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The practice of pest control and gardening has been around for longer than you might think: at least as long as common agriculture. This industry is expanding at a phenomenal rate. In the last five years the home pest control business has increased by half, making it a $7 billion industry per year.

With increasing frequency, remote areas are being chosen for the construction of new housing. The desert and the woods are attractive and appealing locations for some people When you’re building in these areas where insects and animals live, it’s their home. Only when they enter your home are they labeled as pests

One has to ask oneself what Gardening and Pest control actually means?

Simply put it means the reduction or eradication of pests. Where Structural pest controls is the control of household pests, including wood destroying pests such as termites, or simply unsanitary insects such as cockroaches, pest control tends to be the control of pests affecting your plants, garden, lawn and/or soil. It could possibly effect the house also, but it’s the garden that we are more concerned about.

To help promote good health and prosperity, garden and pest control is much needed. Usually, pests are not discovered until their damages have already been done or they explode in numbers. There are actually some things you can do to get rid of the problem.

What can we do to contain the unwanted pests in our garden?

Gardening and pest control is viewed by many people as do-it-yourself job. Well that’s fair enough – up to a point. Gardening pest control is like visiting the doctor: to prescribe effective treatment your physician must correctly diagnose the problem and determine the extent of the injury as well as the potential for further injury. Polls indicated that too many people feel they know what they’re doing when they don’t, and that they don’t need to read or follow the instructions on the can.

That leads to over-concentrated doses of insecticide for example which could be hazardous to your health and any visitors. Of course we are specifically referring to chemicals, as chemical pest control is still the predominant type of pest control today. Persistent use of chemicals has had a detrimental effect on the environment and this has led, at the close of the past century, to a renewed interest in more traditional methods of pest control.

Periodic visits from a home pest control company is a must if you do not want to dirty your hands and yet still want to take control over domestic pest infestations. It is advantageous for you to have someone monitor your house and garden on a monthly basis to help control your pest problems. Monthly pest control has one disadvantage and that is the home owners are keen that PCOs apply a chemical treatment every month irrespective of the fact whether there is a pest problem or not.

The facts of pesticide use in the home and garden are very surprising:

1. In the lawns each year the amount of pesticides applied is 67 million pounds.

2. Much more pesticide is applied to city lawn and gardens per unit area than to most farmland.

Please use any kind of pesticide with greatest caution. Be careful! Overuse of pesticides may damage the eco system and kill the very insects that are keeping your ‘pest’ numbers down If the pests should return, you may have to spray additional times in the future. Insects can also help your garden grow because they pollinate your plants, helping your garden to expand. Don’t use persistent, broad-spectrum, contact insecticides like diazinon, malathion and carbaryl. These provide only temporary pest control and are likely to kill more of the natural enemies than the pests. With their natural enemies eliminated, pest populations will rapidly multiply and you could end up with a bigger problem than you had before.

Most consumers also don’t realize how potentially harmful they can be:

1. Pesticides are easily tracked indoors, an EPA study found 23 pesticides in dust and air inside homes.Consumers don’t realize the dangers.

2 Garden chemicals are harmful to our environment and the US Geological Survey routinely discovers evidence of them, especially weed killers, in the waterways around urban centers.

The question of going without such forms of pest control is a thought-provoking one.

Gardening and Natural Home Pest Control

Pest control and gardening is best achieved with a balance of organisms in the yard. Natural pest control is less expensive than buying and applying pesticides, and it’s safer for your garden, natural wildlife and the environment.

Some things that may help with pest control:

1. Physical controls – traps, barriers, fabric row covers or repellents – are often successful at controlling pests.

2. Attract good bugs by planting a variety of plants that provide pollen and nectar all year round.

3. By preventing pests from reaching your plants, you can avoid the damage they cause. If you only see a few pests,physically removung them can sometimes keep the problem in check.

In conclusion, many people face this same problem. Since home pest control is a global problem, we hope this article has been helpful.