Do it Yourself Pest Control

Pest control is a major concern for some gardeners. One of the easiest and most beneficial ways of do it yourself pest control for your garden is composting. Although it doesn’t allow you control over all of the pests in the garden, building a compost is an organic way of shifting some of the pests to a place they can do more good to the soil. Red worms in particular love to live in the compost! A garden catalog can give you ideas on containers for holding your compost, but there are plenty of instructions for do it yourself varieties around also.

A compost heap doesn’t grow overnight however. You have to work at it. Find a place in your garden where you can control the compost. Make sure it’s not near any wood. Heaping all your compost in this area should turn it into a useable compost pile within 6 months to two years. That’s a long time for a do it yourself project, but there’s no overnight version of creating good solid compost which will aid your garden in the long-term.

How can Compost help with my Pest Control?

An overabundance of garden pests could be the sign that you aren’t taking enough from the garden, i.e. weeding, deadheading, pruning, perished fruit and vegetables etc. Pests live on this kind of debris, and they thrive and multiply. If you control the debris, you can get the pests more under control. Remove all dead, withered or unnecessary plants and weeds from the garden and onto a compost pile. Tend it, and within a year or two you’ll have created yourself a healthy compost to give back to the garden which, by then, will have less pests than it had before.

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