Vine Harvest

Achieving Organic Pest Control For Your Plants

As a gardener, whether you grow fruits and vegetables or flowers – or some combination – you can’t have pests ruining your garden. Pests can eat your crop, suck the juices of the plant, stunt the growth, and even kill the plants you’ve spent time growing.

What can you do? You can go the hard line, chemical route, where you spray chemicals on your plants and pretend there are no real negative effects. But you and I both know there has to be a better way – and there is. You can have pest control for your plants that is truly organic. Whether your plants with pests are outside or indoors, organic pest control is worth using.

Bugs, Bugs, Everywhere?

If your plants are plagued with insects that want to feed off them and ruin them, you have to find an organic pest control. For your plants, chemicals are a bad idea. For one thing, remember that fruits or vegetables that might have been sprayed with chemicals must be washed thoroughly before you can eat them. And while most of us wash our fruits and vegetable anyway, is there anything better than popping a right-off-the-vine cherry tomato into your mouth as you garden? Or tasting a tangerine while you harvest a bucketful to take indoors? No more of this if you use chemicals to get rid of insect varmints.

So what can you do? First, let the good bugs get rid of the bad bugs. Got aphids on your roses, fruit trees, or vegetables? They suck up the nutrients from plants and are very destructive. Most of their natural predators have succumbed to the common usage of pesticides. Those who survive become resistant to pesticides. Adult and larvae ladybugs are known to eat 50 aphids a day. You can attract ladybugs to your garden – one way is to use a natural product that has pheromones that attract beneficial insects (including ladybugs). You can also purchase ladybugs over the internet or at some home and garden stores.

Weeds Are Pests, Too!

For weeds, many people automatically turn to the chemical weed killers. This isn’t a good idea. For one thing, just like with antibiotics, the continual use of chemicals to kill off pests can result in “superbugs” or “superweeds” that are chemical resistant.

What can be done? Try natural methods of organic pest control for your plants! One such method is to pour boiling hot water onto weeds that are growing up in the cracks of a driveway or sidewalk. This will usually kill them (a second application may be necessary).

Pesty Animals?

As for animals that are pests, protecting your plants with organic pest control services for animals is usually a matter of a barrier method. Most of us aren’t interested in killing off every animal that bothers our garden – though we might be tempted!

Instead, try using a fence or plastic protection. Individual animals can be deterred in animal specific ways, all. For example, one type of organic pest control for your plants from deer is to sprinkle human hair clippings around in the garden. They will not consider your garden a safe place if they smell human.

Birds can be tricked. Hanging pie tins in fruit trees or garden plants to catch the sunlight can work. So can hanging red Christmas balls within the tomato plants while the tomatoes are still green. The birds will try to peck the red balls. When they learn they aren’t edible, they’ll leave the later ripening fruit alone!

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