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How to Protect Home Vegetable Garden

Everyone likes their surroundings to be pretty and matching to their style. People love to decorate their homes according to their tastes. To make it their happy place,Sometimes they renovate themselves, occasionally hire an interior designer.

Every part of the house matters equally, like the living room, bedrooms, kitchen, garage, and especially the garden, because it makes the outside of your home stand out. Due to the current situation, in-person renovation is a hard task. Still, since technology is evolving every day, you can use virtual remodel your house and style it according to your preference and send it over to the designer from home. Virtual remodeling can help you remodel your garden by arranging your landscape, trees, plants, fence, and other gardening accessories.

However, when you renovate your house, you have to be even more careful to prevent any accidents that might mess it up—especially your garden, where you plant different vegetables, flowers, and other plants.

To protect your garden and the plants you have sown with your hard work, you have to take some precautions. Following are some tips you can follow to protect your vegetable garden from different scenarios:

1, Try to use organic sprays:

Most of the time, using artificial sprays or pesticides doesn’t affect your garden the way you want it to. You can make effective pesticides that will give outstanding results at home. Try using garlic, mineral oils, or salt sprays on your plants. These sprays are easy to make, and they will prevent pests and infections on your plants.

2, Use Nets to cover your Plants:

Since your gardens are mostly outside, they are easy to access for birds, especially if your gardens contain fruits or vegetables, birds are attracted to their nectar, and they can ruin your garden in the process. To keep the birds out, you can cover your plants with a large piece of net. Whenever you want to harvest, pull off the net, take your crop, and put the net back. This will make your harvest safe and protected, and you can also have easy access.

3, Sanitize your Garden properly:

To keep your garden clear of diseases and pests, you have to keep it clean. Sanitization is necessary for your garden to make it a healthy environment for your plants. The dirt or debris present on your plants are home to these diseases and pests, so if you keep them clean, the problems won’t have a place to hide, and your garden will be clear.

4, Put up a Fence:

Animals can also be a factor to damage your garden and eat your plants. So to protect your garden from such animals, you can put up a wooden or metal fence around your garden.

5, Remove the Old damaged Plants:

Sometimes your garden can contain plants that are sick or have been damaged by some insects or pests. These types of plants are not strong enough to survive and are infected. You can remove these plants from your garden to cause the infection to spread and damage the other healthy plants.

6, Keep your plants at a good distance:

Airflow is one of the essential means plants need to grow. If you just put one after another plant without considering their space, the plants will not have enough room to breathe, resulting in them dying. Hence, you should make sure to keep a good distance between your plants.

7, Mulch your Plants:

Mulching the plants can help the stem avoid getting dirt on it when you water the plant and keep the soil moisturized.

8, Remember to remove the weed from your garden:

Weed is unhealthy for your garden as it is a good place for pests and diseases to grow, and also, these little plants are harmful to your plants as they can overtake the nutrients that are necessary for your plants to grow. So you have to take them out at the right time so that they don’t cause any damage.

9, Use items that are harmful to pests:

We use many things in our daily life that are almost like poison to pests and diseases. Salt, flour, and other stuff you eat daily can kill these infections. You can sprinkle these items on the plants, and voila! Before you know it, the pests are dead.

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Barry Pitts, Synergy² Owner

Barry Pitts, Synergy² Owner

Pharmacist and Synergy² Pest owner, Barry Pitts, is a long-time Madison, MS resident with a passion for applying advanced scientific pest principles to pest control services in the Jackson metro area.  Combining exceptional customer service with cutting-edge pest control technology allows Synergy² to provide residents of the Jackson metro area with the highest levels of pest control available today.

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