Killing Garden Pests Safely

Every year, it seems like just when the garden is starting to really produce, grasshoppers, beetles, and several other pests show up to start chewing on the leaves, punching holes in or eating the fruit and generally making an unwanted nuisance of themselves. So, what to do? Get out the Sevin or some other toxic pesticide that will kill both the bad along with bees, ladybugs, spiders, birds? Why…