Treatment chemicals can no longer be used in gardens. If you do not comply with these regulations, you risk being sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of €150,000!
Some insects useful can help you fight various parasites. This is the case with ladybirds whose larvaeavailable in garden centers, are capable of eating large numbers of aphids. This is also the case for lacewings, earwigs and hoverflies. Hedgehogs can also be your allies to fight a good number of enemies of your crops.
How to attract them?
To attract them, grow flowers in your vegetable garden, install discreet shelters in a corner of your land and cut your grass upper.
Prefer to use commercial natural biocontrol products. For example, the bacillus thuringiensis is a microorganism for sale in garden centers and which is capable of destroying caterpillars of parasites. There are also pheromones ofinsects can be used to trap certain undesirable insects or to create a sexual confusion likely to disturb the life of certain parasites, such as the codling moth of the apple tree. Certain natural substances of plant, animal or mineral origin, such as pyrethrum, can also be used to combat certain insects to be feared. In this last category you will find for example ferric phosphate active against slugs and other molluscs.
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Michel Caron is an agricultural engineer by training. Throughout his professional life, as a journalist, he collaborated with several agricultural weeklies.
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