Garden Pests Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Garden Pests Devouring Your Growing Plants
By Rodger G Allenby
Garden pests can devour the growing plants in your garden. Some
of these pests will eat everything, even the roots in the soil.
There are preventative measures you can take, to review your options
and stop these pests from eating all your hard work.
If you have squirrels and birds feeding on your garden produce,
then you can place feeders away from the garden, somewhere else
in your yard, high up on trees, for them to feed to their hearts
content. You may even place a bird bath underneath the trees,
to make the areas near the feeders as hospitable as possible,
to keep them away from your garden.
Placing mulch on the soil surrounding growing vegetable plants,
will help prevent snails, slugs and even rodents from reaching
the plants in your garden. Taking these measures will help prevent
garden pests overtaking your garden.
Keeping Pests Out Of Your Home And Garden
Nothing can ruin a perfectly good garden like garden pests. All
the time and energy and money you spend to make your back yard
or front yard look exactly how you want, only to be destroyed,
diseased or eaten by garden pests. But all garden pests can eventually
be controlled once you know which garden pests you are up against.
One of the worst garden pests are chipmunks and squirrels. They
eat all sorts of bulbs and seeds and particularly like newly planted
seedlings. To get rid of these garden pests, we recommend a light
pepper spray on the affected plants. Another option is a constant
scare tactic, whether it’s a light or noise, these garden pests
are easily scared away.
Getting Rid Of Aphids In Your Garden
Aphids are one of the worst garden pests out there. They attach
themselves to virtually any plant and suck out the sap - which
is like the blood of any plant or tree. Aphids have many natural
predators - in fact, many farmers will raise ladybugs specifically
to help control aphid populations in their gardens. For those
of you without ladybugs, try ammonia on the affected plants; that
should get rid of those garden pests.
Perhaps one of the easiest garden pests to deal with are slugs.
Slugs feed on any number of plants, but they aren’t the fastest
movers out there. Slugs are best to be prevented. A protective
border of salt, lime, ashes or mulch around your garden beds should
be plenty to keep these garden pests away from your plants and
vegetables.
Dealing With Rodents
Perhaps the worst garden pests are the rodents: rats, mice and
voles. These rodents are quite numerous and comfortable living
near humans are small, quick and can eat pretty much any plant,
flower or vegetable in your garden. How do you deal with these
garden pests?
The key is to limit the places of shelter. Make sure your house
is completely sealed up. Stuff steel wool into cracks before covering
them. Trapping rodents is a full boom industry, and there are
many traps both humane and lethal that can help you get rid of
these garden pests.
Preventing Pests In Your Garden
For the amount of money and time, energy and effort that you
spend in your garden, you deserve a garden that is free of garden
pests. Unfortunately, garden pests are one of the unavoidable
evils of gardening and nothing can be done to make your garden
completely void of garden pests.
The best you can do is take some preventative measures and address
garden pests as quickly as they are identified. But a garden free
of garden pests is completely worth the added cost and effort.
Bird Feeders And Squirrel Feeders Can Help Too
Apart from using these preventative measures, there are other
measures you can take to keep pests away from your garden. For
example, if you have birds or squirrels feeding in your garden,
you can place bird feeders and squirrel feeders in other areas
of your yard, away from your garden.
They will eat so much food from these feeders, they will not
have much appetite to eat more food in the garden. Keeping an
eye on the feeders, to make sure the feeders are always full of
food, will ensure these pests stay away from the garden.
Placing Mulch Covering Soil Around Growing Plants
Another option, is to cover your soil around the plants with
mulch. Mulch helps to keep weeds out of your garden, but it also
prevents many pests like slugs and snails reaching your growing
vegetable and flowering plants in your garden.
Placing one or two statues, like garden gnomes, inside the garden
is another option, as a deterrent to pests munching on your plants.
As you can see, there are many ways to keep pests out of your
garden, so that you are rewarded with produce for your effort.
About the Author:
Rodger G Allenby has written a number of articles on pets, landscaping and gardening including
Fish Ponds,
Underground Pet Fence,
Backyard Landscaping Pictures,
Backyard Ideas,
Backyard Fences,
Garden Supplies,
Grass Seed,
Green Lawn.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
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