I work on another channel and honestly, the time and effort you're clearly putting into your editing, b roll, shot setups and explanations are not going unappreciated, truly one of my favourite youtube creators.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

That is incredibly kind of you to say. Very lucky to have a great team with me.

I plant garlic in all my vegi boxes. I’ve noticed significantly less aphids and other pests since starting that. Chives as well, but garlic seems to work really well.

It's wonderful to note that your hose leaks at the sprayer like every other hose in the gardening world! Ben, you are a true joy to watch.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Tracey. I'll get it fixed at some point! :-)

I live in a rural area where deer are the most voracious garden pest. I planted creeping thyme and chives around all of my outside borders and the pungent smell it gives when they step on it deters them better than any repellent.

@ardenthebibliophile

11 ай бұрын

The deer in our area could care less and just step over everything.

@t.c.4321

11 ай бұрын

Even more than shot gun pellets ?

@denisewall9516

11 ай бұрын

@@t.c.4321 that's how you end up with police provided accommodation 😉

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Great to hear of something that deters deer!

@amandar7719

10 ай бұрын

@@denisewall9516😂

Hello Ben, I use a plant-based dish soap (a formula of 85%). Not only is it safe for most plants, but it actually acts as a mild plant food booster to your regular fertilizer regime. Here in the U.S. I use "Seventh Generation" Lavendar/mint scent.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Great solution there. Good to use plant-based/ecological dish soap if you can.

I’m a fairly new gardener. A couple of years ago I decided to learn more and grow a decent garden. Our soil was awful! I had okay crops the first year, but I they weren’t lush. I noticed I had hardly any insects. And I’d learned that a garden should have them. I set about amending the soil, bringing in compost in bulk, etc. Last year the garden began showing the effects! And this year it’s taken off and I’ve noticed not only pests, but more birds, butterflies and good pollinators, but a lot of cabbage moths. Still, I figure I’ve set something in motion and the garden will find a balance. I have so much food out there that I’m not worrying about pests, other than a bed dedicated to carrots. I covered that. Root fly be damned! I thought, I must be a real gardener now because I’ve brought all this life, good and not so good into the garden. It feels great. Your channel was one of the first I found, and the practical advice and the love you give the garden inspired me so much. Thank you. 🇨🇦❤️👩‍🌾🍁🥬🥕🌶️🫑🍆🥦🥒. Now I follow a number of channels that have helped me learn and I have a new sense of community because of this. All good. 👍

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

So pleased your making such great progress with your garden! You clearly are a natural at it. :-)

@francesbatycki404

11 ай бұрын

@@GrowVeg - I wouldn’t say that, but thanks for the encouraging words. 🇨🇦👍👩‍🌾❤️

I use powdered garlic(even out of date) chilli and vinegar all blended with rain water and drained into a sprayer via a very fine mesh

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Lovely, natural mix. :-)

Hi Ben,have a go at making some garlic spray it’s awesome,the little critters hate it.

@michielvoetberg4634

11 ай бұрын

Yes! it worked great for me as well.

@vanessataylor4125

11 ай бұрын

Yes garlic spray works. Also if you have ants in your house they hate it too especially if you add some cinnamon and or chilli pepper to the spray. Just test garlic and ants out. Get a garlic clove, squish it a bit and rub it where the ants are - they avoid it like the plague!

@komleylaryea4128

11 ай бұрын

Yes garlic spray is wonderful I also I use a sprinkle of fine chilli powder on the floor the foxes hate it as they use their nose to woof things out

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

I've heard great things about garlic spray. Will definitely have to make me some up!

Hi, Ben. Sometimes I really wish I lived in your climate, but then, N. Florida does have an almost continuous growing season. Our disease and pest pressure is horrendous, and we pretty much have to get on a pest control schedule and stick to it. Couple that with periods of drought followed by weeks of daily rain, and we find it hard, if not impossible to even apply pesticides. My solution has been to obtain and apply beneficial nematodes as soon as the danger of frost has past, and again in the Fall when the temperatures are consistently below 85. They work like magic, so long as we don't get a frost or freeze, and the temperatures stay below mid-80's, or they die. Excess rain will also kill them off, too. However, these microscopic little buggers are harmless to beneficial insects, but will attack and decimate pests, including soil bourn pests like root knot nematodes. Needless to say, from June to mid-September, and after our first frost, we rely on the methods you're using, or resort to OMRI approved pesticides or we get no appreciable harvests. Another thing we do here in the Deep South is pick tomatoes at "first blush" and ripen them indoors. Most of us plant determinant varieties of tomatoes that tend to all ripen within about a three week period, usually early to mid June. It's just too hot for tomatoes by the end of June. Leaving them to ripen on the vine is not advisable unless they're grown in a protected greenhouse, because stink bugs will sting them up and destroy them. On the bright side, using sensible techniques and responsible pesticide practices, I manage to grow and preserve about 80 to 90 percent of our produce for the year.

@GrahamBolt-kv4zi

11 ай бұрын

Hello I hope you're safe over there I hope this year brings happiness prosperity, love and peace all over the world. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you have a really good array of techniques there. 😀

@helendorling5806

3 ай бұрын

Try cabbage moth decoys. See my post above.

You mentioned the specialised and the broader spectrum insecticides; a good tip to give would be that the broader spectrum insecticides are more likely to negatively effect the beneficial bugs (due to them being less specific). How I handle black aphids is by just cutting that part of the plant off. Cutting seems to prevent spread entirely whereas squishing works for only a few days (and then the eggs hatch I suppose). Having the aphids is more harmful than cutting a few leaves off.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Great advice there, thank you. :-)

Love these videos! Thank you! I refuse to use sprays, and this helps. I have found netting also helps protect my crops from deer as well.

Great bundle of natural pest control methods!! I noticed you shooting this in short pants and flip flop shoes. Make a strong concentration of garlic water to spray onto your footwear, to discourage video chiggers. Please keep these awesome videos coming! I learn so much from every one.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Yes indeed, thanks so much! :-)

The mesh would probably keep the chickens out, too! Blasting aphids with a hose would be satisfying.

@GrahamBolt-kv4zi

11 ай бұрын

Hello I hope you're safe over there I hope this year brings happiness prosperity, love and peace all over the world. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from

Thanks, Ben! As always great tips.

Nice to know that even the pros suffer with leaky water sprayers! Great video, as usual Ben!

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. :-)

Great advice Ben, you’re spot on, as usual

Thank you for great tips and pics of the bugs.

I've had great success this year in mitigating pests by adding a birdbath to my vegetable garden. I change the water every day and the birrds and the bees are visiting the water. Hope that this works for you as well. I also use crushed egg shells around areas that slugs love.

So thankful for all your work, would like to say: grow hops vs. japanese beetles, it's a tremendous trap crop. Yes, I know, as a fan of beer, this seems like blasphemy, but, they love the leaves. So, MOST IMPORTANTLY, early morning/early evening, knock them off in bucket of water/soap/vinegar. During daytime, they'll fly off. Been doing it for three years, they haven't gone to anything else in garden. Hope this helps.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

This is really useful knowledge James, thanks so much for sharing. :-)

@qkcmnt1242

11 ай бұрын

I wonder if slugs and snails would venture into hops areas as well. Maybe it could be a double draw away from the rest of the garden. 🎉

I use neem oil and castile soap, diluted with water and sometimes steeped garlic water added. I also use the dried plant.

Alternatively to dish washer liquid I use potassium soap, so when used it will add potassium to the soil. Also it pair up very well with neem oil, this will kill aphids ( also be careful with ladybirds, I don’t think it kills them but it’s not a pleasure for them )

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Great recommendation, thank you.

This year we are growing more polyculture beds and not using covers to see how everything fairs. We have lots of different flowers around the plot in amongst the veg and leave things to go to seed and flower. So far middle of July we don’t have any probs. Last week masses of cabbage whites flying around and I keep checking the various brassicas dotted around the plot. The only real problem we have are sparrows and I also saw fledgling thrushes eating plants on the corner or edges of the beds. So I just stand a small piece of wire at the edge and that’s all I needed. I have seen quite a few snails but not many slugs. We try to keep the ground around the plants clear of low dead leaves. We have a bird feeding station amongst our apple trees. We put a scarecrow in front of the cherry tree and I think that was enough to deter the magpies from eating all the cherries as they did last year. I know all what you have just suggested works but we wanted to see how just letting the good insect populations control the bad. Seems ok so far not 100% but almost. Just want to grow naturally and no dig.I do love watching you though as you have some good ideas and I always read your article in kitchen garden

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you are really having a good growing season and that not using covers is paying off so far. Definitely good if you can avoid them, will save so much time putting them on and taking them off again.

Japanese beetles devour my beans. Always having a dirty orgy in my garden but I’m sending them to a soapy bath when I can catch them. Love & respect from East Tennessee

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Hope you manage to win the battle on those beetles! :-)

I want to say thank you. Because in the spring time I watched your flower video and grew some you recommended. My garden this year is beautiful. So many color flowers that benefit the vegetables

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

That is really fantastic to hear. :-)

My perennial Kale is under siege by aphids and I have been seeing more lady bugs. Just last night I saw a lady bug had found my Kale which made me very excited!

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

What a great thing to be seeing! :-)

love your enthusiasm! lots of great information! always enjoy your videos! Thanks Ben

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. :-)

This year, I tried a combination of copper tape, followed by wool pellets then lava dust pellets around my plants to deter slugs and snails and this seems to have worked pretty well.

I have found using neem oil with organic washing up liquid and luke warm water mix, has greatly helped our veggies and apple trees. Although neem oil is expensive you only need a small amount in the mix (as with the organic washing up liquid) ☺️

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Will definitely have to try neem oil at some point.

Crushed up egg shells work wonders to stop slugs&snails. Especially for lettuce & sunflowers. They were always being eaten but now with the shells around them!

@GrowVeg

10 ай бұрын

What a great result!

Chilli and garlic spray is a good one also on occassion on the allotment we've had badger and deer devastate sweet corn crops i find debris/scaffold netting secured with cable ties to anything tall & sturdy(metal tubing,thick canes,etc) keeps the badgers off as they tend roll among the corn flattening it to get to the cobs it's also tall enough to keep the small deer out.I go with the flowers/herbs too i have them all over the place the only thing i do different is try to clear the allotment of pest bugs/larva early on around the start of April using a nematode mix specifically designed for allotments/veg gardens that targets about a dozen of the most common pests i do this twice at an overall cost of £16/$20

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Great idea to get a clean start to the season with those nematodes.

WOW! I've been having an unprecedented attack of aphids this year....love your videos.

Great stuff Ben!!! Excellent video… I use all the stuff you covered plus a couple more methods… My 2 chicken coops surrounds my garden (chicken moat), and I plant sacrificial beds outside of the coop perimeters… If nothing attacks the sacrificial beds, great, more to harvest… But when something does attack the sacrificial beds, I either catch it early, or if it is bad, I unleash the chickens on it… They eat everything, including all the bugs… Lifecycle interrupted… I used to put down slug boards in addition to the leaves, and had a garden duck that I would bring into the garden with me. I would walk around and flip the boards, and the duck learned pretty quick to stay with me, because I was leading it to all the slugs and snails, which it loved… Then I would get it out of the garden before it tried to eat anything else. I no longer have slugs and snails in my garden because they can’t cross the chicken moat that surrounds it, and have been eliminated within, via the duck (why not a goose or a chicken?… We’ll see if anyone gets that)… But the slugs and snails have been entirely eradicated within the garden. The duck was also delicious, as well as very useful for a period of time… Circle of life and all that rot… I rarely need soap spray or DE, neem, spinosad, BT, or any other organic control methods… I make awesome compost and the plants are very healthy. I also plant tons of flowers for the beneficials… I also grow tons of garlic, rosemary, lavender, and other gopher repellent plants on the inside perimeter… I had tons of gophers when I bought the property. So I started off with gopher repellent plants, and gopher eating chickens… It’s worked out rather splendid for me (and the chickens)… Chickens are little dinosaurs that love eating rodents. I taught them that rodents are food when they were fresh out of the brooder… Just feed them mice, and they figure it out almost instantly… Chickens are the best mousers I have ever seen Better than dogs, which are far better than cats, but the chickens put them both to shame. They love eating rodents, it’s by far their favorite food. Small snakes and lizards are great, as they eat a lot of bugs and won’t bother your veggies… But they tend to eat too many dung beetles and I like all the work that the dung beetles do for me… Not that it’s necessary in the garden (if you have good compost), but they help a lot in the pastures (if the chickens don’t get them… Cus the chickens help a lot in the pastures too. Anyway… Great stuff… I always enjoy your videos and upbeat style. Cheers.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you've got a great balance in your garden there. And very impressive to have eradicated all the slugs - wow!

What Big work! 👌

I make a salt solution and spray the outsides of my plant pots with it (I have a bad slug/snail issue. The won't go up the pots so my plants are safe. In my raised beds I'm using the fine netting to try and keep my plants slug/snail free

Thank you Ben. This video was superior! We have struggled this season with pests and did resort to the beer tactic manual removal and eventually a bit of spray. We appreciate your video reminders, hoping to put them to more use for our fall season planting. Best wishes.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video, and I hope the pests don't get too much of your crops.

My preferred spray-on mixture is water in which quassia chips have been steeped or boiled, plus a drop or two of neem oil, and some washing-up liquid to "cut" the oil slightly. The pigeons here regard my Taunton Deane kale as an all-year, all-day fly-in diner, and when they've taken the tops out, the cabbage whites start on the rest. It's a good thing I keep propagating it.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

What an interesting mixture - may have to try this myself. :-)

Love bug netting! I did have a cabbage moth inside but was easy to catch. I need to find taller stakes for when Brussels get bigger and better way to secure down. We have had severe drought in WI, US. We installed irrigation in one garden this week and the day after we got Rain!🎉 The MAJOR problem is deer. The plants have dried up everywhere and they like our salad bowl😡. We have to barricade everything with anything we have if it’s not in fenced in area. I’m nervous they may try to jump 7’ fence now. It’s been an awful time and now they are eating hostas which they never eat. We are attacked by everything this year. Voles! I’ve never seen in my life, gophers and moles in which the latter we haven’t had in years. There are a lot of grubs and robins are digging things up for them. I think I will need to treat the garden with Milky Spore. I had to use Spinosad on potato beetles. I tried hand removal and it’s impossible especially with a lot of plants. I still have something in garden digging at the bottom edges of beds and eats lettuce. Any ideas? I’m thinking either voles or birds. It’s just been the worst gardening year I’ve ever had. Late no warning freak frost, plants broke dormancy early from heat and froze, extreme drought where no rain from May to just this week. All I’ve been able to do is run with the hose and battle attacks. At least we have been getting rain now. However, we are SMOKED out from fires this weekend with worst today. I don’t know how anyone can endure that in CN, it’s awful enough here. Shade fabric was necessary this year and I think it will be needed going forward as the UV rays are much more intense. Want to set up a permanent cable system so I can move the fabric easily when it is needed on like a clothesline T over each row running N-S so as the sun tracks it will move the shade. Hope I can find the parts I need at resales, ect. Great points! I see you have a leaky hose 😅 So happy I have at least 1 garden with irrigation because me and the hose are not getting along in this drought. Oh, let’s not forget to add the dreaded vine borer in which we had to do surgery for already. 😵‍💫

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like an incredibly challenging year so far! I hope the rest of the growing season is a little less eventful!

@dustyflats3832

11 ай бұрын

@@GrowVeg it’s been challenging. I’m seeing onions here and potatoes in Michigan are maturing early. Normally the onions don’t tip till August. I hope things keep producing like tomatoes and peppers. Think the heat and drought is sending the wrong message. We also had a low of 50*F last night which was cool compared to past. They say to keep picking so the plants keep producing and had a few tomatoes and peppers and it’s picking season for green beans tomorrow. The smoke cleared Monday, but they say it will return. Now I hear California is on fire🙄

Hello, companion planting is key to reduce all pest, insect netting also Marigolds flower and others in all corners of the garden beds, mixing herbs like Chives Dill Sage Thyme in and around your food crops. Thank you for this great gardening information.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Companion planting is very powerful, absolutely.

Thx for your very helpful videos. I have lots of problems with snails and slugs a friend suggested a very usful tip - place rolled oats out in the garden making sure they stay dry, the slugs and especially snails love oats and eat lots of them the oats swell and snails no more. Also, when the oats get wet on the ground, the magpies love to snack on them.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Great tip! 😀

I have used the fine-meshed fabric on cole crops for years. Last year I didn't use it on my cabbages and it was a battle keeping the caterpillars off of them. Still ended up with beautiful extra-large cabbages. :) This year, I'm using netting. No caterpillars but the cabbage aphid colonies are overwhelming. I'm squashing or hosing them off every other day, even resorted to a spray once (sorry!). I'm going to remove the netting so ladybugs can get to them and I'll deal with the caterpillars best I can.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Hope you manage to bring those cabbage aphids under control eventually.

@pr1958

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the helpful videos. I have used many of your tips.

Thank you. I very much enjoy your videos. Keep them coming and i will keep hitting the like button.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! :-)

My favorite remedy for slugs and snails is still old beer in an upside down large jar cap. They love beer. It’s amazing. Also, thanks for the tip on pidgeons. Something was eating my sweet pepper plant leaves, I suspect it was them.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Hope they leave your peppers alone now. :-)

I've found that using bramble stems that I've cut back around the edges of my veg beds, or as a mini barbed fence around pumpkins and courgettes, helps with slugs somewhat

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

What a great idea. :-)

I know a place near Big Sur Calif USA where ladybugs thrive in the billions & I would go there & scoop them up by the handfuls & put them into gallon jars & bring them home & release them into my garden. That place was a forested vale with a waterfall. It was like the Garden Of Eden full of ladybugs. Sadly a job change moved me 1,000 miles away.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

What a magical place! :-)

@qkcmnt1242

11 ай бұрын

​@@GrowVegAnd what a bummer 😕 you had to move away. Time to find a new source for your lady bird beetles 🐞.

Great videos, I always enjoy them. I use food grade Diatomaceous Earth. I works great on crawling or flying pests.

Howdy Ben! Very informative video. You always have such beautiful footage!👍 The vine borer is in season pretty much all our growing season. I had my hubby build a cage...it's made of PVC and covered with insect netting. I can fit two large zucchini plants inside. I hand pollinated and get an abundance of food! I use the cage to cover other crops from time to time. I also build other coverings with hoops and insect netting.🐛 I plant flowering plants to bring in the good bugs, and the birds are a great help with snails.🐦

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like a fantastic cage. What a great idea!

Hi, Ben. To get rid of aphids when there's an outbreak, I use a piece of 2" Blue Painters tape wrapped around my index finger sticky side out. Then I run my finger over the blob of aphids. The aphids stick to the tape. When the tape is "full" of aphids, I simply throw the tape in the trash. This works really well to get the outbreak under control!

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

What a great method!

For the first time ever this year I was able to defeat squash vine borers by planting my zucchini in soft pots and wrapping insect netting around the top of the pot and around the stems. Worked great. Great videos, thanks.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Glad you managed to dodge the borers. :-)

Very beautiful

Net curtains work well too

Battling squash bugs a vine borers has been an absolutely brutal this year. Ive never had this problem before this year. Ive had to resort to spraying neem and detergent mix on the vines after i water...

@GrowVeg

10 ай бұрын

Hope you've managed to bring them under control.

good job 👏

It's a war, everything you try and grow, many things want to have a go at it. Find the mixed solution of garlic and neem oil works pretty well. Obviously needs a regular spray as will be washed off by the weather.

I interplant with herbs….planted zucchini & Patty pan in my bed of mints. So far so good( no squash eggs/ bugs

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Fingers crossed for you. Seems like a great move.

How do you dispose of slugs and snails? Thanks for all your help. God has blessed me with your vast knowledge.

Brilliant, I so enjoy your all KZread. I have recently moved to Sydney, Australia from Cape Town South Africa, so need all the tips you offer. Keep going, you are the best and love your little dog - name please.

@GrowVeg

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words Barbara. The dog is called Rosie. :-)

Thank u

I make a mixture of horsetail for spraying green fly

I use a garlic spray to deter pests. Especially squash bugs. You have to begin using it as soon as your plants pop up and weekly for the growth of the plants. I will start my plants with mesh over them next year and begin garlic once they have flowers. Thanks so much for your advice.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

It's great that such a natural spray can deter pests. :-)

Just a heads up Ben, checked your channel for some cucumber advice to find your last cuke vid was 5 years ago. If you happen to need a vid idea a new one on that is a suggestion...as if you aren't busy enough (advice on that vid is still all relevant of course). BTW, I'm already doing some designing for next years garden on the garden planner while changes I want to make are fresh on my mind. Hope you're having a great summer.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind suggestion. This is something that's on my to-do list to re-film - probably to go out sometime next spring. The last cucumber video could certainly do with a refresh! Glad you're making plans for next year's garden already - great to get ahead. :-)

Hello, Ben. I'm fairly new to gardening and learning lots thanks to wonderful channels like yours. Recently heard about using rhubarb leaves if/when finding it necessary to make a spray. Upcycling at it's best, possibly. We battle slugs so bad there that I carry a cup of vinegar to dispose of them in when doing my morning Slug Patrol. Have to admit that I have a knee-jerk reaction when seeing a bug on my veggie plants. I tend to squish before even thinking of it being beneficial or not. Oops.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you're on top of those slugs! Definitely always worth checking what bug your potentially squishing before doing so. :-)

Good job

@GrowVeg

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. :-)

Last week, I noticed something had eaten all the leaves off my marigold plants that I had spaced around my veggies, and a few days ago I noticed something ate holes in my new basil plants. Brief research says Japanese beetles or slugs. Unfortunately I haven't had the time or money to get any beneficial plants added to my new yard, but next spring I'm going to plan my garden better, and pick up some netting too. My poor sunflowers have been getting devoured for weeks lol

@ninjabrown8560

11 ай бұрын

My marigolds leaves have dissapeared too! I was so sad because they were the only flowers I had time to sow this year so I’m just gonna have to buy some plants in asda or something cuz I do want some flowers 😭. I finish work late so I had a look at my veg plot at 1am and I found the culprit, big huge slugs that I chopped in half lmao. I’m lovin all the rain we’re having but the slugs are definitely living their best life with it 😭😂

@Wendy-yg8yu

11 ай бұрын

It’s probably earwigs or slugs. Earwigs can decimate a plant while you back is turned.

@casesandcapitals

11 ай бұрын

@@Wendy-yg8yu yup! Pulled one of my basil pots inside today and immediately put it back outside when a couple earwigs crawled out haha

@sherriianiro747

11 ай бұрын

​@@ninjabrown8560Whatever you do don't use mulch. Years ago they ate my marigolds in my landscaping that had fresh mulch around them. Ever since I stopped using mulch I don't have slugs anymore.

@brandyjaques6865

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info Ben! Great advice. I’ve tried a lot of different things, organic sprays and stuff also. Will pyrethrum kill slugs? Or would the ware and washing up soap with added need work better? Thank you so much!

Thanks Ben! I am glad you included some pictures of the bugs as i didn't know what they leaf miner fly looked like, so i know what to look out for in future. What you recommend for spider mites? I have some indoor hot peppers that have web like covering on parts of the plant that are turning the leaves speckley pale before eating them and the flowers and just leaving the stubs. P.s. Yes i just had to chase away a pigeon i caught eating my sprout leaves! Just waiting to get some clips for the mesh.

@sandraabercrombie2454

11 ай бұрын

Diatomaceous Earth works on spider mites. Make sure you get FOOD GRADE if you are using it on your food.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

For spider mites try misting affected areas with water - they don't like high humidity. More here: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/spider-mite/

@AnyKeyLady

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips! Will try misting first.

I use debris netting its a cheaper option for netting. I use it to prevent carrot root fly, celery fly and alium leaf miner as well as birds. It seems to work quite well despite the eyelets which are present in the netting I buy. I use it on my peas as well to protect against pigeons and pea moth. The peas are self pollinating so I can leave the netting on when they are in flower and still get a good crop Your videos are always good giving advice and sound advice given clearly.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

What a great idea for cheaper netting. :-)

I am like you I don,t like to spray anything on my plants unless I absolutely have to when It comes to Vine boars I have tried using foil wrapped around the base of your plants like squash and pumpkins and other vegetable plants that vine boars like It seems to help for a little while In the mean time I am always checking for eggs under leaves

@GrowVeg

5 ай бұрын

Always worth keeping a keen eye out!

I use food grade DE (Diatomaceous Earth). Using a sifter (one that you add the powder into, then when you squeeze the trigger, it sends out a light cloud of dust across the infected area) I dust the plants that are suffering. Just remember to reinstall the dust after any rain or watering. Only use when necessary because too much dust will wash into the ground and injure your garden worms. But make sure you use FOOD GRADE as this will be around your eatable plants.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Interesting technique Sandra, thanks for sharing. :-)

Ben, I'll wait, like you suggested, sowing brassicas until those white butterflies have gone. Thank you.

@qkcmnt1242

11 ай бұрын

Good luck with that. I have white flies all season long.

Omg a perfect world, gentle rain at night, mild and sunny days 🌞 and no 🤬🤬 pests 😂😂 go on with you but a gardener can dream 🙏🙏

@GrahamBolt-kv4zi

11 ай бұрын

Hello I hope you're safe over there I hope this year brings happiness prosperity, love and peace all over the world. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from

My biggest pests ( besides deer) is potato bugs !!! I've been just picking them off and squashing them. My goods are covered with the orange blood of legions of 'tater bugs I've slaughtered I did find some slugs when I uncovered some more garden to plant beans, but got rid of them and put out beer Thanks for all your tips. I have lots of flowers and other things the bugs like . Have a happy harvest day. Not ripe tomatoes yet !!! Still waiting

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Hope you manage to get on top of the potato bugs. They sound formidable!

Hello Ben, well I have been living in Australia for the last 19 years and vegetable growing has been such a challenge, but I’m happy to say I’m moving to France , Brittany ( could not avoid to live back in UK) but only across the water, but my question is, will the gardening tips you give apply in France as well, the time of year you should plant veg, etc? Or should I be looking for a French gardening book, I think I will still follow what you have to say, because it sure helps here in Oz. Do you have a book on gardening or a chat on when you should be planting certain veg? Just love your videos thank you Ben.

@GrowVeg

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words. I reckon you'll be just fine following my advice gardening in Brittany, which is pretty similar to England's Southwest. The great thing is your weather will be a bit better year round, so expect better growth!

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Aphids are the bane of my existence 😭 I’ve lost so many plants to them since living here (in Southern Arizona) and don’t ever see predators in my area, even late in the season. They seem to target my summer and winter squash no matter what I try

@GrowVeg

5 ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that. The more flowers you can introduce to tempt in aphid predators the better. It really seems to have an impact.

@wordswithtaylorleigh

5 ай бұрын

@@GrowVeg I have a bunch of calendula and marigolds incoming but also bought some nasturtium seeds so my fingers are crossed for this year! I was also planning on ramping up the dill/onion/garlic/basil production to see if that helps as well. Worst case scenario this year I’ll go to neem oil but I would much rather not!

Hi Ben, love this video. I'm thinking about planting up a small pond to attract frogs to keep the flies and slugs down, what do you think?

@GrowVeg

9 ай бұрын

I think that's a great ideal. Having frogs/toads on site definitely helps with slug control. Thoroughly recommend it!

I've just started using garlic and black pepper infused water as a preventative spray. Obviously be careful around salad crops if you don't like the taste!

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Great idea! :-)

Good

Great advice Ben I have been having no luck protecting my stuff this year cabbages and swedes courgettes eaten over night I have them in raised beds and covered with netting any advice ?

@GrowVeg

10 ай бұрын

It sounds like either something has managed to get through the netting, or you inadvertently trapped something in there which then couldn't escape to ate everything! Also, if the damage is quite widespread over several plants it sounds like you may have a slug problem. This video may help with that: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iH6qt9mkdr3Lf7A.html

@anthonyparkinson1056

10 ай бұрын

@@GrowVeg slug traps now installed and checked under all the wooden boards holding down the netting found loads hiding and about 10 that some how found there way into the covered raised beds

Beautiful garden 🏡🏡 new friend and new subscriber 😊😊😊

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! A very warm welcome to the channel.

Calcium nitrate helps with leaf miner. If you get the silvering on your lettuce or beats calcium takes it away.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Great recommendation, thank you very much. :-)

@qkcmnt1242

11 ай бұрын

​@@GrowVegIs Calcium Nitrate considered organic?

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Nice 💯

My ribes got a lot of aphids last year, distorting lots of leaves with red blisters, so I just tried 25 gr of bio soap made of Potassium and Coconut oil, melt in 1 liter water, to spray the leaves UNDER and OVER; I also applied it to my Rhododendrum which are suffering from many different pests. Will let you know how ot goes, cheers

@GrowVeg

2 ай бұрын

Hope it goes well. 😀

HI Ben what would you do for Cricket infestation. I am in Northern Idaho. I have a very short growing season and with less rain this year the crickets are really bad. It seems they are really liking my cabbage and broccoli and cauliflower.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

What a nuisance! Our guide to grasshoppers should help: www.bigbughunt.com/bug-guides/us-and-canada/grasshopper/

Something is eating through my polytunnels mesh any ideas

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Not sure what that can be - sounds like a very determined bird perhaps? Or could it possibly be wind damage?

Nice

@GrowVeg

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. :-)

Will lead miner effect brassica? I will use BT only on young brassica to allow them to establish before the butterflies disappear ready for an autumn and spring harvest

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

There are types of leaf miner that feed on brassicas, yes. They are quite hard to control because the grubs are literally buried within the leaves.

i am replacing my fleece with insect mesh, hoping that it has a longer life than fleece? Is it ok to use a soapy water spray to get rid of aphids? I have found it works,but is it ok with organic gardening? Pinching out the tips of broad beans really dors work. I pinched out the tips of 4 of my plants as soon as i noticed a few aphids on them, and the others never got attacked so a pretty peat free crop :-) I use garlic spray to deter slugs and snails

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

I do find that insect mesh tends to last a bit longer than fleece, yes. You can use soapy water to get rid of aphids - like the one I made up in the video. You may want to use a ecological/plant-based dish soap/washing-up liquid.

Great video! I think you need a new hosepipe gun though 😃

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

I think he might be right on that one!

I e used cheese cloth on my tomatoes…. Birds can’t get through it but the sun can😊

@GrowVeg

10 ай бұрын

Smart move!

Thank you. Any good way to get rid of the Japanese Beetle

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

It's quite hard to get rid of Japanese beetles. Traps may have some effect though. More on Japanese beetle control here: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/japanese-beetle/

What do you think of neem oil spray?

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

I've never used it, but have heard good things about it.

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I end up using mesh but i really hate it. It takes all the fun out of gardening cuz i spend 1/2 my time putting nets on and off

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

I know exactly what you mean!

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Hi do you have any ideas what I can sow next month

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

Yes indeed I do. Here's our video on what to sow in August: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fWV5uqNseafbqqw.html

I need to fix my bug mesh because I’m getting slugs, leaf miners, and caterpillars eating my plants

Hi Ben, my beetroot and chard have been attacked by leaf miner this year. I am removing the affected leaves, but is it OK to compost these or should they be binned/burnt? Also, I find used coffee grounds to be the most effective deterrent against slugs in my raised veg beds.

@GrowVeg

11 ай бұрын

In theory adding affected leaves to the compost heap could hold the leaf miner over to next year. However, you can add them to the compost heap, just be such to crush/squash the leaves first, to kill off any of the grubs still inside the leaves.

@mikeholland4932

11 ай бұрын

@@GrowVeg Ok Thanks Ben

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What about locusts or grasshopper? What recommendations do you have for keeping them at bay?

@WaddedBliss

11 ай бұрын

Enviromesh will stop any insect. Including pollinators.

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