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Control Products & Fertilizers
What’s eating my plants?
Common sense garden pest controls
The best way to have a healthy garden is preventing problems before you get them. Plant your vegetable garden in as much sun as possible with good air circulation, tillable rich soil. Enrich your soil with organic soil amendments yearly.
Keep it weeded and remove all debris that can harbor insects. Plant varieties that grow well in your area. Plant at the correct time for those varieties. Mulch whenever possible.
Perennial flowers and shrubs can be incorporated into foundation plantings, island beds and property borders. Success will depend on placing them where they have the conditions they need and the space to grow. Check tags for the plants ultimate height and width.
No matter how well you follow these guidelines, pests and diseases will find your plants! Here are common problems, links to how to identify them and organic products to control them. Big guns are chemical controls. We only use or recommend them when all else fails, your livelihood depends on this crop or you just like to cut butter with a chainsaw. Be aware than many controls have unintentional effects on other species, even some organic controls. One of the worst things broad spectrum chemical pest controls do is to kill off your beneficial insects that feed on the pests.
For common sense pest control try www.garden.org/pestlibrary.
Common sense garden pest control
| Most Common Pests |
Cultural Controls |
Organic Control Products |
Big Guns |
| Squash Bugs, Caterpillars |
Rotate crops / cover plants until pollination |
Eight dust Dipel or Thuricide |
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| Aphids, white flies, mealybugs |
Encourage predator insects (no broad spectrum insecticides) Wash with Safer's soap Rinse Well |
Safer's Soap |
Bonide Systemic |
| fungus, wilts, powdery mildew |
Maximize air circulation, water early in the day - spray with copper or sulfur preventatively |
Coppper soap fungicide |
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| Deer, Raccoons |
your garden, spray regularly every 10 days to 2 weeks |
Liquid fence |
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