5 Tips on How to Keep Your Garden Bug Free: Organic Garden Pest Control That Really Works

Organic gardens are not without some of the drawbacks that every garden has. One of these drawbacks are various kinds of pests.

In our organic garden we want to fight these pests in an environmentally safe way, as opposed to the ways used in a conventional garden. In those gardens strong chemicals are commonly used, which cause harm not only to the pests but also to you and your family, to your plants, to your soil and to the good insects in your garden. They will also find their way into the ground water while accumulating in your soil.

Step 1: Organic Garden Pest Control by Hand If you want a really cheap and easy way to get rid of the easy-to-see bugs this is the one. While strolling around your garden in the evening or in the early mornings, look closely on your plants and pick all the harmful bugs you can see and are able to pick. Then either squash them or drown them in a conatiner with soapy water.

Tips 2 for Your Organic Garden Pest Control: Homemade solutions to spray in your garden Bugs will suffocate when covered in soapy water, so a simple solution of 1 dl of natural soap added to 1 liter of water will do the trick. Spray your plants every other day for a week or two with a spray bottle to get rid of all the bugs that hatch. Make sure you spray the whole plant, even under the leaves.

This works well with aphids, and sometimes with spider mites, but not always.

A mixture of 2-3 garlic cloves, 3-4 large chili peppers and 2 tablespoons of some vegetable oil, blended well in your blender, then strained and added to 1 liter of water plus 1 tablespoon of natural soap (or dishwashing soap) makes a stronger homemade solution for fighting bugs. When spraying this on your plants, avoid spraying during mid day or in really hot weather, because that may harm the leaves on your plants by burning them.

The effects of this solution are more widespread than the soapy water, as it may scare away even moles and mice if they smell it near their holes. But the backside of this remedy is this: It will scare away the good bugs as well. But there is a way to avoid this:

Step 3: Organic Garden Pest Control by establishing ecological balance This is an extremly environmentally friendly way to control the pests in your garden, using the “good” bugs to prevent the ones harmful to your plants from expanding. You can tempt for example ladybugs, lacewings and the praying mantis into your garden by growing plants that they like and are drawn to. These little fellows are all good at devouring aphids and to some extent spider mites (and are pretty to watch!), and can also be bought from firms delivering them as egg sacks or live.

Organic Garden Pest Control 4: Choosing scary plants and maintaining good plant health Note, the plants are supposed to be scary for the pests, not for you! Good plants for this are wormwood, lavender, marigolds, garlic and onions. I believe all of these are easily fitted into both your flower garden and your vegetable garden. For example, onions can be planted amongst carrot plants to prevent the carrot root fly from harming your carrots (companion planting), and marigolds can be planted anywhere!

Make sure your plants grow in healthy soil, rich in nutrients, in order to keep them vigorous and strong. By doing that your plants will be able to flourish even if they are attacked by one pest or another.

Tips 5 for Your Organic Garden Pest Control: How to get rid of ants, fleas and other crawling insects An environmentally friendly way to get rid of small insects like ants is spreading a thin layer of Diatomaceous earth on the ground. This mineral dust pierces the exoskeleton of these small but annoying creatures, leaving them to dry out. You need to repeat the process after watering or heavy rain.

Hollyhock saviour! Many are the gardeners giving up on hollyhocks because of the fungus that makes the leaves turn reddish brown and eventually fall of. However, if you use this homemade solution your hollyhocks will be able to keep their leaves and look the way they should.

Horsetail, enough to fill a kettle and covered with water, should boil for a minimum of 10 minutes. Having done that, filter the contents of the kettle, dilute the fluid with 5-10 times of water. This homemade remedy is to be sprayed all over on your hollyhocks and under the leaves.

The best of luck with keeping pests off and your plants healthy and beautiful!