Control Aphids without Pesticide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2019
- I don't spray chemicals to control aphids in my greenhouse or garden. That doesn't mean I'm "tolerating" the pest... but I think my best approach is to fill the garden with plants to support beneficial insects. Once the natural enemies of the aphids build their population for the season, the aphids don't cause me serious problems for the rest of the year.
Some additional plants to encourage beneficials: Yarrow, Maximilian Sunflower, Alyssum, Milkweed, Speedwell (Veronica), Dill, Bee balm, Lobelia, Marigolds... I mean, really, just a huge variety of plants, particularly those from the mustard, carrot, daisy and mint families. And, as emphasized in the video (more than once, I think), go for diversity of bloom times and flower types.
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I’m in favour of this approach totally! You Sir are The enlightened gardener and I wish you all the best! Thank u for the 5* vid!
I have aphids randomly so this was very helpful.
Thank you so much for this information it's just what I've been looking for, I'm a new rose gardener
Your channel is the best. Seriously top notch advice.
Thanks for sharing
SMILES
thanks so much for such informative video
Thanks for the video, this is really great information.
Thank you for a great video. I will certainly plant the varieties you have mentioned. Here in New Zealand, aphids can ruin the roses. So your information is very much needed. We are generally keen gardeners, but tend to use sprays too much. I will pass your video to my friends. They will also love it. Many thanks
Thanks so much. I hear NZ has a beautiful climate for roses!
Wow, thanks! So helpful!
Wind is powerful -- thank you as always -- good information!
Thanks for posting this video! My dill plants are covered with aphids. I'm going to rip those out and plant dill seeds with beneficial bug wildflower seeds. I didn't have an aphid problem last year because I sowed wildflower seeds. This year I didn't sow wildflower seeds. Lesson learned.
Brilliant. Thank you
I let some celery plants flower in my garden this spring and they ended up covered in lady bugs!!!! I have had not had any aphids this Year!!! happy to hear that lobelia and alyssum are also recommended!! thanks for a great video.
Great to hear Donna. That whole carrot family (with celery, fennel, sweet cicely, parsley and cilantro) is wonderful for beneficial insects. Thanks!
Ahhhhhhhh - and so cilantro flowers are so delicate next to the rose.
Thank you so much for this information on fighting aphids in my garden! I have been on the fence about using pesticides for a couple of days now. I don't want to use them!
Right Debi - I'm on the same page: not unless I really have to!
Jason, I love your informational videos. So helpful, and the roses you show us are beautiful. I wondered what you recommend for controlling thrips.
They're a tough one because they hide in the flowers. There are natural enemies in the garden, so the same general approach of maintaining biodiversity is valid, but it won't prevent some damage.
Now I know what the bugs on my Goldenrod were this past summer. They flowered like usual and the tomato plants ten feet away were ok. I'll call that a win.
👌 Thank you.
Thank you
Hello again, Thanks for this natural approach to aphids. I have a question about some very creepy looking bugs that are hiding in one of my rose's petals. They are not found on the leaves but several times I have found them hidden beneath a bunch of petals. I find them when I am deadheading. They don't seem to be doing any damage but can't figure out what they are and if I should be concerned.
Thanks so much for all of your great videos and information.
Thanks for the great ideas! Question for you, what is the name of the yellow rose beside you?😍
Hi edagdwg love this video God at work 🙏 thanks for sharing the details are very important to know linda j ☮️ ❤️❤️💯 💯 💯 💯
Thanks Linda. I appreciate the encouragement
Hi Jason,
I'd actually love to see a series of videos on companion plants for beneficials -- there's a lot of videos on trapping e.g. Drosophila, or ants, or whatnot, but IMO very little (high quality, like your videos!) information on ways to promote different complimentary species. Cheers~
Thanks Ben. Great suggestion.
How do we get rid of spider mites? Not sure of their predators or what good plants would support their predators specifically.
What about indoor plants found some yellow aphids on my croton and hope they dont become a real problem for my other plants next to it
My wife and I really enjoy your videos. What is a good rose to grow in the Edmonton area of Alberta?
Hi Michael. Have you visited the St. Albert Botanic Park rose garden? I was up there a few years ago... a real treasure for your city! I love 'Prairie Peace', 'Betty Will' , all the Scots roses, Rugosas ('Snow Pavement' and 'Purple Pavement' especially, for their more manageable habit), 'Morden Sunrise', 'Morden Blush'.
What would I do without you? I'm beginning to feel more confident about my ability to take proper care of my plants.
So happy to hear it Diane
Two years ago I noticed black aphids, too late, in a cherry tree. They nearly killed it. I sprayed them with water and dish soap. I saved the tree and haven't seen them since. I also get green aphids on my new rose buds. I use either rubbing alcohol or dish soap and then a strong spray of water. This doesn't hurt beneficial insects or the plants. Michael
I absolutely love all your videos. I am hoping you will make a video on Thrips. I hate to used Monterey insecticide with spinosad . Is there another way out with beneficial insects.
Hi Jin. Thanks. I'll put that video on the list, but in the meantime, here's a pretty good article on the natural alternatives: www.planetnatural.com/pest-problem-solver/houseplant-pests/thrips-control/
Thank you Jason! and good thinking. Monty Don of Gardener's World complains that his neighbor is a monoculture which he rightly blames for some of his ills - he encourages people to have a buffer area of weeds, indigenous, flowering plants around their property . In fact, there's a name for this borderland - can't remember what its called.
Yours truly
Jennie
Very informative video. I did put 2 rose bushes in the garden last Summer and did have the darn Aphids eating my blooms. tfs
Thanks Sandra
Thank you for another great video! Now I know why using neem didn't control the aphids during the hot summer. Another pest I'm trying to control are slugs. Any ideas?
Research homemade garlic spray for slugs
I live on 3rd floor in condo,was wondering how they got on to some snap dragon I started from seed.
i used dish soap,but was wondering how Epson salt or milk spray would do.
Aphids fly clear across continents on wind currents - I'm sure 3 stories up is no problem for them. Epsom salts is supposed to use the same mode of action as the soap (drying out the soft bodied insects) - if he soap didn't give you satisfactory results, I might try neem oil next.
I find aphids and thrips a problem in my rose beds. Will these plants deal with thrips as well ? Thanks for your excellent service on all your videos....really enjoy watching them.
Short answer: yes. More plant biodiversity will be helpful in managing thrips, spider mites, sawfly, beetle - all the pests. That doesn't mean you'll never have a problem, but it's a good layer of defense.
How close to the roses do the beneficial plants need to be grown? I have a very, very small garden....my roses will be in the garden. I prefer planting, if it’s not too far, in my pots on the deck. Your guidance, please. Thank you.
The insects will wander - so anywhere in the garden is fine
I've actually watched ladybugs eat aphids on my roses. I felt sorry for the aphids, but I was fascinated at the same time. I wish japanese beetles had natural predators here in the states. I wouldn't feel sorry for them one bit! Lol
Japanese beetles are "contained" here (so far) to one neighborhood in our region. I wonder how long until they escape into the rest of the valley. Not looking forward to it.
Thank you so much for that educational video. I really love your videos. I have huge problem with ants which farm all the time this insects and some others on my plants. They also protect them from beneficial insects. I am not able to solve this problem. Ans are everywhere in my garden. They are just too many of them causinghavoc in my garden .
Thanks. I did a video on ants too: th-cam.com/video/TycvvVdvL_s/w-d-xo.html
Thank you. I did watch the video about the ants. The problem is that the ants in my garden ignore anything i mix with borax .
Thank you. What would you do for spider mites?
Hi Gayle. I do get spider mites once it warms up - and while native beneficials do some good, I supplement in the greenhouse with the occasional release of Persimilis. They reproduce quickly in warm weather, and make short work of the spider mites.
One more comment - this year I've been attacked by Japanese Beetles. I walk around my property several times a day with my deadly soapy water in a jar - but even though they are sitting ducks - I haven't & likely won't eradicate them. I walk out to the raspberry bushes and get them by hand there as well.
I hope you haven't had to deal much with Japanese Beetles - but if you have I'd love to know what your take is on managing them. I hesitate to use the nematodes - because there are other beetles of course...
Knock wood, they've been controlled in our area.
Thank you for this natural way to control aphids. Do you have suggestions for controlling Japanese Beetles on my roses? I live in MN.
We're lucky enough that the Japanese Beetle isn't here yet - so my advice will be 2nd hand, but I think the approach is to apply nematodes (heterorhabditis) to the soil in spring and fall to kill the grub stage of the insect.
Greetings from minneapolis!
I just blast them off with the hose the roses love the water and the aphids dont lol
What about with potted flowers on a porch? I don't know if buying and having ladybugs sent to me will actually help in this situation.
Beneficial insects may search and find your aphids. I'm not such a fan of buying ladybugs - they tend to fly away!
Hi Sir. I'd like to know what You think of traps against japanese beetles. I live in northern Italy and my garden and orchard are quite heavily infested this time of the year. I really thank You so much for your videos and advice.
Best regards,
Lorella Curione
Hi Lorella. The traps can attract far more beetles than they actually catch - so I'd just watch to make sure you don't unintentionally create a "hot spot". If the traps can be placed a good distance from susceptible plants, even better.
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Hi Jason. Thank You so much for your kindly answering me . Actually my traps have been attracting hundreds of these bugs for a couple of weeks. Lucky enough at present they seem to have consistently decreased, due perhaps to my spraying neem oil all over shrubs and fruit trees. Anyway I'll be following your piece of advice and positioning the traps far from the orchard and vineyard.
Best regards,
Lorella Curione
hope u can do a video on thrips...i realise thirps are terible to get rid off
...its like almost impossible.. tried so many types of pesticides ... thanks
Yes, I'll do one this season. Thanks!
Great video i decided to go " chemical free" this year and can see much more lady bugs. I panicked when i saw i had a Aphid infection and went for the Neem oil. Did i ruin my lady bug colony?
Hi Henry. I haven't used it too much, but the way I understand it Neem works 2 ways: 1) Kill/disrupt insects directly, 2) repel insects or protect plant by making it less attractive to pests. Maybe someone who uses neem a lot can chime in, but I think if the beneficials are sprayed directly, it can kill them, but the repellent/protective effect is benign to beneficials. If you got the aphid infestation early enough, the ladybug larvae may not have been present yet (fingers crossed)... either way, the populations (of both pest and predator) will recover.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm thanks you much 😊
Hello, I am super stressed out. But I think my bird of paradise has scales. I I overwintered it. But I'm not sure if it's aphids or scale. Thank you for this video. I'm in Oregon. The bugs get carried by the wind that far? Gosh...uuugh
Hi there. I don't have as much experience on indoor/tropical pests like scale, but probably you'll have to take a more hands-on approach to control. I hear horticultural oil is the way to go.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Ok, thank you🌺
Hello from MD (I'm in a suburb just NW of Washington DC on the mighty Potomac river). I have one rose that seems to be an aphid magnet and it suffers from it. It worries me because the rose is very dear to me. It's a David Austin rose that I bought twenty years ago when you couldn't buy David Austin roses in the U.S. You had to buy them from Canada and I went to some lengths to do so. I dearly love this rose because I planted it in honor of my mother who had just died. So when we moved from Washington DC out to the MD suburbs almost eight years ago I was determined to bring it with me and it survived! TMI I guess but I include this information as an example of how much I'd like to keep this rose thriving. So my question is, if I plant, say, carrots (per your video) near the rose will that be enough to actually prevent aphids? Thank you for your time.
Thanks Ellen. Planting diverse companions will reduce the severity and duration of outbreaks, but no, even a good presence of beneficials won't eliminate aphids altogether. I see the big early population booms of aphids as a "stage" to building up those beneficials and keeping the populations balanced. The good news is that little outbreaks of aphids will probably not keep your rose from thriving. I'd keep some insecticidal soap on hand just in case the aphid populations pass your personal tolerance threshold and you want to take matters into your own hands.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm OK got it, thank you!
Any info about on root aphids, organically.. ?
Steinernema (nematodes) do a decent job. I've read a little about a drench (or root dip) of neem oil - I haven't tried it myself, and would be a little cautious of phytotoxicity.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm thanks buddy!. Good answer.
May give the bugs a go.. neem cake/meal maybe worth looking into aswell.
They seem to live through about anything
they can also carry some plant viruses, like rose mosaic virus.
I have my roses infested by aphids. Is neem oil efficient on them? What about the application frequency?
Neem oil can work - but don't apply in very hot weather.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm thank you. Is once a week enough?
Hi Jason my home is North Shore BC could you please let me know where can I get Brunnera macrophylla and Myrrhis odorata. I like to get from you do I have to call you or do sell to a garden nursery in lower mainland. But away I like all of your videos. Stay safe thank you have a great day😊😉
I saw brunnera at Mandeville the other day. I don't usually see the myrrhis for sale anywhere, but if you ever make it out this way (I know ... it's a distance!) I'll nudge out some seedlings from the garden for you.
Hi you are very nice of it to try to safe seeds for me,but I have only one mobile it is a RV and it station for another few more weeks. I'm station in construction side this construction site it is almost done. There is jobs running all over lower mainland. I really appreciate thank you
Best Regards
Mike😉😊👍
I agree that pesticides are not the answer… but a little soapy water does wonders!
Who knew aphids were skilled at riding updrafts. Interesting! I have yarrow near my roses. I also have chives and lemongrass nearby to repel pests which don’t like their scent. I got the lemongrass tip from a gardener in India 🇮🇳. Since I only have a few roses I sometimes use a soft cloth to mechanically remove aphids from the buds. Where we live in Zone 8 aphids seem to prefer shadier spots to sunny😎 . Do you have any info about the temperature and light preferences of aphids?
Their populations do grow faster as it warms up, but by the time summer comes along I don't see much of them anymore - too many beneficial insects around by that time for them to get out of control. But it's also been my impression that they don't cope as well with the hottest/driest weather of summer - by that time it's spider mites making a nuisance of themselves.
Yes, roses have far too many pests. At least they usually don't all come at once! I'm happy that I've already seen some ladybugs. Bye for now.
After i grow basil & garlic around my roses.. they disappear.. the only problem is thrips..
Can aphids be black? I have an infestation of a black bug that looks about the same aize as aphids but leaveing perfectly circular litttle holes in my petals!
Yes, aphids can be black, but no, they don't leave holes. Aphids are a sucking insect. Might be a beetle or weevil of some sort
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm yes looks weevilish... very tiny and between the leaves but have seen some adt size black beettle/flies? They look like a hybrid lol
I like this only because i will.not use anything that will kill or harm.other good bugs like bees butterflies lady bugs or my.birds
Hi I'm ur new subscriber. Ur videos r awesome. I just want to know how can we control thrips attacks in roses which is very severe in tropical climate as in southern part of India.
Ugh. Thrips. I don't suppose you have a supplier for beneficial insects (cucumeris)?
Hi 🌹i m new subscriber if you please i need to know about ackonthera flowers care ..t y ...Amal from Egypt
Hi Molly. Thanks - but if it's Acokanthera you're asking about, it's nothing I've ever grown (it's just not available here). Best luck!
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm ok thank you but it is wonderfull with its nice flowers with best odour any way no prob .👍🌹
Theoretically planting pro- Aphid Eaters type plants souls doable. However, that assumes, we who have really, really small Rose gardens, have enough room.
I sure don’t! Based on the plants shown here, my 3 Roses would be totally crowded out, with the Aphid-killer plants. What do WE SMALL GARDEN PEOPLE DO, if not treat with insecticides?
Good point - I can't speak for every location, but even a small garden (outdoors) is a part of a larger community of plants. I hope that there's a diversity of plantings in the surrounding landscape (and the often is, even if unintentional). Where I can, I add to it in small ways. It doesn't take a lot of space to tuck in some alyssum or iberis. In the case where your garden is truly isolated, and the aphids are persisting because of a lack of predators, you can always move on to insecticidal soap as a less toxic method.
Fraser Valley Rose Farm -Thanks, I wish my city neighbors didn’t love their concrete so much. I’ll try to see what I can plant without crowding the roses.
They have invaded my greenhouse this year. Easy to kill but they are EVERYWHERE. It's a pain having to treat every plant before I sell it.
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My roses are getting destroyed this year by several insects, and I’m desperate to save them. I’ve tried everything, with no success. I planted dill, marigold, chives. I bought thousands of lady bugs. I tried spraying with soapy water. I finally broke down and bought a pesticidal spray, and that made it worse! Now I even have grasshoppers and locusts eating holes right through the new buds! It seems the word is out in the insect world that I have the most delicious roses! Any advice or help??? 😢
I had to purchase an insect app to identify all the different bugs on my roses! Yikes!
Hi Jesse. Please don't take me wrong - but it's hard for me to gauge if my version of "getting destroyed" is the same as yours. Some years are worse than others for pests, but your general strategy of supporting the roses with other diverse plantings is right on point IMO. I'm pretty tolerant of a bad year for leaf damage or even some reduction in flowering - so long as the pest damage isn't so severe that I think it'll threaten the overall health of the roses. Insecticidal soap, horticultural oil and/or neem oil are my fallbacks - haven't used them for a few years.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thank you so much for your reply! I guess my language was a bit relative, without a reference. But I meant most of the leaves were chomped with holes. Initially there was a massive growth burst this Spring, which made me happy. But then the bugs came. I think aphids and sawflies, but then grasshoppers and locusts too. (Kinda Biblical? Haha!) They ate holes right through the young buds! So I’ll try the insecticidal soap next, and see what happens. Fingers crossed. Thanks so much for your input and advice! I really enjoy your channel!
Just letting you know that lowes has the bayer rose and flower food with insect control on clearance for $2.50 a bottle. I seen that on another website I go to alot. Thought I would let you know
Not my cup of tea, but thanks for sharing.
I feel like Bayer/Monsanto will kill you for a one dollar bill with zero F's given. I try my best to not give them the chance.
I've always been an organic only gardener. This year, a list of bugs took turns on my roses and a long rainy spell spotted all the leaves. Next year it's war. Our town has started bombing us from above to kill the mosquitoes and now all the pollinators are gone.
Borax ant baits control ants which also slows down aphids.
Aphids are my nemesis 😡. Thanks.
small flask, 50% Water, 50% alcohol,
at the end of the day sprinkle on the aphids,
they will dry out, and your plants will be intact!
Thank me later
Killed all my peppers.
Informative but too wordy. Need to get to the point how to rid the aphids.
Thanks for the feedback Thomas. I do sometimes wonder how much detail to go into. I'll put your vote down for "quick and to the point"
Not to wordy at all. All the information, every word was relevant and to the point.
It was the detailed information that is valuable.
I want all the information! All of it 😃
I don’t agree with chemical pesticides at all but I think your not telling the truth when you said that chemical pesticides do not work on aphids. That is false sir. Still don’t use chemical pesticides tho please
Help me out... where did I say that? I know for sure that pesticides can kill aphids. I just don't take that approach on my farm.