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Pests are a common challenge but that doesn’t mean they need to gain the upper hand. In fact, it’s very easy to prevent pests altogether.
Prevention is better than a cure, and it’s kinder on nature too.
In this short video we’ll share seven simple strategies for effective pest prevention. They’re all natural, organic and proven to work!
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Cute little bunnies pop up from their holes and hop around in our lawn every year. But, short of row covers, any ideas how to keep them out of my lettuce?? I love these videos. Thank you so much!
Cucumber beetles are attracted to yellow. I have been making yellow sticky traps with a piece of yellow firm plastic, coated with Tanglefoot. It works great. After the season, clean the trap off with hot water and detergent. Store until the next season.
I absolutely love these videos. I have been experimenting with companion planting and when I saw this I decided to do some research. Just had to come back and let you know I will be ordering bug eggs from a distributor and placing them around my beds, my planters and my fields in the spring. I will also be adding some native wildflowers with medicinal properties to my seed order this fall and in the spring. Thanks for the inspiration.
When I see aphids, I spray them with hydrogen peroxide. They're gone the next day after one application.
Great video
I interplant as described and I certainly dont use high analysis Nitrogen fertiliser, which when I did, always seemed to result in pests after application.
I do everything I can to understand the messages about overall system health, often overlooked when we see our crops damaged by insects. Aphids for example, can often be found where there is excess Nitrogen volatisation. The aphids are indicators of underlying problems with existing practice, and they are a critical link in a complex food chain, ending with us, so we ought to consider this before using any bottles labelled insecticide, pesticide, even if this is also labelled organic.
We are amidst a near catastrophic bio diversity collapse and gardeners, farmers using products ought to take ownership in part.
Encouraging beneficial insects is a great idea, this is achieved through planting diversity.
Wasps are a great bio control, and extremely diverse group of insects. There is probably a wasp to control every insect pest, but we tend to see solutions in bottles and not in changing practice.
Buckwheat is a great intercropping plant for attracting parasite wasps which like to chow aphids..There are many more of course. You can often find plants locally eg weeds that have characters to attract beneficial insects.
I recommend Jonathan Lundgren to anyone seeking to learn more about insects and food production practices and how existing practice is causing ecological disaster.
Happy growing.
I've employed a frog to eat slugs, definitely no slug pellets in my garden, is muppetry that harms birds and hedgehogs that are also slug predators, noticeable reduction in plant condition and improved bird life short. Just need to shoot the neighbours cats now.
We had gophers destroy our crops last years, I watched an okra plant be pulled under the ground like in a cartoon! This year we are using grow bags and they seem to be working. I wish I had bought the lighter colored bags (ours are black) to keep roots cooler. We are in Sacramento Valley and it gets HOT here. Chicken patrol keeps snails slugs and horn worm caterpillars at bay. All vegetable and fruit waste from kitchen goes into the compost. That and and well rotted chicken poop, bunny poop and shavings from the coop are our only fertilizer. We have ladybugs and praying mantis for bug control higher up on the plants So far, so good!
French Marigolds, Dill and bicarb of soda spray are great pest deterrents in my garden. Frogs are the greatest pest deterrent of all though and the compost heap attracts lots of pests which predate on each other thus leaving the plants and veg to flourish
Digging a small sunken pond is the answer, welcome the frogs, they will be your friends
What about larger pests such as squirrels?
Thanks for the notes!
Attract birds! This spring I watched robins and starlings from my kitchen window digging up hundreds of Japanese beetle grubs from the lawn. Also, toads and garden snakes do a great job (we have only non poisonous snakes).
3/8" grid pond netting keeps out cabbage whites. It's very light-weight and nearly invisible, so you can still enjoy looking at your garden. Of course, the smaller bugs can get through it. I found that row covers which were difficult to see through discouraged me from paying close attention to the garden bed, which also is important for pest control. If you're not careful you can easily trap pests IN your garden!
use neem oil for Japanese beetles and many other pests
Striped cucumber beetle is my nemesis. I planted cukes in the front yard instead of the garden in the back and they took a lot longer to find them.
Neem oil is a good organic pest control.
I have a frog bath sunk into one of my beds it works wonders and gives everybody a focal point when the tadpoles are developing
I finally hit on a successful tactic to foil the squash vine borers. When I planted my transplants I took a strip of tulle (6 inches by a yard long) and starting with the sides of the root ball I loosely spiraled up the plant to cover the stem and lower leaves. The moths haven’t been able to get to the stem to lay eggs and I have squash for the first time ever!
Very helpful thanks . And no mention of using any pesticides which is great.
Please don't mix the vocals in one ear, and music in the other, it just makes me want to jump out of the video…
Spraying with pine soap and water mix.
Hi Ben great video , my biggest problem is slugs eating my rhubarb even though it was a poor crop last year ,G.
What about fungus gnats?
Bane of my life in a humid country.
Just got another subscriber. Great video: looking forward to more specific pest videos!
Most birds eat those common pests, so attracting them to the garden is nature's pest control. A bird bath and/or a bird feeder works, as well as bird houses or providing tree or bush nesting areas for them. Lots of different ways to attract them and you also get the enjoyment of watching them and listening to their songs.
I am gonna hittge companion planting and the netting this year, don't have a large veg area and lost all my cabbage last year, I also think netting may help explain to next doors cat that my garden exposed areas are not for her use!!
I appreciate all your tutorials. I followed your instructions on installing a raised garden bed and now I'm almost ready to plant some lettuce. While I was out in the yard I noticed a large ant hill. Do you have any advice on how to deal with ants? I'm trying to keep everything as organic as possible. Thank you.