GARDEN PESTS.

Certainly gardening would be a basic matter if we might garden without any disturbance from the bugs which assault plants. All the time we need to enjoy out for these little enemies bit in size, however incredible in the havoc they make.

As human health problem might typically be avoided by healthy conditions, so insects might be kept away by stringent garden tidiness. Stacks of waste are lodging locations for the breeding of bugs. I do not believe a compost heap will do the damage, however neglected, uncared-for areas appear to welcome problem.

Numerous of our typical birds feed upon bugs. Some bugs feed on damaging and other bugs. And toads are marvels in the number of bugs they can take in at one meal.

Each garden enthusiast ought to attempt to make her or his garden into a location appealing to toads and birds. A great birdhouse, grain sprayed about in early spring, a water-place, are invites for birds to remain a while in your garden. How can one “repair up” for toads?

One kind gnaws at the plant truly taking pieces of it into its system. The other kind draws the juices from a plant. All the scale bugs attach themselves on plants, and draw out the life of the plants.

Now can we combat these chaps? The gnawing fellows might be captured with toxin sprayed upon plants, which they take into their bodies with the plant. The Bordeaux mix which is a toxin sprayed upon plants for this function.

In the other case the only thing is to assault the insect direct. Specific insecticides, as they are called, are sprayed on the plant to fall upon the pest. They do a fatal work of assaulting, in one method or another, the body of the pest.

In some cases we are much bothered with underground pests at work. You have actually seen a garden covered with ant hills. Here is a treatment, however among which you need to beware.

If stalks of tender plants are cut tidy off be quite sure the cutworm is abroad. A really excellent method to obstruct him off is to put paper collars, or tin ones, about the plants. These collars must be about an inch away from the plant.

Of course, plant lice are more typical. As drawing bugs they have to stick close to a plant for food, and one is quite sure to discover them. The biting bugs do their work, and then go conceal.

Rose slugs do excellent damage to the increased bushes. They eat in restaurants the body of the leaves, so that simply the veining is left. They are soft-bodied, green above and yellow listed below.

A beetle, the striped beetle, attacks squash leaves and young melons. It consumes the leaf by riddling out holes in it.

There are the slugs, which are garden insects. The slug will feast on practically any garden plant, whether it be a veggie or a flower. The slugs do more damage in the garden than practically any other single bug bug.

In the flower garden lice are extremely annoying, the slug and the cutworm have a great time there, too, and ants frequently get really various as the season advances. For genuine preventing insect problems the veggie garden takes the reward. If we were going into fruit to any degree, maybe the veggie garden would have to resign in favour of the fruit garden.

A typical insect in the veggie garden is the tomato worm. This is a big yellow-colored or greenish striped worm. Its work is to consume into the young fruit.

An excellent, light green caterpillar is discovered on celery. This caterpillar might be informed by the black bands, one on each ring or sector of its body.

The squash bug might be informed by its brown body, which is slim and long, and by the disagreeable smell from it when eliminated. It is a little caterpillar and smaller sized than the tomato worm. These are maybe the most typical of garden bugs by name.

The slug will feast on nearly any garden plant, whether it be a veggie or a flower. The slugs do more damage in the garden than nearly any other single bug bug. For genuine preventing insect difficulties the veggie garden takes the reward. If we were going into fruit to any level, maybe the veggie garden would have to resign in favour of the fruit garden.

A typical bug in the veggie garden is the tomato worm.