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Organic Lawn Pesticide: How To Successfully Protect Your Lawn Or Garden

Many suburban families value a green, healthy lawn. Unfortunately, weeds and insects try to hamper your family’s perfect lawn.

Keeping your property healthy and pest-free isn’t as hard as you might think. The true challenge lies in choosing the best pest control method for your yards specific needs.

Controlling Weeds
Weeds are often an unstoppable force because they are so resilient. Often removing weeds by hand doesn’t do the trick because the weed’s roots are still underground. This allows the weeds to grow back almost as quickly as you removed them from your lawn or garden.

Weeds can thrive in most climates, but grow best in the warm weather that spring and summer bring. They suck up the nutrients and water that was intended for your grass and plants. Weeds often leave large brown spots in your lawn and a trail of dead plants in their wake. Learning how to prevent weeds control over your lawn or garden is essential to a health and continually growing yard.

Some of these prevention tips include:

• Fertilize your lawn or garden once every other month to ensure your property is getting enough nutrients. This will help strengthen your plants resolve against weeds.
• Mow your lawn approximately once a week. This keeps the lawn easier to cut, but also helps reduce the presence of weeds and lawn disease.
• Constant watering is important for the continued survival of your plants and lawn. Your lawn requires a soaking of about 6-8 inches before it is fully quenched. Using a screwdriver is a helpful way to determine if your lawn is getting the water it needs.
• Use an organic weed killer, suited for both prevention and control of any current weeds in your lawn or garden. This is a natural way of stopping the deadly and unsightly weeds, but without harming the environment in the meantime.

Controlling Insects
There are many control methods that are extremely helpful towards successful control of insects on your lawn and garden. Firstly, identify any current bug problems you think your having on your property. Learning what bugs are causing you and your family a problem is vital because you must cater your control methods to what type of bug you’re dealing with. In your garden, plant native plants and in your lawn, plant native grasses.

Grasses and plants native to your region will have stronger natural defenses than would a foreign plant or type of grass. With these natural defenses the plants and grass are better equipped to deal with the weeds and insects native to that region. Stopping garden pests in both your lawn and garden is as easy as allowing other predators to thrive on your property.

Birds, ladybugs, certain species of beneficial bugs, and others organisms consume the pests that are a nuisance on your property. Another effective means of control on your lawn is by using EcoSMART’s organic wasp killer. EcoSMART’s organic pesticides target receptors only found in insects. The environment, your pets, and your children are unaffected by EcoSMART’s pesticides because they only target receptors found in the insects your trying to control.