Garden Insect Control - How To Control Garden Pests Without Insecticide / Pesticide - Gardening Tips

In today's episode we look at ten garden insects that damage your vegetable garden. These "bad insects" are called pests because they are unwanted and cause damage to foliage, flowers and fruits in your garden. We look at easy organic methods to control pests in your garden and also why you should avoid any chemical insecticides. By hand picking, using soapy water, neem oil you can eliminate almost all garden pests.

The garden pests we will look at getting rid from your garden are:

1. Aphids
2. Cabbage Looper (Caterpillars)
3. Corn Earworm
4. Cutworm
5. Earwigs
6. Grubs
7. Tomato Hornworm
8. Keeled Treehopper
9. Potato Beetle
10. Whiteflies

We look at which insecticides and pesticides you should be using, pesticide safety, what insects damage the garden by eating leaves and foliage and also some stem damaging insects.

[kristiyonoagus]

Thanks for this tutorial, mau be it make my plant grow well

[cathynguyen]

Your videos are so addicting. It makes me wanna try to garden. Except for the bugs and insects. I would be screaming nonstop... you might even hear me in California. LOL

[kilajai]

I live in zone 9a and have started a fall garden. it's my first time growing anything. I'm relying solely on your videos and successes. thank you for the inspiration!

[maehay]

Thank you for sharing these tips on pests & how to get rid of them!

[lucyw.mcmellan]

Thank you. I was just getting ready to amend my raised bed and found lots of grub bugs. I was told to leave them because they are harmless, but I will follow your recommendation and pluck them out.

[honestlee]

I have been using neem oil in the past, and hand picking the pests, but this year I just sprayed the aphids with water. Not many aphids this year. Improving my soil has probably helped my plants grow stronger and healthier. Covering my soil with wood chips and spreading around the compost tea has really helped. I have worms in many places that were too hard before.
Snails have been eating a lot of younger plants and I've found that watering at night while walking around with my head lamp has helped. I get them at night when they're active. Doing this once a month or so has helped a lot.

[florangee]

Hi, Japanese Beetles are quarantined pests in California. The pictured beetle in the video is a June Beetle, which is often confused with the Japanese Beetle. June Beetles are a little bit larger in size and less shiny than the Japanese Beetles. Thank you for your videos! :)

[outpost]

I got 2 adds to your brilliant video, but first let me tell you that I enjoy your video's very much. I learn from them and since I don't have a garden I have to grow everything in containers. Your video's contain a lot of growing in containers so for me it is thumbs up to you.
Now to the points I wanted to make,

Point 1, earwigs eat aphid, they are a natural predator that loves aphids so why eliminate them? You should encourage them! They do not eat or damage your plant. They just hide in damaged places. They hunt and live at night so during the day they need a dark and moist place to rest. That's why you probably see them when you inspect a damaged spot but they did not do that!!!

Point 2, Ants "farm" aphids like cows, ants love the sweetness the aphids excreta and they protect them vigorously so to help nature (the bugs that eat aphids like the ladybird and the earwig) you should try to keep your plants ant free. Ants will kill ladybirds and earworms to protect the aphids.

A larve of a ladybug eats about 150 aphids a day! (and you can order them online. at least here in The Netherlands I can.) The larvae will stay on your plant or its neighbour until it is gonna transform into a ladybug. You can also order ladybugs (who eat more) but they can fly away. My experience with these larvae is the most effective way to get rid of aphids and I do not have to spray with anything. Last year I really saw aphids running for their lives!! Because of the ladybug larvae. :D

[adamtombar]

Great Great Great- Thanks for this beautiful demonstration.

[joirrgang]

Excellent information and the video of the bugs helps identify them and the damage they cause.

[anujanakiraman]

Your videos are so well structured and highly informative. They are by far the best among many gardening videos/series I have ever viewed. Kudos!

Have you had issues with squash bugs? They destroyed my cucumber plants this season. Would neem oil spray get rid of them?

[paul-nebh]

many many thanks sir you have saved my garden thanks paul england

[PazLeBon]

diatomaceous earth is worth a mention ;)
we sometimes use neem or Pyrethrin if major mite issue. occasionally an organic bacterial or fungus based wash..
organics all the way. nice work

[rimenhawihi]

Gardening is hard...I'm terrified of all the crawling things😢😢😢

[janiceb]

thanks for making this requested video. my most frequent pest problem this spring/summer was stinkbug. I had at least 3 different distinct types in the garden. A dark gray one, a dark brown one, and a green bellied one. They got on everything from tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and okra. I've heard you can spray soap/water  solution to control them. This worked well when I did it. but with the size of my gardens and frequency needed, I couldn't stay on top of it.

[virginialeonor]

Thank you for your great info regarding these truly a big help.

[kavitaiyer]

These are wonderful tips, thanks. Your videos are wonderful as always

[myster.ejones]

When I hand pick pests I drop them onto the webs of my spiders, The ones that live under the corners of my sheds have kind of a Web 'doormat' and you can see the tube where they live a bit further back, just drop your pests onto the 'doormat' and about a millisecond later it's grabbed and instantly disappears! 😊

[maranathayall]

#1 and #2 are devastating my garden this year. 😓 I picked up some neem oil and some BT. The BT helped, but I haven't tested the neem yet. However, I don't want to be dependent on BT so I plan to incorporate the neem oil and also worm tea.

[vidaripollen]

Nice work.
A little insect attack is good for improving medicinal properties of the vegetables.