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.

How To Make Cheap Yet Effective Homemade Insect Traps

Sometimes we can turn the insects' desire for food into a trap. Your garden can become a deadly trap for certain insects and yet not be a hazard to you, your family, or beneficial insects. We can accomplish this simply by making the trap attractive to the pest insect. Your vegetables and flowers, because of the color of their foliage, attract certain insects. Their eyes key in on the reflected colors of the leaf, essentially yellow mixed with green. If you use this fact about insects to your advantage, you can make a sure-fire trap for them by simply adding a sticky substance to a material of the proper color.

In years past, I made my own sticky, yellow traps by painting poster-board yellow and then applying a sticky substance to it. I eventually was tired of painting, so I decided to buy yellow poster-board instead. My labor went down, but the price of materials went up. Finally, I came up with an ingenious solution for recycling the yellow poster-board for reuse.The secret to my recycling method involves using plastic freezer bags. Any size of clear plastic bag is acceptable, but I prefer to use the thin, inexpensive type that is about 11 by 14 inches in size. You can even use the plastic bags in which shirts come.