Pest Control

Gardening is a great way to connect with the environment and learn about how nature's processes work. One of the big dilemmas with gardening, however, is how to stay green but not lose your plants and flowers to pests. Our typical reaction in the past has been to use synthetic pesticides, which has created new problems by poisoning the environment, our water supplies, animals, and even humans.

Today, there are new ways of dealing with pests in your garden, ranging from planting a garden with plants that have natural pest barriers, arranging plants together in a way that creates a natural food chain to exist between species, removing pests by hand, making sure your soil is healthy, keeping your garden clean, and attracting beneficial pests such as ladybugs, lacewigs, and nematodes. If you must resort to using pesticides, try to choose ones that are meant for the specific pests you have in your garden, and find products that contain ingredients that aren't harmful. Organic products are generally better, but just because it is organic, doesn't mean it is good.

In this section, you will find green pesticides that have gone the extra mile. These products have found their way onto the “Best of the Best” list for their overall low impact, effectiveness for multiple uses, overall safety, a nifty innovation, or some combination of the aforementioned traits. If you need to resort to using pesticides for your pest problems, any of these pesticides will make your green thumb a little greener.