Keep Hornworms AWAY - EASY!
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- čas přidán 11. 08. 2022
- There is one thing you can do that is so easy to keep hornworms away with companion planting that has worked for me for 5 years. Try it!
Never Run Out of Basil (last week's video): • Never Buy Basil Again!! - Jak na to + styl
I have several basil plants in my tomato bed and I am still dealing with tomato hornworms. The battle continues 😩
Me too. 😣
BT is organic and only kills caterpillars.
Me too! I found 33 in one day. That was about 3-4days ago. Now my plant has an infection that spread on all the leaves. I think it was the worm poop. Those things are no joke
I have NO hornworms! Try watering your basil "daily." The moisture brings out the heavy aroma of the basil.
@@sharonholmes2470 Its so hot where I live (zone 9b) that I pretty much have to water daily, but thank you for the suggestion 🙂
I have been growing tomatoes for yrs and never once found a hornworm until this year! I too, thought squirrels got into the garden until I touched one when reaching to grab a tomato. I screamed so loud that the neighbors came running to check on me........
Thanks for the tip on the basil
It doesn't work for me. I use B.T. which is a harmless bacteria(safe for organic gardening)
which only affects hornworms and caterpillers,but is harmless for everything else. It's the only thing that I've seen work.
Plus tomatoes don't like growing next to basil
Hahaha oh man you made me laugh.
@dr.malcolmgladstone1609 what's B.T and where do I find it?
@@SeverusSnape12345I’ve been looking for him for a few days now, using the UG light too. I still haven’t found him. It breaks my heart, all this hard work baby sitting and there’s a thief in the camp😢
Yes what is BT?
Thank you so much. We just found this channel and we are subscribing and we have been having issues with those worms and now we know what to do. Thank you so much. Beautiful garden ❤
Totally agree. I have basal near all of my tomatoes and zero tomato worms. I had tomato worms prior years because I did not associate basil with them. Thanks for letting me know about the tomato worm going for the pepper plants, did not realize that would also happen. Companion planting!
I'm not a basil user but I like the smell in the garden and it's almost among everything cause they flower bees love it and the seeds fall and they just keep coming back. Now I know why there were no worms on my peppers and tomatoes. Thanks for the info. Keep up the good work.
I plant basil,green , purple,and mint in little pots,around my tomato plants this year. The Japanese beetles love to munch on the green basil,not on the purple and mints.So far so good,no sign of horn worm. Will keep you posted later . Thanks for your tip earlier of the year.
I planted a ton of basil around all of my tomato plants this year and still got hornworms. Unfortunately this method doesn’t work for me but I will still plant them together because I love the scent of basil throughout my garden!
Same. Basil and marigold’s. However, last year a handful of hornworms had parasitic wasps lay their eggs under the hornworm’s skin and the larvae burrowed out and spun little white personal cocoons on the hornworm’s back. The hornworm is basically dead at that point but I left them in place with the hope that I would have even more parasitic wasps to control the hornworm population this year.
It seems to have worked. I picked off about a dozen moderate sized hornworms a few weeks ago. But since then there have been about a dozen hornworms that parasitic wasps took over and spun the little white cocoons on the back of the hornworm. Using a black light that makes hornworms stand out and practically glow and night, I have only seen hornworms that have been stymied with the cocoons on their back. And none of even those hornworms were full sized adults. They got caught early!
Use Mother Nature’s diversity of predators.
Plant the basil WEEKS BEFORE you plant the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. That way, they're larger and more aromatic by the time momma moth flies around to drop her eggs.
Same here. Basil and marigolds everywhere and hornworms too😡
@@eileensien514 That could make a difference. Thanks. Though, the parasitic wasps are working to keep them in check now
@@ttb1513 Black light? Can you see other bugs with it, like scale on citrus trees?
I took your advise on this a few years ago and I have not had any hornworms since. THANK YOU!
Awesome!
Great info! Tomato hornworms have been an issue for us late this season. Will definitely change where I grow basil from now on.
Thanks Brian, I happen to be growing some in one of my container gardens I created for a Pizza garden, hopefully I have the same success here in Zone 8a in Middle GA. It's sweet basil, and I hope the type doesn't matter much to the dreaded hornworm.
Thanks for the great tip about basil! Next year I'll plant lots of basil! I have had only one season when the horn worm appeared, and I promptly disposed of them.
Amazing! I will definitely do that next year for sure! Thank your for the info! Excited to try this 🎉
I’ll blame this years brutal and early heat for many issues in my garden, including hornworm. I always keep basil by my tomatoes and it always deters hornworm, but not this year. Thankfully it hasn’t been a huge problem, a little bT took care of the outbreaks.
Btw, that’s some good looking butternut behind ya, powdery mildew aside.. This year is my first attempt at growing them vertically like that. They are hard to train upwards, but are growing well.
Absolutely correct. I planted based on your book and my tomatoes are awesome this year
Awesome!
This works! Thanks!!! I also blend with water basil leaves and spray occasionally.
I couldn’t agree more! In my garden, I grow African Blue Basil, Borage, and Queen Anne’s Lace and ever since I started incorporating those plants into my garden, I haven’t seen any pests whatsoever. However, I do see tons of beneficial insects and pollinators.
Awesome!
WONDERFUL! I have about 45 tomato plants growing right now and have only seen one hornworm this year. I have sweet, lemon, and cinnamon basil sprinkled though out.
Awesome!
Experienced that same thing and of course pepper planted in pot with no basil. Pepper plant coming back. Peppers challenge this year. In zone 5. Plants got all kinds of blooms but plant small and peppers too, so picked off peppers, and blooms. Now weather is cooling down in mid 50's at night and now for next 10 days 70-83* during day. Not looming looking like I will get any peppers this year. Tomatoes just beginning to turn red, and usually turning by 3rd week in July. Carrots, only 3 sprouted out of lots, trying second time now. Garden looks good but challenging.
This is life changing! I will definitely try this next year!
I've always planted Basil with my tomatoes. Recently I heard that the hornworm moth doesn't like the smell of Thyme either. Haven't tried it but next year I'll add that in with the Basil. I use a lot of Thyme, so it'll be another good place to plant more of it.
I had hornworms on my tomatoes this year. I didn't buy basil plants this year but planted seeds, which did come up, lesson learned! LOL
Thanks, Brian, I have had a similar experience. Last year and this year, I followed your recommendation to plant badil. I added as many basil plants as I did tomato plants, using both green and purple varieties. No worms since I started that practice. p.s. I also plant a lot of parsley for swallowtail butterflies.
How close to your tomatoes plants do you plant them? I have a basil plant in my garden bed with my tomatoes and still have found horn worms.
@@focused40 ...They are close. My beds are 4x8 feet with a trellis/string system similar to Brian's. Imagine 4 rows 8 feet long. I plant 12 tomatoes in the 2 center rows (6 in each row). Then I plant basil and parsley alternating them along the two outer rows. My overall conditions may be different than yours, though. I wish you good luck.
I've been planting a lot of new-to-me varieties of basil. Greek mini, purple opal, lettuce leaf, spicy saber, lime and lemon. I hope all of these work to keep them away. I've only had one hornworm but he ate 80% of the plant before I discovered him.
Okay…I have recently found 3 tomato horn worms on my tomato plants (I have 2 tomato plants, an indeterminate and a cherry). I have 5 Basil plants planted around the tomatoes. Everything was fine until the plants got above the porch railing that’s supporting them then the worms attacked. Early on I had found 2 horn worms on the eggplants, but once the Basil took off they haven’t been back. I’ve enjoyed every one of your videos. Glad to hear that generally all is going well on the homestead.
I always have basil around the tomatoes but still have plenty of the worms on my tomatoes :( Maybe 1-2 won't work- I am off to buy quite a few more!
It’s working for me! Thanks for the video! Curiously, the corner of my garden without basil has some worms.
Cool! I guess I won't change what I'm doing then. This year I have 3 bushy Genovese basil plants amongst two Sun Sugar (Sun Gold type) cherry tomatoes and two Cherokee Purple plants as well as two eggplant plants in a raised bed and I haven't seen any signs of any tomato hornworms or the giant moths wanting to lay hornworm eggs on them all season. I even have another Sun Sugar cherry plant in a grow bag with only another tiny basil plant in a 4 inch container next to it and I haven't seen any hornworms on that either.
I always appreciate your content!
Thank you!
First year gardener and I had 15 hornworms. They totally stripped one of my tomato plants before I caught them. Will definitely be planting basil next year.
I found one of these in my pepper Garden yesterday for the first time in Four Seasons of growing pepper plants, and that thing had the entire top of one of my pepper plants eaten in less than 24 hours. I had never seen one of these before nor did I know what it was, all I knew is that thing was huge and its appetite was even bigger.
Thank you for sharing this info. This year's garden will have a lot of Basil added to it. Lol
I plant marigolds and basil and still have many hornworms. These methods don’t work for me.
Thank you for sharing this information with us 🙏 we appreciate it! Blessings 🙌 to you
Thank you!
Tried your advice.
No hornworm this year.
Did find Swallowtail caterpillars on my parsley!
I have basil planted all around in my garden too. Didn't know I helped prevent hornworms, but I haven't had any in years. Good to know Tai Basil tastes like licorice, I will avoid that one lol
Thank you! I'm doing this from now on.
Awesomely helpful adivce. Thank you!
You're welcome 😊
I have a lot of basil, dill, borage, and garlic among my tomatoes and I have picked off a bunch of hornworms in the past two weeks.
Thanks for the help. This explains a lot.
I to plant basil with my pepper and tomatoes. However, I do have a few tomato worms but not many. I treat them the same way you do, pluck them off and squash-'em. Thanks for the info
Agreed, but didn't realize could attack my peppers & I've planted several away from my basil & mint. I can move a mint in pot & lemon grass. Also, I'll start putting extra cut basil leafs around those peppers.
You’re a life saver I didn’t know that, if I don’t have access to Basil can I put the tomatoes beside oregano?
I had tomato horn worms on my tomato plants this year, but was lucky that the parasitic wasps got to them and took care of the issue. I'll definitely be planting basil near the tomatoes next year though!
Nice tip Brian, thanks!
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You're welcome 😊
I still have a ton of hornworms that still eat tomato plants even with basil nearby. Good for you that it works for you.
That has been my experience. Neither marigolds or basil plants stopped hornworms from eating my tomato plants and decimating 75% of my pepper pods last year. I planted peppers, basil and marigolds this year. No tomatoes - no hornworms.
Great video and tip. Going to go cut my basil and propagate more plants today :) thank you.
You're welcome 😊
But they are SO PRETTY!!! Hahaha great tip Brian! 🧡❤️💜💙💚
Thanks! That's awesome!!
I plant marigolds around my tomatoes 🍅 No hornworms ☺️
Yesterday I pulled them off my bell peppers, potatoes and tomatoes! My basil is about 20 feet away. Will do more closer. Great idea!
Thanks!
Needed basil planted next to some of my flowers (I call them miniature petunias) because I removed 12 hornworms from one plant! I don’t have chickens (HOA doesn’t allow them) so I squished them! Fortunately my plant made a comeback and is once again beautiful.
Oh wow!
Good afternoon,, Thanks for the video!! Wasn't sure just what kind of warm this was,, but I know now after watching your video!!! But believe it or not,, they guys are all over my olive trees!! I know these guys are hearty eater but, Oilve trees?? Have you ever heard of that??
Robert
Doing same - commenting to affirm IT WORKS! - so far, huge plantings, no problems USE BASIL! plus you can keep it in check by clipping, hanging upside down (or other drying method) crumble put in jar (can freeze too - puree it - ice cube trays) and use instead of ever buying at the store again
Awesome!
Interesting! This year I got hornworms on my potatoes (no basil) and nothing on my tomatoes or peppers (basil interplanted). I’ll be planting a lot more basil in followings years!
I will keep this in mind for next season. For now my chickens get a treat when I pluck them! Gross to us but juicy snacks for chickens! Now how do I rid the grass hoppers???
My infestation of tomato horn worms where when my tomato plants were really tall and not close to the basil. It was time to cut back all the vines and start a new fall planting anyway, but I have a variety of basil seedlings growing with my tomato seedlings. I should be good to go!
Between white flies, late blight and caterpillars I had a bad run on my heirloom tomatoes and pepper. My basil got eaten by the caterpillars too, and my sunflowers, and now my catmint... good thing zone9b has 100+ days to frost I can try again. Time to apply BT.
Thank You! You are 100% correct!! 👌👍
Thanks! Makes sense.
Thankfully, we don't have hornworms in the UK. But we do have other pests that eat basil if grown outdoors, so I always grow it inside. I'm wondering if I put some basil seeds around the base of the outdoor toms, maybe they are beneficial for each other.
I love this in theory, but I recently plucked a tomato horn worm off a basil plant itself that was in with two tomato plants. I was surprised to see him in there because I’ve never had a problem with them until this year.
😳😳😳 solid it eat at any of the Basil?
I just picked off the granddaddy of all horn worms from one of my tomato plants. It was so large, that I cut the branch from the plant, and cast it out of the garden, into the gully of no return. Coincidently, I have basil and green onions growing as companion plants.
Brian, I totally agree on the Basil!! I also added Dill and Marigolds and not 1 horn worm anywhere! ALSO, Brian I won something from you last Fri, on my first Fall Garden, but I don't have a smart phone so I can't access telegram. How can I claim the prize that you so graciously are offering? Again loving your video's so full of great info! Blessings
Hi Patricia. I'm sorry to say it was a scammer.
@@NextLevelGardening That's okay, I didn't remember you saying there was going to be a give away! I wonder how that had happened.
Thank you
Awesome,,, definitely putting this into Action Immediately!!!!!!
Awesome!
Thanks for the video. I have a question not about nightshade plants but squash plants. What can I companion plant with squash to keep those squash bugs away? Thanks
Wow, that's great to know!
Thank you!
You're welcome 😊
Rosemary has a powerful scent too. Best part is it grows and grows and grows. Do they protect veggies as well?
I use DE. It works great.
Grew really beautiful basil this year right against my interdimate tomatoes and found 3 horn worms. Bummer but I will grow basil with my tomatoes next year again.
Good to know so I will not plant basil there. Every day at about sunup and again at about sundown I have a pair of cardinals go through my garden and they clean up any hornworms. This has been working for over 10 years and I do not want to loose them servicing my garden.
I do container gardening and plant basil in the same pot and still have hornworms.
I've also heard alyssum does the same thing. This year I had both with tomatoes and not a single hornworm in any of my tomato beds
One observation for this season so far Brian, aside of too many days of well over 100 degrees, grasshoppers totally decimate marigolds... and chew right through sweet basil along the way. -Bob...
Yup..here too! 100°+ temps and tons of grasshoppers ONLY on the basil. Not to mention hornworms on basil and tomatoes. I was SO hopeful!
I just planted 10 small basil transplants from seeds on my raised beds!
Great!
I have a all container garden should I plant it in the same container or in a separate one?
I've had no trouble with hornworms. I recommend severe draught.
I planted 2 types basil next to my tomato, eggplant and pepper plants last year. The hornworms took big bites out of numerous peppers and ate leaves on plants. They ate tomato leaves. This year I decided not to plant tomato plants because they brought in hornworms. As of August, I haven’t seen any hornworms eating my peppers. I have been harvesting a lot of peppers and preserving them.
I have about 20 Tomato plants in my garden with Basil between each plant, and I have had at least a dozen tomato worms.
Hey Brian. Just wanted to let you know that I have a garden filled with basil…sadly I also have killed 3 hornworms this morning. So basil may slow down the rate of infestations but there must be some other way to get rid of these monsters. I lost a beautiful tomato plant about 2 weeks ago and I’m convinced it was horn worm. 😭
I've learned those tomatoes out there weren't for the bugs.
Also something tells me you don't know how beneficial those tomatoes hornworms are well the moth version there fantastic pollinaters in the garden for night flowers.
Add poles 4 ft apart at the edge of your tomatoes. Tie rags to the poles and spray bug spray on the rags and the moths will stay away so you get no worms. BEEN WORKING FOR ME 4 YEATS.
I had hornworms on my Ace 55 container tomato, both had parasitic wasps eating them alive. This seems like a grand idea.
I'm a little north from you and have not had the same experience. I tend to get tobacco hornworms and wonder if that makes a difference. I would think that should matter. This doesn;t mean I won't plant basil around the garden because basils are so fun.
So if i container garden it should be planted with the 🍅/pepper plants. The basil takes up akot of room. Should i be trimming it more? I just got Blue Spice Basil. It has vanilla notes. Im thinking some tea.
You squished your hornworms? Oh, man, your chickens would LOVE those!!
Heeelllllllppppp! I don’t have a problem with worms (the many many wasps keep them picked off) but my tomatoes are growing roots on the stems at the top of the plant!!! I don’t really know what to do! One was broken below the rooting stem so I cut it off and planted it. Will the plant that’s air rooting itself die if I just leave it?! They are loaded with baby tomatoes and blossoms & I’m worried I’m about to lose them.
I’ll try it. I tried to grow basil but it stops around 2-3 inches. Can I direct sow or should I go and buy plants? How many basil plants around 10 tomato & 5 peppers?
Didn't work for me. I planted basil in all my tomato beds this year and got hornworms in all of them. Picked off what worms I could find, then came out the next few nights with a UV flashlight I have and was surprised to see so many more. After about 3 nights of doing this and using an organic product you recommended (can't remember the name off top of my head), I haven't seen any more. But my basil plants in those beds are thriving.
Could you make a Basil leaf tea, and spray on the tomatoes, peppers, and egg plant? As a double treatment. Another channel says basil will keep aphid away. I have trouble with aphids on Okra.
I have Tie basil in my raised garden bed with tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers. And YES yesterday I found 6 small tomato worms. I wonder if I need another basil plant? Humm
I had forgotten that peppers were nightshades until one of my plants was eaten to the ground overnight by hornworms! Planning my garden for next year and I had already decided to grow tomatoes using the lower and lean method and to plant a lot of basil all around the base of the plants. I like the idea of different kinds of basil planting throughout the garden, especially for pollinators.
Sounds good!
QUESTION: Will lemon basil also work? It doesn't smell as strong but it's my favorite. Thank you for the informative video
It won’t hurt to try it. I planted a combination of basil types between my pepper plants. The bees love the blooms. I haven’t seen any hornworms yet on the peppers next to the lemon basil plant. I have seen them on the tomatoes and peppers and potatoes that aren’t right next to a basil anymore. Some of the basil types crapped out early and have been yanked already. It was a tough spring and all of the basils wanted to bolt right after transplanting. Luckily I was able to keep my sweet basil out of flowers because it’s the only cash crop out of the four basils I grew.
I had my Tom surrounded by Basil...never stops the horned worms
I have 5-6 varieties of basil growing everywhere! Something came and chowed most all of them down 😆 but.. no hornworms! Im babying those plants along, but have lots of starts to plant around! But can we talk about those junebugs 🙄 😆
I thought I needed my protector plants to all flower in order to do their work - is it just the smell of the basil leaves that helps?
Does that work with squash bugs and vine bores? I planted sunflowers between my tomatoes and peppers and the birds snacked on the seeds and also ate the Hornworms but left my tomatoes alone
I'm new to gardening and did not know this about basil. I haven't had any issues with hornworms this year, just nightmare weather. I container garden on my deck at this point. Can I plant the basil in the same container with the tomato or does it need to be in a separate container and placed next to it?
I planted some of my basil right in some containers and some I sat outside of the TOMATOE plants and never seen a hornworms ( from pictures I've seen they are very creepy looking- Yikes😭) Happy Gardening Everyone!🌱🌻🐝🍀 🙋✌️💜.
Thanks Brian. I hate tomato hornworms, they look mean, especially if they rear up. 🌺💚🙃
I have a lot of basil all over my garden, and every morning when I go check, all my basil has been chew up, I have no problem in my tomatoes this year so far, thanks to BT, however my basil and potatoes is a daily fight.
You are very fortunate. The only insect that I have found on my basil is Japanese beetles. They are usually on the blooms only this location. In my other raised beds, I planted basil throughout my garden. Insects gravitate toward my vegetable plants and do not touch the basil.