This Organic Pest Control Remedy Is A SCAM! 3 Natural Insecticides That WORK And One That DOESN'T!

In this video, I tested four popular natural and organic insecticides and pest control remedies promoted by organic gardeners, with surprising results! I found 3 natural insecticides that work and one organic pest control remedy that didn't work at all and is a total scam!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Testing Natural Insect Control Methods
1:51 Pest Control Method #1: Dish Soap
5:17 Pest Control Method #2: Cold Pressed Neem Oil
7:21 Pest Control Method #3: Natural Pyrethrin
10:53 Pest Control Method #4: Organic Spinosad
13:43 Smothering Oil Test
15:09 Grading The Natural Insecticides: Final Results!
18:23 Adventures With Dale

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[cheetodust]

Neem Oil isn't meant to be a contact killer. It's for preventing the reproduction and growth of insects. My go to is a combo of dish soap and neem oil. I used this to get my asparagus beetles under control by spraying down the foliage and soaking the soil. One application and I haven't seen any asparagus beetle damage in almost a month.

[mse]

Hey MG, Mark from Charlotte. As a honeybee keeper, I’ve learned enough about bugs to be dangerous. Just a couple thoughts. Bugs breath through a networks or tubes that exit from the body in rows on each side of the abdomen, called spiracles. Bugs can last quite a while floating in water due to its high surface tension. But add a surface tension reducer, like soap or others like alcohol, the water can then enter the spiracles effectively drowning them . So while I’m not positive, the soap is not a contact killer, it simply provides a low surface fluid to be sucked into the spiracles to drown them. The neem oil in your experiment appears clearly to not be a contact killer, but being oil based increases surface tension preventing the solution from entering the spiracles, so instead of drowning they eventually suffocate. My only concern with soap, which I have investigated in killing moss, is certain concentrations act to dehydrate the plant, folks have said be careful not to kill the grass while trying to kill the moss, but I have not experimented. Since you love experimenting, I would love to see you try a few concentrations of soap, sprayed on plants, to see if you have a negative effect on the leaves. Good job!

[DsHomeyGarden]

I 100%agree with Mark from Charlotte. You need to use all natural soaps like Dr. Bronner's Pure Castile Soap. Cheap soap is a detergent that will suffocate your leaves where as pure castile will not. Check into this product I think you will be pleas3ed with the readings.

[timothybarr]

Neem oil is a great tool against worms caterpillars etc. It's not a contact killer it's an ingestion killer and it works quite well especially on brassicas

[TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Testing Natural Insect Control Methods
1:51 Pest Control Method #1: Dish Soap
5:17 Pest Control Method #2: Cold Pressed Neem Oil
7:21 Pest Control Method #3: Natural Pyrethrin
10:53 Pest Control Method #4: Organic Spinosad
13:43 Smothering Oil Test
15:09 Grading The Natural Insecticides: Final Results!
18:23 Adventures With Dale

[arlenerheinfelderkjsqs]

This is by far the best gardening video I've watched. Dish soap! Who knew? So satisfying to hear the plop as the bugs that decimated my zuchini and melons fell to the ground dead. Thank you!

[anniebancroft]

I'm watching this GREAT VIDEO again, as I'm having a spider mite outbreak on indoor plants. THANK YOU for conducting this experiment! At the release of the video in June, I put your info to good use on squash bugs!

[fishingpinky]

I really enjoyed this video. I live in central Florida so my climate is a bit different and I cant follow all your advice. pesticide and fertilizer videos are 100 percent the BEST on YT. Thank you from Daytona Beach, Fl.

[ncgardener]

I love your videos. You have a lot of enthusiasm and share valuable information. I hear your struggles being a new gardener in Chapel Hill between pests, humidity and heat. I found your channel looking to see if I could obtain information such as this for my area! I have learned so much!!! Thank you !!!

[dovey]

Neem can be used as a soil drench. I tried it for cucumber beetles, and it worked. 1 gallon of water 2 tbsp of neem oil and a teaspoon of Castile soap mixed very well. I poured it underneath the cucumber plants which had been watered previously. The Beetle population dropped drastically after about a week. Apparently when they eat the leaves they stop feeding because of the neem oil.

[bc-guy]

Fantastic. First time viewer - an EASY subscribe, like, notifications on and a note for the algorithm that sent me. I've used Neem for years - - less and less impressed with it as I learn more. This made it quite evident - - there are much better things! Nice job on this! I'll be back for more!

[AKJJSIM]

Neem oil is best used as a preventative. When the cool rainy season starts for us, I mix the neem in a 2-gallon sprayer and give the plants a coating. Before I used neem, I lost whole crops of pie pumpkins to powdery mildew. Neem has also been good at treating aphids on my pepper plants. I've never had a problem with horrendous smell and I'm spraying inside a 72'x30' high tunnel, on a ladder, over and under trellised winter squash.

[whathappened]

Actual testing, now that is the way to know for sure what works and what does not. Thank you!

[ramachandran]

A very useful and practical approach to pest control in the gardens. I am from the RTP area and pretty much the same bugs during this time of the year. After having tried the usual assortment of methods, found the lure traps to be the most effective for both Japanese beetles and stink bugs that show up in droves and pretty much decimate the entire garden if left unchecked. I still use soapy water spray but that only works with direct contact with the bugs. Like someone else mentioned, I also have noticed that the soap eventually also clogs the pores of the leaves, and depending on the type of plant and the concentrations they yellow out and fall off.

I am trying to attract the songbirds like bluebirds, chickadees, and other eastern insect-eating birds with bird-feeders and a water fountain in my environment to have multiple solutions to the bug problems. It is rather very difficult to keep all those pesky critters from free lunch in our gardens😫😫

[bkoiwge]

Very helpful, thank you. I really really like how you showed the effectiveness of each so it’s not just a video giving your “idea” of what works. Your effort is appreciated.

[lesspaul]

I love the video lots of good info in here. Neem is not a contact killer you're right about that. It works best on soft bodied insects and it works by coating them or smothering them so you're right about that too. So kind of an apples to oranges comparison imo but I get your point.

[YankeelovesaRedneck]

Thank you from SC . This is the best garden video on YouTube

[pennynichols]

Thank you, your videos are excellent and I learn something every time I watch!

[nightmindr]

fantastic video, man! Im going to go try the soap in my garden plot now. I used Neem on aphids when i was in Florida and it only works when you put the plant inside and isolate it from getting bugs again, which explains why you have to spray the neem so many times before it actually helps. Thank you for your work!

[lindag]

Thanks! Very revealing.
Love the Dale videos too. I had a Lab who used to also sniff when he was running in his sleep. Sometimes he would also thump his tail, and the sound would wake him up.