How To Environmentally Get Rid Of The Bugs

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Steve McShane here, McShanesNursery.com, thanks for tuning in. Going to talk a little bit about insecticides. How can we environmentally take care of the bugs that we don't want in our garden. Two kinds of bugs out there - chewing bugs and sucking bugs, Different types of defenses when it comes to the gardener. Probably the best advise I give people is when you think about insects: you need to think about it in the same way you think about a cop, right?

There's an escalation in the use of force. Before the officer is going to shoot the [perpetrator] with a gun, they may present their baton or maybe go about it with a taser, well same goes with your garden.

Our best defense against bugs is an oil. In most cases if an oil gets a chewing or sucking insect, they will die. If not right away, pretty quickly.

Sometimes, if it is not just the oil, the oil will have something in it, like say a neem. A neem is a natural defense that when applied, in the case of this concentrate, as directed, will go a step further to really zap those bugs.

Now, for the chewing bugs, a product that I'm really excited about is this Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew. Real life story about a guy that was in the Caribbean and came across a rum distillery where there were no bugs living at all and he was so curious. Lo and behold, months later he comes to find that he discovered a new type of natural insecticide called spinosad. For a chewing insect, when they ingest this, they die.

So oils, oils with Neem, this spinosad in this "Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew" we sell it all on our internet site McShanesNursery.com on our Online Store and your locally owned, independent nursery would be able to supply it just like we would at McShane's Nursery and Landscape Supply.

Thanks for Tuning in.

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Landon Wolf Copyright 2010

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[WRATHCHILD29]

Spot on and informative.