Why insects do not (and cannot) attack healthy plants | Dr. Thomas Dykstra | Regenerative Ag
"Insects only feed upon food that is considered unfit, nutritionally poor, dead or dying."
So... how nutritionally dead are your plants?
They may look healthy, right?
Put another way, how truly healthy are your plants?
How nutritious are most vegetables?
"Grade A" supermarket fruit and veg are all based on looks - nothing at all to do with nutrition.
The perfectly tasteless apple.
Things are very similar in humans and animals.
Humans get sick because they are already unhealthy or under toxic stress.
In both plants and animals, their health seems due to the microbiota both within and in their immediate vicinity.
As we live in a society that has been taught to kill diseases, we are instead killing the organisms that support all higher life.
Whether pesticides or antibiotics, they are creating a sick planet.
A sick planet fit for sick minds.
More info at Advancing Eco Agriculture.
I have heard the flip coin of this. If nothing is eating your garden why should you.
Basically it is normal for some level of pests to be eating your garden. But it is about finding the right balance between healthy plants and a healthy ecosystem for predictors of pests.
Very good question! Yes, there is eventually a balance - watching the video, the key is to observe carefully what the insects are eating - whether it is what looks healthy, or whether it is the parts dying anyway. If they are eating "our food" then there is an issue.
I know many fruit trees will produce some fruit that rots very quickly - seems by design, most believe it is to spread seeds, but it will also attract insects that then leave the other fruit alone.
Ants... mmm... will need to look how ants fit into this, as they love sugars!
This question will still remain answered until humans have a rethink about the green plants.
Insects are not really the cause of low yeilds and death of plants as most people think . That's why they keep destroying important organisms needed for life.
And just as "medicines" make humans even more sick by blocking symptoms, so things like fertilizers and pesticides make the soil even sicker and hence the plants into zombies. lol.
These new inventions are good only to an extent.
The future will be great indeed.
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Very interesting video, thanx. I don't have any 'bugs' eating my plants but am having some problems so this helped my dilemma. I suspect it may be a low UV problem in my case. That or humidity.
I tried to argue this in my plant science lessons where they were teaching that aphids and mites were the CAUSE of mould on plants. I saw even then that the mould comes first followed by the bugs. Good to see they might be catching up in plant science. This guy sounds like the Stefan Lanka of the plant world.
Good :-) and the website has a lot of info.
Here is red soil - very little humus - so will probably take a couple of years to bring it to life (without spending a fortune), but still interesting to see what thrives and what withers. lol. and what gets eaten by bugs!
I HAVE to build soil here too. I just had a little dig into my potato heugel feeling around for potatoes and noticed soil had already formed. I'll take a pic for my next gardening blog. Was just wondering how to make it more interesting and remembering how I thought gardening was for old fogeys and boring so need to up my game. LOL
I'll subscribe to this channel, like a bit of science in the garden for sure.
mmm... dunno... maybe some cartoons! lol. I mean, some image boards to go with the photos. I suspect many people are growing food, so there is an audience - I've never been much into flowering plants, just for the flowers - unless I can eat them! eg local "weeds" are often edible, so why get rid of them, even if they weren't planned? They obviously like this crappy soil, so I let them grow, eat some, mulch the rest so that inorganic matter becomes organic - is slow.
If you want to speed things up try Heugel-kultur. That is basically how I build my beds here. Am gonna try a giant one next with all my lardy balls and wild cherry cuttings.
That's funny - I'm doing that without knowing it had a name! lol.
Lots of fallow land around here with a ton of free organic matter.
Funny that I was doing it too before I knew it was an official thing. Good to know how the experts do it tho. You're on to a winner.
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