Today it has “become fashionable” to build an orchard for own consumption and even an urban garden on the balcony of your house, for those who do not have enough space. But, although many of us would start planting without any criteria, the ideal is to propose a strategy and a previous design about what your garden will look like. If you raise it right, it will become more resistant to pests, whose problem is one of the most common in orchards, and the result of your crops will be much more efficient.
For your plants and/or crops to be healthy, it is essential that you know what their needs are depending on the type of soil, type of climate and nutrients of the plant. With this information we can act in the most appropriate way.
So, how about Llaberia Group give you some tips for having an optimized, pest-free orchard?
The essential thing is to know that to prevent or reduce the appearance of pests there are methods that we call agro ecological that will allow us to create an adequate ecosystem in our ecological garden and help us improve biodiversity.
Importance of biodiversity in your garden
Having polycultures in your garden will give you greater resistance to pests. Why is that? Given the diversity, the pest insect will have many more difficulties in finding its food.
Faced with the mixture of different smells of polyculture, the insect will have a better chance of making the wrong landings, until it finally gives up and wants to go to another territory.
Tips to prevent pests in your garden and garden:
- It sows quality and organic seeds: this type of seeds are those produced by plants that have not been treated with synthetic chemicals. Another option is to collect the seeds that the plants give you in adulthood and sow them in the coming seasons. It is recommended to escape from hybrid seeds, which are the most common to find on the market, since, although they have not been handled very seriously, in the long run they will cause you problems and a very poor harvest.
- Sow polycultures: this is the main requirement if you want to have a healthy garden. Leave the monocultures behind and grow different types of plants, you’re going to win. The bug infestation will be more disoriented and will find it much harder to spread a pest.
- Sow protective and cover vegetation: On the one hand, weeds will attract pest insects and take them away from your garden, although the aesthetic image they will give to your area will not be very pleasant. On the other hand, you can sow different types of plants, such as aromatic or medicinal, that in addition to repelling pests will bring you benefits that you can use. Basil or nettle are two of the most commonly used plants in these cases.
- Growing aromatic plants: In order to throw off the pest insects, a good option is to plant a cord of aromatics around your garden to increase odors and completely confuse insects. If not, you can also plant them alternately between your growing plants.
- It uses rotations and crop associations: rotations consist of growing different plants in the same place, that is, first we grow tomatoes and the next season potatoes, and so on. By implementing rotation we prevent pests from persisting.
Crop associations try to grow different plants that benefit from each other and thus also fight pests together.
- Include a pond in your orchard or garden: having a pond by your garden or organic garden can cause very positive effects on it. It will promote biodiversity and attract many animals, including predators, that will increase the self-regulation of pests.
- Proper irrigation: If the irrigation system in our garden or garden is not adequate it can become the main cause of the appearance of pests.Both the excess such as the deficit over a period of time will harm plants and make them more vulnerable.The Insect Plague is capable to pick up this weakness and that’s when they attack the plant.
- Cultivation of insect i an plants: the cultivation of such plants in an interspersed way will attract beneficial insects, such as ladybugs or some spiders, that will be positive for our ecological garden.
If in your case you have an urban garden on the balcony of your home you can plant these crops in a separate gardener near the garden.
- Growing trap plants: if you grow these plants in your or chard, or nearby, they will attract dangerous insects as bait, thus moving away from your crops. Each pest will have a different type of trap plants, so depending on which one you want to prevent you will need to grow some plants or others.
We hope that thanks to these tips you can get to have an orchard or garden of the healthy and obtain organic products of a high quality!