Using organic insecticide is an option if you have a problem with pests in your garden. You can purchase organic insecticide from many garden supply stores these days. However, it is important to buy the right product to control the pests that you have.
Organic gardening means not killing off more insects than you need to. You would not want to buy the type of commercial chemical insecticides that kill virtually every six legged creature in the garden. Some of them are useful, such as ladybugs which will feed on your aphid pests. They can be beautiful too. Remember, butterflies are insects.
For this reason, many gardeners prefer to avoid organic insecticides and use other methods for controlling pests in the garden.
For soil-based pests, the best method of control is to rotate your plants so that the plant they feed on is not in the same place year after year. Insects are easily confused, especially those that live in the soil. This is often enough to prevent them from becoming established and numerous.
However, if you are considering organic insecticide then it is probably too late for prevention. You will need to look for other methods of controlling pests. The best ways are those that target the specific pest that you are having trouble with. That way, you will not kill off beneficial and friendly insects that contribute to the natural food chain in your garden.
Many pests are repelled by garlic. For this reason, gardeners often plant garlic around their other crops. It is especially effective this way against red spider mite and the borer beetles that attack fruit trees.
You can also use garlic in sprays. Simply crush garlic cloves into water and spray the mixture directly onto your plants. This will keep off many of the pests that like to eat vegetables and flowers.
Soap solutions are well known to be effective against aphids and other small flies that attack roses and similar flowering plants. A soap solution spray can also prevent slugs from eating your flowers.
Against slugs and snails, you can either use salt or beer. Salt solution sprayed onto plants will often keep off these pests in the same way that garlic repels other pests. You can also make traps containing beer. Place a flat container of beer into the ground so that the rim is at ground level and the slugs can easily access the beer and fall in. As far as we know, they will die happy.
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