Efficient DIY Pest Management for Your Vegetable Garden

Pests are popular in damaging the vegetable garden severely. Consider the following DIY methods to prevent pests from attacking the vegetable garden.

Combine a few drops of dish soap, water, and neem oil. Spray it on plants to keep a range of pests away and kill them

Neem oil spray

Regularly monitor the plants and eliminate pests by hand. For larger insects like caterpillars, this method works very well

Handpicking

Make a garlic spray by blending garlic cloves with water & then strain it. Use the mixture to keep spider mites, aphids & other pests away

Garlic spray

Install beer traps, cloches, or nets to physically prevent pests such as snails & slugs from entering into vegetable garden

Physical barriers

Place yellow sticky traps throughout the garden. These traps draw in and catch flying insects such as whiteflies

Sticky traps