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How do you boot out pests while boosting beneficial bugs? Finding the right balance can be tricky.
Tidying up the garden for winter is a balancing act. You don’t want to leave hiding places for pests, but equally you need to give beneficial bugs a safe place to sit out the cold.
In this short video we’ll show you how you can have the best of both worlds, ensuring the best possible start to next year’s growing season.
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Nice video. Thanks for the tips 🙂
Thanks
I have scale insects on my indoor fruit tree can fish oil treatment wash be used indoors?
How often?
Ladybirds, ladybirds , dear oh dear !!!!! lol
Most informative. Thanks for tips!
Thanks for the information. Very good to know
I thought Ben was wearing a leather biker jacket for a second. That's a good way to add a little bit of edge to your gardening.
In Maryland USA, I left my thai yard beans in after they went to seed and leaves turned yellow. Went to pull them up, and realized that huge preying mantis are living in them. They will be left in the ground until every mantis leaves. If anyone has information that they may lay eggs there, I'll leave the beans in until spring 🙂
We have a stack of firewood that's been appropriated by carpenter and sweat bees! I'm excited to have a pollinator hotel, but I've seen some articles that warn against letting carpenter bees get out of control as they may damage trees. Has anyone else had experience with these bees? PS, thanks for the great video!
Could you tell about those houses for good insects you showed in the end? Some as I understand are for solitary bees. I made such from short logs drilling 1X20 cm holes and placing them under the verge of a roof.
This won't work for everyone, depending on your property, your lifestyle, etc., but I have 5 pet chickens and they are phenomenal at pest control. And like duct tape, they have a light side and a dark side… they love an awful lot of plants, and they think the world is their toy, so this takes quite a bit of planning… but I don't have a pest problem.
Great info. Thank you!
Enjoyed the video and the balanced approach to managing pests while maintaining beneficials. Here’s our video highlighting our strategy of attracting beneficial insects with perennial and annual flowers: https://youtu.be/LzCwocyVhX8
Dormant spay with Sulfur & neem oil
Very interesting. Subscribed earlier. WOW Australia
Any suggestions for rapacious rodents? They savaged my corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and peas, but ignored the pole beans. They ate better than I did.
This was wonderful! I live in Montreal, Canada and the biggest pest that we need to worry about in our neighborhood is Squirrels. They get into everything! They watch us plant seedlings and bulbs…. then go and steal them all / shred the new garden beds to pieces. This year I was able to plant some things successfully – I made an enclosure secured by chicken wire and added a roof. After reading a lot about regenerative agriculture, I wondered if there wasn't some kind of covercrop I could plant that would distract the squirrels from the tasty veggies and make use of their behaviors of rooting through the soil for seeds… any ideas?
Ahh yes.. The Tesco Clubcard, the most useful of all garden tools.
Any advice on rhizome type weeds? We’re almost in tears trying to stave off total coverage by the darn stuff. We make sure not to break the plant if at all possible, but the task of controlling it is, well, so exhausting.
Awesome tips. Thank you!