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How the Pros Manage Pests



In this week’s video we’re getting into a general approach professional growers takes to combat and prevent pests.

This video covers: how to deal with garden pests, how to manage squash bugs, vine borers, aphids, bean beetles, thrips, cabbage moths, cabbage worms, hornworms, cucumber beetles, and basically any other common garden pest!

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Citations:
Blue Hubbard: https://ipm.missouri.edu/MEG/2017/3/Trap_cropping/
Black Mustard: https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1461-9563.2002.00130.x
Bean Beetles: https://academic.oup.com/jee/article-abstract/70/5/630/2212462
BT fact Sheet: http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/btgen.html
Integrated Pest Management: https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/integrated-pest-management-ipm-principles
Interesting study on ladybugs and aphids (maybe controlling ants would help?): https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/8/2/38

32 Comments

  1. No-Till Growers

    Apologies for the occasionally wonky sound and blurry clips in this one, y'all! Guess. that's what I get for trying to do videos peak farming season ๐Ÿ˜‚. Hope you enjoy, though!

  5. Partida Portet

    Physical barriers help. Pests always follow mineral imbalance, driven by fluctuations in Redox chemistry.
    If we get insect pests we tend to reach for seasalt at 3%
    If we get fungus we use horsetail
    We also make sure we have enough copper, zinc, manganese, silica and sulfur.
    Timing is key when using any product

  8. MajMat

    I've been using a tobacco based spray. I don't smoke, but a mix of tobacco, ground black pepper soaked in hot water strained so there are no bits floating about to block the spray nozzle, add i drop or to of dish soap and that pretty much gets rid of all pests.

  9. Ruth Anne Coro

    Love all things nerdy and geeky ๐Ÿ˜Š I get so much from your videosโ€™s! Thank you for sharing your wisdom, knowledge and experience with us all! I was mostly a perennial flower Gardner. Over the past 4 years, Iโ€™ve added about 400sq of raised beds.. a few green stalks and many fabric containers.. I have an abundance bugs and birds. A couple years ago I grew corn, the tassels got absolutely and disgustingly covered in aphids. I left it to them.. as the crop was a fail anyways.. come early fall, I went to collect them for fall decoration and they were filled with ladybugs.. the next spring, I discovered a whole new โ€œwormlikeโ€ critter everywhere.. a wee bit of searching and discovered they were ladybug larvae.. I still find dozens of them! They are currently working loving my lettuce filled greenstalk!

  11. HMH

    What is that fantastically beautiful bird at 9.53? An American kind of swallow?

  13. M W

    What about gophers, rabbits and deer? I don't see fencing around the beds. I was able to easily.fence out the deer, with some effort the rabbits as well but the gophers have been brutal. The buzzy things don't help much and I haven't been able to get ahead of them gassing the tunnels yet.

  15. The Dhamma Hub

    Now the real problems for me are not so much the bugs, but instead all the rabits, deers, birds, and espeically the moles and racoons… Any advice for those (I am not willing to kill them xD)? And yes, I have the entire property fenced, but try keeping out an animal that can jump 2.5 meters high

  16. Whitney Brown

    So this may nr helpful to someone. We have a natural abundance of common milkweed that grows on our property. The aphids just flock to them and of course the ants are right there too. But bc they are so occupied with the milkweed out in the back field we really haven't had a problem with aphids ever in the 10 yrs I've been growing the milkweed. Plus its a native thing to grow so I don't have to keep up with it ever. Hope that helps someone

  17. Tom Dixon

    One trick we discovered by accident is that planting beans beside your potatoes keeps the Colorado Potato Beetle away. We had initially thought it was the variety of potato in that row, but I was later reading more info on companion planting and West Coast Seeds I believe was the one that had this point listed. I have since planted beans with my potatoes every year and not had a single beetle!

  19. Amber MacKinnon

    I would like to order a copy of your book. Is there a digital option? I live in Canada and with the shipping etc costs it brings the book up to about $70.00 for me ๐Ÿ˜ข

    Thank you, I love these videos ๐Ÿ™Œ

  21. Kira Nero

    First of all I love Your video's keep it up. Secondly That wasp is that a close up or real size? Thats the biggest thing ive ever seen.

  22. Horse237

    Wash eggshells and sterilize them for 10 minutes in a preheated oven. Let it cool and then pulverize them so the worms in your bins can use them for grit as they have no teeth. The worms turn the chitin from the eggshell into chitinase, an enzyme that eats the exoskeletons of aphids. The eggshells provide calcium which extends the shelf life of your vegetables.

    Check your soil for manganese, boron, iron and other minerals critical for photosynthesis. Manganese helps split water into H and OH, the first step in photosynthesis. Boron is needed for the plant's cell wall to protect it from both pests and diseases. Boron is also needed for a seed to send down roots. Later in the season, boron is critical for pollination. Iron is present in the soil but not always available. Alfalfa has available iron and makes a good addition to your compost pile as well as an excellent bedding for chickens. The iron makes for better egg yolks though you must avoid alfalfa and hay that has been sprayed with Grazon! It kills veggies.

    Always soak seeds in clean water before planting. John Kempf recommended soaking seeds for 24 hours in Mn, Co, Cu and Zinc and Boron. Mo helps make the enzyme nitrogenerase which helps the plant turn nitrogen into amino acids. You can help your plants by feeding them amino acids from your worm bin. Feed coffee grounds to worms and they will give you complete protein. Bob Dykstra, the entomologist, reported in Africa that locusts cannot eat plants with complete protein so super healthy plants avoided locusts.

    John Kempf also recommended spraying with Mg, Sulfur, Mo and B foliar sprays to get rid of white flies and aphids. He said add molasses to kill remaining insects (feeding on leaves) like stink bug and Colorado potato beetle. 24 hours to total kill.

    Biochar makes you garden so electronically strong that it will hold in your minerals for hundreds of years. A man doubled his CEC ratio in his backyard garden and all of his first year problems went away. Meanwhile, the professional landscapers at the Masters tournament golf
    course in Atlanta have a CEC ratio ten times his. But the Indians of Brazil have ten times the CEC ratio of the Masters course. And their ancestors did that for them with Biochar a thousand years ago.

    I have seen videos of men using magnets to help seeds germinate. 3 hours for smaller seeds and up to 6 hours for larger seeds. Seems labor intensive. But, if you can get more crop yields per year, then it might be worth it.

    I have been studying for awhile but do not yet have a homestead. Maybe some day soon.

  24. brandon horwath

    I can't stand the Canada thistle that grows around here. However, I've noticed that aphids love it. I left some for them. Now, I have more ladybugs, this year, than I have seen in my entire life…

  25. Marie Lefebvre

    I used a homemade spray made with a few drops of peppermint oil, soap & cool pressed neem oil and sprayed the garden after every rain and the smell covered & repelled most of the moths from the Brassies.

  26. OhMyET

    Iโ€™ve been using mint tea, cyan pepper and soap with a little neem oil on my garden. Has helped with some of the aphids but it has to be applied often because of rain.

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