If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Intro To Natural Insecticides For Gardening 1:58 Natural Pesticide #1: Pyrethrin 5:56 Natural Pesticide #2: Spinosad 7:09 Natural Pesticide #3: Wettable Sulfur 8:37 Natural Pesticide #4: Bt Concentrate 11:28 Adventures With Dale
I use BT for squash (zucchini, butternut and pumpkkins) only, here in SE VA with horrible squash bug pressure and I mix and inject my seedling stems. It works. I may soray once later for good measure. Also, the fruit I grow will ripen off vine, so I wait till peak bug pressure is past and dont plant pumpkins or butternut till July 4th. Great success here. 2 yrs ago, 37 cherokee tan pumpkins on one plant ( seems anything cherokee has amazing resistence) and they stored for over a year when I finally froze and dehydrated/powdered them.
New gardener here with brand new polytunnel setup and raised beds inside. This stuff is some real work. Thanks for great videos for someone like myself.
That's funny. The insects are quite similar to us it seems. The good ones function during the daytime, they go and serve their purpose towards the greater good. Then the sun goes down and the bad bugs come out to go cause trouble and damage property lol.
I've found pyrethrin, spinosad and sulfur to all be effective. The challenge with pyrethrin is it fades very quickly, so you need to repeat it several times. Spinosad can stay active for a couple weeks dried on leaves if you get no rain, so in rainless conditions, spinosad can be more effective since it'll continue to kill new populations of mites. I've personally found sulfur dust to be the best, since it can sit on the leaves and it's very harmful to mites.
@The Millennial Gardener thanks for the info 🙏 I tried the dust but since I grow weed I can't really use it when buds form. So I just try to dip the plants in the captain Jack's when they're small, and usually its good enough until harvest. I grow inside and still get spider mites somehow. It's really annoying, they're the spawn of Satan 😂
One thing I tried this year was spreading beneficial nematodes for japanese beetles, vine borers, and some other problems I have. We'll see if it helps. When ordered they sent me 1500 free ladybugs too, hopefully they do some good. I also like spinosad a lot.
Spinosad is very effective, at least when it doesn't rain. It continues to work once it dries on the leaves. It works well here until our rainy season begins. Then, I usually have to switch to pyrethrin, because the spinosad will wash daily.
The nematodes I suspect are what finally got the beetles under control for us. When I was a teenager I remember that at a certain time on early summer they'd always be swarms of them completely defoliating all their preferred plants and destroying anything resembling a fruit, like clockwork. They were big, and there were so many we used to lie on the trampoline listing to the klangs of them crashing into the side of the broken down van parked by the garden One year though, when I was in college or thereabouts, I suddenly realized that that summer, and for several years going, the annual swarm hadn't taken place. And I noticed that while there were still some big ones, many of the beetles I did see were much smaller in size. I think the nematodes, or some other biological control, finally reached our farm via natural spread.
@@robertl.fallin7062 no, this was about a decade later. To be honest, we never had much of a bee decline in our area. Colony collapse disorder was pretty much just a California/West Coast thing anyway. Sure, in general there are fewer bees and other insects here than there were decades ago, but that's been a very gradual change (and one I suspect has actually halted, at least where I live).
It's so helpful the way you explain everything in detail. Makes it stick in my brain because now I know *how* things work, not just THAT they work. :) Glad I found your channel!
I too plant lots of marigolds throughout my veggies, in our Colorado garden and typically don’t have insect issues other that powdery mildew on my squash leaves at the end of the growing season. Thanks for this info and also thanks to these notes stating that pyrethrin can be dangerous for cats. Scary! I’d like to hear info on Neem too (but that’s an oil, which makes it a no-go w the wetable sulfur dust…)
Milstop is the best solution for pm, it's a huge issue in cannabis and this solution is the go to. It's basically baking soda. Neem is money, you buy bulk from Ahimsa, then mix it with dish soap and silica to make it wettable. Azadiractin is the active ingredient, it messes with ALL bugs ability to produce hormones, and thus reproduce. Neem is great, but it has a delayed result till the bug's next reproduction cycle.
As usual, very thorough, clear and to the point, thank you. Please let’s be responsible and careful! We need to protect our land and beloved creatures while achieving our gardening goals! Stay blessed dear friends 🌻
You’re welcome! My garden is an oasis of lizards, dragonflies, ladybugs and bees. It’s crazy. Everyone else’s yard is lawn, so they all flock to mine. I have a zoo, it seems. So, I’m well aware that you can use these sprays with little to no fallout. The population of good bugs here prove it.
Keep pets in mind as well! Pyrethrin is toxic to cats, and many pesticides in general can cause nervous system damage to dogs and cats. Even walking through a sprayed area and then licking their paws can cause toxicity.
Just bought some Pyrethrin for 1st time (through your link) and really appreciate the explanation of the application and breakdown. You just saved a whole lot of cucumbers in my garden this year. Cheers from Ogden!
Dale is such a good boy. No wonder he was excited about his dinner, I was jealous and wanted some too.😊 Great informative video. You rock it with great real-life information as always. Many thanks
I really should spend 30 days eating the same food I make for Dale. I bet I would drop 10 lbs of body fat. I wish I had the self control 😆 Thank you so much!
Hey Dale ,I just want to tell you thank you for explaining these pesticides.I raise honey bees and this has help me out tremendously .I have bugs everywhere in my garden during the summer.You are a class Act!Keep it up my friend!
I use pyrethrin for ants,mites and aphids,really works for bad infestations. Of course the best thing is to chop and discard the infested foliage to minimize the damage,especially for aphids. Neem oil is good for prevention so I just use that most often, along with diatomaceous earth,especially for my worm bin. It repels most bad insects but doesn't affect good insects. Sulfur is used in common skin remedies for mites (soaps,ointments) and is safe for the most part. Bonus is if you use it near ericaceous plants like blueberries,it acidifies the soil. I haven't tried it on plants as a foliar spray, but it works well on dogs. I imagine it would work well on roses, cucurbits and solanids.
Aphids attacked my cabbages and Pyrethrin did nothing I have aphids that are resistant to neem, pyrethrins and spinosad and just run around right after it like nothing happened.
Dale this was great, very informative! I’m familiar with a lot of the products you mentioned, but also not familiar at all with Manny, so thank you so much for expanding my knowledge base! You are an asset to the garden community!
I am so grateful for the educational service you provide. Your information is organized, thorough and very well informed. I listen to you and take your advice. Thank you so much.
A pair of Chickadees will feed some where between 6,240-9,120 caterpillars to their brood in the 28 days from hatching to flying and additionally more than 2,000 in the next 28 days before they are on their own. Put up a wren/chickadee house by your garden. the hole has to be 1 1/8 so that other birds can't use the bird house.
Thanks for the information, you are always a wonderful source of gardening information that makes it simple for us beginners to follow and execute. I'm hoping one of these products will help with my mealy bug problem that has been plaguing my star apple plant for months now. They are nasty little buggers.
You're welcome! They definitely will. You may need a couple repeat applications, since the initial spray can kill the pests currently alive, but new eggs can hatch and re-populate. A follow-up in 7 days is usually a good idea.
Have you ever considered growing/making your own natural pesticides? Nicotiana Rustica is a tobacco variety that is native to North America, it was commonly grown by Native Americans and Aztecs for a variety of uses. Nicotiana Rustica has a much higher nicotine content than commercially available tobacco. Because of this high nicotine content it is an effective natural pesticide when prepared through tobacco decoction. I feel like this can be particularly useful for homesteaders/off-griders who want to take the fully self-sufficient route. From my research it seems like it's a great alternative to store bought pesticides, and the seeds are inexpensive.
You are right about Marigolds. We had giant ones last year. I completely tilled the plot this spring. Sure enough two Marigolds sprouted in the middle of the plot a few days ago.
I’ve found neem to be utterly useless beyond a simple oil spray. If you believe you’re having luck, I’m glad to hear it. I can’t justify $140/gallon when vegetable oil is $8/gallon 😖 It never worked for me after 2 years of experimenting.
I keep coming back to this video. First time growing in ENC and I have never seen the amounts of pests attacking my fruit trees, zucchini and brussel sprouts! After the first week, I was ready to give up. But, I am ordering the concentrates you recommended and will try to salvage what I have. Maybe I will figure it out and do better next season. Thank you!
Your videos are so helpful. Here in northeast PA we have japanese beetles at this time. They are everywhere🙄 I will try some of these pesticides to see if it will work for those annoying bugs. By the way, you should do a video of how you make Dale’s food. I have two 9 month old German Shepherds and was thinking of starting cooking their food instead of buying the cans and dry food. Again… Thank you for all you do 🙏🏾
Most of these products aren't stocked in the typical big box stores. I recommend ordering online, unless you have a local feed or seed store that stocks them.
That isn’t something you can spray all over your plants. It works for spot treatment, but I wouldn’t soak a plant down with it or want that in your soil. Dale has it made. He’s got it easy 😂
Great info. Gardeners may also consider companion planting. Then you really don't need pesticides. I am in Florida and I plant nasturuims, alysums (sp?), and marigolds throughout my garden and rarely have an insect problem.
Last year I started a new garden but forgot to sow any borage. I found hornworms on my tomatoes for the first time in over 20 years. Since I have stopped using pesticides (except BTk) my pest problems have disappeared. Insecticides kill insects at every stage including larval. For example, the vegetarian syrphid fly kills huge numbers of aphids in the larval stage. Sure the flies dont fly at night but the larvae are at work. Insecticides kill them. Companion planting and denial of pests access to your plants works best.
I've found a lot of the opposite to be true, unfortunately. Marigolds bring in enormous amounts of worms and caterpillars. I've companion planted with them before, and it resulted in my brassicas and sweet potatoes being destroyed. Some things that work in some areas bring in pests in others, and it really depends on the native pests in your area and how many invasive species there are. It's a real challenge.
@@TheMillennialGardener It sure is a challenge! Marigolds? Tagetes or Calendula these seem to be interchangeable but they have different effects. Also I would rather plant aromatic herbs like thyme or hyssop with brassicas and keep the French marigolds close to tomatoes. Aztec or African marigolds are different again as are the Mexican marigolds.
In a resent video of yours, I noticed what looked like a black covering (possibly plastic?) along a fence line in the background of where you were standing. I know you have fig trees planted along your fence, so I assumed the covering may have been frost protection. My three year old fig tree began to leaf-out early this year, but suffered a frost that decimated all of the new growth. Monitoring the tree closely, it is slowly showing a good deal of new buds. If you indeed placed frost protection coverings on your trees, please produce a vid of what you used and how helpful it was. Did your cover include a heat sources (light bulbs perhaps?) Thanks for your consideration, Dennis Peltz, Myrtle Beach
That is shade cloth. It keeps my figs dormant an entire month longer. Employing this strategy, all my figs made it this year. I made a video on how it work here: czcams.com/video/z7BYtRlmpCE/video.html
Good info here! I'm NW of Wake Forest, and man o man these horned(?) caterpillars are ferocious! Not only do they hiss at you, but they emit a stink. Devastated my parsley, so I grew one for them and another pot f me last year! Not forgetting they grow to be our swallowtails!
Bt and Spinosad will make short work of them overnight. It is satisfying to spray the tomato plants at night and wake up the next day to see the dried up hornworms. Take that 😆 I’m not familiar with hissing caterpillars. I may not have that…yet?
We struggle with squash gine borers here in central NC. I have heard of inject it into the stem where you see worm activity. Can you speak to the effectiveness of this?;Bought a bottle this year and hoping we didnt waste out money!
OK, question for you..... I have been using Earth's Ally 3-in-1 and Diatomaceous Earth. Thoughts on these products for gardening? Only the 3-in-1 in my garden for now, because I released 3,000 ladybugs to deal with an aphid problem naturally.
I thought for sure he would have diatomaceous earth on this list, but he went straight for the hard stuff. Most people don't need sure harsh pesticides products.
Have you ever thought or heard about Jadam Sulfur? Making your own is super easy, and you only need to use a 1:500 ratio most of the time. (1:750 for preventing, up to 1:128 for infestations I believe)
Just got a tip for a repellent. 1 gal of water. At 1 raw red onion, 1 whole peeled garlic head, cayenne pepper. Let it sit overnight n spray plants. Gonna try n see if this makes the buggies stay away.
After watching this video I saw another grower do a video that said that because dish soap is detergent that it will also damage your plants and even kill them if you use it as insecticide. I was wondering if you experienced any damage or dead plants after using the dish soap as insecticide? Thank you
I found a spray the other day it was bonide brand, that captain jack brand, and it was a pyrethrin and sulfur mixture, its got the sulfur already mixed in for the fungicide and pesticide benefit as well. I also boughy some b.t. weve had a lot of caterpillars in the past that have stripped entire chili pepper plants in 24 hrs, so I thought I'd try that. I might get some spinosad in the future too if the b.t. doesnt work well enough. I couldnt exactly watch stand there for 15 minutes and watch your video in the store to refresh my memory on which was which, haha. Im interested to see how the pyrethrin/sulfur spray works.
We are in Moore County NC near Pinehurst and one of our pest issues are snails 🐌 🤬 Captain Jacks Dead bug brew isn’t keeping them away this year!! Suggestions??
Just bought a thing of BT. The worms have been destroying my plants! I have brussels sprouts that have gorwn and lost two sets of leaves so far! Its either a flame thrower, or something else at this point! 😂
@@tesswagner895 Now that I looked. I typed pyrethrum. I use permethrin. From what I understand they are the same and are safe. I use a little of the powder form in their dust baths and nesting boxes in the summer. If I notice their itching I mix up the liquid and spray them, their coop and their yard. I had an outbreak of red mites that came from a bag of pine chips I got from tractor supply. I was so mad. It took awhile to get under control.
@JerseyGirl No, unfortunately, they are not the same. Pyrethrum is a very lovely, magenta chrysanthemum. Permethrin is a synthetic form that has side effects including being dangerous to animals and humans. I did a quick search before replying. Same for pyrethroids - man made chemical. I got into an argument with a nursery grower about this one not being natural pesticide. They all 3 are used for same purposes.
Do you have issues with squash bugs & what's the best out of the 4 products you showed to stop them ? Or is there another product that fits squash bugs ? Growing up in Ohio we never had these. Now I'm near KY/TN border & they are a horrible problem ! Thanks for the video & info !
@ Chris Cole Get yourself some wooden boards and lay them down near your squash plants. Leave them on overnight and in the morning be ready with a sprayer filled with soapy water and a little bit of neem oil. When you lift the boards the squash bugs will be there by the hundreds and you can spray it on all of them. Do this everyday and you will reduce your populations immensely! Also look for the egg clusters on the leaves of the squash plants They are golden in color and you can usually find them in clusters. Just cut the section of leaf off and burn it or throw it away.
Dr. Bronner's Hemp Pepperment Pure-Castille Soap works for me in central Florida, and a little goes a long way so it is very inexpensive. Dilute a small squirt (teaspoon or less) in a quart of water. Don't know whether it works on catepillars, which I remove by hand.
No. I loathe neem oil. It's highly reactive with sun and easily burns leaves, the smell is horrific, it ruins the taste of the food you spray it on, it's extremely expensive (about $120-150/gal) and I find it completely ineffective at controlling pests. In my testing, it's no more effective than making a spray out of cheap vegetable oil, which is less than $10/gal. All the insecticides listed in this video are far less expensive than cold pressed neem oil, and they actually work.
@@TheMillennialGardener incredible! And good to know since many people over the net are recommending Neem Oil. What you say makes complete sense! Thanks again! 😊
your vids are so helpful. we have a horrible time with pests and will try these insecticides. agree about the dt, but what about diotomaceous (probably butchered the sp) earth. Dale is always a precious plus. hug him & scrunch his ears for me (only as ruff as he likes, of course).
I can't use diatomaceous earth, because it's too windy and rainy here. It's only effective when it stays perfectly in place. Our springs are windy, and our summers are rainy, so you have to apply it constantly. It's not very helpful here.
Preparing is effective on juvenile lubbers, but not so much on adults. I have found a bricks to be effective on the adults. I got mine at a feed store.
I was advised to plant many brassica plants in the same area. This is supposed to confuse caterpillar moth from landing and setting eggs, so it cuts down the use of pesticides.
Who told you to do that? That just gives them more stuff to eat! That's called mono cropping and it gives insects the upper hand. If you've already done this plant some marigolds and onions around your brassicas. It won't stop the cabbage butterfly but it will probably confuse them a little.
Given neighborhood rules and zoning laws, unfortunately, chickens are not legal for the overwhelming majority of us. Chickens are not an option for almost all of us living in neighborhoods. Even if you're lucky enough to own land, the inspection laws are rough. You have to have a certain size enclosure, a defined chicken run, it has to be inspected by the county...it's easier to build an addition on my house 😂
You shop at TSC based by the product lol we sell all of these. Me and the garden center guy at work are always playing with the plants. What citrus do you have? Do they stay in groud year round? How do they not die in NC? I just got a citrus specialty yesterday and will be the families first citrus tree.
hi i love your videos.... i have a peach tree i want to spray natural bugs insects spray... and hopefully get good fruits harvest results.. last year lots of peaches were full of worms. please advice.
Pyrethrin works on them. They're pretty tough, and it's all that I've found to be effective other than covering your plants. The grasshoppers here are 3-4 inches long.
Hi I really enjoy your videos. My problem among many is GRUB WORMS!! AND LIKE I SAID I HAVE MANY different insects like you do. I live in N.W. TEXAS. And believe it or not it’s very humid and windy here too. But getting back to the grubs, I already have the June bugs digging down in my garden to lay their eggs and the grubs that were down there coming up in the beetle stage. What do I do? Please help me!!!! Cathy in a crisis😂
Hey catrina, trina here. I have been fighting grubs for years. I think I have them mostly under control. first thing I do is use "grub be gone" early spring and late fall. I also have used nematodes, there are special nematodes for grubs and the other things. I also have found it very helpful to prepare my beds just before spring and lay down plastic to heat the soil up. Then when I plant in early spring I put down black fabric and straw, hay and some of my beds have ceder wood chips. I have found this helps prevent the bugs from landing in and laying eggs. Be sure you know when they are due in your area and prepare your beds before they fly. I found the products I mentioned online Amazon. I might add when I first began I had a very bad infestation so I dug down and picked out hundreds of them before I treated. Tedious work but I was amazed of the hundreds I found in each bed. Hope this helps!! from high desert in Southern California.
Do you mean thrips? Spinosad specifically lists them on the container. And of course, pyrethrin will kill *all* insects, so if it's an insect, pyrethrin will kill it.
When using Bonide brand Pyrethrin, the label says to use between 3-5 tablespoons per gallon of water. I find that is WAY too much and it has burned my leaves on my pumpkins and apple trees. Sometimes I do spray in the day time to kill the Japanese Beetles that are feasting on my apple trees so I don't for sure if it is because I am spraying in the day time or because the ratio of concentrate to water is way too high. Any advice? I think you have mentioned that you only use 1/2 to 1 tablespoon per gallon of water.
Pyrethrin kills them on contact. Covering the stems and leaves in Spinosad dust works sell, too. Just keep it out of the flowers so it doesn’t harm the bees.
What do you use for the black grasshoppers? They hatch in one of my flower beds every year, a couple of hundred. They eat my Amaryllis buds before they open. I have tried lots of stuff but nothing seems to help. They get about two inches long and them migrate somewhere else.
You could try a thick layer of diatomaceous earth around each bulb. It clogs up their mouth parts. I would put a 6 inch circle around then up the stem about an inch. Hope it helps 😊
@AB Junior It's been quite a while, but I've used Nolo Bait before. It decreased the population the following year and the next. I didn't know they still made it.😄 I'd forgotten about that one. Thanks!
If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Intro To Natural Insecticides For Gardening
1:58 Natural Pesticide #1: Pyrethrin
5:56 Natural Pesticide #2: Spinosad
7:09 Natural Pesticide #3: Wettable Sulfur
8:37 Natural Pesticide #4: Bt Concentrate
11:28 Adventures With Dale
I wish more people included time stamps! You really really get who you are making these videos for! Thank you
Mine too!
LOL😊
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@@nigl2807 I bought the Pyritherine on Thursday night from Amazon.
What is your opinion on diatomaceous earth? I'm not quite sold on it yet.
My favorite pesticide is a greenhouse with screened openings.
I wish I could 😂
That’s wrong 😂
As I see my cabbage being Eaten😢 …. I’m thinking about keeping them in my sunroom!
Squash bugs defeat that method here. I even find them indoors.
I use BT for squash (zucchini, butternut and pumpkkins) only, here in SE VA with horrible squash bug pressure and I mix and inject my seedling stems. It works. I may soray once later for good measure. Also, the fruit I grow will ripen off vine, so I wait till peak bug pressure is past and dont plant pumpkins or butternut till July 4th. Great success here. 2 yrs ago, 37 cherokee tan pumpkins on one plant ( seems anything cherokee has amazing resistence) and they stored for over a year when I finally froze and dehydrated/powdered them.
New gardener here with brand new polytunnel setup and raised beds inside. This stuff is some real work. Thanks for great videos for someone like myself.
It is, but it is worth it. Nothing easy is worth doing. If you want the best food, you have to grow it yourself!
That's funny. The insects are quite similar to us it seems. The good ones function during the daytime, they go and serve their purpose towards the greater good. Then the sun goes down and the bad bugs come out to go cause trouble and damage property lol.
That Captain Jack's is the only one I found that really kills spider mites. Very good product 👌
I've found pyrethrin, spinosad and sulfur to all be effective. The challenge with pyrethrin is it fades very quickly, so you need to repeat it several times. Spinosad can stay active for a couple weeks dried on leaves if you get no rain, so in rainless conditions, spinosad can be more effective since it'll continue to kill new populations of mites. I've personally found sulfur dust to be the best, since it can sit on the leaves and it's very harmful to mites.
@The Millennial Gardener thanks for the info 🙏 I tried the dust but since I grow weed I can't really use it when buds form. So I just try to dip the plants in the captain Jack's when they're small, and usually its good enough until harvest. I grow inside and still get spider mites somehow. It's really annoying, they're the spawn of Satan 😂
One thing I tried this year was spreading beneficial nematodes for japanese beetles, vine borers, and some other problems I have. We'll see if it helps. When ordered they sent me 1500 free ladybugs too, hopefully they do some good. I also like spinosad a lot.
Spinosad is very effective, at least when it doesn't rain. It continues to work once it dries on the leaves. It works well here until our rainy season begins. Then, I usually have to switch to pyrethrin, because the spinosad will wash daily.
The nematodes I suspect are what finally got the beetles under control for us.
When I was a teenager I remember that at a certain time on early summer they'd always be swarms of them completely defoliating all their preferred plants and destroying anything resembling a fruit, like clockwork. They were big, and there were so many we used to lie on the trampoline listing to the klangs of them crashing into the side of the broken down van parked by the garden
One year though, when I was in college or thereabouts, I suddenly realized that that summer, and for several years going, the annual swarm hadn't taken place. And I noticed that while there were still some big ones, many of the beetles I did see were much smaller in size.
I think the nematodes, or some other biological control, finally reached our farm via natural spread.
@@raphaeldusablon4526 Did the sudden decline in Japanese Beatles track the bee decline, somewhere about 2005 or 06?
@@robertl.fallin7062 no, this was about a decade later.
To be honest, we never had much of a bee decline in our area. Colony collapse disorder was pretty much just a California/West Coast thing anyway. Sure, in general there are fewer bees and other insects here than there were decades ago, but that's been a very gradual change (and one I suspect has actually halted, at least where I live).
Where did you buy them please?
It's so helpful the way you explain everything in detail. Makes it stick in my brain because now I know *how* things work, not just THAT they work. :) Glad I found your channel!
We used BT last year for our vine boarers, and it was very effective
That’s good! It should be effective against the larvae. Not so much the adult moth, though, unfortunately 😔
Doesn't it kill your good worms? Red wigglers? Or only the ones that eat the leaves?
I too plant lots of marigolds throughout my veggies, in our Colorado garden and typically don’t have insect issues other that powdery mildew on my squash leaves at the end of the growing season. Thanks for this info and also thanks to these notes stating that pyrethrin can be dangerous for cats. Scary! I’d like to hear info on Neem too (but that’s an oil, which makes it a no-go w the wetable sulfur dust…)
I used to live in Colorado and I used potassium bicarbonate on powdery mildew. I even used it on the lilacs when they got hit with it.
Milstop is the best solution for pm, it's a huge issue in cannabis and this solution is the go to. It's basically baking soda.
Neem is money, you buy bulk from Ahimsa, then mix it with dish soap and silica to make it wettable. Azadiractin is the active ingredient, it messes with ALL bugs ability to produce hormones, and thus reproduce. Neem is great, but it has a delayed result till the bug's next reproduction cycle.
As usual, very thorough, clear and to the point, thank you. Please let’s be responsible and careful! We need to protect our land and beloved creatures while achieving our gardening goals! Stay blessed dear friends 🌻
You’re welcome! My garden is an oasis of lizards, dragonflies, ladybugs and bees. It’s crazy. Everyone else’s yard is lawn, so they all flock to mine. I have a zoo, it seems. So, I’m well aware that you can use these sprays with little to no fallout. The population of good bugs here prove it.
@@TheMillennialGardener Goodonya ! Millennial G ♥️
Keep pets in mind as well! Pyrethrin is toxic to cats, and many pesticides in general can cause nervous system damage to dogs and cats. Even walking through a sprayed area and then licking their paws can cause toxicity.
It's not even in my list because of that. Thank you for bringing it up!
I bet you probably put pets in front of people huh?
Gets rid of cats you say 🤔 jk lol
Just bought some Pyrethrin for 1st time (through your link) and really appreciate the explanation of the application and breakdown. You just saved a whole lot of cucumbers in my garden this year. Cheers from Ogden!
Thanks! It works really well. Just be sure to apply only at sunset, not during the day.
Dale is such a good boy. No wonder he was excited about his dinner, I was jealous and wanted some too.😊
Great informative video. You rock it with great real-life information as always. Many thanks
I really should spend 30 days eating the same food I make for Dale. I bet I would drop 10 lbs of body fat. I wish I had the self control 😆 Thank you so much!
Hey Dale ,I just want to tell you thank you for explaining these pesticides.I raise honey bees and this has help me out tremendously .I have bugs everywhere in my garden during the summer.You are a class Act!Keep it up my friend!
Beetles are also pollinators I heard.
I think Dale is his dog. 🐕 😉
@charmc4152 / yes you are right,thank you
I use pyrethrin for ants,mites and aphids,really works for bad infestations. Of course the best thing is to chop and discard the infested foliage to minimize the damage,especially for aphids.
Neem oil is good for prevention so I just use that most often, along with diatomaceous earth,especially for my worm bin. It repels most bad insects but doesn't affect good insects.
Sulfur is used in common skin remedies for mites (soaps,ointments) and is safe for the most part. Bonus is if you use it near ericaceous plants like blueberries,it acidifies the soil. I haven't tried it on plants as a foliar spray, but it works well on dogs. I imagine it would work well on roses, cucurbits and solanids.
Aphids attacked my cabbages and Pyrethrin did nothing I have aphids that are resistant to neem, pyrethrins and spinosad and just run around right after it like nothing happened.
Dale this was great, very informative! I’m familiar with a lot of the products you mentioned, but also not familiar at all with Manny, so thank you so much for expanding my knowledge base! You are an asset to the garden community!
Dale is his dog. 🐕
I truly appreciate how thorough you are in your videos. Great job!
Thank you!
You channel is the best Garden channel.
Thanks for another informative video. Saving it under my gardening folder!
Dale is so precious!
Glad it was helpful! Dale says hello 🐕
I am so grateful for the educational service you provide. Your information is organized, thorough and very well informed. I listen to you and take your advice. Thank you so much.
A pair of Chickadees will feed some where between 6,240-9,120 caterpillars to their brood in the 28 days from hatching to flying and additionally more than 2,000 in the next 28 days before they are on their own. Put up a wren/chickadee house by your garden. the hole has to be 1 1/8 so that other birds can't use the bird house.
That is cool! A chickadee has taken over my bluebird house this spring. Looking forward to some more babies.
You are incredibly precise and informative-thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the information, you are always a wonderful source of gardening information that makes it simple for us beginners to follow and execute. I'm hoping one of these products will help with my mealy bug problem that has been plaguing my star apple plant for months now. They are nasty little buggers.
You're welcome! They definitely will. You may need a couple repeat applications, since the initial spray can kill the pests currently alive, but new eggs can hatch and re-populate. A follow-up in 7 days is usually a good idea.
Have you ever considered growing/making your own natural pesticides? Nicotiana Rustica is a tobacco variety that is native to North America, it was commonly grown by Native Americans and Aztecs for a variety of uses. Nicotiana Rustica has a much higher nicotine content than commercially available tobacco. Because of this high nicotine content it is an effective natural pesticide when prepared through tobacco decoction. I feel like this can be particularly useful for homesteaders/off-griders who want to take the fully self-sufficient route. From my research it seems like it's a great alternative to store bought pesticides, and the seeds are inexpensive.
Nicotine fertilizers make any plants in the nightshade family susceptible to tobacco mosaic disease.
@@Amanda-cn3pk Thanks, I will keep note of that.
love your channel learning so much. buying a house and i want a backyard like your done your way. thanks
I found one of those massive tomato worms on the tobacco trap plant. You better believe I cackled madly while I watched my chickens fight over it!
Good point about time of day spraying.
You are right about Marigolds. We had giant ones last year. I completely tilled the plot this spring. Sure enough two Marigolds sprouted in the middle of the plot a few days ago.
Thank you so so much for this! Hornworms and squash bugs are my worst problems here in NW Arkansas. Ordering some Pyrethrin asap!
Thank you very much. ❤. I use BT , Neem Oil and Captain Jack’s in Florida 9b
I’ve found neem to be utterly useless beyond a simple oil spray. If you believe you’re having luck, I’m glad to hear it. I can’t justify $140/gallon when vegetable oil is $8/gallon 😖 It never worked for me after 2 years of experimenting.
@@TheMillennialGardener I use cold pressed Neem Oil. Sorry it didn’t work for you 🥲
I use companion plantings because it attracts natural predators minimizing damage in the long run. Otherwise, nematodes and bt only. Howerflies FTW.
I keep coming back to this video. First time growing in ENC and I have never seen the amounts of pests attacking my fruit trees, zucchini and brussel sprouts! After the first week, I was ready to give up. But, I am ordering the concentrates you recommended and will try to salvage what I have. Maybe I will figure it out and do better next season. Thank you!
Your videos are so helpful. Here in northeast PA we have japanese beetles at this time. They are everywhere🙄 I will try some of these pesticides to see if it will work for those annoying bugs. By the way, you should do a video of how you make Dale’s food. I have two 9 month old German Shepherds and was thinking of starting cooking their food instead of buying the cans and dry food. Again… Thank you for all you do 🙏🏾
I'm heading out right now as I watch this!
Most of these products aren't stocked in the typical big box stores. I recommend ordering online, unless you have a local feed or seed store that stocks them.
Nicely done. Clear and concise. Thank you.😊
You're welcome!
What about diatomaceous earth?
peppermint oil is the most effective, natural pesticide that I have used. from aphids to mice it's hard to beat.
I was expecting Dawn to be one...... It works.
Howdy MG! You left soapy water off your list.😃
Dale's such a good pup!🐕 That was a good looking breakfast!👍
That isn’t something you can spray all over your plants. It works for spot treatment, but I wouldn’t soak a plant down with it or want that in your soil. Dale has it made. He’s got it easy 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener Even Castile Soap?
Great info thank you! Ive got something going after my young Meyer Lemon. I'll order through your store.
Great video.
Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
well im looking into importing the china bee that eats the stink bug eggs. my biggest problem in eastern NC
I'm worried about the crab spiders and ladybirds. We only have potted plants and I don't know where they'd be going home for the night.
Wow. Dale's breakfast sounds better than most hospital food!
Oh man, I hope better than all hospital food 😆
@@TheMillennialGardener 🤣
Great info. Gardeners may also consider companion planting. Then you really don't need pesticides. I am in Florida and I plant nasturuims, alysums (sp?), and marigolds throughout my garden and rarely have an insect problem.
Last year I started a new garden but forgot to sow any borage. I found hornworms on my tomatoes for the first time in over 20 years. Since I have stopped using pesticides (except BTk) my pest problems have disappeared. Insecticides kill insects at every stage including larval. For example, the vegetarian syrphid fly kills huge numbers of aphids in the larval stage. Sure the flies dont fly at night but the larvae are at work. Insecticides kill them. Companion planting and denial of pests access to your plants works best.
I've found a lot of the opposite to be true, unfortunately. Marigolds bring in enormous amounts of worms and caterpillars. I've companion planted with them before, and it resulted in my brassicas and sweet potatoes being destroyed. Some things that work in some areas bring in pests in others, and it really depends on the native pests in your area and how many invasive species there are. It's a real challenge.
@@TheMillennialGardener It sure is a challenge! Marigolds? Tagetes or Calendula these seem to be interchangeable but they have different effects. Also I would rather plant aromatic herbs like thyme or hyssop with brassicas and keep the French marigolds close to tomatoes. Aztec or African marigolds are different again as are the Mexican marigolds.
In a resent video of yours, I noticed what looked like a black covering (possibly plastic?) along a fence line in the background of where you were standing. I know you have fig trees planted along your fence, so I assumed the covering may have been frost protection.
My three year old fig tree began to leaf-out early this year, but suffered a frost that decimated all of the new growth. Monitoring the tree closely, it is slowly showing a good deal of new buds.
If you indeed placed frost protection coverings on your trees, please produce a vid of what you used and how helpful it was. Did your cover include a heat sources (light bulbs perhaps?)
Thanks for your consideration,
Dennis Peltz, Myrtle Beach
That is shade cloth. It keeps my figs dormant an entire month longer. Employing this strategy, all my figs made it this year. I made a video on how it work here: czcams.com/video/z7BYtRlmpCE/video.html
Good info here! I'm NW of Wake Forest, and man o man these horned(?) caterpillars are ferocious! Not only do they hiss at you, but they emit a stink. Devastated my parsley, so I grew one for them and another pot f me last year! Not forgetting they grow to be our swallowtails!
Bt and Spinosad will make short work of them overnight. It is satisfying to spray the tomato plants at night and wake up the next day to see the dried up hornworms. Take that 😆 I’m not familiar with hissing caterpillars. I may not have that…yet?
I had an 8 inch tomato hornworm stand on its high legs and hiss at me... I thought I was in Jurassic Park
@@LVVMCMLV THEY DO! Creepy!!!
@@LVVMCMLVI would have nightmares😱🐛
I learn so much from you.
I’m glad to hear the videos are helpful!
Thanks again for your great and timely information 🙂 And of course love Dale ❤🙋♀️
You're welcome! Dale says hello!
Thanks for this informative video! Have a great day!🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸Sounds like what Dales having is pretty tasty!
Like the end with Dale eating. What a great breakfast!
He’s very spoiled 😆
@@TheMillennialGardener not spoiled, just good parenting
Thank you for the info.. gotta figure out which one to try... Dale eats like my dogs... so good for him ❤️
I see why Dale was so eager to his food! ♥️
He is very spoiled. If I ate like him, I would have 9% body fat, too 😂
do you have which one kills the plum curculio most effectively?
Really ❤ your dogger Dale!
Thank you! He’s such a good boy. He’s a special guy.
We struggle with squash gine borers here in central NC. I have heard of inject it into the stem where you see worm activity. Can you speak to the effectiveness of this?;Bought a bottle this year and hoping we didnt waste out money!
OK, question for you..... I have been using Earth's Ally 3-in-1 and Diatomaceous Earth. Thoughts on these products for gardening?
Only the 3-in-1 in my garden for now, because I released 3,000 ladybugs to deal with an aphid problem naturally.
I thought for sure he would have diatomaceous earth on this list, but he went straight for the hard stuff. Most people don't need sure harsh pesticides products.
Have you ever thought or heard about Jadam Sulfur? Making your own is super easy, and you only need to use a 1:500 ratio most of the time. (1:750 for preventing, up to 1:128 for infestations I believe)
I'm not familiar. A $9 bottle of wettable sulfur has lasted me 2 years, so the cost is pretty negligible as much as I use it.
I have not tried it, but I’ve watched videos about it. I’d like to combine Jadom pest control with Jadom Microbial Fertilizer!
All homemade of course.
Thank you! I live about 3.5 hours north west of you in the Piedmont area. We have similar problems that you do with bugs.
Just got a tip for a repellent.
1 gal of water. At 1 raw red onion, 1 whole peeled garlic head, cayenne pepper. Let it sit overnight n spray plants. Gonna try n see if this makes the buggies stay away.
Thanks for the garden tips hi Dale enjoy your meal 🐶✨👍🏾
You’re welcome! Dale says hi 🐕
After watching this video I saw another grower do a video that said that because dish soap is detergent that it will also damage your plants and even kill them if you use it as insecticide. I was wondering if you experienced any damage or dead plants after using the dish soap as insecticide? Thank you
I found a spray the other day it was bonide brand, that captain jack brand, and it was a pyrethrin and sulfur mixture, its got the sulfur already mixed in for the fungicide and pesticide benefit as well. I also boughy some b.t. weve had a lot of caterpillars in the past that have stripped entire chili pepper plants in 24 hrs, so I thought I'd try that. I might get some spinosad in the future too if the b.t. doesnt work well enough. I couldnt exactly watch stand there for 15 minutes and watch your video in the store to refresh my memory on which was which, haha. Im interested to see how the pyrethrin/sulfur spray works.
Ordered the bone meal yesterday after watching your show about the ‘white powder’. 🎉🎉🎉
Nice! You’ll be impressed by the results.
Thank you, I very much needed all this info.
Dale's such a good boy! ❤
He's the best!
In Central Florida..the bugs are wicked bad already this year. I've had tomato worms already. The white Flys. It's been crazy this early.
Does any of these work with fungus gnats in house plants
It would be neat if you did a video now, comparing how the prices have gone up in the past two months
We are in Moore County NC near Pinehurst and one of our pest issues are snails 🐌 🤬 Captain Jacks Dead bug brew isn’t keeping them away this year!! Suggestions??
Sluggo granules
Just bought a thing of BT. The worms have been destroying my plants! I have brussels sprouts that have gorwn and lost two sets of leaves so far! Its either a flame thrower, or something else at this point! 😂
Last year was the first time I had to deal with squash bugs. I use pyrethrum for my chickens. Never crossed my mind to use it on the squash bugs😂
It knocks squash bugs dead in about 3 mins.
@@TheMillennialGardener I was out there every night smooshing them. Thanks for the info 🌱🪳🌱
Curious. How do you use for your chickens???
@@tesswagner895 Now that I looked. I typed pyrethrum. I use permethrin. From what I understand they are the same and are safe.
I use a little of the powder form in their dust baths and nesting boxes in the summer. If I notice their itching I mix up the liquid and spray them, their coop and their yard. I had an outbreak of red mites that came from a bag of pine chips I got from tractor supply. I was so mad. It took awhile to get under control.
@JerseyGirl No, unfortunately, they are not the same. Pyrethrum is a very lovely, magenta chrysanthemum. Permethrin is a synthetic form that has side effects including being dangerous to animals and humans. I did a quick search before replying. Same for pyrethroids - man made chemical. I got into an argument with a nursery grower about this one not being natural pesticide. They all 3 are used for same purposes.
Do you have issues with squash bugs & what's the best out of the 4 products you showed to stop them ? Or is there another product that fits squash bugs ? Growing up in Ohio we never had these. Now I'm near KY/TN border & they are a horrible problem ! Thanks for the video & info !
@ Chris Cole Get yourself some wooden boards and lay them down near your squash plants. Leave them on overnight and in the morning be ready with a sprayer filled with soapy water and a little bit of neem oil. When you lift the boards the squash bugs will be there by the hundreds and you can spray it on all of them. Do this everyday and you will reduce your populations immensely! Also look for the egg clusters on the leaves of the squash plants They are golden in color and you can usually find them in clusters. Just cut the section of leaf off and burn it or throw it away.
Great video and information! Thanks for another informative gardening video!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Hornworms on tomato plants tend to be the thing we get the most - for this problem, would the BT be the best bet?
Dr. Bronner's Hemp Pepperment Pure-Castille Soap works for me in central Florida, and a little goes a long way so it is very inexpensive. Dilute a small squirt (teaspoon or less) in a quart of water.
Don't know whether it works on catepillars, which I remove by hand.
How long will open and unopened bottles stay effective? Thank you
Do you ever use neem oil with Castile soap?
Great video! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge! 😃
Do you use Neem Oil?
No. I loathe neem oil. It's highly reactive with sun and easily burns leaves, the smell is horrific, it ruins the taste of the food you spray it on, it's extremely expensive (about $120-150/gal) and I find it completely ineffective at controlling pests. In my testing, it's no more effective than making a spray out of cheap vegetable oil, which is less than $10/gal. All the insecticides listed in this video are far less expensive than cold pressed neem oil, and they actually work.
@@TheMillennialGardener incredible! And good to know since many people over the net are recommending Neem Oil. What you say makes complete sense! Thanks again! 😊
Which of these would you recommend most for aphids? Thanks for the information video!
your vids are so helpful. we have a horrible time with pests and will try these insecticides. agree about the dt, but what about diotomaceous (probably butchered the sp) earth. Dale is always a precious plus. hug him & scrunch his ears for me (only as ruff as he likes, of course).
I can't use diatomaceous earth, because it's too windy and rainy here. It's only effective when it stays perfectly in place. Our springs are windy, and our summers are rainy, so you have to apply it constantly. It's not very helpful here.
Preparing is effective on juvenile lubbers, but not so much on adults. I have found a bricks to be effective on the adults. I got mine at a feed store.
Permethrin
Very informative 👏 Thanks for sharing 👍 I appreciate it very much
Glad it was helpful!
Could you use pyrethrum at night then use a mild oxidizing peroxide spray early morning to break it down faster? I love my bugs
Thank you. Needed this info. Have just started finding damage😢
They’re coming to life already. The worms are some of the first.
For the Pyrethrin dilution- Would it be correct to use 0.5 teaspoon per 16 ounces of water for use on vegetables? The label says 3 oz per 10 gallons.
I was advised to plant many brassica plants in the same area. This is supposed to confuse caterpillar moth from landing and setting eggs, so it cuts down the use of pesticides.
Who told you to do that? That just gives them more stuff to eat! That's called mono cropping and it gives insects the upper hand. If you've already done this plant some marigolds and onions around your brassicas. It won't stop the cabbage butterfly but it will probably confuse them a little.
I think you meant don’t put them all together. It will slow and minimize infestation keeping them spread around.
2 Chickens Work Good Too :)
Given neighborhood rules and zoning laws, unfortunately, chickens are not legal for the overwhelming majority of us. Chickens are not an option for almost all of us living in neighborhoods. Even if you're lucky enough to own land, the inspection laws are rough. You have to have a certain size enclosure, a defined chicken run, it has to be inspected by the county...it's easier to build an addition on my house 😂
Thank you for the useful info MG! 😊👍
You're welcome!
You shop at TSC based by the product lol we sell all of these. Me and the garden center guy at work are always playing with the plants. What citrus do you have? Do they stay in groud year round? How do they not die in NC? I just got a citrus specialty yesterday and will be the families first citrus tree.
hi i love your videos.... i have a peach tree i want to spray natural bugs insects spray... and hopefully get good fruits harvest results.. last year lots of peaches were full of worms. please advice.
Grasshoppers were a big problem where I am last summer.
Pyrethrin works on them. They're pretty tough, and it's all that I've found to be effective other than covering your plants. The grasshoppers here are 3-4 inches long.
If you don't use BT, then what do you do for vine borer? I had them TERRIBLE last season.
Hi I really enjoy your videos. My problem among many is GRUB WORMS!! AND LIKE I SAID I HAVE MANY different insects like you do. I live in N.W. TEXAS. And believe it or not it’s very humid and windy here too. But getting back to the grubs, I already have the June bugs digging down in my garden to lay their eggs and the grubs that were down there coming up in the beetle stage. What do I do? Please help me!!!!
Cathy in a crisis😂
Hey catrina, trina here.
I have been fighting grubs for years. I think I have them mostly under control. first thing I do is use "grub be gone" early spring and late fall. I also have used nematodes, there are special nematodes for grubs and the other things. I also have found it very helpful to prepare my beds just before spring and lay down plastic to heat the soil up. Then when I plant in early spring I put down black fabric and straw, hay and some of my beds have ceder wood chips. I have found this helps prevent the bugs from landing in and laying eggs. Be sure you know when they are due in your area and prepare your beds before they fly. I found the products I mentioned online Amazon. I might add when I first began I had a very bad infestation so I dug down and picked out hundreds of them before I treated. Tedious work but I was amazed of the hundreds I found in each bed. Hope this helps!!
from high desert in Southern California.
What do you use for mosquito control? They are so bad already.
Whate about Neem oil? How does that fit into your list. What do you think about Neem oil?
Is Spinosad safe to inject into squash plants when it’s infected with squash vine borers?
What do you recommend for tripes? My cilantro took a big hit lately because of them.
Do you mean thrips? Spinosad specifically lists them on the container. And of course, pyrethrin will kill *all* insects, so if it's an insect, pyrethrin will kill it.
@@TheMillennialGardener yes those little things.
Awesome, I’ll definitely be ordering it today, thank you for the help!!
When using Bonide brand Pyrethrin, the label says to use between 3-5 tablespoons per gallon of water. I find that is WAY too much and it has burned my leaves on my pumpkins and apple trees. Sometimes I do spray in the day time to kill the Japanese Beetles that are feasting on my apple trees so I don't for sure if it is because I am spraying in the day time or because the ratio of concentrate to water is way too high. Any advice? I think you have mentioned that you only use 1/2 to 1 tablespoon per gallon of water.
What works best for squash bugs? They are BAD here in NC Kansas
Pyrethrin kills them on contact. Covering the stems and leaves in Spinosad dust works sell, too. Just keep it out of the flowers so it doesn’t harm the bees.
What do you use for the black grasshoppers? They hatch in one of my flower beds every year, a couple of hundred. They eat my Amaryllis buds before they open. I have tried lots of stuff but nothing seems to help. They get about two inches long and them migrate somewhere else.
Do you have a 😺 cat? Mine seem to catch quite a bit.
You could try a thick layer of diatomaceous earth around each bulb. It clogs up their mouth parts. I would put a 6 inch circle around then up the stem about an inch. Hope it helps 😊
I saw a product called Nolo Bait for grasshopper control
@AB Junior It's been quite a while, but I've used Nolo Bait before. It decreased the population the following year and the next. I didn't know they still made it.😄 I'd forgotten about that one. Thanks!