:19 - Russian Comfrey: Bocking 14 09:35 - Wild Yam, Chinese: Dioscorea batatas (air potato) 10:42 - Maypop Passionflower: Passiflora incarnata 14:15 - Hardy Kiwi: Actinidia arguta ‘Issai’ (self-fertile) ================================== Support AlboPepper.com and get some cool garden shirts that I designed myself: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/albopepper/ ==================================