Do You Acknowledge The Several Sorts Of Pests?
A perfectly beautiful garden can be ruined with the activity of pests. Pests can be a major concern for gardeners who are set on becoming good at organic gardening. Pests are of various kinds. For water gardens, pests can constitute green pool algae. For other kinds of gardens, a pest may be that regular deer that trots into your garden once in a while to help itself to your beautiful garden plants.
Pests generally refer to anything that hinders the growth of your garden plants. There are natural ways to handle pests if that’s what you want. For weeds, you can get a weed suppressing fabric and use it to cover your soil before you plant your garden crops. This can help to prevent the growth of weeds. You can also use mulch to control the growth of weeds in your Garden Décor.
For those whose gardens are under attack from fungus, you can mix a gallon of water, a table spoon of baking soda and half a teaspoon of liquid soap together and spray it over the affected plants. This home made fungal control spray can help to get rid of your fungus for a long time. You can also use neem oil to control pests in your garden. Pests such as aphids and mites can be killed using neem oil. Neem oil is a bio-pesticide that is obtained from the neem tree.
Also, if your garden is constantly being plagued by insects, you can use a garlic barrier. Attract birds to your garden to eat aphids and other gardeners’ pests. This is an odorless insect repellant that can be used on your lawn, plants or vegetables. You have the option of putting in other insects or animals that eat pests in your garden, such as- birds, lizards and frogs.
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Posted May 20, 2008, 8:27 amWhat about using beneficial insects and crop rotation? Sometimes there are beneficial plants, too. I would love to hear about how grouping plants can help with pest management as well.
Posted May 20, 2008, 5:40 pmTaking Molly’s last point first, companion planting is tailored to your local conditions. “Jackie French’s guide to companion planting” makes the point that most of the information about companion planting has come from Germany, and Australian conditions are not the same as German ones.
For instance the German information is that you can drive away root knot eelworm from tomatoes by planting African Marigold near them. That is a noxious weed here in Perth, Western Australia, and we have a different kind of eelworm that is attracted to the marigold.
I plant a bed of mustard seed, and when the plants are about six inches high I put in my tomatoes surrounded by the mustard plants. The eelworms are driven away towards other crops and weeds, but I don’t have any other plants nearby that are affected.
Now for beneficial insects. Let weeds grow so that pests can thrive among the weeds. Pests mostly hate our crops, and prefer weeds and sick plants, so they won’t do much harm if they are given the choice of eating weeds.
However there is a more important reason for keeping the pests. Beneficial insects can’t survive without something to eat! And they take longer to multiply than pests do. So if you keep a background population of pests, your beneficial insects will thrive, and if the neighbours are invaded by an explosion of pests, your population of predators will be delighted to greet any that spill over to your garden!
As Jackie says “It’s easier to have your garden looking like a jungle, and jungles are more productive than deserts.”
Posted May 21, 2008, 12:27 am