5 Critters Your Organic Garden Needs To Thrive
Source: offthegridnews.com
Many of us who live off the grid have learned the benefits of organic gardening. We’ve rejected the destructive trend of the last 70 years, where the idea seemed to be one of destruction. The goal was eradication: pesticides for insects, herbicides to kill weeds, and artificial fertilizers to compensate for destruction of the delicate ecology that nurtured plants.In rejecting that trend, organic gardening has become very popular over the last 30 years, especially for those who want self-sustaining gardens on their homesteads.
While many of us have learned the benefits of basic organic gardening, such as use of compost and pest control through companion planting, we can take our gardening success to a new level by using beneficial critters such as toads, frogs, bats and bees. Together, they eat pests, deter harmful insects from your garden, and help pollinate your plants.
1. Toads
Each adult toad can eat up to 10,000 insect pests over a summer, including slugs, beetles, caterpillars and earwigs. It is not easy to import toads into a new habitat, but if you have toads in the general vicinity, you can attract them to your garden with a toad abode. Find a shady spot in the garden with loose soil amended with compost. Use some flat rocks to build a small enclosure big enough for a toad. Place a saucer nearby and keep it filled with water, so that the toad has a place to soak itself.[...]
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