If your garden has insects and bugs that are proving to be damaging, you can easily eliminate them by dousing your plants with different types of chemicals. However, this type of practice will not only kill the harmful insects and bugs but it will also get rid of the good bugs and other living organisms that visit your yard.
By Esmee McCornall
For instance, spraying poison on caterpillars that eat your flowers will also get rid of the welcomed butterflies that hover around your garden. Similarly, there will be no lovely songbirds to greet you if your garden does not provide them with bugs for their next meal.
You need to keep the good bugs in and the bad bugs out of your garden, and at the same time, be willing to tolerate some of the annoying ones if you want to attract other creatures to visit your garden. You also need to make sure that these bugs do not get out of control in their numbers and destroy your garden.
Below is a list of things you can do to prevent problems from occurring in your garden:
1. Keep Your Garden Clean
Maintain a clean garden by regularly taking out dead leaves and stems, as well as unhealthy leaves and stems, to prevent the disease from spreading. Remove weeds from the flower beds where insects and other diseases can live.
After clipping the diseased plants, sanitize scissors and pruning shears by soaking them in a solution consisting of water and household bleach. If you are a smoker, wash your hands thoroughly before working in your garden because tobacco and cigarettes have viruses that harm plants and flowers.
2. Take Care Of Your Flowers
An unfit environment weakens your flowers, making them an easy target by diseases and bugs that can kill them. Similar to our immune system, by keeping your perennials healthy and stress-free, they are less susceptible to diseases and other threats. Keep them strong and healthy by providing enough water, sunlight, good soil, and fertilizer. Examine your flowers on a regular basis and spray off bugs and small insects.
3. Think Big :)
Provide Enough Space Between Your Plants. It is beneficial to maintain proper air circulation in order to contain diseased plants and keep them from spreading and contaminating healthy plants.
4. Keep The Good Bugs In
Some of these creepy crawlers are actually working for you. Examples are flower flies, praying mantis, lizards, spiders, and predator mites.
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By Esmee McCornall
For instance, spraying poison on caterpillars that eat your flowers will also get rid of the welcomed butterflies that hover around your garden. Similarly, there will be no lovely songbirds to greet you if your garden does not provide them with bugs for their next meal.
You need to keep the good bugs in and the bad bugs out of your garden, and at the same time, be willing to tolerate some of the annoying ones if you want to attract other creatures to visit your garden. You also need to make sure that these bugs do not get out of control in their numbers and destroy your garden.
Below is a list of things you can do to prevent problems from occurring in your garden:
1. Keep Your Garden Clean
Maintain a clean garden by regularly taking out dead leaves and stems, as well as unhealthy leaves and stems, to prevent the disease from spreading. Remove weeds from the flower beds where insects and other diseases can live.
After clipping the diseased plants, sanitize scissors and pruning shears by soaking them in a solution consisting of water and household bleach. If you are a smoker, wash your hands thoroughly before working in your garden because tobacco and cigarettes have viruses that harm plants and flowers.
2. Take Care Of Your Flowers
An unfit environment weakens your flowers, making them an easy target by diseases and bugs that can kill them. Similar to our immune system, by keeping your perennials healthy and stress-free, they are less susceptible to diseases and other threats. Keep them strong and healthy by providing enough water, sunlight, good soil, and fertilizer. Examine your flowers on a regular basis and spray off bugs and small insects.
3. Think Big :)
Provide Enough Space Between Your Plants. It is beneficial to maintain proper air circulation in order to contain diseased plants and keep them from spreading and contaminating healthy plants.
4. Keep The Good Bugs In
Some of these creepy crawlers are actually working for you. Examples are flower flies, praying mantis, lizards, spiders, and predator mites.
Click here to read Part 2 of this article
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