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Insect netting
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:55 Don’t sweat the small stuff
2:04 Focus on plant health
2:53 Homemade sprays
4:15 Covers are your friend
5:33 Understand risks to wildlife ever with some organic sprays
7:08 Be ware of well intentioned people on time
8:42 What works well in someone else’s garden may not work in yours
11:02 Build an ecosystem
13:03 Take baby steps
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Thank you so much for these tips … Now let me go do my research to see if it's what I'm looking for .. HAHA
MI gardener said companion gardening is bs, and that there is definitely a strategic and smart way to place plants but its quite misunderstood. I know you weren’t taking a stance on the subject specifically but i think he was really saying to focus on building an ecosystem and plan things accordingly. I like that perspective you guys seem to share.
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You made a lot of valid comments, the most important one is THE SOIL!
Mother nature has created a balance between pests and plants for eons, we humans come along and screw everything up by using inorganic fertilizers and pesticides, killing off all of the beneficial natural soil life.
Plants produce their own pesticides, if and only if they have the necessary soil life. Every time someone sprays their plants with a pesticide, be it inorganic or not it is killing the soil microbiology.
The obvious question is, How do I restore a beneficial soil microbiome?
Unfortunately, there are no easy answers. # 1 is you need a microscope, plus the knowledge to know what you are looking at. I understand that for most gardeners, that is not going to happen.
So what does somebody do?.
Stop using anything on your garden unless you grew it. Make your own compost to amend your beds, start a worm bin for potting mixes, fertilizer and to help prevent transplant shock of your seedlings, grow comfrey, borage and nettles for even more natural fertilizers. Do not disrupt your soils, establish perennial plants in your beds to maintain a continuous living root structure for the soil life, harvest leaves and create leaf mold to add to your soils.
Besides a healthy soil microbiome, interplanting provides diversity in a garden. I have a video posted on YouTube "Brian Seybert garden tour" from last Aug. If you view my video you will see how interplanting is a huge benefit.
I consider myself a beyond organic gardener. I do not use manures for composting because I have no idea what they feed their livestock or if they are on antibiotics. Everything that goes into my garden I have complete control over.
That is what it takes to create a pest free garden.
Thank you for these tips! Glad I found your channel recently because I’m about to take a stab at backyard gardening.
thanks for wasting my time with an infomercial about your workshop which is overpriced!
Great tips, Jill. This is one of the best videos I've seen that presents accurate, appropriate, and beneficial information for gardeners of all levels. Thanks for a high-quality presentation.
there are no pests to control, that is a way of thinking and it in absolute nonsense. Accept everything in love and nature will work her best for you. Dont polarize, but understand how she works.
Thanks Jill, good info!
Well, I garden organically in the Southern USA, too, and what I have learned is that if you see a a little thing called a squash bug, DO start sweating. DO panic! If you don't take diligent, immediate action, the results will be catastrophic.
Great tips especially for beginners. Would you have a list of "friendly" pests or a web link I can follow for "friendly" pests?
Please do a video including your chicken water barrel. I'can't quite see how it is made in your chicken tunnel video.
What was the pest on the first photo? Broccoli leaf I think. We had thousands of them all over our vegetables last year. I could not get them to go away or find what they are. Never got them away just rinsed well.
Insect netting also excludes the bees from pollinating your squash. So you don't have vine bores or fruits but you also don't have squash