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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 to discover garden pests. It's just a routine walkto 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, caterpillars, birds, snails, and the occasional gopher. Although you can never wipe out these garden pests entirely,after all your hard work in the garden you have to do something.

Insects are one of the worst things to have in your garden as garden pests;they can live under the soil, in old weeds or piles of leaves,or in a number of other places. In order to help keep insects away, always try and eliminate places in your garden and nearyour garden that these insects and other plant diseases couldbe living. Remove old leaves, weeds, or any other decaying matter that insect sand 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 mightbe hiding underground.

Another way to rid your garden of the garden pests is to use dormant spray, which is used to keep destructive insects and diseases under control. It is best that you use dormant spray when your plants are dormant, usually around February or early March. I have used dormant spray many times on my garden to wade off garden pests and it has worked wonders on keeping insects out. But as I learned fromexperience, dormant spray is only effective if you follow thecorrect instructions. When I first decided to use some on mygarden, I just dumped it everywhere in hopes of killingeverything harmful. Unfortunately I ended up killing my entiregarden along with my neighbors. Some insects can be beneficialto your garden though, so be sure to find out which insects help your garden pests.

Another garden pests problem I've had besides insects has been birds.Whenever I see birds in my garden I run outside a chase them away, but as soon as I step inside they come right back. Thesolution that I've come up with to keep the birds away from mygarden is to put a bird feeder in my yard. Instead of costingme time and money by eating my garden, the birds eat at thebird feeder. In the long run it'll save you money. Not only cana bird feeder help keep birds away from your garden, but theycan also be a new part of your yard decoration. Although not completely eliminating my bird problem, my bird feeder has made the problem smaller. Getting a dog has also helped to drive away garden pests.

If you start seeing mounds of dirt around your yard, and yourplants keep unexplainably dieing, you can assume that you havea gopher problem. Thankfully, this is one of the few gardenpasts that I haven't had. However my friend has struggled witha tremendous gopher infestation, so I decided to research it.Gophers are rodents that are five to fourteen inches long.Their fur can be black, light brown, or white, and they havesmall tails. One method of getting rid of these root-eatingpests is to set traps. The key to successfully capturing agopher using a trap is to successfully locate the gopher'stunnels and set the trap correctly. Another way to get rid ofthem is to use smoke bombs, which you place into the tunnel andthe smoke spreads through out it and hopefully reaches thegopher.

If you suspect that your gardens are being pillaged by any ofthe pests I mentioned, I encourage you to try your hardest toeliminate the problem as soon as possible. The longer you letthe species stay, the more established it will become.

Garden pests

Article Published: Monday 14th May 2007