4 Harmful Insects You Must Get to Know to Protect Your Home Vegetable Garden

Not all insects are good, in fact most are bad. They will eat your vegetables, destroy the stems, tear up the leaves and even worse, bore themselves into the plants you are trying to grow.

You can arm yourself to protect your garden if you can identify them and come up with a remedy before the harmful insect problem turns into a complete infestation. Here are four common harmful insects that you will encounter in most home vegetable gardens.

Aphids 
These bugs are the most common and with good reason. They eat everything! Nothing is immune from an aphid. They come in a wide range of colors and sizes but are in large part all shaped the same, sort of pear-like. Aphids will form their population on one plant and when that population increases in size to the point where the plant is overwhelmed with them, some of the aphids will form wings and fly off to the next plant where the process starts over. As you can see if you do not take the necessary steps early enough, you could have an infestation. Use yellow sticky traps and neem oil for immediate solutions, but if you want a long term solution start attracting ladybugs. They eat aphids!

Dealing with Bird Problems

If you are lucky enough to have a cherry tree in your yard, I am sure I don’t need to tell you how much enjoyment can come from them. Just eating the delicious cherries that spawned from your tree is a rewarding experience in itself. Looking out your back window and seeing a magnificent, glorious cherry tree is also rewarding. Most people are impressed just by the fact that you have a cherry tree, because they are usually thought of by non-gardeners as some sort of exotic plant.

But along with the joys that a cherry tree can bring, there are many annoyances. They seem to attract more unwanted creatures than any other plant in the world. Almost every day it seems like there is a new type of pestilence swarming the tree, trying to get a nibble of its delicious fruits. I can’t say I blame them, but if they want to eat delicious fruits then they should grow their own trees.

Trap Crops For Home Garden

Trap crops is not often used in home gardens, although they can be very effective at keeping pests away from the most desirable fruits and vegetables.

Although there are quite a few trap crops, I'll just mention two, sunflowers and nasturtiums, which can be cultivated for food themselves.

Trap Crops Home Garden

First Sunflowers are best known for their beautiful flowers and tasty seeds.

Growing as little as 2 feet high and 10 meters with a wide range of colors, there is much diversity among these beautiful flowers.

The thing that makes them a good garden plant has a preference for aphids and stink bugs, for this purpose. This preference for sunflowers offers these parasites with a detour of all the aphids, which are sunflower seeds are not your tomatoes.

Trap Cropping Pests In Your Garden

Trap cropping is a practice that can be very useful as the organic garden, and is a natural method of pest control. And 'to protect the main harvest of crops, the planting of a parasite or a series of parasites. These trap crops may be the same or a different family, the main crop being protected. There are two ways in which a trap crop to be planted, the ring, or any other crop.

Trap crops are also known as culture of sacrifice. It is planting a crop or crop group to attract pests away from your garden, and there are several factors to be considered before planting, as the preference of the insects, weather, the arrangement of plants and insects beneficial.

Plant layout is very important to all insects have the same needs. Some may be attracted by planting a border, and some are easily controlled with inter-planting to attract them away from the main crop you are trying to protect. The amount of plantings that will be needed to control the pest problem will depend on the insect you are trying to discourage.