If you have a lovely backyard garden of flowers or / and vegetables, you may be sure that you will not be the sole one appreciating it.
However, the vast majority of the others will be unwelcome. Pests are bound to be eying up your plants with evil intentions as far as you are concerned.
If you treasure your flowers and vegetables you will need to do something to deal with them. How seriously you take this quest is naturally up to you, but a garden will soon be overrun if you do nothing at all.
There are basically two ways of dealing with garden insects: there are items that you can use, so-called mechanical methods and spray killers such as insecticide and fungicide. These two ways offer an infinite variation of combinations to deal with backyard bugs.
A good example of a mechanical course of action of protection is the covered frame. A covered frame is a five sided box with no bottom. You stand it over your plants particularly whilst they are young. The top of the box can be perspex, glass or fly screen.
However, the vast majority of the others will be unwelcome. Pests are bound to be eying up your plants with evil intentions as far as you are concerned.
If you treasure your flowers and vegetables you will need to do something to deal with them. How seriously you take this quest is naturally up to you, but a garden will soon be overrun if you do nothing at all.
There are basically two ways of dealing with garden insects: there are items that you can use, so-called mechanical methods and spray killers such as insecticide and fungicide. These two ways offer an infinite variation of combinations to deal with backyard bugs.
A good example of a mechanical course of action of protection is the covered frame. A covered frame is a five sided box with no bottom. You stand it over your plants particularly whilst they are young. The top of the box can be perspex, glass or fly screen.
The plastic, perspex or glass top is useful for protecting the plant from frost too as pests, whereas the fly screen will let the elements in but protect the plant from insects and birds. They may be thought of as winter and summer protection respectively.
A cheaper manner of protecting young plants from perhaps cut-worm, is to cut the top and bottom off a drinks can and then cut the body into three rings. Place a ring around a plant and push it at least an inch into the ground, leaving an inch or two showing. Leave the cut edges nice and rough to deter slugs, snails and cut-worms from scrambling over it.
If that is too much trouble, you could use plastic bottle rings or cardboard treated with oil - maybe WD40 - which will ward off pests too as the above and stop it getting ruined by rain. . If you would like to spray your fruit, you will need a spray-gun. You can either get one with a compressor or you could pump it up yourself. The latter are much cheaper, do a decent job and provide more exercise.
The chemicals used in these sprays is quite corrosive, so buy a spray tank that will resist this. Aluminium, stainless steel or brass are the best, but you should take advice depending on the chemicals used.
Cheaper models will rust away fairly quickly. Make certain you may buy extension rods for spraying into trees if necessary.
Slugs and snails are not keen on travelling over rough surfaces, so you should save all your egg shells, crush them into a coarse grit and lay them in a ring surrounding your plants.
The weather will break them down, but they contain nutrients that are healthy for the garden anyway.
If you have an ants nest exactly where you do not want one, wait until the spring or early summer and lay a piece of slate or tile on top of the entrance to th
A cheaper manner of protecting young plants from perhaps cut-worm, is to cut the top and bottom off a drinks can and then cut the body into three rings. Place a ring around a plant and push it at least an inch into the ground, leaving an inch or two showing. Leave the cut edges nice and rough to deter slugs, snails and cut-worms from scrambling over it.
If that is too much trouble, you could use plastic bottle rings or cardboard treated with oil - maybe WD40 - which will ward off pests too as the above and stop it getting ruined by rain. . If you would like to spray your fruit, you will need a spray-gun. You can either get one with a compressor or you could pump it up yourself. The latter are much cheaper, do a decent job and provide more exercise.
The chemicals used in these sprays is quite corrosive, so buy a spray tank that will resist this. Aluminium, stainless steel or brass are the best, but you should take advice depending on the chemicals used.
Cheaper models will rust away fairly quickly. Make certain you may buy extension rods for spraying into trees if necessary.
Slugs and snails are not keen on travelling over rough surfaces, so you should save all your egg shells, crush them into a coarse grit and lay them in a ring surrounding your plants.
The weather will break them down, but they contain nutrients that are healthy for the garden anyway.
If you have an ants nest exactly where you do not want one, wait until the spring or early summer and lay a piece of slate or tile on top of the entrance to th
If that is too much trouble, you could use plastic bottle rings or cardboard treated with oil - maybe WD40 - which will ward off pests too as the above and stop it getting ruined by rain. . If you would like to spray your fruit, you will need a spray-gun. You can either get one with a compressor or you could pump it up yourself. The latter are much cheaper, do a decent job and provide more exercise.
The chemicals used in these sprays is quite corrosive, so buy a spray tank that will resist this. Aluminium, stainless steel or brass are the best, but you should take advice depending on the chemicals used.
Cheaper models will rust away fairly quickly. Make certain you may buy extension rods for spraying into trees if necessary.
Slugs and snails are not keen on travelling over rough surfaces, so you should save all your egg shells, crush them into a coarse grit and lay them in a ring surrounding your plants.
The weather will break them down, but they contain nutrients that are healthy for the garden anyway.
If you have an ants nest exactly where you do not want one, wait until the spring or early summer and lay a piece of slate or tile on top of the entrance to the nest. Put an upturned flowerpot on top of this and cover the hole in the base of it.
After a few dry days, the ants will have brought a few hundred eggs up onto the slate. You can consume these - Thais say they are an aphrodisiac - or you may feed them to your fish. After a few weeks of this the ants will get discouraged and will move their nest somewhere else.
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The chemicals used in these sprays is quite corrosive, so buy a spray tank that will resist this. Aluminium, stainless steel or brass are the best, but you should take advice depending on the chemicals used.
Cheaper models will rust away fairly quickly. Make certain you may buy extension rods for spraying into trees if necessary.
Slugs and snails are not keen on travelling over rough surfaces, so you should save all your egg shells, crush them into a coarse grit and lay them in a ring surrounding your plants.
The weather will break them down, but they contain nutrients that are healthy for the garden anyway.
If you have an ants nest exactly where you do not want one, wait until the spring or early summer and lay a piece of slate or tile on top of the entrance to the nest. Put an upturned flowerpot on top of this and cover the hole in the base of it.
After a few dry days, the ants will have brought a few hundred eggs up onto the slate. You can consume these - Thais say they are an aphrodisiac - or you may feed them to your fish. After a few weeks of this the ants will get discouraged and will move their nest somewhere else.
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Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on several subjects, but is at present concerned with bed bug covers for mattresses. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.