4 Alternatives to Spraying Your Garden for Bugs!

Watch this before spraying your vegetable plants for bugs! There are solutions that may allow to not have to spray your plants, including using beneficial or predator insects to help you with pest maintenance. Join us as we discuss these four options as we use our fall pea plants as a prime example of how not spraying can be beneficial.

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[baneverything]

My late summer & fall Red Ripper & Crowder Peas here in Louisiana finally began producing peas that weren`t stung by that horrible bug and ruined especially the past 6 weeks. What I had to do earlier in the summer was simply pick and cook the green pods. Now I`m picking them dry since I haven`t had enough to shell green. Next year I`m gonna try to plant a ton starting in late July through early September.

This year I planted some in my new fig tree mounds in a sunnier fall spot and kept them from climbing the trees and they`re loaded with peas right now. There was an old driveway there...dead soil...so the mounds I put there 10 feet apart are the only soil but there were still some stings on the early August peas. I crushed all the little beetles I saw at night. I also planted Red Rippers under my Dwarf Mulberry trees and those made peas up in the 9 ft trees. I tried on a trellis too. Stings were just as bad. So no more trellis.

[RobersonFarms]

We feed the horned tomato worms to our chickens. The girls love them!

[dvrmte]

The wasps are after the nectar secreted from locations on the leaves and stalks of the cowpea plant. It draws all kinds of insects, especially wasps, ants, and aphids. It also draws tiny parasitic wasps that might prey on curculio.

[itsinyouryard]

I stopped Raiding wasp nests 2 years ago because of this same reason. I noticed them carrying off cabbage worms! Dragonflies do great as well!

[russbowman]

We let lizards, frogs do their work. We have lots of lizards, so we made a nice place for them to nest. It works fairly well, but not perfect.

[PoisonBreaker]

For me I do trap cropping for flea beetles, no spraying. planting radishes when I plant any other brassica, the flea beetles mostly only damage seedlings so as long as they are occupied for a week or two until the other crops get a little thicker skin as they mature.

[Zachary-Covert]

The wasps really stayed busy on my purple hull peas, the fire ants were thick on them too. Had to give them a good flick before picking them. I was trying for a second flush but frost got my peas last week here on 7B/8A line in Arkansas

[robertantolik]

I found out that kudzu beetles really like scarlet emperor beans. I didn't even get one pod. However I did get a harvest from my Kentucky wonder beans before they moved to them

[SimplySelfSufficiency-odix]

My succession planting of squash did not work this year, the bugs just got them all. Next year I am spraying more and maybe covering my squash, lol. I have never grown cowpeas as my husband gates beans and he considers cowpeas just another type of beans.

[xortab]

Wasps are interested in a cowpea's extrafloral nectaries. Obviously that's fairly unique to cowpeas, so the attention you're getting from wasps is also unique to cowpeas and not applicable to other garden plants. In fact, they kind of get drunk on nectar and lose all aggressiveness, so they aren't really in a predatory mood around cowpeas. If anything, they might incidentally scare off a few pests, but that's about it. I don't spray my cowpeas either, but not because I think wasps are reducing the pest pressure by much.

[JamesDeTorre]

I planted companion plants extensively. No pest no spraying

[TheKrisamneShow]

How are the fall tomatoes coming along?

[Maria-qlfc]

I keep asking my son to leave the wasp alone, but one stung him, after that he killed every wasp he could by throwing rubbing alcohol on the nest, it kills them instantly.

[carolynpayne]

Only had bugs or worms on Brussel sprouts, I am having that brown leaf stuff on my grape vines and fruit trees. Any help would be great.

[richardroadcap]

Haven’t found a solution to cabbage worms. Some years are really bad on collards and kale

[jeas]

Can I get some suggestions on which kind to.grow? I love navy beans and pinto beans but can't stand lima or butter beans or black eyed peas from a texture perspective. Can anyone relate and give me a suggestion for winter peas or cow peas?