7 Pests You Probably Have In Your Garden (And What To Do)
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Both @jacquesinthegarden and I are no stranger to garden pests, so in today's video we go over 7 of the MOST common ones and our recommendations for how to prevent and control them.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:09 - Aphids
02:40 - Fungus Gnats
04:35 - Cabbage Looper & Cabbage Worm
06:02 - Leaf Miners
08:28 - Cutworm
09:57 - Thrips
11:11 - Whiteflies
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Has such bad aphids last year. Three different types (red, green, white) on my plants all at once. It was bad, I was considering pesticides for first time. Then I saw some green worms on them too and got so mad. But my plants suddenly got better, and there were no signs of the leaves being eaten. After some research, I realized they were the larvae of the hoverfly. They completely decimated the aphid population in about 2 weeks. I couldn’t find any! They pupated and became a huge swarm that covered my plants, laying the next gen. To this day, I have never seen such a huge population in hoverflies in my garden and they helped me so much I am glad I waited. I just hope they return again this year! They seemed to be attracted to the “honey” you mentioned that aphids leave, my plants were sticky with it! Even the wasps came by to feed on it 🥲 I am a new gardener (only 5 yrs) so I keep discovering new things every year
Id love to see an episode just about beneficial nematodes
Jacques from the Epic team did one that's quite good. :) ruclips.net/video/_bAT3YGo-UQ/видео.html
They’re so cool
I think about SpongeBob every time I hear of _nematodes_ !
Jacque has a video on it
Get a starter culture from Josh’s frogs. White worms. Benefit? Can also use them to feed fish fry :) haha
You can see the eggs of the cabbage worms and the leaf miners on the undersides of leaves. Instead of using any kind of pesticide, you can just find the eggs and rub them off with your finger. Then cover your vulnerable plants (brassicas, beets, kale, swiss chard, spinach) with fine mesh bug netting for gardens so the moths can't get in to lay their eggs anymore.
Or just use sticky tape and dab the underside of the leaves and you just stick em up 🔫
So they’re not in the ground then ?? Thanks for the tip because mom and I love chard and I’m new to all this.
Mosquito dunks come in granular form in a shaker container. I simply sprinkle it in my seed starting mix. No more problems. The dunks are great in ponds & bird baths.
Thanks , didn’t know it came in granular form !
The best brand I've found is literally just called Mosquito Bits. XD
I'm reluctant to soak them according to the instructions, because I've found the smell doesn't come out of my watering containers, but sprinkling them on top of the soil has worked just as well for me.
The most abundant pest around here is the earwig. I don't think I've ever seen one fly; but, they sure can climb. Last year, one of the other gardeners suggested that I sink a small cup, like a yogurt cup into the soil and fill it with soy sauce. The earwigs seem to be attracted to the scent of the soy sauce. I tried it and sure enough, the next time I went to the garden, there were earwigs floating in the soy sauce.
I read a comment that someone uses a combination of soy sauce and oil. I think the oil makes it extremely difficult for the pests to escape.
Earwigs eat aphids tho. … I like having them around.
earwigs & roly-polys should be on this list as well!
@@shyviolets42But they also eat blossoms! Or at least they are this year in the garden I share with my Mom. They're everywhere and it's been so frustrating trying to kill them off, because it's too dry for aphids so far this year and we're not watering beyond the raised garden beds.
Tried this (a bit of any kitchen oil mixed with a bit of soy source, and I re-use sauce/salsa take-put containers), and yeah….works great, and for me, catches both ear wigs and moisture knats.
I've actually encountered at least 5 of these pests in my garden and I can tell you the worst one for me has nothing to do with the actual plant, but the fact that the Fungus Gnats love to attack your face. Nose, eyes, mouth, all got flew into by this super annoying pest! 😤 Wish I knew this info beforehand.
Diatomaceous earth is great sprinkled at the base of your plants to help with cutworms. And if you spray anything, even the organic stuff, don’t do it in the morning when pollinators are doing their thing. Afternoon and evening is best
OMG I cracked up when the short clip of insect controlling birds were hummingbirds!!
As a super new gardener I greatly appreciate you both sharing your wealth of knowledge with us, especially for free. My only request is could you please write out the names of the products you recommend? Whether on screen or in the description box. Sometimes it's hard to make out what the name is that's being said and I don't want to get it wrong. Thank you!
Calendula is an amazing trap crop for aphids, I put Calendula by all my starts and the aphids go straight to those flowers and leave my starts alone 👍 I also use ladybugs and preying mantis in my greenhouse to keep the populations down.
I put out ant traps that have jelled boric acid powder in them after I hose down the plant with water to knock off existing aphids. They need the ants to herd them there. With the ants killing themselves feasting on the ant traps that are for sale with the jelled boric acid powder, the problem with aphids is over. However continuing the ant traps is necessary and they last a long time.
I remember my art teacher getting us to catch ladybugs for her garden she said keeping a healthy population of them was great for dealing with aphids because they're basically their favorite food.🤷 But a neat trick if so.☺️
Highly informative, excellent graphics and examples, concise and the use of two persons to keep it entertaining. Love these videos! Keep on being a great source of help for gardeners. Greetings from Berlin, Germany
This is such a valuable video for me. I have been gardening for years and have been getting crushed by pests in San Diego. I am so happy to have some solutions!!! Thank you! Hopefully now I can eat some of my harvest 😅
Sun dew carnivorous plants are fatally attractive to fungus gnats. I worked in an open floor wide cube farm where every plant had fungus gnats. One person brought in one sun dew and all the gnats were gone overnight and never came back. I'd like to see you experiment with one, especially in a confined space like a green house.
Sundews are great for that. Some petunias have similar sticky leaves and trap insects, and then their bodies get washed away into the soil when it rains! So cool.
Thanks for this tip! Will try it soon, lots of sundew around here, literal fields..
yes and no...fungas gnats can still land on the non carnivorous part of the sundew and still lay eggs. also he has to hope that the fungus gnats focus on the sundews and not the other garden plants
pinguicula are evenbetter for fungus gnats
@@Nick_Jarrett Yes! Those are more like the petunia leaves I was talking about. 👍👍
I did a container garden of Sunflower and Osteospermum a.k.a African daisy. Looks so pretty and the Sunflower is supposed to attract bees, earth worms and ladybugs. Ladybugs are supposed to eat Aphids. I thought I learned about Sunflower benefits from this channel. You all are so helpful. Thank you for your videos.
Mosquito dunks along with sticky traps works amazingly well for indoor and greenhouse gardening. I've tried nematodes and traps but couldn't completely disrupt the lifecycle. Once I started treating full strength BT once a week all my gnat problems disappeared!
The Dunks and Bits are excellent for gnat control!
100% Nothing else was anywhere close to as effective as BT. I buy bags of the mosquito bits and use large tea bags to soak soak them in water, add a little liquid fertilizer, and my indoor plants are in happy town. A Neem spray for the foliage helps keep the adults from landing on leaves since they seem to hate it. Add on the yellow sticky traps, and you can keep those suckers controlled. Here in PNW, I've accepted that I will never be rid of them, but I can definitely keep them at bay. The suckers love spreading disease to every freaking plant outside and inside my house.
Found this out by accident. I hung a suet block over some aphid infested roses in the morning before going to work. Chickadees, sparrows and bushtits were common visitors at the suet feeder. When I came home at the end of the work day I went out to spray a home-brew insecticide on the roses. There was no trace of aphids on the roses. I now routinely use this practice for aphid control.
OMG...all these years I've been using mosquito dunks and I never knew that they worked by introducing BT! I'm totally using that on my seedling trays (as well as any standing water)!.Thanks!
You guys covered a lot of issues here, this is really great. You're really good at gardening problems and solutions! thank you
Jacques did the opening ‘pop up’ with Kevin, love it!! Great info from the best guys on RUclips!!!! 🙏🏼☀️😄
Thanks.
What about root borers that destroy squash plants? Here we are lucky to get 1 squash before they kill the plant. Suggestions on naturally taking them out.
I use a combination of kaolin clay and diatemacious earth on my plants that get affected by pests and net bags on the fruit. I also started using Japanese beetle traps so they get lured to those and leave my plants alone.
Use milky spore for getting rid of Japanese beetles grubs❤ several treatments over 2-3 years is supposed to nip them
I've had great success eliminating cutworms with diatamaceous earth. I just sprinkle it on the row where I just planted either seeds or plants, and have never had a problem with cut worms after that.
Thank you SOOOO much for this video. It has been a life saver ❤
This video helped me save a sunflower from those overnight worms that clip off the plant. I created a little twig fortress around my sunflower and she is singing and strong now. Thank you!!!!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
the stick method is the best! I do that for my beans.
Great tips! I love to garden and this information can help me with the pests I’m my garden. Now I can identify some of the problems !
Excellent video, thanks for sharing the info.
I go out most nights in the spring and fall hunting for cutworms. They are wreaking havoc not just on my garden, but my entire yard. I have WAY too many. On the plus side, my chickens love their tasty breakfast in the morning! Never knew the stick trick-definitely trying it asap. Thank you!
The mosquito dunks watering thing blew my mind .
Such a helpful video!! Thank you!
Great video. Excellent information. Thanks for posting.
Araucaria Bidwillii in the background at 7:24. That's awesome.
Thanks for sharing these tips!
Diatomaceous earth also works outstanding. Mix into the soil and being it ph natural and add nothing negative to your soil it wreaks havoc on the larvae cutting them up like a meat Grinder.
But only until u water or it rains?
@@lyndelgado6138 yes, you must reapply every time it gets wet - which makes it not very effective if you water and wet the soil regularly.
I planted lettuce with potatoes. It was cold, so potatoes took awhile in spring to pop up. Now they are shading the lettuce. I also found slugs prefer potato leaves over lettuce, since I'm not harvesting potato leaves, so I'm fine with potato leaves with holes in them. Makes it easier to pick them off too.
This was amazingly helpful! Thank you!!
Yay! Thank you for following and promoting IPM!
Great tips, Kevin! Thanks man
Awesome info. Thanks guys! - Rhonda
Love you guys. Keep it up.! Straw hats off!!
I got a whitefly infestation on my cucumber vines one year. Oh my lanta. I pruned, sprayed, pruned sprayed ... they just kept "jumping" to another section of the plants. I was able to maintain until the season was over but it was not fun. You've mentioned earwigs in San Diego. Those buggers showed up last year - in force - to my brassicas. My romaine and cabbage leaves became lace ... how do you manage those? Much thanks - great vid!
Thank you this was super helpful! I have major thrips problem!
Glad I found your video. Lots of good tips!!
Outstanding video guys!
This was great - so informative!
Last year in my greenhous I had almost no pests. What I had instead were quite a lot of well fed predatory insects.
Thank you so much , this video really helped me ❤
Great overview, thanks!
Please, please, please tell me how to get rid of snails. They are my arch nemesis. I would watch a 3 hour video dedicated to that alone. 😮
Monterey brand Sluggo Pet Safe ( contains iron not pesticides). Want to put around edge of plants just outside of where u water them cause wet sluggo doesnt work.
Lay out wooden boards. The slugs will crawl under them at night and you can just collect them off the boards. Also, put them on the compost heap for quicker breakdown of the compost. 😉
Thanks for the warnings. I will look for these creatures.
This was super helpful!
I really like your bit about fungus gnats. I never thought about watering the garden with it! I will typically put a bundle of hay into a bucket and let it ferment for a few days in water and then throw a mosquito dunk in there and set it out around my property. I've noticed a SIGNIFICANT reduction in mosquitos because their larvae are dying in those buckets.
The same company makes a product called "mosquito bits" and I make a 'tea' using about a quarter to a half cups of bits to a gallon of hot/warm water, let it soak together for about 15 minutes, letting the water cool off enuf to water with and use this to water my plants. I do this regularly about once a month and also every new plant I bring into the garden gets watered with the tea before I introduce it into the garden. I have gone from massive numbers of fungus gnats destroying my garden a couple years ago, to virtually none of them left at all, and this is the only treatment I've used.
Great tips! Thanks
Thank you so much for your incredible help… new gardener
Great video guys!
Slugs have been a huge problem in my raised beds on and off. I wrapped the beds in copper tape and that helps at least. Mealybugs are also a pain for me.
Love your informative videos. I live in the lower Hudson Valley in NY and I discovered a lot of little black bugs on one bean on my pole bean plant. The bugs looked like ticks. I clipped off the bean and the one leaf that one was sitting on and drowned them in water with dish soap because plain water didn't work. Any idea what they were? I sprayed the plant with Neem and haven't seen any more. Thanks
GREAT VIDEO !!!!! Thank you so much 💚
Eating the herbs and marigolds also.Just started my garden along with rain every other day.Thanks
Is there any kind of mythology around where cutworms originate from? That seems absolutely ripe for there to be some supernatural tales about what comes by at night and clips the seedlings since cutworms only come out at night when people don't see them
Bookmarked! Thanks guys.
Interesting. Thank you!
Hi! I’m having problems with a pest eating my basil leaves. Should I use neem oil and is it safe to consume the basil after use?
can you use those mosquito dunks in an injector for a drip irrigation? i also found that DE helps with the cutworms .. i think it was cutworms but i no longer have tha problem .. i sprinkled DE all around my plant on the ground and it seems to have stopped them
I have had to deal with all of these at one point! Right now I'm dealing with Elk, it's been cold in the PNW so they can't go into the mountains where they should be. Everything is emergency fenced off right now!
Do you have anything with pincher bugs or ear wigs
Thank you! Explained a lot
Very valuable information.
I have been having problems with caterpillars eating my corn plants. not the ears yet, since those havent formed yet, but the green leafy parts of the plant itself. Just today I sprayed some neem oil on all my corn and I hope that solves the problem.
Bt should work better on worms..
Does anyone have any recommendations for dealing with stink bugs? I have some shield shaped beetles (that spray stink juice when you bother them) and they keep hanging out on my bell peppers and mating. I try to wash them off but they keep coming back. Not sure if they’re harming the plants but last season they were an absolute nuance, covering everything from my bell peppers to my amaranth
One way that helps with many insects is to encourage natural predators like birds, spiders and such ☺️
I just pick them off into a cup of Dr. Bronners peppermint soap. Don’t squeeze them! Or spray with that same soap & water mix. They despise peppermint soap.
As an OC gardener, you guys are my favorite resource! 💚
Great information ❤
Awesome that you use the Summit Mosquito Dunks. Been using them for years but I hadn't thought of putting the dunks in water. I've been using the Bits but the dunks make it much easier so I don't have to strain out the bits since they get moldy. Thank you so much for that tip. One dunk per 5gal, cool. What I'm understanding is BT will kill all larvae of most any kind of pest. Will BT also kill the larvae of the good bugs too? Great video. Somewhere I read ppl use toothpicks next to the seedlings but I like the sticks even better.
Thank you! 🐛🦋🐝🐞🐌🪲🕷
Potato bugs, squash vine borer, and slugs are my main pest. Aphids definitely as well!
Squash vine borer is my nemesis.
I have also grown all my tomato plants in pairs. Saves on space.
What?! Nothing yet 4 root knot nematodes? I seeded mustard in my raised beds 2 days ago n already sprouting. Going to grow n drop but should i let them flower b4 cutting or not n should i dig remainder of mustard plant back into soil to release more glycophates? Thx!
For me, it’s snails. Started using Organic Slugo Plus - hopefully it works
Aphids & Whiteflies the banes of my pepper plants .Which plants are the best at attracting beneficial insects all season?
S.O.S. I got aphids in our Polytunnel, some may have overwintered last year and maybe some new. Managed to bring several ladybird beetles in but progress is slow. Should I throw out top 3 inches of compost by the end of the growing season to prevent overwintering? 😢 Also, fairly certain flea beetles are nibbling on my little radish seedlings.
How do I control EARWIGS? Seems like more than normal this year?
This is really helpful! Would love to get your advice on snails too -- I've had a few on my cantaloupe leaves in their seedling phase.
I have snails in my strawberry patch, ew..
Pour a small bowl of beer, and place it close to plants. They will drink, fall in and die. This actually works.
Is the BT in the misquito dunk the same as the one jaqués used for the cabbage?
Why did I decide to watch this while eating lunch?!
I am hoping I don't have nightmares about the creepin' crawlin' nasty bugs tonight.
I am in the central California valley. All the rain we got has made weeds go crazy in my non-garden dirt areas. I can not keep up with the weeding. The aphids and white flies are obsessed with the weeds and as I am pulling weeds, the pests are moving to my garden. Any suggestion?
My biggest problem for the past two years are the flee beetles and last year tarnished plant bugs.
I need advice on potato bugs (pill bugs) and earwigs!!! Those are my worst offenders in my patio garden. FYI: I just bought the patio bed from the epic gardening store! So excited to use it!!!
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The most abundant pest around here is the earwig. I don't think I've ever seen one fly; but, they sure can climb. Last year, one of the other gardeners suggested that I sink a small cup, like a yogurt cup into the soil and fill it with soy sauce. The earwigs seem to be attracted to the scent of the soy sauce. I tried it and sure enough, the next time I went to the garden, there were earwigs floating in the soy sauce.
Try Sluggo+. It's an organic pesticide for slugs, snails, pill bugs, and earwigs.
Im gonna try the soy sauce trick
Nice video! Could you do a follow up on larger pests? Like squirrels and possums 😭?
We created a frame, then put tulle over everything. "Bridal" tulle that's extra wide reduces how much you'll have to buy.
A pair of dogs works pretty well assuming they don't become a bigger problem XD
I’ve got iguanas eating my passion fruit 😢
Thank u for sharing
Excellent
Great episode
Thanks so much for this video, I had no idea about the mosquito dunks! Any recommendations for squash vine borers? Gonna start a lot of squash this spring and I’m a little nervous. 😬
Cover the plants with tulle (much cheaper than insect netting). You'll have to hand pollinate, but it's alot less work to me than searching out and squishing eggs or injecting BT into the stems.
What about the Vine bore worms ,?? I had a bad experience with them last yr on my squash plant .
Thank you so very much
Bonide (capn jack's dead bug) annihalated a bad thrip infestation in one application on a greek basil plant last year.
Awesome video
I have learned a trick from Nurseries Carolinia, to use earthworm castings to kill fungus gnats. I have no idea how it works, but it absolutely does. For the first time, I can keep houseplants without being tortured.
is the BT okay just to use in garden beds with plants already flowering? ive got a ton right now for some reason, I think it came from my compost bin and I didnt realize it at the time.
One thing that I've discovered that controls the fungus knats best is just to light some matches. It sounds silly but it's sulfur and they do not like it. I don't know if it kills them or not but it works really well. I've had a major problem with them since I moved into my new place about 3 years ago and have tried everything I've even killed a few plants because I didn't water them and killed my soil with h2o2 and killed a few plants from using Diatamascus Earth because of ph and ppm issues and the knat problem still didn't get any better. If you are having the same issues please try lightning matches and let me know if it works for you.
Can you make a video on how to deal with grasshoppers . I have one raised bed and I am noticing they are destroying my plants. It is very discouraging as a first time gardener .thank you, Love your videos!