Pests & Diseases

Beneficial Insects: A Guide to Choosing
A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects and how to apply them.

Edible Insecticides
The reality of any kind of gardening is that at some point you WILL encounter pests. While there are hundreds of products lining the shelves of your local garden centre designed to erradicate bugs from the garden, you probably have ingredients in your own kitchen that will do an effective job without contaminating the foodchain or harming the environment.

The "Do-Good" Bugs
A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects, mites and nematodes.

Controlling Slugs
Unfortunately, there is no foolproof method for eradicating slugs. All one can hope for is to reduce their numbers and protect plants when they're at a vulnerable stage.

Organic Gardening- Recipes for Sprays
Use of organic sprays are more friendly to the environment. They are comprised of common organic materials, soaps and occasionally other environmentally friendly materials.

Pepper as a Pesticide
Organic gardeners have known it for generations. But scientists have now proved it. Extracts from black pepper discourage insect pests from laying eggs on leaves and pose lower risk to humans and the environment than other pesticides.

Luring Beneficial Insects to Your Garden
Create a garden that is friendly to beneficial insects and let nature control the pests that eat your cabbages and roses.

Benefit and Value of Insects
The growing public concern over the use and misuse of pesticides has led increasing numbers of home gardeners to seek means of "natural" pest control. Although some people do not have the time or knowledge to practice all the available alternative methods for controlling pests, there are many cultural practices which will help reduce losses.

Minimum Chemical Gardening
Take advantage of the biological control already taking place in your garden by encouraging natural predators. Learn to recognize the eggs and larvae of the beneficial insects and avoid harming them.

Benefit and Value of Insects
Native Americans and early settlers obviously did not have today's chemical controls available to them; they relied primarily on cultural and physical methods to control pests.

Beneficial Insects
The industry of insects and their devotion to purpose, when coupled with almost unlimited numbers, can benefit us when they seek and devour a myriad of pests scattered over a farm or forest.

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