Control Bugs

 You may wonder how a plant can survive, for almost every one has some bug or another that wants to destroy it.

The bugs are biters, borers, suckers and cutters. Or some that just eat the whole thing.

There are wholesale ways of controlling most of these, however, these methods are used only by big growers on a field scale. As we know, some of these methods are not healthy for us as consumer and are best left alone.

Most growers of home veg only have a dozen or so of a limited vanity of crops and the job should be easier.

All insects may be divided into two types:biters and suckers.    The way to get rid of the pests that bite and chew is, to  make the crop unpalatable to them but the fellows that suck the juices and pay no attention whatever to any contamination  on the outside surface face of a plant have to be met and slain in open battle. 

What I do is make a garlic tea and spray it often on the crop this seems to work quite well with the pest that bite and chew, as for the suckers, I make life uncomfortable for them by sucking them off with a hoover or washing them off with a hose.

Bigger pest, like birds and rats, I trap and scare away.