WEBVTT 1 00:00:21.330 --> 00:00:22.110 Okay cool. 2 00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:33.150 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So um I wanted to talk about beneficial insects, before I talk about pests and just feel it's good to know that, like not every bug that you see in your garden is going to be a pest. 3 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:47.640 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So all the insects, in your yard, only five to 10 of those varieties are likely to harm me burden and only three to five of those are likely to do some serious damage so it's just like a general rule of thumb it might not be like universally applicable but. 4 00:00:50.730 --> 00:00:55.950 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Just be don't be afraid of everybody safe, because some of them won't be friends like we saw before. 5 00:00:57.630 --> 00:01:06.420 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So the ones that are friends are pollinators which include like ants bees butterflies moths wasps some kinds of beetles and some comes up flies. 6 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:25.290 Dig - Shelby - she/her: there's also lady bugs which will eat your aphids stink bugs which are those little guys bottom right corner i'm les swings which are the green ones dragonflies which will eat mosquitoes which aren't necessarily harmful to your garden but don't really want mosquitoes around for humans. 7 00:01:27.180 --> 00:01:29.160 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then inform us and really pulleys. 8 00:01:30.330 --> 00:01:33.990 Dig - Shelby - she/her: which will break down organic matter and eat debris in your garden. 9 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:47.850 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then parasitical which sounds really gross but they Paris, the ties the harmful insects and essentially eat them from the inside out so so really gross, but they are helpful to your garden for things like aphids. 10 00:01:49.170 --> 00:01:59.880 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then I put praying mantis and spiders separately, because they're kind of like harmful and helpful, they will eat harmful bugs but they don't make a distinction between like the good ones and bad ones. 11 00:02:01.890 --> 00:02:09.840 Dig - Shelby - she/her: that's mostly praying mantises repentance they are like like they will be basically anything that comes into the garden. 12 00:02:11.130 --> 00:02:13.620 Dig - Shelby - she/her: they're kind of at the top of the pyramid and then spiders. 13 00:02:15.720 --> 00:02:19.530 Dig - Shelby - she/her: The harmful and sex, but they will occasionally like bees and stuff. 14 00:02:21.570 --> 00:02:28.410 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So one way to attract all these good books to your garden is to plant native plants that they like to talk to them so. 15 00:02:29.760 --> 00:02:33.060 Dig - Shelby - she/her: You can't share my screen, but I have those. 16 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:39.570 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Two links there one of them is a California native plant guide i'll show them in the zoom chat. 17 00:02:40.470 --> 00:02:46.110 Dig - Shelby - she/her: One of them is a California native plant guide and basically like when you go to it, you can enter your zip code and. 18 00:02:46.770 --> 00:02:55.890 Dig - Shelby - she/her: It will tell you, like all of these different native plants in your area and by planting those you can attract like pollinators and all kinds of beneficial insects to your garden. 19 00:02:57.660 --> 00:03:05.370 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Which like pollinators are good for your garden in general but attracting all the other beneficial insects will get rid of the pests, which could hurt your garden. 20 00:03:06.570 --> 00:03:21.180 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So i'll send those in the chat at the end, but there's one for California and one for the whole us I don't have any resources for outside of the US if you're outside of the US, but i'm sure you could just look it up and find like local native plants in your area. 21 00:03:22.260 --> 00:03:23.670 Dig - Shelby - she/her: You can go to the next slide justin. 22 00:03:35.970 --> 00:03:37.410 Dig - Shelby - she/her: i'm sorry mosquitoes. 23 00:03:38.670 --> 00:03:50.190 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So harmful Insects are definitely variable the damage that they cause and what kind of plants that they eat will vary from like species to species so there's not like general rules that I can tell you, for all of them. 24 00:03:52.290 --> 00:04:01.560 Dig - Shelby - she/her: But it's important to identify the type of person that you're dealing with so that you know what damage they can cause and how to deal with them, but also to consider like the plant itself. 25 00:04:02.670 --> 00:04:09.450 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Some plants can withstand more damage than others and be completely fine so you might not have to get rid of the past, so if there's only a few. 26 00:04:10.500 --> 00:04:17.730 Dig - Shelby - she/her: But others might be more fragile so it's important to like know what pest you're dealing with so that you can also know how to deal with it with your particular plants. 27 00:04:20.010 --> 00:04:27.540 Dig - Shelby - she/her: it's also important to monitor the damage that they're doing so that you know if it's like really a problem, it is good to have like a few. 28 00:04:28.740 --> 00:04:36.330 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Just like a few insects, in your garden because it'll attract the ones that eat them but also like keep the ecosystem alive, but. 29 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:45.360 Dig - Shelby - she/her: It also is just like natural to have a few pests in your garden you don't have to get rid of every every insect that you see. 30 00:04:46.860 --> 00:04:54.390 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And, especially if they're only doing minimal damage or like you have like one caterpillar in your garden that's eating like a few leaves. 31 00:04:55.290 --> 00:05:06.270 Dig - Shelby - she/her: You might not actually need to get rid of them, especially if you plan on getting rid of them with like some kind of like pesticide or something you kind of only want to do that it's really, really necessary. 32 00:05:07.590 --> 00:05:14.970 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So most pests will eat various parts of the plant that's the most kind of damage that they do or they can spread disease to your plants. 33 00:05:16.290 --> 00:05:30.870 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So that's kind of why you would want to get rid of them and some can carry like fungal bacterial or viral diseases which we'll talk about later and some common harmful pests that you don't want in your garden are aphids and caterpillar's. 34 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:39.540 Dig - Shelby - she/her: there's kind of like a I don't know like an argument there that some caterpillars are good and some are bad because some will turn into butterflies. 35 00:05:39.960 --> 00:05:54.840 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Which are good for your garden and will pollinator garden, but then, others will just like eat eat away at all of your plants there's also mites mealy bugs skills grips white flies nats which can spread fungal diseases. 36 00:05:56.250 --> 00:06:00.570 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then there's mosquitoes which again aren't necessarily harmful to your garden but they're harmful to humans. 37 00:06:02.760 --> 00:06:10.920 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then there's Horn, where I was squash bugs cucumber Beatles potato Beatles the poppers cup worms maggots snails grew up in grasshoppers. 38 00:06:11.490 --> 00:06:20.610 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Which like I said earlier, can eat like half of their weight every day so grasshoppers seem pretty you'd like Nice and, like you, won't want to give it to them, but they do cause a big problem. 39 00:06:21.810 --> 00:06:34.560 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So those are just like some of the common ones that you might care about that you want to get rid of, and then I have another website there that helps you to identify pests and I can go through this at the very end, so you can go to the next slide. 40 00:06:37.470 --> 00:06:44.400 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So now, I have a video on integrated pest management which is like a very widely used practice for getting rid of pests. 41 00:06:58.590 --> 00:07:07.380 Dig - Shelby - she/her: hi i'm tricia and organic gardener every gardener has to deal with pests today we're going to talk about integrated pest management or I PM for short. 42 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:18.930 Dig - Shelby - she/her: With Integrated Pest Management you use a combination of different types of controls, rather than just one all by itself, and there are basically four different types of controls. 43 00:07:19.530 --> 00:07:30.930 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Their biological controls, meaning you use a pests natural enemy like ladybugs for aphids or bacillus there in genesis also called BT for mosquitoes. 44 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:41.400 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Culture cultural controls are aimed at making the environment unsuitable for pests, for example, don't leave dropped apples around your trees for pests to overwinter in. 45 00:07:42.270 --> 00:07:50.520 Dig - Shelby - she/her: mechanical controls are very effective, these are controls like fences for deer copper wire for slugs and snails and traps. 46 00:07:51.210 --> 00:08:05.550 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then there's chemical controls which your pesticides in IBM pesticides are last resort, as an organic gardener I use natural sprays like insecticidal soaps spin a sat and neem oil. 47 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:19.890 Dig - Shelby - she/her: and using a combination of these controls at the right time is key to IBM and the acronym P m s will help you know what to do and when to do it, p stands for preventive. 48 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:27.330 For example, to help prevent problems use disease and pest free seeds and transplants. 49 00:08:27.900 --> 00:08:34.680 Another way to take some preventive measures is to set up your irrigation to water in the early morning, instead of in the evening. 50 00:08:35.280 --> 00:08:46.710 watering in the evening can promote fungus growth to prevent problems keep a tidy garden remove any weeds or disease or dead plants and rotten fruit. 51 00:08:47.400 --> 00:09:02.070 Any of that can harbor pests and as for avoidance you want to avoid damage by pests that are present practice crop rotation and other words don't plant garlic and onions, in the same place two years in a row. 52 00:09:03.570 --> 00:09:18.570 Choose plants that are resistant to diseases that are known to be in your area, for example, these contender beans resist mildew put bird net over your cherries and berries m is for monitoring pay attention to what's happening in your garden. 53 00:09:19.710 --> 00:09:29.040 identify and keep track of what kinds of pests and diseases, you see i'm putting up a pheromone trap and that will let me know if a specific pest is present. 54 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:39.360 If you find that past our present that's time for the last step of PA Ms suppression suppression techniques include weeding. 55 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:52.650 You can use several types of pheromone laurs to trap out insects like three ips or cucumber beetles the suppression techniques that we're most familiar with is spraying with an insecticide or a fungicide. 56 00:09:53.880 --> 00:10:03.210 spraying should be your last resort, since many will kill beneficial insects as well try to spray first with the least environmental impact. 57 00:10:04.140 --> 00:10:20.400 This may sound complicated but don't worry you're not in it alone contact your local ag extension office or your local master gardeners they have strategies for IBM controls for virtually every kind of past so get your pests before they get your harvest and grow organic for life. 58 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:50.490 Research Council has or attractor factor. 59 00:10:51.570 --> 00:10:57.540 Iris Yip: For example, a small house flies in the sky, and if you search this. 60 00:11:00.060 --> 00:11:01.500 has to find a home. 61 00:11:03.630 --> 00:11:04.740 home Wikipedia. 62 00:11:07.290 --> 00:11:12.630 Iris Yip: Article like all different kinds of events that naturally without us. 63 00:11:15.690 --> 00:11:21.360 Iris Yip: Even in the right environment and certainly direct sunlight or shade. 64 00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:30.120 Iris Yip: recordings actual an independent recording make sure that they're in an area that's suits their specific needs. 65 00:11:31.350 --> 00:11:47.490 Iris Yip: Interpreting so rather than putting a bunch of the same type of crop together intersperse them with flowers for attract beneficial insects in the hall pass, you can also help to confuse the fest and prevent them from taking over all of your contacts. 66 00:11:48.930 --> 00:12:08.220 Iris Yip: And in verse 1313 bro covers and that allows Sunday and borrow it and then keep test out, and you can also uncover them for a couple hours in the morning till up in the partiers and at the bottom right that's a picture of like a budding recovery. 67 00:12:14.460 --> 00:12:15.390 Iris Yip: and business. 68 00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:18.300 Iris Yip: it's a question. 69 00:12:19.980 --> 00:12:36.750 Iris Yip: When epic has enough of a problem, she kept other, and so you have to weigh how much damage can you can state and how much, are you willing to sacrifice just because you see a good cup of passive environment it doesn't necessarily mean that you should be concerned. 70 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:43.950 Iris Yip: there's always going to be like a few pounds in your garden, but sometimes feel like they still take care of themselves. 71 00:12:45.420 --> 00:12:53.520 Iris Yip: And, for example, if you have caterpillars or grasshopper a righteous get inputs, so you will have it within yourself. 72 00:12:55.740 --> 00:12:58.170 Iris Yip: So if they're both numbers it's probably not a problem. 73 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:23.310 Iris Yip: But it turns out, it is a problem, and you can first try idea I logical cultural and mechanical controls, and if that doesn't work, then you can consider insecticides and it's best to start with the least disruptive option which is spring them with water or hand picking them off. 74 00:13:25.350 --> 00:13:32.670 Iris Yip: And then, if that still doesn't work, then you can go with stronger it's still try to keep them. 75 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.160 Iris Yip: At least toxic, you can. 76 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:45.090 Iris Yip: And some non toxic insecticide options are neem oil and die two measures of powder. 77 00:13:47.040 --> 00:14:03.210 Iris Yip: neem oil is a very common natural pesticide that's derived from the seeds of an injury it's either degradable and non toxic to heads and wildlife and it can be found at most garden stores or a natural food working. 78 00:14:05.040 --> 00:14:18.150 Iris Yip: 32 measures powder comes from cemetery rock which contains fossilized divergence, which is from the voucher you can sprinkle it around your plants to get rid of. 79 00:14:22.770 --> 00:14:41.370 Iris Yip: Some people also features and time needed so Bush solutions and soap and butter or oil and butter other people say that that can disrupt the pH of your soil will be visiting and like your fruits or vegetables so it's up to you, if you want to do that. 80 00:14:42.660 --> 00:14:51.270 Iris Yip: there's also a lot of other methods, you will recommend which may not have a research on the effectiveness, but they'll say. 81 00:14:57.330 --> 00:15:03.810 Iris Yip: hi and then there are three types of diseases and fungal bacterial and viral. 82 00:15:05.310 --> 00:15:12.240 Iris Yip: diseases spread in sports oil seeds, have to be clean and unclean towards. 83 00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:16.530 Iris Yip: And it's the most common pathogen down. 84 00:15:19.020 --> 00:15:23.970 Iris Yip: Because damage or kill themselves are causing stress and they can damage on. 85 00:15:25.800 --> 00:15:28.020 Iris Yip: commentates include powdery mildew. 86 00:15:29.340 --> 00:15:30.090 Iris Yip: And bucks. 87 00:15:31.260 --> 00:15:32.700 Iris Yip: hey so. 88 00:15:34.680 --> 00:15:41.190 Iris Yip: pathogens that, like many jumper and go and go are also helpful so it's not like they're university. 89 00:15:43.620 --> 00:15:44.520 Iris Yip: bacterial. 90 00:15:45.540 --> 00:15:52.530 Iris Yip: diseases and Europeans to humans are natural openings thank you because I insects or tools. 91 00:15:55.980 --> 00:15:57.060 Iris Yip: This but in the St Louis. 92 00:15:58.770 --> 00:16:05.490 Iris Yip: And commentates include actual brown spot actually over and actually oh boy. 93 00:16:06.810 --> 00:16:15.960 Iris Yip: Okay, then finally all diseases urgent that have been carriers, just like i'm just like human seasons. 94 00:16:16.980 --> 00:16:24.930 Iris Yip: And he said i'm curious here our pets on pencils infected polly fun guy and. 95 00:16:26.760 --> 00:16:31.920 Iris Yip: Income examples of diseases include mosaic virus and. 96 00:16:39.810 --> 00:16:44.310 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So these are some possible signs of each of these kinds of disease that you can look for. 97 00:16:44.310 --> 00:16:45.150 Dig - Shelby - she/her: In your plants. 98 00:16:46.170 --> 00:16:58.110 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So signs of fungal disease include likely for stem rust mildew or mold or yellowing of beliefs signs of bacterial disease include like brown leaf spots that have yellow halos around them. 99 00:16:59.160 --> 00:17:03.780 Dig - Shelby - she/her: spots on fruit kind of like sometimes you see like black spots on an orange. 100 00:17:05.010 --> 00:17:11.610 Dig - Shelby - she/her: abnormal growth on like tree trunks or branches or twigs or any of that or like losing liquid. 101 00:17:12.900 --> 00:17:24.750 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then signs of viral disease or like mosaic leaf patterns or crinkled leaves or plant stunting so some of these scientists can be a result of different types of diseases. 102 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:35.340 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So, like they kind of overlap, so you might see like yellowing leaves and that could be like the cause of like a fungal disease, but it could also be the cause of a viral disease. 103 00:17:36.420 --> 00:17:42.030 Dig - Shelby - she/her: But it could also just be because you're like watering too much or its nutrient deficient or anything like that. 104 00:17:43.350 --> 00:17:44.100 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So. 105 00:17:45.150 --> 00:17:46.920 Dig - Shelby - she/her: it's important to remember that, like. 106 00:17:48.450 --> 00:17:52.860 Dig - Shelby - she/her: These are strict categories of signs that you can look for. 107 00:17:54.060 --> 00:18:00.750 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And sometimes like when you see signs like this it might not actually be because of the disease plants are very variable so. 108 00:18:02.730 --> 00:18:09.000 Dig - Shelby - she/her: It could like you want to look into it and see if it's just like Oh, maybe i'm not watering it maybe it's not getting enough sunlight something like that. 109 00:18:15.600 --> 00:18:20.040 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So these are some pictures of what all of those kinds of signs look like. 110 00:18:21.390 --> 00:18:26.730 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So if you're seeing any of these in your plants, you might want to look into it and do some research and I have. 111 00:18:27.780 --> 00:18:32.940 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Resources at the end, that you can use to kind of like specifically identify like what might be going on with your. 112 00:18:38.550 --> 00:18:41.970 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So, preventing disease there's a lot of different things, you can do. 113 00:18:43.260 --> 00:18:48.120 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Why is watering is a good thing you want to water like before mid morning. 114 00:18:49.260 --> 00:18:59.580 Dig - Shelby - she/her: It doesn't only like prevent water from or prevent water, waste to do to evaporation, but it also allows plants to dry before sunset which will help avoid fungal diseases. 115 00:19:01.080 --> 00:19:10.020 Dig - Shelby - she/her: fungal diseases tend to thrive in like warm temperatures between like 70 and 80 degrees and they only need like two to four hours of moyes conditions to develop. 116 00:19:12.330 --> 00:19:18.420 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So you also want to make sure that when you water it that you're watering the soil directly rather than watering believes. 117 00:19:19.530 --> 00:19:26.700 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Doing this prevents any like pathogens that might be on your leaves from getting into the soil through and off. 118 00:19:29.580 --> 00:19:43.740 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And it's also important that you're not handling your plants when they're wet because that can also spread disease like if you're touching believes of a plant that has pathogens on it and then touching another disease or another plant, you can easily spread diseases that way. 119 00:19:45.210 --> 00:19:52.800 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Another option is using seeds or transplants that are disease resistant or disease free, so this would be like specifically going out and buying. 120 00:19:53.310 --> 00:20:01.890 Dig - Shelby - she/her: seeds that are resistant to like bunch of different kinds of diseases if you're concerned about that or you can find some that are resistant to like one specific disease. 121 00:20:03.330 --> 00:20:06.960 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then this would also mean like when you're at a store if you're getting transplants, or something. 122 00:20:08.250 --> 00:20:11.310 Dig - Shelby - she/her: To like make sure that there's no signs of disease in it already. 123 00:20:16.320 --> 00:20:22.560 Dig - Shelby - she/her: it's also important to remember that if you're like harvesting your seeds from your garden or from fruits from your garden that. 124 00:20:23.220 --> 00:20:32.220 Dig - Shelby - she/her: If a plant is already diseased it can pass that disease on into exceeds so if you're like collecting those seeds, or if you're letting those seeds spread throughout your garden. 125 00:20:32.670 --> 00:20:38.370 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And regrow then they'll just continue growing diseased and it could become like a serious problem in your garden. 126 00:20:39.390 --> 00:20:45.510 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Another thing is wide plant spacing it's really important that your plants have like air circulation to keep them healthy. 127 00:20:47.730 --> 00:20:53.760 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And also diseases that attack the leaves of your plant can spread through rain, or can spread through wind. 128 00:20:55.050 --> 00:20:58.230 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So, like, for example, a fungal disease that's affecting. 129 00:20:59.430 --> 00:21:08.100 Dig - Shelby - she/her: The leaves of a plant can emit scores that travel by wind and if your plants are really close together like it's going to be a lot easier for you to travel to a lot more clients. 130 00:21:09.630 --> 00:21:16.140 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then also like if it rains and there's dizzy there's there's pathogens on your plant leaves. 131 00:21:17.910 --> 00:21:22.920 Dig - Shelby - she/her: It can spread when those raindrops like hit the leaves and they bounce off and splash on to other planets. 132 00:21:24.540 --> 00:21:30.510 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So if there's like white space between them you'll avoid these problems so essentially just like follow the. 133 00:21:31.650 --> 00:21:42.330 Dig - Shelby - she/her: spacing directions that are usually on like your seed packet they tell you how far apart to space your plants, so if you do that, like that's already like accounting for promoting good air circulation for them. 134 00:21:43.380 --> 00:21:52.560 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then, maintaining soil health is really important, because there are a lot of diseases that are soil borne and that can exist in in the soil and also in pests that live in the soil. 135 00:21:54.540 --> 00:22:02.310 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So it's important to do this through like fertilization, and through wise watering practices and also making sure that, like your soil as well draining and it's well area did. 136 00:22:03.510 --> 00:22:10.560 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then, it has a good balance of nutrients, all of which will like avoid future problems with or further problems with your plants. 137 00:22:11.460 --> 00:22:18.570 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then you can also use mulch which will help to prevent weeds, but it also helps to maintain the temperature of the soil and retain water. 138 00:22:19.110 --> 00:22:33.870 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Like in the warmer months when it my dry out faster and then propagation is very important if you're like dealing with a disease and a specific plant you don't want to keep planting that plant in the same spot like year after year because. 139 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:45.660 Dig - Shelby - she/her: That disease could be present in the soil and then it'll just keep affecting like every point that you put there, essentially, so you want to like move your crops around from year to year, like as you're harvesting them. 140 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:56.790 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And this is especially important because diseases will often affect like a whole family of plants so like a bunch of plants that are in the same family can be affected by the same disease. 141 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:09.330 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And if, like a disease comes to one plant that's in that family that disease can like stay dormant in the soil for years and years, even if the host plant isn't there. 142 00:23:10.980 --> 00:23:18.030 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So even if you were to plant like something that's in the same family in that spot, it could be affected so yeah it's important to. 143 00:23:18.840 --> 00:23:22.170 Dig - Shelby - she/her: rotate your crops and then the last one is garden hygiene. 144 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:34.260 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So you want to like sanitize your garden tools, especially if you're dealing with the disease plant, you want to sanitize a lot of people do that with like the diluted bleach solution which will kill any kind of like pathogens that are there. 145 00:23:36.270 --> 00:23:45.690 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then it's also just important if you don't know if, like you're dealing with a pastor disease like just clean your garden tools in between dealing with different plants, so that you're not spreading anything. 146 00:23:47.190 --> 00:23:56.670 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And there are also a lot of other options for like homemade organic or whatever cleaning solutions that you can use to clean your garden tools. 147 00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:05.730 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then, this also includes like the video talked about earlier like clearing out rotten fruit or clearing out debris or clearing out weeds things like that. 148 00:24:10.950 --> 00:24:14.190 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So, lastly, is treatment of disease. 149 00:24:15.600 --> 00:24:24.480 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So first you want to determine if it really is a disease like I talked about earlier, a lot of the signs of disease, not a lot but, like some of the signs of disease. 150 00:24:25.800 --> 00:24:32.940 Dig - Shelby - she/her: can also just be signs that like your plants not getting the right environment that it needs to be in like sunlight or nutrients or whatever. 151 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:41.370 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So that could be things like yellow or brown leaves which can be signs of disease but they might not actually be diseased. 152 00:24:43.320 --> 00:24:51.720 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then, if it's disease, a lot of times the safest option, especially if you have a whole garden is to just remove that plant or remove the affected part of that plant. 153 00:24:52.830 --> 00:24:54.810 Dig - Shelby - she/her: If it's only affecting one specific part. 154 00:24:56.010 --> 00:25:00.270 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Because this will avoid like causing a problem that's a lot bigger. 155 00:25:01.410 --> 00:25:07.530 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Because it could easily spread to like a bunch of different plants throughout your garden and then you'll have like a problem that's a lot harder to handle. 156 00:25:08.610 --> 00:25:11.670 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So you might just have to sacrifice that one plant, sadly, but. 157 00:25:12.690 --> 00:25:21.300 Dig - Shelby - she/her: If it's like an individual part of a plant that's affected, you can try like like if it's a yellowing leaf or something you can try this like pulling those leaves off. 158 00:25:22.950 --> 00:25:27.690 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And if it's being affected by like a fungal disease, sometimes it can help to. 159 00:25:29.550 --> 00:25:39.900 Dig - Shelby - she/her: I think the word is proven to like prune your plant and get rid of some of the leaves surrounding it, because it makes it an environment that's like a lot less like moist and like easy to. 160 00:25:41.190 --> 00:25:45.810 Dig - Shelby - she/her: I don't know retain water in there and stuff because that's really where fungal diseases thrive. 161 00:25:48.210 --> 00:25:53.160 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then you can also if it's just like one part of a plant and it's not like a full blown issue, yet. 162 00:25:54.390 --> 00:26:02.370 Dig - Shelby - she/her: You can like look into it and try, just like changing the conditions of your plant and seeing how it reacts to that like changing How much are watering and changing where you're putting it. 163 00:26:03.600 --> 00:26:04.800 Dig - Shelby - she/her: In terms of like sunlight. 164 00:26:06.180 --> 00:26:08.910 Dig - Shelby - she/her: or like changing fertilizers, or anything like that. 165 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:17.760 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Another like good rule of thumb for a lot of signs of disease is just not watering the plant for a little while. 166 00:26:18.900 --> 00:26:33.030 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Because a lot of diseases are caused by like overly moist soil, especially fungal diseases so things like root rot like if you're just starting, your plant like sit in really wet soil all the time it's like really good conditions to develop disease. 167 00:26:35.610 --> 00:26:47.280 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then, if you know that the disease is caused by pests, you could also try removing those pests before you like get rid of the whole plant and seeing if it improves. 168 00:26:48.300 --> 00:26:54.720 Dig - Shelby - she/her: it's a lot of like trial and error and then, if you know the diseases fungal you could also consider some kind of fungicide. 169 00:26:55.950 --> 00:27:06.090 Dig - Shelby - she/her: These typically aren't very effective, though in treating an existing disease, they mostly just like will prevent future disease in that area, or in any new plant growth. 170 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:19.620 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then I did want to mention also that, if the diseases viral kind of like humans many plants can fully recover from that viral disease, and then they become tolerant to that disease. 171 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:26.730 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So that's why it's also really important to identify what kind of disease, it is because you know, like if it's going to recover or not. 172 00:27:28.740 --> 00:27:34.350 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And this is kind of funny when I read about it, considering the current state of the world, but. 173 00:27:35.370 --> 00:27:45.480 Dig - Shelby - she/her: If a plant does get a viral disease, you can actually like quarantine it and put it by itself and keep it there and see like if it improves or if it gets healthier. 174 00:27:46.650 --> 00:27:51.960 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And a lot of times it actually will get healthier if you quarantine it by itself so that's kind of interesting. 175 00:27:53.880 --> 00:28:00.810 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then the last one is don't compost diseased plants, they will like carry the disease to your compost. 176 00:28:01.650 --> 00:28:11.160 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Because a lot of diseases living soil and then any planets that use that compost like if you spread it all over your whole garden, you could literally just be spreading the disease, like all over your garden. 177 00:28:13.020 --> 00:28:21.870 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then, if you go to the next slide i'm going to go through these are actually maybe I could share my screen now justin just to go through these links. 178 00:28:33.930 --> 00:28:34.350 Dig - Shelby - she/her: hey. 179 00:28:40.860 --> 00:28:43.320 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So, this one is the hopefully. 180 00:28:52.590 --> 00:28:53.070 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Sorry. 181 00:29:04.050 --> 00:29:05.760 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Okay, maybe it's not gonna let her know. 182 00:29:15.120 --> 00:29:25.500 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Okay, well, basically, I will send these links in the chat if they don't load right now but um there's the California native plant guide and us need to play a guide. 183 00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:36.510 Dig - Shelby - she/her: God talked about if you're like interested in planting native plants in your garden and being beneficial insects and then there's also the UCC Integrated Pest Management site. 184 00:29:37.590 --> 00:29:45.240 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And when you go there there's like a specific tab where you can identify it says like identifying and managing pests, or something. 185 00:29:46.590 --> 00:29:48.510 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And when you click on it like it has. 186 00:29:49.800 --> 00:29:54.750 Dig - Shelby - she/her: It has like not only garden pests, but it also has like household pests and it'll tell you. 187 00:29:55.860 --> 00:30:00.180 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Like you can essentially like enter what kind of plant, you have what the damage is. 188 00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:06.540 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And it'll like give you all of these results for like what the problem could be, and then it will also tell you like. 189 00:30:07.050 --> 00:30:14.400 Dig - Shelby - she/her: about the past, like if it says like this past could be the problem it'll tell you like here's what this past does here's how to manage it it's really, really helpful. 190 00:30:15.390 --> 00:30:25.530 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then same thing with the uci PM plant diagnostic tool that one's more for like diseases, but you basically just like input all the information about your plant and then. 191 00:30:27.300 --> 00:30:35.730 Dig - Shelby - she/her: it'll tell you like what it could possibly be so really helpful for like narrowing down what the problem can be and figuring out like. 192 00:30:37.110 --> 00:30:50.100 Dig - Shelby - she/her: What you should do about it so i'm gonna share these in the chat but that's all I have to talk about so hope you learned something about pests and disease, and I hope you can use these tools if you're having any problems to. 193 00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:52.770 Dig - Shelby - she/her: figure out what that problem might be.