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Another alternative measure to pest control is the organic or natural pest control, instead of using chemical pesticides, which is proven to be less expensive, effective, and safe for your family, your pets, your garden, and your environment. The methods applied for natural pest control are: pulling out any weak plants; building healthy, organic soil; using seaweed mulch or spray; minimize insect habitat; inter-planting and rotating crops; and keeping foliage dry, such that all these methods are aimed at discouraging harmful insects from invading the garden and the field crops.

 

Weak plants are susceptible to be infected by predators and, if they are not removed in the garden and among field crops, they may likely infect other plants.

 

When you apply composting methods or use the mulching process and top-dressing the soil with natural fertilizer or compost, this approach can help grow strong plants that can resist the invasion of harmful insects. 

 

Seaweeds help in promoting healthy plants by using it as fertilizers, thus, plants are resistant to diseases caused by insects and this is because seaweeds contain rich elements of iron, zinc, barium, calcium, sulfur and magnesium, and, not only this, if seaweed fertilizers are in mulch or spray form and applied to the plants, this method provides strength for the plants to withstand diseases.

 

Make the habit of pulling the weeds and clearing the garden of debris, which can become breeding places for insects and followed by using clean mulch.  

 

Insect pests are found to be plant specific, and due to this natural tendency, an effective natural pest control is apply the methods of inter-planting the plants or crops or rotating the planting of crops each year; in this manner, this method helps avoid the re-infestation of pests. Check out Phoenix Termite Control online for further assistance. 

 

Water plants and crops at an early time schedule since a wet foliage encourages insect and fungal damage to the plants, in fact there are other approaches to avoid wetting the foliage and this is through drip-irrigation, which is delivering water to the root systems of plants.

 

Always make it a point to disinfect garden tools, especially if they have been used for infested plants so that the speed of invasion of pests be reduced.

 

Another approach to natural pest control is using beneficial insects to prey on harmful insects or on the larvae, these insects are: wasps, ladybugs, lacewings, hover-flies, praying mantis, and nematodes.

 

Wasps are attracted to plants, like carrots, celery, parsley, caraway and Queen Anne's lace and when they get to visit these plants, they destroy the leaf-eating caterpillars, and since these plants are easy to grow, some should be left for these wasps.

 

Ladybugs are attracted to daisies, tansy or yarrow, which when these insects come around, they eat any existing aphids, mites, whiteflies and scale that are present in the garden. Go to http://arizonaorganic.com/ to get started.