The 100% Natural FREE Pest Control Method for Your Vegetable Garden

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Right before the new season really kicks off, I thought I would make a video outlining my strategy for natural pest control in the garden and provide plenty of tips and actionable steps for you to start implementing too. The best thing about this method of organic pest control is that you don’t sacrifice space for edible crops and you don’t need to use any chemicals at all!

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Introduction 0:00
The Goal of the Garden 0:13
Attitude to Nature 0:47
Supply & Demand Principle 1:20
Minimal Intervention Pest Control 1:50
The Trick to Reduce Pests 2:59
Two prime examples 3:45
What Pests & Diseases Really Are 4:35
8 Fantastic Plants 5:38
Why it’s so simple 9:09
Slugs 9:25

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@maylastyle5292
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Good job thank you so much 👍👍

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@TheNooo0b
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

I love the idea of balance in the garden, but I'm the only fire ant predator in my garden. They need to go. They ate most of my crops and alot of my seeds last year. It's game on this year.

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@lucybeevor9148
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Any advice to stop ?Mice/voles digging holes in my raised beds? I already have 2 cats. Have tried filling the holes back in each day for 3/4 days but they keep coming back 🙁 also tried a solar light, and popping some mesh on top but that is hard as i still have crops.

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@jackstone4291
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Great video. Really helpful and really practical for all us gardeners and first timers. Diversity and biodiversity.
(? Any mention of getting a wildlife pond in your garden at any point ……?
Now that’ll really get your biodiversity going!)

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@knowthings489
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

I think you've missed out biggest pest's slugs and snails

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@barbaras1579
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Thankyou.
The most common pest in my garden is earwigs.
How do I get rid of earwigs please?

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@peace4peaceful
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

My brassicas get hammered. No amount of natural predator insects can manage this. I have little aphid problem..so maybe the ladybirds are working there.
I planted cassia around the garden. They have turned into trap plants. Butterflies love then. I pick off 50 to 100 catapillars every 2 to 3 days.
Flea Beetles got into us too in a big way. I used flour to get rid of those..also neem oil.
My garden is young. I am winning more than losing so I am very happy with the permaculture approach. Especially using beneficial plants for nitrogen, aerating soil, compost material and trap plants.

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@jaradcanty5010
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

I'm from Australia does anyone know were you can get water fittings for The IBC tots to attach pipes to.

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@willboudreau1187
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

You Brits f*cking crack me up. They are NOT ladybirds, they are ladybugs. It's a bug, not a bird!!!! Jeesh, don't you guys know anything about English language?

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@user-pe2yx9kt4e
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Aw I know it helps but poor caterpillars 🙁 to have their lives cut and ripped away so short by parasites (I also know the wasps help but still makes me sad, same goes for so many of the things like this that occur in the world/in nature, I’m sure to the wasps as well) 🙁 I hope their souls can have a chance… to reach their goals and find happiness or something, idk. Something good though. I’m thinking and hoping that in Heaven things don’t have to work this way 🙂 i believe it is not something that should be looked upon favorably, it is just an unfortunate part of life on Earth. It is how this world on this plane works. I don’t want to abandon earth either though. We are here for a reason. I don’t want to go into space. I love Earth. I wish I could see Heaven in the clouds. Jump on them and fluff around in them and sleep in a little cloud nest bed. But then go into a beautiful garden-like area. With blueberries! Maybe not “here” or now. I think our souls do have to suffer/be punished and accept it to some degree. In our time here. Where can we (so we choose) to show mercy though? And love and honor our families? The bond of physical closeness between kin is unique for those individuals, and precious. And we can invite those we want into our families. My sheep… I love them so much. They like to be petted. It feels like family. And I am honored to have them be a part of my family. Yet we can also show kindness to others not a part of our family (too much can be very selfish though if you throw caution to everything around you, we should not always go above and beyond idt). I used to hate all other humans but they do struggle. No I don’t think i really hated them/us actually. Even if I thought I did I would still just gravitate towards and/or love some people a lot (really gravitated towards all but was completely rejected by most… also, some people should not mix and in this day and age you must be careful of that gravitation… even the world itself is worse (the world has changed) in many ways than it used to be (better in a few ways too)… but you shouldn’t gravitate towards everyone, Idt it’s truly good to… accept and face your reality and the circumstances we live in, in that aspect). You can say and know that one thing makes sense and is “better,” at least in some ways, but still take a different (right or wrong?) path. That’s why it’s important not to corrupt ourselves too much Idt (though I think we can heal and lift each other up too). Idk. Maybe it can’t be helped sometimes. Who knows. I want there to be more, especially for those souls whose lives are cut short or say lose everything in life including proper function over even themselves. Their thoughts. But I’m still more sympathetic now I think. And animals can display the same cruel behaviors as people. It took me years to truly realize that they are not always innocent either, though they’re still better. They do certainly hold one regard of innocence that humans lack. You could say that it’s better to act like an animal… at least sometimes, to those in disagreement. It is ok to be simple and not know everything too (that is not the regard of innocence I was referring to which is too hard to explain but also holds true).

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@elizabethannegrey6285
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

This channel is delightful, instructive, and so refreshing in demonstrating how a garden thrives when nature’s balance is respected. Great video, thank you.
🌺🌱🌼🐝

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@michelmartin742
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

When I put my nasturtium in the understory of the garden along the perimeter, it grows lanky and weak. I always find aphids on them but not elsewhere. I think it’s because the plant is already soft and attractive, but forcing it to grow in sub optimal conditions really makes it an effective companion plant due to the sticking to the weak principle that you mentioned.

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@adelafaith9604
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Has anyone any experience of onion leaf miners that move into the bulb as a grub …any ideas on natural predators? Apparently they've not been in UK all that many years. ??

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@louisfalberts7760
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

dankie Oom. Lekker video

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@conradcodfish8638
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

I have an allotment most plot holder's use pesticides, I don't use anything only thing I do is cut and drop, had no problems with blight last few years around my beds I allow for a 1cm width of uncut grass to grow and trim them just before the seed this makes a natural wind break and can slow the process of blight, as for bind weed I place bamboo sticks in and around leafy areas to allow for vine weed to trail up the flowers attract preditors and any brassica cutting left over I tuck into the vines few inches from the ground on the sticks, the shade and the food draw in the slugs and snails, then each week I'll alter which stake gets pulled out and vine removed for the disposal of them, I average about 10 slugs, snails and caterpillars each week per stake. Once done I look for another bind weed and repeat the process.

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@lookingforsalehorses
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Thanks Huw. Share your approach. Admire you 🥰

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@ghengis430
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

I'm ok with the little crawling pests, it's those bloody slugs and snails! They've destroyed my beans. I've been picking them off, and have now put chopped onions down around things they like. I've not much space so when the entire crop is eaten overnight, a bit more of my soul dies. Beer traps? The horrible Spanish slugs drink it and crawl back out.

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@КарінаПанюшкіна
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Thank you! I just want to add, that nasturtium is also edible plant (leaves and flowers), it tastes like cabbage)

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@RESMITHcarpentry
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

They're often hated around the yard, but I have found yellow jackets to be one of the best predator insects. They completely cleared out a terrible aphid infestation I had. I find if you're calm and give them water and food they never bother people.

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@koicaine1230
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

This video is exactly how things have happened in my garden! In the beginning, there was nothing here, just sand, ants and mosquitoes. A put in a small pond and garden. Since it was sand the plants didn't do much. The next season, I had layed Organic Straw, old leaves, pine needles and compost plus buried fish under the plants. The garden did great, Aphids were the first pest to show up so I bought Ladybugs to combat them and it worked great. The next year I planted Marigolds in with the plants to help repel pests that started to show up in droves, I also planted Zinnia's because they are pretty, the next thing I knew, I had Bees, Butterflies, Dragonflies and Hummingbirds!! Each year gets better and more balanced, we literally have an ecosystem that was devoid of all life beforehand.

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@Crystalrose81
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

The problem I have is that ants are very invasive and bring the aphids to the plants and then attack the good guys. I live on a large farm and the ants are my greatest enemy at this point

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@WildernessTamed
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Balance is the key to any habitat. My specialty, ponds, will always clear up once balance is achieved.
But ‘ cabbage white butterflies’?? You do know there’s no such species don’t you? 😉
My favourite slug control are slow worm. Anguis fragilis. 30 year life span and 90% of their diet is slugs. 👍🏻

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@RnRJB
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Good old wasps and hornets are the best protection against cabbage butterfly caterpillars.

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@BunnyLang
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Thank. you!

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@rosemaryryan6455
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

O have nasturtiums growing wild throughout. Each season is wonderful. We use the leaves n flowers in summer on salads, collect the young berries in spring and use them as preserve like capers. Amazing, and give away young crops of new sprouting to friends. It is such a great companion plant bring in d right bugs n bees n looks lovely. Especially in winter when there are less flowers around

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@borqnaplashkov4385
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

At 8:09 you have a hoverfly larvae eating aphids and ants tending the aphids like milk cows ^^

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@yarnpower
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Lovely and informative channel!
I live in the U.S. and sadly I am seeing less and less bees and other pollinators. Just a decade ago our clover in the lawn would be covered with bees, now there are hardly any. 🙁

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@theitalianwarrior9169
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Masanobu docet.

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@GuyBelievesInWorldPeace
May 31, 2025 @ 4:56 pm

Their name is hilarious to me because it makes me imagine them having a pest concert on a patch of leaf, so fancy.

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