Garden pests

As with any organic garden we knew it was bound to happen… but it still doesn’t hurt any less. Our gardeners have encountered garden pests. One of the main culprits eating away at our crop leafs are aphids. Aphids are small sap sucking insects that can decrease a plants growth rate, molt their leafs, cause low crop yields, or even kill their host plant. As you can see, aphids are very bad news for gardeners. Fortunately, ladybugs love to eat them!! Hopefully by introducing more and more ladybugs into the garden we can get rid of these pests. Other strategies for handling aphids are to plant sunflowers- they will attract the aphids keeping them off of your crops and also using a tomato leaf water blend as an organic spray. Organic gardening isn’t easy… but it’s worth it!!