Home And Gardens Advice

While tending to my own garden, I have found that one of the most frustrating things that can happen to a gardener is to walk outside to check on your plants. It’s just a routine walk to make sure that your garden is thriving, but you end up finding holes in all of your plants that looked fine only hours before. The explanations for some of these plant-destroying holes are garden pests. Some of the main garden pests are slugs, worms, snails, birdsand the occasional gopher.
Although you can never wipe out these pests entirely, after all your hard work in the garden you have to do something.

Dispose of old leaves, weeds, or any other decaying matter that insects and diseases could be living in from your yard. Also, regularly turn over your garden soil and break apart any clumps of dirt so that you can eliminate the living spaces any insects that might be hiding underground.

Another way to rid your garden of the pests is to use spray, which is used to keep destructive insects and diseases under control. It is best that you use spray when your plants are dormant, usually around February or early March. I have used dormant spray many times on my garden and it has worked wonders on keeping insects at bay. But as I learned from experience, dormant spray only works if you follow the correct instructions.

Another pest problem I’ve had besides insects has been birds. Whenever I see birds in my garden I used to run outside a chase them away, but as soon as I
stepped inside they come right back. The solution that I’ve come up with to keep the birds away from my garden is to put a bird feeder in my yard. Instead of costing me time and money by eating my garden, the birds eat at the bird feeder. In the long run it saves me money. Not only can a bird feeder help keep birds away from your garden, but they can also be a new part of your yard decoration. Whilst not completely eliminating my bird problem, my bird feeder has made the problem smaller. Getting a dog has also helped.

If you start seeing mounds of dirt around your yard, and your plants keep unexplainably dieing, you can assume that you have a gopher problem.
Thankfully, this is one of the few garden pests that I haven’t encountered. However my close friend has struggled with a tremendous gopher infestation, so I decided to research it. Gophers are rodents that are five to fourteen inches long. Their fur can be light brown, black, or white, and they have small tails. One method of getting rid of these root-eating pests is to
set traps. The key to successfully capturing a gopher using a trap is to successfully locate the gopher’s tunnels and set the trap correctly.
Another way to get rid of them is to use smoke bombs, which you place into the tunnel and the smoke spreads through out it and hopefully reaches the
gopher.

If you suspect that your gardens are being pillaged by any of the pests I mentioned, I encourage you to try your best to eliminate the problem as quickly as possible. The longer you let the species stay, the more established it will become.

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