Get Rid of Pest Caterpillars In The Garden Once And For All!
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2016
- BT is an organic product used to get rid of Cabbage loopers, leaf
curlers, tomato hornworm, tent caterpillars, and other pesky
caterpillars. It is sprayed onto leaves and will infect the little
buggers.
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I had caterpillars completely raving my brussels sprouts...One shot of BT and ta-da! I did have to reapply 7 days later when some caterpillars reappeared (hatched) but another application and so far, so good! I'm a fan.
I sincerely thought he was on a green screen giving a lecture. Wow tht garden is amazing.
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I thought it was a green screen too!!
No one can wear a green shirt in front of a green screen.
@@miguelfilo962 Unless it was a blue shirt and they changed the color in post!
I like your video
My broccoli was full of those worms one year!!! Ugh. I have watched those white and yellow puddle butterflies all my childhood with love and countless hours of chasing and catching them to going to anxiety hate for them every garden year. Thanks for this info.
I Love BT. I rescued my squash plant from the squash vine borer using BT. I sprayed it in the hole left by the grub and he must have eaten some and perished. My squash came back in full force.
Michelle Grant
They've killed our zucchini every year. This year, we're trying BT for the first time.
marymonk for squash vine boarder you have to inject it into the hollow stems. The bug hatches and climbs into the stem and is protected and out of reach if u just spray ur plant
Wow...I dug up all of my squash due to to borers.
@@jenniferrush8231 You're so right! I used a needle for injecting meat and used BT solution on my mom's squash plants. It was the only way to save them after the squash bores already burrowed in the stem.
I love your channel. This is the first year gardening and just now discovered your chanel. Next year will be way better thank you sooooo much
I use this product and it does work very well. I also use chilli/garlic sprays that have a natural pyrethrum in them which seems to help too. However, nothing works as well as getting out into the garden at night with a torch to do some manual removal!
Gross!!
I love your videos! I’ve learned so much watching them!! I’m going to try this for the caterpillars that I’ve just discovered on my kale. Thanks👍
I wish you would write a book with all this great information in it! I really enjoy your videos, but it would be nice to have a reference that I can trust.
I have a small notebook that I write these tips and tricks in. Sections for seeds, fertilizer, pest control, then sections by plant: tomatoes, beans, melons, etc.
I came here from SerpentZA to check out your channel. What great timing! My wife and I moved to six country acres in Kentucky a year ago and we have planted our first garden. We have lots of greens (my fav is kale) and tomatoes. My wife will order some BT today. This is our first effort at organic gardening and looks like you have some useful advice to help us novices. I subscribed and look forward to learning a lot more.
But does not work for me and idk why
I really like this place to find solutions for my garden problems. Two thumbs up for you 👍
I used a combination of Bt and moth balls to defeat the loopers last summer. Bt to break the cycle and moth balls to keep the new moths from landing to lay eggs. I put about 3ft stakes in the ground every couple broccoli plants, stapled on an old sock on the top in the mid-part of the sock, slipped in 5-6 moth balls and pinned an inverted Starbucks venti drink cup over the stake\sock (to keep the sock and moth balls dry). Every two weeks I’d stuff another 5-6 moth balls in each apparatus. Totally works!
Moth balls? Where are you placing the moth balls at in your garden?
Great idea. I will try this to keep away the moth that lays vine borer eggs. Thanks.
Meko Williams DIY Home & Gardening moth balls have a strong enough smell to mask the scent of the target plants. Cabbage moths find cabbage family plants by sense of smell.
Ben Cichanowicz all I have in my garden is tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, onions, and cilantro will this work for those as well?
This is an old Granny-type of "remedy" that's been around for a long time. Please, just DON'T. Granny wasn't living in a time of environmental toxic overload in the water and soil. A quick check of the ingredients will reveal that mothballs contain paradichlorobenzene or naphthalene, neither of which you want in the soil. While you're looking at the label, please note that the manufacturers warn that it's illegal to use mothballs in any way other than the one prescribed. Really, folks, there's a reason for this. (Also, it's bad for bees.)
Yes! thank you! i have been putting leaves of citronella in some of my plants where i see caterpillars and mosquitos hovering. i am going to look up your post about high intesity inter-cropping method!
I have an eggplant that's slowly growing it's around 2 or 3 weeks old already and alot of aphids show up, I usually just spray them down and wash away everything but yeah it kinda wrecks the whole plant, I'm glad you make videos it helps me grow stuff better.
Thank you so much for this video! All of your knowledge is so much appreciated!!! You are the Garden God!!
Great Video ... this season has been really bad here in the south. My cabbage and kale looks like swiss cheese. Subbed! Liked! i am going out to get BT today. Much success to you!
I have not used BT, I will try it. I came to your video looking for a worm solution to my basil and other garden plants getting holy leaves. thank you.
I will look for the product, it seems smart to have.
When I went out to my garden.
I noticed kale and collards near basil plants had NO holes . So i Am going to plant basil everywhere. $1 for a bucket filled with basil plants works for me.
Thank You for a GREAT video!! I have learned from this video and the one before it and will be getting some of this stuff to spray.
Love BT used it for many years. I will look for Monarch caterpillars and move them to another feeding area before spraying. They love my dill weed.
Those aren't Monarchs if they are on your dill. They are likely Black Swallowtails as Monarchs will only feed on Milkweed whereas Swallowtails feed on plants in the carrot family like dill. Also, I would not recommend using BT at all if you have host plants for Swallowtails. It can easily contaminate other plants and live in the soil for a long time.
So helpful!!! Just the information I need this week.
Had been considering this product and will definitely try it now. Thanks
Beautiful garden and always great advice- thank you!
Thanks for sharing.I learned something from you that I could use in my garden.
At 4:15 when he say's, "When you see those white moths....", white moths flies behind him singing Nanny Nanny Boo Boo.
Gr8Believer they are butterflies.
@@unoriginal1086
Yes, they are technically a butterfly. But they are a destructive one. And I am glad to learn that BT works on them.
exactly 😁🤘
They can flutter. But their larvae will splode
It's 4:15
Great info and visual on the spraying process. Thanks
Second season gardener... just planted my seedlings and noticed what I thought were white butterflies. Definitely going to spray BT.
I live in NE Florida in St. Augustine. I spent a lot of time and money on creating some Sub Irrigation Planters this winter building three 8 ft long by 24" to 30" wide gardens. Things were coming along beautiful. Fresh sweet mint, cilantro, basil, roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, burbless cucumbers, lavendar, etc. etc. suddenly my daughter noticed some small caterpillars which I think are fruit worms. They started with the roma tomatoe leaves and I tried to remove the leaves, then like what seemed like only a week they annihilated everything!!! I am so frustrated. I follow you and wish I knew about this before it all happened, but for now I am going to get some Thuricide and try to fight back. I will follow up to let others know. Thanks so much for the great video as usual. Your videos are awesome. I watch them all the time. I am originally from St. Paul, Minnesota so I feel like I especially have a connection to your midwest gardening.
Tried the Thuricide and it knocked out those creepy caterpillars. I do have to reapply though especially of course after a rain. However, it works!! Thank you for the great tip!
I've been using it for a couple of years, and glad to see you recommend it. Here in S. Florida tomato horn worms become a problem for papaya plants. I pull off and stomp on what I can, but those things are hard to see sometimes, and today one was in my tallest (about 10' up). So I got a ladder and sprayed it. But then there's a brown strain of those suckers that are either BT resistant, or it takes a stronger mix of it.
David Stack did you find a fix for the brown ones? I'm in Orlando, just starting out with my garden and looking for all the info I need to start well and not become disappointed after all the effort
I see brown ones too. Any fix?
I spend alot of time with a tennis racket getting those bugs & intensive planting. The problem is I plant spring crop & they never grow until fall.. After I battle bugs then they grow...I've done this 3 years now outside & haven't got a early crop yet. You started late for Michigan & still got a massive harvest! Fields of dreams brother 🎾
Thank you. It makes me feel better knowing it is ok to spray with BT 👍
Just be mindful that it kills ALL caterpillars including the native beneficial ones like Monarchs and Swallowtails. So if you have a butterfly garden nearby or any host plants, I would personally avoid using it.
Been using for about 3 years and everything is caterpillar free, Great organic product.
I surrounded my garden with bird houses. And the tree swallows took over a lot of them. So I have a lot of live pest detergents.
I think you mean deterrents... 🤔
Coincidentally, I saw 4-5 small birds all over my grow bags I filled with lettuce. Great natural pest removal. Still might buy the BT though.. hope for good results!!
I absolutely love BT, but really appreciate the information about the concentration amounts! Great info. Also, I can tell you now have a little one at home when you use the word "poopie". Adorbs.
Please make sure you read up on BT. The Bt toxin has been shown to cause damage to multiple organs including the heart, kidney and liver in lab animals [17]. Furthermore, adverse immune responses have been observed in lab animals as well as humans. One study has found immune responses from the Bt toxin to be similar to that seen with the Cholera toxin [16]. Allergenicity has also been observed in farmers and factory workers handling Bt crops, with effects in eyes, skin and the respiratory tract (see [19] (More illnesses linked to Bt crops, SiS 30). Contrary to industry’s claims, the Bt gene as well as the toxin, remain in the body; it is not degraded in the gut as has been claimed. A recent study in Canada found that over 90 percent of women and their unborn babies had the toxin in their blood streams, just from eating a typical Canadian diet [20]. Crossing the placental barrier is of obvious concern. Many countries in Europe have banned the use of this product because of the health issues associated with this supposedly safe organic product. Please don't be fooled. BT is TOXIC.
This is safe and not toxic.
those comments are rubbish.
Do your own research.
WHO reports no problem.
National Pesticide Information Center (Feb 2015)
"What happens to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) when it enters the body
When eaten, Bt is confined to the gut. It does not reproduce, and the toxin is broken down like other proteins in the
diet. Bt leaves the body within 2 to 3 days.
If breathed in, Bt can move to the lungs, blood, lymph, and kidneys. Bt is then attacked by the immune system. Levels of Bt decrease quickly one day after exposure".
I got my on the mail yesterday and today I applied it on my garden. I am very exited about. Question if I mix one gallon of water and the BT and if I don't use everything can I save and use the mixture later? Also is there any vegetable that I should not spray this on? I really like your online store I be making my purchases there from now. Thanks 👍🏻
I've been using BT for a few years after my niece who is a biologist and organic gardener recommended it to me. I respect your opinion and methods Luke so I was very glad to hear that you use it as well.
Okay, I received a "like" and I appreciate it ... But what is BT?
you will be ingesting it as well...so there are risks with that
I'm having this issue with my Stawberries. I find them and pick them up and run to the other side of the yard and throw them. Far away. I have a pot vegetable and fruit garden. My tomato is starting to turn red! 😍😍
Very helpful! Thanks so much!!
Thanks again for solving a problem I didn't know how to deal with.
Luke, I've used bt and it does work great. I also use spinosad. It's another bacteria. It works great and smells better. It was discovered under fermenting rum barrels.
Spinosad is some good stuff too for the garden.
Spinosad KILLS bees... bees pollinate food...
Bad stuff
works on ponds for mosquito larva, even have rings of it that float on top
good video thanks for the tip. that some big kale what you nutes are you using?
Yes I use BT as well, but I think next summer I am going to put a cover on my brassicas so I don't have to keep spraying. I forget sometimes. Fall/winter isn't so bad. My kale and collards did great last winter.
yeah don't use BT, stick to natural, lady bugs , hornets, natural oils. that all goes into the ocean and soils so it is up to us to really make efforts.
sassy jassy, hope it will work for you, but it sure did not work for me. Last summer I went to a great effort to cover my cabbages with very fine netting that I put over PVC hoops and.... all of my cabbages once they got a little bigger, started having holes and then were consumed by caterpillars. I never saw a single caterpillar-only those white butterflies. That is why I am looking for a more effective method. I literally had no harvest in my organic garden. They even got into my completely covered greenhouse and ate all of water cress. Complete disaster.
even being organic, how well do you have to wash off the greens before you consume them so that you don't get sick or is there no risk involved
Hello, I'm new to gardening and found your videos. I love your videos and your energy! I bought 4 little strawberry plants to plant into a container but noticed there were tiny red bugs scrambling when I watered them. I googled to see what they were and spider mites kept coming up a lot. I haven't planted them yet. Can I submerge the plants in the water -- will that dive out the bugs but end up risking damaging my plants? What can I use to get rid of these tiny red bugs? Help please! Thanks!!
I can’t wait to see what you say in this video! I just ordered some Neem oil, and peppermint oil, from the Rustic Garden. I’m hoping it helps!
OMG!! As if on-cue, @2:12 a white cabbage butterfly lands on the cucumber vines in the back of the garden right behind his head. Too funny!!!
I just bought xentari BT to control my completely devastated boxwood plants. My fingers are crossed that this works well! I don;t have a sprayer with a wand, but a bottle with a nozzle. The spray dripped all over my hands and arms. I hope it doesn't make me ill. Thanks for the video. Great info!
It won't. You literally don't have the stomach for it. Only Lepidoptera species produce the enzyme necessary to activate the toxin.
What a great video, thanks! Can you recommend a particular brand sprayer, like the one you are using in the video?
Good information! Thank you!
I'm about to go outside and pick all the tiny yellow dots of eggs off my cabbage leaves. Then I'm heading to the store to get some BT. Thanks for the video :)
Awesome! I’m buying today!
When using BT, you should also buy a pint of "Spreader-Sticker" and add a tablespoon to the mix. It will help the BT stick to the leaves (even after a light rain). Do not add dish washing liquid thinking it will do the same thing. A good quality Spreader-Sticker is available at all garden supply stores. Google it!
Will do. Never heard of it but will look it up. I had one of those giant tomatoe horn worms almost eat a whole tomatoe plant and I cried. I dont want that happening again. It's horrible.
Is there a link to the intercropping video , that would be awesome
My girlfriend recently got into gardening and she is growing some plants in pots (she needs to step it up to a bed!), but unfortunately the kale she had got devoured overnight by caterpillars. But thankfully for this video she can try again, hopefully with some better luck! And as for myself, I have several kale plants! So if my current form of pest management doesn't work I now know what will work. Plus it's organic!
her kale should come back as long as the stem is still there. just spray when new leaf appear.
That is good to know, thank-you, jas mine.
Turn the soil over for her. Man up.
Thank you, I think you just solved my problem.
i used to get paid to spray bt on water lillies because of a bug that would leave brow streaks all over the pads. used over a gallon per acre of pond. always smelled great for some reason
Thankyou thankyou thankyou - so happy to know how to do this.
Next sping 🙏🏼💛🙏🏼
I love your work please do a video about how to grow raspberries in a container
Hi...Thanks for the info. Does the product lose strength after rain or watering?
I see these white moths always. My kale is getting holey! Need that spray asap!
Can you use BT on things like cabbage, cucumber and bean plants? I get caterpillars on those plants in my garden and nothing I’ve tried so far has kept them away. I’m growing organically so BT sounds like something I’d really like to use.
Hey Luke, I really enjoy your videos. I have not tried BT but I have tried spinosad with very good success. Is that a good product in your opinion? Thanks allot.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that eats my greens with holes.
I love butterflies and moths, but hate vegetables, so I'd plant PLENTY for them.
I have kale, mustard, and tomatoes growing for them right now!!! A small little butterfly garden 😁
I’ve used BT and it works great!
I have a mosqito trap that works using a flourescent coated bulb. Works great but also attracts and traps moths. I'm going to put it near my raised beds and see if it will help. That and BT should do me well this year.
BT, also Spinosad work great against caterpillars. If you want to avoid spraying all together, just keep the plants under light netting so the moths can't land on the plants.
They still can. One got under our net and is eating my baby plants like crazy
Thx for the information
This one really works. 100% of the time. If it doesn't work for you (I have seen reviews that say as such), you are using it wrong.
No hornworms yet this year but little inch worms are really enjoying my tomatoes leaves today. I went to ur store but BT was out of stock. Including the ones mixed with neem oil and fertilizer. But thanks for the info.
I forgot about BT.. I just have a small backyard garden area and want to enjoy everything that grows.
Thank you for this.
You're growing in such high concentration in those boxes. I've been spacing my rows AND plants within them way too far.
I had success with Garlic oil, but I would be interested to try this!
Your content is very useful. Do you know any plants or items that get rid of stink bugs.... they overrun my tomato, eggplants
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I made a lovely omelette with my home grown broccoli in it and it wasn't until she was several bites in that was realized the broc was COVERED in those nasty green caterpillars! Sneaky bastards! Some were alive and wiggling, some were dead/cooked and I'm sure she ate several of them! I had to scrap the whole entire broc patch. BT was recommended to me but I didn't realize it's organic! Ordering some now, along with a pump sprayer. Thank you!
hahaha. Caterpillars are full of protein; just ask any early bird.
@@jumpoffa5011, S.E.R.E survival training you eat so many you find which ones taste good and those that don't . . . . . .
Hi, how often do you spray the plants? Does it affect the taste or health?
Here in sub-tropical Brisbane, Australia we have a very short cool season in which to grow brassicas so it is important to get on top of these pesky caterpillars. I don't use BT anymore. I just check all my brassicas every second day and kill any I find. I also find that if I squash the caterpillars and leave the corpses on the plant then the butterfly avoids those plants and doesn't lay eggs on them. I suspect the butterfly either smells or sees the dead ones and decides it is not safe to lay there. I've done this for a couple of years now and I can report success.
Have you addressed vine borer issues? They kill the host plant very quickly.
The bacillius keeps the worms from eating. They ingest it and then starve because they can't eat. You need to use the mixture within 24 hours or it becomes inert. It works wonderfully for leaf rollers and cutworms!
Do you have to respray after every rain? In the summer we get rain almost daily.
BT works great. Apply once every 7 days or after it rains as it will wash off the plant. I spray 2 to 3 treatments when I see holes in leaves. The bugs must eat the leaves that have been sprayed.
BT works by reacting with enzymes in the caterpillars stomach telling it that it does not need to eat any more. The caterpillars starve to death after eating plants sprayed with it.
Good to know!
Dale Renno is that what is in sluggo as well? From what I recall, the ingredient in sluggo that kills them affects the digestive tract and they starve to death.
+Patrice's Projects slugo is iron phosphate. Kills slugs but has no effect on caterpillars.
You can read more here: npic.orst.edu/factsheets/ironphosphategen.html
Dale Renno can you spray this on your house there on my house?
Ella Baker : the caterpillars need to eat the plants that have the BT sprayed on them. Find the plant they are eating in your yard and spray all the plants around that area. Spraying on anything but plants will not work.
What type of sprayer are you using? It looks small compared to mine, but I like the way yours looks and works.
Thank you!! They are decimating my cabbage.
Is there a way to grow more bt from store_bought bt? I read comments about multiplying bt with coconuts but can't find any info.
Luke you should also learn about the other great product, Spinosad. I have had a japanese beetle problem for years(one of the MANY things spinosad deals with, and it deals with even more than BT albeit in a different but still just as organic manner) and I used spinosad products on my crops and trees last year and found that although the japanese beatles did start to come out like normal they were only on my plants for a very small amount of time and caused minimal damage before they started dropping dead and disappearing from my yard. This year I am hoping that their premature deaths and inability to mate last year will have resulted in less grubs, which have been a pain to get rid of by non-toxic means (though I have been meaning to spray out nematodes for years now to help with that).
Pm
@@jerzey3705 Eh?
Also planting Red and Purple leafy greens instead of green helps. Moths are less likely to lay her eggs on them.
Can you use BT in the same sprayer as previous DE applications?
It's great that there are organic options like this one :-)
After my brussel sprouts leaves started looking like Swiss cheese, I found this video.
I noticed the benefits right away on the new growth.
QUESTION: what do you suggestion as a vegetable wash before eating the leaves that have been sprayed? (I checked your Amazon Store & your online MIgardener, and didn't see anything.
Thanks again Luke!!
Is it safe to use on young kale and cabbage or should they be more mature plants?
Hey! Where can I grab that thing you were using to spray the BT with towards the end of the video? (I’m not sure of the name lol)
We have tons of those cabbage moths in our area. I feel your pain.
🌾 Merry meet, merry part & meet again 🌿
So many of them! I swear I have the only garden for miles.
Yeah, but for me I don't have a garden anymore. They're visiting my flowers. LoL Dang things! Hope your garden will keep producing good for you guys.
🌾 Merry meet, merry part & meet again 🌿
Do you find that the spray works better than the powder? I use the powder and it works great so just curious if the spray is better.
I pay my 11 year old a dollar a moth. He hunts them with an old Bad-mitten racket. It is also entertain to watch him.
nice
Coach Maxwell 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
*badminton
I paid my kids a quarter for each slug, but they bled me dry and I had to go down to a dime! I gave them a baggie and a pair of tweezers and sent them into the garden while i breakfast and the slug tracks were still fresh!!
get him a butterfly net and reduce the amount to 50 cent(i 'm cheap)...hahaha, now that you have spoiled him with a dollar, he will want to work twice as hard to earn that Dollar...congrats that he is gardening to help his pops:)
YOU ARE A VERY HANDSOME GARDENER!!!!!
After treating your brasicas with BT should you cover with a row cover?
I wonder if i can buy this in New Zealand. It sounds GREAT!!
Can you drop a link in the description to your intercropping video please?
My grapevine is being eaten at an excelerated rate. Thank you for the advice!
I was able to stop the caterpillars from eating my grapevine by picking them off and keep doing it until there were none left. Also left a spider web to catch the moths and of course my praying mantis is helping too