Home vegetable gardens – Having a home vegetable garden in your backyard can give you a lot of joy and pleasure. It’s fantastic to see a tomato plant grow from a seed that you had planted a few months ago and to be able to make a few meals from your vegetables. Having to deal with slugs, bugs and aphids is just a part of life and it is something that every vegetable gardener comes into contact with.

If you would like to do organic home vegetable gardening you will have to go the natural route and there are ways and means to go about this process. There is no doubt that organic vegetable gardening has a whole lot more advantages than your traditional method, but of course the choice is up to you.

Home vegetable garden

There are many home vegetable garden ideas when it comes getting rid of those nasty pests.

Here are just a few:

1. Scatter crushed egg shells around your vegetables. Slugs and snails don’t like the rough texture of the shells and will soon leave.
2. Collect empty yogurt containers  and cut rectangular-like holes at the top. Dig a hole in the ground and fill them up with beer, about three quarters of the way fill. Allow the slugs to wander towards the containers. You could collect a handful overnight
3. If you are still having problems you could get some wire mesh and place it around your cabbages and lettuce plants which are the most vulnerable towards attack.
4. A lot of people use a pepper and garlic spray. Mix a lot of chili pepper with chopped up garlic and some dish washing liquid. Worms don’t like this  mixture at all. Spray it over your cabbages.
5. You can also plant garlic and marigolds. The bugs don’t like the smell of these too much either.
6. Companion planting is also something to think about.

Home vegetable gardens do sound like like a lot of effort, but it will definitely be worth it when your first, chemical-free salad arrives !

Home Vegetable Garden:Companion Planting

How to get rid of pests organically

Home vegetable gardens are a great way to produce your own… produce. For other great home gardening ideas, be sure to visit our Rival crock pots home page and see how others just like you are learning to live the slow-cookin’ lifestyle. For related topics, check out our articles about… plug plants, concrete garden edging, and large planter boxes.

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