Most of the requests I get for posts deal with pests and, while I hate to get caught up in a negative spin on gardening, sooner or later the topic has to be addressed.
I am going to handle this by breaking it out into three main subsections and two lesser ones:
A) Garden generalities … principles and procedures that you can follow to ensure a generally healthy garden. This will be further broken out into:
1) discouraging pests and
2) actively eradicating them … two entirely different topics.
If I never write on any other subject, those two, alone, would make for a full career.
B) Plant-by-plant growing instructions which will, necessarily, treat the pests that visit each plant along with other factors of cultivation such as lighting, germination temperatures and so on. I might even toss in a particularly interesting recipe or two.
C) Treating each pest as an individual, paying attention to life-cycle, means of control and factors to weigh before deciding to eradicate.
Organic gardening is a blend of encouraging the positives such as healthy growth, presence of beneficial organisms and reasonable tolerance levels with appropriate levels of control when these are threatened or insufficient.
Keep you chin up. First we’ll paint the big picture with the broad brush and then we’ll home in on the details that stitch everything together. Finally, we’ll try to keep a good attitude and have a bit of laughter at how things never seem to work out perfectly, but they always seem to work out well-enough.
–Bill
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