Are you making organic garden sprays and homemade pest control solutions? Maybe the answer is even simpler than you think! Garden pests can be annoying, but a healthy garden ecosystem often sorts out the worst of them. Here’s how.
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This is the way to biodiversity
Never thought of it this way…
I don't care about holes in leaves, unless they are everywhere. That's an imbalance indicator. I love polyculture because, inevitably, somebody becomes the pest magnet on the outskirts ❤
If the pests are not eating your crops you probably should not either.
Very wise. God knew what he was doing and has a plan for it all. Even the bad stuff can work for your good.
What can we do about kudzu beetles destroying pole bean plants. That is what I am dealing with right now. I agree the fact that we need some pests to bring the predators.
But what if I don't have pests or predators? What do the predators provide other than eating the pests?
Looks like a giant weed patch
Thanks for sharing this. I have learned so much from you over the years. People need to know the ways!
And if pests overwhelm and you lose your food crops even though you have predators? I rarely spray anything and have poly culture planted raised beds. I’ve been organic gardening 40 years so not new to this. I encourage birds and pollinators, butterflies, etc with other plantings around the property. But as the years get warmer and warmer I’m seeing more and more pests and for longer periods of the year. I’ve never had pest issues on chard but this summer something is eating majority of the leaves but I haven’t been able to figure out what yet. I get 2-3 good months of harvest in spring and then very little. It’s also been too hot for fall plantings to take off in time to produce before first freeze. We are both hotter and colder now. I’m in central Texas on a suburban lot with a lot of trees. I don’t have much space with sun loving food crops but I’ve been creative in finding spots of sun. I’ve also been looking into different types of food to grow that are more resilient and faster producing crops
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That is absolutely the right mindset. If u spray, your damage to the system is far bigger than the 3-4 holes in a leaf
💯 true info.
🙏Love the Virgin Mary in your garden🕊
Everything is balanced. It’s the yin Yang of mother nature.
Would you say that the majority of predators are also pollinators?
Badly wrong!
Hahahahaaaa … definitely not a good argument for having pests or predators in your garden or your food.
If your objective is to create a wild ecosystem than what you say is logically.
However the overwhelming majority of us have no intentions on creating wild ecosystems. Our intent is cultivation.
The essence of cultivation is the removal of bad and the increase of good. And as much as the definition of good and bad might fluctuate surely pest, insects, and predators almost always fall into the category of bad.
a major exception would be pollinators.
I have a hard time finding something that will adequately manage all of those many insects in the stink bug family. Any advice?