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Health & Fitness

Want to Rid Your Lawn & Garden of Pests Naturally?

Organic gardening and lawn fertilization can be very effective. But it is not as good when unusual pests come along and eat up your garden and destroy your lawn. Since it’s necessary to maintain the natural environment, you need to choose the best insect control technique. Now, as many more gardeners and farmers use organic gardening, there are many more tested solutions to get rid of unwanted pests and diseases.

Let’s have a look at some of organic pest control solutions that are working:

Not only can plant debris cause illness and act as a home to insect pests, certain mulches can get wet and do the same thing. Stick with mulches made of wood chips or straw to keep the ground clean.

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Use certified, licensed seed to avoid illness and pest-resistance when compared to non-certified seed.

Certain plants can provide an aroma or draw some insects to themselves to take care of different plants. That’s the whole point of associate planting. Carrots can assist tomatoes.  So do marigolds, geraniums and petunias. Beets can be benefited by basil, mint and catnip.

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Another technique to keep away the insects and deer from your vegetation is to protect the rows with mesh netting. This is the perfect method to prevent birds from feeding on your berries as well. It is more expensive than other techniques but it certainly gives good result in the long run. If you are very careful, you can conserve the netting from season to season.

Adding helpful insects to help get rid of other insects is one of the modern organic gardening styles. Now there are agencies that do nothing other than elevate insects to offer for sale to farmers and gardeners. Lots of these can be ordered on the internet. Pesticides kill the useful insects along with the harmful ones. Beneficial insects cause no more damage other than getting rid of another pest.

It’s also important that you rototill your garden in the fall and again in the spring just before planting. Keeping useless plants on the ground during the winter can encourage disease and pests can definitely over-winter below them and in the ground. Tilling in the spring will also attract any pests that want to stay invisible in the soil, like slugs.

Using popular household products to create insecticides is one of the methods insects are removed by organic gardening techniques. A spray fabricated from dishwashing liquid and water can be sprayed on several kinds of plants to stop pests. You can add oil to the combination as well, or also warm spices or peppers. Spray the leaves of plants and it will stop the pests.

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