Don't let garden pests gobble up your food savings
Frugal Gardening: Pest Control
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Keep pesky insects and animals away from your home garden with these natural and easy methods.
Keeping Cats Out of Your GardenOur readers share their tips and tricks to keeping cats out of a garden.
Preventing Snail Garden Damage
Are snails taking over your garden? Our readers share their tips and tricks on how to keep snails from eating every leaf in a garden.
Keeping Squirrels Out of Your GardenOur readers share their tips and tricks for preventing squirrels from destroying your garden.
No More Grasshoppers!"I need to find a safe way to eliminate the grasshoppers from eating ALL the leaves off the plants in my garden. They leave nothing but the stalk. I don't want to affect the bees and other "good" insects."
Bad Hare Day"Does anyone know of an effective non-toxic rabbit repellent? I've been unable to find anything organic that works."
Vegetable Garden Pest ControlThere are natural pest control methods for the vegetable garden that will also work on the rest of the plants. So let's take a stroll out to the garden together and figure things out together.
The Slug PatrolNature's recyclers, thieves, and pests, whatever you call them, slugs are a constant presence in a lot of gardens. Stop sacrificing tender beans or baby lettuce greens to these voracious eaters. Here some tools with which to tackle those slimy suckers.
Pest and Disease Control for RosesRoses can be very easy to tend to if they are cared for with a light hand during the growing season. The fewer things that a gardener does to shock a natural balance of things the fewer problems will arise as a result of that shock.
Safe and Natural Pest Control
Potato Bug Larva photo from ShutterstockThere are ways to control the unwanted visitors that often plague the plants of a garden. These materials are easy to use and considerably less toxic to you and the environment.
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