Organic Garden Pest Control: 5 Easy Steps To Keep Your Garden Bug Free

This is by far the easiest and cheapest way, but not applicable to all kinds of pests. Go out into your garden in the early morning and in the evening, and pick by hand all the bugs you can see eating away on your precious plants, like for example aphids and lily beetles. Squash them or put them in a container with soapy water.

Bugs will suffocate when covered in soapy water, so a simple solution of 1 dl of natural soap added to 1 liter of water will do the trick. Spray your plants every other day for a week or two with a spray bottle to get rid of all the bugs that hatch. Make sure you spray the whole plant, even under the leaves.

Aphids are easily removed by this, but sometimes spider mites are slightly harder to get rid off.

A mixture of 2-3 garlic cloves, 3-4 large chili peppers and 2 tablespoons of some vegetable oil, blended well in your blender, then strained and added to 1 liter of water plus 1 tablespoon of natural soap (or dishwashing soap) makes a stronger homemade solution for fighting bugs. When spraying this on your plants, avoid spraying during mid day or in really hot weather, because that may harm the leaves on your plants by burning them.

Mice and moles may also be scared off when you spray this strong remedy near their holes. But there is a backside to using both soapy water and the strong garlic-chili solution: They will kill off the good bugs as well. To help in keeping them in your garden, there are other ways to fight bugs.

This is an extremly environmentally friendly way to control the pests in your garden, using the "good" bugs to prevent the ones harmful to your plants from expanding. You can tempt for example ladybugs, lacewings and the praying mantis into your garden by growing plants that they like and are drawn to. These little fellows are all good at devouring aphids and to some extent spider mites (and are pretty to watch!), and can also be bought from firms delivering them as egg sacks or live.

Lavender, wormwood, marigolds, onions and garlic are all good plants to choose for scaring off some of the pests in your organic garden. Lavender are wonderful as border plants and as companions to roses or other flowering bushes. Wormwood is actually good for the same purposes, and of course in your herbal garden. When you plant onions amongst your carrots, you will scare off the carrot root fly!

Also, plants growing in rich and healthy soil are far more likely to grow well and stay beautiful and productive even if they are under attack from pests.

Diatomaceous earth works through piercing the exoskeleton of these creatures, causing them to dry out. Lightly coat a thin layer on the ground where ever you have a problem, repeat when necessary, for example after watering or after heavy rain.

Many are the gardeners giving up on hollyhocks because of the fungus that makes the leaves turn reddish brown and eventually fall of. However, if you use this homemade solution your hollyhocks will be able to keep their leaves and look the way they should.

Horsetail, enough to fill a kettle and covered with water, should boil for a minimum of 10 minutes. Having done that, filter the contents of the kettle, dilute the fluid with 5-10 times of water. This homemade remedy is to be sprayed all over on your hollyhocks and under the leaves.

The best of luck with keeping pests off and your plants healthy and beautiful!

I hope you have now learnt something new about organic garden pest control. Are you planning to start or do you already grow an organic garden? Then you need to know how to avoid the mistakes that will make you go wrong and lose your self-confidence.

Learn all about this in a step-by-step guide on how to start your very own organic garden!