Your garden is surely a plot that you love and cherish but keeping it safe from moles, ants, woodlice and caterpillars is real hard isn't it? Slugs and snails love the wet while dry summers are ideal for red spider mite, which ravage the strawberry crop. And you try your level best to make use of fertilizers. Now here comes the twist. There are some pests those seem to be unmanageable all throughout the year. Two among them are the woodlice and the ants. Though not overtly hazardous but they are a nuisance and seem to colonies every nook and cranny of the lawn.

Here is how you can make use of some controlling agents, which are for a change not chemicals this time. For ants you can make use of the natural insecticide pyrethrum, which is commonly known by the name of the chrysanthemum plant, which may grow in your lawn without much ado. Coccineum and cinerariifolium are two of its species, which are made use of to handle this problem. You can spread the powder all throughout the nests of the ants and will eventually kill them in the process of coating.

Now the second menace, woodlice are insects that like to dwell in damp places with a lot of decaying organic matter around. Hence they are often to be found in the upper reaches of the compost heap. There they are busy aiding the decomposition. But they really do the harm when they add finishing touches to an already damaged ripe crop previously pecked on by slugs or birds. They can be controlled the most during the winter when they are generally grouped together in damp places. The easiest part is just cleaning up sites like rotting timber or piles of old newspaper will jut vanish them that easily.

The mole is the other garden menace that is in love with the wet weather. It moves easily through damp soil and is attracted to the organic gardens because of high earthworm count. You can control these little intruders through trapping. For doing that you just dig the earth over the hill and trace the run, then you place a trap and cover the handle of the trap with some turf sods. Just check that the trap sits in the trap unhindered or they will sense it. Also check that there is absolute darkness maintained in the hole and with practice you will soon gain positive results.

Next lets talk of the white butterflies who are always found flying around the garden to lay their eggs underside the brassica leaves. Once the caterpillar hatches from the egg it is ready to damage. So these along with the ones of the cabbage moth need to be removed daily. In this case you can either use the bactospeine spraying it fortnightly or make use of the fine-netted mesh, which will also help to keep the wood pigeon away.

So there you see how you can keep your lawn healthy and fresh without making use of some unnecessary use of chemical fertilizers that do less good and more harm thereon in the long run.