If you garden, you know about pests.
Once pests have taken over a plant or an area of your garden, they are typically hard to get rid of.
There will be considerable damage even if you do succeed in getting rid of the pest.
A better strategy is to plan on preventing pest problems in your garden now before pests take over.
One of the best strategies to do is to start by watering the underside of your leaves on the plant.
There are many pests like spider mites and aphids that will live on the underside of leaves.
These pests will ruin your plants.
By watering the underside of the leaves, it will knock them off.
If you continue this process, it will make these pests not want to live in your garden.
Use organic insecticide solutions.
These are not harmful to your plants at all.
Many are made with natural oils that will land on small insect pests and kill them.
This is a very natural way of dealing with pest problems.
Make it a habit to put this on your plants before pest problems occur.
Start learning about beneficial insects.
These insects will live in your garden and eat the insects that are there to ruin your garden.
If you start attracting the beneficial insects, they will live in your garden and keep pest problems to a minimum.
Just like beneficial insects, attract birds to your property.
Get bird baths, bird feeders, and other things to make sure that birds come to your yard.
They will eat insects in your garden.
Get birds to your yard now while you are planting to prevent common garden pests.
If you have had a certain pest problem last year, read about which plants will help repel that pest.
Plant those types of plants in your garden to keep those pests away.
This will make this year's garden work much better.