You spent thousands of dollars on the landscaping of your backyard! Built beautiful sitting area, grew lush garden, planting beautiful flowers, and not to forget the customized sprinkler that gives your garden a French touch. A perfect fit to turn your house into a street’s heart-throb, and the best way to increase its value to manifolds. But that’s not the only plush of a landscape; it can also turn into a protective shield against pests that are like a staple of summers.
Usually, your garden is like cultivation heaven for the pests. Pests creep on the grass, damage your outdoor seating, and ruin your summer night parties. And if they go unnoticed for a longer time, they also find out ways to sneak into your home. Sure, power pest control spray is one of the best ways to have pests-free summers, but you should also design and manage your landscape in a way that doesn’t provide optimal atmosphere for reproduction and growth of pests. Let’s have a look at ways to build a beautiful outdoor, not a home for pests:
Make Plantation a Fighting Tool:
A landscape is incomplete without vegetation, including plants, trees, and beautiful vines. Some rose bushes, lily and daisy plants – wao! But what if we focus not only on beauty but also on turning our plantation into a fighter against mosquitoes, pests, caterpillars, bees, and slugs? You can go with some beautiful scented plants here and there but focus on flowers, herbs, and shrubs that can act as a mosquito repellent.
Like, Citronella is a perennial grass which is known to have a strong citrusy scent which mosquitoes and many other insects prefer to avoid. Similarly, marigold also holds strong bug-repellent properties. It keeps cabbage worms, mosquitoes, leafhoppers, and other bugs away from your garden. So, place such fighter plants near windows, in flower beds, around the seating area and porch to ensure pest-free summers.
Choose Mulch Wisely:
Mulch is one of the favorite ways of many homeowners to beautify the grass, plants, and other vegetation, along with preventing weed production and enhancing soil productivity. But the organic fodder to cultivate plantation is also a favorite breeder of many pests and animals, like ants, termites, earwigs, and rats.
But just like flowers, there are two types of mulch: one that facilitates pest growth, and the other one that hinders it. Mulch that isn’t rich in moisture is the best during the summer season as it doesn’t provide optimal environment for the growth and survival of pests.
Handle Water Features:
Water is one of the happening landscaping features for all of us! An artificial cascade, lavishing fountain, pool and ponds sneak into our landscaping ideas, unapologetically. But these water bodies can also turn into a favorite breeding place for mosquitoes if kept stagnant and unattended. If you are incorporating a water feature, which you should, in your outdoor extravaganza, then it is better to install water circulating machine that keeps the water in motion. You can also keep mosquitoes’ larvae eating fishes in water body to ensure no mosquito breeds there.
Make this summer pests free with these landscape managing tips to enjoy summer night BBQ parties, and fun evenings.