Pests of the garden

With the arrival of heat in cottages and gardens, not only plants and trees awake, but also pests that spoil the harvest, eat buds, leaves, lead to death due to damage to the bark. Which, of course, can not but upset the gardeners.

Types of pests in the garden

Such pests of the garden, unfortunately, a lot. This is, first of all, insects:

In addition to insects, birds bring harm to the garden, and in the winter also hares and rodents.

Fighting garden pests

If your garden is attacked by insects or animals, it is necessary to take measures to save it. First of all, it is necessary to carry out the processing of the garden from pests in the spring. It involves spraying plantings with special solutions - insecticides, chemicals (copper sulfate, diesel fuel, carbamide and others). This procedure is performed in the early spring, when the snow has already come, and the air temperature will warm up to +5 ° C. The treatment of the garden from pests can be repeated in April-May to protect the leaves and buds.

Autumn processing of the garden from pests should be an obligatory part of preparation of the site for wintering. Sprinkling of trees and shrubs is carried out in October-November, that is, when the leaves from the trees have already fallen.

Protection of the garden from rodent pests can become special bait with poison. They should be placed on your site and covered with something, so that the lures do not become the prey of random birds. If, however, in your garden, "hunters" who eat cows and so do harm, we recommend wrapping the trees with a roofing paper to a height of at least 1m and fastened with wire.

In addition, there are preventive measures against pests of the garden, which assume: