7 Simple Strategies to Prevent Garden Pests

Pests are a common challenge but that doesn’t mean they need to gain the upper hand. In fact, it’s very easy to prevent pests altogether.

Prevention is better than a cure, and it’s kinder on nature too.

In this short video we’ll share seven simple strategies for effective pest prevention. They’re all natural, organic and proven to work!

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[jellybean]

Mr & Mrs frog are a great help... a single frog can eat up to 100 bugs per night : ()

[eliseamiot]

Attract birds! This spring I watched robins and starlings from my kitchen window digging up hundreds of Japanese beetle grubs from the lawn. Also, toads and garden snakes do a great job (we have only non poisonous snakes).

[Pehmokettu]

Good thing with having only a balcony is that at least there are not much pests to be worried about. :) I wish that one day I have a huge garden. Now I only have a small balcony garden.

[PickledPoacher]

Great video
I interplant as described and I certainly dont use high analysis Nitrogen fertiliser, which when I did, always seemed to result in pests after application.
I do everything I can to understand the messages about overall system health, often overlooked when we see our crops damaged by insects. Aphids for example, can often be found where there is excess Nitrogen volatisation. The aphids are indicators of underlying problems with existing practice, and they are a critical link in a complex food chain, ending with us, so we ought to consider this before using any bottles labelled insecticide, pesticide, even if this is also labelled organic.
We are amidst a near catastrophic bio diversity collapse and gardeners, farmers using products ought to take ownership in part.
Encouraging beneficial insects is a great idea, this is achieved through planting diversity.
Wasps are a great bio control, and extremely diverse group of insects. There is probably a wasp to control every insect pest, but we tend to see solutions in bottles and not in changing practice.
Buckwheat is a great intercropping plant for attracting parasite wasps which like to chow aphids..There are many more of course. You can often find plants locally eg weeds that have characters to attract beneficial insects.
I recommend Jonathan Lundgren to anyone seeking to learn more about insects and food production practices and how existing practice is causing ecological disaster.
Happy growing.

[mindy]

I use Neem with Dawn dish soap and BT. Also start spraying before the bugs come. 👍

[lindahamid]

We had gophers destroy our crops last years, I watched an okra plant be pulled under the ground like in a cartoon! This year we are using grow bags and they seem to be working. I wish I had bought the lighter colored bags (ours are black) to keep roots cooler. We are in Sacramento Valley and it gets HOT here. Chicken patrol keeps snails slugs and horn worm caterpillars at bay. All vegetable and fruit waste from kitchen goes into the compost. That and and well rotted chicken poop, bunny poop and shavings from the coop are our only fertilizer. We have ladybugs and praying mantis for bug control higher up on the plants So far, so good!

[jojobobo]

I absolutely love these videos. I have been experimenting with companion planting and when I saw this I decided to do some research. Just had to come back and let you know I will be ordering bug eggs from a distributor and placing them around my beds, my planters and my fields in the spring. I will also be adding some native wildflowers with medicinal properties to my seed order this fall and in the spring. Thanks for the inspiration.

[uk]

Unfortunately this year hasn't been great because of the erratic weather nonetheless great video!

[tess]

Usually I'll pick the catepillars from my favorite plants and transfer them to the butterfly patch... Check them often. I have an army of lizards... The baby ones just hatched... I often catch those munching on something... Now the weather.... Diluvial rains every two weeks and 100°F temps...

[randyarchambault]

Cucumber beetles are attracted to yellow. I have been making yellow sticky traps with a piece of yellow firm plastic, coated with Tanglefoot. It works great. After the season, clean the trap off with hot water and detergent. Store until the next season.

[ZekeJonesFitness]

Although, I do have some slight issues with insects my main issue is those god damn squirrels eating and digging at all my plants. How do you combat them?

[marilenebeaulieu]

For slugs, I grow sensible plants in the middle of the garden and less attractive plants like furry ones (tomatoes, rudbeckia flowers, etc.) on the edges. Also, toads help a lot, so make room for them!

[richardhinchliffe]

I have a frog bath sunk into one of my beds it works wonders and gives everybody a focal point when the tadpoles are developing

[alexiswilliams]

French Marigolds, Dill and bicarb of soda spray are great pest deterrents in my garden. Frogs are the greatest pest deterrent of all though and the compost heap attracts lots of pests which predate on each other thus leaving the plants and veg to flourish

[TuttleScott]

japanese beetles over my green beans. go out every day and pick them off as treats for the chickens.

[JesusSoonComing]

Please don't mix the vocals in one ear, and music in the other, it just makes me want to jump out of the video...

[alexiswilliams]

Digging a small sunken pond is the answer, welcome the frogs, they will be your friends

[MrPhillipgraham]

Very helpful thanks . And no mention of using any pesticides which is great.

[winnyputeri]

Pleaseee.... 🙏🤕How about leaf miner?? How I can remove this leaf mine. My kale full of leaf miner. Thanks you

[IntegratedPestManagement]

Just got another subscriber. Great video: looking forward to more specific pest videos!