As the summer months approaches, your garden starts bursting with fruits, veggies and flowers. Besides these the garden also experiences the unwelcome arrival of Common Garden Pests which need to be taken care of timely to prevent the other plants from getting damaged by their invades. Gardeners usually get irritated with these bugs and insects in their garden and hence they opt for professional pest control services for common pest in their home garden. But, before hiring the services of professional pest control, ensure trying the below mentioned methods to control these common pests in garden.
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Pests Natural Enemies
Not all pests that are present in your home garden is harmful. There are some insects which are good like ladybirds, parasitic wasps, ground beetles. These insects are good for your garden as they prey on the common garden pests. So, look out for some of these insects and ensure to encourage these insects to enter your home garden by planting nectar producing plants and pollens.
Make Use of Barriers
Being the gardener you need to make a physical barrier so as to prevent the pests from entering your home garden and damage the veggies and fruits. There are a variety of barriers that you can make use of. The easiest is the use of fine net. You can place the fine net over the plants and ensure to keep enough space for the plants to flourish. You can also include a cardboard collar around the plants and their stem and press it into the soil deeply to prevent the cutworms and other burrowing pests from accessing the plants via soil.
Cohort Plantation
There are some plants which are known to produce natural insect repellents and these plants are very beneficial when it is planted next to the preyed plants and this plantation process is known companion planting. When you plant garlic next to any crops or veggies it helps to deter certain insects and pests. Similarly, if you plant tomatoes in the garden then it can repel the tomato hornworms and marigold that is planted with cucumbers and squash can repel the nematodes and cucumber beetles.
Handpick Larger Pests
Some of the handpicking huge pests like snails, slugs and caterpillars are very efficient for small home gardens. So, if you feel like to squeamish, then ensure to wear a pair of gardening gloves before doing so.
Crop Rotation
Crop Rotation is the process of planting diverse types of veggies in diverse sections of your home garden every year this will significantly help you to reduce the invades of pest infestation. There are some pests which tend to spend the winter underground and again pop-up in springs to search for new preys and foods. So, if the plant which they eat normally is planted in another place then the insect will be forced to relocate to another place in search of foods and this increases the danger of being attacked by birds and other insects. So, this way the number of pest will reduce. This is the effective way to control Common Garden Pests.
