How Often Do You Find Yourself Saying," I Wish I Knew How To Eradicate Garden Pests And Bugs Naturally"

The Secret Of A Beautiful And Healthy Pest And Bug Free Garden

Garden Pests and BUGS in and on your beautiful plants and flowers. ! ! ! What are they?

I will tell you what they are.

Garden Pests and Bugs are insects, earwigs, termites, slugs and snails, they are the garden pests and bugs that devour your beautiful flowers and vegetables.

They are a crawling insect with a pointed beak for piercing and sucking. A garden bug either has no wings or has a front pair of wings thickened at the base. Bedbugs, plant lice and chinch bugs are the true bugs. All bugs are hemipterous insects.

Garden Pests and Bugs are those sap sucking insects. The insect has a slap up meal while your precious plant looses its nutrition, vigour and love of life. The most evil of garden pests and bugs.

They have a slap up meal every night eating holes in the leaves, infesting the flowers and gormaying on your vegetables

They are the most notorious gang of outlaws the west, if not the world has ever seen.

Sneaky Snail, Slimy Slug, Know it all Earwig, flea in your ear Flea Beatle and their gang of suckers that suck the sap from the leaves and infest your beautiful defenceless plants, the crawly aphids-greenfly- and their relations, mites, leafhoppers and mealy bugs. They are known as the Garden Pest and Bug gang.

Talk about the hole in the wall gang, if that lot weren’t bad enough there is also the army of caterpillars, slugworms, and moths. Sawfly. Carrotflyand the six-gun thrips. The worst gang of low-down cut-throats you would never want to meet.

Do we know what we are dealing with, those creepy crawlies that devour and severely damage our beautiful plants and crops. Not to mention our beds (I’ll have to check on that later)

Some garden pests and bugs don’t seem to be too particular about our beautiful, cared for plants that they eat. But you know that they have been around for an evening meal, by the holes you see in your precious plants leaves, flowers, fruit and vegetables.

Gourmet and gluttonous is how our greedy, ravenous friends are. The common slug is able to sense food from two meters away, that’s 3 miles away from our point of view!!

There is nothing slugs like more than feasting on your garden and don’t be fooled by their reputed slowness, because they can lay waste to a flowerbed in no time at all.

But now at last you can finally bring this plague to an end.

FOR STARTERS

So slugs are voracious eaters? So why not use their greed against them.

We give them the best, most appetising, top gourmet slug food that turns them away from everything else ----- lettuce, strawberries, ornamental plants and every other one of your prized plants.

A method that is safe for pets and children and best of all they only target SLUGS, other animals and birds are completely safe

Now how are we going to get rid of these little garden pests and bugs? Without polluting our soil, killing the good insects and destroying our atmosphere with chemicals and sprays.

These pesky outlaws need bringing in, locking up and the key thrown away.

What we need is the Magnificent Seven.

A Magnificent group of fighters that will eliminate those notorious Garden Pests and Bugs.

But before we go about looking for some likely characters to take on this gang of notorios pests and bugs that are rampaging all over your beautiful garden, there are a few things you can do yourself to help our intrepid saviours and hinder the pest and bug gang.

Lets set a few traps ! !

· 1. Buy and maintain healthy plants, place them in the right site (you will need Design My Beautiful Garden for this)

· 2. Give them the proper nourishment and they will be more resilient to pests.

· 3. Clean up the garden debris and eliminate the bugs hiding places.

· 4. Have you built your pond yet, and then encourage a few frogs to lounge around in your pond. They will make short work of the slugs, snails and caterpillars. If you haven’t got a pond then have one BUILTBYU.

· 5. Give the slugs a pint of beer; they seem to love it, they like it so much they even drown in the dark nectar. But more often than not they go for their drink after they have had a hearty meal.

· 6. Good drainage is vital, correct feeding, watering and drainage will reduce your problems. · 7. Set up a rotation system. Soil troubles and nutrient deficiencies can build up if you grow the same crop year after year on the same site.

· 8. Avoid overcrowding. Overcrowding leads to crippled plants and high disease risk.

Now lets go about hiring our Magnificent Seven.

The leader of our seven just has to be

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Now who are we going to find to join our intrepid gang to free our plants and vegetables from the ugly garden pests and bugs.

1. Ladybirds and their larvae are the most popular of the garden predators, (the least popular if you are a pest.) It is rumoured that they will eat up to fifty aphids a day. Mind you it does depend upon the species of the ladybird. So encourage our friend and its larvae, known as little alligators, to take resident in your garden.

2. Bats, yes BATS, they will eat half its own weight in insects every night.

3. Bees. Plant the flowers they feed on, such as, polyanthus, yellow alyssum, borage, lemon balm, sage, lavender and thyme. They will not eat the pests but will pollinate our fruit and veg.

4. Black-Kneed Capsid, voracious eaters of the fruit tree red spider mite, leafhoppers, aphids, thrips and caterpillars

5. Birds, now birds can be a bit of a loose cannon, they will eat beetle grubs, caterpillars and other pests, but make sure your onion sets and seedlings are covered over and protected. Encourage them into the garden though with a bird table and bath.

6. Centipedes, these long flat-bodied thousand legged insects love grubs, slugs and woodlice. But they also devour the occasional spider, which is not such a good thing.

7. Chickens. If you can keep chickens in your garden, in a mobile run for example, they are very useful friends to have in your garden, eating many of the lawless pests.

8. Yes I know I said the magnificent seven but we need all the help we can get. So lets hire the help of our friendly earwig, but you must keep him under control, because although he will hunt out scale insects, small flies and aphids, he will also have the odd snack on your vegetable leaves on the way.

9. Ground Beetle. The good old black beetle will eat cabbage root fly, root aphids and slugs.

10. Hedgehog. Once you get one look after it. Hedgehogs eat slugs, beetles, cutworms and millipedes.

11. Hoverfly, they look a bit like a wasp, they eat woolly aphids and cabbage aphids. They love to rest on yellow flowers.

12. Ichneumon Fly. A what? It’s a slender long legged fly, a bit like my lovely wife. The female lays eggs on the bodies of caterpillars, the grubs eat the caterpillars from the inside. Fairly handy to have around.

13. Mice, yes our lovely mice’s. Field and wood mice in the orchard will eat grubs, but keep them away from your peas and broad beans, or you will need to get a cat.

14. Toads and frogs, they are great friends to have in the garden, they will eat worms, slugs (honestly I do not know how we have so many slugs in the garden when there are so many predators after them, especially after they have had a drink of beer) woodlice and flies.

Now how do you attract and encourage all the beneficial insects and get them right where you need them?

How do you make the adult lady beetles and their larvae stay longer in your garden?

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If you have any tips on dealing with garden pests and bugs, please do not hesitate to contact me, and I will include the information and tips on this page.

E-Mail me at Pesky Pests@home-life-7.com