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When your soil is healthy, it will protect your plant from pests with robust immune systems. At the same time, healthy soil is alive with beneficial microbes and organisms, as well as earthworms and beneficial insects. There are some tips to help your soil health like spread compost each year to add vital nutrients that your plants need for growth; use natural fertilizers to build up healthy soil, apply fish or seaweed fertilizer once a month encourages soil microbes, avoid using any sort of chemicals that might destroy the healthy organisms and microbes.
#6 Interplanting Crops
Interplanting is a good gardening method that you alternative crops, herbs, and flowers to confuse the pests. Instead of planting only one type of crop in a garden bed, alternating rows of vegetables with flowers and herbs attract beneficial insects while confusing pests that are looking for particular crops.
#7 Grow Plant To Repel Pests
In order to get rid of pests without needing to use chemicals, you can grow some strong-scented herbs and flowers to deter pests easily. Basil, calendula, garlic, chives, thyme are great flowers and herbs.
#8 Choose and Grow Resistant Varieties
Choose and grow resistant varieties are one of the easiest and natural ways to prevent pests in your garden.
#9 Harvest Frequently
Make sure you clean up any fallen fruits to prevent hungry pests and look for an easy meal. Also, lingering fruit and vegetables send your entire plant into decline and stress, they aren’t growing to their maximum potential and weak plants are an easy invitation for pests to visit.
#10 Grow Some Plants In Pots
Growing in pots physically method will keep your plants away from the pests.
#11 Practice Crop Rotation
Crop rotation also confuses pests, manages soil fertility, and reduces pest concentrations in specific areas. That is the reason why this method is one of the most important things to do to prevent pests in your garden.
