What can you do about all those pesky bugs that try to eat your plants and veggies in the backyard garden? We believe in an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy that includes a variety of techniques like crop rotation, cover crops, and more!
Join us as we’ll tell you which insect pests give us the most trouble in our backyard garden. We’ll also share what products and techniques have been most effective for us lately. While eradication is never possible, we can manage pest populations to an acceptable level so that the effects on our garden are minimal.
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39 Comments
I am SO excited to watch this video. Pest control is my biggest issue. Thank you!
Travis, the Ryobi fogger/mister I mentioned in a prior comment on another video only holds 1/2 gallon of mixed product. However I have found that it goes much further than the same amount of mixed product would in a backpack or pump sprayer. I can do our entire garden twice and still have some left over (by twice, I mean spray once, then start over at same point in same session to ensure full coverage). For the average home garden it's plenty. But I doubt you could fog your 10 (ok, 11) plots in one session. One other point, the fogger/mister will spray more vigorously and further distance than the electrostatic types I have seen (and it is less expensive than electrostatic styles). It's more or less the combination of a small leaf blower and a spray/mister. The only thing to make sure of is to tighten the tank cap fully. The Ryobi unit (I think it is the 8501model) pressurizes the tank to inject the product into the air stream. You want to see it fogging for a second or two after the fan stops blowing as the pressure bleeds down. That is one way to tell you are getting maximum product injection. If the cap is a little loose, you will see sputtering and inconsistent fogging.
Great information for pest management!! ✌🏻
I spray stink bugs and leaft footed bugs with neem, water, castile soap and tee tree oil. Kills them fast. I avoid spraying my leaves as much as possible, so I use a narrow nozzle to aim, spray and knock them off the plants.
G’day Travis,
What orientation are your beds/plots planted?
North south or east west.
ie does the sun follow the your rows or cross over them?
Cheers from Australia 👍🏻
I live in VA zone 7b and have a small back yard garden with several raised beds. Crop rotation is almost not possible – I do it but am limited. I spray weekly here, alternating LiquiCop/Spinosad and Complete Disease Control/Fruit Tree Spray Plus. I also add Bt every couple weeks. Leaf footed bugs are a beast to control and they get bad here once the heat sets in. Bug Buster 2 is my go-to when that happens. I just have no choice unless I want my tomatoes destroyed. Go Dawgs!
How often will u spray field peas with Sevin? Last Summer here in 9b, they decimated my field peas and adzuki beans. Gr8 video n thx for the info!!
FL zone 9B. Give green lacewings a try. They work well for me.
Thank you Travis – I appreciate all the information you give us – even being 56 – i learn new very informative content each time i listen to you .
God bless you & your beautiful family .
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What is the name of the moth that turns into a corn earworm thanks
Hey Travis, I understand that the pickleworm moth is active only at night. Some Agribon row cover staked to the ground and pulled up each night to be clothes pinned to the frame would thwart them. Lower the shields in the morning for the pollinators to have access. Alternative pest control. I'm growing Corinto also this year but we're not in the pickleworm range.
My leaf footed bug problem is massive every year no matter what I do. I can spray a synthetic and they’re back in 2-3 days. Idk what to do at this point. I’ve thought about covering all my tomatoes with insect netting and/or possibly building a chicken tunnel around my raised bed garden to see if they can help keep the population down. What are your thoughts?
We’ve been lucky down here in Louisiana not much pest yet but I use some of the same options you do I fine they work great. When I was little we used to put seven dust in a sock and go around the garden shaking the sock and dust plants. I think that it is frowned upon these days lol
What fertilizer do you use on sweet potatoes in a container being grown mostly for the leaves. The growth I do have is lime green!
1) Yes, I rotate crops.
2) Neem oil is the only spray I use.
3) Flea beetles and aphids are the main pests we get. Don’t have horn worms or squash bugs.
Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA — 5/24/2022.
What about grasshoppers?
I know this is a subject I requested, so thanks for taking the time to make this video. I'm in 8a and new to gardening so I model a lot of what I do based on how you do things, and I gotta say it's working well so far, so thanks again. I planted the diomede cucumber this year and didn't get very good germination, I know you need so many to ensure enough male flowers so I went and bought some straight 8's from the nursery and planted them among them. Don't know if that will work out but we'll see.
I would like to see someone talk about pest control after heavy rains. No one says anything about that. I seem to have to spray after several days of rain.
Thank you so much for showing photos of the pest. You are the only channel that I have seen do this and I really appreciate it. Now I will know what I'm looking at. Also. Good to find out I can mix Spinosaid and disease spray together; what a time saver. Thanks again!
Good video. I use the same organic products you are using to control insects. I was curious if you foliar fertilize. I just started this year with agrothrive fruit and flower and Ocean for minerals. I am a believer. I usually do it early in the morning. I still fertilize the soil but think this is a good addition. Thanks
Your sure right about those field peas, if I think I'm going to lose a good bit of my peas I won't hesitate at all to drag out the heavy hitter and load it up in the backpack sprayer. Got a good looking crop this year, Y'all have a good day now.
Well done video sir! Man, you are fortunate not to deal with that devil the squash vine borer! You and I have very similar philosophies, I'm going to try to stay as natural as possible, but I ain't gonna stand by and watch a crop get totally decimated either. Not if I can help it! I applaud you for confessing your Liquid Sevin Sin! 🙂 Full disclosure! You didn't mention any beneficial predatory insects, and I don't think I've ever noticed you using them. Just curious……..I think the only place I might really use them would be a greenhouse or high tunnel situation.
Thank you for the information.
Will liquid 7 take care of the adult leaf footed bugs?
When you mix the disease and pest products I’m assuming you don’t double the water amount. So say if each call for one ounce per gallon of water, you do one gallon of water and one ounce of each product?
My understanding has been that if plants cross pollinate then only the seeds are impacted. Is this not the case?
What’s some none organic spray that works well
You should make a video of you spraying Azera. I just used it for the first time and the label really freaked me out. Do you use a respirator when you spray?
No judgment over here, you do what works! 👍 We use 'Milky Spore' for Japanese beetles, Neem Oil for the sucker insects, Borax + Sugar for ant control, just picked up BT so we'll see how that works out for the persnickety pests.
BTW, Great video can't believe I missed this one!
Here in Northern AL was the first time I had trouble with vine bore. Never had problem with them in the north. I have completely given up on zucchini because of it
Have you ever had very small green caterpillars in your broccoli or cauliflower? If so what to you for to get rid of them. I did not have these in my fall garden but have them in my spring garden. Any help would greatly be appreciated
Travis I sure do enjoy hearing you talk and explaining everything to the T. I feel like I'm in a garden seminar with your teaching. Thank you very much for being my teacher. I couldn't have the three big plots and doing so well, without Master Tavis's teaching. Tena
Man the leaf footed bugs over here get up to 3 inches long and they FLY! I never knew what they were called so i refer to them as the mutated futuristic armoured stink bug lol. And they started on my blueberries and now they are devouring my tomatoes. And I aint touching them lol.
Last year was the first time I had leaf footed bugs. Normally I have the green or brown stink bugs. I have yet to be able to properly combat them even with liquid 7. I have resorted to putting fruit bags over my tomatoes. I am trying to grow squash and zucchini this year. So far so good. The last few times I tried were failures due to borers. Louisiana Zone 9
How often do you spray your peas with seven?
What's the name of that productive cuke??? I could get all the wax out of my ears…
The best spray I have used for squash bugs and vine borer moths is a mixture of Dr. Bronners Castille soap, Tea Tree Oil and Citronella oil. In a quart sprayer, add 2-3 tablespoons soap and 10-15 drops of each oil. Fill to the top with water and mix well. Spray squash bugs and soak generously. The oils prevent them from flying, making it easy to catch and kill them, but if you coat them well, they usually die in 3-4 minutes. If you can't find Tea Tree oil, you can substitute Dr. Bronner's Hemp Soap with Tea Tree Oil. Just use a bit more soap. I recently used this spray on an Aphid/fire ant infestation on the underside of my Jing Okra, and it killed the aphids and fire ants on contact. Weird thing was, the aphids only attacked my Jing Okra, and ignored my Jambalaya and Red Burgundy Okra planted in the two adjacent rows. After spraying two days in a row at 101 and 104 degrees each day here in Texas zone 8B in late July, I only experienced a very slight leaf tip burn on the okra where the spray accumulated when running off, and I have sprayed 5 types of squash daily with no burning (Kabocha, Algonquian, Festival, Golden Zucchini, Sweet Dumpling). The soap and oils literally suffocate virtually all soft bodied insects, but you have to generously coat them.
I've recently got a fogger because I used to use the 4gal. sprayer like the one you have, and it's ok. However, it takes a LONG time to spray everything because of the top and bottom coverage issue. I'm going to be trying out the fogger tomorrow. Can you spray spinosad and pyrethrin together mixed? I have noticed that the pyrethrin seems to be a fast acting killer, while the spinosad seems to be a slower acting product. I was thinking of using them together because I have an unruly population of crickets and stink bugs that I need to whack real quickly, and would like to have the spinosad for long reach. I am going to include a fungi max product in there as well. Thanks for your thoughts!
Grasshoppers like our fall garden early in the season
Leaf legged bugs are rat 🐟 💩 s