Hello there, Kevin Espiritu here from Epic Gardening.

Today we're talking about toilet paper rolls as a pest control method.

So there's a couple of different use cases of this, and I know a lot of people like to use toilet paper rolls, cut them in half, or cut them in thirds,

and start their seeds in them, which is a fun little way to start seeds, but how about stopping pests with them?

To me that seems a little bit more fun,

a little bit more exciting.

So when you finish that roll,

you probably have a bunch of different toilet paper rolls to use

or even a paper towel roll. So the way I would use these to stop or

control pests, first of all we have to think about the pests that we want to stop.

So cutworms are a really good example because those will just slice and dice the stem of sensitive

new seedlings and transplants really, really quickly. You can stop vine bores, you can stop slugs this way. So let's go ahead and talk about how to do it let's say you're

growing carrots right you can get a cutworm that can just destroy that before you even

get started what I would do there is maybe use a toilet paper tube or even a

section of a paper towel tube and fill it up with potting soil, plant some seeds in it, and then

don't transplant until the roots come out of the bottom of the tube so maybe three or four

inches or so. You can also use cardboard tubes to prevent mayhem in your squash bed because those

vine bores are absolutely decimating to plants if they are left

uncontrolled. The moths, the adults, will lay their eggs in the stems of squash plants.

So then the larva eat their way out

and the stems get destroyed.

Just a crazy, crazy pest and quite annoying to deal with.

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