Safe Pest Control - Step 5 and 6

Best-practice safe pest-control for food-gardeners involves six steps (in this order):

1. Make your food garden as healthy as possible 
2. Don’t please your pests 
3. Keep them out 
4. Catch and remove 
5. Is further action needed? 
6. Use a low-impact pesticide 

Step 5 and 6 are discussed below.

Safe Pest Control - Step 3 and 4

Best-practice pest-control for food-gardeners involves six steps (in this order):

1. Make your food garden as healthy as possible 
2. Don’t please your pests 
3. Keep them out 
4. Catch and remove 
5. Is further action needed? 
6. Use a low-impact pesticide 

Step 3 and 4 are discussed below.

Safe Pest Control - Step 1 and 2

What to do about food garden pests if you don’t want to use chemical pesticides? This series of blog posts discusses pest control strategies that result in healthy produce without leaving harmful chemical residues.