Garden Girl TV: Natural Insect Control with Diatomaceous Earth
Patti Moreno the Garden Girl shows you how she controls insects in her garden, by using diatomaceous earth! www.gardengirltv.com and http Use the CC button to view subtitles in any language. Natural Garden Pest Insect Control Using Diatomaceous eEarth So a lot of people ask me, Patti you are an organic gardener, what do you do about all of this little bugs and slugs and all that stuffs that farmers for so long had been trying to come back. Well, I have one of the most amazing products that I discovered. It is actually been use for a really, really long time and it is called Diatomaceous earth Now, Diatomaceous earth is actually fertilized algae that is found in sedimentary rock and it forms of powdery substance pretty easily. If you are asking what are you doing right now? Why are you watering your garden and watering all the leaves of your garden? Well the reason why I am doing that because I am going to spread the Diatomaceous earth or DE as also known on of my plants. And I want my powder to stick to the leaves of the plants so they have to be moist; they have to have water on them. In order for the dust to stick to the plants, now this is the Diatomaceous earth . This is actually a duster and what we use to dust the crops and let me show you in here. That is the powdery substance, now this is a completely safe for humans and for animals. So really do not have to worry about it getting you know into any other animals that might be around and this is the fun part. [DEMO …
25 Responses to Garden Girl TV: Natural Insect Control with Diatomaceous Earth
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****PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WITH THIS***** The video makes zero mention of the fact that she is talking about FOOD GRADE D.E.!!!! I’m actually shocked that someone would leave something like that out. Non food grade diatomaceous earth can kill you!
Even if you have the food grade kind (which many people swear by for health benefits, YOU CAN NOT JUST SPRAY IT LIKE THAT!!! Even food grade D.E. is NOT SAFE TO INHALE!
My gosh, please BE RESPONSIBLE when posting something as “safe”!
meanlitlekity
April 6, 2012 at 4:20 pm
If you’re going to put your reputation on the line that diatomaceous earth is safe, even implying that maybe it can even be eaten safely, you should probably spell out specifically which ones are safe and which ones are not. For example, I’ve been reading online about this stuff recently, and Diatomaceous earth for the pool or for gardening may not be safe to eat and perhaps hazardous to breath in due to the amounts of a certain type of silicon that only trace amounts are found in the food grade
NewnotesJR
April 6, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Algae is a diatom?
NewnotesJR
April 6, 2012 at 5:25 pm
also if you inhale allot or a little over time you won’t see severe affects until 5 to ten years…i forget what they call this process
Pixyfun
April 6, 2012 at 6:17 pm
We didn’t even know it was bad until myself and 3 year old and hubby were wheezing and skin was drying out and cracking and my daughter got a horrible fever. We had to call poison control and get a hotel.
Pixyfun
April 6, 2012 at 6:46 pm
That stuff is not safe! This is used in the mixture that you sometimes lay tile on and we had a pipe flood our home which they had to rip the tile up and ground this substance up without masks mind you. I was upstairs and thought they were going to scrape it up and next thing I know my home was top to bottom in this stuff. They didn’t warn us or cover anything and also ran our A/C so it kept cycling through our home.
Pixyfun
April 6, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Cam I use DE for controll of fire ants?
jt14567
April 6, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Nice presentation, but I also was concerned that no mention was made of wearing a mask so as not to inhale the dust. I love using this stuff. I’ve lived in Texas 6 years and DE and Boric acid are the only 2 forms of pest control I use in my house.
AllSafeFL
April 6, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Informative video. Quite expensive though to use in an orchard.
Has anyone tried mixing DE in water, agitate the mixture continuously to prevent settling whilst spraying the same unto the leaves. As such we save on spraying cost?
Thanks.
TheArmandb
April 6, 2012 at 9:41 pm
I have bugs that look like cockroach in my garden , they dig the soil and move beneath the surface of the soil and they eat the roots of my plants what should I do with that kind of bugs??
DELAVEGA1984
April 6, 2012 at 9:48 pm
very good video. I’ve used it indoors with great success. I just started to use it in the garden and have actually ate it a few times just to see what the talk was about, lol. A dust mask is a good idea though when you aplpy it.
ArizonaAdventures
April 6, 2012 at 9:56 pm
it kills fish so dont let it get in the waterways
LivingInTheVortex
April 6, 2012 at 10:31 pm
Does it work on white flies?
joecham76
April 6, 2012 at 11:31 pm
@LucieLettuce If you get food safe diatomacious earth ( yes there are two types one used in comercial pest control:added harmful ingredients, the other is safe for human ingestion) it kills worms like no other and it works in animals and is also safe for humans to. Icky thought but most humans are infected with one type of parasite or another and never know it. Just a cool piece of info 😉
akwolfsong
April 7, 2012 at 12:19 am
Nice video….. I have used DE for years and as several people have already mentioned be sure to use only FOOD GRADE diatomaceous earth. I eat it every morning and I feed it to my dogs and cats I also use it inside and outside of the house. I have a blog about DE and I get mine from EarthWorks……. diatomaceous(dot)net …. You’ll have to replace the (dot) with a . for the link to work properly
cbolley
April 7, 2012 at 12:42 am
how much is it?
CHEESEmyASS
April 7, 2012 at 1:25 am
where do you find de, i went to alot of places like lowes and tractor supply, no one seems to know much about it, it really does look awesome, found it online but everyone charges a ton for the shipping
GORT192
April 7, 2012 at 2:03 am
right and wrong… it dehydrates the bugs by having the bugs crawl over them and the D.E. will cut their outer “skin” therefore the pests will just “dry up” …. but/and/yet is also important to wear a mask (mouth-nose) to eliminate breathing the powder in while powdering your plants… for it would do the same on the inner layers of your lungs…
quantumalak
April 7, 2012 at 2:50 am
im knoticing a lot of yellowing on the edges of the leaves of my vegetable plants, what do you think it is and what do you recommend ?
Irishgirl41
April 7, 2012 at 3:13 am
How many time do u use it weekly or monthly.
mrsmagandelatour
April 7, 2012 at 3:22 am
you didn’t mention that there’s 3 different kinds of DE. the gardening kind, the kind you use in swimming pools and foodgrade. i use foodgrade DE on my animals. outside as well as inside. i sprinkle it on their food it keeps them worm free. i also use it in the house for bedbugs i just sprinkle it around the legs of the bed it will kill any small insect to about the size of a scorpion but it won’t harm earthworms for some reason.i also use it in my worm bin
WhoaDammit1967
April 7, 2012 at 4:08 am
i”m sure its already been mentioned but just in case:
If you are going to use DE make sure its food grade and not the stuff you get at the pool supply store. 🙂
MariAdams3
April 7, 2012 at 4:21 am
Diatomaceous earth is not selective, it will kill benificial insects as well as the bad ones. However when one gets overwhelmed with bad insects, it works great! Never use the pool grade, very bad to breathe in, always use the food grade diatomaceous earth. Garden Harvest Supply is a good online source.
watchjoesvideos
April 7, 2012 at 4:23 am
wrong, doesnt dehydrate the bugs, your giving out wrong info
GORT192
April 7, 2012 at 4:57 am
Very nice vidio awesome
satellitetune
April 7, 2012 at 5:48 am