Pest-Deterrent Herb Chart - Garden Pest Tip
How to use herbs as companion plants to drive away unwanted garden pests and keep all kinds of bugs and insects from damaging your plants and flowers. The idea that herbs make good companion plants is not new. Some of the earliest written ... [... more]
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Beneficial Bugs and Insects for the Garden - Garden Pest Tip
Details on how to use beneficial insects (good bugs and insects) as a natural control for harmful insects in the garden. It may come as a surprise to you that the beneficial insects in our yards and gardens far outnumber the pest insects. Some ... [... more]
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Dealing with Animals in Your Organic Garden - Garden ...
Mort Mather, author of Gardening for Independence, on dealing with animals in your garden. Mort tells you how to discourage deer, skunks, and other animals from eating your fruits and vegetables. A neighbor stopped by last week to ask if I knew a ... [... more]
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Parasitic Wasps Eat Garden Pests
Parasitic Wasps are beneficial insects for your garden. Most of them are small, cannot sting, are not aggressive towards humans, and eat pests. Parasitic wasps are large, artificial assemblage of Hymenoptera superfamilies. Many parasitic wasps ... [... more]
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Lacewings are Good for Your Garden
How to attract lacewings to your garden. Lacewings eat a variety of pest insects including aphids, whiteflies, mites, and more. Lacewings are generally known as beneficial bugs,they're nickname is "aphid lions." But in fact it is the larvae of . [... more]
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Ladybugs are Good for Your Garden
How to attract ladybugs to your garden. Ladybugs are one of the most popular predatory insects, benefiting your plants by eating pests. Adult ladybugs, or ladybird beetles, are typically a brick red or orange with black markings. But some are ... [... more]
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Toads / Garden Pest Tips
How toads can protect your garden from harmful pests. Create habitat for toads and they will eat flies, slugs, grubs, and other garden pests. The average toad will eat 50-100 insects every night - that's 10,000 to 20,000 insects throughout a ... [... more]
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Super-Duper Kill-em-Dead
How to use beneficial insects in the garden, including information on bugs that help to remove and eradicate other insect pests. Just as no great summer picnic is complete without the proverbial ants, neither is a healthy garden complete without ... [... more]
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Controlling Lawn Grubs Organically - Garden Pest Tip
How to control white grubs in your lawn without using harmful chemicals. Information and a detailed description on using biological controls to eliminate a common garden pest that can damage your plants. Beetle grubs can turn a fine looking lawn ... [... more]
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Luring Ladybugs Into Your Garden - Garden Pest Tip
How to attract ladybugs to your garden and keep them there, and the many benefits they can provide to your garden and to your plants. Ladybugs are generally known as beneficial bugs,they eat destructive aphids like they're going out of style. ... [... more]
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Using Milk to Control Powdery Mildew - Garden Pest Tip
An organic cure for powdery mildew is as close as your refrigerator. Details and information on using milk as a biological control to eliminate powedery mildew and protect your plants, flowers, and garden. Less than 3 years ago, researchers in ... [... more]
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Using the Praying Mantis in your Garden - Garden Pest Tip
A gardener's guide to the Praying Mantis, including information on how to hatch them and how they can benefit your plants and flowers. Not many gardeners come into contact with a praying mantis but few can deny that they've heard of the infamous ... [... more]
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