3 Clever Methods for a Pest Free Garden

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Don’t let pests be a problem in your garden, spend your time harvesting not dealing with issues!

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46 thoughts on “3 Clever Methods for a Pest Free Garden”

  2. I wondered if using a similar item in the red raspberry plants would help? I am referring to the painting rocks in the strawberries. I have a great sized raspberry bed, and the birds are already watching the crop. The plants are so tall, I can’t put netting over them, and they historically grow right through the netting. I am running out of ideas. I thought maybe i could paint some wooden beads red and hang from bushes, perhaps to discourage the birds. I am using scare tape. Really enjoy your videos. I am in Maine.

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  9. Bugs in my garden watch me all time and
    they love bathing in neem spray.Your spray may be too hard on fruits n vegetables. Your videos are all full of ideas, I will now buy chicken mesh. Thank you.

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  13. you can actually grow plants so healthy disease and insects are unable to establish. problem is we have accepted these as natural. a plant, say a lettuce, that is attacked by aphids is fit for aphids, not humans. the main things high level of calcium and appropriate or functional level of phosphorus which can be had with compost which also comes with lots of potassium. when these are ok, usually easy for everything else to come by…blessings to all

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  15. Hi, I love your hope house especially the one you lift up. I am older I have container gardens a 8ftx3ftx2 watering galvanized tub. Please do you have any ideas that can. Help me make one for it you are so smart. I have watched do build the. Before have ever thought about selling the design? Great job 👏

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  22. I'm from sri lanka. I saw your every vedios. I like to garding. I love it. You are great person. This vedios are very helpfull to us. I want to be a good farmer one day. Thank you very mutch.. ❤❤

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  27. Thank you James and Tuck for another great video! Most marigolds sold are hybrids rather than heirloom French Marigolds. Will the hybrids do as good a job as French Marigolds? And can you plant a marigold with a large indeterminate tomato in a 10 gallon grow bag?

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  28. Besides marigolds, what else do you do to protect your large indeterminate tomatoes grown under your tall trellis? We're using the same type of trellis and growing 6 large tomato vine varieties and one Tiny Tim tomato – not including the Tiny Tim, we're growing 14 large indeterminate tomatoes (including 2 Tomatillo Tomayo)

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  29. Thank you James and Tuck for another excellent video! Almost all marigolds sold at commercial nurseries are hybrids – will they do as good a job as heirloom French Marigolds, which are known to be excellent insect repellents.

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  30. You don’t need to bury the chicken wire. Attach the chicken wire to the fence about 6 inches to a foot up from the bottom of the main fencing with cable ties and then lay the rest of the attached chicken wire on the ground (12 inches minimum on the ground) and secure it with tarp staples. The grass can grow up to hide it and when the animals start to dig to get in the garden area they’ll stop when they hit the wire. We’ve had this in place over twelve years and no rabbits or other critters have entered the fenced in garden. Chipmunks and mice are the only Pests that get in because they are small enough to crawl in the holes of the chicken wire. The only remedy for chipmunks and mice is to trap and kill them. I

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  31. Have you ever tried 1/4 peroxide and 3/4 water? I have seen this is a natural way to deal with pests as a last resort when u have tried everything else and it's supposed to be BEE and pollinators friendly

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  37. In NJ any suggestions protected from squirrels?
    This year they back in large group and stilling my Apple, parsimony (July 2022)
    I have boss like you have:) but they stilling harvest is not ripe yet
    Thank you
    Like you advised details

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  42. Thank you for the inspiration, James! I'd like to find an alternative to the PVC piping. Just wanted to add– Wasps eat caterpillars and lots of other problem bugs and EGGS– they just cleaned off a massive caterpillar attack on our chard, which is now putting out new and clean growth. We had aphids in a weedy section, I worried, but then ladybugs showed up all on their own and totally cleaned up the problem. I totally agree with James about only using insect sprays, even organic ones, as a last resort, because wiping out one problem can sometimes cause other imbalances. I'm big on physical removal. I get out and patrol, with light gloves on, and grab and kill the leaf-footed bugs and their offspring (they look different at different phases) (they suck the juices out of tomatoes etc and cause spots and disease). You have to sneak up on the adults and give a good twist, but the young are easy to smush. Just the early work with physical removal we did has made such a huge difference this year. One thing to be aware of is that there are a group of insects called "assassin bugs" that eat bad bugs. Those can look similar to some of the younger versions of the bad bugs. You don't want to kill these. Look up what your local assassin bugs look like (they vary regionally), familiarize yourself, so you don't kill them as you pick off baddies. A main difference is assassin bugs have a longer neck with more articulation in it, so that helps me. Assassin bugs won't bite you if you leave them alone, I did get bitten once before I knew what they were, and it hurt, but it went away quickly– so don't be afraid of them, just give them space and tell them you know they are your friend and mean them no harm. They hear you.

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