Video: Organic Insect Control Pt. 1

Name: organic insect control
Uploaded: 2024-02-29T10:18:43+00:00
Duration: 17 min 28 s
Description: Garden writer Susan Mulvihill shares tips on organic insect control methods to keep aphids, cabbage worms and leafminers away. Video.

February 29, 2024 Susan

*The above left photo shows leafminer damage on beet leaves.*

My newest video is about organic insect control. As many of you know, I am totally into bugs and am probably referred to as The Bug Lady by some! Today’s video is the first of three installments that are about controlling some of the most annoying vegetable garden pests. Yahoo!

This week’s episode is about cabbage worms, aphids, and leafminers. The main take-home message I want to share with you is that it IS very easy to control these pests by using row covers. I would much rather exclude bugs from plants than have to use even an organic spray.

My goal throughout this series is that organic insect control is very doable. Once you know more about these insects’ life cycles and their weaknesses, you can outsmart them!

In the video, I mentioned my book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. Here is my Amazon affiliate link to the book.

I hope you’ll find it interesting and super helpful as the garden season gets under way:

I also wanted to share a video that I shot during the 2022 growing season which is about row covers in general: what they are, how they vary and any problems you might encounter.