How To Prevent And Eliminate Pests In Indoor Garden

Everybody knows that pest attack into your plant will cause disease and damage to your plant both in your outdoor garden. But for indoor garden there is a common misconception that indoor garden is relatively free of disease and pest attack. Yes that is right if we talk the seedling come from controlled environment or we germinate our seedling on-site indoor. In fact, if we buy the seedling or mature plants form the garden supply store, there is a chance that may be the soil, growing medium or on the plant itself has pests already. So with this condition how to prevent and eliminate pests in our indoor garden?

Before we talk about tips to prevent pests and eliminate pests in indoor garden, I will inform you the most common pests you will find out in your indoor garden. Here are the top 5 most common pests in indoor garden:

Aphids

1. Aphids
Aphids come in tiny bugs with green or other colors. You can find it on the underside of leaf.

2. White Flies
White flies come in black film that look almost like sooty mold build-up in your plant.

3. Mealy Bugs
Mealy bugs come in white fluffy bug that almost look like cotton. You could find them on the plant stems or on undersides of leaves.

4. Spider Mites
You can find spider mites on discolored leaves using a magnifying glass. Sometimes, this spider mite are not considered as insects.

5. Scale
You can find scale as small brown insect on the undersides of leaves.

Tips to Prevent Pests in Indoor Garden

Below are some tips to prevent pests in your indoor garden:

1. Keep in mind to only use clean and sanitized hand, tools, pots and other system components. This will prevent spreading of pest into your plant.

2. You can try germinating your own seedlings to prevent pest in your indoor garden. This is also good to increase your gardening experience and skill.

3. You should maintain proper growing conditions for your plant at all times including sufficient air flow, sunlight etc.

4. You need to monitor your garden daily to prevent pests in your garden. You need to look for any signs of pest attack such as plant discoloration, holes in the leaves or other strange form on your plant. So you can ensure to catch the pests before they become a massive damage.

5. You need to take care your plants by removing dead leaves etc. And don’t forget to isolate the specific plants that infection suspected. This way will prevent pests to spread to other plants.

Tips to Eliminate Pests from Indoor Garden

There are 2 ways to eliminate pests from your garden, using chemical pesticide and organic method. But most of gardener will choose natural or organic method to eliminate pests from indoor garden. Below are the organic component that can be used as pesticide to eliminate pests from indoor garden naturally:

1. Using Predator
You can use insect predator to eliminate pest in your indoor garden. Beneficial insects like ladybugs can be used as predator to fight off aphids. This beneficial bugs can eat the insects that damage your garden. You can order live ladybugs at many garden supply center. 

Read more: Top 10 Beneficial Insects For Your Garden

2. Using Neem Oil
Neem oil which is come from the neem plant can destroy insects by prevent them from the laying eggs and eliminate pests in your indoor garden.

3. Using Organic Pest Sprays
You can create your own organic pest spray or purchase it at garden center. Usually the organic pest spray can be made from mixture of soap solution and citrus. You can used this organic pest spray with spray over the leaves to kill insects in your indoor garden.

So there are some ways to prevent and eliminate pests in your indoor garden as described above. Hopefully this article can help you to solve your pest control problem. Good luck..!

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