Tips to Avoid Insects and Garden Rodents

If your garden has been affected by large animals, whether pets or unwanted rodents, you can start a natural action plan, which does not harm these animals, but effectively scares them without harming the welfare of the animals. cultivated varieties. Here are some interesting ideas to prevent animals from damaging your garden

"To prevent animals like stray dogs and cats from damaging your garden, you can reinforce the perimeter fence with thorny or very dense plants."

How to avoid rodents

If the garden is visited by rodents, whether rats, mice, pericytes, weasels or other similar, you can try these effective and natural solutions. The first is to grow garlic plants in the corners. Simply bury garlic cloves and let them grow. Their strong smell displeases them and will chase them away.

You can also bury empty beer or soda bottles, letting them protrude about 3 cm from your mouth. As the air circulates, a sound will be produced that the rodents will interpret as a threat. Of course, be careful when cutting the lawn, so as not to cause (or cause) damage by breaking the glass. Besides, you can also use an ultrasonic animal repeller which can drive the animals including your pets without hurting them.

If in your garden you notice the unmistakable hollows of moles, the most effective solution is to bury some elder branches near their burrows and the income to the home. This will keep them at bay.

How to prevent pets from damaging the garden?

To prevent larger animals from damaging the garden, such as stray dogs and cats, you can reinforce the perimeter closure with thorny or very dense plants to block their entry. Also, try decorative fences. If there are hares, rabbits or other, remember to bury the perimeter closure about 40 to 50 centimeters underground, to prevent underground access. If you want, you can open a groove, put plastic or metal mesh, and re-cover with dirt. And you can also use an animal repeller which can help to prevent pets from damaging the garden without hurting them.

How to avoid garden pests?

But sometimes animals mix with other garden threats. You can test these tips, and intermix them with some others. The visit of animals usually involves other visitors, such as flea infestations, ticks, and others. Take the opportunity to complete your garden with beautiful varieties, highly effective for the control of pests associated with animals. Among them, try dill (which is effective to control and drive away worms, caterpillars and flies), garlic (the great multipurpose), mustard (that drives away aphids ), melissa (prevents the arrival of mosquitoes and some mites), horsetail and nettle (very effective against arachnids, especially the red spider), or wormwood and rosemary combined, which manage to scare away all types of insects. Of course, you can also resort to a modern device to drive away from them. For example, an insect killer light not only can kill the insects but also can decorate your garden.

If there are weeds in the garden, take advantage of these tricks and crops and complete your line of defense with salt solutions. To make it, dissolve a spoonful of baking soda in a liter of water, and water the weed with it. Of course: be careful, because this solution will raise the pH of the soil at that point.