Potatoes Do NOT Let Them EAT your SURVIVAL CROP.
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Thanks again for another educational piece!
As always, something I needed to learn about. Thank you. My potato boxes are flourishing. I am spraying them weekly with copper fungicide. The boxes are in good shape.
Thank you for the informative video. Curious why they don't show up in Paul's B2E Garden, and how can we mimic it. My first season gardening. Have some potatoes too. Hoping they don't show up.
Hi Mark, great tutorial. I make a point to interplant the King Harry potato variety among my Norland Reds and Yukon Golds, and any other variety of potato. They are a hibrid that is resistant to these bugs. Since King Harry potatoes are a large white potato I can easily tell the difference when harvesting them. It seems to help alot, but I still check daily or every other day for potato bugs. I don't spray either, I too have bees(again) and I raise native butterflys to release. God bless.
Both the potato bug and cucumber beetles will go for your eggplants also if you grow those. So if you do spray, head over and hit your eggplants before you run out.
A while back my Cape Gooseberry plants were being destroyed by three lined beetles. A few days later and I noticed Assassin bugs and spiders doing their stuff, and a couple of weeks later the plants looked good again. It’s nice when nature sorts itself out in my favour.
Best of luck with the battle, Mark! 🙂
I've found some on my potato plants this week. I don't have many plants so I should be able to control them. If I can stay ahead of the squash bugs this year I'll be doing good.
Hey Mark! I'm a new gardener, but I have a potential recommendation for you. There's a toy salt gun called the 'bug-a-salt' which basically a table salt toy shotgun. It's really amazing for killing flies and bugs around the house. If I were going to try manually killing all of these potato bugs, I would definitely use it against them. The only bad thing is that the grains of salt would likely penetrate through the leaves of the plant. Unfortunately, I don't have any potato bugs (or potatoes) to test this out on, to see how much leaf damage there would be (if any)
There's multiple versions of it. I have the 2.0 version, and apparently they released a 3.0, which is supposed to have a much tighter and more powerful spread of salt. This is definitely better for a one-shot kill, but I'm not sure if the less-powerful 2.0 version would be more preferred for gardening…. (for the sake of the leaves). If you end up buying the 2.0 version for whatever reason, you'll want to superglue the safety latch.
Thanks for the pest info!
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Save yourself some major time and aggravation. I have battled C potatoe beetles and Japanese beetles for years, losing a lot of potatoes and multiple cherry trees. I started using 100% cold pressed neem oil, 1 oz in 1 gallon of water and spray every 7 days or after a big rain. I got cherries this year, with no insect damage, and have seen only a handful of C potatoe beetle larvae 2 weeks ago and nothing since, no potatoe damage. This stuff is awesome, organic and saved my crops.
Seriously, try this stuff, it really does work. Thanks for all of your videos.
Thank you Mark! Awesome video
I take a coffee can with soapy water and pluck them off and drop then in that water. With GLOVES, because I can't stand to touch them!
I read that stinky bug loves to eat potatoe beattle eggs. Now, there are many varieties of stinky bug. Some eat you crops maybe. Apparantly in my garden I have a right variety because in two years I found only few potatoe beattles (2-3) while my first neighbour takes them off manually by shaking them off the leafes into the plastic container. Also, Mark, I don't think that spraying is just "our" choice. We are responsible to nature, to costumers (not to feed them with cancer inducing chemicals), to ourselfs, to generations to come, to water supply, etc. As example I always use an entire country, Butan, which have forbiden use, importing and manufacturing of herbicides and pesticides. They manage to survive just fine, actually the country is thriving. Thank you.
I think you're wrong about meat prices I think it's more like they tripled in price up here in New Jersey. Great info about these potatoes though I'm definitely gonna keep an eye out for them
Great photos of the CPB. Thank you Mark.
i use BT in the larvae stage, it works pretty well
Maybe Diatomaceous Earth would help to control the beetles as well
I've seen red paper wasps eat those larva in my garden.
We have potato blight here in the UK fortunately have not heard much about the Colorado potato beetle Thanks for the video
What about using DE? (diatomaceous earth)
Thanks for sharing, was good showing the bug. Had not seen
I used to take great joy in plucking these fellows off and throwing them in a jug of soapy water. Luckily they haven found my current garden