hey ya'll its dream from where the yocals grow as you can see I'm standing out here in
my backyard and that's because we are out in the gardens today releasing these predatory mites to
further continue to eliminate and get rid of the spider mite infestation that we have going on here
at our house and in our Gardens so if you are new here welcome and if you
are returning I am so glad to see you again let's Get Growing y'all
okay y'all so for those of you who are new who may not have seen the the pest the garden pest
video I will link it down in the description for you so you can see what kind of what this video is
about this updating video in that video I talked about releasing predatorial mites but before I
get to that let's talk about how we got to where we are right now for those of you who have been
following me here on YouTube or follow me over on Tick Tock you've kind of seen this journey
as we've went along through it so when we first realized we had the infestation with spider mites
we kind of tried to do it organically by removing you know the removing the damage and just trying
to get rid of it when that didn't work we moved on to Captain Jack's dead bug and we sprayed but it
seemed to just make everything worse so once I got all of that done I had removed a lot of the Dead
branches you know because they're useless at that point to the plant itself I had removed a lot of
them and I'd actually given up on the plants when someone who follows me over on Tik Tok said hey
take your hose put it on high pressure spray just like you do the aphids and just spray
the heck out of the plants and what happens is the mouth detaches basically from the spider
mite's body causing it to die and then I had a follower here on YouTube who is lives nearby me
who's facing the same thing that most of us here in Texas are facing due to this heat our plants
are stressed out so this the mites just move in on them because it's so hot here right now it's
just kind of a crazy summer this year for the heat but she said hey use neem oil and Castile
soap mix that together and spray the plants so that's what I started doing and between those
two things it literally brought the population of these spider mites under control and I was
actually started actually able to start seeing you know new growth on the plants so that brings
us to where we are today doing that alone is not going to get rid of those spider mites it
will be just a task to continue doing those every other day and if you wait to the end of the video
you're going to understand what I say next I will not spray any more on this property because
it's not worth the loss that could happen and if you wait to the end of the video you'll get
to see why so let me tell you what kind of predatorial mites that I got and where I got
them from first of all I got them from it's called Nature's guys Nature's good guys and
they sell all kinds of beneficial bugs and I will link their website down in the description below
and I'm probably gonna mess this name up so no making fun of me guys
so though this the predatorial mites that I got are called neocilius California
kiss California kiss anyways they treat the two-spotted spider mites board mites
uh cyclamen mites russet mites rust mites so they kind of gets a broad range of all the different
kind of mites spider mites that might be kind of attacking my plants right now let me show you how
we did it we're standing in the backyard and yes we did release them back here too but we started
in the front yard so the first thing we had to do early this morning once we knew they were coming
we had to go through all of the gardens and water them really well because when you release
these predatorial mites they have to really be released on kind of a damp ground that's
what the instructions say to do and there were 1500 of them in total but that covers 2
000 square feet because we have kind of a big kind of a big area here that we're covering so
we just took took the bottles and went to each raised bed and some of the pots too so it kind
of just spread it out evenly around the yard and we sprinkled it in the raised bed okay
so we went to each bed and we put a little bit in each bed spreading it all out so you know we get
enough in different areas with the hopes that you know they're going to go after the spider
mites eat them kill them and then hopefully let our fingers crossed eradicate them from the yard
and that is the Hope about using beneficial bugs against bad bugs that are in your garden
his mom is long
spreading them out
we ended in the pollinator's garden and this right here is why I will never spray again okay let me
show you the reason why I'm no longer willing to spray anymore so this is the pollinator's garden
and these are just one of the sunflowers there here now there is a mix of honeybees
carpenter bees you see these itty bitty guys we have Mason bees we also have bumblebees and
we've also spotted the infamous rusted butt uh bumblebee was just here just a minute ago if you
follow me over on Tick Tock go check that video out I actually got a video of it plus we have all
kinds of other pollinators in here as well but it is just not worth spraying and killing these guys
off they've just returned to our Gardens and we need them in our future and in our gardening life
so I am unwilling to spray any more so we have released those predatorial mites and we will keep
you updated as things happen we'll probably do it in the form of shorts now we left each bottle
just as it instructed us to do in the last area for the next 24 hours so any mites that may not
have came out we'll go ahead and crawl out of the bottles and continue to do what we're doing
now we will give updates periodically through shorts but it's going to be a few weeks because
we're going to be gone for a few weeks on a big family vacation to go see family see family out
in California and Arizona so when I come back that's when you'll get the first update and
we'll cross our fingers that while we're gone that the the populations decrease rather than
increase I hope that you found this video with some information that'll help you with any issues
um I am not aware of any other predators that these mites go after other than spider
different varieties of spider mites and as I said it when I first started those are the
two spotted spider mites the broad mites the cyclamen mites russet mites and rust mites are
what these particular predatorial mites are going to go after because we're not sure exactly which
one of those spider mites so we just covered we just covered them all which seems to make
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