I saw my neighbors out looking at something intently. I went out and they were killing these black and orange bugs. I got out my phone and looked them up. I ran back outside and said” wait don’t kill anymore of those bugs. They are ladybugs. We got a good laugh and stood around watching these larvae turn into ladybugs. We had thousands of them in our little area. It was awesome.
Digging in my garden I thought I hit a utility cable. Big orange size of a hose. Pulled it up and followed it 30 feet to it's mama Milkweed. Keep it in a container and don't let the seeds escape. Very invasive
These were great tips that I appreciate. As my Mom and sister are great gardeners I am just now learning at 66yrs of age. You and Kevin at epic are my go to knowledge gardeners!! Thanks!!!
I'm just starting with gardening and I've been surfing through YT to find a site like this. While there are many, I think I've find my primary learning site. This is going to be a process and I'm ready for the journey. TIA
Awesome nice to see you on this site .My Grandma taught me the ways of gardening ❗Momma taught me what the rules were . What plants like to be near other ones,What happens when you shock a plant & how to get them out of it🤣❗🙏 I learned a lot about gardening through this site ,The magazine Bird & Blooms, as well as Gurney's seed company on line ..I found out long ago that DIRT is a Gardeners FRIEND😁❗🙏. I found out long ago how incredibly relaxing it can be ‼️🙏🐾🐾😁😁⁉️
I used to have a terrible problem with ants and aphids. The aphids would destroy my trophy flowers every year. I tried shooting the aphids off with water they were not phased. Then a friend suggested that I mix up 1 part vinegar to 3 parts water and spray that all over the pant paying attention and getting the underside the leaves as well as the top of the leaves. I did this to my Peony plants which are always covered with ants and in one day my ants and aphids were gone. I probably sprayed one more time a week later for good measure but I never saw another aphid and the ants did not come back to the peonys either. Peonys are known to always be covered in ants and for 20 years without fail mine had aunt's but no more, this vinegar treatment is amazing.
@@lolodee3528 Hi it seems that is wives tale. I always believed it until last year when my friend told me that her peonies open beautifully without the ants. We sprayed my peonies and I had bountiful blooms last summer.
To spread the DE i use a plastic soda bottle i drilled small holes in the lid and fill with DE. Than walk around garden squeezing bottle where needed for those dastardly critters. Must reapply after rain.
Thank you so much for posting this! I have food grade DE but no method of delivery. It’s been so wet & rainy for weeks now. I can’t seem to get to the killing of bugs bc everything I have to kill them needs to be dry after application or applied early or late in the day. The bees are all over the flowers but so are ants & tiny green bugs, which I think are aphids.
I needed this video 7 days ago. BUT, GREAT CONTENT AND IDEAS. I am currently dealing with the biggest aphid infestation that I have ever had. 1. On an established apricot tree right next and above a newly built raised garden with new compost. (Nitrogen content probably very high) 2. Aphids on the tree, tomatoes, lettuces, chard and squash. 3. Preasure washing twice a day this week. 4. Spot treated this area of my total garden. 5. Seeing natural ladybugs and ladybugs larvae now too. 6. Trimmed about 50 new growth little branches out of the apricot tree. It has taken all week to start seeing significant reduction in aphid population (until this morning) 7. It is nice to see that I am doing many of the right things already. Maybe there is a light at the end of this tunnel. AND BTW ... great presentation. 🙂🙃🙂😉
Third year with an above ground garden. I more less had to take over this year due to my wife not getting around so good at our age. But I mostly am growing purple hull peas that climb a fence at the edge of the above ground set up. This year I have had so much fun weeding and watering almost daily and have been rewarded with beautiful plants. The best of all three years by far but also the most time we've spent working on it. Last year a terrible year for aphids and ants. This year not so much until yesterday. Suddenly in just one section of the garden I noticed some aphids and quite a few not to have noticed up until then. Knowing some of the properties of Dawn dishwashing soap, I mixed a few drops in water and have a spray bottle probably about 8 ounce, not too big, I sprayed just the stems they were on. Today they were dead, but some of the leaves that got some over spray had brown spots that was a bit like clay. Two or three were curled, but over all not a great deal of damage. Don't know if this is a cure or not, but for the first wave it seemed to get most of them. I used seven dust on the ant dwellings last year and no where near the same problem this year. That stuff got rid of them last year in one dusting. Did not dust the garden bed, just a little on the surrounding area. No dusting this year and only once last year. Will be keeping close watch though because other than that we sure have a beautiful pea patch this year! Can't wait to see the peas come in. Getting close! At 77 after years on the road doing music, I'm retired and learning to garden! Fun!! Still do music on my youtube channel though. An old road dog can never quit lol! I just found your channel and love your approach. New sub.
Dill is also a great aphid attracter,last year we had a huge aphid attack and I noticed that they really hit the dill hard and not as much on my tomato plants. A good water hose is also my big gun. I totally agree with you when you mention creating a garden friendly to lady bugs. In the fall in my area,I intentionally leave a lot of ground cover.(leaves etc.) so lady bugs can over winter.
I'm hooked on your videos Brian. You are a terrific teacher, very clear and comprehensive. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I planted Morning Glory by my mounds (watermelon, pumpkin, cucumbers), Marigolds within my kale, radish rows, and Alyssum within my potatoes and tomatoes and Bunchung Oinions bordering my tomatoes as well. The Alyssum I planned from watching your videos, the others I had on hand from last year, I hope my companion planting is successful, 1st year I ever attempted this.
Aphids the bane of any garden. I had them bad last year on my fire bush and it never bloomed the entire season. I’m ready for them this year. Great information.
WOW! Thank you for this information! I've been watching your other videos as well, and the tips are so helpful! I've been having a terrible time with Earwigs, ants and aphids but now I have some great information to battle these pests and hopefully save my garden.
People: if you can afford it Cover your susceptible plants with light row cover! You can even just cover the broccoli head. Avoid the aphids in the first place because aphids lay LOTS of eggs! When I was studying botany and entomology I had to make an insect collection (where you pin them in place and I.D. them). Well, I had collected an aphid in a glass vial and put the stopper in. The next day when I went to work with it there was a mess of baby aphids in there with her!! Also: check your plants every day and go out with masking tape. Wrap tape, sticky side out, around your hand and press down on any aphids you see. I checked this morning and found one plant (still in the nursery pot) with one stem with aphids. In no time that would have been an infestation. A new aphid becomes a reproducing adult in ONE week!
I covered my brassicas from jump but still got some aphids - there must have been eggs in the soil. I garden year round in 9b - probably doesn't get cold enough to kill them off.
my huge honeysuckle vine ( Ionicera heckrottii) was a mess this spring. Points taken many not applicable in my situation. The nasturtium solution is attractive Thank you. .
I had my brassicas covered and got aphids anyway - I figured they had come up from the soil. We don't usually have hard freezes where I live (although I think we did last winter) so I'd really like to know more about how to prevent them.
Am in 9b also never had to deal with aphids, went to Socal for couple weeks and my entire veggie garden was infested, had to destroy entire garden of my favorite veggies. Didn't bring any soil in nor any plants. City water this year has been very salty tasting with a strong smell. None of my neighbors garden so I don't know how aphids found my garden. My home backs up to an elementary school playground and we share a 7ft cinder block fence. I've also noticed new type of moth that looks like hummingbirds but smaller. There are other flying pests & insects I've never seen in any of my gardens or anywhere in Norcal, Socal or Central Valley in my decades of gardening and Ag related activities. I studied agriculture at Fresno State. I've collected several different flying pests but the County Ag dept isn't interested.
Aphids yearly attack our 100-foot Tulip Tree. The sap (honey dew) rains down, carried on the breeze, on the lawn (adversely affects the grass), patio furniture (sticky), and passing people (annoying). A side issue is that the Tulip Tree canopy is too high for spraying or hosing down, but planting sacrificial plants can decoy attract the aphids away. Thank you for your video.
Aphids are a plague here in NC. You are so right about the milkweed being a great trap crop! It gets covered with aphids, but they mostly leave my veggies alone. I am definitely going to try the diatomaceous earth spray to get the particles on the underside of leaves. (I grow in the winter here, and need a remedy when milkweed is dormant.) Will definitely plant more milkweed in other areas in my yard now that you pointed out how great it is for managing aphids (tons of pollinators love it, too). For me, the milkweed will be easier because it is a perennial that is almost maintenance free, other than having to pull unwanted weeds. Thank you and keep up the great videos!
Brian I came back to comment today because your advice to remove the sacrificial plant actually worked! I am now, like, 95% aphid free. Thank you. It hadn’t even occurred to me that I should remove the brassica...
Enjoy your channel immensely. I do not have a problem with aphids and I believe because my brassicas are put in the ground in the fall, zone 9b. If a plant is still in the garden in spring, yes it will be attacked by aphids. I take a container with DE out in the garden all the time. It works great on ants that set up housekeeping where I want to plant. Sprinkle over the nest and wait 15 min and they are gone. We have earwigs in artichokes, what a pain. I pick a 5 gallon bucket of harvest ready chokes, fill with water and set in a wide open space. The blue martins love escaping earwigs...
This year I continued my tradition of planting my peppers indoors and way too early (Maybe next year I will remember to wait to plant as I have finally started a journal). Aside from outgrowing their space and my needing to buy more lighting, everything was going well until a friend gifted me a plant. By the time I figured out it had aphids, they were everywhere and all of my starts were infected. I spritzed with water, I ran them under water, I used detergent washes and they just kept multiplying! I finally freaked out and released ladybugs into my basement's grow room! I turned off all the lighting except for the grow lights above the plants. They did an excellent job taking care of the aphids for the 2 weeks before I started hardening them off outside. I collected the stragglers that jumped ship during the move (hundreds of them) and placed them on my lettuce plants outside. Many are still there and today I found several larva. My take is that they don't always fly off (although I have had that experience the last time I purchased them about a decade ago). I had no idea they were wild caught. That is concerning. I still think they have a place in the knock back of aphids. They worked well for me this spring. Hopefully next year I will plant later and be more vigilant about accepting gifts from well meaning friends.
Many properties surrounding my house have out of control “sticky Willy” weeds that invade my space and is EXHAUSTING to try to pull them all, but I try. Continuing this over this past weekend, I noticed they are starting to flower and the top couple of segments are COATED in a thick layer of little black seedy bugs. Even though I pulled and bagged as many as I could, I’m still scared of how many I missed and the tons that might be in the messes on the adjacent properties. Thanks so much for this video. I hope this weekend will not be too late to find and plant alliums.
This was a terrific video, a lot of great information. I coordinate a Victory garden for our local food bank and we are constantly battling Mother nature . We keep it organic , thank you for all the great tips . I use them in my home garden as well. Great results! AM Moore
I often find aphids on some of our lupines usually near the end of thier flowering. I also find japanese beetles on 5 leafed Virginia creeper..I let them eat it... It seems to keep them off our roses, other plants.
Brian, thank you for such great and informative videos!! I would like to contribute a little by sharing my experience attracting ladybugs. About 4 yrs ago I planted two Rose of Sharon bushes. And oh surprise, two seasons ago I noticed the black and orange bugs and found out they were ladybugs in the works 😉!! I am glad I looked them up before spraying the bushes with neem oil. It has been a great way to have lots of ladybugs right in my yard! Love them! At the beginning of spring they get covered with ladybug eggs. I also make sure I don't rake the fall leaves that fall from my trees that fall around the bushes so I can provide shelter for the ladybugs during the winter. The Rose of Sharon flowers are just too gorgeous not to have in your yard and the hummingbirds, bees and all kinds of beneficial insects love it. But do watch out for the Japanese beetles... I do have to keep up with those pesty things each year.
Had this happen with my Brussels this winter. And you are right about the ants as well and they can sure destroy young plants fast. Thanks for the tips on how to control them.
I have used a small paint brush to manually dislodge the aphids from my milkweed because I didn’t want to accidentally injure/maim/kill the Monarch caterpillars that were growing. Strong stream of water would have also knocked off the caterpillars, so manual I had to do. A good tip on using a suspension of the diatomaceous earth. Will use that on my roses. Was sprinkling and dusting to get even coverage with limited success. Great tips!
I have a wild hop plant (humulus lupus) in my garden about 5 meters from my chili pepper grow house and my tomatoes, it attracts most of the aphids but it can handle it. Barely have aphids on other plants. Also lady bugs like to lay their eggs on the hop plant, so when I get a few aphids in the green house I pick 5-10 larvae from the hop plant and put them on the infected peppers and there are no aphids left the next day.. the larvae will stay on the plant as long as there is food. Actually works surprisingly well and I don't need to spray anything. Also, thanks for great educational videos!
Great tips!! Thank you!! I can’t do traditional gardening any more, but, I think I can adapt some of them to my indoor/outdoor hydroponic garden. I’m in a battle right now (no more foreign plants inside) so it’s outside & I have already done most of your suggestions. I put some honey out & they seemed to like it, but I’m going to try a pot of nasturtiums in the room. Praying I finally get rid of them since they keep coming back🤦🏻♀️
Super appreciate your videos. I have incorporate DE, and hydrogen peroxide into my routine: hoping my tomatoes don`t defoliate early this year. Love the channel. From Canada, thanks.
I bought lady bugs and was told to put them in a nylon stocking on a plant with aphids for a few days so they wouldn't fly away. A few days later I opened the stocking & have had multiple generations of Ladybugs year after year ever since. ; )
Thanks for such great information. I have squash bugs and found that if I flood the squash they will climb to the top of the plants then I sprinkle DE on them directly. So far so good. I hope I get some squash this year. Last year they demolished every type of squash I planted, zucchini, yellow crookneck, moringa, strawberry banana and Patty pan.
Those aphids that like milkweed really stress out my plant. They are called Oleander aphids. I had some luck with spraying them off. With my hose. My milkweed looks like it is recovering. When spraying I do have to be careful of all the monarch caterpillars 🐛 I’ve hatch out about 15 Monarchs this spring🧡
Awesome tips here. I recently realized ahpids were attacking one of two perfect lollipop dappled willow trees framing the front door, and ants were present. I used neem oil and diatomaceous earth powder to coat the impacted areas and trunk. The powder seems to have worked because while I can't see aphids, the ants are gone for at least a week now. Hoping I'm safe as long as I keep an eye for ants and if none, perhaps the aphids are gone.
They devastated my indoor peppers last year. I was going to throw them all out [about 20 plants] I decided to just remove all the leaves all the way to the stem. It worked great, they grew back wonderful and now I am harvesting peppers from them. So don't throw away your peppers, reborn them LOL
You mentioned aphids don't like onions. Someone suggested I use crushed garlic in water in a spray bottle for an aphid problem I had on a artichoke plant I overwintered inside and it seemed to work.
@@melissasullivan1658 Aphids are totally attacking my green onions and walking onions so I'd be very hesitant to use onion spray to try to get rid of them. My bugs would invite every aphid in the county to come feast on the yummy spray. 🙄
I put DT in a large holed salt shaker last year and it worked like a charm. Like you said though, wear a mask, it is a very fine powder and could irritate the eyes, nose and throat. I absolutely love the tips on the Nasturtium, Chives and onions. I grew onions last year and Nasturtium. That helped me a ton more than I realized. I will be getting some of that put back in the bed this year especially since I could not locate onion slips this year. Thank you!
I've got 36 nasturtium seedlings under the growlights. Jewel mix, Alaska mix, Double Cherry, and Tall Vining Mix. Still way too cold here to plant anything out. Will plant out my brassica seedlings next weekend. They're tough but I'll still cover them for a bit. We can get frost into the first week of June. Didn't know about the D-earth spray trick! Thanks!
ASTOUNDING!!! I planted my first test garden without knowing what I was doing as per the content of this video. On one side of the yard I planted onions and herbs. On the other side of the yard I planted lettuce surrounded by nasturtium. As you say Brian, the nasturtium is being gnawed and the onion grouping is flourishing. I was watching this video to figure out what was happening to my nasturtium. How fun!!! Thank you.
This video is probably one of the best I have watched so far. I was thinking of buying some ladybugs/ladybirds. But even though i was thinking about it,I would have looked into it. But what you said in simple terms,without all the reading I would have had to do,is right. You don't know where they come from. Also are we really helping the environment by doing that. The right thing to do would be to attract them. Honestly thankyou with all of my heart for this video. I love how simple you kept it. You got straight to the point. I am definitely subscribing. Can't wait to watch more of your video's. Have a blessed day & takecare..
I noticed that some of my peas and lettuce had an aphid infestation. The weird thing is that they were within 18" of garlic. The garlic did not seem to phase them.
My tip is to sterilize any soil brought in from outside your area, especially potting soil. I just place the soil in a 10 gallon bucket with holes, saturate with boiling water and cover. Let sit to cool and excess water to evaporate.
Now I read this😂😂. I had an open bag of soil I used for indoor seeds. First time I ever had aphids! And a couple flying ants. I like the idea of baking the soil on a grill at 200* F for 20 minutes.
I get aphids every season on brassica crops, especially broccoli and collards. I start spraying before I see any visible infestation and continue to spray until harvest. I spray every day with a soap solution making sure to get the undersides of the leaves. I spray twice a day if I see any visible aphids. They seem to appear just about when the broccoli is starting to form heads. I’m going to try companion planting, a lot easier than having to spray every leaf, nook and cranny!
Lesson learned - be wary of the potted herb plants sold in grocery store produce departments. The mint plants I bought had aphids big time - and I never looked! I can't plant my spring garden seeds this year because I can't chance the aphids moving to my seedlings. I think I used stronger words for the aphids than Brain did!
Marigolds, Catnip, Chamomile, dill, basil, mint, Rosemary are just some of the plants that can repel Aphids & other pests but dont bother Beneficial insects
I planted marigolds for a couple years, and didn’t think it really did anything. This year I didn’t, and I had a lot of bugs! 😒 Thanks for the info about Rosemary and dill! I didn’t know
First time dealing with these alpids and on Basil that I bought from the store and saw the little green bugs and freaked out and sprayed it with hot water thinking it would kill them and it just weakend the plant and I saw the plant forming crinkled leaves that would be inside out and thought it was because I bought hydro grown basil and put it in the ground and said not to do that. She since has been looking better but I'm afraid they will go elsewhere in my garden. My 1 and 2 year apple trees have been starting to get them on the top leaves and I see ants so I'm trying garlic onion spray if not that I'll try the nim oil
I had a bad infestation of aphids on my egg plants ladybug showed up and boom 💥 no more aphids. I use the powder for my chooks monthly as it keeps worms away I now will be spraying it on the aphids, thanks 🙏
Well I had a 4 gallon bucket of diatomaceous earth get snow in it. Thought it was a waste. Not so now I’m going to war on my pepper plants thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Saving us time as well as $
Earwigs are fatally attracted to beer! Put a shallow dish of beer (I use the little plastic cups from applesauce) in the garden overnight and they'll swarm to it and drown. Pretty disgusting to empty the dishes in the morning, but it certainly does work.
😅 I want to thank you for the information on getting rid of the aphids in our greenhouse We have tomatoes and bell peppers and they've been doing fabulous but we found two bell pepper plants that had aphas on them and now I found some one of my tomato plants so I'm going to try what you said to do thank you again
Have you ever had a problem with Japanese Beatles? Here in NY they will eat up a vegetable garden in no time, and some flowers. The only thing we have ever had to and deter them away from our gardens are the traps… which ending up smelling very nasty after a few days, and sometimes the traps can cost a bit, depending on how many you need in a full garden season. I read that Beatles love sunflowers, so this year I am going to try and grow sunflowers away from any of my gardens I have(5 raise beds). I’m hoping that maybe the Beatles will go to the sunflowers instead of my vegetable garden. Beatles can eat right through all leaves on a vegetable plant in no time. I’m talking 2 days, and they can have almost all of your leaves chewed off a plant. Fingers crossed the sunflower planting about 30 feet away from my gardens will help attract the Beatles to them, rather than my gardens.
A friend of mine recommended crushing a clove of garlic then mix it with water in a sprayer, I’m thinking of trying this on my chilli peppers as a preventative against aphids
Alliums repel me, too! In a fairly new neighborhood, the landscapers put lots of allium in the parking strips. I'll walk to the other side of the street to avoid that stink! ugh.
Just harvesting turnip greens for the first time. Ughhhh!!!! Aphid infestation was so gross! I have another little batch of seedlings coming up and I'm going to use your tips to keep them healthy. Thank you for all the informational videos Brian!!! Yours is my favorite channel!!! Keep up the good work!
I was a glutton of a kid :) I would take both plates and eat both broccoli and cookies :))) But seriously aphids are horrendous, I wish I could stab them but alas they are too small for that :) I lost half of my previous crop because of aphids. They started on chili pepper plant and quickly spread everywhere. Not going to lie, I did enjoy spraying them with dish soap solution and watch them scurry, dry out, and die. I have since killed all of the aphids, but it is great to know more tips to hopefully prevent them all together. Thank you so much for your excellent advice! ♥
I feel your pain 😫 Wolly aphids, scale insect, fusha galmite, lilly beatle and snails. I AM SICK TO THE BACK TEETH OF ALL THEM 😡😠. I nearly gave up gardening because of them. But now THIS MEANS WAR. IM NOT ALLOWING THEM TO BULLY ME ANYMORE 💪💪💪
I have tons of aphids on my celery plants, we have had 3 days of heavy rainfall and looks like we are expecting a couple more rainy days. I will try spraying them off with a hose first and hopefully that will do the trick. Subscribed from Trinidad 🇹🇹 W.I.
I get a ton of aphids on my snow peas every year. I spray them with garlic jalapeño brew I mix up in the blender and let sit a day to brew. Seems to work
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I saw my neighbors out looking at something intently. I went out and they were killing these black and orange bugs. I got out my phone and looked them up. I ran back outside and said” wait don’t kill anymore of those bugs. They are ladybugs. We got a good laugh and stood around watching these larvae turn into ladybugs. We had thousands of them in our little area. It was awesome.
Hello friend how are you doing?
Awe that’s so sad they were killing 🐞 I love them! ❤️
Orange and black are not Ladybugs. Those are Japanese beetles and need to go! Ladybugs are red and black.
Hi Sassy. Adults, yes but if you search google you’ll see a ton of ladybug larvae that is orange. :)
For some strange reason I get bitten by those orange lady bugs :/
Digging in my garden I thought I hit a utility cable. Big orange size of a hose. Pulled it up and followed it 30 feet to it's mama Milkweed. Keep it in a container and don't let the seeds escape. Very invasive
These were great tips that I appreciate. As my Mom and sister are great gardeners I am just now learning at 66yrs of age. You and Kevin at epic are my go to knowledge gardeners!! Thanks!!!
I'm just starting with gardening and I've been surfing through YT to find a site like this. While there are many, I think I've find my primary learning site. This is going to be a process and I'm ready for the journey. TIA
Awesome nice to see you on this site .My Grandma taught me the ways of gardening ❗Momma taught me what the rules were . What plants like to be near other ones,What happens when you shock a plant & how to get them out of it🤣❗🙏
I learned a lot about gardening through this site ,The magazine Bird & Blooms, as well as Gurney's seed company on line ..I found out long ago that DIRT is a Gardeners FRIEND😁❗🙏. I found out long ago how incredibly relaxing it can be ‼️🙏🐾🐾😁😁⁉️
I used to have a terrible problem with ants and aphids. The aphids would destroy my trophy flowers every year. I tried shooting the aphids off with water they were not phased. Then a friend suggested that I mix up 1 part vinegar to 3 parts water and spray that all over the pant paying attention and getting the underside the leaves as well as the top of the leaves. I did this to my Peony plants which are always covered with ants and in one day my ants and aphids were gone. I probably sprayed one more time a week later for good measure but I never saw another aphid and the ants did not come back to the peonys either. Peonys are known to always be covered in ants and for 20 years without fail mine had aunt's but no more, this vinegar treatment is amazing.
Hello friend..how are you doing?
Did you know the ants are helping open up your peonies? The ants don't harm your peonies they OPEN them.
@@lolodee3528 Hi it seems that is wives tale. I always believed it until last year when my friend told me that her peonies open beautifully without the ants. We sprayed my peonies and I had bountiful blooms last summer.
Fazed.
White or ACV?
To spread the DE i use a plastic soda bottle i drilled small holes in the lid and fill with DE. Than walk around garden squeezing bottle where needed for those dastardly critters. Must reapply after rain.
Thank you so much for posting this! I have food grade DE but no method of delivery. It’s been so wet & rainy for weeks now. I can’t seem to get to the killing of bugs bc everything I have to kill them needs to be dry after application or applied early or late in the day. The bees are all over the flowers but so are ants & tiny green bugs, which I think are aphids.
I needed this video 7 days ago. BUT, GREAT CONTENT AND IDEAS.
I am currently dealing with the biggest aphid infestation that I have ever had.
1. On an established apricot tree right next and above a newly built raised garden with new compost. (Nitrogen content probably very high)
2. Aphids on the tree, tomatoes, lettuces, chard and squash.
3. Preasure washing twice a day this week.
4. Spot treated this area of my total garden.
5. Seeing natural ladybugs and ladybugs larvae now too.
6. Trimmed about 50 new growth little branches out of the apricot tree.
It has taken all week to start seeing significant reduction in aphid population (until this morning)
7. It is nice to see that I am doing many of the right things already. Maybe there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
AND BTW ... great presentation.
🙂🙃🙂😉
Third year with an above ground garden. I more less had to take over this year due to my wife not getting around so good at our age. But I mostly am growing purple hull peas that climb a fence at the edge of the above ground set up. This year I have had so much fun weeding and watering almost daily and have been rewarded with beautiful plants. The best of all three years by far but also the most time we've spent working on it. Last year a terrible year for aphids and ants. This year not so much until yesterday. Suddenly in just one section of the garden I noticed some aphids and quite a few not to have noticed up until then. Knowing some of the properties of Dawn dishwashing soap, I mixed a few drops in water and have a spray bottle probably about 8 ounce, not too big, I sprayed just the stems they were on. Today they were dead, but some of the leaves that got some over spray had brown spots that was a bit like clay. Two or three were curled, but over all not a great deal of damage. Don't know if this is a cure or not, but for the first wave it seemed to get most of them. I used seven dust on the ant dwellings last year and no where near the same problem this year. That stuff got rid of them last year in one dusting. Did not dust the garden bed, just a little on the surrounding area. No dusting this year and only once last year. Will be keeping close watch though because other than that we sure have a beautiful pea patch this year! Can't wait to see the peas come in. Getting close! At 77 after years on the road doing music, I'm retired and learning to garden! Fun!! Still do music on my youtube channel though. An old road dog can never quit lol! I just found your channel and love your approach. New sub.
Glad you mentioned the potential harm to beneficial bugs 🐝🐞 by organic and chemical sprays. Good to have all the information when making choices.
Hello friend how are you doing?
Today I captured 4 red bugs in a tiny jam jar which were munching on my lillies.True they are annoying! They've been ravaging all of my perennials.
Dill is also a great aphid attracter,last year we had a huge aphid attack and I noticed that they really hit the dill hard and not as much on my tomato plants. A good water hose is also my big gun. I totally agree with you when you mention creating a garden friendly to lady bugs. In the fall in my area,I intentionally leave a lot of ground cover.(leaves etc.) so lady bugs can over winter.
You don't have to apologize, I hate those jerks too. Thanks for sharing!
I'm hooked on your videos Brian. You are a terrific teacher, very clear and comprehensive. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I had no idea you could mix the DM with water and then when it dries it works! Thank you bc trying to get the powder under the leaves is hard!
I planted Morning Glory by my mounds (watermelon, pumpkin, cucumbers), Marigolds within my kale, radish rows, and Alyssum within my potatoes and tomatoes and Bunchung Oinions bordering my tomatoes as well. The Alyssum I planned from watching your videos, the others I had on hand from last year, I hope my companion planting is successful, 1st year I ever attempted this.
Wow Brian, ants farming aphids? I did not know that!
I can always come to your channel and learn something new... THANKS🐜🐜🐜🐜🤠 🌻
This was so helpful!!! Thank you. Aphids were my worst nightmare last growing season. I better go and plant some traps!
Aphids the bane of any garden. I had them bad last year on my fire bush and it never bloomed the entire season. I’m ready for them this year. Great information.
WOW! Thank you for this information! I've been watching your other videos as well, and the tips are so helpful! I've been having a terrible time with Earwigs, ants and aphids but now I have some great information to battle these pests and hopefully save my garden.
People: if you can afford it Cover your susceptible plants with light row cover! You can even just cover the broccoli head. Avoid the aphids in the first place because aphids lay LOTS of eggs! When I was studying botany and entomology I had to make an insect collection (where you pin them in place and I.D. them). Well, I had collected an aphid in a glass vial and put the stopper in. The next day when I went to work with it there was a mess of baby aphids in there with her!! Also: check your plants every day and go out with masking tape. Wrap tape, sticky side out, around your hand and press down on any aphids you see. I checked this morning and found one plant (still in the nursery pot) with one stem with aphids. In no time that would have been an infestation. A new aphid becomes a reproducing adult in ONE week!
I covered my brassicas from jump but still got some aphids - there must have been eggs in the soil. I garden year round in 9b - probably doesn't get cold enough to kill them off.
my huge honeysuckle vine ( Ionicera heckrottii) was a mess this spring. Points taken many not applicable in my situation. The nasturtium solution is attractive Thank you.
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I had my brassicas covered and got aphids anyway - I figured they had come up from the soil. We don't usually have hard freezes where I live (although I think we did last winter) so I'd really like to know more about how to prevent them.
Am in 9b also never had to deal with aphids, went to Socal for couple weeks and my entire veggie garden was infested, had to destroy entire garden of my favorite veggies. Didn't bring any soil in nor any plants. City water this year has been very salty tasting with a strong smell. None of my neighbors garden so I don't know how aphids found my garden. My home backs up to an elementary school playground and we share a 7ft cinder block fence. I've also noticed new type of moth that looks like hummingbirds but smaller. There are other flying pests & insects I've never seen in any of my gardens or anywhere in Norcal, Socal or Central Valley in my decades of gardening and Ag related activities. I studied agriculture at Fresno State. I've collected several different flying pests but the County Ag dept isn't interested.
Sorry for your loss. All that work. That is a hummingbird moth. Great pollinators. @@soniag4516
Aphids yearly attack our 100-foot Tulip Tree. The sap (honey dew) rains down, carried on the breeze, on the lawn (adversely affects the grass), patio furniture (sticky), and passing people (annoying). A side issue is that the Tulip Tree canopy is too high for spraying or hosing down, but planting sacrificial plants can decoy attract the aphids away. Thank you for your video.
Aphids are a plague here in NC. You are so right about the milkweed being a great trap crop! It gets covered with aphids, but they mostly leave my veggies alone. I am definitely going to try the diatomaceous earth spray to get the particles on the underside of leaves. (I grow in the winter here, and need a remedy when milkweed is dormant.) Will definitely plant more milkweed in other areas in my yard now that you pointed out how great it is for managing aphids (tons of pollinators love it, too). For me, the milkweed will be easier because it is a perennial that is almost maintenance free, other than having to pull unwanted weeds. Thank you and keep up the great videos!
Brian I came back to comment today because your advice to remove the sacrificial plant actually worked! I am now, like, 95% aphid free. Thank you. It hadn’t even occurred to me that I should remove the brassica...
Enjoy your channel immensely. I do not have a problem with aphids and I believe because my brassicas are put in the ground in the fall, zone 9b. If a plant is still in the garden in spring, yes it will be attacked by aphids. I take a container with DE out in the garden all the time. It works great on ants that set up housekeeping where I want to plant. Sprinkle over the nest and wait 15 min and they are gone. We have earwigs in artichokes, what a pain. I pick a 5 gallon bucket of harvest ready chokes, fill with water and set in a wide open space. The blue martins love escaping earwigs...
Aphid overtook most of my peppers few ago, now they are after my lettuce. Definitely want to get rid of them!!
Brian-You are a phenomenal teacher. I always learn something valuable and I hope it's all in your book. Thank You.
Thank you!
This year I continued my tradition of planting my peppers indoors and way too early (Maybe next year I will remember to wait to plant as I have finally started a journal). Aside from outgrowing their space and my needing to buy more lighting, everything was going well until a friend gifted me a plant. By the time I figured out it had aphids, they were everywhere and all of my starts were infected. I spritzed with water, I ran them under water, I used detergent washes and they just kept multiplying! I finally freaked out and released ladybugs into my basement's grow room! I turned off all the lighting except for the grow lights above the plants. They did an excellent job taking care of the aphids for the 2 weeks before I started hardening them off outside. I collected the stragglers that jumped ship during the move (hundreds of them) and placed them on my lettuce plants outside. Many are still there and today I found several larva. My take is that they don't always fly off (although I have had that experience the last time I purchased them about a decade ago). I had no idea they were wild caught. That is concerning. I still think they have a place in the knock back of aphids. They worked well for me this spring. Hopefully next year I will plant later and be more vigilant about accepting gifts from well meaning friends.
Many properties surrounding my house have out of control “sticky Willy” weeds that invade my space and is EXHAUSTING to try to pull them all, but I try. Continuing this over this past weekend, I noticed they are starting to flower and the top couple of segments are COATED in a thick layer of little black seedy bugs. Even though I pulled and bagged as many as I could, I’m still scared of how many I missed and the tons that might be in the messes on the adjacent properties. Thanks so much for this video. I hope this weekend will not be too late to find and plant alliums.
This was a terrific video, a lot of great information. I coordinate a Victory garden for our local food bank and we are constantly battling Mother nature . We keep it organic , thank you for all the great tips
. I use them in my home garden as well.
Great results!
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Excellent advice! Literally, everything you said explained why I have such a bad aphid problem.
Did any particular solution work for your insects???
@@mercedesbenzs600bash Hi! Spraying Neem Oil, worked well for me. I did it every day for about a week and it seemed to have worked.
Thank you for wonderful info and explaining the negative aspects of "safe" methods. I have had really good results with nasturtiums
I'm growing nasturtiums for the first time this year and really hoping they help.
Thank you for the DE tip in water. I have been sprinkling it on and they won’t die!!
use recharge soil amendment... it will kill them within a few days... they are feeding off of the higher nitrogen levels in your plant.
I had no idea about the ladybug parasite. Thanks for the heads up. So far this year I’ve only seen one ladybug enter my grow space. 😔
Ants herd aphids like cattle! 🤯 Woah! Fascinating!
I have never succeeded in growing broccoli because of aphids. Still trying! Thanks for the tips!
I have had great success with releasing Lady Bugs. I currently have a TON of Lady Bugs who have chosen to set up camp in my Garden!
I often find aphids on some of our lupines usually near the end of thier flowering. I also find japanese beetles on 5 leafed Virginia creeper..I let them eat it... It seems to keep them off our roses, other plants.
Brian, thank you for such great and informative videos!!
I would like to contribute a little by sharing my experience attracting ladybugs. About 4 yrs ago I planted two Rose of Sharon bushes. And oh surprise, two seasons ago I noticed the black and orange bugs and found out they were ladybugs in the works 😉!! I am glad I looked them up before spraying the bushes with neem oil. It has been a great way to have lots of ladybugs right in my yard! Love them! At the beginning of spring they get covered with ladybug eggs. I also make sure I don't rake the fall leaves that fall from my trees that fall around the bushes so I can provide shelter for the ladybugs during the winter. The Rose of Sharon flowers are just too gorgeous not to have in your yard and the hummingbirds, bees and all kinds of beneficial insects love it. But do watch out for the Japanese beetles... I do have to keep up with those pesty things each year.
Had this happen with my Brussels this winter. And you are right about the ants as well and they can sure destroy young plants fast. Thanks for the tips on how to control them.
I have used a small paint brush to manually dislodge the aphids from my milkweed because I didn’t want to accidentally injure/maim/kill the Monarch caterpillars that were growing. Strong stream of water would have also knocked off the caterpillars, so manual I had to do. A good tip on using a suspension of the diatomaceous earth. Will use that on my roses. Was sprinkling and dusting to get even coverage with limited success. Great tips!
Great video. I battled aphids on my cucumber plants last year and the plants ended up dying. Trying trap crops this year!
Yes!
Great advice Brian, especially about buying ladybirds! Another way to attract natives is to provide them with a home too 👍🏼
yes, I bet you mean ladybugs.......... but as I kept listening, he called them ladybirds, I have never heard that.....I live in mid GA.
Your like the iron man of gardening and we all know how cool that is !
Yes he is! 👍
I have a wild hop plant (humulus lupus) in my garden about 5 meters from my chili pepper grow house and my tomatoes, it attracts most of the aphids but it can handle it. Barely have aphids on other plants. Also lady bugs like to lay their eggs on the hop plant, so when I get a few aphids in the green house I pick 5-10 larvae from the hop plant and put them on the infected peppers and there are no aphids left the next day.. the larvae will stay on the plant as long as there is food. Actually works surprisingly well and I don't need to spray anything. Also, thanks for great educational videos!
I have never seen a lady bug larva, but now I know what to look for. Learn something new everyday! Let's get those crazy aphids!!!
?? Im still wondering what they look like!!
@@conniekeshet 9:40 he shows a picture of the lady beetle larvae (baby lady beetle).
@@marshanotbrady3193 thanks!!!
@@conniekeshet You're welcome! Happy gardening!
Great tips!! Thank you!! I can’t do traditional gardening any more, but, I think I can adapt some of them to my indoor/outdoor hydroponic garden.
I’m in a battle right now (no more foreign plants inside) so it’s outside & I have already done most of your suggestions. I put some honey out & they seemed to like it, but I’m going to try a pot of nasturtiums in the room. Praying I finally get rid of them since they keep coming back🤦🏻♀️
First time for aphids inside and it’s terrible. I will never use an open bag of potting soil inside again without sterilizing it.
Very interesting about the ladybug parasite, never ever heard about that!
Most people haven't
Earwigs info was posted on a page. Equal canola and soy sauce and place on the ground in the garden with an old sandwich meat container.
Thank you, it’s good to see you again!
Super appreciate your videos. I have incorporate DE, and hydrogen peroxide into my routine: hoping my tomatoes don`t defoliate early this year. Love the channel. From Canada, thanks.
Do you dilute your peroxide???
I bought lady bugs and was told to put them in a nylon stocking on a plant with aphids for a few days so they wouldn't fly away. A few days later I opened the stocking & have had multiple generations of Ladybugs year after year ever since. ; )
I just found your channel and you are my favorite for everything garden related by far! Thank you!
Thank you!
Thanks for such great information. I have squash bugs and found that if I flood the squash they will climb to the top of the plants then I sprinkle DE on them directly. So far so good. I hope I get some squash this year. Last year they demolished every type of squash I planted, zucchini, yellow crookneck, moringa, strawberry banana and Patty pan.
Nice tip!
Genius!
Those aphids that like milkweed really stress out my plant. They are called Oleander aphids. I had some luck with spraying them off.
With my hose. My milkweed looks like it is recovering. When spraying I do have to be careful of all the monarch caterpillars 🐛 I’ve hatch out about 15 Monarchs this spring🧡
Excellent! I needed this information right now.
Exactly
Awesome tips here. I recently realized ahpids were attacking one of two perfect lollipop dappled willow trees framing the front door, and ants were present. I used neem oil and diatomaceous earth powder to coat the impacted areas and trunk. The powder seems to have worked because while I can't see aphids, the ants are gone for at least a week now. Hoping I'm safe as long as I keep an eye for ants and if none, perhaps the aphids are gone.
They devastated my indoor peppers last year. I was going to throw them all out [about 20 plants] I decided to just remove all the leaves all the way to the stem. It worked great, they grew back wonderful and now I am harvesting peppers from them. So don't throw away your peppers, reborn them LOL
You mentioned aphids don't like onions. Someone suggested I use crushed garlic in water in a spray bottle for an aphid problem I had on a artichoke plant I overwintered inside and it seemed to work.
I also read that fermenting garlic and onion and then using that as a diluted spray is even better. Haven’t tried it yet tho.
@@melissasullivan1658 Aphids are totally attacking my green onions and walking onions so I'd be very hesitant to use onion spray to try to get rid of them. My bugs would invite every aphid in the county to come feast on the yummy spray. 🙄
I’ve never had aphids. This year they are all over my roses and rose of sharons
I put DT in a large holed salt shaker last year and it worked like a charm. Like you said though, wear a mask, it is a very fine powder and could irritate the eyes, nose and throat.
I absolutely love the tips on the Nasturtium, Chives and onions. I grew onions last year and Nasturtium. That helped me a ton more than I realized. I will be getting some of that put back in the bed this year especially since I could not locate onion slips this year. Thank you!
I came to watch things video today because aphids have infested my green onions and walking onions.
I've got 36 nasturtium seedlings under the growlights. Jewel mix, Alaska mix, Double Cherry, and Tall Vining Mix. Still way too cold here to plant anything out. Will plant out my brassica seedlings next weekend. They're tough but I'll still cover them for a bit. We can get frost into the first week of June. Didn't know about the D-earth spray trick! Thanks!
Thanks for the ladybug info! I was about to purchase some!
I can vouch for the fact they all just fly away! I made that mistake. Rude lil buggers ;-)
Tried 1tsp dishwashing liquid an 2tsp vegetable oil to 500 ml water it works
ASTOUNDING!!! I planted my first test garden without knowing what I was doing as per the content of this video. On one side of the yard I planted onions and herbs. On the other side of the yard I planted lettuce surrounded by nasturtium. As you say Brian, the nasturtium is being gnawed and the onion grouping is flourishing. I was watching this video to figure out what was happening to my nasturtium. How fun!!! Thank you.
This video is probably one of the best I have watched so far.
I was thinking of buying some ladybugs/ladybirds. But even though i was thinking about it,I would have looked into it. But what you said in simple terms,without all the reading I would have had to do,is right. You don't know where they come from. Also are we really helping the environment by doing that. The right thing to do would be to attract them. Honestly thankyou with all of my heart for this video. I love how simple you kept it. You got straight to the point.
I am definitely subscribing. Can't wait to watch more of your video's. Have a blessed day & takecare..
I noticed that some of my peas and lettuce had an aphid infestation. The weird thing is that they were within 18" of garlic. The garlic did not seem to phase them.
Faze.
My tip is to sterilize any soil brought in from outside your area, especially potting soil. I just place the soil in a 10 gallon bucket with holes, saturate with boiling water and cover. Let sit to cool and excess water to evaporate.
Now I read this😂😂. I had an open bag of soil I used for indoor seeds. First time I ever had aphids! And a couple flying ants. I like the idea of baking the soil on a grill at 200* F for 20 minutes.
I just found aphids on a brand new plant! Thank you for the advice. Hopefully my poor succulent will make it!
I get aphids every season on brassica crops, especially broccoli and collards. I start spraying before I see any visible infestation and continue to spray until harvest. I spray every day with a soap solution making sure to get the undersides of the leaves. I spray twice a day if I see any visible aphids. They seem to appear just about when the broccoli is starting to form heads. I’m going to try companion planting, a lot easier than having to spray every leaf, nook and cranny!
Lesson learned - be wary of the potted herb plants sold in grocery store produce departments. The mint plants I bought had aphids big time - and I never looked! I can't plant my spring garden seeds this year because I can't chance the aphids moving to my seedlings. I think I used stronger words for the aphids than Brain did!
Marigolds, Catnip, Chamomile, dill, basil, mint, Rosemary are just some of the plants that can repel Aphids & other pests but dont bother Beneficial insects
Thanks - this is really good to know!
I planted marigolds for a couple years, and didn’t think it really did anything. This year I didn’t, and I had a lot of bugs! 😒
Thanks for the info about Rosemary and dill! I didn’t know
Really? They're eating my basil and rosemary like hotcakes
@@vangelaobli Dr Bronner’s peppermint Castile soap and neem oil in water kills everything, except stink bungs. I’m not really sure about those.
First time dealing with these alpids and on Basil that I bought from the store and saw the little green bugs and freaked out and sprayed it with hot water thinking it would kill them and it just weakend the plant and I saw the plant forming crinkled leaves that would be inside out and thought it was because I bought hydro grown basil and put it in the ground and said not to do that. She since has been looking better but I'm afraid they will go elsewhere in my garden. My 1 and 2 year apple trees have been starting to get them on the top leaves and I see ants so I'm trying garlic onion spray if not that I'll try the nim oil
I had a bad infestation of aphids on my egg plants ladybug showed up and boom 💥 no more aphids.
I use the powder for my chooks monthly as it keeps worms away I now will be spraying it on the aphids, thanks 🙏
Love that you give a full Explanations. Thank you.
Well I had a 4 gallon bucket of diatomaceous earth get snow in it. Thought it was a waste. Not so now I’m going to war on my pepper plants thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Saving us time as well as $
Very informative. Thank you!
Excellent! Thank you so much. Aphids demolished my cucumbers last year.
Awesome info! Now do earwigs. They are killing my lettuce box!
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And rollie pollies
I'm having a big problem with earwigs this year also.
Diatomaceous earth works very well for Earwigs.
Earwigs are fatally attracted to beer! Put a shallow dish of beer (I use the little plastic cups from applesauce) in the garden overnight and they'll swarm to it and drown. Pretty disgusting to empty the dishes in the morning, but it certainly does work.
😅 I want to thank you for the information on getting rid of the aphids in our greenhouse We have tomatoes and bell peppers and they've been doing fabulous but we found two bell pepper plants that had aphas on them and now I found some one of my tomato plants so I'm going to try what you said to do thank you again
Have you ever had a problem with Japanese Beatles? Here in NY they will eat up a vegetable garden in no time, and some flowers. The only thing we have ever had to and deter them away from our gardens are the traps… which ending up smelling very nasty after a few days, and sometimes the traps can cost a bit, depending on how many you need in a full garden season. I read that Beatles love sunflowers, so this year I am going to try and grow sunflowers away from any of my gardens I have(5 raise beds). I’m hoping that maybe the Beatles will go to the sunflowers instead of my vegetable garden.
Beatles can eat right through all leaves on a vegetable plant in no time. I’m talking 2 days, and they can have almost all of your leaves chewed off a plant. Fingers crossed the sunflower planting about 30 feet away from my gardens will help attract the Beatles to them, rather than my gardens.
A friend of mine recommended crushing a clove of garlic then mix it with water in a sprayer, I’m thinking of trying this on my chilli peppers as a preventative against aphids
Thank you for all the important info. Much well appreciated
Thank you!
NO!!! There is none more annoying than APHIDS!!!!! Thanks for the tips!! 👩🏽🌾🙏🏽💝
Alliums repel me, too! In a fairly new neighborhood, the landscapers put lots of allium in the parking strips. I'll walk to the other side of the street to avoid that stink! ugh.
Incredibly helpful. THANK YOU.
Hello friend how are you doing ?
I've used dish soap mixed into water, works well, didn't harm the plants.
That's the easiest method. And it works! It dries the aphids up.
Just harvesting turnip greens for the first time. Ughhhh!!!! Aphid infestation was so gross! I have another little batch of seedlings coming up and I'm going to use your tips to keep them healthy. Thank you for all the informational videos Brian!!! Yours is my favorite channel!!! Keep up the good work!
I was a glutton of a kid :) I would take both plates and eat both broccoli and cookies :))) But seriously aphids are horrendous, I wish I could stab them but alas they are too small for that :) I lost half of my previous crop because of aphids. They started on chili pepper plant and quickly spread everywhere. Not going to lie, I did enjoy spraying them with dish soap solution and watch them scurry, dry out, and die. I have since killed all of the aphids, but it is great to know more tips to hopefully prevent them all together. Thank you so much for your excellent advice! ♥
My roses always get infested with aphids 😢. Thanks for this video ... full of great info.
I feel your pain 😫 Wolly aphids, scale insect, fusha galmite, lilly beatle and snails. I AM SICK TO THE BACK TEETH OF ALL THEM 😡😠. I nearly gave up gardening because of them. But now THIS MEANS WAR. IM NOT ALLOWING THEM TO BULLY ME ANYMORE 💪💪💪
I suggest using FOOD GRADE DE. There are two types of DE sold. The DE you buy to put in your pool pumps should not be ingested.
On the Ladybug topic...If you have aphids...they will come...No need to import 😊Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿🐞
Hello friend how are you doing?
Spiders are also helpful. I love them.
Very little lady bugs here in my yard in SoCal, lots of aphids though. 😬
Very helpful and educational, thank you.
I have tons of aphids on my celery plants, we have had 3 days of heavy rainfall and looks like we are expecting a couple more rainy days. I will try spraying them off with a hose first and hopefully that will do the trick.
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Thank you for this! Great video, very informative!
Great video, honest words, thank you.
We learned about that in our science with my kiddos. Very interesting!
I get a ton of aphids on my snow peas every year. I spray them with garlic jalapeño brew I mix up in the blender and let sit a day to brew. Seems to work
They love my Hoyas!
Most helpfully video I've seen! Thank you soo much!😁👍💚
Thanks man, your advice and tips are really helpful. Gods bless
Easy neem oil at night that’s what I did for my sand cherry!😉
How do I apply it?
And skin in redheads I did learn some new info.