cpknerr on Nostr: Here is a video on an interesting concept called the plant health pyramid: ...

Here is a video on an interesting concept called the plant health pyramid:

https://youtu.be/kDqRW3Wo8Y4

Instead of driving the beetles away, you end up making your plants healthy such that the beetles can't digest the types of sugars / fats contained in the plants.

If I were you I'd start with a soil soak/ foliar feed of EM to get your sugars in the leaves digesting faster and kickstart your soil food web a bit.

You can check it out on Amazon or Terraganix website. You'd get EM-1 and molasses, mix it up, let it ferment for a day or so and water it in and be sure to get it on the leaves.

https://www.teraganix.com/products/em-1-microbial-inoculant-soil-amendment

It looks like a small bottle, but you activate it by feeding it molasses to multiply the microbes.

https://www.teraganix.com/blogs/teraganix/activated-em-1-recipe-page

If you have access to kelp meal I'd also ferment that with the EM-1.

Can you tell me a little more about this garden you have? Did you just start it this year? Apply any compost? How prolific are the weeds and can you identify them?

Are your plants otherwise stressed from drought? How often are you watering?