No More Aphids With NO Pesticides!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Aphids used to be a big problem in my garden until I stopped fertilizing so heavily. Now I find that I usually only get aphids in the summer time when I can't keep up with irrigation leading to stressed overheated plants that are screaming for aphids to come attack them. Now for the first time I have the reverse problem, way too much water from all the rain we have been getting! This has stressed out my kale plants which are tucked into a pocket of my garden that barely gets any direct sun near the soil level leading to soggy soil. Historically I have battled with the aphids through using organic pesticides but I quickly found that it was just a game of cat and mouse leading to lots of pesticides use that could harm other insects. Instead I have switched to fully using water to blast away aphids and stunt their populations. This has the added benefit of allowing beneficial insects to step in at some point as well since we aren't using any pesticides!
Also setting up birdhouses nearby helps. Songbirds LOVE aphids.
Oh this is incredibly helpful knowledge, thank you! ;)
Ladybugs are a huge help too! They love eating aphids
Thank you for the tip.❤
Also birds love berries, so 🤷🏻♀️ gain one fight, lose another one 😂
@@BananaMilks21 hi 🤗 i bought ladybugs back in January ... they all died the very next day ($20 wasted). maybe it was too cold - or too wet? i want to try them again.
The Mall of America just released 100,000 ladybugs in their indoor park for insect control. Mainly aphids.
It's crazy that there were aphids in the closed controlled environment. It probably means they planted an infested plant. Gotta remember to quarantine anyone new!
@@ajm935 pests can come inside from a person, or just an open window!
@@heyits_cat8966 the amusement park is inside the middle of the mall. A bug would have to really work to get to the park's foliage from an open door ( there are no doors near the park, you have to weave through the mall to get to it) and even if one of the skylight panels was open it's 4 stories up so an aphid would have to work to get in. And maybe it traveled on a person (from their home, traveled in the car or public transit to the parking garage and into the mall unscathed), but the foliage isn't really reachable by the people standing around in line... for something to crawl from a shirt or pant it would have to crawl from a bench or something. Not impossible but way more likely they just brought in a contaminated plant that caused an infestation.
@@ajm935 once aphids get inside, because there are no predators about, they can easily take over. This can happen with indoor herbs or plants on high balconies. Because aphids are lightweight they can be carried on the wind or easily carried in whereas their predators are less likely to be as they are much heavier.
Bill Gates just released millions of mosquitoes that were genetically modified.
Fun fact: People in that area are now being identified having West Nile Virus in Massachusetts 50 miles South of Boston. That's strange, I thought he was working on Monkey Pox!! 🤨
I’ve had a lot of success putting a single tiny spider onto the plant. They feast and take care of it in a day or two
What kind?
@@andrewdozier3143 lmk what he says
@@andrewdozier3143The kind doesn’t really matter. I wouldn’t use a jumping spider as they generally prefer flies over aphids, and I wouldn’t use an indoor spider (ie cellar spiders) bc they may have problems adjusting to the outdoor temperature. But just look around your yard until you find a spider and relocate them to your plants. Finding a spider that’s already in your garden will be the best since they’re already used to the environment & can start working right away.
Would not work with me, my aphids are farmed and protected by ants.
Ladybugs too!
Kale: “Don’t be afraid. They can smell your fear.”
Ladybugs are also great, you can often pick them up at a hardware store. They will stick around until all of the aphids are gone, they really go to work!
Aphids
Yeah, ladybugs.
A word of caution about ladybirds, some might not be native and can be harmful to native populations! This includes most ladybugs you can buy, sadly. Id say a good compromise may be going out and collecting your own since even if you are collecting non-native bugs, youre not introducing more of them to the environment.
That's what I thought he was going to do, get some ladybugs. Not sure if praying mantids will eat aphids, but I know they will eat pretty much any bugs they are able to snatch up and you can hatch them in your garden as well.
@@kraziecatclady Mantis are great too!
People like this guy kept humanity alive for hundreds of thousands of years.
TIL that aphids reproduce asexually... Those things really are annoying lol
Yeah they're pretty amazing, also a few of them will turn male during the warmer months and grow wings so they can fly to other colonies to reproduce sexually and encourage diversity (I.e. spread any useful adaptations, such as a pesticide resistance)
Not only that but they have live births and those just born can even be born pregnant. So 1 aphids can have 12 babies a day each capable of already carrying more.
You can see how quickly they can take over
@@swankshire6939 that is truly terrifying. Thank you for this information. I hate it lol
@@swankshire6939 THEY CAN BE BORN GRAVID????? holy fuck...
@@swankshire6939 virgin mary, but cursed
Last year I tried to grow a garden in my apartment patio, and the amount of shade/short window of sunlight combined with my apartment's automatic waterer means the area stays moist. Despite neem oil spray and careful pruning, powdery mildew weakened the plants until aphids took hold. The plants took longer to grow already. It was tough, but we did grow some kale, spinach, tomatoes and chia greens.
Its ok to let the plants dry out.
I feed birds. Had aphids on me roses. One day my rose bush was covered with sparrows eating aphids!! Problem solved!!🎉
smarr birdies. mine around seem to be stupid in this case
i misread this at first thinking you said sparrow eating aphids. i was like "what kind of australian bs is this?!" before realizing you meant sparrows eating the aphids xD
@@KitsonHeart 😂😂👍
I'm from Albuquerque, N.M. USA 🇺🇸 I thought I was speaking English. 🤔
@@marygilmore4561 I'm in the same exact place, Taylor Ranch specifically!
Finches love em. Ladybugs love em. If all else fails go with a (if I remember correctly) 50/50 mix of vinegar and warm water.
1. A lot of people say to spray them off every few days, but Jacques is right. Gotta do it every day. 2. Deterring ants is also a huge part of the solution too. I have watched ants move aphids around in my garden, like herding little cows. The little farmers also plant prostrate spurge, which they harvest seeds from in the Fall. So I have to remove the spurge, spray off the aphids and encourage my ladybugs.
Hi there :) I was wondering, how do you encourage lady bugs?
@@earthtonesgirl There is a list of plants they like, as shelter and places to lay eggs. I am at 6900 feet, ag zone 7a, dry mountain West U.S., so they were already resident. But many garden centers sell little bags of them at this time of year too. I have mantis in my garden too, but they are kinda picky. I had a whole, out loud argument with a big one who wanted to eat my longhorn bees instead of aphids and hornworms.🤣😂
@Earth Tones Girl trust, they will come if you have aphids. My asparagus were covered with them and hearder ants, two weeks later I found ladybug nymphs and no aphids in site.
Grow more small headed flowers like yarrow
@@Neenerella333 Lol ;) Mantis would be fun! I'm Zone 7 also, but we don't generally get them here. Thanks for the info! I'll be l@@king into it!
@@theseeker4700 haha! Well save that~ I pray not then! ;)
My mother had issues with aphids in her garden. They seemed to really like her squash and cucumbers. Left all the solanaceae plants alone for the most part. We just bought some ladybug larvae and released them around the afflicted plants. Completely cleared up the problem within a week or two. Ladybugs and their larvae are voracious.
A couple of years ago, I had two Blue Moon roses growing just far enough apart that when they went bushy, they would just touch before pruning time. I left them a bit long, their branches intermingled, and then I noticed one had aphids everywhere. Weird thing was, the other bush, even where touching the first, had no aphids. I was about to grab the toxic chemicals to deal with them, and then noticed a few ladybugs. I decided not to spray, as lady bugs seem to be getting rarer and rarer. Three days later, a hundred or so lady bugs on the rose, finishing off the last few aphids. Amazing when nature shows us how to do it right.
That’s why insects in general are getting rarer, people just decide to use terrible chemicals that kill everything instead of using selective methods
Beautiful!
Sound a great experience to see! ❤️🔥 🐞🫶🏽
Spiders, if you find one in your house (that isn’t extraordinarily dangerous depending on your environment) you can usually simply move them out to your garden and let them go to town.
The aphids senced weakness in me, I am now one with the aphids.
Are you reproducing asexually these days?
LMAO 😂 you win.
Same
@@Slippery-Hand 😂😂😂
You have become the aphid god emperor of garden. You have merged with the aphids.
The herbs must flow!
If your local ecosystem allows it, releasing ladybugs is a great way to help fight off aphids!
I never have problems with aphids but my garden is covered in Arizona Mantis so that's probably what's doing the work.
We had hornworms come in and wipe out our tomatoes and peppers last yr. They kept coming back.
I have this problem with my kale EVERY SINGLE YEAR. I will definitely give it a try.
Ladybugs 🐞 do a great job killing pest. We treat ladybugs like gold in our garden.
Except they're an invasive species and can wreak havoc on your local ecosystem. Black ants farm them for food and if you introduce ladybugs to your garden you're going to drive away all the beneficial life essential for a healthy garden. Grow lambs quarters you'll get the same results and you'll be feeding the local ecosystem. Black ants farm aphids and if you do not have lambs quarters in your yard (they are considered a weed but are perfect for deterring aphids) they hear their "cows" to the next best thing...your garden plants.
@@wickedbasket8858 what are you taking about, you don’t know where this person lives and if any ladybugs are invasive there
Aside from that there are a LOT of ladybug species and only a few can be/are invasive
Don’t spread misinformation
@@abobrett6703 Where we live, they brought them overseas to feed wildlife. They made a mistake and the invasive species has taken over. They swarm houses, cars, and people. They have a very strong odor. They have taken over our natural species of ladybugs here. So, he has an excellent point that should be taken into consideration. If you go outside and see you are being invaded you tend to speak out. Any person can look this info up easily to see how it applies to their local area.
The Mall of America just released 100,000 ladybugs in their indoor park for insect control
@@wickedbasket8858those are Asian lady beetles, not ladybugs
This works with collards as well. I get the same problem with them as well but blasting them off with water really does keep them away! 😮I love that it’s also very organic and doesn’t involve spraying with anything! Much less work in my opinion!
My hibiscus almost died due to these bugs. What I did is I sprayed them with a mixture of dishwashing soap and water.
But be wary not to over spray the leaves cuz it will damage the leaves when sprayed with soapy water too much.
This is the only way that actually worked for me and was feasible to do in my small apartment garden 🪴
Use neonicotinoids or just plain nicotine from tobacco. Concentrated tobacco tea especially if it’s made from wild European tobacco (peasant’s tobacco) has so much nicotine in it that it kills not just aphids but leaf spiders, caterpillars, ants, etc.
@@cezarcatalin1406It also kills bees, beneficial ants, and carnivorous insects. So, maybe don't.
@angelsrenegade I use a “made for organic gardening” insecticidal soap but I wash it off after soaping the plant really well.
@angelserenade The soap isn't what's killing the aphids. Is the process of spraying it on, the pressure. Just blasting with the hose will do the same thing. Soap will kill honey bees, ladybugs and other beneficial insects. Not just aphids😢
Yeah that makes sense your plants are being stressed out due to too much rain so you bless them with even more water Good job! 👍
Not to its soil. To the plant silly.. lol
Truth is, the rain wasn’t even the likely cause of the problem.
I live in a manufactured home park. We are on top of eachother. I got a dog, but I have to watch her, and make sure she doesn't eat grass here. Everyone sprays for every little ant. I dug up some dirt to show my friend why she shouldn't spray. Millions of ants, you will never spray enough. But all the other neighbors spray. I know that Round up is all around me. If I ever grow veggies, must be raised bed. Thanks for the info on aphids!!! You get a sub!!! ❤❤❤ Jeannie
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I watch Robbie and Gary gardening easy. They grow gardens in storage bins with the number 5, recycling mark and it works really well.
I took your advice on resetting a few plants this year and it worked out.
Try spraying the aphids with your garden hose on the fan setting (2-3 per week).
Great video brother!
Aphids are literally the bed bugs of plant life. 😮💨
Spider mites are just as bad lol 😂.
No, aphids have natural predators, no poison resistance and probably arent even as fast reproducers.
Leaving that black mold crap behind is very similar
My pops rose branch he just planted this past March had a lot of them on it!!! I used a combination of dish soap (1pump only) and a lil bit of rubbing alcohol in a 375ml spray bottle and rest of 80%, fill it w/ water and then spray your effected plants ONLY at night time or in a 100% SHADE area 2-3 times in a week for 2-3 weeks and then dont spray too much of it where it starts dripping into the soil cuz then the mixture can kill good bacteria in the soil… but wow, the rose plant is alrdy healed so much! Soon it shall flower
Dr. Broner’s Peppermint Soap mixed with some water in a spray can has done the trick for me on some plants and trees.
I love that soap brand but does it leave a residue? Or taste
@@deangullberry8972 you can just wash it off
For those of you that try this, less soap is better than more. Any dish soap is fine, you don't need the peppermint. Drops of soap diluted in liters of water will wreck the aphids you didn't see.
Bronners peppermint Castile soap.
1tbsp per gal. Shake and spray away. I hit every plant at least once a week. Works for thrips and other soft bodied pests as well. I almost exclusively use this. Beetles and such might need other treatments tho
one thing that works great is making a garlic concoction (boil about 7 cloves in 50cl and let sit overnight) and spraying it on your plants 2-3 times in one week. not more though plants don't like it much, but if you are invaded,works like a charm !
Didn't work for me and the garden smelled horrible...😢
I don’t boil the garlic…just crush it and mix with water, then filter and spray. Almost instantly gets rid of ants, and aphids.
I did the spray away technique last summer. It actually worked. Now you really have to be vigilant and keep up with spraying.
But they are being blasted in the soil???? Looks like they would just crawl back on.
Exactly would
Spraying with a solution of peppermint Castile soap will help I heard. I just bought some for the season. I saw aphids on my Suntan apple tree in the Fall last year, and had no clue they will appear in apple trees, because I don't see them on my peach tree at all.
@@swannoir7949 it would be nice to use something that wasn't just "heard" of, but factually true
@@JuneHarriseco Well, I heard it was true. And there were suggestions in the comment section to support that it is true. And I've read about it before. So it's your decision to believe it or not. Or research it yourself. My concern is for my garden and trees, so I'm going to do what's best for me, and I hope you do the same. But I'm not here to impress nobody, but just passing on knowledge for those who care to learn and research for themselves.
Aphids legs are actually quite delicate when you blast them with the water it really damages them and they can't crawl back on. I do this with my roses. They just feed on the new growth so that is where I concentrate the blast of water. I go out there every other day and that's all I need to do. Usually just for a week. If I feel especially ambitious, I'll go out there in the evening with a tablespoon of Murphy's oil soap mixed in a quart of water in a spray bottle. Problem solved. You could always let loose ladybugs which have been sprayed with sugar water in the evening at the base of your plants. They will crawl up your plants & feast on the aphids.
I used homemade pesticide with a drop of dishsoap and a lot of pepper on my okra plant and it worked great
Silly me, I just bought a package of ladybird beetles from the nursery and set them free lmao. Worked just as well tbh
The lady bugs are not effective as larvae, but fully grown adults. Unless they're laying eggs.
Why should they not lay eggs?
@@abobrett6703 I assume it's because they could get out of control and start an infestation
I use a pesticide called “Sevin”
It’s non systemic so it doesn’t harm the soil or plant.
It stays on your plants for up to 3 months.
It can easily be washed away with water.
I spray my soil usually right after the last frost to kill any surviving bug eggs.
Hope this helps you!
What works for me is just hanging banana peelings on the plants that have aphids it kills them and then they fall off
Awesome ❤
Long time ago I was told to soak a pack of cigarettes in 5 gallons of water and then use the "tea" to spray the plants. Wonder if hanging tobacco leaves on the plants like the banana peals would work. This was used on roses. It might not be safe on food plants. Nicotene is a poison, you know.
@@markgaudry7549 You should never use any form of tobacco around tomatoes and potatoes I wouldn't chance it and bananas are a lot cheaper and tastier
@@babetteisinthegarden6920 banana wtf?
@@babetteisinthegarden6920 Thanks for the warning. I suspected it was dangerous for foods when I first learned about it only in relation to roses. thanks again.
I just learned on another channel that milk, half water, half milk helped kill those aphids. Plus a fogger really helps cover areas spray doesn't n Ladybugs do not have a issue with Milk mixture. Paz be with us all 🙏. "Isa"
by spraying them dont you risk them going to the neighboring plants
Not if you spray ‘‘em hard enough you won’t 💀💀💀
They’re pretty weak insects, they will usually drown before they make it to another plants
@@AnestheticsForAna thanks for the answer! I was wondering that myself!
Yeah that’s what I wondered.
That was the question I just asked 😆 that's good to know
My farmer grandma creates her own pesticides by mixing chopped chili to a bottle of sweetpotato spirit (alcohol drink) in japan we day (shouchuu), let it ferment for couple days and mix 2tbsp of it in a bottled of distilled water and spray it to the plants.. her farm and garden is usually in pristine condition , I tried it on mine too.. it worked :)
Spray diluted rosemary, thyme, eucalyptus diluted with water and a little vinegar.
I do love that the bugs go for the damaged plants tho, shows the beauty of nature and reusing stuff which isn't growing well
Get a jar of lady bugs and dump them on the plant. They love to eat them . Case closed 😂
You usually can buy large packs of live ladybugs from local nurseries--ladybugs eat all the aphids!
You should always make sure the species you're buying is native to your area though!!! It'd probably be better to just go for a wander and grab some from nearby so you aren't accidentally setting the population in your area out of whack :)
Darn you! I really was thinking about your April1 post with the potato and tomatoes on the same vine…April Fools!🤣
start your garden with a layer of drainage material, like stump grindings or sticks and small rocks. this will ensure good drainage, happy roots that can breath, and breakdown to enrich the soil. it also makes a layer for beneficial insect to thrive in apart from your roots.
The other thing about kale is that it's more an early spring and fall plant. I live in Michigan and the kale i planted in late July i have been eating for 2 months now. It also tastes better in cool weather. Please remember cabbage worms like kale. They are fewer in fall and can be picked off by hand and no spray.
I had aphids really bad in my garden but I had a little meadow on the other end of the yard and it had loads of ladybugs and ladybug larva so I moved a couple dozen of them to my garden and the aphids were ERADICATED within a week
In the UK ladybirds (ladybugs) are amazing for hunting aphids, and as one of our native species they support the ecosystem as well as protecting gardens.
Planting things that will attract aphid predators is the most beneficial tho
Lacewings are my go-to for aphid control.
I make garlic water and pour it on and around the plants with the aphids and they go away and don’t return.
my grandma used to just squish them with the fingers directly on the leaf...i tried it and it really works
Dont they just..crawl back up after their blasted away?
That's why I smoosh them.
That was my thought too
💭🤔
They do. Dish soap, oil and baking soda in a spray bottle. Bam.
My personal go to, carnivorous plants like drosera. Give it moist soil like that and it’ll flourish. They like little nutrient in the soil so a sandy bed near your plants can actually make a huge difference. And you’ll have some of the coolest looking plants around. Like sarracaena purperea. The purple pitcher plant, That flowers. Also does wonders for other pests like stink bugs, snails even. Oh and a healthy bird population.
🙋🏿♀️question: won't blasting them with water just send them to another area or does the water pressure kill them?
Depends on the pressure, they are also pretty slow and can hardly move
When I was a kid I had grown a pumpkin patch from a single pumpkin that I was carving into a Jack o Lantern for Halloween. I had an aphid problem to so I would wash the leaves with a hose. During Spring there were a ton of weed areas at my school and I liked to get an empty water bottle, poke holes in it, put leaves and grass. Then I'd catch some ladybugs and put them in the water bottle. When I got home I'd release them on my pumpkins.
I thought ladybugs eats aphids? Maybe you can just introduce ladybugs?
As long as there are no restrictions on them where you live, you can *absolutely* just unleash ladybugs.
You even get to feel like a supervillain that way.
@@hotaru8309 however, you are legally obligated to play The Flight of the Valkyrie whole doing it. I do not make the rules.
Just don’t introduce any that are foreign to your area
I just dump starved ladybugs on their head. Dill and milkweed attracts lady bugs so if you're having issues with aphids they're good to plant too. Milkweeds are pretty common weeds so they're free and work instantly. They have the added benefit of attracting monarch butterflies.
But, that won’t kill them, will it? They will just move onto bigger and better plants. At least they are courteous enough to go for the weak stressed plants.
Good Advice from a responsible farmer..knowledge given is rightly spent here... bet most will appreciate your nice&useful advice.Tq🙏🧙♂👍✝️
right.... blast them away with water, sending them all over they other plants to totally infest the whole garden.
Thanks Jacque I’ve been fighting these BAD in my kale I’ve gotten to the point I’ll grow literally ten times more kale than I need just so I can get some from the aphids.
And just blast them away right onto all the other plants. You may have ants farming aphids in your garden as well. It sounds like a joke but really ants will place aphids on plants that are ready to suck dry and then protect them
Just plant Marigold around ur garden they will deter aphids
This! Most people are saying get ladybugs. Unfortunately that will get rid of local beneficial life for the garden.
what about borage? These attract good bugs but also aphids, which is bad. If I have Marigold and borage will aphids stay away?
When I was a kid my mom bought a bag of live ladybugs at our local hardware store to take care of the aphids on her rose bushes
You don't need to do this. Just plant sunflowers around your garden. Ants will do the work for you. They remove aphids from the crops, place them on the sunflowers and then chew their wings off so they can't leave. They like the sweet sticky substance the aphids make when they chew the sunflower leaves. This keeps both the aphids AND the ants off your plants.
Aphids also hate marigolds, so planting those around your garden helps repel them and attract bees.
This is absolutely not true. In fact ants farm aphids. They tend to them like kings because aphids produce little droplets of nectar that the ants devour. An ant would not move an aphid and they certainly don't take their legs off. They need them to walk around to produce and release the nectar from their anus that keeps the ants well fed. In fact, the ants protect the aphids from other predators such as ladybugs and will kill the ladybugs for trying to get to the aphids
I have hundreds of sunflowers that surround my garden each year like a privacy fence and still battle aphids never ever seen one on a sunflower
Bird houses/feeders are really helpful. I was going nuts trying to get rid of tons of yellow aphids. My girl kept suggesting bird feeders but I thought it would be too slow. She put them up and boy was I wrong. The feeders attracted the birds, but once they saw the aphids it was all they cared about. 80-90% reduction in 2 days. It was a massacre.
Ground cover and proper mulch helps mitigate those soil issues, too
Ladybugs eat aphids, but ladybug larvae are the real killers. I had aphids on my bell pepper plants on my balcony. Walked around the neighbourhood a couple of days collecting 10 or so ladybugs and put ‘m on my plants. Most would fly away after a couple hours but then after a couple of days I noticed a few larvae. Aphids were gone in a day. This of course worked because it was outside and a confined space, but still I was pretty impressed
Also if calcium can't be uptook from the soil to form calcium oxolate (same thing that correlates with human kidney stone risk), the plant has a harder time defending itself. There was a really cool video a couple years back where they mimicked catapillers chewing on plant leaves and used a special light to show the calcium oxolates increase dramatically in their leaves. Some plants use a combination of terpenes as well, but Kale moreso oxolates.
Indigenous farming techniques incorporated tobacco all around the perimeter, it’s a powerful insecticide. Some insects such as the tobacco beetle aren’t affected, but they remain on the tobacco plant so the produce plants aren’t eaten. Spiders are another form of holistic pest control that is free and very effective
This is part of why I'm looking into building a beetle berm in the back yard, also slugs
I use homemade nettle spray as an aphid repellent it works very well and nettles grow all over where I live.
how did you make nettle spray?
We have a terrible ant problem and couldn't figure out why this year we found out the tree in our back yard attracts aphids like crazy (if you stand under it it feels like it's mildly raining from aphid excretions) and the aphids excretions attract the ants. Which explains why the ants are so bad parts of the yard will collapse when you step on them from the colony tunnels. But because of that tree the aphids actually leave my plants alone for the most part.
The nature center I worked at bought a 10k box of lady bugs every year. There’s an inside, 2-storey room that’s basically a terrarium that visitors can go into. Several plants that require high humidity are in there. And so are the aphids. Birds weren’t really an option.
You can also use concentrated garlic, or concentrated hot pepper(water based), the concentrated garlic you can get it at home depot, and the hot pepper you can make yourself, and they are both safe for the environment!👍
Dawn and water works really good and it don't hurt the plant like cutting the leaves do
We used preying mantis and ladybugs. The problem with the mantis is that it will devour both the destructive and beneficial insects. Still used them though. Also diatomaceous earth, pepper spray, and ash.
Im convinced aphids are the inspiration for tribbles...except notably less cute and fuzzy.
Another tip, warm soapy water, I had aphids borderline kill my Stuart desert pea warm soapy water over 3 -4 days done the job, on veggies after they are gone just wash the soap off, no stunting growth on veggies this way.
I’ve seen aphids in store bought salads 🥗 many times. Thanks for the explanation of what those tiny bugs are.
lady bugs are veracious aphid eaters. AND a little bit of dawn dishliquid in water and spray on the plants works wonders as well.
I use a couple of table spoons of dish soap mixed with neem oil and water. You can use vegetable oil also. Kills them almost instantly, and then after 1 hour, just wash it away with hose.
I recently found ants farming little black aphids on my Quinoa plant. I got all those little buggers with neem oil. So far, so good.
Man, if my stress attracted hungry predators I'd be constantly looking out for bears or something.
My German friend taught me to use spray with homemade pesticide at home in consisting of the kitchen liquid soap with water.
i found a tree near my house that was infested in ladybugs and her larva .. got them in a cup and put like 2-3 ladybugs and 10 larva ...they cleaned all my plants on my balcon within a week or so It was amazing :) to see them disparear everyday LOL that was satisfying
Mostly natural aphid spray recipe: mostly water, some plant and environment safe soap, and jyst a bit of neem oil- i think it's around a fourth cup to a gallon but i might be wrong. Just put it in a spray bottle and douse the plant.
If ladybugs are native to ur area, u can also plant marrigolds in with your plants, as they attract the ladybugs, which then feast on the aphids.
I play a video game called "GROUNDED" where you're the size of an ant, in a backyard- Aphids are my favorite thing to hunt! 😂
But then you blast them everywhere over your garden.
They’ll be dead
@@Skvm Does that really kill them? I also thought it would just spread them out. Rain doesn’t seem to kill them. How does the water hose kill them? Is it the pressure? Because really hard rain seems to bring more. (This is a sincere question, not sarcasm.)
@@jackieruiz3645 it’s not so much the hosing, though it can kill them, it removes them from the plant and they die from that. If there is an infestation, it might not be enough, but it’s good to help keep populations under control
There's also a bush that aphids prefer over everything else idr the bush but it has red flowers. You can grow one near your plants and aphids will go for the bush instead
Edit:it's called Nasturtium. Most gardeners use it as a lure to attract all aphids.
Crazy I did this and it works! I just seen this video now I spray the leaves down but like they say it’s better to have veggies with bugs that veggies without!
Thanks for helping me know that I don't want to be a gardener
Saw some websites sell ladybugs, those r rly helpful with removing aphids too
i worked in a garden center and had to routinely deal with aphids attacking our product. i was told to cut back the plants, rinse off the aphids, use pesticides, and since it was outside “natural predators will come eat them.” nope. i was never able to fully get rid of them, and it was so frustrating. so i left that job, bye aphids, not my problem 😂
Thank you for this! I just sprayed down my grape vine
Very helpful, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I just went and bought a whole bunch of ladybugs and that took care of the problem. And you can always use Dawn dishwashing liquid and water in a spray bottle and it works.
Excellent information.
Thank you!
The symbiotic relationship between ants and aphids is really cool, definitely check it ou