While it’s hard to garden without some pesticide use, you should take pains not to use too much poison in your garden, even if it’s completely organic.
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Here’s one reason: even if a specific pesticide kills off 99.9% of a particular pest species, some of the individual bugs are going to be immune to it — and those are the bugs that will survive and repopulate your garden with a new generation of pests.
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If you keep applying pesticides repeatedly, even different kinds, what you’ll end up with is an array of superbugs that can handle just about whatever you can throw at them.
Sometimes it’s better to use old fashioned methods of insect control, like squirting them off your plants with water, beating them off with a broom, or just repelling them with natural substances they hate, like citrus and peppermint oil.
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