Keeping your vegetable garden free of pests
There are so many different things that you need to do to make sure that your vegetable garden stays healthy and does not get over run by pests. If you are thinking about growing a vegetable garden or have grown a vegetable garden in the past just to have it over ran with pests here are some tips to keeping your vegetable garden free of pests.
The first tip to keeping your vegetable garden free of pests is to plant flowers around your vegetable garden. Flowers can have very potent scents that attract bugs to them instead of the vegetable garden. Some of the best flowers are merigolds. Merigolds are big and put of a scent that attracts pest that might other wise be attracted to your vegetable gardens.
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The second tip for keeping your vegetable garden free of pests is to keep your garden clean. You can keep your garden clean by removing things like twigs and dead leaves that might have fallen to the ground. Keeping leaves and twigs clean up give pests less space to hide under. Different pests like to hide under these things because they are cool and dark.
The third tip to keeping your vegetable garden free of pests is to weed your garden regularly. You wan to make sure that pests do not have anything to attract them to your vegetable garden.
The fourth tip on keeping your vegetable garden free of pests is to water your vegetable garden often. You want to make sure that your vegetable garden does not become to dry in between watering. If your plants become to dry it weakens them and it is easier for the pests that get inside your garden to kill the plants.
The fifth tip to keeping your vegetable garden free of pests is to spray insecticides on the flowers around your garden. Try not to spray any type of insecticides on any of the vegetables that you will be eating. You can avoid this by making sure that when you spray it is not windy and that you do not over spray onto your vegetable garden.
The sixth tip to keeping your vegetable garden free of pests is to look for the bigger pests and remove them by hand. Make sure that you know what you are looking for. There are different types of worms and bugs that are going to get into your vegetables the best way to get rid of them is to either cut of the part where they are eating and take the pests with you or just remove the pest itself.
Theses are just some of the tips to keeping your vegetable garden free of pests. They will not one hundred percent guarantee that your vegetable garden will be free of pest but it will help cut down on the number of pests that are getting into your vegetable garden. If you want more information on keeping your vegetable garden free of pests you can go online and see what you can find there or you can go to your local gardening centers and ask the people that work there what they recommend. You can also go to one of your local nurseries and see what they recommend. The one thing you will want to stay away from as much as possible are sprays that have pesticides in them. You do not want to spray them on your vegetables or you might end up getting sick. Find out what methods works best for your for keeping your vegetable garden free of pests and stick to it.
