Alright, we got out here to sun set for evening night water.
To water my plants.
Well actually I am not really watering my plants in there.
We’re just gonna wetting em down because we’re gonna today is that we’re gonna
release some beneficial insects.
So I love releasing and using beneficial insects to basically eat the bad bugs because when
you got too much bad bugs, the bad bugs suck the juice or the life outta your plants.
So first what we have to do is to water this down because what we’re gonna do today is
release lady bugs.
So by watering down the plants and once again release your lady bugs at night, they have
the highest probability of actually hanging out and not flying away.
Once again lady bugs are well they are wild animals or wild creatures.
And even though you release it doesn’t mean they are gonna stay in your garden.
So a few things you could do like you know, release em at night or when it turns light
or when the suns down, or actually probably wait a little bit and release em in the little
bit, when it gets even darker.
But then I couldn’t make the video.
Number 2 you want to water your plants down.
You know get it nice and moist for em, you know that’s going to be really important.
And the final thing and the most important thing before you release any beneficial or
beneficial insects in your garden, is to make sure they are going to have food.
Haha, because if your like… oh lets release some beneficials I don’t know if I need
em or not.
If you release em and there’s no food for them… guess what they are gonna split.
Cause your gonna go somewhere else where there is food you know.
I mean I’d love to hang out at my house cause I have all this food to eat.
But my neighbor has a lawn, so I am not gonna hang out at his place.
So lemme show you what I mean by some food.
These are some actually flowering ummm brussels sprout tops.
And you know it makes the Brussel sprout flowers.
Which are quite edible, and the top these are the unopen buds.
They look just like broccolis and you can eat em just like broccoli but if you do a
close up here on this so here’s all this grey thing I don’t know if you can see them,
and here’s the flowers here’s the unopen buds.
And all of these little grey dots, and if you look closely those little grey dots are
moving.
And those little grey dots are the aphids, and aphids are not good bugs.
So the easiest way to solve this problem is to basically just snap this whole top off…
I got it now, and now we’re gonna take and dispose off this.
So now we’re just gonna get this off the property what I am gonna do is put this in
my green bin which basically goes into the central composting facility to get these off
my property cause I don’t want these aphids on my property.
Cause what happens is these guys are sucking juice like in the life out of your plants.
Taking the life force out of your plants, and multiplying.
So if I come back tomorrow, you know they have affected this much of the stem though….
they will be down here.
And go down even further, and there are all this different stem.
Well you know you could pick em all off, and once again I recommend manual control as your
first line of defense.
You know, yes it takes some time, you gotta use your eyes be perceptive.
Helps keep your brain active that’s good stuff.
But uh pick em all off and get em outta here.
Step number one.
Then you probably won’t get em all cause they are little, you know, they hide.
That’s why we’re gonna release the lady bugs.
You know, definitely another good step.
Another good step would be blast them off with water.
But today we’re gonna release lady bugs.
So let me go inside and get em out of where I’ve have been having them for safe keeping.
So were here in my kitchen and here’s my nice fridge.
We’re gonna open this up and and check out what’s inside.
Well besides all my food, we got the lady bugs hanging out inside.
Now why am I storing my lady bugs inside the fridge.
So basically that stimulates winter time and in winter they are dormant.
And they are like in slow motion, slow animation.
So they are just kinda hanging out waiting for spring time.
So that then they can become alive.
One you do get your lady bugs.
You know you don’t want to keep em in your fridge too long.
They do ship with some food but you know what, if you keep em in there too long, they might
not make it.
So uh let’s head outside and release the lady bugs.
Okay so now we’re outside, getting darker out here . And we’re gonna take of the cover…
woah watch out!!
Haha , just kidding.
So you can just take it off, and see them you know climbing around in there in the state
of like slow motion or spended animation cause they are just not moving really that fast
cause its been too cold.
And you know the good thing is that the lady bugs don’t fly at night so that is one another
reason why you want to release these at night and water the area.
And there actually just trying to crawl out of the container here.
So I am just gonna simply take the container and you know with the bedding and everything
I am just shaking em around the infected areas.
And the others are gonna drop to the ground, but you know what they like to climb at night.
So they will actually just climb up on top of the plants and find all the aphids and
they’ll say oh this is a good place to live.
You know we’re gonna hang out here and lay our eggs and then we will have more lady bugs
later.
And so sure enough I did a nice big lady bug release last year and I still have lady bugs..
you know that before I even released any this year.
So lady bugs can eat up to 50 aphids a day.
That’s a lot of aphids.
They can just probably clear cut the tops, and just eat em all.
And when the lady bugs actually hatch the eggs, they are really a trip they look like
little alligators.
They are kind of red, so you see those don’t be alarmed . And they also lay these little
egg sacs that are funny hanging things and I do have a video of like a baby lady bug,
if you look back at my old videos.
I was so amazed the first time I ever saw one.
I mean I have already seen some of them in my garden this year.
They are super amazing.
But I love lady bugs, and once again lady bugs are beneficial insects.
You can release them in your garden, to control some of your pests.
Oh and don’t fall for it.
If you see the lady bugs, it says stay home lady home lady bugs.
Like they are supposed to stay in your home stay in your property.
Don’t believe it, cause you know what they are gonna go where there is food and once
again the main thing to remember.
Number one water your area down release them at night and make sure they have food in the
area so that they could all hang out and feed on your bed bugs.
Alright , so let’s check out some lady bugs.
Get it on!!!
Haha…So I did a lady bug release as you saw.
Here’s some lady bugs, I don’t know if you can see that.
Right there, like one is right on top of the other.
They are mating.
Oh man look so there is one there, and there’s also one underneath here I don’t know if
you can see that underneath that.
And here wo go look, there’s even more.
There’s a lady bug orgy going on right here… right there.
More right there… and even right there and right there.
I have released one whole container of lady bugs and they are all mating right now, and
I think they know that this is a good place to mate because just right above where they
are mating and then they are also soon be laying some eggs… is their food source.
Look at all these aphids in my flowering dinosaur kale, so I love to release lady bugs, so that
they will mate and lay eggs and so then I will have continual lady bugs you know in
my garden, to prevent aphids aand other insects because, baby lady bugs are voracious aphid
eaters.
So hopefully you’ve enjoyed learning about lady bugs today.
Once again this is John Kohler, with growingyourgreens.com.
We’ll see ya next time and use some biological controls to control pests in your garden.