Dealing with Garden Pests
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Dealing with Garden Pests
While tending to my own garden, I have found that one of the most
frustrating things that can happen to a gardener is to walk outside to
check on your plants.
It’s just a routine walk to make sure that your garden is thriving, but
you end up finding holes in all of your plants that looked fine only
hours before. The explanations for some of these plant-destroying holes
are garden pests. Some of the main garden pests are slugs, worms,
caterpillars, birds, snails, and the occasional gopher.
Although you can never wipe out these pests entirely, after all your
hard work in the garden you have to do something.
Insects are one of the worst things to have in your garden; they can
live under the soil, in old weeds or piles of leaves, or in a number of
other places. In order to help keep insects away, always try and
eliminate places in your garden and near your garden that these insects
and other plant diseases could be living.
Remove old leaves, weeds, or any other decaying matter that insects and
diseases could be living in from your yard. Also, regularly turn over
your garden soil and break apart any clumps of dirt so that you can
eliminate the living spaces any insects that might be hiding
underground.
Another way to rid your garden of the pests is to use dormant spray,
which is used to keep destructive insects and diseases under control.
It is best that you use dormant spray when your plants are dormant,
usually around February or early March. I have used dormant spray many
times on my garden and it has worked wonders on keeping insects out.
But as I learned from experience, dormant spray is only effective if
you follow the correct instructions.
When I first decided to use some on my garden, I just dumped it
everywhere in hopes of killing everything harmful. Unfortunately I
ended up killing my entire garden along with my neighbors. Some insects
can be beneficial to your garden though, so be sure to find out which
insects help your garden.
Another pest problem I've had besides insects has been birds. Whenever
I see birds in my garden I run outside a chase them away, but as soon
as i step inside they come right back. The solution that I've come up
with to keep the birds away from my garden is to put a bird feeder in
my yard. Instead of costing me time and money by eating my garden, the
birds eat at the bird feeder.
In the long run it’ll save you money.
Not only can a bird feeder help keep birds away from your garden, but
they can also be a new part of your yard decoration. Although not
completely eliminating my bird problem, my bird feeder has made the
problem smaller.Getting a dog has also helped.
If you start seeing mounds of dirt around your yard, and your plants
keep unexplainably dieing, you can assume that you have a gopher
problem.Thankfully, this is one of the few garden pasts that I haven't
had. However my friend has struggled with a tremendous gopher
infestation, so I decided to research it.
Gophers are rodents that are five to fourteen inches long. Their fur
can be black, light brown, or white, and they have small tails. One
method of getting rid of these root-eating pests is to set traps. The
key to successfully capturing a gopher using a trap is to successfully
locate the gopher's tunnels and set the trap correctly. Another way to
get rid of them is to use smoke bombs, which you place into the tunnel
and the smoke spreads through out it and hopefully reaches the gopher.
If you suspect that your gardens are being pillaged by any of the pests
I mentioned, I encourage you to try your hardest to eliminate the
problem as soon as possible.
The longer you let the species stay, the more established it will
become.
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