Dealing with Garden Pests Dealing with Garden Pests: While tending to my own garden, I have found that one of the mostfrustrating things that can happen to a gardener is to walk outside tocheck on your plants. It’s just a routine walk to make sure that yourgarden is thriving, but you end up finding holes in all of your plantsthat looked fine only hours before. The explanations for some of theseplant-destroying holes are garden pests. Some of the main garden pests areslugs, worms, caterpillars, birds, snails, and the occasional gopher.Although you can never wipe out these pests entirely, after all your hardwork in the garden you have to do something. Insects are one of the worst things to have in your garden; they can liveunder the soil, in old weeds or piles of leaves, or in a number of otherplaces. In order to help keep insects away, always try and eliminateplaces in your garden and near your garden that these insects and otherplant diseases could be living. Remove old leaves, weeds, or any otherdecaying matter that insects and diseases could be living in from youryard. Also, regularly turn over your garden soil and break apart anyclumps of dirt so that you can eliminate the living spaces any insectsthat might be hiding underground. Dealing with Garden Pests Another way to rid your garden of the pests is to use dormant spray, whichis used to keep destructive insects and diseases under control. It is bestthat you use dormant spray when your plants are dormant, usually aroundFebruary or early March. I have used dormant spray many times on my gardenand it has worked wonders on keeping insects out. But as I learned fromexperience, dormant spray is only effective if you follow the correctinstructions. When I first decided to use some on my garden, I just dumpedit everywhere in hopes of killing everything harmful. Unfortunately Iended up killing my entire garden along with my neighbors. Some insectscan be beneficial to your garden though, so be sure to find out whichinsects help your garden. Another pest problem I’ve had besides insects has been birds. Whenever Isee birds in my garden I run outside a chase them away, but as soon as Istep inside they come right back. The solution that I’ve come up with tokeep 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 atthe bird feeder. In the long run it’ll save you money. Not only can a birdfeeder help keep birds away from your garden, but they can also be a newpart of your yard decoration. Although not completely eliminating my birdproblem, my bird feeder has made the problem smaller. Getting a dog hasalso helped. Dealing with Garden Pests If you start seeing mounds of dirt around your yard, and your plants keepunexplainably 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 Idecided to research it. Gophers are rodents that are five to fourteeninches long. Their fur can be black, light brown, or white, and they havesmall tails. One method of getting rid of these root-eating pests is toset traps. The key to successfully capturing a gopher using a trap is tosuccessfully 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 intothe tunnel and the smoke spreads through out it and hopefully reaches thegopher. If you suspect that your gardens are being pillaged by any of the pests Imentioned, I encourage you to try your hardest to eliminate the problem assoon as possible. The longer you let the species stay, the moreestablished it will become. : Dealing with Garden Pests – #5StepsToAHigherGardenAndBackyard #DealingwithGardenPests #garden #GardenAndBackyard #gardening #gardeningwithorganic #seedsforgardening #Organic