Organic Pest Control Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Organic Pest Control Methods For Your Organic Garden
By Pixie Matthews
You have taken the time and effort to set up an organic garden
to grow your favourite vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers. If
you want to avoid using chemical pesticides, then you will need
organic pest control methods to keep out pests from your garden.
You can review your options and buy natural products found on
shelves at health food stores, garden nurseries and your own pantry.
Another option is to use garden-friendly bugs and bug eaters in
the garden to maintain your garden.
A Hungry Toad In Your Garden
Keeping a hungry toad near your garden pond, could help eliminate
up to 10,000 insects in three months, so this option can be an
effective form of organic pest control. Toads can eat larvae,
snails and crickets and flying insects like flies.
If your garden is infested with aphids, then you should buy a
couple of ladybugs online or from a local garden nursery, as ladybugs
love eating aphids. The aphids eat away at plants, shrubs and
bushes planted in your garden and anywhere around your front and
backyard. One advantage with ladybugs, is they do not harm your
plants.
Birds And Herbs In Your Garden
Another option for organic pest control, is to attract a large
variety of birds to your garden with birdfeeders. A bird feeder
can include feed with sunflower seeds, honey and sesame seeds.
Attracting birds like the wren, can help to keep insects and creepy
crawlies like spiders and caterpillars out of your garden. These
birds can feed hundreds of spiders and caterpillars to their young
during the day.
Herbs grown like basil and rosemary will keep petals on your
flowers intact, and will discourage insects from harming ornamental
plants. You can buy basil or rosemary oil to use in your soil
to keep insects away from your growing plants.
These are some of the methods used by organic gardeners, to keep
pests out of the organic garden, with organic pest control.
About the Author:
Pixie Matthews has written a number of articles on pest control, gardening and
landscaping including
Live Ladybugs,
Organic Vegetable Gardening Products,
Vegetable Gardening Tips,
Spring Vegetable Gardening,
Compost For Your Vegetable Garden,
Vegetable Gardening Tricks.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Little Known Bug Repellant Facts....
What are bug repellants?
Bug repellants are actually any substance
that is applied to the air, skin or clothing so that bugs do not
want to land on that particular surface. There is a huge range
of different repellants that you can use to help prevent bug bites.
Some of these repellants are marketed as organic or all natural
and are becoming a favorite choice among users.
Other repellants use chemicals to deter
the bugs from landing and biting. There are also some modern devices
that produce sound waves that ward off pesky bugs. Repellants
have changed greatly over the years. Chemicals that were once
common ingredients in many bug sprays or repellants have now been
discovered to be hazardous to the humans that used them.
It is why so much research and study goes
into every ingredient that goes into a can or bottle of bug repellant.
The idea is to repel bugs but without causing any danger to those
that use the repellant.
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