![Page 1: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS
A guide to companion plants and beneficial creatures!
![Page 2: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Who / what are we fighting?
• Four foot beasties
• Bugs
• Caterpillars
• Nematodes
• Weather related problems
• Fungi
• Moulds
• Mildews
![Page 3: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
4 feet.... and bandit ways
![Page 4: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Bugs and damage
Colorado potato beetle, flea beetle , cucumber/ squash beetle
![Page 5: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Caterpillars and slugs
• Snails without houses
• Cabbage looper
• Tomato hornworm
![Page 6: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Nematodes and cutworms
• Nematodes
• Invisible ...
• Plants get droopy and do not recover when waterered
• Cutworm and leatherjackets- chop off plants overnight
![Page 7: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
At your command
• Beneficial insects
• Birds
• Plants
• Create space for them
• Water
• Hedges
• Interplanting flowers
![Page 8: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Beetles, bugs and stinkers
• True bugs- ambush bugs
• Beetles
• Stinkers
![Page 9: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Damsels, dragons and lacewings
• Damselfly
• Dragonfly
• Green and brown lacewing
![Page 10: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Hovers, robbers and tachinids
• Hover fly
• Robber fly
• Tachinid fly –looks like
• bristly housefly
![Page 11: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Spiders and wasps
• Chalcid & braconid & tachinid wasps
Crab spider
Orb and wolf spiders
![Page 12: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
4 footed friends and others
• Bats
• Lizards and salamanders
• Toads and frogs
• Moles
• Dogs – believe it or not!
![Page 13: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
BEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZ!
• More than 30 % of our food is dependent on bee + bug pollination
• Honey bees –colonial
• Bumble bees
• Solitary bees eg orchard bees
• Water, food, nests
![Page 14: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Bee /butterfly friendly plants
• Bees
• Borage
• Catnip
• Heather/ling
• Lavender
• Crab apples
• Old roses
• Lupins
• Black eyed Susan
• Butterflies
• Joe Pye weed
• Asters
• Butterfly weed -asclepia
• Buddleia
• Strawberries
• Zinnia
• Golden rod!
• Cosmos& Clover
![Page 15: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Winged friends
• Top 5 in NB
• Chickadee
• Nighthawk
• Woodpeckers
• Nuthatch
• Native sparrows
• (+ Vireo, phoebe,
• swallows )
![Page 16: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Companion planting –myth or real ?
• Companion crops “lend a hand” – e g shade, climbing frames
• Use nutrients efficiently –intercropping
• Prevent pest problems – as catch crops or repellents
• Attract beneficial insects
• This is NOT ENOUGH – soil improvement, beneficials and NO pesticides
![Page 17: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Plant friends – companions
• Spring flowering
• Chives
• Heather and ling
• English daisies
• Pinks
• Rock cress
• Early ( rugosa ) roses
![Page 18: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Companions – summer
• Lavender
• Black eyed Susan
• Coreopsis
• Cranesbill
• Helianthus
• Nasturtium
• Shasta daisy
• Tansy &Yarrow
![Page 19: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Companions – fall
• Asters
• Boltonia
• Coneflowers
• Chrysanthemums
• Golden rod
• Joe Pye weeds
![Page 20: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Herbs
• Borage
• Dill
• Fennel
• Mint
• Basil
![Page 21: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Moulds and mildews
Botrytis & Rust
scab
![Page 22: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Avoiding mildews and fungi
• Space plants correctly
• Wind and sun
• Water correctly
• Soil must be well fed
• Trace elements
• Buy healthy plants
![Page 23: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Fungicide – home made
• Leek spray
• Blend 2-3 leeks with 4 pints water in a blender
• Leave for 2-3 days to steep
• Strain juice through filter paper
• Contains sulfur, general fungicide
• Powdery mildew spray
• 1tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp horticultural oil
• ( or veg oil)
• mix in 4 cups water
• Spray after rain or every7-10 days
• For mildew, black spot, rust
![Page 24: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Pesticide – home made
General purpose pesticide :
1 bulb garlic ,1 small onion
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• Put garlic and onion in a blender/ mixer and pulverise. Mix in cayenne pepper and steep in 1 litre water for 1 hour . Drain and sieve . Add 1 Tablespoon dish soap + spray on all pesky insects.
• Keep refrigerated .
![Page 25: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Next sessions
• Workshop 3 – Succession and Interplanting – get the most produce from a small area, and disease resistance
• Workshop 4- Out in the garden – soil, manure, composts and teas , mulches , watering and weeding and harvesting
• March 31st – Processing and Storing food
• ( part of Food Forum at Renaissance College )
![Page 26: BEES, BUGS, BIRDS AND BENEFICIALS · •Bees •Borage •Catnip •Heather/ling •Lavender •Crab apples •Old roses •Lupins •Black eyed Susan •Butterflies •Joe Pye weed](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022071212/60277f3ba6e896798114ad53/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Good references
• Rodale website
• Great garden companions – Sally Jean Cunningham – Rodale press
• http://www.companionplanting.net/