Garden Pests | Neighborhood Food Network

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Wouldn’t it be great if there were no such thing as pests in the garden? In Mother Nature’s intricate web of life, pests are a part of it. Someday we would like to be able to ask her why this is so. The big question we would like the answer to is “why mosquitoes?”.

Listed below are some of the common pests most gardeners get in their gardens and the organic ways to keep them in check.

Mother Earth News has compiled chart with the “Worst Garden Pests by Region”, which is very help if you are a new gardener and aren’t quite sure what to be on the lookout for.

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