This year I’m trying IPM thanks to all I have learned from you. My tomatoes were covered in whitefly, I made a solution of water, castile soap and peppermint essential oil. It worked!! Last year I used a heavier duty product and both gave the same results. Thank you Janey for sharing all your knowledge with us, my garden is a happier place now 🥰
I just want to Thank you Janie for the videos & sharing your knowledge with the viewers! Gardening is so Beautiful & 1 of the Best Therapy for our minds to relax in. Seeing the Wonderful Creations God Blessed us with! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us & being so open to everyone the things you learned through your Willingness to go through taking notes & tests through the Master Gardening Classes & everything you went through to be where you are today. For sharing the knowledge you have already attained, with those willing to learn as you do you trialing with plants & showing all of us how to Be Joyful as we work in our own gardens. Your gardens are Beautiful & mine is just a Country Garden setting & it is mine to enjoy! But I Love seeing the fancy gardens you have worked so hard to Create! Keep up the Good Work You Are Doing Great!!!
New gardener here: this pest convo was jarring for me haha I’ve seen all of the things you’ve mentioned and thought Ohh I’ll talk the Buddhist approach and leave it alone, but now I am considering the damage they are doing. This gave me a lot to think about lol.
Great info here. Not the glamorous side of gardening but we all want to protect our investments in time and money while protecting the environment for future gardens. Thanks so much Janey!
Hi Janey. Fab video. So beneficial to know how and why pesticides work and to understand the ecosystem when using them. Really amazing clarity. Thanks so much for your work and your time and patience in sharing your knowledge.
Your garden looks AMAZING! You have really worked hard to accomplish that beauty!Thank you for giving us hope for our gardens! Love the colors and textures you used !🥰🥰🥰🌹
Agree. The ladybugs a few times a year is the most successful aphid prevention. Thanks for the video. I would love to see an explanation on using beneficial nematodes. (Hopefully, you don’t need to use them) 😁
Your garden looks amazing. I have been following you for a while and I think this is the best it has ever looked! It has been cool here in South Carolina, zone 7b so my perennials are so happy!
Janey, you are a natural teacher!👏. I’m so glad you mentioned mould on Sluggo, I’ve experienced it and wasn’t sure what to do about it. So thank you, now I know I don’t have to worry about it at all! Great job!! 😊🇨🇦
Great job!! Zone 8 here. Thank you for telling about the white butterflies because I had no clue where the bugs where coming from that was eating my greens for their daily salad. Restarting them but this time I know what to do. Thanks for always sharing.
We live in the south and our biggest pest control problem is Japanese beetles. I did treat my lawn with JP killers back in April. This is the first year that I have done that in over five years. It it’s still early in the season but the only major problem that I have had with JP‘s is them nibbling on my beautiful Pinky Winky standard hydrangea tree! Diligently every day I go out several times a day during the hottest part I go out and gently tap them into a rectangular container with a lid shake them hard and dump them in soapy water in a pail! It works! I casually find some JP’s on some roses and I pick them off immediately.I use the dawn soap with water sprayer method a lot on white flies, Japanese beetles to prevent them from biting and my other hydrangeas! It works🙌🏼
I read that coffee grounds will deter slugs...I use them around my hostas since I don't like to use any chemicals. My dogs don't like the smell of coffee so I know they won't bother the area. Your garden is lovely!
Hello Sonia, I can't say that coffee grounds helps against snails. Also, coffee powder makes the soil acidic and hostas don't like that, they need alkaline soil
@@mirijabender6779 Here in my area we use coffee grounds to make our soil slighty acidic for hostas which they love. We have clay alkaline soil here and I've been amending my soil with coffee grounds for years. Starbucks gives away free coffee grounds and on the label they write that they deter snails. Will experiment this year to see if adding a ring around my hostas helps..I don't have a big slug problem but I like organic solutions.
Hi Janey, This video was very beneficial. You did a great job explaining everything. It helps me tremendously to know the ‘why’ and you educated all of us!
Hey Janey, I love this segment! Not many garden you tubers discuss this important topic. Its very helpful! By the way, what is your approach on millipedes and rolly pollies?
Thank you for such an interesting and informative vid about pest control. I absolutely am on the hunt for earwigs!! Get aphids on my honeysuckle most years. This year is so different in Colorado--rain every day. This will bring different challenges but my trees and plants have been loving it!
Great video on IPM! Thanks Janey! I have Sumac trees in my backyard and one of them had bores. Our nursery’s master gardener suggested that I use a systemic insecticide for it at that time and follow up with annual treatments. It worked as far as I can tell.
I usually treat Japanese beetles with nematodes. I spray them in my lawn and flower beds twice (once in the spring and once in the summer). I have found that this really reduced the amount of beetles in my flowers and shrubs. I purchase mine either at Costco or Home Depot. FYI I garden in a zone 5a
I do exactly what you said with Japanese beetles. Best to go out in the morning. They are sluggish and easily picked and tossed into soapy water. Thank goodness they are only around for about a month but they can cause some destruction!
Hi Janey! Thanks for this great video! Your videos inspire me to get out and garden! Would love to see more of your schedule in action like a day of weeding, & pruning. I learned so much! Keep it going :)
Fantastic tutorial Janey. It helps so much keep being reminded of how to make our gardens balanced and planting pollinator friendly plants. I do have to use sluggo plus around my dahlias but I'm ok with that
I use sluggo plus too for snails, slugs, and earwigs. I guess I use the IPM method and did not know it had a name! I have been struggling with leaf hoppers (they look similar to grasshoppers but are tiny-1/4” size). The result is holes in the leaves. It was recommended by a master gardener through the University of Minnesota to use an insecticidal soap and seems to have worked! I wish I had done this sooner. 35:24
Great information thank you for taking the time to describe in detail this really helps. So far my garden is clear except last year Asian beetles no advise other than picking them off.
Thank you for the detailed info. I am getting nematodes to hopefully help with the Japanese beetles this year! In the past I’ve picked them into soapy water but I have lots of production flower rows and that seemed to be all I did for weeks on end - and they still won. Hopefully not this year!
Very helpful video. Thanks! I had japanese beetles in a former garden. I used traps for a while, and made the mistake of putting them next to the infested plants. The pheromones just attracted more beetles to the affected area. I found the traps to be more useful if I placed them on the opposite side of the yard from my flowering plants.
Hi janey🌺 . Your work and take care of your garden it gave an amazing result (wonderful plants ).If I saw aphids on roses ، I spray them with water . Have anice day .🌺🦋🌺
Thank you for explaining to us. I was getting bugs on my roses and my indoor ivory plants. But What I did was put a little dawn dish soap and water into a spray bottle and sprayed all around where I saw the bugs. Haven’t see any since. 🤷🏽♀️
Hello from Valencia, Spain. Your video is so informative. I have a fabulous dame de noche but now its full of tiny black mites. I use systemic to kill mealybugs all over my Stephanotis but it hasn't really worked. The weather is so hot , so early with hardly any rain up to now.
I'm in middle Georgia. We have had Japanese beetles for two weeks. We've bought traps, picked them off and sprayed them with a water and peppermint oil mixture. The spray helped the roses with other pests but not the beetles. They are ravaging our grapevines, roses and blackberries. You are correct, the only way to get rid of them is to pick them off. Hopefully, they will be gone in two or three weeks.
I deal with aphids and white flies, and I spray them with neem oil, because I don't have somewhere to attach our hose, and I don't always have the time to squish them. As for caterpillars, I squish them when I see them, as I don't have a lot of them unlike the aphids and white flies. As for snails though, I pick them up, and throw them on the concrete until they die. Leaf miners, I follow the trail and squish until I either have squished all of the leaf miners in a leaf(very tiny yellow little you-know-whats), or I have squished the leaf, luckily I rarely deal with them.
Wow,😊. I love your informative video ❤❤ . I am waiting for my lady bugs to arrive … it’s too late to purchase them and release in my garden now ( I’m in Zone 6b ) . Love to hear about your advise. Thanks.
Thanks Jaynie for the great info! My biggest problem is whiteflies! I can’t get them under control 😡 I live in Redding btw. Do you have any suggestions?
Hi Janey! This video really hit the spot as far as my problems. Today I hand picked like 5 of those green worms and one huge earwig in my rose bush. So I over sprayed my garden with those sluggo pellets and now I know why I’m seeing this like white moldy patches😞 The biggest problem I have right now is that I have like black flies or gnats on all my new plants! They’re all over even on my cilantro 😢 It’s so annoying I almost want to give up caring for these plants. What is my best solution here?
Do you have to deal with viruses or fungus? The leaves of my cucumber plants are spotted, but doesn't appear to be insect damage. I hate to put sprays on my edibles unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. Can you advise what is safest for this problem? Thanks so much! Love your gardens, content, and joyful personality!
Love your channel. I’ve have earwigs eating out plants. The worst thing I fight with every year is the Japanese clover! Most of our beds have heavy duty landscape fabric then rock , 2” 3” size on top. But over the years the fabric gets holes in it & the clover starts taking over. 😟
This is my third year gardening and in terms of pest management, I’ve been companion planting and mechanically removing them by hand picking or using tape, spraying them off and using insect netting. So far, I’m really just dealing with aphids and spider mites and it works well enough. I released ladybugs and it was pretty ineffective for me and frankly, physically removing them works best for me and it’s the least expensive method. I guess I should be leaving them for the beneficial insects that are supposed to eat the aphids and mites but I don’t see any! I usually have June bugs and I’m just planning on using insect netting at night until they are gone. Luckily they only stay around for a few weeks.
Japanese beetles are my worst pest. Last yr they were on everything just about all summer, plants they never bothered, they destroyed. I do the soapy water dunk, if I'm lucky I can tap the branch, they just fall in, last I gave up, just too many. I seen Danielle at Northlawn flower farm take a vacuum cleaner to them. Early spring I had ladybugs galore, recently I seen aphids on a rose. And where are you ladybugs.?!! One, I had one find them, I let it do it's thing, I see you're at 40K, the channel is growing like a weed 😊
Hello, Zone 10B here… Due to the substantial amount of rain we had this past winter (Certainly not complaining…) For the first time I have slugs in my microscopic tiny patio/balcony gardens. Following your suggestion, I utilized Sluggo Plus which I think worked. However, the pellets became fuzzy like decomposed mushrooms after a few days. Is it normal? I tried to investigate on line but there were no descriptions of fuzziness about Sluggo Plus. Please advise. H from a tiny balcony in San Diego
I’m confused. I always thought those white cabbage moths laid cabbage worms that eat cruciferous plants and the adult tobacco budworm moth (not the white butterfly pictured) laid eggs of the bud worm that eat petunias.
Great info but, what if I already sprayed the bad stuff on my plants trying to get rid of white flies. I have a huge horrible infestation on my brand new garden and sprayed neem oil everywhere and it made my garden smell horrible and even killed some plants :( what do I do ?
For ants, I’ve had good luck deterring them with lots of DE. I disturb their burrow and blow DE all over them when they come out to bite me. I saturate the area with DE and they move on. Haven’t seen them come back so far this season! I like food grade DE cause it’s super safe
Do you use an exterminator for your house, for keeping things like spiders and roaches out of your house. If so do you know what they use? I worry about when the exterminator comes, they are killing all insects instead of just keeping the unwanted insects out of the house.
Hey does your Homestead verbena seed itself??? They are selling it and I want it but it is an annual here. I have other verbena that have seeded themselves. I am in a zone 6a.
With a busy schedule like that you must not hold down a job away from home... my yard is pretty good size , I get up early morning water , plant, pull weeds or anything that needs done, then hit the shower and head to work
I read thatcrushed eggshells are good for deterring slugs so thats what im trying this year. They are rvavging my lambs ear and hostas 😢. Have you tried this?
I use my food processor to grind them up into small flakes. The key is to be sure to make a wide ring around the plant and to not have any leaves touching the ground for the slugs to use as a bridge. I also sprinkle flakes down into the base of the leaves as slugs hide there too. How shells work is the flakes stick to the body and irritate the slug so it moves on or better yet slices the body and they die ! 👏 As I live in Canada, I save up my shells all winter to grind each spring. There are lots of videos online to help too. Good luck!🇨🇦
My garden nemesis is GRASSHOPPERS! They have plagued my garden for 3 years now and the only targeted pellet to kill them isn't being made right now. So I would have to use a broad spectrum insecticide and I really don't want to kill my beneficials. Does anyone e have any suggestions???? By July my garden is decimated 😣 There are thousands of tiny babies hopping all over right now and any help would be appreciated!
I buy a praying mantis egg each year and then I have hundreds of babies that feeds on all kinds of bad bugs. When they get big they can eat grasshoppers! I also have lady bugs and am waiting for my shipment of lacewing larvae for a spider mite infestation😫
I have been gardening for a long time… and found your post here very informative. Thank you.
This year I’m trying IPM thanks to all I have learned from you. My tomatoes were covered in whitefly, I made a solution of water, castile soap and peppermint essential oil. It worked!! Last year I used a heavier duty product and both gave the same results. Thank you Janey for sharing all your knowledge with us, my garden is a happier place now 🥰
I just want to Thank you Janie for the videos & sharing your knowledge with the viewers! Gardening is so Beautiful & 1 of the Best Therapy for our minds to relax in. Seeing the Wonderful Creations God Blessed us with! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us & being so open to everyone the things you learned through your Willingness to go through taking notes & tests through the Master Gardening Classes & everything you went through to be where you are today. For sharing the knowledge you have already attained, with those willing to learn as you do you trialing with plants & showing all of us how to Be Joyful as we work in our own gardens. Your gardens are Beautiful & mine is just a Country Garden setting & it is mine to enjoy! But I Love seeing the fancy gardens you have worked so hard to Create! Keep up the Good Work You Are Doing Great!!!
New gardener here: this pest convo was jarring for me haha I’ve seen all of the things you’ve mentioned and thought Ohh I’ll talk the Buddhist approach and leave it alone, but now I am considering the damage they are doing. This gave me a lot to think about lol.
I’m a baby gardener and this was extremely helpful to know what to look out for. Thank you!
So glad you found it helpful Kimmy!!
Great info here. Not the glamorous side of gardening but we all want to protect our investments in time and money while protecting the environment for future gardens. Thanks so much Janey!
You have certainly held my attention for this video. I love how down to earth you are with your explanation.
Hi Janey. Fab video. So beneficial to know how and why pesticides work and to understand the ecosystem when using them. Really amazing clarity. Thanks so much for your work and your time and patience in sharing your knowledge.
Your garden looks AMAZING! You have really worked hard to accomplish that beauty!Thank you for giving us hope for our gardens! Love the colors and textures you used !🥰🥰🥰🌹
Great info! WHAT do you do to get your jasmine to bloom like this? It is gorgeous!
Your explanations on pest control are clear and thorough. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I have learned a great deal watching this video. Not too much talking either! Yes, I enjoyed it! Thank you!
Yep the mouth parts being ripped off is gross but also makes me do a happy dance too!
Lol@"black sprinkles"! Thanks for the informative video😊👍aka "Soap Box on Pest Poop"...🤣👍
Great video Janey 🍃🌸🍃
Agree. The ladybugs a few times a year is the most successful aphid prevention. Thanks for the video. I would love to see an explanation on using beneficial nematodes. (Hopefully, you don’t need to use them) 😁
Your garden looks amazing. I have been following you for a while and I think this is the best it has ever looked! It has been cool here in South Carolina, zone 7b so my perennials are so happy!
Beautifully explained! Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Great information Janey.
Janey, you are a natural teacher!👏. I’m so glad you mentioned mould on Sluggo, I’ve experienced it and wasn’t sure what to do about it. So thank you, now I know I don’t have to worry about it at all! Great job!! 😊🇨🇦
Great job!! Zone 8 here. Thank you for telling about the white butterflies because I had no clue where the bugs where coming from that was eating my greens for their daily salad. Restarting them but this time I know what to do. Thanks for always sharing.
We live in the south and our biggest pest control problem is Japanese beetles. I did treat my lawn with JP killers back in April. This is the first year that I have done that in over five years. It it’s still early in the season but the only major problem that I have had with JP‘s is them nibbling on my beautiful Pinky Winky standard hydrangea tree! Diligently every day I go out several times a day during the hottest part I go out and gently tap them into a rectangular container with a lid shake them hard and dump them in soapy water in a pail! It works! I casually find some JP’s on some roses and I pick them off immediately.I use the dawn soap with water sprayer method a lot on white flies, Japanese beetles to prevent them from biting and my other hydrangeas! It works🙌🏼
I read that coffee grounds will deter slugs...I use them around my hostas since I don't like to use any chemicals. My dogs don't like the smell of coffee so I know they won't bother the area. Your garden is lovely!
Hello Sonia, I can't say that coffee grounds helps against snails. Also, coffee powder makes the soil acidic and hostas don't like that, they need alkaline soil
@@mirijabender6779 Here in my area we use coffee grounds to make our soil slighty acidic for hostas which they love. We have clay alkaline soil here and I've been amending my soil with coffee grounds for years. Starbucks gives away free coffee grounds and on the label they write that they deter snails. Will experiment this year to see if adding a ring around my hostas helps..I don't have a big slug problem but I like organic solutions.
Hi Janey, This video was very beneficial. You did a great job explaining everything. It helps me tremendously to know the ‘why’ and you educated all of us!
Hey Janey,
I love this segment! Not many garden you tubers discuss this important topic. Its very helpful! By the way, what is your approach on millipedes and rolly pollies?
LOVE this help. I am saving this video and I shared it on Facebook. Length of the video is no issue, the information is valuable.
Thanks for sharing Alice!! Glad you found the info helpful 💗
Lovely garden oh my goodness very nicely managed. I have a question; do you not get spider mites? How do you handle them?
Thanks for all the information ❤
Thank you for such an interesting and informative vid about pest control. I absolutely am on the hunt for earwigs!! Get aphids on my honeysuckle most years. This year is so different in Colorado--rain every day. This will bring different challenges but my trees and plants have been loving it!
Great video on IPM! Thanks Janey! I have Sumac trees in my backyard and one of them had bores. Our nursery’s master gardener suggested that I use a systemic insecticide for it at that time and follow up with annual treatments. It worked as far as I can tell.
I usually treat Japanese beetles with nematodes. I spray them in my lawn and flower beds twice (once in the spring and once in the summer). I have found that this really reduced the amount of beetles in my flowers and shrubs. I purchase mine either at Costco or Home Depot. FYI I garden in a zone 5a
I do exactly what you said with Japanese beetles. Best to go out in the morning. They are sluggish and easily picked and tossed into soapy water. Thank goodness they are only around for about a month but they can cause some destruction!
Hi Janey! Thanks for this great video! Your videos inspire me to get out and garden! Would love to see more of your schedule in action like a day of weeding, & pruning. I learned so much! Keep it going :)
This was a great video! So informative and helpful. Thank you so much.😊
Fantastic tutorial Janey. It helps so much keep being reminded of how to make our gardens balanced and planting pollinator friendly plants. I do have to use sluggo plus around my dahlias but I'm ok with that
Loved your weekly schedule! Would you pretty please make a cute free printable for us?! I would hang it up in my garage with my gardening supplies. 😍
Thank you Janey, very informative. ❤
Thank you for the great information. 👍
I use sluggo plus too for snails, slugs, and earwigs. I guess I use the IPM method and did not know it had a name! I have been struggling with leaf hoppers (they look similar to grasshoppers but are tiny-1/4” size). The result is holes in the leaves. It was recommended by a master gardener through the University of Minnesota to use an insecticidal soap and seems to have worked! I wish I had done this sooner. 35:24
Great information thank you for taking the time to describe in detail this really helps. So far my garden is clear except last year Asian beetles no advise other than picking them off.
I see that poop but it’s from a little black looking “worm” never green. They seem to like my zinnia. Your Garden looks so gorgeous right now!
Great video!! Thanks for all of the useful information. Do you have any experience or advice on how to deal with voles?
Thank you for the detailed info. I am getting nematodes to hopefully help with the Japanese beetles this year! In the past I’ve picked them into soapy water but I have lots of production flower rows and that seemed to be all I did for weeks on end - and they still won. Hopefully not this year!
Very helpful video. Thanks! I had japanese beetles in a former garden. I used traps for a while, and made the mistake of putting them next to the infested plants. The pheromones just attracted more beetles to the affected area. I found the traps to be more useful if I placed them on the opposite side of the yard from my flowering plants.
Hi janey🌺 . Your work and take care of your garden it gave an amazing result (wonderful plants ).If I saw aphids on roses ، I spray them with water . Have anice day .🌺🦋🌺
Hi everybody… I’m a zone 9b, does anyone have any suggestions for spider mites? Any suggestions are welcome ❤.. thank you.
Always something to watch for
Absolutely fascinating!!!
Hi! How do I deal with grasshoppers? They are legion in my garden! Thank you SO much for your help!
Me too- I’m in N GA
I bast them away with a hose or find a spray( seven?) that may deter them - ugg- they love my Gardenj
Thank you for explaining to us.
I was getting bugs on my roses and my indoor ivory plants. But What I did was put a little dawn dish soap and water into a spray bottle and sprayed all around where I saw the bugs. Haven’t see any since. 🤷🏽♀️
Hello from Valencia, Spain. Your video is so informative. I have a fabulous dame de noche but now its full of tiny black mites. I use systemic to kill mealybugs all over my Stephanotis but it hasn't really worked. The weather is so hot , so early with hardly any rain up to now.
Great video!
I've used grits for the and in the ground. They eat it, it swells, and they die. Hope this helps😊
You could try a ring of Epsom salt around the base of plants with slug or snail damage.
I'm in middle Georgia. We have had Japanese beetles for two weeks. We've bought traps, picked them off and sprayed them with a water and peppermint oil mixture. The spray helped the roses with other pests but not the beetles. They are ravaging our grapevines, roses and blackberries. You are correct, the only way to get rid of them is to pick them off. Hopefully, they will be gone in two or three weeks.
I moved to middle Georgia a year ago. There are so many bugs here!! 😂😂 It freaks me out
So helpful!! Thanks
Very informative, thank you!
I deal with aphids and white flies, and I spray them with neem oil, because I don't have somewhere to attach our hose, and I don't always have the time to squish them. As for caterpillars, I squish them when I see them, as I don't have a lot of them unlike the aphids and white flies. As for snails though, I pick them up, and throw them on the concrete until they die. Leaf miners, I follow the trail and squish until I either have squished all of the leaf miners in a leaf(very tiny yellow little you-know-whats), or I have squished the leaf, luckily I rarely deal with them.
Wow,😊. I love your informative video ❤❤ . I am waiting for my lady bugs to arrive … it’s too late to purchase them and release in my garden now ( I’m in Zone 6b ) . Love to hear about your advise. Thanks.
Thanks Jaynie for the great info! My biggest problem is whiteflies! I can’t get them under control 😡 I live in Redding btw. Do you have any suggestions?
Hi Janey! This video really hit the spot as far as my problems. Today I hand picked like 5 of those green worms and one huge earwig in my rose bush. So I over sprayed my garden with those sluggo pellets and now I know why I’m seeing this like white moldy patches😞 The biggest problem I have right now is that I have like black flies or gnats on all my new plants! They’re all over even on my cilantro 😢 It’s so annoying I almost want to give up caring for these plants. What is my best solution here?
Great information!
BTW, I used the beer method with slugs and really works🎉
Do you have to deal with viruses or fungus? The leaves of my cucumber plants are spotted, but doesn't appear to be insect damage. I hate to put sprays on my edibles unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. Can you advise what is safest for this problem? Thanks so much! Love your gardens, content, and joyful personality!
Love your channel. I’ve have earwigs eating out plants. The worst thing I fight with every year is the Japanese clover! Most of our beds have heavy duty landscape fabric then rock , 2” 3” size on top. But over the years the fabric gets holes in it & the clover starts taking over. 😟
Great info! Thanks. 🐞 M
How do I get rid of grasshoppers? It isn’t something I usually have to deal with, but this year with our wet winter they seem everywhere.
My dahlias are under attack from black bean aphids. Not on stems, but the underside of the leaves that turn yellow. Such a problem!
This is my third year gardening and in terms of pest management, I’ve been companion planting and mechanically removing them by hand picking or using tape, spraying them off and using insect netting. So far, I’m really just dealing with aphids and spider mites and it works well enough. I released ladybugs and it was pretty ineffective for me and frankly, physically removing them works best for me and it’s the least expensive method. I guess I should be leaving them for the beneficial insects that are supposed to eat the aphids and mites but I don’t see any! I usually have June bugs and I’m just planning on using insect netting at night until they are gone. Luckily they only stay around for a few weeks.
Japanese beetles are my worst pest. Last yr they were on everything just about all summer, plants they never bothered, they destroyed. I do the soapy water dunk, if I'm lucky I can tap the branch, they just fall in, last I gave up, just too many. I seen Danielle at Northlawn flower farm take a vacuum cleaner to them. Early spring I had ladybugs galore, recently I seen aphids on a rose. And where are you ladybugs.?!! One, I had one find them, I let it do it's thing, I see you're at 40K, the channel is growing like a weed 😊
Thank you! I learned a lot n enjoy your UA-cam! New subscriber
Can you explain how to rid your garden of mosquitoes.
Hello,
Zone 10B here…
Due to the substantial amount of rain we had this past winter (Certainly not complaining…) For the first time I have slugs in my microscopic tiny patio/balcony gardens. Following your suggestion, I utilized Sluggo Plus which I think worked. However, the pellets became fuzzy like decomposed mushrooms after a few days. Is it normal? I tried to investigate on line but there were no descriptions of fuzziness about Sluggo Plus.
Please advise.
H from a tiny balcony in San Diego
I’m confused. I always thought those white cabbage moths laid cabbage worms that eat cruciferous plants and the adult tobacco budworm moth (not the white butterfly pictured) laid eggs of the bud worm that eat petunias.
Janey you are so informative. I Loveyr UTube Chanel. Thank You 💐
Great info but, what if I already sprayed the bad stuff on my plants trying to get rid of white flies. I have a huge horrible infestation on my brand new garden and sprayed neem oil everywhere and it made my garden smell horrible and even killed some plants :( what do I do ?
For ants, I’ve had good luck deterring them with lots of DE. I disturb their burrow and blow DE all over them when they come out to bite me. I saturate the area with DE and they move on. Haven’t seen them come back so far this season! I like food grade DE cause it’s super safe
May I ask, what is DE.... Oh I just thought , maybe diatomaceous earth? 🇨🇦
Do you use an exterminator for your house, for keeping things like spiders and roaches out of your house. If so do you know what they use? I worry about when the exterminator comes, they are killing all insects instead of just keeping the unwanted insects out of the house.
Hey does your Homestead verbena seed itself??? They are selling it and I want it but it is an annual here. I have other verbena that have seeded themselves. I am in a zone 6a.
What do you think about neem oil?
good work
Lady bugs in a contained space like a greenhouse will work but for the large backyard it doesn't work well.
With a busy schedule like that you must not hold down a job away from home... my yard is pretty good size , I get up early morning water , plant, pull weeds or anything that needs done, then hit the shower and head to work
I read thatcrushed eggshells are good for deterring slugs so thats what im trying this year. They are rvavging my lambs ear and hostas 😢. Have you tried this?
I use my food processor to grind them up into small flakes. The key is to be sure to make a wide ring around the plant and to not have any leaves touching the ground for the slugs to use as a bridge. I also sprinkle flakes down into the base of the leaves as slugs hide there too. How shells work is the flakes stick to the body and irritate the slug so it moves on or better yet slices the body and they die ! 👏 As I live in Canada, I save up my shells all winter to grind each spring. There are lots of videos online to help too. Good luck!🇨🇦
@@peggy-ann1961 that was so helpful. Thank you!
My garden nemesis is GRASSHOPPERS! They have plagued my garden for 3 years now and the only targeted pellet to kill them isn't being made right now. So I would have to use a broad spectrum insecticide and I really don't want to kill my beneficials.
Does anyone e have any suggestions???? By July my garden is decimated 😣
There are thousands of tiny babies hopping all over right now and any help would be appreciated!
I buy a praying mantis egg each year and then I have hundreds of babies that feeds on all kinds of bad bugs. When they get big they can eat grasshoppers! I also have lady bugs and am waiting for my shipment of lacewing larvae for a spider mite infestation😫
We deal with leafhoppers aka grasshoppers in our area. Would anyone happen to know how to control them. :-) ty
there is pretty good recipe for snails :)
Oh no. Now I’m feeling sorry for the insects. Holes in stomach… ripping of mouth parts. :(. Hope I don’t have nightmares
Anyone dealing with leaf rollers? They are killing my Japanese Maples, roses and now other plants. Swarms of the moths.
Had no idea BT took some time to work. ❤#fyi
Very very helpful! Thank you ❤