7 Veggies That Bugs Won't Eat | GROW THESE!
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Күн бұрынWe have our fair share of insect pressure down here in south Georgia, especially during the warm growing season. But thankfully, the pest pressure tends to lessen during the cool growing season. Join us as we tell you about seven vegetables you can grow that the bugs won't bother. You won't have to worry about worms munching on these. Instead, you'll have a care-free gardening experience as you enjoy all the delicious food from your backyard grocery store.
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0:32 Managing Pests in the Backyard Garden
3:09 Warm Season Veggies with Pest Issues
3:47 Cool Season Veggies with Pest Issues
4:06 Seven Veggies with No Pest Issues
6:29 Planting Lettuce in the Raised Bed Garden
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@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
What veggies don't give you any pest issues? 0:00 Intro 0:32 Managing Pests in the Backyard Garden 3:09 Warm Season Veggies with Pest Issues 3:47 Cool Season Veggies with Pest Issues 4:06 Seven Veggies with No Pest Issues 6:29 Planting Lettuce in the Raised Bed Garden
@dvrmte 9 ай бұрын
The onion pest I used to have the most problem with were onion maggots. Some years they would kill or severely damage half my transplants. I found a cure, and it's organic. I make a 50/50 solution of spinosad and water, and soak the bottom of my onion plants in it for a few minutes. I then planted them. I saw a study where spinosad treated seeds was highly efficient in preventing onion maggot damage. Spinosad is taken up by the roots and will prevent maggot damage for a few weeks after planting. I no longer see any damage from maggots in my onions. Onion and seed maggot flies are highly active around here in early March. They lay their eggs at the soil line on transplants and seedlings.
@mutantryeff 9 ай бұрын
Many of our politicians are veggies that have gone buggy.
@bonnieingraham6147 9 ай бұрын
Bugs that need strong pesticides!
@classicrocklover5615 9 ай бұрын
Wormy. Full of rot and decay. Caused by too much contaminated manure
@gidget8717 9 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@MissBetsyLu 9 ай бұрын
Be nice Blessings everyone everywhere and always
@brycelathrop1604 9 ай бұрын
I get root aphids on carrots occasionally. The carrot looks fine from above ground but then you go to pull them and they have aphids on them under the surface and the carrots are all pale and tasteless. They suck all the sugars out of them.
@wow.sailor. 9 ай бұрын
Hi, from South Africa, thanks for valuable information on gardening
@floridacoder 9 ай бұрын
Pests I fought this year were army worms, leaf miners, aphids, and finally spider mites. At least the ones I know of. Then various diseases, heat stress, and too much rain. Let's see what fall has in store for me with basically. Can't wait LOL
@mysty3334 9 ай бұрын
I haven't heard you talk about good bugs. First year I gardened in Wisconsin I had a gazillion tiny bugs everywhere. Next spring I bought lady bugs and no more aphids. My neighbor mentioned "where did all the aphids go ?" I said in the tummies of my sweet little lady bugs : )
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
We get ladybugs here. We also have a strong wasp population which seems to help.
@bwayne40004 9 ай бұрын
I'm not especially crazy about a big, steaming bowl of Swiss Chard but I grow it until into winter mostly to give to my chickens as a green treat. I almost never see a hole or mark on the leaves.
@Debsjac 8 ай бұрын
Hiii just have to say we use young Swiss chard mixed with spinach for salad. I don’t like it cooked but it’s a very mild salad green and is delicious I was surprised.
@joycebovee5818 9 ай бұрын
This was my first year, encountering the swallowtail, and they did not do any damage whatsoever to my parsley, or fennel at all.
@kaminskisarah 9 ай бұрын
Up here in Alaska, zone 5a cause I’m coastal, the slugs will eat almost anything in the garden, they leave the carrots and parsnips and don’t damage beets too much, they will also leave all the alliums alone, but I get some kinda leaf miner in my young alliums I can’t figure it out but they live through it, and once they are larger it’s not an issue, I suppose the leafs gets too spicy. We don’t have cabbage worm, but we do have root maggots which killed 95% of my brassicas, so insect netting next year for sure! Since the slugs will munch almost anything there’s not much that grows without pest pressure up here…I am part Gardner, part slug hunter!!
@patricacompton9603 9 ай бұрын
The bugs down there may not like your spinach but here in Washington they eat the heck out of it and they can kill the whole crop within days
@edwinmartin5365 9 ай бұрын
I consider peppers as my most insect and fungus free summer crop. Watermelons might be 2nd best summer easy crop. but I agree with you about alliums, spinach and lettuce. I agree about carrots except it is hard to get a good uniform stand as slow as they are to germinate so I'd never say they were easy. In 8B SE AL.
@marybk882 9 ай бұрын
My pest free veggies are lettuce, spinach, carrots, and celery. And all of my herbs. I keep my brassicas and strawberries under insect netting. However, this summer I didn't have much bug pressure on anything. I hand picked a few bugs. But other than that, it was pretty amazing. I'm in east central Minnesota.
@lindawilbert3202 9 ай бұрын
That's what I should have done. Thanks for mentioning the insect netting
@christym6128 9 ай бұрын
Nothing ever touches my arugula.
@johnbrzenksforearm8295 9 ай бұрын
The only thing I know of that works almost 100% for all insects is insect netting for thrifts , but that stuff is expensive. I considered doing 10x20 plots with screenhouses around them to lower the chance of insect pressure because I live in the Southeast as well. We get bombarded in June by leaf footed bugs, moth turds, and Japanese Beetles which makes it almost impossible to grow squash or cucumbers. The other thing I noticed with insect netting is higher humidity which increases chances of blight. Blight is easier to deal with than insects to me.
@SH-gd9uq 9 ай бұрын
Travis my pest free list is a list of six. The same as you except here in Rio Rancho NM the birds eat my lettuce like some kind of sweetened breakfast cereal? Great video sir.
@MissBetsyLu 9 ай бұрын
You sure are rough on water lines!!!! Blessings everyone everywhere and always
@elainedegoede6276 9 ай бұрын
Love your veggies❤
@richm5889 9 ай бұрын
In 6b just outside Boston, carrot fruit fly over attack carrots in the ground and lots of rodents will attack them as soon as that carrot breaks the surface; something eats the spinach, not sure what. Swiss Chard is more subject to fungus than tests, but snails and slugs do like it. Some roads just love bok choy / tatsoi especially when it's small. The cabbage moth with white wings and a black dot a merciless on any brassica. I keep them covered with row cover as insect netting and they do well. I also found planting Dill in among the brassicas is effective. Nothing bothers my lettuce until it gets big and starts to get unhealthy. At that point they are helping me clean up the garden.
@LowcountryGardener 9 ай бұрын
I agree with 6 of your 7. My lettuce gets attacked by leaf miners this time of year. Need some cold weather to get rid of them. Also in spring around late April I have a big problem with aphids attacking my lettuce, but that just tells me that lettuce is done for the next 6 months...lol
@jerrygeorgopolis8015 9 ай бұрын
Travis, Interesting video, thank you. Well, with the cool temperature change here in S. N.H. I thought pest pressure would subside, wrong ! My broccoli, kale, collard leaves look like they were hit with bird shot ! My swiss chard however is doing just fine, and still picking a few cherry tomatoes ! All the best
@MissBetsyLu 9 ай бұрын
That's organic gardening and crazy weather, I would guess. Blessings everyone everywhere and always
@bonnieingraham6147 9 ай бұрын
You are blessed, and I hope you continue to be! About 3 years ago we started experiencing the allium leaf miner. What a destructive PEST! First found in PA, I think, and they’ve found their way to zone 6b in MD. Had a totally failed crop of onions, leeks and garlic one year. Figured out what it was and now the only way we can grow alliums is with row covers :( Yet another crop, like all our brassicas that we need to cover. Our pest free crops are okra, cowpeas,mustard greens, turnips(mostly),potatoes, butternut squash, and hot/sweet peppers and FIGS ( we grow a Brunswick fig) Hmmm guess we’re doing ok :) Love your informative videos, Travis. We have learned so much!!
@mariatorres9789 9 ай бұрын
My figs got a weird nematode, and I didn't notice until I started pruning it back hard & they jumped all over me & started biting! I was going to spray it, but found out they eat termites. Guess I'll leave them, to keep my house from becoming a snack, lol.
@bonnieingraham6147 9 ай бұрын
@@mariatorres9789 wow that’s crazy!!
@originalwoolydragon8387 9 ай бұрын
Swallowtails (caterpillars) ate my parsnips down to nubs a couple weeks ago.
@waynec3121 9 ай бұрын
Travis I wish I lived close to you I wouldn't need to grow any starters cause you always have extra
@csimmons3717 9 ай бұрын
I’ve never had anything munch on my celery in Louisiana.
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
That's another good one to add to the list!
@eretabegardens 9 ай бұрын
Wonderful tutorial. Thank you for sharing.
@brucemullis479 9 ай бұрын
Good video, I called two that I grew last year in the Florida panhandle. Onions and Carrots. Haven't tried Garlic yet.
@mariatorres9789 9 ай бұрын
Garlic is great, just start it in a little cup of water, separate your little cloves, toss it in the ground & forget it. It'll come up every year, & you can start cloves anytime & shove them in the ground. You don't need raised beds. You don't even need to pull them every year & replant, like people in snow areas. Just leave em be, and pull one when you need it. Lol.
@venidamcdaniel1913 9 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness. Bugs ate my lettuces something awful in WV. I think they were those red mites.
@Frankie_902 9 ай бұрын
I have better luck growing them during fall than I do in spring.
@deborahtofflemire7727 9 ай бұрын
Good ideas
@dvrmte 9 ай бұрын
In regards to greens and lettuce, I usually have issues in the Fall with whiteflies. I usually spray once with imidacloprid and it helps some.
@mariatorres9789 9 ай бұрын
Have you tried covering them with tule?
@treasuresabound0062 9 ай бұрын
The whiteflies have been bad the last month in north florida!
@dvrmte 9 ай бұрын
@@treasuresabound0062 It amazes me that such a delicate, fragile insect such as a whitefly, is in reality one of the toughest insects to kill. They quickly develop resistance to insecticides. They come in from neighboring property. They have large trees that are dying from whiteflies. The ground under them is sticky with the honeydew they secrete.
@creel-starr 9 ай бұрын
In TN I had these tiny little black bugs on our onions. They were in clumps and stunted them. Okra also had the same tiny black bugs and ants! Groups of both destroying the slower as soon as it formed or on the underside of the leaves
@treasuresabound0062 9 ай бұрын
Aphids?
@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm 9 ай бұрын
Hey Travis I think most of those are true here also. I have had a couple plants that the squirrels dug up as fast as I planted them ie ginger they dug them up and spread them all around the yard on the grass?????? I had a few that the squash bugs wnet after like mad but then a few items were left completely alone. I don't want to jinx it by naming them out loud. BTW I completely agree on the celery so true they are a bugger...
@marysurbanchickengarden 9 ай бұрын
The biggest problem I have with my transplants is the slugs. I don't dare mulch anything green other than garlic. I put out slug bait when I know it's not going to rain but if it kills three then nine more take their place.
@lindawoody8501 9 ай бұрын
Would you believe grasshoppers ate my Ancho Poblano Chilis, Onions, Green Salad Bowl Lettuce, Early Girl Tomatoes, Bearded Iris, Concord Grapes, Celery leaves, Carrot leaves, Globe Artichokes, and Italian Grey Zucchini, Crookneck Summer Squash. We are in the Mojave Desert in NW Arizona and this is the 2nd year of the grasshopper invasion (hundreds maybe thousands and I have sprayed organic soap, hot pepper!, garlic, combination of the three, wheat flour dusting, and water trapping and hand picking. May need to spray Neem. Bermuda lawn is over the septic drainage field so we need to keep that and cannot rototill there (that is where they have laid eggs). Born in August too which is 2 months later this year from the last.
@allantrafford6262 9 ай бұрын
Here in southwest Louisiana my pest pressure is confined to pretty much just leaf footed bugs, which gets bad about once a month during warm months. Then I have vine borers and corn ear worms. I think I figured out how to beat the ear worms. My first 2 corn crops this year had damage but my third crop had zero worms. I’ve been lucky and have had no other pests the past few years.
@classicrocklover5615 9 ай бұрын
What's the secret?
@allantrafford6262 9 ай бұрын
@@classicrocklover5615 no big secret. I sprayed the silks early, often, and thoroughly with spinosad. Every 5 days and really drenched the silks. I also went out at night a few times and killed every moth I seen flying around. That may not have really helped much but it gave me satisfaction after losing half the of my previous corn due to the worms
@Debsjac 8 ай бұрын
The lettuce looks so great. I have never grown it. In Texas zone 8 is it too late to plant by seed?
@LazyDogFarm 8 ай бұрын
I don't think it's too late. Go for it!
@Detour4it 9 ай бұрын
Have ya tried Kohlrabi? Good stuff.
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
We used to grow a lot of it when we sold our veggies. It's okay. Tastes kinda like a poot to me. lol
@Detour4it 9 ай бұрын
@LazyDogFarm 🤣. I thought close to it until the wife started making garlic mashed type taters out of them. She pressure cooks, mashes, does her thing and bakes. Now much better than "poot".
@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority 9 ай бұрын
How do you do with chard? I'm not a lettuce or kale fan but I can eat chard every day.
@naomi2646 9 ай бұрын
Thank you for sale the bug and veggie information. You mentioned organic bug killer, what are you using? I have lots of ants and squash bugs and black worms on spinach. Please advise😢
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
I use spinosad and Bt mostly.
@susanstewart7663 9 ай бұрын
Hey Travis! Can you direct seed parsnips?
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
Yes. I wouldn't recommend transplanting them.
@TexasNana2 9 ай бұрын
What is the name of the worm casting / compost you are using? My Louisiana Evergreen Shallots that I got from you are really growing! Thanks 😊
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
It's just the Black Kow mushroom compost that is sold at the local big box stores.
@TexasNana2 9 ай бұрын
@@LazyDogFarm thanks 😊
@anthonycoffee7683 9 ай бұрын
My lettuce, cabbage, and radishes were wiped out. Carrots, beets and onions planted in between weren’t touched.
@debbiek1699 9 ай бұрын
What zone are you? Just curious
@mutantryeff 9 ай бұрын
You must not have slugs and snails.
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
We don't. Our lack of mulch and frequent, shallow cultivation around plants doesn't make the best slug or snail habitat.
@YourSundaySchool 9 ай бұрын
Our biggest problem pest is stink bugs on our tomatoes and peppers. Eastern NC. Got any good sprays for them?
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
Spinosad will kill the little ones, but the adults are tough to kill unless you nuke everything with some pretty strong conventional stuff.
@billybass6419 9 ай бұрын
Have your mustard cover crops proven to kill nematodes? I saw your video and tried it, but I won't know until my spring plants mature.
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
Proven is a strong word, but I would say that we haven't had any RKN issues since we started using mustard cover crops every year. There are also a lot of large-scale organic farmers who do it.
@billybass6419 9 ай бұрын
Thanks, that's what I meant. I have a 34 x 45 ft garden plot infested with RKN and so far, nothing has worked. After watching your video, I have hope. I planted a cover crop and tilled them in. I have my 2nd crop in and about 2" tall. I'm hoping that two times will give me a successful garden next spring.@@LazyDogFarm
@lindawilbert3202 9 ай бұрын
What do you do about the broccoli pests? The little caterpillars
@LazyDogFarm 9 ай бұрын
Bt will usually take care of them pretty easily.
@lindawilbert3202 9 ай бұрын
@@LazyDogFarm What is BT? thanks
@amyk6028 9 ай бұрын
The slugs and snails devour my lettuce every year! 😡
@Frankie_902 9 ай бұрын
Looks like I need to grow these veggies for certain here in South Mississippi. 🪲🐛🐜🦗 🔫
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