There are many strategies for controlling pests without unduly upsetting the ecology of your garden.

These strategies include cultural controls (nutrition, resistant varieties, interplanting, timed planting, crop rotation, mulch, trap crops, and cultivation), mechanical controls (hand picking, physical barriers, traps), biological controls (predatory and parasitic insects, microbes), and sprays and dusts.

Because information is too varied to make suggestions in this limited space, we refer you to your library, colleges, and extension office for details on integrated and natural pest control.

Extension offices can be found under Local Government in the phone book.