I saw my neighbors out looking at something intently. I went out and they were killing these black and orange bugs. I got out my phone and looked them up. I ran back outside and said” wait don’t kill anymore of those bugs. They are ladybugs. We got a good laugh and stood around watching these larvae turn into ladybugs. We had thousands of them in our little area. It was awesome.
People: if you can afford it Cover your susceptible plants with light row cover! You can even just cover the broccoli head. Avoid the aphids in the first place because aphids lay LOTS of eggs! When I was studying botany and entomology I had to make an insect collection (where you pin them in place and I.D. them). Well, I had collected an aphid in a glass vial and put the stopper in. The next day when I went to work with it there was a mess of baby aphids in there with her!! Also: check your plants every day and go out with masking tape. Wrap tape, sticky side out, around your hand and press down on any aphids you see. I checked this morning and found one plant (still in the nursery pot) with one stem with aphids. In no time that would have been an infestation. A new aphid becomes a reproducing adult in ONE week!
I covered my brassicas from jump but still got some aphids - there must have been eggs in the soil. I garden year round in 9b - probably doesn't get cold enough to kill them off.
my huge honeysuckle vine ( Ionicera heckrottii) was a mess this spring. Points taken many not applicable in my situation. The nasturtium solution is attractive Thank you. .
I had my brassicas covered and got aphids anyway - I figured they had come up from the soil. We don't usually have hard freezes where I live (although I think we did last winter) so I'd really like to know more about how to prevent them.
Am in 9b also never had to deal with aphids, went to Socal for couple weeks and my entire veggie garden was infested, had to destroy entire garden of my favorite veggies. Didn't bring any soil in nor any plants. City water this year has been very salty tasting with a strong smell. None of my neighbors garden so I don't know how aphids found my garden. My home backs up to an elementary school playground and we share a 7ft cinder block fence. I've also noticed new type of moth that looks like hummingbirds but smaller. There are other flying pests & insects I've never seen in any of my gardens or anywhere in Norcal, Socal or Central Valley in my decades of gardening and Ag related activities. I studied agriculture at Fresno State. I've collected several different flying pests but the County Ag dept isn't interested.
These were great tips that I appreciate. As my Mom and sister are great gardeners I am just now learning at 66yrs of age. You and Kevin at epic are my go to knowledge gardeners!! Thanks!!!
Third year with an above ground garden. I more less had to take over this year due to my wife not getting around so good at our age. But I mostly am growing purple hull peas that climb a fence at the edge of the above ground set up. This year I have had so much fun weeding and watering almost daily and have been rewarded with beautiful plants. The best of all three years by far but also the most time we've spent working on it. Last year a terrible year for aphids and ants. This year not so much until yesterday. Suddenly in just one section of the garden I noticed some aphids and quite a few not to have noticed up until then. Knowing some of the properties of Dawn dishwashing soap, I mixed a few drops in water and have a spray bottle probably about 8 ounce, not too big, I sprayed just the stems they were on. Today they were dead, but some of the leaves that got some over spray had brown spots that was a bit like clay. Two or three were curled, but over all not a great deal of damage. Don't know if this is a cure or not, but for the first wave it seemed to get most of them. I used seven dust on the ant dwellings last year and no where near the same problem this year. That stuff got rid of them last year in one dusting. Did not dust the garden bed, just a little on the surrounding area. No dusting this year and only once last year. Will be keeping close watch though because other than that we sure have a beautiful pea patch this year! Can't wait to see the peas come in. Getting close! At 77 after years on the road doing music, I'm retired and learning to garden! Fun!! Still do music on my youtube channel though. An old road dog can never quit lol! I just found your channel and love your approach. New sub.
@@NextLevelGardening The title really grabbed me because I came outside today and found several of my pots infested. They are my pots of overwintered green onions that are going to seed and one of my pots of walking onions. Never say never... 😬
To spread the DE i use a plastic soda bottle i drilled small holes in the lid and fill with DE. Than walk around garden squeezing bottle where needed for those dastardly critters. Must reapply after rain.
Thank you so much for posting this! I have food grade DE but no method of delivery. It’s been so wet & rainy for weeks now. I can’t seem to get to the killing of bugs bc everything I have to kill them needs to be dry after application or applied early or late in the day. The bees are all over the flowers but so are ants & tiny green bugs, which I think are aphids.
Digging in my garden I thought I hit a utility cable. Big orange size of a hose. Pulled it up and followed it 30 feet to it's mama Milkweed. Keep it in a container and don't let the seeds escape. Very invasive
I'm just starting with gardening and I've been surfing through YT to find a site like this. While there are many, I think I've find my primary learning site. This is going to be a process and I'm ready for the journey. TIA
Awesome nice to see you on this site .My Grandma taught me the ways of gardening ❗Momma taught me what the rules were . What plants like to be near other ones,What happens when you shock a plant & how to get them out of it🤣❗🙏 I learned a lot about gardening through this site ,The magazine Bird & Blooms, as well as Gurney's seed company on line ..I found out long ago that DIRT is a Gardeners FRIEND😁❗🙏. I found out long ago how incredibly relaxing it can be ‼️🙏🐾🐾😁😁⁉️
I needed this video 7 days ago. BUT, GREAT CONTENT AND IDEAS. I am currently dealing with the biggest aphid infestation that I have ever had. 1. On an established apricot tree right next and above a newly built raised garden with new compost. (Nitrogen content probably very high) 2. Aphids on the tree, tomatoes, lettuces, chard and squash. 3. Preasure washing twice a day this week. 4. Spot treated this area of my total garden. 5. Seeing natural ladybugs and ladybugs larvae now too. 6. Trimmed about 50 new growth little branches out of the apricot tree. It has taken all week to start seeing significant reduction in aphid population (until this morning) 7. It is nice to see that I am doing many of the right things already. Maybe there is a light at the end of this tunnel. AND BTW ... great presentation. 🙂🙃🙂😉
I noticed that some of my peas and lettuce had an aphid infestation. The weird thing is that they were within 18" of garlic. The garlic did not seem to phase them.
Marigolds, Catnip, Chamomile, dill, basil, mint, Rosemary are just some of the plants that can repel Aphids & other pests but dont bother Beneficial insects
I planted marigolds for a couple years, and didn’t think it really did anything. This year I didn’t, and I had a lot of bugs! 😒 Thanks for the info about Rosemary and dill! I didn’t know
First time dealing with these alpids and on Basil that I bought from the store and saw the little green bugs and freaked out and sprayed it with hot water thinking it would kill them and it just weakend the plant and I saw the plant forming crinkled leaves that would be inside out and thought it was because I bought hydro grown basil and put it in the ground and said not to do that. She since has been looking better but I'm afraid they will go elsewhere in my garden. My 1 and 2 year apple trees have been starting to get them on the top leaves and I see ants so I'm trying garlic onion spray if not that I'll try the nim oil
You mentioned aphids don't like onions. Someone suggested I use crushed garlic in water in a spray bottle for an aphid problem I had on a artichoke plant I overwintered inside and it seemed to work.
@@melissasullivan1658 Aphids are totally attacking my green onions and walking onions so I'd be very hesitant to use onion spray to try to get rid of them. My bugs would invite every aphid in the county to come feast on the yummy spray. 🙄
Earwigs are fatally attracted to beer! Put a shallow dish of beer (I use the little plastic cups from applesauce) in the garden overnight and they'll swarm to it and drown. Pretty disgusting to empty the dishes in the morning, but it certainly does work.
yep, last year i had garlic and onions attacked by little black insects I'm pretty sure where some kind of aphid. (Interestingly, several search results from AU and NZ when I google "black aphids on garlic." I'm in the Pacific Northwest.)
I planted lettuce with onions in the same container and aphids were having an all you can eat buffet on my lettuce (read and green leaves) and garlic with my tomatoes and cucumbers and they all had aphids. Actually the ladybugs from the store were the only thing that got the population down plus ripping out the lettuce, the neem oil+ soap+ peppermint oil mix was too strong for the seedlings and wasn't killing them fast enough.
@@poiurewq0 I'm in the Pacific Northwest too, and I came outside today and discovered black aphids attacking my green onions and walking onions. Those are the ONLY plants they seem to be going after so far.
So black and green aphids have been all over this one area of my calla lillies. I realized it wasn’t getting enough air circulation and I stopped watering from above. I trimmed back all the extra leaves and it’s been a week and they haven’t been back. Also when I find spiders inside my home I trap them and release them outside on the plants with the aphids and it’s worked. Spiders eat aphids too.
I'm hooked on your videos Brian. You are a terrific teacher, very clear and comprehensive. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Sarah at one time I kept my hair clippings and put small patches of it on the mulch around the plants. It kept my giant mutant local rabbit from munching my zucchini and yellow squash buds from being nipped off by said rabbit.
Dill is also a great aphid attracter,last year we had a huge aphid attack and I noticed that they really hit the dill hard and not as much on my tomato plants. A good water hose is also my big gun. I totally agree with you when you mention creating a garden friendly to lady bugs. In the fall in my area,I intentionally leave a lot of ground cover.(leaves etc.) so lady bugs can over winter.
I don't use any commercial fertilizer, don't bring in any nursery plants, and or even from friends. Everything I grow is from last year's seeds. Never had aphids in my entire years of gardening until 3 weeks ago. Was gone to Socal for couple weeks and found my entire leafy green Asian veggies covered with those nasty jeans. Had to destroy entire crop. I've got candy jars for other pests away from my garden area they infested those to a disgusting evil looking things. Guess I'm going to spread diatomaceous powder on my herbs, spices, bittermelons, egg plants ect. So mad! Aphids can be rid of by mixing some dawn original dish soap with water and sprayed on and under leafy greens, rose bushes ect. I treated a friends garden few years back in NorCal. I'm in 9b and my Indian greens thrive every year without much work. I can't eat American leafy greens of any variety such as kale, spinach, ect due to digestive issues. I grow my own potatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, turmeric, Indian herbs, and other spices among my veggies. This video didn't help nor hinder but I gave thumbs up.
Aphids can be a devastating pest. Prevention goes a long way. I always seem to get them on my honeysuckle. Living in the mid-west I will spray neem oil starting in march and usually hit them at least 3 separate times thru march/april. Theres not much more aggravating seeing beautiful flowers form then leaves and flowers curling and distorted just from the aphids. Get the early start and you may get a few or maybe even none.
I used food grade diatomaceous earth, neem oil, soapy water and a small hand held vacuum cleaner. I sucked those suckers up each day until the battery died in the vacuum. I finally got rid of them. And I had to pull up my sweet potatoes because of the white flies. Good luck. They're almost impossible to get rid of. I'd rather have aphids. Lol
This was a terrific video, a lot of great information. I coordinate a Victory garden for our local food bank and we are constantly battling Mother nature . We keep it organic , thank you for all the great tips . I use them in my home garden as well. Great results! AM Moore
I planted Morning Glory by my mounds (watermelon, pumpkin, cucumbers), Marigolds within my kale, radish rows, and Alyssum within my potatoes and tomatoes and Bunchung Oinions bordering my tomatoes as well. The Alyssum I planned from watching your videos, the others I had on hand from last year, I hope my companion planting is successful, 1st year I ever attempted this.
Oh no!!!! I just realized that earlier this morning I thought I was mixing fish fertilizer for my tomatoes to pour at the base of the plants; but NO! It was Neem oil!!!! Did I just ruin all my hard work? My tomatoes are 20-30 inches high. What should I do?
I’ve added praying mantis eggs before as well as ladybugs But I heard there are some imported mantis ones and shouldn’t do it. Yes/no? I’m in San Diego.
Already seeing an outbreak of aphids on my squash and melons. Also seeing a few ladybugs and ants. My question is will the Diatomaceous Earth take care of the ants that are bringing the aphids?
Super appreciate your videos. I have incorporate DE, and hydrogen peroxide into my routine: hoping my tomatoes don`t defoliate early this year. Love the channel. From Canada, thanks.
@@Watchoutforsnakez we actually live in the city , I wish I had enough room! I am using neem oil, also the beer trick, which does kill them, but as much as I've killed, there is just more and more. I can't leave neem on my plants here, we are already in the 100°s, can't actually use much, everything burns here, it's just too hot. I spray, wait a few seconds then rinse off, I do this everyday! It has to do something with this crazy weather! Yesterday was 100+ and I think it's 2morrow night we will be in the 40s! And Thank you! 🤗
@@NatureLover-ss4ef I used neem oil last night and I saturated my tomatoes with it. I went out there today and aphids are still there! Are use the cold pressed Neem oil too!
@@feargodlorib4711 Hi, Yes...I bought the cold pressed neem oil extract with azadirachtin and I followed the instruction and added the soap. I sprayed the plants liberally on both sides but the dang aphids are still there the next day. I will retry again today to see if it will help.
Brian, thank you for such great and informative videos!! I would like to contribute a little by sharing my experience attracting ladybugs. About 4 yrs ago I planted two Rose of Sharon bushes. And oh surprise, two seasons ago I noticed the black and orange bugs and found out they were ladybugs in the works 😉!! I am glad I looked them up before spraying the bushes with neem oil. It has been a great way to have lots of ladybugs right in my yard! Love them! At the beginning of spring they get covered with ladybug eggs. I also make sure I don't rake the fall leaves that fall from my trees that fall around the bushes so I can provide shelter for the ladybugs during the winter. The Rose of Sharon flowers are just too gorgeous not to have in your yard and the hummingbirds, bees and all kinds of beneficial insects love it. But do watch out for the Japanese beetles... I do have to keep up with those pesty things each year.
I usually don’t have aphid problems, but this year I was being frugal and used an open bag of potting soil for starting seeds inside. Big mistake and I should have baked it on our grill for 20 min at 200*F. I also got the terrible gnat and mildew problem. I put vermiculite on top of plants to curb the mildew and drenched soil with a 1 to 4 mix of water and 3% peroxide along with yellow sticky traps and that took care of those two with monitoring. The aphids, sigh, I keep manually removing and Neem oil. They liked basil, marjoram, celery and new to me artichokes. Not detected on rosemary, oregano, geraniums, petunias or onions. To pick them off the artichokes is easy, but the celery? I isolated them so far. If anyone has suggestions for getting rid of aphids inside I’d be glad to hear. I have pre mixed Neem, but concerned about it being too harsh on seedlings. 😂😂I seen a lady bug on the kitchen window and wanted to catch it to put on artichokes and it disappeared. It probably heard what I was going to do with it and got scared😂
My cherry tree got black aphids this year. They curl the leaves and live in the protected area. I have to reach up and unfurl the leaf & hold it open to spray the herd, which causes the aphid water to pour down my arms into my armpits and down my sides. It's just so gross. I don't know why I try so hard; the birds eat all my cherries anyway. Except last year, there was 1/2 of a cherry left and I did not care whose beak had been on it; I ate my half of cherry! Haha. Best nursery I've seen for ladybugs was a big bronze fennel I had. They laid eggs all over in it and it was great. Then, the bush tits discovered it. It was a massacre that broke my heart. But bushtits will eat tons of aphids, too. I lure them with suet blocks.
Many properties surrounding my house have out of control “sticky Willy” weeds that invade my space and is EXHAUSTING to try to pull them all, but I try. Continuing this over this past weekend, I noticed they are starting to flower and the top couple of segments are COATED in a thick layer of little black seedy bugs. Even though I pulled and bagged as many as I could, I’m still scared of how many I missed and the tons that might be in the messes on the adjacent properties. Thanks so much for this video. I hope this weekend will not be too late to find and plant alliums.
I read that garlic should not be planted around green beans. Would it be OK to mix a garlic spray to kill aphids on my green beans? If so, how much would you suggest?
I used to have a terrible problem with ants and aphids. The aphids would destroy my trophy flowers every year. I tried shooting the aphids off with water they were not phased. Then a friend suggested that I mix up 1 part vinegar to 3 parts water and spray that all over the pant paying attention and getting the underside the leaves as well as the top of the leaves. I did this to my Peony plants which are always covered with ants and in one day my ants and aphids were gone. I probably sprayed one more time a week later for good measure but I never saw another aphid and the ants did not come back to the peonys either. Peonys are known to always be covered in ants and for 20 years without fail mine had aunt's but no more, this vinegar treatment is amazing.
@@lolodee3528 Hi it seems that is wives tale. I always believed it until last year when my friend told me that her peonies open beautifully without the ants. We sprayed my peonies and I had bountiful blooms last summer.
I thought I had aphids until you mentioned onions and garlic because mine are on garlic and onions. They are black and look kind of like aphids, black tiny bugs not moving.
What area are you in? I'm in New Hampshire and I'm afraid to transplant them outside. I have never had luck with lavender. This year I'm hoping to get it right.
@@cathyhanley8658 , saxonia-anhalt, germany. We have tempered atlantic climate here. This is the first time I germinated lavender fron seed and it is still doing well. Btw, I germinated it in my germination station like all my other plants.
This year I continued my tradition of planting my peppers indoors and way too early (Maybe next year I will remember to wait to plant as I have finally started a journal). Aside from outgrowing their space and my needing to buy more lighting, everything was going well until a friend gifted me a plant. By the time I figured out it had aphids, they were everywhere and all of my starts were infected. I spritzed with water, I ran them under water, I used detergent washes and they just kept multiplying! I finally freaked out and released ladybugs into my basement's grow room! I turned off all the lighting except for the grow lights above the plants. They did an excellent job taking care of the aphids for the 2 weeks before I started hardening them off outside. I collected the stragglers that jumped ship during the move (hundreds of them) and placed them on my lettuce plants outside. Many are still there and today I found several larva. My take is that they don't always fly off (although I have had that experience the last time I purchased them about a decade ago). I had no idea they were wild caught. That is concerning. I still think they have a place in the knock back of aphids. They worked well for me this spring. Hopefully next year I will plant later and be more vigilant about accepting gifts from well meaning friends.
They devastated my indoor peppers last year. I was going to throw them all out [about 20 plants] I decided to just remove all the leaves all the way to the stem. It worked great, they grew back wonderful and now I am harvesting peppers from them. So don't throw away your peppers, reborn them LOL
I would say yes. People use Diotemacious Earth to also kill Bed Bugs. The sharp crystals get in between their armor plating, puncturing the connecting tissue. Then the inside of the insect dries out and the insect dies.
Enjoy your channel immensely. I do not have a problem with aphids and I believe because my brassicas are put in the ground in the fall, zone 9b. If a plant is still in the garden in spring, yes it will be attacked by aphids. I take a container with DE out in the garden all the time. It works great on ants that set up housekeeping where I want to plant. Sprinkle over the nest and wait 15 min and they are gone. We have earwigs in artichokes, what a pain. I pick a 5 gallon bucket of harvest ready chokes, fill with water and set in a wide open space. The blue martins love escaping earwigs...
Brian I came back to comment today because your advice to remove the sacrificial plant actually worked! I am now, like, 95% aphid free. Thank you. It hadn’t even occurred to me that I should remove the brassica...
Brian, I used your idea for aphids. I mixed Dicametous Earth with water and sprayed on tomato plants. Now I have white patches on leaves. Doesn’t wash off. What do I do now!
Yyyyyep. Sure did write ALL that down. I love 💘 we live so close to one another. Everytime I have an issue starting. So do you. Then you make video on it! 😆
Thanks for the heads up on aphids. I have green onions growing in my garden and haven't seen any aphids. How about those little green worms that weave a silk nest and eat all my Zucchini leaves? How do I get rid of those??
Aphids are a plague here in NC. You are so right about the milkweed being a great trap crop! It gets covered with aphids, but they mostly leave my veggies alone. I am definitely going to try the diatomaceous earth spray to get the particles on the underside of leaves. (I grow in the winter here, and need a remedy when milkweed is dormant.) Will definitely plant more milkweed in other areas in my yard now that you pointed out how great it is for managing aphids (tons of pollinators love it, too). For me, the milkweed will be easier because it is a perennial that is almost maintenance free, other than having to pull unwanted weeds. Thank you and keep up the great videos!
Hey Brian, I think your aphid/BS problem may have to do with the fact that Brussel's sprouts are a heavy, heavy, nitrogen feeder. I didn't realize that excess nitrogen was a contributing factor to aphids, so it's good to know. I am growing BS for the first time this year, so I will pay special attention to to them!
I've heard that green lacewings are much better than ladybugs and you don't have the wild harvest and parasite issues. What do you know about that? Would you recommend them?
Great tips!! Thank you!! I can’t do traditional gardening any more, but, I think I can adapt some of them to my indoor/outdoor hydroponic garden. I’m in a battle right now (no more foreign plants inside) so it’s outside & I have already done most of your suggestions. I put some honey out & they seemed to like it, but I’m going to try a pot of nasturtiums in the room. Praying I finally get rid of them since they keep coming back🤦🏻♀️
I often find aphids on some of our lupines usually near the end of thier flowering. I also find japanese beetles on 5 leafed Virginia creeper..I let them eat it... It seems to keep them off our roses, other plants.
WOW! Thank you for this information! I've been watching your other videos as well, and the tips are so helpful! I've been having a terrible time with Earwigs, ants and aphids but now I have some great information to battle these pests and hopefully save my garden.
Those aphids that like milkweed really stress out my plant. They are called Oleander aphids. I had some luck with spraying them off. With my hose. My milkweed looks like it is recovering. When spraying I do have to be careful of all the monarch caterpillars 🐛 I’ve hatch out about 15 Monarchs this spring🧡
Aphids yearly attack our 100-foot Tulip Tree. The sap (honey dew) rains down, carried on the breeze, on the lawn (adversely affects the grass), patio furniture (sticky), and passing people (annoying). A side issue is that the Tulip Tree canopy is too high for spraying or hosing down, but planting sacrificial plants can decoy attract the aphids away. Thank you for your video.
My tip is to sterilize any soil brought in from outside your area, especially potting soil. I just place the soil in a 10 gallon bucket with holes, saturate with boiling water and cover. Let sit to cool and excess water to evaporate.
Now I read this😂😂. I had an open bag of soil I used for indoor seeds. First time I ever had aphids! And a couple flying ants. I like the idea of baking the soil on a grill at 200* F for 20 minutes.
Have you ever had a problem with Japanese Beatles? Here in NY they will eat up a vegetable garden in no time, and some flowers. The only thing we have ever had to and deter them away from our gardens are the traps… which ending up smelling very nasty after a few days, and sometimes the traps can cost a bit, depending on how many you need in a full garden season. I read that Beatles love sunflowers, so this year I am going to try and grow sunflowers away from any of my gardens I have(5 raise beds). I’m hoping that maybe the Beatles will go to the sunflowers instead of my vegetable garden. Beatles can eat right through all leaves on a vegetable plant in no time. I’m talking 2 days, and they can have almost all of your leaves chewed off a plant. Fingers crossed the sunflower planting about 30 feet away from my gardens will help attract the Beatles to them, rather than my gardens.
Does the plant they're on influence the color of the aphid? Never heard of gray aphid until I attempted to grow brussels sprouts this year (failed, try again next year). I have milkweed far away from my garden (about 60 ft) and it often gets covered in bright yellow aphid but the plant always seems fine. Have those been lured from my garden? I usually only see green aphid on my veggies. Do praying mantis also eat aphid?
Oh bummer. I clicked on this video because I wanted to get rid of aphids on my green onions. They are completely covering some of the stalks! Tip #4: Plant alliums. Uhhh...hmmm...now what?
Blue Dawn will help get rid of slugs eating your broccoli,Brussel sprouts ,lettuce,kale ,and spinach. But if it’s not properly diluted it will burn the leaves .Maybe not then ,but the next day when the sun comes out. Better to take that chance then letting the snails eat the entire crop during the night when they attack. Sand or crushed eggshells placed under the brassica plants also helps eliminate snails .
There must be something wrong with my kids because they would definitely go for the broccoli. LOL however if you had spinach it would be better because they actually say that that's their favorite vegetable. And now they're all grown up and they still feel the same way. LOL
I bought some Hanging Baskets, with mainly Petunias in. I was told that they will love diluted Tomato feed, within 3 days, everything was very stickey, but could not find any aphids. I sprayed anyway. but no change, then I heard a guy on YT say, Petunias are always stickey . ?
I get a ton of aphids on my snow peas every year. I spray them with garlic jalapeño brew I mix up in the blender and let sit a day to brew. Seems to work
ACTUALLY☝🏻it’s possible the reals reason why your nasturtiums (near your alliums) did not have aphids ….was because they were all over your alliums! (…and not because they were so repelled)🧅🪴🌼 I’ve never had much of an aphid problem except for the one time when I tried to grow bunching onions and they were covered in The 🪲jerks 🪲🙄 I had to just pull them all up and throw them away. 👎🏻🙎🏼♀️ Like ant traps, I’ve always found it counterproductive to ATTRACT pests just to kill them. I used to HATE NEEM… (killed all my plants!) but I’ve figured it out and it works well for me this year.👌🏻
I saw my neighbors out looking at something intently. I went out and they were killing these black and orange bugs. I got out my phone and looked them up. I ran back outside and said” wait don’t kill anymore of those bugs. They are ladybugs. We got a good laugh and stood around watching these larvae turn into ladybugs. We had thousands of them in our little area. It was awesome.
Hello friend how are you doing?
Awe that’s so sad they were killing 🐞 I love them! ❤️
Orange and black are not Ladybugs. Those are Japanese beetles and need to go! Ladybugs are red and black.
Hi Sassy. Adults, yes but if you search google you’ll see a ton of ladybug larvae that is orange. :)
For some strange reason I get bitten by those orange lady bugs :/
People: if you can afford it Cover your susceptible plants with light row cover! You can even just cover the broccoli head. Avoid the aphids in the first place because aphids lay LOTS of eggs! When I was studying botany and entomology I had to make an insect collection (where you pin them in place and I.D. them). Well, I had collected an aphid in a glass vial and put the stopper in. The next day when I went to work with it there was a mess of baby aphids in there with her!! Also: check your plants every day and go out with masking tape. Wrap tape, sticky side out, around your hand and press down on any aphids you see. I checked this morning and found one plant (still in the nursery pot) with one stem with aphids. In no time that would have been an infestation. A new aphid becomes a reproducing adult in ONE week!
I covered my brassicas from jump but still got some aphids - there must have been eggs in the soil. I garden year round in 9b - probably doesn't get cold enough to kill them off.
my huge honeysuckle vine ( Ionicera heckrottii) was a mess this spring. Points taken many not applicable in my situation. The nasturtium solution is attractive Thank you.
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I had my brassicas covered and got aphids anyway - I figured they had come up from the soil. We don't usually have hard freezes where I live (although I think we did last winter) so I'd really like to know more about how to prevent them.
Am in 9b also never had to deal with aphids, went to Socal for couple weeks and my entire veggie garden was infested, had to destroy entire garden of my favorite veggies. Didn't bring any soil in nor any plants. City water this year has been very salty tasting with a strong smell. None of my neighbors garden so I don't know how aphids found my garden. My home backs up to an elementary school playground and we share a 7ft cinder block fence. I've also noticed new type of moth that looks like hummingbirds but smaller. There are other flying pests & insects I've never seen in any of my gardens or anywhere in Norcal, Socal or Central Valley in my decades of gardening and Ag related activities. I studied agriculture at Fresno State. I've collected several different flying pests but the County Ag dept isn't interested.
Sorry for your loss. All that work. That is a hummingbird moth. Great pollinators. @@soniag4516
These were great tips that I appreciate. As my Mom and sister are great gardeners I am just now learning at 66yrs of age. You and Kevin at epic are my go to knowledge gardeners!! Thanks!!!
Third year with an above ground garden. I more less had to take over this year due to my wife not getting around so good at our age. But I mostly am growing purple hull peas that climb a fence at the edge of the above ground set up. This year I have had so much fun weeding and watering almost daily and have been rewarded with beautiful plants. The best of all three years by far but also the most time we've spent working on it. Last year a terrible year for aphids and ants. This year not so much until yesterday. Suddenly in just one section of the garden I noticed some aphids and quite a few not to have noticed up until then. Knowing some of the properties of Dawn dishwashing soap, I mixed a few drops in water and have a spray bottle probably about 8 ounce, not too big, I sprayed just the stems they were on. Today they were dead, but some of the leaves that got some over spray had brown spots that was a bit like clay. Two or three were curled, but over all not a great deal of damage. Don't know if this is a cure or not, but for the first wave it seemed to get most of them. I used seven dust on the ant dwellings last year and no where near the same problem this year. That stuff got rid of them last year in one dusting. Did not dust the garden bed, just a little on the surrounding area. No dusting this year and only once last year. Will be keeping close watch though because other than that we sure have a beautiful pea patch this year! Can't wait to see the peas come in. Getting close! At 77 after years on the road doing music, I'm retired and learning to garden! Fun!! Still do music on my youtube channel though. An old road dog can never quit lol! I just found your channel and love your approach. New sub.
Wow Brian, ants farming aphids? I did not know that!
I can always come to your channel and learn something new... THANKS🐜🐜🐜🐜🤠 🌻
you had me with let's kill em
Hahaha
@@NextLevelGardening The title really grabbed me because I came outside today and found several of my pots infested. They are my pots of overwintered green onions that are going to seed and one of my pots of walking onions. Never say never... 😬
Let's just kill them is so humancentric!
That is when I liked the video 😂🤣.
I am also with u.am tried of this little guy he destroy everything whatever I tried to plant
NO!!! There is none more annoying than APHIDS!!!!! Thanks for the tips!! 👩🏽🌾🙏🏽💝
To spread the DE i use a plastic soda bottle i drilled small holes in the lid and fill with DE. Than walk around garden squeezing bottle where needed for those dastardly critters. Must reapply after rain.
Thank you so much for posting this! I have food grade DE but no method of delivery. It’s been so wet & rainy for weeks now. I can’t seem to get to the killing of bugs bc everything I have to kill them needs to be dry after application or applied early or late in the day. The bees are all over the flowers but so are ants & tiny green bugs, which I think are aphids.
Digging in my garden I thought I hit a utility cable. Big orange size of a hose. Pulled it up and followed it 30 feet to it's mama Milkweed. Keep it in a container and don't let the seeds escape. Very invasive
I had no idea you could mix the DM with water and then when it dries it works! Thank you bc trying to get the powder under the leaves is hard!
Glad you mentioned the potential harm to beneficial bugs 🐝🐞 by organic and chemical sprays. Good to have all the information when making choices.
Hello friend how are you doing?
Today I captured 4 red bugs in a tiny jam jar which were munching on my lillies.True they are annoying! They've been ravaging all of my perennials.
Ok, That's Great~ But Now..... how do we take care of the ALL of the Big Jerks with two legs?
I'll definitely do a video when I figure it out. But don't hold your breath lol
Aphids are a great indicator that you're using too much fertiliser!
I'm just starting with gardening and I've been surfing through YT to find a site like this. While there are many, I think I've find my primary learning site. This is going to be a process and I'm ready for the journey. TIA
Awesome nice to see you on this site .My Grandma taught me the ways of gardening ❗Momma taught me what the rules were . What plants like to be near other ones,What happens when you shock a plant & how to get them out of it🤣❗🙏
I learned a lot about gardening through this site ,The magazine Bird & Blooms, as well as Gurney's seed company on line ..I found out long ago that DIRT is a Gardeners FRIEND😁❗🙏. I found out long ago how incredibly relaxing it can be ‼️🙏🐾🐾😁😁⁉️
I needed this video 7 days ago. BUT, GREAT CONTENT AND IDEAS.
I am currently dealing with the biggest aphid infestation that I have ever had.
1. On an established apricot tree right next and above a newly built raised garden with new compost. (Nitrogen content probably very high)
2. Aphids on the tree, tomatoes, lettuces, chard and squash.
3. Preasure washing twice a day this week.
4. Spot treated this area of my total garden.
5. Seeing natural ladybugs and ladybugs larvae now too.
6. Trimmed about 50 new growth little branches out of the apricot tree.
It has taken all week to start seeing significant reduction in aphid population (until this morning)
7. It is nice to see that I am doing many of the right things already. Maybe there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
AND BTW ... great presentation.
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This was so helpful!!! Thank you. Aphids were my worst nightmare last growing season. I better go and plant some traps!
Ants herd aphids like cattle! 🤯 Woah! Fascinating!
I noticed that some of my peas and lettuce had an aphid infestation. The weird thing is that they were within 18" of garlic. The garlic did not seem to phase them.
Faze.
I had no idea about the ladybug parasite. Thanks for the heads up. So far this year I’ve only seen one ladybug enter my grow space. 😔
Bruh the aphids are mauling my onions and chives 😂
Marigolds, Catnip, Chamomile, dill, basil, mint, Rosemary are just some of the plants that can repel Aphids & other pests but dont bother Beneficial insects
Thanks - this is really good to know!
I planted marigolds for a couple years, and didn’t think it really did anything. This year I didn’t, and I had a lot of bugs! 😒
Thanks for the info about Rosemary and dill! I didn’t know
Really? They're eating my basil and rosemary like hotcakes
@@vangelaobli Dr Bronner’s peppermint Castile soap and neem oil in water kills everything, except stink bungs. I’m not really sure about those.
First time dealing with these alpids and on Basil that I bought from the store and saw the little green bugs and freaked out and sprayed it with hot water thinking it would kill them and it just weakend the plant and I saw the plant forming crinkled leaves that would be inside out and thought it was because I bought hydro grown basil and put it in the ground and said not to do that. She since has been looking better but I'm afraid they will go elsewhere in my garden. My 1 and 2 year apple trees have been starting to get them on the top leaves and I see ants so I'm trying garlic onion spray if not that I'll try the nim oil
You mentioned aphids don't like onions. Someone suggested I use crushed garlic in water in a spray bottle for an aphid problem I had on a artichoke plant I overwintered inside and it seemed to work.
I also read that fermenting garlic and onion and then using that as a diluted spray is even better. Haven’t tried it yet tho.
@@melissasullivan1658 Aphids are totally attacking my green onions and walking onions so I'd be very hesitant to use onion spray to try to get rid of them. My bugs would invite every aphid in the county to come feast on the yummy spray. 🙄
Awesome info! Now do earwigs. They are killing my lettuce box!
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And rollie pollies
I'm having a big problem with earwigs this year also.
Diatomaceous earth works very well for Earwigs.
Earwigs are fatally attracted to beer! Put a shallow dish of beer (I use the little plastic cups from applesauce) in the garden overnight and they'll swarm to it and drown. Pretty disgusting to empty the dishes in the morning, but it certainly does work.
You don't have to apologize, I hate those jerks too. Thanks for sharing!
but my brother the aphid attacking my onions 😭 i thought they was gonns repel them too, but they having a buffet.
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yep, last year i had garlic and onions attacked by little black insects I'm pretty sure where some kind of aphid. (Interestingly, several search results from AU and NZ when I google "black aphids on garlic." I'm in the Pacific Northwest.)
I planted lettuce with onions in the same container and aphids were having an all you can eat buffet on my lettuce (read and green leaves) and garlic with my tomatoes and cucumbers and they all had aphids. Actually the ladybugs from the store were the only thing that got the population down plus ripping out the lettuce, the neem oil+ soap+ peppermint oil mix was too strong for the seedlings and wasn't killing them fast enough.
@@poiurewq0 I'm in the Pacific Northwest too, and I came outside today and discovered black aphids attacking my green onions and walking onions. Those are the ONLY plants they seem to be going after so far.
So black and green aphids have been all over this one area of my calla lillies. I realized it wasn’t getting enough air circulation and I stopped watering from above. I trimmed back all the extra leaves and it’s been a week and they haven’t been back.
Also when I find spiders inside my home I trap them and release them outside on the plants with the aphids and it’s worked. Spiders eat aphids too.
I'm hooked on your videos Brian. You are a terrific teacher, very clear and comprehensive. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
How do I avoid squirrels and rabbits etc from munching my plants
Sarah at one time I kept my hair clippings and put small patches of it on the mulch around the plants. It kept my giant mutant local rabbit from munching my zucchini and yellow squash buds from being nipped off by said rabbit.
Dill is also a great aphid attracter,last year we had a huge aphid attack and I noticed that they really hit the dill hard and not as much on my tomato plants. A good water hose is also my big gun. I totally agree with you when you mention creating a garden friendly to lady bugs. In the fall in my area,I intentionally leave a lot of ground cover.(leaves etc.) so lady bugs can over winter.
I don't use any commercial fertilizer, don't bring in any nursery plants, and or even from friends. Everything I grow is from last year's seeds. Never had aphids in my entire years of gardening until 3 weeks ago. Was gone to Socal for couple weeks and found my entire leafy green Asian veggies covered with those nasty jeans. Had to destroy entire crop. I've got candy jars for other pests away from my garden area they infested those to a disgusting evil looking things. Guess I'm going to spread diatomaceous powder on my herbs, spices, bittermelons, egg plants ect. So mad! Aphids can be rid of by mixing some dawn original dish soap with water and sprayed on and under leafy greens, rose bushes ect. I treated a friends garden few years back in NorCal. I'm in 9b and my Indian greens thrive every year without much work. I can't eat American leafy greens of any variety such as kale, spinach, ect due to digestive issues. I grow my own potatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, turmeric, Indian herbs, and other spices among my veggies. This video didn't help nor hinder but I gave thumbs up.
I just wait for the ladybugs to eat them all. I have lots of ladybugs every year.
Easy neem oil at night that’s what I did for my sand cherry!😉
How do I apply it?
Aphids can be a devastating pest. Prevention goes a long way. I always seem to get them on my honeysuckle. Living in the mid-west I will spray neem oil starting in march and usually hit them at least 3 separate times thru march/april. Theres not much more aggravating seeing beautiful flowers form then leaves and flowers curling and distorted just from the aphids. Get the early start and you may get a few or maybe even none.
I have killed my aphids but now I have a whitefly infestation and my pepper plants are still covered in honeydew and dead aphids.
I used food grade diatomaceous earth, neem oil, soapy water and a small hand held vacuum cleaner. I sucked those suckers up each day until the battery died in the vacuum. I finally got rid of them. And I had to pull up my sweet potatoes because of the white flies. Good luck. They're almost impossible to get rid of. I'd rather have aphids. Lol
This was a terrific video, a lot of great information. I coordinate a Victory garden for our local food bank and we are constantly battling Mother nature . We keep it organic , thank you for all the great tips
. I use them in my home garden as well.
Great results!
AM Moore
Aphid overtook most of my peppers few ago, now they are after my lettuce. Definitely want to get rid of them!!
I planted Morning Glory by my mounds (watermelon, pumpkin, cucumbers), Marigolds within my kale, radish rows, and Alyssum within my potatoes and tomatoes and Bunchung Oinions bordering my tomatoes as well. The Alyssum I planned from watching your videos, the others I had on hand from last year, I hope my companion planting is successful, 1st year I ever attempted this.
Oh no!!!! I just realized that earlier this morning I thought I was mixing fish fertilizer for my tomatoes to pour at the base of the plants; but NO! It was Neem oil!!!! Did I just ruin all my hard work? My tomatoes are 20-30 inches high. What should I do?
It should be ok, but you could give it rinse with hydrogen peroxide solution. That will clean and refresh the roots. :)Good luck
I’ve added praying mantis eggs before as well as ladybugs But I heard there are some imported mantis ones and shouldn’t do it. Yes/no? I’m in San Diego.
Already seeing an outbreak of aphids on my squash and melons. Also seeing a few ladybugs and ants. My question is will the Diatomaceous Earth take care of the ants that are bringing the aphids?
On the Ladybug topic...If you have aphids...they will come...No need to import 😊Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿🐞
Hello friend how are you doing?
Spiders are also helpful. I love them.
Very little lady bugs here in my yard in SoCal, lots of aphids though. 😬
Thank you for wonderful info and explaining the negative aspects of "safe" methods. I have had really good results with nasturtiums
I'm growing nasturtiums for the first time this year and really hoping they help.
My garlic and onions are covered by aphids I spray then off everyday and they come back.
My green onions and walking onions are covered.
Super appreciate your videos. I have incorporate DE, and hydrogen peroxide into my routine: hoping my tomatoes don`t defoliate early this year. Love the channel. From Canada, thanks.
Do you dilute your peroxide???
The aphids are pi$$ing me off, sorry, no other words! Also the rollie pollies! What is going on this year?!
Can you borrow chickens to scratch around the garden? That’s what I did as well as Neem oil. Every week neem oil.
@@Watchoutforsnakez Hi, how do use neem oil weekly without drying/burning my vegetables please? Do you wash the neem oil off the next day? Thanks.
@@Watchoutforsnakez we actually live in the city , I wish I had enough room! I am using neem oil, also the beer trick, which does kill them, but as much as I've killed, there is just more and more. I can't leave neem on my plants here, we are already in the 100°s, can't actually use much, everything burns here, it's just too hot. I spray, wait a few seconds then rinse off, I do this everyday! It has to do something with this crazy weather! Yesterday was 100+ and I think it's 2morrow night we will be in the 40s! And Thank you! 🤗
@@NatureLover-ss4ef I used neem oil last night and I saturated my tomatoes with it. I went out there today and aphids are still there! Are use the cold pressed Neem oil too!
@@feargodlorib4711 Hi, Yes...I bought the cold pressed neem oil extract with azadirachtin and I followed the instruction and added the soap. I sprayed the plants liberally on both sides but the dang aphids are still there the next day. I will retry again today to see if it will help.
Aphids *are* jerks! Right up there with vine borers and squash bugs >.
Squash bugs are Jenks also
Jerks. Loo
The problem is aphids love broccoli. In fact, all my brassicas this year were infested.
Cover with light cloth row cover. You can do just the head when it starts forming.
Brian, thank you for such great and informative videos!!
I would like to contribute a little by sharing my experience attracting ladybugs. About 4 yrs ago I planted two Rose of Sharon bushes. And oh surprise, two seasons ago I noticed the black and orange bugs and found out they were ladybugs in the works 😉!! I am glad I looked them up before spraying the bushes with neem oil. It has been a great way to have lots of ladybugs right in my yard! Love them! At the beginning of spring they get covered with ladybug eggs. I also make sure I don't rake the fall leaves that fall from my trees that fall around the bushes so I can provide shelter for the ladybugs during the winter. The Rose of Sharon flowers are just too gorgeous not to have in your yard and the hummingbirds, bees and all kinds of beneficial insects love it. But do watch out for the Japanese beetles... I do have to keep up with those pesty things each year.
I usually don’t have aphid problems, but this year I was being frugal and used an open bag of potting soil for starting seeds inside. Big mistake and I should have baked it on our grill for 20 min at 200*F. I also got the terrible gnat and mildew problem. I put vermiculite on top of plants to curb the mildew and drenched soil with a 1 to 4 mix of water and 3% peroxide along with yellow sticky traps and that took care of those two with monitoring. The aphids, sigh, I keep manually removing and Neem oil.
They liked basil, marjoram, celery and new to me artichokes. Not detected on rosemary, oregano, geraniums, petunias or onions. To pick them off the artichokes is easy, but the celery? I isolated them so far.
If anyone has suggestions for getting rid of aphids inside I’d be glad to hear. I have pre mixed Neem, but concerned about it being too harsh on seedlings.
😂😂I seen a lady bug on the kitchen window and wanted to catch it to put on artichokes and it disappeared. It probably heard what I was going to do with it and got scared😂
My cherry tree got black aphids this year. They curl the leaves and live in the protected area. I have to reach up and unfurl the leaf & hold it open to spray the herd, which causes the aphid water to pour down my arms into my armpits and down my sides. It's just so gross. I don't know why I try so hard; the birds eat all my cherries anyway. Except last year, there was 1/2 of a cherry left and I did not care whose beak had been on it; I ate my half of cherry! Haha.
Best nursery I've seen for ladybugs was a big bronze fennel I had. They laid eggs all over in it and it was great. Then, the bush tits discovered it. It was a massacre that broke my heart. But bushtits will eat tons of aphids, too. I lure them with suet blocks.
Hello friend how are you doing ?
I’ve never had aphids. This year they are all over my roses and rose of sharons
I have never seen a lady bug larva, but now I know what to look for. Learn something new everyday! Let's get those crazy aphids!!!
?? Im still wondering what they look like!!
@@conniekeshet 9:40 he shows a picture of the lady beetle larvae (baby lady beetle).
@@marshanotbrady3193 thanks!!!
@@conniekeshet You're welcome! Happy gardening!
I used a mild dish detergent with water and sprayed in the morning and it seemed to repel them.
Great advice Brian, especially about buying ladybirds! Another way to attract natives is to provide them with a home too 👍🏼
yes, I bet you mean ladybugs.......... but as I kept listening, he called them ladybirds, I have never heard that.....I live in mid GA.
Many properties surrounding my house have out of control “sticky Willy” weeds that invade my space and is EXHAUSTING to try to pull them all, but I try. Continuing this over this past weekend, I noticed they are starting to flower and the top couple of segments are COATED in a thick layer of little black seedy bugs. Even though I pulled and bagged as many as I could, I’m still scared of how many I missed and the tons that might be in the messes on the adjacent properties. Thanks so much for this video. I hope this weekend will not be too late to find and plant alliums.
I read that garlic should not be planted around green beans. Would it be OK to mix a garlic spray to kill aphids on my green beans? If so, how much would you suggest?
I used to have a terrible problem with ants and aphids. The aphids would destroy my trophy flowers every year. I tried shooting the aphids off with water they were not phased. Then a friend suggested that I mix up 1 part vinegar to 3 parts water and spray that all over the pant paying attention and getting the underside the leaves as well as the top of the leaves. I did this to my Peony plants which are always covered with ants and in one day my ants and aphids were gone. I probably sprayed one more time a week later for good measure but I never saw another aphid and the ants did not come back to the peonys either. Peonys are known to always be covered in ants and for 20 years without fail mine had aunt's but no more, this vinegar treatment is amazing.
Hello friend..how are you doing?
Did you know the ants are helping open up your peonies? The ants don't harm your peonies they OPEN them.
@@lolodee3528 Hi it seems that is wives tale. I always believed it until last year when my friend told me that her peonies open beautifully without the ants. We sprayed my peonies and I had bountiful blooms last summer.
Fazed.
White or ACV?
I thought I had aphids until you mentioned onions and garlic because mine are on garlic and onions. They are black and look kind of like aphids, black tiny bugs not moving.
I have had great success with releasing Lady Bugs. I currently have a TON of Lady Bugs who have chosen to set up camp in my Garden!
Neemoil, neemoil and did I already suggest neemoil? Best thing ever! Oh, forgot to mention that I transplanted my self sown lavender today. XD
Congratulations on your success with the lavender !
@t i , got mine on amazon, 1000ml for roundabot 30€.
What area are you in? I'm in New Hampshire and I'm afraid to transplant them outside. I have never had luck with lavender. This year I'm hoping to get it right.
@@cathyhanley8658 , saxonia-anhalt, germany. We have tempered atlantic climate here. This is the first time I germinated lavender fron seed and it is still doing well. Btw, I germinated it in my germination station like all my other plants.
This year I continued my tradition of planting my peppers indoors and way too early (Maybe next year I will remember to wait to plant as I have finally started a journal). Aside from outgrowing their space and my needing to buy more lighting, everything was going well until a friend gifted me a plant. By the time I figured out it had aphids, they were everywhere and all of my starts were infected. I spritzed with water, I ran them under water, I used detergent washes and they just kept multiplying! I finally freaked out and released ladybugs into my basement's grow room! I turned off all the lighting except for the grow lights above the plants. They did an excellent job taking care of the aphids for the 2 weeks before I started hardening them off outside. I collected the stragglers that jumped ship during the move (hundreds of them) and placed them on my lettuce plants outside. Many are still there and today I found several larva. My take is that they don't always fly off (although I have had that experience the last time I purchased them about a decade ago). I had no idea they were wild caught. That is concerning. I still think they have a place in the knock back of aphids. They worked well for me this spring. Hopefully next year I will plant later and be more vigilant about accepting gifts from well meaning friends.
They devastated my indoor peppers last year. I was going to throw them all out [about 20 plants] I decided to just remove all the leaves all the way to the stem. It worked great, they grew back wonderful and now I am harvesting peppers from them. So don't throw away your peppers, reborn them LOL
On a side note, would diotemacious earth be helpful in combating ants inside the home?
I would say yes. People use Diotemacious Earth to also kill Bed Bugs. The sharp crystals get in between their armor plating, puncturing the connecting tissue. Then the inside of the insect dries out and the insect dies.
Enjoy your channel immensely. I do not have a problem with aphids and I believe because my brassicas are put in the ground in the fall, zone 9b. If a plant is still in the garden in spring, yes it will be attacked by aphids. I take a container with DE out in the garden all the time. It works great on ants that set up housekeeping where I want to plant. Sprinkle over the nest and wait 15 min and they are gone. We have earwigs in artichokes, what a pain. I pick a 5 gallon bucket of harvest ready chokes, fill with water and set in a wide open space. The blue martins love escaping earwigs...
Brian I came back to comment today because your advice to remove the sacrificial plant actually worked! I am now, like, 95% aphid free. Thank you. It hadn’t even occurred to me that I should remove the brassica...
Brian, I used your idea for aphids. I mixed Dicametous Earth with water and sprayed on tomato plants. Now I have white patches on leaves. Doesn’t wash off. What do I do now!
Yyyyyep. Sure did write ALL that down. I love 💘 we live so close to one another. Everytime I have an issue starting. So do you. Then you make video on it! 😆
Thanks for the heads up on aphids. I have green onions growing in my garden and haven't seen any aphids. How about those little green worms that weave a silk nest and eat all my Zucchini leaves? How do I get rid of those??
YES THEY ARE LOL I WAS LUCKY THAT THERE WERE LADY BUGS IN MY GREENHOUSE WHERE THEY APPEARED AND THEY TOOK CARE OF BUSINESS AND GOT RID OF THEM.
Hello friend..how are you doing?
Aphids are a plague here in NC. You are so right about the milkweed being a great trap crop! It gets covered with aphids, but they mostly leave my veggies alone. I am definitely going to try the diatomaceous earth spray to get the particles on the underside of leaves. (I grow in the winter here, and need a remedy when milkweed is dormant.) Will definitely plant more milkweed in other areas in my yard now that you pointed out how great it is for managing aphids (tons of pollinators love it, too). For me, the milkweed will be easier because it is a perennial that is almost maintenance free, other than having to pull unwanted weeds. Thank you and keep up the great videos!
Hey Brian, I think your aphid/BS problem may have to do with the fact that Brussel's sprouts are a heavy, heavy, nitrogen feeder. I didn't realize that excess nitrogen was a contributing factor to aphids, so it's good to know. I am growing BS for the first time this year, so I will pay special attention to to them!
If this is true i wouldnt had bothered planting one brussel sprkut plant in my garden...
I've heard that green lacewings are much better than ladybugs and you don't have the wild harvest and parasite issues. What do you know about that? Would you recommend them?
Lacewings, are great as garden pest security guards! They are diligent workers, and they tend to stay put, as opposed to the often truant Ladybugs.
Great video. I battled aphids on my cucumber plants last year and the plants ended up dying. Trying trap crops this year!
Yes!
Great tips!! Thank you!! I can’t do traditional gardening any more, but, I think I can adapt some of them to my indoor/outdoor hydroponic garden.
I’m in a battle right now (no more foreign plants inside) so it’s outside & I have already done most of your suggestions. I put some honey out & they seemed to like it, but I’m going to try a pot of nasturtiums in the room. Praying I finally get rid of them since they keep coming back🤦🏻♀️
First time for aphids inside and it’s terrible. I will never use an open bag of potting soil inside again without sterilizing it.
I have never succeeded in growing broccoli because of aphids. Still trying! Thanks for the tips!
Sooo freaky.. I was planning to go buy some lady bugs tomorrow! 😱 thank you. Any advice on keeping safe from mosquitos??
Citronella and I think keeping basil around. Near your doors etc.
@@AllBrightColors yes! I do have citronella plants and also marigolds lined up ☺
Lavender, also helps they hate the smell
I often find aphids on some of our lupines usually near the end of thier flowering. I also find japanese beetles on 5 leafed Virginia creeper..I let them eat it... It seems to keep them off our roses, other plants.
WOW! Thank you for this information! I've been watching your other videos as well, and the tips are so helpful! I've been having a terrible time with Earwigs, ants and aphids but now I have some great information to battle these pests and hopefully save my garden.
I frigging hate aphids so so much! 🤬
Those aphids that like milkweed really stress out my plant. They are called Oleander aphids. I had some luck with spraying them off.
With my hose. My milkweed looks like it is recovering. When spraying I do have to be careful of all the monarch caterpillars 🐛 I’ve hatch out about 15 Monarchs this spring🧡
Aphids yearly attack our 100-foot Tulip Tree. The sap (honey dew) rains down, carried on the breeze, on the lawn (adversely affects the grass), patio furniture (sticky), and passing people (annoying). A side issue is that the Tulip Tree canopy is too high for spraying or hosing down, but planting sacrificial plants can decoy attract the aphids away. Thank you for your video.
My tip is to sterilize any soil brought in from outside your area, especially potting soil. I just place the soil in a 10 gallon bucket with holes, saturate with boiling water and cover. Let sit to cool and excess water to evaporate.
Now I read this😂😂. I had an open bag of soil I used for indoor seeds. First time I ever had aphids! And a couple flying ants. I like the idea of baking the soil on a grill at 200* F for 20 minutes.
Have you ever had a problem with Japanese Beatles? Here in NY they will eat up a vegetable garden in no time, and some flowers. The only thing we have ever had to and deter them away from our gardens are the traps… which ending up smelling very nasty after a few days, and sometimes the traps can cost a bit, depending on how many you need in a full garden season. I read that Beatles love sunflowers, so this year I am going to try and grow sunflowers away from any of my gardens I have(5 raise beds). I’m hoping that maybe the Beatles will go to the sunflowers instead of my vegetable garden.
Beatles can eat right through all leaves on a vegetable plant in no time. I’m talking 2 days, and they can have almost all of your leaves chewed off a plant. Fingers crossed the sunflower planting about 30 feet away from my gardens will help attract the Beatles to them, rather than my gardens.
Does the plant they're on influence the color of the aphid? Never heard of gray aphid until I attempted to grow brussels sprouts this year (failed, try again next year). I have milkweed far away from my garden (about 60 ft) and it often gets covered in bright yellow aphid but the plant always seems fine. Have those been lured from my garden? I usually only see green aphid on my veggies. Do praying mantis also eat aphid?
Milkweed only gets yellow aphids. They're called oleander aphids.
Hello friend..how are you doing?
Tried 1tsp dishwashing liquid an 2tsp vegetable oil to 500 ml water it works
Question about diatomaceous earth. Does it have to be food grade or ordinary swimming pool grade?
Food grade
@@NextLevelGardening ;Thank you.
I just found aphids on a brand new plant! Thank you for the advice. Hopefully my poor succulent will make it!
Ha the aphids decimated my kale that was in my garlic section. I’m not so sure I believe that garlic deterring aphids thing anymore
Yup. Also aphids are totally infesting my green onions and walking onions right now.
Oh bummer. I clicked on this video because I wanted to get rid of aphids on my green onions. They are completely covering some of the stalks! Tip #4: Plant alliums. Uhhh...hmmm...now what?
Would a few drops of dish soap in a 1 liter spray bottle help, or should I avoid any soap (even blue Dawn)?
Hello friend how are you doing?
Blue Dawn will help get rid of slugs eating your broccoli,Brussel sprouts ,lettuce,kale ,and spinach. But if it’s not properly diluted it will burn the leaves .Maybe not then ,but the next day when the sun comes out. Better to take that chance then letting the snails eat the entire crop during the night when they attack. Sand or crushed eggshells placed under the brassica plants also helps eliminate snails .
@@Heavensoon7, thanks. I appreciate your reply, and will remember!
There must be something wrong with my kids because they would definitely go for the broccoli. LOL however if you had spinach it would be better because they actually say that that's their favorite vegetable. And now they're all grown up and they still feel the same way. LOL
I bought lowes lady bugs and they next spring I kept killing all these orange and black bugs everywhere 😭
Brian-You are a phenomenal teacher. I always learn something valuable and I hope it's all in your book. Thank You.
Thank you!
Just found a few aphids in my sunflowers! TIME FOR WAR!!!! FIRE THE NEEM MISSILES!!!!!!
What do you think about praying mantis egg cases? Work/dont work?
I bought 2 last year, but they never hatched.
I bought some Hanging Baskets, with mainly Petunias in. I was told that they will love diluted Tomato feed, within 3 days, everything was very stickey, but could not find any aphids. I sprayed anyway. but no change, then I heard a guy on YT say, Petunias are always stickey . ?
I loved the intro to this!!! Let's kill em!!!!!
Thanks for the ladybug info! I was about to purchase some!
I can vouch for the fact they all just fly away! I made that mistake. Rude lil buggers ;-)
I get a ton of aphids on my snow peas every year. I spray them with garlic jalapeño brew I mix up in the blender and let sit a day to brew. Seems to work
Your like the iron man of gardening and we all know how cool that is !
Yes he is! 👍
ACTUALLY☝🏻it’s possible the reals reason why your nasturtiums (near your alliums) did not have aphids ….was because they were all over your alliums! (…and not because they were so repelled)🧅🪴🌼
I’ve never had much of an aphid problem except for the one time when I tried to grow bunching onions and they were covered in The 🪲jerks 🪲🙄 I had to just pull them all up and throw them away. 👎🏻🙎🏼♀️
Like ant traps, I’ve always found it counterproductive to ATTRACT pests just to kill them.
I used to HATE NEEM… (killed all my plants!) but I’ve figured it out and it works well for me this year.👌🏻