Strategies for Preventing Pests in Your Garden

Hello World!  Welcome Friends!  A lot of gardens can be home to some pests that trample over the plants, eat flowers, and leave droppings all around. Some of the time they can just be occasional, and not too much of a big deal. However, sometimes the numbers of pests can rise, and it can cause a lot of damage, and just be a bit of a nuisance. But how can you control the pests in your garden, so that it can still be a friendly space for wildlife, but isn’t going to be a space that is harmful for you and your family?

More people are aware of the dangers that can come from exposure to some synthetic chemical pesticides, so a lot of people are choosing some alternative methods to control pests in the garden. For example, you should never poison a wild animal but if you need to kill it, than howtokillwildlife.com can help you. So there are methods to help you, should a wild animal get into your garden, and it causes problems. Hopefully, it won’t have to come to that, but there are some strategies for preventing pests in your garden. Here are some to think about.

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Encourage Insects

Having some pollinating insects come into your garden can be such a good thing, however, there are some other beneficial insects to attract to your garden that can help to eliminate pests. Insects like ladybugs, lacewings, pirate bugs, wasps, and damsel bugs, can naturally help to keep pest numbers low. They do this by eating the pests or using them to home and feed their young. In order to get more bugs like these in your garden, it is a good idea to have some flowers that they can munch on, that have a carbohydrate-rich nectar, such as dill, native buckwheat, and mountain mint. 

Choose Plants Wisely

There are some plants that are going to be much more prone to attracting pests, compared to others. Preventing pests can be simple if you have chosen the right kind of plants in your garden. For example, if you find that squash bugs plague your winter squash plants, then choosing the butternut plant could be the best solution, as it is one of the most resilient and resistant. Look out for pest-resistant and disease-resistant plants, and it will mean that if you do get any pests, the damage that they do won’t be as much.

Put Physical Barriers in Place

One of the most helpful methods of preventing some pests in your garden is to put in place a physical barrier between what they want (most likely plants), and them. If you find that you get foxes sneaking through cracks in fencing, then that should be sealed up, as well as keeping food and something like compost secure. For plants and vegetables that you are growing that seem to get attacked, you could put plastic covers on them at night, as well as thinking about netting. Just remember to take off something like a row cover when the plant starts to flower, so that bees and other pollinators have access.

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