-garden pests - books:
a link to insects and garden pests.

Actually I have 5 pests in the garden that keeps me busy. The rest I can work around them.

• 1. squirrels, blacks and greys
• 2. birds, all, specially finches won't leave my seeds alone
• 3. slugs and snails
• 4. earwigs and grubs

Grubs:
Homemade remedies.
1 cup of laundry soap
5 gallons of water
Mix well and saturate the patch, where you think your grubs are. It works on Chinch bugs too.

Earwigs:
I usually don't find these until they've already done a number on my roses or lilies.
On earwigs, I use earwig bait. Some people use wet newspapers to attract earwigs, it works, but it looks messy.
I have used oil traps for earwigs.
Fill a small container 3/4 full of water and pour in about 1/8" of cooking oil.
The cooking oil will attract the earwigs and the water will drown them.
I seem to trap a lot of ants too.

Slugs and snails:
I think most gardeners could write a book on these.
I too have tried everything from, beer traps to slug bait.
I've gone back to just using slug bait, if they eat more than their share.
I also hunt for them after a rain, early morning and before dark with a bottle of a homemade concoction.
I use a spray bottle 3/4 filled with water, few drops of liquid soap and 1/4 cup of ammonium.
Then I just squirt the chlorophyll suckers whenever I find them.

Birds:
I love my birds but, I don't know how to keep them off my sunflowers.
I've tried bird netting, but the squirrels had that shredded to pieces in no time.
Have you been able to keep your sunflowers out of the squirrels reach?
Could you share with us how you did it?

Squirrels:
Squirrels at my house have won the seed battle, but I won the bulb war.
Squirrels are the most tenacious of all my pests.
They're up before me and go to bed long after I'm indoors.
The wire cages are working and I'm sharing how I made them below.
Please let me if you try these or if you have other ways of keep the squirrels from eating your garden.
I'll share the fruit from my fruit trees, but not my bulbs or my sunflower seeds. :)

- this is how I made my bulb cages. - I also use these wire cages to cover already planted, bulbs, lilies etc. - So far it has kept them out and they have tried really hard to get at them. -Specially in the early spring when food is scarce. <-- click on pictures to see large graphics of the same pictures. -as you can see I used galvanized wire mesh.

- on this picture, I snipped the roll of mesh in half lengthwise. - decide the size of cage I wanted and snipped off the corners.

- I decided that 5 holes deep was deep enough for my bulbs. - after the corners were removed, I just bent the sides up and wired the corners together. - or if you have any wire there you can use that to attach your corners.

- the tops or lids, - you can used a flat piece of mesh and wire the cage shut, - but what I did was ease another cage bottom over the other and ended up with a little box too.

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