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Preventing Garden Pests
Protect your garden from pests and insects
Jan, 2021 | by adminpanel in Articles

Your garden is precious and you don’t want any pests or insects creating havoc on your hard work! Pests and insects are constant threat to your plants.

Your garden is precious and you don’t want any pests or insects creating havoc on your hard work! Pests and insects are constant threat to your plants.  If not treated at the right time in the right manner, these can damage your plants. It’s also very critical to use appropriate methods so that you don’t destroy the good bugs that can actually help your garden.

So today, we are going to give you a few tips and tricks to protect your garden from the harmful, damaging insects and pests.

Let’s get to know who these common pests and insects are. Only because, you need to keep an eye out for the harmful ones, so that you would know how to get rid of them, keeping the beneficial bugs intact.

Good Ones

Pollinators including bees, butterflies, flies, and moths. Predators like ladybugs, praying mantises, and green lacewing larvae that eliminate the pests. Parasitic wasps also are beneficial to your garden.

Bad Ones

Aphids, Boxelder Bugs, Lace Bugs, Spittlebugs, Mealybugs, Pill Bugs, Black Vine Weevil, Cabbage Looper, Armyworms, Blister Beetle, Colorado Potato Beetle, Striped Cucumber Beetle, Japanese Beetles, Flea Beetle.

First you need to try and keep them away because prevention is always better than cure! However here we are going to tell you how to do both – the prevention and cure.

Learn how to prevent it:

Healthy plants will have the natural immune system to protect themselves against harm. So ensure ideal conditions for your plants – maintain a good nutrient rich soil as per your plants’ requirements, water in just the right quantity, give the right amount of sun. Knowing your plant well helps to keep them healthy and protected.
Choose varieties that are naturally resistant to pests and insects. You can choose one from our range.
Now you already know that there are good bugs that can help your plants. So attract them, by planting flowers that they need. Give them the environment to come lay their eggs to grow a family nearby and do the pest patrolling for you.
Bugs are good, so are strong-scented herbs to keep the pests away. Basil, Chive, thyme are some of the common herbs you could plant.

No worries, you can cure it:

If you are dealing with a pest situation, remove the damaged plants from the garden to avoid the spread onto healthy plants.
Try to identify the pest or insect that has affected your garden or plant. This way, it becomes easier to treat it with the right solutions.

Always remember to prevent than cure! In spite of all your efforts, if a bug has managed to creep into your garden, keep calm and take the right measures to cure.

Good luck for keeping your garden healthy and protected!

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