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Garden Pests

Organic Pest Control in the Sustainable Garden

Garden pests can be defined as a group of damage causing organisms specific to the garden setting such as certain insects, animals or bacteria and fungi. Learn all about how to identify which ones are harmful, and which are beneficial with the Plant Pests E-Book.

Any creature that damages or eats plants will fit into this description. Garden pests may be as large as moose or deer, destroying fruit trees or shrubs while browsing the stems, or as minuscule as bacterial canker using a plant as a host.

Some techniques can reduce or control garden pests by mechanical means, such as fencing and mulching, or by baffling the senses of insects using tactics such as smell from garlic, onions or marigolds to deter them. This is referred to as 'companion planting' with many plants benefiting from a close association with certain other plants.

Simply planting many different kinds of plants close together can confuse many garden pests, or diffuse the damage to plants by making it harder for the pest to find its preferred host plants among many other scents or colours.

**Garden Pests can be controlled with beneficial insects like this Lacewing**

Biodiversity is how nature protects plants and organisms, so using the same method in your garden will ensure that some of every kind of life form will survive even a drastic pest attack.

Attract beneficial insectswith a nectar corridor and make your garden attractive to xeric garden birds to help with your pest control efforts.

Sustainable gardening methods such as increasing the organic matter in the soil with compost enables healthy plants to withstand damage from garden pests. Learn more about ways to utilize natural techniques with the Sustainable Gardening E-Book.

You will still see some garden pests at work, but the damage will be lessened by using some of these strategies to control garden pests.

Trying to find out what your bug is? Look through the Insect Encyclopedia.

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Sustainable Gardening

The Unbroken Circle in an Organic Garden

Learning how sustainable gardening all meshes together in a fascinating and miraculous web is all consuming for those of us that like to see how things work.

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Whether you're starting a garden or you're an experienced organic vegetable grower, here are a few easy ways to get started on sustainable gardening.

Raising some backyard chickens for eggs and compost, learning how to make compost tea, and composting are all useful skills.

Follow the composting instructions and these useful composting tips for the best compost ever.

Find out some ways to improve your soil with composting, making new gardens with lasagna gardening.

Solarization is an easy way to harness the suns power. See how your sustainable your garden can be.

Learn about the 'stinking rose' - garlic and how to make garlic braids from your organically produced crop.

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