Organic gardening & insect chewed up fruits, vegetables & flowers do not have to go together. It is easy to discover how to protect your garden from harmful insects, maintain fertile soil & healthy plants, without resorting to chemical insecticides & fertilizers by learning about a few, simple techniques.

The gardening resource guide “Gardening Made Easy” (available at our website) discusses many organic gardening techniques to protect your organic garden. Here are just some of the major techniques that it discusses.

Compost & Organic Fertilizers

To feed you plants & get your soil nourished you can use simple, natural products called organic fertilizers. You can make your own compost pile in your back yard by recycling your very own kitchen scraps, grass clippings, tree leaves, & garden cuttings.

Or, you may want to purchase compost from a local garden center.

Plants can be grown directly the your compost or you can use it for fertilizing. Even liquid fertilizer can be created from you compost. It is an easy as taking out the garbage.

A small space in the corner of a garden is all that you need, to gather your extra garden cutting, tree leaves & grass clippings.

Pest Control & Organic Insecticides

Bugs as a whole, have gotten a bad :cry: :cry: reputation. The truth is not all bugs are bad.

For example, ladybugs, butterflies & bees are known to many people as beneficial insects. Moreover, wasps, flies & beetles can shield your plants from destructive insects.

When you apply chemical insecticides, or even organic insecticides, you can kill destructive & help-fulinsects alike. These help-fulbugs can be purchased at many nearby garden centers or on line to place into your garden.

In the battle against destructive insects, plants can also be a great help. Mixing in certain plants with the other plants in your garden, or using them as a boundary can ward off thrips, tomato hornworm & white flies.

Even Peppermint will repel ants & encourage them to keep searching for another place to set up house.

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Tom Straub is a successful author, & webmaster of the Best Gardening Tips web site, where you can read more on Organic Gardening & more than a dozen other gardening topics.