Natural PEST CONTROL Tricks for Vegetable Garden Success

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[@HuwRichards]

Get my exclusive NordVPN deal here: nordvpn.com/huwrichards to keep your digital devices pest-free🌱

[@pascalxus]

Nice nord VPN native advertisement integration. Digital Pests, LOLZ.

[@radharcanna]

Not keen on these adverts. Nature and commerce are not a good mix.

[@jencros1]

WTF. Stick to the gardening stuff rather than pushing software, please.

[@elizabethflynn8455]

I know a woman who bought 2 old chest of drawers at an auction for €2 each. They were in bad condition but the drawers were ok. She knocked the bottoms out and was left with 8 wooden frames which she then used to make 8 raised beds. 🙂

[@ssmith2608]

That's ace 😁

[@elizabethflynn8455]

@@ssmith2608 it is, isn't it 😁 Low cost and functional.

[@justjoy1229]

Well, dang!! Thats awesome!!

[@ricos1497]

Where does she store her pants?

[@daleglenny8253]

@@user-ep4kc6kl8p The visual of that made me laugh. Thanks.

[@valeriehowden471]

I found a Gray tree frog in amongst my rhubarb plants. It stayed there for about 3 weeks. Turns out, it found all the garden slugs and was enjoying the buffet!

[@tracycrider7778]

That’s awesome!

[@cbjones2212]

Frogs are life 🐸

[@valeriehowden471]

@@cbjones2212 that they are! And tree frogs are amazing.

[@SarahSmith-nr2wj]

Perfect permaculture poetry!

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

The reason hanging CDs deter birds is not so much the flash directly in their eyes. It's more that the disks create moving spots of light on the ground, darting in random directions. This mimics the movement of a ground predator seen out of the corner of the bird's eye and it makes them too nervous to stay. Brilliant!

[@checkersx3556]

Very true. My macaw freaks out over the light dashing about.

[@KDOGGER11]

For strawberry protection I paint rocks to look like strawberries, then set them put a week or so before the first berries get ripe. Birds peck at them and figure it out right away. Keeps them almost entirely out of the crop.

[@finagill]

Do you just paint the rocks red or do you add more detail than that?

[@squange20]

I’m not sure that would be good for the birds’ beaks though. The poor things could damage their beaks. Netting would be best, like they use for most fruit trees.

[@KDOGGER11]

@@finagill pick rocks that look like small strawberries. Then base paint red, green for the tops, some I put small dot of black to look like seeds. After doing a few and putting g them out I skipped the black dots. They look plenty like strawberries under the foliage.

[@KDOGGER11]

@@squange20 I guess, although the weight of a nonstationary stone would be pretty minimal. And I doubt they're slamming into them with their full force. More than likely they're expecting a soft strawberry so going in very soft at first, at which point they get a surprise from the rocks.

[@squange20]

@@KDOGGER11 I’m sure you’re doing what’s best, and if it works, why not? I’m planting strawberries in hanging baskets close to the kitchen this year, and will put a few short , thin stakes around baskets, cover with netting and secure at the bottom, as we get strong winds this time of year. Let’s hope I get some fruit in spring. A bit late for it, but it’s been very wet and stormy for weeks this side of the world.

[@ourcozygarden]

“These things called CDs” why do I feel old hearing that? 😂 Awesome video Huw as usual. Robins are on our strawberry patch every day so will these things called CDs 😄

[@petpawteek8776]

Have mercy! I thought, “what? THESE things? How does he not know what THESE things are when they were such an integral part of my teenage years?!” Then I remember “oh yeah, I’m old!” 😂😭😂

[@ourcozygarden]

@@petpawteek8776 The feels :D

[@JeremyRiedel]

He's clearly joking.

[@chrisannm5240]

I am with you, I spit out my tea laughing when I heard him talk about the CDs...as I was putting a favorite music CD in my boombox...😏

[@markzambelli]

"CDs protect your 'seedies'" (our grandkids will be doing the same one day... but they'll levitate their old 3d-holocubes above their treated lunar-regolith to focus the gravitational waves passing through their raised beds to scare away the encroaching space-herpes and electro-slugs, thereby leaving their crops un-eaten... yummo. If we're lucky, they may thaw us out long enough to chat with us and tell us how their growing season is panning out.) ((bonus points go to anyone who got the 'Ice Pirates' and 'Dark Star' references above))

[@angeladundon7271]

I dig a shallow dish into my garden so it’s close to soil level, I fill it with water and dissolve a teaspoon of dried yeast in it. The nest morning it’s half full of slugs. I tried this because I didn’t want to waste beer so thought I’d try the yeast and it works

[@JustinMentionedIt]

Baha 😂

[@notarobot8105]

Lol. The look you give to the hacker, and then the middle finger. I would definitely subscribe to a “Spicy” Huw Richards channel as well. You’re my favorite

[@94565]

Love your videos. Here is a tip to prevent slugs and snails. They are repelled by caffeine. Save your used coffee grounds and sprinkle them on the garden soil. I haven't seen a slug or snail in the garden since I started this. About a quart of used coffee grounds does my 200 sq. ft. vegetable garden. One application in the early spring lasts all year.

[@TinMan445]

Used coffee grounds have almost no measurable caffeine. They also are not acidic anymore. More likely they don’t like the texture of the coffee grounds when they dry up

[@fournierfarms]

Huw, you don't have a slug problem you have a duck deficiency problem.

[@Bigfoottehchipmunk]

That little, raised salad bed is a great idea! If the slugs are getting too plentiful, you can open a slug saloon. A pie pan of beer will attract them and then they drown. You could cover it with another foil pan with little openings cut all around, if you're concerned about other critters drinking it.

[@chrisannm5240]

So many good ideas, most of which I have used during my decades of gardening, but newbie gardeners need this kind of information, so great video!! Putting a seed tray table legs on blocks set in pans of water is something others have used and is the gardeners version of what I had to do in my house during the 10 years I lived in Arizona (US) and something pioneers in the old west did in their log cabins. I put the 6 posts of my bed frame up on glass blocks set in glass pans of water so *bark scorpions* could not climb up into bed with me! The tarantulas I had to trap with a large butterfly net and toss outside...it was an interesting life.

[@katewalbyoff8165]

😂 cheeky man! Used to be used for films! 😂

[@congwee]

This year I managed to deter all slugs from my lettuces and seedlings by growing them on multi tiered shelves in pots/trays and using double strips of copper tape around the legs of the shelving. It has been my best year for lettuces

[@saylor_stories]

I really love your videos for all it's (amazingly) high quality gardening content🌱- but I have to say...that sketch about your sponsor (and especially the way you connected it to the rest of the video) was just so brilliantly done!! 🙌🏼 Thanks for the all around great video Huw!🌻

[@kalindif]

haha loved the computer hacker scene - it cracked me up! also loved all of your tips on pests as its always an issue in my garden

[@HuwRichards]

Haha thank you so much 🤣

[@cec8652]

@@HuwRichards Totally loved that scene too! ... we have BABOONS in South Africa - and nothing can keep them out!

[@janetwinslow2039]

He's just lovely isn't he? And he has great ideas...!

[@juliaware7504]

Your channel is giving me so much inspiration through freezing Australian winter - not long now until seed sowing time though! You have so much knowledge and I appreciate it so much. I was saying 'huw on KZbin says.... ' so much my partner has dubbed the channel 'HuwTube'

[@tracycrider7778]

Cute

[@cbjones2212]

We're the same here in Central Vic 😊 Added bonus is my partner has Welsh heritage so Huw has extra credence, haha!

[@juliaware7504]

@C&B Jones hope you're holding up OK in this icey winter! I'm in Canberra and really feeling it!

[@kerrywatson8581]

Huw Tube😂😂😂

[@fionaimison2042]

😄huwtube's great aye! Learn so much. Disappointing that there are no nsw veg garden youtubers (that i can find). All of them are in the northern hemisphere & I'm constantly having to 'convert' info to relate to the opposite season.

[@yahkar]

😁Yo. Your Pivot from Pest to Malware Was Supreme 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@looneygardener]

Your garden is stunning. Wales is one of the most gorgeous places I have been.

[@tiarianamanna973]

That blackberry cane slug prevention trick seems pretty genius 🤔 will defenitely try it!

[@pavana2810]

Dude! That transition from the slug fence to the vpn and pest/ hackers. Smooth!

[@amandachamberlain3169]

Your garden is so beautiful and diverse, it looks like you've achieved a nice balance. I hope to get there eventually.

[@TavernCrawler]

that segway was on point

[@LizZorab]

Enjoyed this video Huw. Great to see the garden filled with so many flowers!

[@jessicaleighdargaclark4536]

Lmao! Oh Hew, was a little sad at having to listen to a commercial, until you flipped the hacker the bird. Totally unexpected and prompted a solid LOL! Thanks for the info AND the laughs!

[@AngelaM745]

"Films used to be on them" I'm so old 😩 🤣🤣

[@janwilky]

Loved this video Huw, you manage to make a film about pests both beautiful and funny. You missed my nemesis pest though - moles! Actually for us it's moles and voles and it's sometimes hard to figure out which of the two has just rummaged through a newly planted bed and turned our heavy clay, well composted soil into fluff and upended all my carefully planted out seedlings. I think moles are the worse culprits of the two, and the more moist and compost-rich the soil is, the more they love it and I can almost guarantee that they'll find a newly planted bed within a couple of days. They don't eat the plants, they just tunnel in search of nice juicy worms but in the process they do so much damage that some crops fail completely - I lost almost my entire crop of onions this year. I have to re-plant the uprooted seedlings and firm down the soil with my fingers and sometimes my boot - it can look not too bad until I get my hands in there and feel the tunnels collapse as I firm the soil down again. If I don't find the damage quickly enough the young plants dry out and die, so it can be a huge problem. I can't sow any seeds direct into the soil at all or they just end up in a mole tunnel, so I have to grow carrots in pots. A few weeks ago I planted out some young beetroot plants, and I was counting my lucky stars that they'd been left alone - maybe because of the hot weather, though I was watering the seedlings. But that all changed this week when a mole moved in - I replanted those beautiful healthy young beet plants 8 times yesterday alone!! I've tried those solar powered sonic deterrents (the moles tunnelled right next to them!) and I've tried to avoid trapping but I think we might have to resort to live traps. We have an orchard they can be released into, but I have a sneaky feeling they'll just laugh at me and move straight back into my cushy veg beds!

[@melissaschloneger9902]

Some people will put a fine metal mesh in the bottom of a raised bed to keep them out - something to think about doing. I am considering doing it myself

[@janwilky]

@Life, Love and Mental Illness a vlog channel they reputedly don't like caper spurge plants but I haven't managed to grow them successfully on our heavy clay. Using mesh would be much too labour intensive and expensive as we have quite a few raised beds. Good idea for smaller gardens though.

[@nicola6805]

Channel your inner slug!!😂 What would a slug do🤔 genius

[@fionagrows1848]

I have always succumbed to the carrot fly until this year. I grew my carrots in buckets and put them on the flat roof of our extension. It has worked a treat. For the first time I’ve got beautiful healthy carrots! The carrot fly couldn’t fly that high!

[@alicecoppers8980]

Thank you so much for the CD suggestion. This morning I woke up to my garden being decimated from turkeys. The turkeys outnumber the people 50 toone in my area. So I hung a bunch of CDs up and I haven’t seen any turkeys yet.

[@yukey2587]

Thank you again, Huw, for the information! Short and sweet, but condensed with lots of important stuff.

[@joyjs857]

Thanks Hew great video. we all need a little reminder of the basics occasionally. Your garden looks lovely

[@rollacoast]

Great video. Love the spikey canes trick to protect against slugs. Off to the allotment now to try it.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Huw that was a great video! Nice way you filmed the add. 👍 A LOT of work went into this. Sooo much extra footage.

[@HuwRichards]

Ahh thank you so much it's nice to get appreciation from someone who knows what kind of work this stuff requires!🤣

[@TheWeedyGarden]

@@HuwRichards Do you have any help with it ie editing, filming, looking after the garden, pr, social media ect? It is an incredible amount of work for one person.

[@HuwRichards]

@@TheWeedyGarden Just expanded to a team of 7 as we have a huge amount of things we are working on in the pipeline too

[@TheWeedyGarden]

@@HuwRichards Fantastic Huw. I admire your setup 💚

[@c.isforcookie]

that was the funniest product placement ever

[@evanbuhr534]

That add transition was brilliant.

[@lemonyskunkketts7781]

That was awesome, you briefly plugged in Mark's channel. Great info, I really enjoyed this video.

[@radharcanna]

Another great video Huw. You have such a beautiful garden. I’m not too keen on the new advert in the middle but I suppose it pays the bills.

[@kvintaquilts]

Slugs have decimated 90% of all my garlic’s leaves and I also found some of them beginning to munch on the garlic bulbs too 😱 So I had to dig them up before I would have liked, so my very first garlic harvest is very small this year… Onion fly got to that part of the raised beds and destroyed that. 😭 I am grateful for volounteer potatoes and self sewn gooseberries in a part of my hedge right now!

[@cbjones2212]

Try sowing carrots between your garlic next time. They each deter the other's pests.

[@squange20]

Excellent video Huw.

[@julesgoh]

Not only are you a great teacher for all things gardening and time / project management, now I finally understand why VPN is so useful - you are amazing! (very clever and funny “ad” too and great acting)! Your garden is looking soooo beautiful, just like the photos in your new book. And great videography too!

[@HuwRichards]

What a lovely comment! Thank you so much :)

[@julesgoh]

@@HuwRichards thank you for taking the time to reply. Am currently reading your book every night 🌱👍

[@Starlight22215]

I had chickens but earlier this year but decided to let them go. I had a friend with a farm and she was happy to take them. I still see them and have their eggs. I converted the main coop into a poly box but the small ark coop I turned upside down, lined and added a couple of feet and now have a very large trug and it’s snail free. The slugs and snails just don’t seem able to climb up that far. It was almost new and I would never have got my money back but the conversion is excellent. A pest free zone at waist height which is so much nicer for my back.

[@megank7235]

"Think like a slug" also smooth af ad transition there Huw! :)

[@plantsoverpills1643]

This spring, I had a pest completely devour my brassica roots. I suspected cabbage root fly but found absolutely nothing in the soil. It also demolished my garlic roots and onion roots. Again I found nothing in the soil. Where I did discover root maggots, was in my daisy plant whose roots were also completely devoured. In 35 years of gardening, I’ve never seen such destruction in the garden with no apparent culprit.

[@ninad5692]

Can't wait to try that blackberry cane idea, that's brilliant👍

[@TheTexasTakebyMissVikie]

Awww but the Flea beatles like you look at the holes they made... Some are Heart Shaped 💕😍🤣

[@Scott3387]

easiest way to deal with slugs is to have no rain for basically 4 months like we have had this year in my part of the UK haha. Good for blight though.

[@ruthcalsada1440]

Flee beetles destroyed my eggplant transplants before I even got them in the ground. I was in the stage of acclimating them to the outside. Within a few days, the tiny leaves were almost completely eaten. Most of my okra was destroyed too

[@jaclynbrown8641]

Thank you!

[@riffhurricane]

That's a great idea with the blackberry canes. I'll be doing that from now on.

[@berniel6962]

Thanks for the tip of using blackberry canes to limit slug damage. I will give it a go👍🏾

[@nofapSally]

This was worth watching just to see mild mannered gentleman Huw flip that hacker off. 😂

[@19YVO]

thanks Huw love your creativity have an awesome weekend greetings from the Netherlands

[@HuwRichards]

Awh thank you so much!!

[@emayren7579]

Loved the cafe video section really made me laugh xx

[@homesci3596]

Thank you I'm going to try them all except one.. I love birds and even if they eat my fruits I don't mind, after all they won't eat the whole lot I guess.. I love sharing with birds..

[@ninemoonplanet]

Rodents, like voles, rats can taste hot chili powder. I used some in the spring around the holes, near any vegs they were going after. Just a sprinkle on any vegs will make them turn away. I think I found a female hole, was more lavish with the hot powder so the young would have trouble nursing, and she'd need to move them.

[@helenharland6050]

The garden is looking fabulous Huw. Local conditions vary too. For instance I’m in southern Australia and my Garlic got hammered by aphids/black fly last year, also red spider mite devastate Beans and Cucumbers in my garden. I also avoid certain pest issues with TIMING. I can’t grow early Beans or Cucumbers because of spider mite but they are not affected if planted later in the season. Same with Brassicas and Cabbage Butterfly, I plant in the cool season when the butterflies are dormant and avoid the Spring/Summer.

[@amandachamberlain3169]

Mexican bean beetles get my beans every year, I'm in the U.S and they're worst in July. I still get a decent amount of beans, but I think it could be better if they weren't being skeletonized by bugs.

[@serenakoleno9338]

I had the same results with cucumber beetles, when I wait to plant later, no problem. Midmichigan.

[@rhondamoffit6490]

Thank you so much for sharing!!!

[@lesliekendall5668]

I had a perennial kale plant just infested with aphids and eaten to practically nothing and I saw on another video to hard (jet) spray it with a bottle or hose. It said if you get them off they don't climb back up. I tried the hose and the plant is thriving again.

[@siljamende4978]

Tanks a lot for your inspiring Videos!

[@ctviera]

This was very helpful, including a number of ideas I hadn't heard of and offering a context/way of thinking more broadly that supports all the tips including prevention. Thanks!

[@derekstoddard8475]

Do you have any issues with roly-poly/pill bugs? I have many issues with them. They're like lumberjacks cutting down my bean stalks.

[@danielarichter2453]

For scaring away rabbits it helps me on my field to have a vertical stick in the ground over wich is put an empty compost bag. Fix it only at the top so the bag is moved by the wind and makes some noises wich scares these animals . Now carrots can grow on👍🏼

[@potagermalo]

Vraiment magnifique bravo

[@OniBarix]

Perfect timing mate! My cantaloupe and cucumbers are getting some rather unwelcome guests. Also that dig on CDs hurt my soul.

[@etn3856]

Thanks for this informative video. A note on flea beetle, you mentioned they never an issue. I would love to send you a photo of the damage these flea bettle caused on our broccoli, kohlrabi and the like. Unsure if any harvest will be there. I assume it's to do with the climate as it is hot and dry here. Always looking forward to hearing about your experience and knowledge.

[@annebeignatborde1832]

I'm having the same problem with flea beatles here in France. My young broccoli plantes had nearly all their leaves eaten and my roquette was completely destroyed.

[@gardeningforcatlovers39]

Same problem for me this year too, I had absolutely hundreds of them, my Rocket was growing unprotected and it was almost totally wiped out in a matter of days before I realised what had happened. They also got into my main brassica bed which is very well protected with veggiemesh (which was covered in loads of them every day for a few weeks) and they caused a fair bit of damage to some young raddish, pac choi and turnips. It took about a week of daily hunting and squashing to clear them out. These were all new raised beds so these almost certainly migrated from elsewhere. I hear that marigolds and dill might be good as a deterrent.

[@etn3856]

@@gardeningforcatlovers39 thanks for the tip, I might try that. I'm starting to give up battling with them

[@dianafitzpatrick2423]

Yes thanks for this vid

[@ralfnuggs165]

I live in New Jersey and have honestly never seen a slug in like 30 years

[@ohio_gardener]

I use old CD's to hang in the arbor to deter birds. I had a large arbor between two raised beds to grow pole beans, peas, cucumbers, etc., and birds love to ravage them. I can pick up old CD's at the thrift store for almost nothing, and they work great to keep out the birds.

[@annaalsanska4623]

Hey, thank you for the video. Could you also highlight strategies for fighting with ants? Allmost no one ever mentions them when talking about pests, but they are often a real nightmare in raised beds. Thanks in advance! 😉

[@SinkingPoint]

What problems are the ants causing?

[@TinMan445]

The ants aren’t touching your plants. They are farming aphids

[@lostvalentines28]

Flea beetles decimated my eggplants for 2 years in a row. Completely skeletonized the leaves. This year, I had to keep applying DE until the plants were flowering and could finally fight them off. Got my first homegrown eggplants a week ago

[@AlchemyAles]

I've just pick them off my eggplants 1x per day and they eggplants can thrive

[@jamanegeshemtarau]

I've just started my 1st ever vege garden and I'm so grateful for your videos, I've learnt so much. Thank you. I just have 1 big problem 🤦‍♀️ Ants. I'm from NZ and i get alot of problems with ants, Could someone please give me some hints on how to control them?

[@Miss_Lexisaurus]

I have slugs and snails living their best life on my potatoes 😭. Will be giving some of these tips a go - we just cut back some brambles last weekend.

[@saltburner2]

Vine weevils are a scourge in my part of the country. They eat the roots and the plant is destroyed. I apply nematodes twice a year (April and September); they are the most effective remedy.

[@amiladybug9526]

some very useful information am going to be using the CD trick I do hope it works on wood pigeons .

[@theunexpectedpermaculturehippy]

I've been watching your videos for a long time. I see you putting out seedlings a lot... In my garden I have much better luck doing direct seeding. My seedlings never do well if they make it at all. What soil do you use to start your seedlings? Unfortunately the flea beetles often get my brassicas before they can get a head start.

[@margaretchadwick2080]

My mum always used the water from doing the dishes to get rid of greenfly etc

[@etiennelouw9244]

Soak stinging nettles is water for 3 days and spray on aphids. Works on lots of the horibillies.

[@raphaelaott3373]

😃 good Tips, Thank you!👏👍 just a slight correction on the "rabbit proof" fence. Well I do agree with the shabe and all that, that really works. but that type of mesh/fence material... can be chewed thru... my Rabbit did it just last week, and has now the whole balcony instead of just his enclosure...😅🙈well until I fix that hole anyway...

[@ironmaiden795]

For carrot fly, my step mum swears by planting calendula by the carrots to deter the pests.

[@veena4245]

Can you please advice how to treat early blight on tomato plants? We are in Boston, USA, 6b zone. Thank you!

[@charleylouise3900]

Im definitely trying the plank trap tonight! Aphid question though - with the soap technique, does the soap harm other predators? I heard that it can and was worried

[@Ed-eq5kd]

Very interesting and informative as always, thanks. No mention of dealing the caterpillar though? Btw, never seen so match product placement in your videos, im guessing Gardena sent you a big box of freebies 😀

[@jet8485]

I heard electroculture (working with copper) works like a charm against pests. The crop becomes healthier, bigger etc. Becomes more resistant against pests. Would love to learn more about that.

[@yeevita]

Hmm I must have strange pests. Coriander and fennel and dill are pest attractors in my garden. Aphids and other small pests seem to adore them. It doesn't prevent me from having seeds later to collect, though I leave them to dry outside, so the insects can leave, die or get eaten. As pest attactors, they are also good pest predator attractors and nurseries. Right now, my preying manti have taken up their territories around the garden, and that seems to help a lot. Also the heat keeps the aphids down. I don't really have slugs here, but if spikes work, do slugs eat fuzzy squash leaves? Maybe make those into rolls along the sides of beds with crops the slugs like.

[@julie-annepineau4022]

Any suggestions for earwigs? They are an introduced species here and running rampant.

[@greenfingers9437]

Hi Huw, not a pest question! I just need to know if I can plant leeks where I have removed my onions? I have tried Google but no luck! I do hope you can help please

[@Jo_mommah]

Nice Segway lol 😁

[@looneygardener]

I used pieces of wild blackberry cane in my beds to deter squirrels and chipmunks from digging up my pepper seedlings. I figured they would hurt their grubby, digging little feet. Here in Canada , squirrels, chipmunks and bunnies are cute yet loathed by veg gardeners.

[@squange20]

We get rabbits the size of cats or bigger. The first week I planted my veggie seedlings out, and painstakingly and enclosed the patch with net. A couple of days later, all the lettuce and spinach and calendula seedlings were eaten, but they left the broccoli, cauliflower and celery alone. Wonder why. They definitely dug under the patch. So now we are trying out raised beds. Hope that works.

[@runningwarrior5468]

Hey, thanks for the strobe warning. I appreciate you thinking of the epilepsy community. Our son has epilepsy.

[@HuwRichards]

You're most welcome :)

[@lucybarnard3954]

Out of all the pests flea beetles are the ones I really don’t like, they totally destroyed my brassicas bar a few little florets. As they live dormant in the ground over winter I’m not sure how to manage this for next year, I will be planting dill, as they don’t like the smell, but I really don’t want to loose so much next time x

[@KristinGasser]

I‘m a first time gardener and two days ago all of my brassica varieties were completely destroyed by the cabbage bug (Eurydema oleraceum) in just ONE DAY. I never heard of them before. The first day you see them pairing on a leaf you think „oh, how sweet & beautiful“, the next day there are hundreds an you see white lines in the leafs and you think „shit, these are from the bugs“ and the next day they were ten thousands everywhere… when they are ready the leafs are completely dry and crispy and the stems have brown lines… it was like in one of these horror films about clouds of insects come and eating a whole field within minutes… 😢 We‘re here out in the nowhere, in Slavonia/ Croatia close to the hungarian border, close to a Natural forrest reserve park, here‘s no intense farming and pure nature all around and it seems these bugs don‘t have any natural enemies…

[@Callofdootie]

Have you upgraded your camera? The video quality is amazing!

[@HuwRichards]

No just a different style of filming with the cannon R5😊

[@JP-sm4cs]

Great vid! Where do you buy your seeds?

[@gudi361]

My nemesis are slugs. Will try with Blackberry branches

[@jenjoy4353]

Hi Huw, I’ve had something, grubs I think, burrowing onto my turnip roots. Any ideas for treating this problem?

[@jturtle5318]

For long-term care, encourage skunks. They dig out grubs and are fairly gentle with plants.

[@thelonelygardener5426]

I have a big problem with squash/ stink bugs. Do you know of any remedies?

[@klaussemand]

Great video! Can anyone give me an example of a natural soap? If not a brand, then what would the components be? I'm referring to the spraying of aphids. Cheers

[@tuppybrill4915]

Apparently (so mossy bottom says) ducks hoover up slugs