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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
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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
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.
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?
Good information.
Sunflower – Peredovik
Borage (great for tomatoes and cabbage)
Nasturtiums (cucumber beetle and squash bug)
Pyrethrum Daisy
Avoiding MARIGOLDS
Omg those bugs are huge! 🤢 i hate bugs. Usually its just lots of caterpillars eating my stuff here, not a lot of stuff like that. Blehhh, so gross. Thank god for pesticides.
Interesting, thank you! I have grown nasturtium beside my cabbage for a couple of years now and think I have had less cabbage worms on my kale and cabbage, but I have maybe just been lucky? I have the winding ones and let them go upwards a high trellis and it seems that the top of the trellis attract the flies/motts more than the lower part of the plants. I will try to plant your way this summer and see how the outcome gets. Borage does not spread easily here (close to the Arctic Circle) so I guess they are manageable in colder climates. We do not have much pest problems over all, cabbage worms is the biggest problem for me and I know some people struggle with nematodes but I think they haven´t been taking care of the soil properly. I do not dig if I don´t have to, just loosen up the soil. Feeds it with a lot of leaf, cow manure in autumn and "a splash" of gift from my girls in the chicken coop. I also plant tagetes here and there in my beds to avoid nematods, especially Tagetes tenuifolia, a nice addition in a sallad or to spice up (lemony taste) potatoes or as a herbal tea.
As a lifelong gardener….I LOVE your videos!! You have such a wealth of great information, and your knowledge of gardening is amazing. Blessings and a BIG thank you from Texas. 🤠 p.s. – I also am not a fan of marigolds.
Marigolds keep the pests out! Lol, I had a rabbit bed under mine last year.
What if you make a flower bed away from your garden with all of these flowers? Like 100 feet or more.
I'm 68 yrs old and thought a victory-type garden would be a good idea. I rent in town so I've been researching container gardening. It's overwhelming! What to plant, when, where and how. There's soil and fertilizers. Now bugs?!!!! I just wanted to grow my father's type of garden…dig a hole, plant a seed, let nature take it's course, and viola!!! A beautiful garden every year. Not so much, I'm guessing. Great video. I appreciate the knowledge. Thank you for sharing!!!
i always use marigolds and sunflowers, my 1st time doing nasturtiums, i tried doing them indoors and they grow fast …
Does anyone have an issue with pill bugs. They are eating every seed and seedling I plant. I hunt them down every day, remove by hand and use diatomaceous earth and still cant get ahead of their populations.
I used marigold for decades and never had any bug issues BUT the last two years they didn’t work AT ALL!! That tells me that hybridizing has ruined the marigold. They used to smell up the entire area and attract bees. But, the last two years, I could not smell them when in the garden much less approaching the garden.
Very Sad!!! They’re so easy to grow!
When do you plant this sunflower?
Marigolds are about repelling harmful nematodes in the soil.
I grow as many flowers as I can, lots of mammoth sunflowers, native flowers, marigolds seemed to help everything in the garden pretty well too
Good I do you sell fig trees I would like to start a orchard but the issue is I live in the bahamas and I don't know. if you sell trees and can ship them let me know please thank you
Oh no! This is my first year gardening and I grew a ton of giant marigolds. Also I have Shasta daisies and coneflowers. Im growing tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and herbs. I will plant the marigolds (still in pots) in my front yard. I live in Georgia and have the same growing zone as Millennial Gardener.
I've read that planting nasturium near brassicas is beneficial because it acts as a trap crop (i.e. more desirable).
Always good to know the positives and negatives. Thanks as always for the education. I have planted most that you spoke of. Will definitely try the sunflowers too. Good to know about the borage too.
You teach me so much! Thank you for the work you do and for inspiring my own garden and content 🙏🔥
Thanks for the great video.
Very informative!!
Hi Dale! 🐕
I’m glad I found your channel …
I’m starting a garden this year, again. Last year I only got 4 or 5 very small cucumbers. They tasted great, but I lost a lot to bloom rot. Not sure why.
I planted marigolds in a perimeter on my tiny garden bed. I planted bell peppers and cantaloupe. No melons were grown although the seeds sprouted. I harvested one pepper smaller than an egg. The rest didn’t make. They started and then just stopped.
I’ll be watching your channel to become a better gardener here in NC.
My garden in SE Ga was great!
Very informative. Thanks!
Thank you for all the high quality information you share succinctly in your videos. It’s like taking a gardening course. You should write a gardening book just the way you share the information in your videos.