Why a Vegetable Garden Needs Pests

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[ChristopherKanigan]

Nice to see YouTubers promoting each other instead of feuding and contradicting each like David the Good promoted your new book last week.

[terrijensenbrown]

I compost my enemies, butcher my peach tree and chop and drop with David The Good. I mulch everything with Wayland Smalley and Lazy garden with Anne of All Trades while Jess at Roots And Refuge makes my gardening heart sing for joy!
Charles Dowding, MiGardener and so many other YouTube teacher/growers are helping me to fill my garden with bountiful flower and vegetable harvests, more and more insect, bird and animal visitors each year, all of whom are welcome as I have more than enough to share. Thank you so much Huw, you too are with me in my garden every day. ❤💚💛

[heyfunny]

My dad came from a large farming community in SD, he would always over-plant our gardens. The weaker plants would attract the insects, leaving the healthy plants to produce profusely. We always canned an entire year’s worth of food every year from Dad’s garden. Feeling grateful for that.

[judifarrington]

Great video, Huw! You mentioned deer ... I have a young doe who ate a good part of my garden last year. I finally learned to just loosely drape white insect netting over my plants. It spooks her. I leave apples and scraps of things I know she likes. She seems happy with that. She is absolutely beautiful and I love having her around.

[bigbadthesailor]

I once saw a permatculture farmer type who'd managed to create a very thriving system by applying STUN - "sheer total and utter neglect" to the trees and other plants - what survived was fit for the location and went on to thrive - he basically fast tracked the evolution of the landraces he needed.
On the other hand, the terror of loosing the plant may be a deep visceral memory of the time people were reliant on a handful of crops - letting the plants (or livestock) die was letting yourself die. Diversity is the answer!

[mrcat]

black birds ate most of my raspberries this year i didnt get any berries but got lots of baby birds playing in the garden... so that was nice 😂

[davidthegood]

Thank you, Huw. Excellent thoughts as always.

[jamesgribben]

I planted an acre and a half of sunflower 2 weeks ago in the bann valley. I purposely over seeded so the crows came in and ate all my slugs and snails. thank you crows

[danielleroseclark]

As Jess from Roots and Refuge says - you cannot have perfection and abundant life in the same place. Let go of perfection and embrace abundance.

[rachelhenson]

Thanks Huw....I let a few parsnips, beetroot, carrots, fennel, kale, parsley and leek run to seed throughout my garden...they look beautiful and attract some lovely insect life. My parsnip has two butterfly cocoons woven into the seeds already and the flowers are really attractive to hovverfles. I'm looking forward to seeing birds feeding on the seeds later on in the season.🌻

[nancyseery]

I watch David the Good. I have his books and I have your books!!. James P from New Jersey is someone I love also. So there you have it, three of my favorite men in my life hang out in the garden.

[ebradley]

Wasn't a big user of pesticides/insecticides but I completely changed my attitude about pests after watching a video by Doug Tallamy on his book The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees. Insects, bugs... good and bad, are food for other creatures. Now I just spray things off. If they are going to eat my veg they are going to have to work for it. 😊 David the Good just drops words of gardening wisdom.

[KristinGasser]

As a second year permaculture garden newbie, I was very enthusiastically to my pretty successful first garden year last year. I was happy to I find out that I seem to have an unexpected green thumb, I seem to have a good feeling for polyculture, multidimensional neighbourhoods, flowers and additional herbs. What I didn‘t expect and never heard of before, was the sudden invasive (thousands of them) appearance of the cabbage bug (Eurydema oleraceum), who killed all my brassicas within only two days completely. It was a cry!

Since then I have more understanding for farmers that spray 😮… although I wouldn‘t do it… cabbages are totally local here, but „organic people“ almost stopped growing brassicas in this area…

We‘re far away from any intensive agriculture or any pollution, and live in pure nature next to a nature park in Slavonia/ Croatia).This area is almost abandoned for over 30 years… this year I almost didn’t dare to try it again, but I couldn‘t resist… 😅

In my home countries Austria & Germany nobody heard of these bugs before. I my research, I found that they are new to Europe and come from Asia… and they don‘t have any natural preditors here yet. Even the chicken don‘t eat them because of their stinky smell…

now new research found out that they DO have preditors that seem to slowly follow from Asia too and they already discovered them even in Switzerland: a special wasp that lays it’s eggs into the eggs of the bugs! So I hope they will find their way into our area, too!

My solution this year, was not to grow any spring cabbage, but to start now with the later brassicas, after the bugs main season in June… let’s see how it works out…

[tWoTter]

This is something that I keep saying! The more pests I started accepting, the more beneficial insects came in their own. I have zero problems with my plants getting pollinated, pests don’t take over my garden, it’s a beautiful tiny ecosystem! I love that you talked about this, more people need to realize we need pests for the predators!

[adamosman]

Huw this is the best advice I've ever been given. Couldn't get rid of the aphids on my nasturtiums so followed your advice and let them be.

LADYBUGS EVERYWHERE. Within a week my garden is now covered in ladybugs eating all the aphids on all my plants. It's a joy. Thankyou.

[margaretmoore]

Great video- hope people will sit up and take notice of this advice. It makes perfect sense and we need to live in harmony with our environment. Thank you Huw 🙂

[happyhobbit]

I've started planting pest distractors and pest attractors all over my garden. I'm learning about the weeds that come up and what the soil is missing. Gardening is an ever learning endeavour for me. I'm always thinking 'I don't know what I don't know'!
Thank you for the video ... I always enjoy your content!!!

[SethCochran]

It was a great video. I found him through you and watched your video today because of what he said in his let it die video. Full circle

[ohio_gardener]

Love the advice from David the Good, which is much like what I've done for years. But, most non-organic gardeners would have a panic attack if they saw pests devouring their plants. Some of my favorite garden predators are Bluebirds and Tree Swallows. I love watching the Bluebirds pick worms and beetles off of the plants, and watching the swallows soaring overhead cleaning up the moths.

[TobyRedMilo]

I have landrace peppers in my garden and they look beautiful this year so far