Taking Time For A Garden Pest Control

Having a garden at home has a lot of benefits. It is relaxing to watch flowers in full bloom or grow your own vegetable patch at the backyard. An organic garden is a very healthy option of growing your own food. However, you may have to contend with some gardening pests, which are also household pests that invade your home. You may need a garden pest control so as to protect your young seedlings and plants. 

 

It is best to use a natural pest control that will use only organic solution in your pest spray. This is very important especially for your organic garden, wherein you wish to avoid any chemicals that may contaminate your garden. In a non-organic garden, you have the option of commercial pest control, which may use strong chemicals. Many pest controllers use the most effective pest control, which could also kill plants and not only your garden bugs. Many pest control services will usually use a pest removal that will use harsh chemicals. This could contaminate not only your soil but also your ground water.

 

An organic garden pest control will entail the simplest kind of natural control, which is to remove your garden pests by hand. Make it part of your routine to manually remove all the garden bugs you see like aphids and beetles. You need to squash them or put them in soap solution. You can also use a pest spray using natural soap and water. Spray every inch of your plant regularly to kill the bugs especially those newly hatched. A soapy solution is best in exterminating spider mite. However, there are still some homemade solutions that may be effective in flea control, cockroach control, spider control, ant control and even mice control, but they could also kill the good bugs.

 

Good bugs like the ladybug eat the aphids. Lacewings and praying mantis are also bugs that are on our side. You can actually buy them to create a balance on your mini ecosystem of your garden bugs. These good bugs are available in egg sacks or live, making them an efficient and ecologically sound way of having a garden pest control. It is a cheap pest control as well.

 

Another step in having a natural garden pest control is by planting plants that will ward off your garden pests. You can get rid of the carrots root fly by planting onions together with your carrots. You can mix lavender and marigold into your vegetable patch since they produce a pretty strong fragrance. In addition, make sure that your plants get a lot of nutrients as well as the soil so that your healthy and robust plants can withstand the infestation of pesky bugs.

 

Another good way of having a garden pest control is to use diatomaceous earth, which can penetrate the hard shells or exoskeletons of insects. It is very effective with fleas, ants and small beetles and can make them dry out. You can put a thin layer of the mineral dust on your soil and repeat the process especially after heavy rains or when heavy water is poured out.

 

The key to a good garden pest control is vigilance. You just need to watch out for those garden bugs who wish to have a free meal in your garden patch. It is a good exercise to keep a garden so might as well include a few minutes of getting rid of those bugs.