An Important Part Of Sustaining An Attractive Garden Is Dealing With Pests

| Friday, November 11, 2011
By Brooks Baggett


Taking a stroll in your garden, anticipating enjoying your plants, can be totaly ruined by the discovery that they are suddenly full of holes The destruction has normally been caused by pests. The most common ones are slugs, worms and birds, but there are also caterpillars, snails and perhaps, gophers.

Despite the fact that you will not have a completely pest-free garden, you can largely protect the results of your labours by taking appropriate action. What makes it difficult is that insects hide from predators, under fallen leaves, pernicious weeds, and soil. One of the very first things you need to accomplish is get rid of the places where the insects live. Take away the weeds, the old plant debris, and any decaying matter that the insects prefer live in. You should rotate the soil on a routine basis, taking care to break up the clods. In this way subterranean bug hideouts will be minimised.

Pests that consume your plants and diseases that disfigure and eliminate them should also be suppressed with dormant spray. February or March is a good time for this, mainly because then is the dormant period for plants. The dormant spray isn't going to be effective unless of course the instructions are meticulously followed. Another reason to follow the guidelines is whenever used incorrectly it could be lethal for your plants. In the same way some insects can be harmful for your garden, there are others that are beneficial, therefore try and retain them. You can also find those winged irritants, the birds. A bird feeder might be an effective alternative to the futile exercise of trying to scare them away. Rather than to allow them to feed on your garden produce, give them bird food in your feeder. Not only can a feeder look nice, but it will also be cheaper over time.

Having a dog might help, but only up to a point. For a lot of garden owners their unique garden pest will be the gopher. In case your plants are fading, and you discover mounds of dirt, that could be your problem. These kinds of little critters certainly understand how to make a nuisance of themselves. Along with a length of between five and fourteen inches, gophers have small tails and can be black, brown or occasionaly white. One method of getting rid of them is by trapping. Systematically catching them comes with finding the tunnels of the gophers and putting the trap in the right place. Eradicating gophers might also be attempted by setting off smoke bombs in the entrances to their tunnels.

To always keep your back garden in good shape, you will need to get rid of all of your pests at the earliest opportunity. They can become entrenched when not destroyed immediately. The value of your home is increased by a strong, well looked after garden.




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