Arg the pain of laboring and toiling over your garden only to have tiny creatures invade it and ruin everything! Let’s look over some ways to avoid garden pests!
Promote “good” healthy creatures to help clean the area out. There are many good critters such as ladybugs that will help destroy the bad bugs. Plant a few flowers throughout your garden, as the pollen will entice the good bugs to move in.
Amphibians! Create a hospitable environment for a toad or other amphibian to move in and devour some insects! You can create little shelters from old pots that you no longer need or even pots that have broken! Keep the ground moist as well to keep it a healthy environment for the toads to move in. Just remember to be careful when you are working in your garden and not harm any of your new found friends!
If you are having a problem with rodents or even larger animals like deer, you can try some natural deterrents. Many people use organic ones such as hot pepper based sprays, even coyote urine! Castor oil is an easily accessible one to try as well.
As crazy as it may sound the animals also dislike the smell of humans and all the perfumes we wear. You can try hanging a fragrant soap or other air freshener around head height of the deer.
To prevent smaller creatures from invading a short simple fence made of chicken wire may assist as well.
For slugs try diatomaceous earth, it cuts into their tender skin and helps deter them. Copper strips work as well but copper nowadays is a bit too expensive.
For resisting diseases you can use cultivars made to resist certain times of diseases. There are many many variations out there and all are relatively cheap. We’ll go over some of those in a future article!