Safe Pest Control Tips
Pest control must be done with utmost consideration to safety; safety in terms of the plants, animals
and humans.
This holds especially true for those with vegetable and organic gardens.
Wasp nest
removal.
The main purpose of...
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Safe Pest Control Tips
Pest control must be done with utmost consideration to safety; safety in terms of the plants, animals
and humans.
This holds especially true for those with vegetable and organic gardens.
Wasp nest
removal.
The main purpose of growing vegetables organically will be defeated if they become tainted with
pest control chemicals.
Here are a few long-term maintenance tips to make pest control less damaging and more
environmentally friendly.
1.
Use the physical pest control process.
This may be accomplished through picking grubs off by hand, creating barriers and traps and
plugging holes.
Snails can be found hiding in damp places under rocks and towrds the base of those
plants with straplike foliage.
2.
Apply biological pest control.
Encourage predatory insects such as green lacewings and dragonflies to feed on aphids and other
pests that attack your plants.
You can do this by placing a shallow bowl of water in the garden.
Dragonflies especially will hover a
Less
