Consider using organic insecticide as an option for dealing with problems with pests in your garden.
You can find organic insecticide in many garden supply stores nowadays.
It is, however, important that you buy the correct product which will control the pests that are causing trouble for your plants.
If you are practising organic gardening it will mean not killing off any more insects than you really need to.
Of course you wouldn't want to buy the type of commercial chemical insecticides that would kill virtually every six legged creature in the garden.
Some of these insects that would be killed are useful, such as ladybugs which will feed on your aphid pests.
Useful and beautiful too.
Remember also that butterflies are insects.
For this reason, many gardeners prefer to avoid insecticides and use other methods for controlling pests in the garden.
For soil-based pests, the best method of control is to rotate your plants so that the plant the pests feed on is not in the same place year after year.
Insects are easily confused, especially those that live in the soil.
This is often enough to prevent them from becoming established and numerous.
However, if you have reached the stage of considering organic insecticide then it's probably too late for prevention.
You will need to look for other methods of controlling pests.
The best ways are those that target just the specific pest that you are having trouble with.
That way, you will not kill off beneficial and friendly insects that contribute to the natural food chain in your garden.
Many pests are repelled by garlic.
For this reason, gardeners often plant garlic around their other crops.
It is especially effective this way against red spider mite and the borer beetles that attack fruit trees.
You can also use garlic in sprays.
Simply crush garlic cloves into water and spray the mixture directly onto your plants.
This will keep off many of the pests that like to eat vegetables and flowers.
Soap solutions are well known to be effective against aphids and other small flies that attack roses and similar flowering plants.
A soap solution spray can also prevent slugs from eating your flowers.
Against slugs and snails, you can either use salt or beer.
Salt solution sprayed onto plants will often keep off these pests in the same way that garlic repels other pests.
You can also make traps containing beer.
Place a flat container of beer into the ground so that the rim is at ground level and the slugs can easily access the beer and fall in.
As far as we know, they will die happy.
Boric acid is a common household product that can be used against many garden pests.
It is also known as boracic acid, borates or borax.
It is effective enough that it is used in many commercial pesticides, but it is a naturally occurring mineral a little like salt.
Boric acid can be used as a powder against ants and similar crawling insects including roaches, ticks and fleas, beetles, earwigs and crickets.
It also has anti fungal properties so it can be used against fungal diseases on plants, molds and mildew.
Like salt, it can kill slugs and snails.
Boric acid can be toxic in high quantities.
For safety, it is better not to use this organic insecticide on ripe fruit or on plants that children or pets will eat or lick.
These natural repellents and ways of targeting specific pests are the most desirable way of dealing with garden pests while keeping friendly insects safe.
You can find organic insecticide in many garden supply stores nowadays.
It is, however, important that you buy the correct product which will control the pests that are causing trouble for your plants.
If you are practising organic gardening it will mean not killing off any more insects than you really need to.
Of course you wouldn't want to buy the type of commercial chemical insecticides that would kill virtually every six legged creature in the garden.
Some of these insects that would be killed are useful, such as ladybugs which will feed on your aphid pests.
Useful and beautiful too.
Remember also that butterflies are insects.
For this reason, many gardeners prefer to avoid insecticides and use other methods for controlling pests in the garden.
For soil-based pests, the best method of control is to rotate your plants so that the plant the pests feed on is not in the same place year after year.
Insects are easily confused, especially those that live in the soil.
This is often enough to prevent them from becoming established and numerous.
However, if you have reached the stage of considering organic insecticide then it's probably too late for prevention.
You will need to look for other methods of controlling pests.
The best ways are those that target just the specific pest that you are having trouble with.
That way, you will not kill off beneficial and friendly insects that contribute to the natural food chain in your garden.
Many pests are repelled by garlic.
For this reason, gardeners often plant garlic around their other crops.
It is especially effective this way against red spider mite and the borer beetles that attack fruit trees.
You can also use garlic in sprays.
Simply crush garlic cloves into water and spray the mixture directly onto your plants.
This will keep off many of the pests that like to eat vegetables and flowers.
Soap solutions are well known to be effective against aphids and other small flies that attack roses and similar flowering plants.
A soap solution spray can also prevent slugs from eating your flowers.
Against slugs and snails, you can either use salt or beer.
Salt solution sprayed onto plants will often keep off these pests in the same way that garlic repels other pests.
You can also make traps containing beer.
Place a flat container of beer into the ground so that the rim is at ground level and the slugs can easily access the beer and fall in.
As far as we know, they will die happy.
Boric acid is a common household product that can be used against many garden pests.
It is also known as boracic acid, borates or borax.
It is effective enough that it is used in many commercial pesticides, but it is a naturally occurring mineral a little like salt.
Boric acid can be used as a powder against ants and similar crawling insects including roaches, ticks and fleas, beetles, earwigs and crickets.
It also has anti fungal properties so it can be used against fungal diseases on plants, molds and mildew.
Like salt, it can kill slugs and snails.
Boric acid can be toxic in high quantities.
For safety, it is better not to use this organic insecticide on ripe fruit or on plants that children or pets will eat or lick.
These natural repellents and ways of targeting specific pests are the most desirable way of dealing with garden pests while keeping friendly insects safe.