Organic Gardening Pest Control

You've taken the time and put in the right additives to create your organic garden, now it's time for some organic gardening pest control.

We want to keep our organic garden free from harmful pests that can damage our plants such as cutworms and beetles and more. There are many natural ingredients that we can use to keep our plants free from pests without using harmful toxic ingredients that not only seep into our vegetables and plants but harm the environment as well.

Organic Gardening Pest Control can be utilized by bringing good bugs to your garden. Good bugs are beneficial to your garden and can help control infestation of bad bugs, which can destroy your garden and hard work.

The Lady Bug is the most commonly known "good bug" for your garden. The lady bug feeds on aphids, chinch bugs, whiteflies, and mites, as well as many other soft-bodied insects and their eggs.

Cryptolaemus Beetles resembles the Ladybug but is darker in color. After the adults are released into the garden they will immediately seek out mealy bugs and consume them.

Wasps and bees are also important to our organic gardens.

You can actually purchase "good bugs" to help keep your control pests in your garden.

Have you wondered why Marigolds are suggested keep the bugs out of your organic garden?

Because some plants attract the good bugs, who eat the bad bugs! These are some suggestions of plants to attract the good bugs to use as organic gardening pest control.

* Alyssum
* Butterfly weed
* Caraway
* Clover
* Coriander
* Dill
* Fennel
* Marigolds
* Nasturtiums
* Wild carrot
* Yarrow
just to name a few

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