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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Pest Problems in This Year's Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

Every garden has its fair share of pests, but you might be surprised that they can kind

0:18.4

of change from season to season.

0:21.1

You know, last year at our place, or at my place, probably years to jock, we had a ton

0:27.4

of problems with earwigs.

0:29.2

Just an unlimited amount, it seems like handfuls really, in a bed, it's quite disturbing.

0:36.4

This year, I have seen some for sure, but I would say one 100th of the amount, they're

0:43.7

almost nonexistent, and some new things have cropped up.

0:47.8

In my garden, honestly right now, I have not experienced much besides aphids.

0:53.5

I haven't even seen a lot of the cabbage moth, which is actually the same.

0:58.1

Last year was very prevalent.

1:00.3

In your garden, it looks like you might have something new.

1:02.4

Yeah, I actually have a new problem that I was dreading to find, and that is, I found

1:07.5

some white fly, and so the reason I found this white fly is because I had this bed that

1:13.2

wasn't on irrigation and had all this kale plants in it that just weren't licking that

1:17.8

great, so I went over and gave them a very close investigation, and it turns out a lot

1:21.6

of the lower leaves had white fly on it.

1:23.9

So I think what happened was that black water really stressed the plants out, made them

1:28.3

a very easy target for that white fly, and they just loved that kale, filled it up, propagated

1:33.0

all over it, and actually managed to beat them back just this week.

1:36.6

I was thinking, I don't see any white fly on my property, so what I did is I hard pruned

1:41.4

all these kale plants, I removed all the lower leaves, I left nothing but the tiny little

1:45.9

leaves at the top of the plant, and then I soaked it entirely in name.

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