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How To Protect Your Garden From Pests

If you like to look out for our environment, you probably purchase eco friendly products such as reusable bags to minimise your use of harmful plastics. But how to protect your garden in an eco friendly way?

Though it’s easy to make the switch to environmentally friendly products in the household, it can be hard to transfer this habit across all areas. Just one of the areas it’s easy to trip up in is around the garden.

Using pesticides and baits to control garden pests is an option many head for when they spot snail trails on their lettuce or slugs in their garden bed. However, there are ways to keep your garden safe – without reverting to environmentally unfriendly practices.

Prevention is key

The best way to look after your plants is to deter pests from coming into your garden in the first place. If it’s birds eating away at your berries, a scarecrow or CD discs hung among your plants is a good deterrent. Old netting from around the house can also be draped across garden beds – an old mosquito net would do the trick!

There are also plants you can sow that deter certain insects by masking the smell of the plants they like to eat. These include lavender, which repels white fly, basil, which repels aphids, and wormwood, to keep away white cabbage moth.

Attract good bugs

Not all bugs in the garden are bad – the right kind can actually protect your plants for you, without harming the produce at all! Bugs that prey on smaller insects that could harm your plants are helpful, and you can attract them by planting the right flora. Lady beetles, praying mantis and damsel bugs are all helpful little critters that feed on caterpillars and aphids that just love to eat your plants.

Look out for organic products

If you’d really like to use a spray to protect your prized veges, there are plenty of organic options available. Essential oils like eucalyptus oil and spraying plants with neem oil are also effective as a barrier for keeping away pests to protect your garden.

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