Tackle Pests & Diseases Organically

Although there are pests in the garden that devour and spoil our precious plants, nature has provided her own control with other bugs that eat many of the pests we wish to eliminate.

For this reason it is not necessary to kill every bug in sight because many of them are our friends. Ladybirds consume up to 60 aphids per day and the larvae consume up to 30 aphids per day.

Lace-wing flies, praying mantis, small wasps and many birds consume a variety of pests and contribute to a natural balance in the insect world.

Many of the chemicals available to control these pests are as toxic to humans, birds and other wild life, as they are to these insects and bugs.

There is an equal number of natural remedies which have proven effective, in some cases more effective, in controlling pests and without poisoning our environment.

For this reason I do not intend to list the chemical controls available to eliminate all the unwanted pests from our gardens. These chemicals are available from most garden centres and nurseries, some less toxic than others, and some so toxic as to be devastating to our environment, to wild life and to us.

The choice is entirely yours, the remedies I have outlined are all natural and non-toxic. Should you wish to use chemicals, please read the instructions that come with these products, and be ever careful to the harm you may inadvertently cause to yourselves, your children and the wild life.

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