7 Pests You Probably Have In Your Garden (And What To Do)

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Both @jacquesinthegarden and I are no stranger to garden pests, so in today's video we go over 7 of the MOST common ones and our recommendations for how to prevent and control them.
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00:00 - Intro
00:09 - Aphids
02:40 - Fungus Gnats
04:35 - Cabbage Looper & Cabbage Worm
06:02 - Leaf Miners
08:28 - Cutworm
09:57 - Thrips
11:11 - Whiteflies
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@TeenieBeanie866 Год назад

Has such bad aphids last year. Three different types (red, green, white) on my plants all at once. It was bad, I was considering pesticides for first time. Then I saw some green worms on them too and got so mad. But my plants suddenly got better, and there were no signs of the leaves being eaten. After some research, I realized they were the larvae of the hoverfly. They completely decimated the aphid population in about 2 weeks. I couldn’t find any! They pupated and became a huge swarm that covered my plants, laying the next gen. To this day, I have never seen such a huge population in hoverflies in my garden and they helped me so much I am glad I waited. I just hope they return again this year! They seemed to be attracted to the “honey” you mentioned that aphids leave, my plants were sticky with it! Even the wasps came by to feed on it 🥲 I am a new gardener (only 5 yrs) so I keep discovering new things every year

@OceanGraves Год назад

Id love to see an episode just about beneficial nematodes

@LadyRenira Год назад

Jacques from the Epic team did one that's quite good. :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_bAT3YGo-UQ.html

@Onehundredpounds Год назад

They’re so cool

@kenyanicholas6809 Год назад

I think about SpongeBob every time I hear of _nematodes_ !

@miguelsandoval8987 Год назад

Jacque has a video on it

@AstralApophis 6 месяцев назад

Get a starter culture from Josh’s frogs. White worms. Benefit? Can also use them to feed fish fry :) haha

@Donna_G Год назад

The most abundant pest around here is the earwig. I don't think I've ever seen one fly; but, they sure can climb. Last year, one of the other gardeners suggested that I sink a small cup, like a yogurt cup into the soil and fill it with soy sauce. The earwigs seem to be attracted to the scent of the soy sauce. I tried it and sure enough, the next time I went to the garden, there were earwigs floating in the soy sauce.

@juliepoolie5494 Год назад

I read a comment that someone uses a combination of soy sauce and oil. I think the oil makes it extremely difficult for the pests to escape.

@shyviolets5461 Год назад

Earwigs eat aphids tho. … I like having them around.

@kypie8 Год назад

earwigs & roly-polys should be on this list as well!

@KatieCottingham Год назад

@@shyviolets5461But they also eat blossoms! Or at least they are this year in the garden I share with my Mom. They're everywhere and it's been so frustrating trying to kill them off, because it's too dry for aphids so far this year and we're not watering beyond the raised garden beds.

@Itried20takennames 11 месяцев назад

Tried this (a bit of any kitchen oil mixed with a bit of soy source, and I re-use sauce/salsa take-put containers), and yeah….works great, and for me, catches both ear wigs and moisture knats.

@cwallcw 5 месяцев назад

OMG I cracked up when the short clip of insect controlling birds were hummingbirds!!

@traxmom Год назад

You can see the eggs of the cabbage worms and the leaf miners on the undersides of leaves. Instead of using any kind of pesticide, you can just find the eggs and rub them off with your finger. Then cover your vulnerable plants (brassicas, beets, kale, swiss chard, spinach) with fine mesh bug netting for gardens so the moths can't get in to lay their eggs anymore.

@gavinduncan2360 10 месяцев назад

Or just use sticky tape and dab the underside of the leaves and you just stick em up 🔫

@scray00 4 месяца назад

So they’re not in the ground then ?? Thanks for the tip because mom and I love chard and I’m new to all this.

@franzwaltenspuhl8892 Год назад

Mosquito dunks come in granular form in a shaker container. I simply sprinkle it in my seed starting mix. No more problems. The dunks are great in ponds & bird baths.

@shambrown 4 месяца назад

Thanks , didn’t know it came in granular form !

@quiestinliteris 3 месяца назад

The best brand I've found is literally just called Mosquito Bits. XD I'm reluctant to soak them according to the instructions, because I've found the smell doesn't come out of my watering containers, but sprinkling them on top of the soil has worked just as well for me.

@effortlessgardening Год назад

I've actually encountered at least 5 of these pests in my garden and I can tell you the worst one for me has nothing to do with the actual plant, but the fact that the Fungus Gnats love to attack your face. Nose, eyes, mouth, all got flew into by this super annoying pest! 😤 Wish I knew this info beforehand.

@TACOinFLORIDA002 Год назад

As a super new gardener I greatly appreciate you both sharing your wealth of knowledge with us, especially for free. My only request is could you please write out the names of the products you recommend? Whether on screen or in the description box. Sometimes it's hard to make out what the name is that's being said and I don't want to get it wrong. Thank you!

@alexeyman7301 Год назад

This is such a valuable video for me. I have been gardening for years and have been getting crushed by pests in San Diego. I am so happy to have some solutions!!! Thank you! Hopefully now I can eat some of my harvest 😅

@WolfJinx7 Год назад

I remember my art teacher getting us to catch ladybugs for her garden she said keeping a healthy population of them was great for dealing with aphids because they're basically their favorite food.🤷 But a neat trick if so.☺️

@aimeec-b6253 Год назад

Diatomaceous earth is great sprinkled at the base of your plants to help with cutworms. And if you spray anything, even the organic stuff, don’t do it in the morning when pollinators are doing their thing. Afternoon and evening is best

@nancywells5626 Год назад

I did a container garden of Sunflower and Osteospermum a.k.a African daisy. Looks so pretty and the Sunflower is supposed to attract bees, earth worms and ladybugs. Ladybugs are supposed to eat Aphids. I thought I learned about Sunflower benefits from this channel. You all are so helpful. Thank you for your videos.

@sdoitla1431 Месяц назад

Found this out by accident. I hung a suet block over some aphid infested roses in the morning before going to work. Chickadees, sparrows and bushtits were common visitors at the suet feeder. When I came home at the end of the work day I went out to spray a home-brew insecticide on the roses. There was no trace of aphids on the roses. I now routinely use this practice for aphid control.

@oldbear6813 Год назад

Calendula is an amazing trap crop for aphids, I put Calendula by all my starts and the aphids go straight to those flowers and leave my starts alone 👍 I also use ladybugs and preying mantis in my greenhouse to keep the populations down.

@barbaralbrehm9967 Год назад

I put out ant traps that have jelled boric acid powder in them after I hose down the plant with water to knock off existing aphids. They need the ants to herd them there. With the ants killing themselves feasting on the ant traps that are for sale with the jelled boric acid powder, the problem with aphids is over. However continuing the ant traps is necessary and they last a long time.

@liddybird3608 Год назад

Sun dew carnivorous plants are fatally attractive to fungus gnats. I worked in an open floor wide cube farm where every plant had fungus gnats. One person brought in one sun dew and all the gnats were gone overnight and never came back. I'd like to see you experiment with one, especially in a confined space like a green house.

@RealBradMiller Год назад

Sundews are great for that. Some petunias have similar sticky leaves and trap insects, and then their bodies get washed away into the soil when it rains! So cool.

@Mediamarked Год назад

Thanks for this tip! Will try it soon, lots of sundew around here, literal fields..

@jameswiggle Год назад

yes and no...fungas gnats can still land on the non carnivorous part of the sundew and still lay eggs. also he has to hope that the fungus gnats focus on the sundews and not the other garden plants

@Nick_Jarrett Год назад

pinguicula are evenbetter for fungus gnats

@RealBradMiller Год назад

@@Nick_Jarrett Yes! Those are more like the petunia leaves I was talking about. 👍👍

@MikeS42069 Год назад

Mosquito dunks along with sticky traps works amazingly well for indoor and greenhouse gardening. I've tried nematodes and traps but couldn't completely disrupt the lifecycle. Once I started treating full strength BT once a week all my gnat problems disappeared!

@RealBradMiller Год назад

The Dunks and Bits are excellent for gnat control!

@LadyRenira Год назад

100% Nothing else was anywhere close to as effective as BT. I buy bags of the mosquito bits and use large tea bags to soak soak them in water, add a little liquid fertilizer, and my indoor plants are in happy town. A Neem spray for the foliage helps keep the adults from landing on leaves since they seem to hate it. Add on the yellow sticky traps, and you can keep those suckers controlled. Here in PNW, I've accepted that I will never be rid of them, but I can definitely keep them at bay. The suckers love spreading disease to every freaking plant outside and inside my house.

@GlenMalted 9 месяцев назад

Highly informative, excellent graphics and examples, concise and the use of two persons to keep it entertaining. Love these videos! Keep on being a great source of help for gardeners. Greetings from Berlin, Germany

@musicwithalyssa8916 Год назад

This video helped me save a sunflower from those overnight worms that clip off the plant. I created a little twig fortress around my sunflower and she is singing and strong now. Thank you!!!!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

@b.bailey8244 3 месяца назад

the stick method is the best! I do that for my beans.

@michaelgutowski6737 Год назад

I've had great success eliminating cutworms with diatamaceous earth. I just sprinkle it on the row where I just planted either seeds or plants, and have never had a problem with cut worms after that.

@jeannamcgregor9967 Год назад

OMG...all these years I've been using mosquito dunks and I never knew that they worked by introducing BT! I'm totally using that on my seedling trays (as well as any standing water)!.Thanks!

@shambrown 4 месяца назад

The mosquito dunks watering thing blew my mind .

@lizdietrich6801 Год назад

Jacques did the opening ‘pop up’ with Kevin, love it!! Great info from the best guys on RU-vid!!!! 🙏🏼☀️😄

@xuyahfish 2 месяца назад

I planted lettuce with potatoes. It was cold, so potatoes took awhile in spring to pop up. Now they are shading the lettuce. I also found slugs prefer potato leaves over lettuce, since I'm not harvesting potato leaves, so I'm fine with potato leaves with holes in them. Makes it easier to pick them off too.

@shanebep3135 Год назад

I use a combination of kaolin clay and diatemacious earth on my plants that get affected by pests and net bags on the fruit. I also started using Japanese beetle traps so they get lured to those and leave my plants alone.

@tracycrider7778 Год назад

Use milky spore for getting rid of Japanese beetles grubs❤ several treatments over 2-3 years is supposed to nip them

@christarosales2716 Год назад

Great tips! I love to garden and this information can help me with the pests I’m my garden. Now I can identify some of the problems !

@sublimnalphish7232 Год назад

Thanks. What about root borers that destroy squash plants? Here we are lucky to get 1 squash before they kill the plant. Suggestions on naturally taking them out.

@HGrimes Год назад

I go out most nights in the spring and fall hunting for cutworms. They are wreaking havoc not just on my garden, but my entire yard. I have WAY too many. On the plus side, my chickens love their tasty breakfast in the morning! Never knew the stick trick-definitely trying it asap. Thank you!

@janehop 18 дней назад

You guys covered a lot of issues here, this is really great. You're really good at gardening problems and solutions! thank you

@CoconutbuttA Год назад

Thank you SOOOO much for this video. It has been a life saver ❤

@nildaotero2933 Год назад

Excellent video, thanks for sharing the info.

@Raz0rking Год назад

Last year in my greenhous I had almost no pests. What I had instead were quite a lot of well fed predatory insects.

@araucariasightings3247 Год назад

Araucaria Bidwillii in the background at 7:24. That's awesome.

@Erin-tk5jw Год назад

Why did I decide to watch this while eating lunch?!

@nancywells5626 Год назад

I am hoping I don't have nightmares about the creepin' crawlin' nasty bugs tonight.

@peggyoconnell3733 Год назад

Such a helpful video!! Thank you!

@kathrynmettelka7216 Год назад

Thanks for the warnings. I will look for these creatures.

@cameroneverhart6443 Год назад

I really like your bit about fungus gnats. I never thought about watering the garden with it! I will typically put a bundle of hay into a bucket and let it ferment for a few days in water and then throw a mosquito dunk in there and set it out around my property. I've noticed a SIGNIFICANT reduction in mosquitos because their larvae are dying in those buckets.

@susanringwall315 Год назад

The same company makes a product called "mosquito bits" and I make a 'tea' using about a quarter to a half cups of bits to a gallon of hot/warm water, let it soak together for about 15 minutes, letting the water cool off enuf to water with and use this to water my plants. I do this regularly about once a month and also every new plant I bring into the garden gets watered with the tea before I introduce it into the garden. I have gone from massive numbers of fungus gnats destroying my garden a couple years ago, to virtually none of them left at all, and this is the only treatment I've used.

@willitine Год назад

Great tips, Kevin! Thanks man

@lovelylaydeelisa Год назад

Great tips! Thanks

@KK-FL Год назад

This was super helpful!

@audregarland1634 Год назад

This was amazingly helpful! Thank you!!

@jeffl8725 Год назад

Thank you so much for your incredible help… new gardener

@PlanetaryDweeb Год назад

I have been having problems with caterpillars eating my corn plants. not the ears yet, since those havent formed yet, but the green leafy parts of the plant itself. Just today I sprayed some neem oil on all my corn and I hope that solves the problem.

@sislertx Год назад

Bt should work better on worms..

@no1pestcontrolbrisbane536 2 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing these tips!

@hillbillyshadetreefarm5732 Год назад

Awesome info. Thanks guys! - Rhonda

@Mia_himi Год назад

Thank you so much , this video really helped me ❤

@nannybannany Год назад

Yay! Thank you for following and promoting IPM!

@jimmccarville5152 Год назад

Diatomaceous earth also works outstanding. Mix into the soil and being it ph natural and add nothing negative to your soil it wreaks havoc on the larvae cutting them up like a meat Grinder.

@lyndelgado6138 Год назад

But only until u water or it rains?

@b.bailey8244 3 месяца назад

@@lyndelgado6138 yes, you must reapply every time it gets wet - which makes it not very effective if you water and wet the soil regularly.

@gabriella2186 6 месяцев назад

I used to have trouble with aphids until lady beetles naturally made their way into the garden and starting laying their eggs 😌 warms my heart to see the young lady beetles eat all the aphids

@gardeningjunkie2267 Год назад

I have learned a trick from Nurseries Carolinia, to use earthworm castings to kill fungus gnats. I have no idea how it works, but it absolutely does. For the first time, I can keep houseplants without being tortured.

@ardenthebibliophile Год назад

Potato bugs, squash vine borer, and slugs are my main pest. Aphids definitely as well!

@DahVoozel Год назад

Squash vine borer is my nemesis.

@tee_jay6677 Месяц назад

Great video. Excellent information. Thanks for posting.

@glennnewell6909 Год назад

Please, please, please tell me how to get rid of snails. They are my arch nemesis. I would watch a 3 hour video dedicated to that alone. 😮

@lyndelgado6138 Год назад

Monterey brand Sluggo Pet Safe ( contains iron not pesticides). Want to put around edge of plants just outside of where u water them cause wet sluggo doesnt work.

@LittleKikuyu Год назад

Lay out wooden boards. The slugs will crawl under them at night and you can just collect them off the boards. Also, put them on the compost heap for quicker breakdown of the compost. 😉

@kaylita3544 Год назад

As an OC gardener, you guys are my favorite resource! 💚

@b.bailey8244 3 месяца назад

This was great - so informative!

@cavedwellersound Год назад

Great overview, thanks!

@deadbreakfast7714 Год назад

GREAT VIDEO !!!!! Thank you so much 💚

@corywilliams9895 Год назад

Love you guys. Keep it up.! Straw hats off!!

@angelaschettino1327 Год назад

Interesting. Thank you!

@ElleriaZer Год назад

Slugs have been a huge problem in my raised beds on and off. I wrapped the beds in copper tape and that helps at least. Mealybugs are also a pain for me.

@charlesbale8376 8 месяцев назад

Very valuable information.

@ComptonChuckz88 Год назад

Glad I found your video. Lots of good tips!!

@ceecee-thetransplantedgardener Год назад

I got a whitefly infestation on my cucumber vines one year. Oh my lanta. I pruned, sprayed, pruned sprayed ... they just kept "jumping" to another section of the plants. I was able to maintain until the season was over but it was not fun. You've mentioned earwigs in San Diego. Those buggers showed up last year - in force - to my brassicas. My romaine and cabbage leaves became lace ... how do you manage those? Much thanks - great vid!

@TheOnyxFlame Год назад

Is there any kind of mythology around where cutworms originate from? That seems absolutely ripe for there to be some supernatural tales about what comes by at night and clips the seedlings since cutworms only come out at night when people don't see them

@braveladder1682 Год назад

Bonide (capn jack's dead bug) annihalated a bad thrip infestation in one application on a greek basil plant last year.

@marys1358 Месяц назад

Eating the herbs and marigolds also.Just started my garden along with rain every other day.Thanks

@DigitHomesteading Год назад

Great information ❤

@skate3sets 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! Explained a lot

@kinginthenorth8148 Год назад

I have also grown all my tomato plants in pairs. Saves on space.

@brittanycooper4367 Год назад

I need advice on potato bugs (pill bugs) and earwigs!!! Those are my worst offenders in my patio garden. FYI: I just bought the patio bed from the epic gardening store! So excited to use it!!!

@amandacole8053 Год назад

Another comment said this: Donna G 5 hours ago The most abundant pest around here is the earwig. I don't think I've ever seen one fly; but, they sure can climb. Last year, one of the other gardeners suggested that I sink a small cup, like a yogurt cup into the soil and fill it with soy sauce. The earwigs seem to be attracted to the scent of the soy sauce. I tried it and sure enough, the next time I went to the garden, there were earwigs floating in the soy sauce.

@loverlyredhead Год назад

Try Sluggo+. It's an organic pesticide for slugs, snails, pill bugs, and earwigs.

@pkwithmeplease Год назад

Im gonna try the soy sauce trick

@GuitarsAndSynths Месяц назад

Thank you this was super helpful! I have major thrips problem!

@Esther-1914 Год назад

Bookmarked! Thanks guys.

@jennylam9402 Год назад

My biggest problem for the past two years are the flee beetles and last year tarnished plant bugs.

@gaywizard2000 Год назад

I have had to deal with all of these at one point! Right now I'm dealing with Elk, it's been cold in the PNW so they can't go into the mountains where they should be. Everything is emergency fenced off right now!

@mathpm100 Год назад

Nice video! Could you do a follow up on larger pests? Like squirrels and possums 😭?

@KatieCottingham Год назад

We created a frame, then put tulle over everything. "Bridal" tulle that's extra wide reduces how much you'll have to buy.

@alvinleonardo1263 11 месяцев назад

A pair of dogs works pretty well assuming they don't become a bigger problem XD

@shirleydellerson8396 3 месяца назад

I’ve got iguanas eating my passion fruit 😢

@sandrasi8261 Год назад

Thank u for sharing

@nigl2807 Год назад

Aphids & Whiteflies the banes of my pepper plants .Which plants are the best at attracting beneficial insects all season?

@cydnyblack7146 Год назад

This is really helpful! Would love to get your advice on snails too -- I've had a few on my cantaloupe leaves in their seedling phase.

@Liquessen Год назад

I have snails in my strawberry patch, ew..

@dereidabrown1180 Год назад

Pour a small bowl of beer, and place it close to plants. They will drink, fall in and die. This actually works.

@sensenisok Год назад

Great episode

@mittenbbq Год назад

For me, it’s snails. Started using Organic Slugo Plus - hopefully it works

@berniesully9173 Год назад

Thank you so very much

@caba32503 Месяц назад

I had aphids all over a trellis full of pole beans! Nothing worked! I read somewhere that old timers used flour to dust the plants and this would kill the aphids as they would bloat from ingesting the flour. I pruned, washed, and then powdered my pole bean leaves with all purpose flour and it worked!

@joelamoako6778 Год назад

Can't believe there are no spidermites here, they are the worst

@LittleKikuyu Год назад

Keep the air humidity around the plant high if possible. They hate that.

@MrAtodd2004 Год назад

Seen a homesteaders use dishsoap and water in a sprayer. He applied the foamy water on stink bugs and cucumbers beatles,, surprisingly they died almost immediately. The dishsopa breaks the waxy surface of the bugs and allows the water to drowned the bugs almost in seconds.

@shiweicai4872 Год назад

For aphids I have a lot of ladybugs in my yard so I don’t need to worry😊

@yo388 Год назад

Soapy water in a sprayer works great for white flies too

@IntegratedPestManagement Год назад

Great video guys!

@tanyatanya4704 Год назад

Thanks so much for this video, I had no idea about the mosquito dunks! Any recommendations for squash vine borers? Gonna start a lot of squash this spring and I’m a little nervous. 😬

@loverlyredhead Год назад

Cover the plants with tulle (much cheaper than insect netting). You'll have to hand pollinate, but it's alot less work to me than searching out and squishing eggs or injecting BT into the stems.

@kalinakretowicz5066 Год назад

How do I control EARWIGS? Seems like more than normal this year?

@TobiasWeberRSA Год назад

The absolute best solution against aphids that I have ever used is a simple mixture of water, a few drops of dishsoap and a bit of vegetable oil, any oil will do. Spray the solution in using a simple spray bottle. The mixture blocks the breathing holes of the aphids and they die off. Do this every day for about a week and you're sorted.

@helenrasmussen3157 Год назад

Awesome video

@NeboAllen Год назад

The company that makes Mosquito Dunks also sell Mosquito bits that does the same thing. You can make smaller batches if you have less soil that you need to treat.

@chanchan5349 8 месяцев назад

I buy the bits because I can control use too. They aren’t nearly as expensive.

@islanddryad Год назад

Does anyone have any recommendations for dealing with stink bugs? I have some shield shaped beetles (that spray stink juice when you bother them) and they keep hanging out on my bell peppers and mating. I try to wash them off but they keep coming back. Not sure if they’re harming the plants but last season they were an absolute nuance, covering everything from my bell peppers to my amaranth

@LittleKikuyu Год назад

One way that helps with many insects is to encourage natural predators like birds, spiders and such ☺️

@chanchan5349 8 месяцев назад

I just pick them off into a cup of Dr. Bronners peppermint soap. Don’t squeeze them! Or spray with that same soap & water mix. They despise peppermint soap.

@GingerRatsep 11 месяцев назад

Love your informative videos. I live in the lower Hudson Valley in NY and I discovered a lot of little black bugs on one bean on my pole bean plant. The bugs looked like ticks. I clipped off the bean and the one leaf that one was sitting on and drowned them in water with dish soap because plain water didn't work. Any idea what they were? I sprayed the plant with Neem and haven't seen any more. Thanks

@monstroso3879 Год назад

Thank you I got so many holes im leaves

@mrtrev4496 Год назад

Timely video, my catnip plants are covered in thrips and I'm tryna keep em alive. Winter just started here in South Africa

@aureliawaliszewska5741 Год назад

A fellow South African!

@lanetower3411 Год назад

My catnip got covered in thrips and I got rid of them by blasting with a hose several times a week.

@DeathsGarden-oz9gg Год назад

The tomatoe horn worms I tend to let eat a plant or 2 because the moth form is a magnificent pollinators. Also I'll have a random pach with native milk weeds for monark butterfly. The cabbage moth is a good pollinator as well just unfortunately there so um not known for this but known for only there damage. Assassin bugs will eat/kill leaf miners.