Garden Pest Control Tips

Gardening can be great fun and good exercise. You can also reduce your grocery bill as a result of gardening, but if you don’t address a few issues you may find that you are feeding the pests rather than your family.

One of the most important issues when gardening is House Pest control, no matter if your garden is floral or vegetable. Pests can take over your garden and instead of working on something that you want to be pleasing to the eye or palate you will have an eyesore.

A gardeners best friend is his or her spay can, knap sack and the pest control section of his or her supermarket. Gardening is excellent exercise and can be hard work, so why spend all of that time having it turn into unproductive time just because of garden pests.

There is no way that your garden will stand out from the crowd if your lawn is just a dry and patchy piece of ground because of pests. All good paintings are placed in good quality frames; treat your garden the same way. Care for your lawn as well as your garden.

Grubs and beetles can destroy your lawn and garden, but you don’t want to turn your back yard into a toxic waste dump. Do a little research on the Internet and you will find some recipes to help you concoct your own environmentally friendly pest control.

Don’t spend all of that time planning, digging and planting your garden only to kill it with a chemical that you hope will help it survive. Study the pest that you want to eradicate, find out what their habits are, and use the best chemical or pesticide for the job. You don’t use a hammer to paint a wall, do you?

Get your lawn and garden to a nice healthy state before you worry about the pests, some pests will go away once the garden is healthy. But don’t kill it with kindness, too much water, too much fertilizer and cutting the grass too short can do more harm than good.

After getting your garden beautifully verdant, you may find that the snails and slugs will make an attempt to take over. These can be particularly harmful to vegetable gardens. In Toronto, Canada most pesticides have been banned, but Scotts EcoSense ferric phosphate is still used to eradicate snails and slugs. Why? Because it is safe to use.

I hope that I have made it abundantly clear that if you want to reap the benefits of all of your hard work in the garden you have to minimize the damage that the pests can cause. In order to defeat your enemy in the garden you must get to know them.