Hazen Audel Instagram – I do love to grow plants, I love plants, and so I love me a garden. This is my vegetable garden this year. Pumping out vegetables!! All organic. And living this way brings more and more. The turkeys just came in this year. Having a mess of turkeys is like having a herd of mini dinosaurs eating every possible pest. I don’t get many insect Pests in my garden. Because I foster the other local wildlife. I have bird houses strategically placed and they are strategically built to get specific predatory birds that are fantastic at eating and keeping my garden free off pests. But also I have garter snakes and toads and other natural predators it takes shelter in my garden. They get food. Can I get lots of food in return.
For the most part, insects are not generalists, one species of insect tends to only eat the specific plant its evolved to eat. Certain species or genus, or family of plants have only certain species of insects that like to eat it.
By knowing this I don’t plant the same kinds of plants in a group, or a row or close to one another. I separate similar genus of plant. That way if a kind of insect likes a certain plant- It can’t reproduce there and simply be able to walk or jump over to the same kind of plant next to it. Instead, the pests would have to get across a wall of other plants such as tomato plants, plants in the carrot family, plants in the cucumber family, plants in the bean family, the list goes on and on. Having different plants between other plants is like creating a giant protective border around each plant.
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