Gardening Pest Control

No gardener wants pests eating up the crops in his garden. Keeping your garden pest free will exonerate you from a wasted effort, due to pest attack. To completely remove pests from your garden, there are certain things you must know and do.

One thing you must do to curb pests is to identify them. It is easy to spot pest damage to your flowers and plants before knowing what is causing the mess. Check your garden at different times of the day to notice the situation. Some pest like leave a sign of their presence with some trail. Other pest can give you signs using the nature of floral damage that occurs. The best way however, is to see the pest by identifying their eggs and larvae. You can even set traps like sticky tape or other alternatives to catch some of them.

The next is to learn about the unwanted garden pest habits and life-cycle. This will help you plan the most appropriate strategy to control or eliminate them. You must also know that not all pets are harmful. There are some insects that eat the destructive pests. They are called “beneficial insects”. You need them. Other creatures like frogs or toads can also be beneficial since they eat a large number of insects every day. Go and buy them if don’t have any! Grow pest resistant varieties. Some plants are naturally more pest resistant than others. These are plants you should preferably plant. Also growing the right variety of crops may also reduce pest infestation to your garden.
Grow trap plants. These are plants that trap the insects. All you just do is to plant flora at the edge of your garden that pests love to infest on. Destroy the plants once they are sufficiently infested, taking a heap of insects with them.

Use barriers such as fences to protect your garden against larger pest. Also use row covers for smaller insects. You can also remove the pests by hand. Although it could be labor intensive, it is an option if you have pests in smaller numbers or easy to remove by hand. You can also control the pests chemically. These are called Pesticides or Insecticides. They are available in many forms and varieties. Some insects grow resistant to pesticides. Note that using repeated application may affect the beneficial insects. However, you can Conventional Pesticides, Organic Pesticides, Botanical Pesticides and Microbial Pesticides to control pests.

Finally, you can combine all the methods of pest control. This is the best approach to solving these problems. If you combine the methods, you have flexibility in pest control. If organic methods like beneficial bugs are not working, you can chemical methods might just be your solution. You can also fall back on the beneficial insects on the other hand, if the garden pest becomes resistant to the pesticide you’re using.

Among other things, keeping your garden pest free should be one of your priorities in gardening.
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