Pest Control
When it comes to pest control, whether it’s bugs on your plants or critters eating or destroying your plants, there are several approaches you can take. If you prefer the organic approach, you can use dish detergent and water in your garden sprayer to wash bugs off and it might do the trick. If you have a serious infestation, you might need to go with a more drastic approach. There are systemic products, such as rose and flower food that contains a systemic chemical to discourage pests. Of course you need to use that before you have a problem. Jerry Baker has a book that has many home remedies for any yard problems.
If you have moles or gopher in your garden, there are vibrating stakes that emit a noise they don’t like and will discourage them. Another remedy is spraying diluted castor oil on the garden and watering it in. They hate that. The formula and 1000 more gardening secrets are in this book: