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Pests are an ever-present menace in the vegetable garden, but there’s no reason they should get the better of you, or your crops.
Beneficial insects, birds and amphibians can do a lot of the pest control work for you but sometimes you’ll still need to protect crops with barriers or other methods to foil those pesky pests.
In this short video we explain how to enlist natural allies, plan defensive barriers and work strategically to prevent pests eating your hard-won harvests.
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I definitely agree with attracting predatory animals to your garden as a natural pest defense. Cultivating them correctly is very important too! The problem with me is I tend to coat my plants with a layer of slug pellets all over, thinking it will deal with the problem of all insects!
Great Info, Thanks!
Great info thanks so much!
How to get rid of ants organically because they protects aphids. Both are everywhere in my garden. Grrr!!!
just dug out a compost trench cant wait for it to decompose to get out all those awesome nutrients
i dug it out because i just removed a lot of weeds from my garden and i mean a lot
thank you for making the composting in Situ because i haven't got a compost bin because we haven't got enough room and im just about to make a beer trap for slugs
but could you tell me any tips to attract bees to my garden because my biggest cherry tomato plant is about to flower ^_^
Please could you tell me how to get rid of tomato blight I think my tomato plant has it il send you a pic on twitter so that you can identify for me ^_^
Thanks for all the great info !!
i have tons of aphids this year – fortunately they are mostly on weeds, lambs quarters, we do eat them though and the aphids are a pain! BUT on the bright side, there many lady bugs as well. I just checked out what their eggs look like so i will not get rid of them. There are aphids on my blooming kale, I want to get seeds. The birds frequent the plants and i hope they eat the aphids, not just pick around on my Kale blossoms 🙂
Hippie garden. Lmao. Try that netting shit on a real sized garden
Best sure for slugs. Crushed egg shells
Hi, Great episode. I think one problem most people have is green fly on their lettuce what I want to try next year is fine veggie mesh (0.8mm) which supposed to prevent them so lets see 😉
My citruses tree are producing any flowers for almost a half of a year! Do you know why? Please tell me
Hi, thank you very much for your videos! I have a very heavy clay soil and not much direct sunlight have a huge problem with slugs and snails which is what attracted me to this video. I have another problem that I've struggled with the last couple of years too, peach tree leaf curl! Do you have any safe ideas on how to deal with it? It was worse last year when I had barely any leaves on the tree at all by the time I noticed it and it had even infected my dwarf cherry tree! The cheery is fine this year and a couple of dwarf peach and nectarine trees that I have in pots seem to be thriving too. I'm very much a novice gardener and was so excited at the idea of growing my own peaches but, although there were absolutely tons of fruit on there last year, I only actually got to eat one of them. Also it's supposed to be a dwarf root stock but since I put it in my garden (in an area where I had been keeping chickens so wanted to make the most of having a fertilized patch) it has grown to about 8foot! Sorry for the huge post. Any other hints or tips would be greatly appreciated but in the mean time I shall get lost in your other videos for a week or two :)Thank you! 🙂
Spray plants with peppermint essential oil diluted with water. Shake frequently to disperse oil throughout water.
Do you think this app will be available on Android or Amazon anytime soon?
I love these videos. I use the only 100% organic weed killer i know…..my hands.. I am wondering what you recommend for keeping the cabbage moth off of my Brassica's. Ive built a brassica house with netting about 1/2" sq holes, but they still seem to wiggle in. I've doubled the netting in some spots but fear this will not completely work. I have planted onions and chives in the house as well. Would be glad to show you a picture if I knew how.
I like to let my chickens in to take care of any slugs and snails, I just keep and eye on them so they don't ravage the plants instead. Also wouldn't recommend leaving piles of sticks and long grass around if you're in Australia it'd be the perfect snake habitat.
enjoyed your video
Living in India we have lots of neem trees. Once a week we spray with neemwater to prevent a pest. It works pritty well.
Encouraging bees, birds and other insects with flowers, piles of logs, wildlife pond, piles of grass and sticks. I move ladybirds and their grubs to area where they need to work in. The black fly on the artichokes were seen off quickly. Although I try hard to be an organic gardener I did have to resort to a spray for black spot on one of my roses.
500th like hehehe
So many allergies.
This was very good! I have 7 mature California live oaks trees on my small property, so I'd say the tussock moth is my worst enemy. I manage to keep their numbers low by knowing their life stages and how to ID them (cocoons, eggs, larvae) and am always on the lookout to destroy them. I am a zero spray and have a large garden of roses, food, ornamentals, plus the hairs on the caterpillar can leave welts on the skin, so what I have found is squishing them (sometimes with window squeegees so I can get a huge gathering of them in one swipe, old fashioned squishing and even cutting them in half with my secateurs when they are large). However, my main tip is placing tanglefoot on the Tanglefood paper, stapled to the huge trunks about 5 feet off the ground. It prevents those who ate in the canopy and coming down the trunk or those who are ready to pupate going up from doing so. They often end up making 100s of cocoons under the tanglefoot paper (which relaxes as time goes on). That way I can remove the paper and squish and remove all the cocoons with a brush. Then I reapply for the next bunch. The females do not fly, so you have to search for them under wisteria on trunks, etc. During the dormant season I can find lots of stray cocoons and destroy them (on my apple, camellia, or any trunk). The problem is they also make their cocoons under leaves and it is harder to find them. We even use our swimming pool long-handled brush used for pool cleaning to get those caterpillars which made it past the barrier. Our neighbors just hire people to spray, but it is not so clear how that works either and I want my yard free for the beneficials and birds.
can you please do a video of various cages to keep birds and rats off the tomatoes? Thanks, I love that idea. I also sprinkle kitty litter along the fence. The rats come up from the sewer, so I also cut hardware cloth to cover the drains.
What about ants? I'm having issues with small ants eating my radishes.
Is there anything that reliably eats small ants?
Plant a few rows of sunflowers, black oil sunflower seeds sold as bird seed sprout and grow extremely well plus they are cheap in comparison to buying seeds in packets @ $3-$5 per packet. You can get a 40lb bag for $25 at most hardware stores. Quite beneficial in attracting first bees, then birds who come for the seeds later on as they grow.
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