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Oh and I forgot to add … he is so caring about the people who garden with him … that he answers their questions and actually gets back to them and you definitely know this is a busy man with his job family and gardening … we thank you so much … we are vegan and what we spray we also eat 😎

@cpnotill9264

2 жыл бұрын

Geoff does a fantastic job of juggling it all and is a great teacher! ❤🌱

I used to use a combination of plant-based soap and pure lemon juice in equal parts (mix rate was 20:1 with water from the hose) and I would spray down all my vegetation (trees, ornamentals, hedges, flowers, fruits and veggies) once a week on the coolest part of the day (usually early evening). Kept buggies to a minimum whilst I fixed underlying problems (poor soil conditions, overcrowding, etc.) This will be a good 'spot' treatment. Thanks =)

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Lemon juice? I gotta try that one Sandy!

@tjp353

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheRipeTomatoFarms A lot of sources recommend Neem oil in this type of solution. Do you know if it has any advantages over other oils?

Thank you so much …my friends and I love your videos because we are new to gardening and your the only one that explains things very easy and your voice is very soothing… thank you so much

Found Aphids in the peas today and as you said, their environment is the main contributor. I planted too tightly, not expecting everything I planted to come up. Boy was I wrong! I'm going to thin them some tomorrow after work and get some Meyers on my lunch break just in case. As always Jeff, thank you for your advice!

First time gardener here... Thank you so much for your simple and informative videos. My husband and I are so excited to start our gardening journey.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

Right on Maura, best of luck this season! :-)

You have saved my rose!!! It worked completely, thank you SO MUCH :)

Ive got advice, not for bugs but rather fungus. This year, every time my tomatoes got fungal infected leaves, I fully sprayed with clove/Rosemary water mixture every night, for a few days. Both times Id have new sets of leaves dying, every day soft brown spots moved up the plant until I sprayed, and it stops spread the same day. Spray front and backs of leaves, try not do wet flowers too much but a mist wont hurt. Only thing I noticed was one morning after spraying my tomato, a part of my raspberry that got residual mist had its natural powdery coating taken off the cane. Its fine but I’m sure its not good for it. As he says, test a bit on a small leaf/stem to see the plants reaction. Hope anyone who has these these fungal issues every year can benefit from this, cheers.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Love it, thanks so much for the insight! :-)

I lost all 20 cucumber plants to aphids (yep, planted too close). Saved 2 suckers, threw them in Kratky hydroponics. Aphids came back but I'm using an air mattress blower on the plants daily. Plants now look great!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

11 ай бұрын

Right on, good job finding a solution!

This was awesome! This reminded me of a informational video we watched as kids. Exactly what we need now as adults. Nothing too complicated. Loved learning, thank you!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and checking it out!

Recipe starts at 4:20

@joel6221

Жыл бұрын

You're the hero here ... WAY too much fluff on this video.

@divinahill4972

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very.

@fenristhewolfslair3993

2 ай бұрын

nice timing

Love your enthusiasm! Thank you for your guidance

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers angeline, thanks for watching! 🙂

Thanks Geoff for sharing this. I am pretty particular of what I put on the garden which will eventually feed me and this solution is perfect and this is the right time of year especially since here on the west coast with our first heat wave. We have had so much rain and our plants are not quite used to a massive jump in temperature and lots of sun. I use a non-perfumed, natural soap from the Natural Section of the local grocer. I did not think of using vegetable oil until you mentioned it, this is a much cheaper solution than Neem oil. Rosella

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rosella...I'm not used to the heat either! Ha ha! Yes, it really is an inexpensive but still effective solution. Easy to find products, and completely harmless to us as well as all the beneficial pollinators as long as they aren't directly sprayed! 🙂

Perfect video Geoff and perfectly timed! I did spray down all of my garlic, tomatoes and runner beans with diluted dish soap but didn't know about the oil, so i will add that tomorrow to the bottle, hose them down and re apply. Thanks for the tips! Also, earlier today, i went in and pruned down more of the lower tomato leaves to allow more air flow as i noticed that some of the black aphids had crawled onto the leaves from the garlic. They wasn't pruned that long ago but the tomatoes sure have shot up during the hot weather here! Like you say when you are growing so much it is hard to keep track of all of the things you need to do. I ended up pulling out the soft neck garlic and there were a few decent sized bulbs say about 5/9 that i planted. The 3 rows of hard neck garlic, doesn't seem as bad so i am just going to spray them to keep the aphid numbers down.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! I'd say you are managing and supervising your growing quite well! Can't wait to hear about even more harvests!!!

This was amazing and thorough. Thank you so much for this. You do really spectacular work! Trying this out now.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Robert, appreciate that. Best of luck with your pests!

So helpful 🥰thank you. Will definitely add this recipe to my pest control arsenal 🥳

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Best of luck Brittany!! :-)

I learned a lot on this one thanks for your help keep up the good work

Excellent video, this should help with my pepper plant, brought in for winter that had an aphid explosion. Thanks a ton.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

Every time with the peppers!! Best of luck!

Love your videos. Thanks for sharing.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Miss Lee, I really appreciate that!

Excellent presentation, very helpful.

My first go to is hard water spray. Next, soap and peppermint oil. But sometimes, I breakout the bad stuff.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Yo gotta do what you gotta do Tammy! :-)

Thank you for this video 😊

You are an excellent teacher. Thank you!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Ай бұрын

Thanks Jessica, that means a lot! :-)

Yes it works. I use it in my garden. Nice video From. Muhammad Mubeen Farooq Advocate. Pakistan

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

7 ай бұрын

Cheers, happy to hear you've had success with it. As always, spray a test leaf first!

I need this for my gardens.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Feels like a bad year for insects Shazil!

Thanks for this.

Thank you so much.

Thanks!

Great video, thankyou,

Super fantastisch

Kas- teel. Thanks for your recipe.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Joan, thanks for watching!

You are really great at what you do and i hope you keep doing it for a very long time,all your knowledge is greatly appreciated,thank you so much 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 (New Jersey).... Oh yeah will this solution work on most insects???

Fantastic video Jeff! You are preaching to the choir now though. Balance and imbalance! That's what I have been reading in Phil Nauta's book. My wife makes our natural soap herself and when pests come along, natural is all we use.

@kevinrowbotham545

2 жыл бұрын

I see how it is now. Tracy may have a point after all. That "S" on your hat stands for something...

V good, many thanks

Thanks for the explanation on how the soup works. Veg oil vs cold pressed Neem oil. Both work and Veg is a lower cost too. Key is mix small amounts to keep the oil from going bad and , Duh, use the mix up before remixing as needed...

Thank you

great and very helpful upload....

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

10 ай бұрын

Thanks, appreciate that. :-)

Thank you! I made it straight away and applied it to my roses and potatoes, which are now being bothered by japanese beetles and potato beetles. I would like to let you know that sadly, Meyer's is no longer all natural. They use very strong artificial perfumes and the quality of their ingredients isn't what it once was. I have switched to Grove soap, which uses all natural essential oils for fragrance and very mild all natural ingredients. Will this work on flea beetles? They eat specific plants every year, and so I've given up on planting those varieties, but perhaps this will help?

Thank you😊

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

4 ай бұрын

Cheers!

I have a bottle of the old fashion "DDT"-Insecticide + Some secret ingredient(According to the label) in my shop on a shelf. I use to Read ALL the text and advertisement on this bottle once in a while, and it ALWAYS makes me smile, haha. They used it in bedrooms everywhere and not in any way sparingly either, so i can understand WHY people got sick from it, and how it ended up in certain birds affecting the thickness of their eggs almost bringing them to extinction. But there were no warnings on the bottles, and this says very much about how Big companies does their "Business" really. Cheers

Thank you for your gentle approach to gardening. Will this recipe work for ants? I have them in the soil in my pots and they are also crawling on my flowers and veggies. Thanks.

Question please. I have companion planted nasturtiums and these have the bugs, should i treat them also? Thanking you in advance

I have neem oil at home; but, have never used it. It's 100% virgin cold press. But, it seems to be tricky to use. I also have diatomaceous earth, which seems effective for some pests. But, my garden plot is at the downtown community garden and it is not easy for me to get there every single day. When my parents let me put in a backyard garden way back in the late 60s to the 70s, I used water and dish soap; although, I don't think it really was soap. I think it was just dishwashing liquid, probably detergent. I never even thought of mixing cooking oil with it.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Right on Donna. Love hearing about all your experiences! I think its great you share so much of your wisdom. :-)

@TheRipeTomatoFarms Can i use common soap which we use in our daily life to wash hands?

Thanks 👍

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Will this recipe work for sawflies on roses?

I've had white flies on a single pepper plant on my balcony and it was a PAIN to have to flip each leaf to spray them. I can't imagine doing this spot treatment in a garden your size. Love the simplicity of the mix but there has to be a more efficient way of applying the solution

Would you recommend neem oil to help supercharge this spray?

For some reason, I cant seem to grow radishes. What soil mix including fertilizer, do you use?

Just right on time, thank you so much, aphids are on my pepper plants. What's the white thing that covers plants too? 😭 I haven't had luck this year.

@susanlynn6545

Ай бұрын

Powdery mildew , Google it. Don't water at night.

I have learned that Cotton seed oil and Soy bean oil are especially insecticidal. And people using very Alkaline soap should consider neutralize their solution with a little vinegar in order to not potentially harm the plants, but as you say one should use natural soap as it is not nearly as toxic to plants compared to many commercial Dish washing soaps people use as an "ignorant substitute". Cheers

How do you approach treating a plant, such as a rose which tends to get pests like aphids and also gets fungal issues such as powdery mildew at the same time. I would be concerned all the spraying and rinsing might promote the mildew. So how do you treat both in terms of ingredients as well as timing/spray scheduling?

Will this work on the leaf miners decimating my Swiss chard and beets?

Cool

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

:-)

Have you tried a few drops of a detergent to reduce water surface tension?

L❤ve this video🙌🙏

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, and thanks for watching!

I see you use Mrs meyers, does it come unscented? Or can any type be used?

How does this compare to using neem oil?

Filipinos use joy dish soap with vinegar in water? Sprayed 1 time a week as a preventative? They spray at dusk to prevent leaf damage 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Reallly helpful but how much Olive oil do u put in?

Hi, can you please let us know how to get rud of water stains on Tropicanna lilies leaves? Thank 🙏

Can this be used for household I nsects

I use 2 tbsp dish soap to 1 pint of water…works wonderfully!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Perfect! And inexpensive too!

As a new gardener I bought an organic spray, but that turned out not safe. So i bought neem oil and now that isn’t safe for bees.🙈. So now I’ll try the water, castor, veg oil. Some say lemon to replace the water, what do you think on that? I have something eating the top layer of my apple tree branch could it be ants??

Can I have the description of this DIY botanical pesticide? Please🥺

Garlic water ,works well too

1:54 The roots are overgrown. It prevents them from spreading farther and getting more nutrients. I suggest a bigger pot than that or earlier transplant into such a pot, before garden planting.

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Is this spray phytotoxic? Or you can just spray at any time?

Geoff, We'll have to try this quite a few different plants are getting attacked by flea beatles.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Flea beatles eh? Dang, what plants are they targeting?

@sdp8364

2 жыл бұрын

I have flea beetles too, they are eating my lettuce and strawberries and radish tops! Also TONS of cucumber beetles!!! Help

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

@@sdp8364 oh no! That's terrible! Did you find that the plants were stressed before the pest outbreaks?

Tysm for all your garden tips. I'm having a problem with potato psyllids this year. They are everywhere and It looks like I may loose some plants. I've tried natural remedies and it helps some, but I can't seem to get rid of them completely. 😔 I may need to move to bigger guns.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Ugghh... That's a particularly nasty one Leticia! Lacewings and Ladybugs might be your best option..

@leticiaworboys9927

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRipeTomatoFarmstysm I considered getting some ladybugs as well. 💗

@stuartvalentine5310

2 жыл бұрын

tsym - lazy

Are crickets bad for the garden? I dug my potatoes this morning and there were SO MANY crickets in the soil... also I had areas of dry hard soil in the raised bed... I used high quality bagged soil the nursery said was the best for raised beds.

Go Riders ✌️

I mixed up the water olive oil and Palmolive antibacterial soap did I screw up with the soap? I already sprayed my vegies! 😵

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How is this different from an insecticidal soap bought in the store?

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Is it safe for hummingbirds

Hi,Can I use this recipe on my tomatoes plants?

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, for sure... Tomatoes, peppers, zucchinis.... Just do a test leaf first to ensure no phyto toxicity.

everyone around here has a green hat like that and flags so i thought i would sub

Throw like 20 drops of peppermint oil in there and it will work as a bug repellent as well. Bugs and rodents hate the smell of menthol.

OMG! I'm getting Sotty Mold from the freaking bugs!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Ugghh....yeah, that's the aftermath.....the worst. 😞

Will it kill Chlorochroa bugs? They're like stink bugs and they're on my tomato plants and on my corn as well as pincher bugs

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

10 ай бұрын

Yes, but only by direct contact

@ireneasanoma2925

10 ай бұрын

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you for the info so is there anything else you might recommend that would really get rid of them? These things are awful and crawling on my tomatoes not all of them just some of them. The ones that they are on have rot spots forming.

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Does this work for cucumber beetles I have an outbreak beyond control.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Most people shoot straight for neem oil with hard-bodied pests such as Cucumber Beetles.

This spray work for mealy bugs too? Trying to use on succulents, but worried if it will remove any farina on them?

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Ай бұрын

Hey Cheyenne, it does work on mealy bugs. Even with succulents though, always spray a test leaf! :-)

Hello, my flowers have alot of black little 🪰 around it will this solution work ?

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but always spray a test area first! :-)

You have an easy to listen to voice.

Are lemon peels , peppermint and dried flower petals a good pesticide to use in the garden 🪴

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they can all have insecticidal and repellent properties. Experiment for what works for your climate and your garden!

@fabianlewis6lewis249

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Ok! I’ll try it out thanks

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

@@fabianlewis6lewis249 make sure to do a test leaf for each plant first though! :-)

@fabianlewis6lewis249

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Ok

I get those tiny white things eating my swiss chard. Giving this a try.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Do you think they may be Whitefly Austin? If so, this will definitely work.

@austin2842

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I'm not sure given how tiny they are. I just see tiny white specs that can't be brushed away.

Vegetable oil? What vegetable? I don’t use vegetable oil in cooking bc it could be corn oil, soy, and probably GMO so it isn’t a good idea to use it to eat. Canola isn’t good either. I use olive oil, avocado, and coconut depending on what I’m cooking and I even research brands for the best and least contaminated. You just can’t trust the food industry anymore which is why I started growing my own food in the first place. I’m glad you mentioned olive oil since that’s what I’ll try the next time I find aphids. Does it work on all detrimental pests?

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

All the vegetable oils seem to work. :-)

I thought you was a professional gardener, not a scientist! Oh well, I’ll follow along anyway, though I’m no good at science. Good stuff!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I like to dabble in both! 🙂

Hi im so happy with your chanel🥰 can you plz help me and tel me what 2 do,,,i found 3 litle muchrooms in my paprika plant...🤔

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Naomi! Mushrooms aren't necessarily bad. Good fungus in the soil is essential....but it could also mean the conditions are too wet or going anaerobic.

@naomirifia8305

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you🥰

Like watching paint dry. You could have covered the spray mixture in a thirty second clip

John 8:36 KJV If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

OMG. The banging on the glass shredded me. I figured the first time would be the last time....I was wrong. Nice video otherwise!

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

Cheers! Thanks for watching!

Is neem oil a type of vegetable oil? That’s the only kind I’ve ever heard used in homemade sprays.

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Neem oil is a type of vegetable oil from India, but its not for consumption and much more toxic than anything I've listed here today. People love neem, but its not used in the spray I showed here. :-)

@goatkidmom

2 жыл бұрын

Neem oil comes from neem trees. They can also grow in the deep South in well watered areas.

@justjoy1229

2 жыл бұрын

Pls no Neem. Kills the honeybees

@lilcricket4379

2 жыл бұрын

@@justjoy1229 use on indoor like those knats

What brand of soap is natural

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

Жыл бұрын

Tons of different brands make natural soap

@nosferatu3475

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms you have a specific brand you like to use

Are the clusters of black bugs aphids?

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Daniel....indeed they are! :-(

Can I use dawn dish soap instead of Castile soaps

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Adler, if you do, make sure to spray a test leaf first! 🙂

@adlerkriener5024

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms ok thanks

@TheRipeTomatoFarms

2 жыл бұрын

@@adlerkriener5024 let me know how it goes Adler!

@adlerkriener5024

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I will

@takingcareofmine

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I use -dawn