How To Deal With Problems And Pests In Vegetable Gardening

Remedies

For each different problem there is a different solution and when it comes to fungus diseases with your vegetable gardening, baking soda makes for a great remedy. It is inexpensive and very effective, and weekly spraying of a baking soda mixture onto your plants can greatly reduce the incidence of powdery mildew in your garden.

This mixture is very easy to make, and all you need is 1 tablespoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon liquid soap, and 1 gallon of water. Mix this all together and use as a fungicide on your plants.

If your problem is more with bugs, then worm compost is going to be your best friend here. You can simply sprinkle some of this compost over the regular soil once or twice a week and your problem should be solved.

Products

Besides home remedies there are also many products that you can purchase to help deal with pests and problems with your vegetable gardening. Shake Away Small Critter Powder for instance, which is a refined form of fox urine that comes as a powder, and once single 20-ounce container holds enough to create a protective strip one foot wide and 600 feet long around the perimeter of your vegetable garden.

Get Away is another great product, one that is a versatile raccoon and squirrel pest repellant and which works both by odor and taste, which means that it is great at discouraging raccoons and opossum attacks on garbage and will also keep them away from nibbling on the plants in your vegetable garden.

If you are looking for a more complete form of pest control then you may want to try Dr. T’s Whole Control, which is specifically designed for spraying over a large area and which discourages everything from moles and voles to gophers and raccoons. It will not harm any of your plants however which is very important, and the odor is pleasant and not offensive to people.

By using the proper treatments to take care of your vegetable garden you will end up producing gorgeous, healthy vegetables.