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Author: Achieving Organic Pest Control For Your Plants
As a gardener, whether you grow fruits and vegetables or flowers – or some combination – you can’t have pests ruining your garden. Pests can eat your crop, suck the juices of the plant, stunt the growth, and even kill the plants you’ve spent time growing.
What can you do? You can go the hard line, chemical route, where you spray chemicals on your plants and pretend there are no real negative effects. But you and I both know there has to be a better way – and there is. You can have pest control for your plants that is truly organic. Whether your plants with pests are outside or indoors, organic pest control is worth using.
Bugs, Bugs, Everywhere?
If your plants are plagued with insects that want to feed off them and ruin them, you have to find an organic pest control. For your plants, chemicals are a bad idea. For one thing, remember that fruits or vegetables that might have been sprayed with chemicals must be washed thoroughly before you can eat them. And while most of us wash our fruits and vegetable anyway, is there anything better than popping a right-off-the-vine cherry tomato into your mouth as you garden? Or tasting a tangerine while you harvest a bucketful to take indoors? No more of this if you use chemicals to get rid of insect varmints.
So what can you do? First, let the good bugs get rid of the bad bugs. Got aphids on your roses, fruit trees, or vegetables? They suck up the nutrients from plants and are very destructive. Most of their natural predators have succumbed to the common usage of pesticides. Those who survive become resistant to pesticides. Adult and larvae ladybugs are known to eat 50 aphids a day. You can attract ladybugs to your garden – one way is to use a natural product that has pheromones that attract beneficial insects (including ladybugs). You can also purchase ladybugs over the internet or at some home and garden stores.
Weeds Are Pests, Too!
For weeds, many people automatically turn to the chemical weed killers. This isn’t a good idea. For one thing, just like with antibiotics, the continual use of chemicals to kill off pests can result in “superbugs” or “superweeds” that are chemical resistant.
What can be done? Try natural methods of organic pest control for your plants! One such method is to pour boiling hot water onto weeds that are growing up in the cracks of a driveway or sidewalk. This will usually kill them (a second application may be necessary).
Pesty Animals?
As for animals that are pests, protecting your plants with organic pest control for animals is usually a matter of a barrier method. Most of us aren’t interested in killing off every animal that bothers our garden – though we might be tempted!
Instead, try using a fence or plastic protection. Individual animals can be deterred in animal specific ways, all. For example, one type of organic pest control for your plants from deer is to sprinkle human hair clippings around in the garden. They will not consider your garden a safe place if they smell human.
Birds can be tricked. Hanging pie tins in fruit trees or garden plants to catch the sunlight can work. So can hanging red Christmas balls within the tomato plants while the tomatoes are still green. The birds will try to peck the red balls. When they learn they aren’t edible, they’ll leave the later ripening fruit alone!
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Choosing A Method Of Organic Pest Control
You love your garden! Your roses are gorgeous! Your vegetables are prolific – you harvest a lot every year. But things could be better.
Maybe you’ve been using chemical pest control methods, not organic. And so you’ve had to be extra careful where you’ve sprayed that high-powered bug juice, and kept the dog and cat indoors until you think it might be safe again for them to be in the garden. And then you’ve had to carefully wash every bit of produce, so that you didn’t ingest pesticides yourself.
And you probably think there must be a better way, but you don’t know what it would be. There is a better way to control pests in your yard.
Depending on what type of pests you are wanting to control, the method of organic pest control will vary. Let’s look at some options.
Let The Good Guys Eat The Bad Guys
Many of the bugs in your garden are actually beneficial bugs – the “good guys” of the outdoors. These should be encouraged, as a terrific method of organic pest control. For example, if your roses or other plants have aphids, rather than spraying them with a chemical to kill the little green bugs, try a natural method. Adult ladybugs and larvae are able to eat 50 aphids a day – and will stay in your yard as long as there are enough aphids to keep them happy. There are even products you can buy that exude natural pheromones to attract ladybugs and other beneficial insects to your garden.
Spray ‘Em Off
Another method for removing many types of pests is a spray of either water or some other fluid. White fly can be controlled by a strong spray of water. Do it for a few days in a row to the undersides of the leaves, and repeat as needed. There’s nothing more organic for pest control for plants than fresh water!
A quick spray or two of white vinegar on a slug will kill it within a few inches of slithering away from the attack. Go out in the morning when they are out in force, spray them, and you can easily subdue the population of slugs bothering your precious garden. It’s a great method of organic pest control.
Setting Up Boundaries
Of course, setting barriers to access can also protect your garden. For some situations, that means a fence to keep the deer from eating the roses or rabbits from the vegetables. For others, it means spreading seed pods from the Liquidambar tree around the plants and flowers you want to protect. Snails won’t crawl in and around the seed pods because of their spikiness – they don’t want to damage their bellies! Now that’s an organic method of pest control!
Dealing With Wild Things: Outdoor Ultrasonic Pest Control
If the question were asked regarding common pests around the home, a number of responses would probably be gleaned. Some of those responses could include roaches, mice, ants, spiders, etc.
However, often there are outdoor pests that can be just as disruptive. This is especially true if the individual homeowner cultivates a vegetable garden or tends to a flower garden.
Subsequently, it is important to know how to control outdoor pests. In particular, one of those pest control items is known as an outdoor ultrasonic pest control device.
Therefore, if considering this device, it is important to know how an outdoor ultrasonic pest control device works and what some of the features that an outdoor ultrasonic pest control device can incorporate.
What Is An Outdoor Ultrasonic Pest Control Product?
An outdoor ultrasonic pest control device is a product that is designed to repel outdoor pests away from specific areas. Those areas could be vegetable gardens, flower beds or other outside areas in which the individual wishes to protect from foraging animals or insects.
The way that the product works is to emit high frequency sounds that are above the level of human hearing. Generally, that level of ultrasonic sounds is at a 45,000 Hz range. Additionally, this sound range does not adversely affect the hearing of household pets. Once that sound falls upon the hearing of the animal, it creates a stressful condition upon which causes the animal to flee.
Features To Look For
When it comes to selecting an outdoor ultrasonic pest control device, it is important to consider specific features. Obviously, the features that one desires should match the geographical and resource needs.
Specifically, those outdoor ultrasonic pest control devices that are available to the customer can be powered by electricity and some are solar powered. Obviously, if electricity is not available, then the individual will want to look at a outdoor ultrasonic pest control that is solar powered.
Also, there are products that combine a motion sensor device with the ultrasonic capability. When the sensor picks up motion it activates the high pitched frequency which helps the pest control.
Other features that may be built into an outdoor ultrasonic pest control device is a water stream deterrent. This added device can be triggered when the device senses an animal in the area. Its function is to release a stream of self contained water in the direction of the animal pest.
