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    ~ GUIDE TO ~ Organic Pest Control

    Dec 08, 2017 5 minutes
    By Barbara Pleasant

    and trapping can control many garden pests, but not every insect battle can be won with hand-to-hand combat. Instead, you may need an intervention plan that affects the pest, yet causes little or no harm to natural predators and beneficial life-forms that live in your garden. This is where organic pest control products can come to the rescue. To help you match the best products with each pest, we’ve organized our guide in two ways — by pest and by remedy. Read through the “Organic Remedies for Garden Pests” table (Pages 56 and 57), and then bring yourself up to date on cures with the “Top Organic Pest Control Products” on the next few pages. The information in the table and the text is based on current recommendations from sustainable agricultural

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