When you have gardening as a hobby, sometimes you might see pests and diseases in your crops, and sometimes you try to get rid of them.
It is true that disease and pests could ruin your plants, and potentially even ruin your hard work on the garden, this is why the methods of getting rid of pests is typically must know for every gardeners.
There are many ways you can get rid of pests, be its using artificial pesticides, chemical, or by using natural. There are of course, any advantages or disadvantages by using chemical or natural pesticides.
Before we move on to how you can get rid of natural pests, we need to understand why we should do natural pests control and not using the chemical pesticide.
The Comparison Between Natural And Chemical Pesticides For Gardening
First, let’s talk about chemical pesticides. Chemical pesticides are very effective at killing bugs and pests, and it is probably one of the most simple, cheaper and fastest solution for pest infestation in your garden.
It is also easier to find, cheaper, and faster to buy, rather than making for your own natural pesticide, but of course there are few disadvantages too.
Chemical pesticides can sometimes dangerously harm on your garden. Sometimes, making the soil or the water become unstable, and can even make ingesting your crops or produce dangerous. There is also chances that bugs, and diseases would develop immunity to the chemical pesticides, not to mention that it could polute water ways if it is too much on your garden.
In contrast, the natural pesticide is natural way to get rid of pests. It is made from many natural ingredients, and would make it for easier, safer crops produce compared with using chemical pesticides. However, some natural pesticide can take some time to produce, and would make it quite hard to bought too, but if you see our tips here, you can make natural pesticide that are effective to repel bugs faster.
One thing that you should know is, that natural pesticides would be safer choices, as they can repel any bugs in your garden without adding for dangerous chemicals. You can also mix the natural bug repellent with the water, saving you time and money for effective uses of pesticide. To make it simpler, there are also many ways you can naturally get rid of bugs, instead of using chemical pesticide.
How To Naturally Get Rid Of Pests In Your Garden
There are many ways that you can get rid of pests naturally, from simple concoction made from garlic, to the unique way of getting rid of pests, like for example using ducks to eat bugs, introducing natural predators of bugs and pests into your garden. So, if you want to know more about how to maintain your garden bug-free and without the use of chemical, here are 7 tips to naturally get rid of pests in your garden.
- Use natural pesticides mix
There are many mixture of pesticides that are completely natural, and would do no harm to the plants, and safe for people if they are accidentally consume it. Some of the natural pesticide mixes such as mixture of garlic, liquid soap that can be used to suffocate pests, Neem oil mixture that are effective as natural insecticide, and many more.
There is also Diatomaceous earth, a mixture of fine powder that could be spread around the plants, and it can control some soft-bodied pests like slug.
- Encourage natural predators
You can also use tricks by introducing some beneficial natural predators, such as other insects like ladybugs, and lacewings. You can also use ducks, as they are natural predator for bugs, but they can be quite expensive to maintain.
- Handpicking pests
By handpicking pests you can directly control on your garden, getting rid any pests you might see manually, or you can also use pest brush. It is good way that you can get rid of your pests naturally without the use of pesticide, however if you don’t have time, then you might not be able to have time for handpicking pests one by one, and it might be tiresome.
- Use Floating Row Covers
The floating row covers are used as physical barrier and they can use to prevent any pests from reaching plants. This could be installed for smaller to medium plants, but for bigger plants, it might not be suitable for it. See here for more information regarding about how to install the floating row covers.
- Water the plant every morning
By watering the plant every morning you could wash up any insects, slugs, and many pests, as well as handpicking them. Not only it would make sure that the plant could get their water, but they also would wash up any pests on it.
- Keep the garden clean
When you have debris on your garden, the debris could be home for many pests, inviting many things such as pests, lice, slugs, and many more pests that could harm on your plants. Making sure to clean your garden, it could make your garden better and more beautiful too.
- Use companion planting trick
Companion planting tricks are tricks to plant other type of plants that could help deter any pests and insects around the type of plants or crops that you want to protect. For example, like planting marigolds, mints, and basils, could help to deter any pests and insects, due to them can gives natural insecticide pheromones.