Gardening For Pest Control

Everyone loves a personally and beautifully landscaped yard, and while your landscaping should be personalized, there are some landscape choices that are quite inviting to different types of pests. While you cannot utilize gardening as a form of pest control, following some suggestions will help to keep critters that are drawn to your garden from creeping into your home.

When considering where to plant, do not place anything that will grow to eventually touch your house. This allows whatever but that enjoys that particular plant an easy way inside. Gardeners sometimes choose low growing shrubs and bushes for the low maintenance they provide. They basically cover the ground of the gardening area so that mulch, weeds, and debris are not an aesthetic issue. But truth be told the low growing shrubs provide a dark shady place for insects to nest. If you must use shrubbery, trim the bottoms to expose the stems or bark so uninvited guests do not have a convenient place to hang out.

When it comes to mulch a lot of people think that it is just to accent the garden, but it is helpful in pest control among other things. Wood mulch; however, is an invitation for bugs. Because the wood comes from something that once was living, it is basically a decaying substance that is extremely inviting to hungry bugs, and web spinning spiders. Birds have also been known to embezzle wood chips for nests and it is easily eroded. Using rock is a better alternative. It limits moisture evaporation, inhibits weed growth, and does not often need replaced. It also is not a friendly place for unwanted bugs. Worms like to burrow under rock, but that is good for the soil. Rubber mulch is another option that does not attract termites and insects.

If you have a garden that boarders your home's foundation, keep the mulch and soil line below the line where the foundations meets the structure, and keep away from vines and plants that crawl onto your house. This is a big invitation for pests, and even regular pest control contracts will not be effective if those types of vines continue to crawl on your house.

There are some types of things that you can plant for the purpose of pest control. Garlic and marigolds are known to repel certain types of insects. Lavender is known to keep ticks, ants, and mice away, while catnip, though it may be an inviting stomping ground for neighborhood cats, repels insects as well. Rosemary, sunflowers, and mint also have pest control qualities.

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