How to Repel Backyard Pests

Once you get your garden looking and growing the way you want, your main goal is to keep it looking that way. It is important to learn the proper way too protect your garden for different types of insects and pests.

• Use baby powder to slow up ants and other insects in your garden. Baby powder will cause ants to lose their sense of smell for their trail. They will eventually thin out and die. Other ants will not be able to climb the hills of the powder and eventually venture in another direction.

• Keep rabbits out of your garden by using red hot chili peppers. Rabbits do not like spicy hot foods. You will not have to worry about them eating anything else in your garden.

• Put peppermint and spearmint plants in your garden to keep mice away. Mice hate the smell of peppermint plants.

• Plant thorny plants, lilac and American holly to keep deer out of  your garden. You can also use tin plates that make a lot of noise when the wind blows. This will scare deer away.

• Use marigolds in your garden to keep flying insects from your garden. Insects do not like the smell of these plants.

• Put mothballs in a dish or jar with a secure lid and poke holes in the lid.

• Keep cats and other little animals away by putting chicken wire down. Put the wire on the top of your soil or mulch.