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In this video, I share 4 flowers that repel insect pests I’m planting now in my garden, and 1 flower to avoid that I’m never planting in my garden again! These flowers control insects naturally, because their scents are repulsive to various “bad bugs” while still attracting beneficial insects like pollinators into your garden. When interplanted correctly, you can control pests in your garden naturally!
These flowers naturally repel insects through the principle of strategic interplanting flowers with vegetables that are susceptible to the specific pests they repel. The list of insects controlled include: stink bugs, leaf footed bugs, shield bugs, cabbage moths, cabbage white butterflies, cucumber beetles, squash bugs, root knot nematodes, harlequin bugs, leaf hoppers, and more!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Interplanting Vegetables As Natural Pest Control
1:39 Flower #1
5:45 Flower #2
7:16 Flower #3
9:59 Flower #4
13:36 The Flower I’m Avoiding
15:35 3 Important Pest Control Lessons
18:26 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to control insects naturally and organically by interplanting sunflowers, borage, nasturtiums, pyrethrum daisies and marigolds in your garden, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Interplanting Vegetables As Natural Pest Control
1:39 Flower #1
5:45 Flower #2
7:16 Flower #3
9:59 Flower #4
13:36 The Flower I'm Avoiding
15:35 3 Important Pest Control Lessons
18:26 Adventures With Dale
Awesome video full of info and how to apply it. I greatly appreciate your videos. I'm currently applying trap crops as you recommended and a couple of flowers you just posted. I'm also trying another proactive defense for big invasion of pests late summer here in Coastal SC. I'm applying a tulle net over my garden beds, etc.
Great information! Thank you!
What can I do about these monster grasshopper a-holes that eat everything in sight every summer here in N Texas??!!
Woow amazing bro
😐 I went crazy with marigold because I heard they repel mosquitoes 🫨🙃
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Thank you for sharing such valuable information. Great video
Get this guy a legit farm
Marigolds help keep deer away too but yes bugs. In our area they don't grow too well thx for all your info!
A barrage of borage
Cue the happy pollinator @2:19
Have never had problems with marigolds, here in MN. They are hardy, easy to grow. It's not my favorite flower, and I have not noticed that they keep pests away, but I plant a few. There are certainly better flowers to grow for attracting pollinators. Borage gets pretty large, falls over easily, but the flowers are pretty. I'm getting to like borage. Did not find it especially invasive, but my climate is very cold for more than half the year.
Maybe control the borage by planting in containers and placing those around the garden?
Marigolds do attract those moths
Great information,Thank you for sharing ! 😊
Thank you
I'm using Marigolds as a trap crop this year. Last year we have a huge japanese beetle problem and they went for my zinnias and marigolds instead of my tomatoes.
I'm in 7b Atlanta area. I also had the same experience with marigolds. I literally bought everything you suggested. I never bought something so fast.
Excellent information ❤❤ thank you 🙏
I assume he means African marigolds not pot marigolds also known as calendulas?
I grew a hedge of nasturtiums last summer. They were like bushes, they got so big with a profusion of flowers. Toward the end of summer, they were covered all over with aphids. It was ridiculous. They were planted between my 6 first year Pineapple Guavas (thanks for that video!!) to fill in the gaps, so it didn't hurt anything but it was kinda gross. I'm in the Seattle area and I don't think we have many stink bugs here.
Sunflowers attract Japanese Beetles. Been there, done that.
FRENCH Marigolds are the good ones.
I need a natural automatic way to get rid of blister beetles.
Automatic means me NOT having to spray, pick them off, etc. It means attract some kind of insect eater, disease, or plant that repels them.
Blister beetles can devastate crops easily, especially tomatoes.
Thank you!
Good info., Thanks!
Great video! First time I planted borage, it grew like crazy! It surprised me by surviving our winter. You mentioned pulling, can I just trim down at the end of the season?