Content
- Marriage greenhouse pests gain the upper hand
- Recognize the most important pests
- Greenhouse distribute pests with beneficials
- Tips
Snails can cause great damage in the greenhouse
Marriage greenhouse pests gain the upper hand
The likelihood of pests settling and spreading on the beds and plant tables in the greenhouse is relatively low if regular and particularly careful checks are made on the plant population. Otherwise use as beneficial as possible instead of chemicals to combat.
Pests play just as inglorious a role in your greenhouse as in outdoor cultures. Under glass, they often find even better living space in ideal climate and soil conditions than outside and can multiply very quickly and thus cause great damage, for example on vegetable beds. Although a small number of aphids are not yet a devastating hazard, the sooner a potential infestation is detected, the faster the pest is eliminated. Therefore it can only be urgently recommended, all plants to look thoroughly from top to bottom and to control under the leaves on suspicious spots.
Recognize the most important pests
Many of the unwanted besiegers not only like to eat the young plants, but also spread pathogens that can spread almost rapidly to the rest of the plant population. Here is a brief overview of the most dangerous representatives:
Greenhouse distribute pests with beneficials
This is more of a preventive measure of plant protection in the greenhouse. On this subject, we have prepared a special article that shows many approaches to this very popular type of natural pest control. The beneficials can be completely during the growing season lure targeted into the home garden and find about the Air vents of the greenhouse often even alone the way to their biological enemies. If this method does not work, beneficial insects bred for such uses are available from specialist gardening retailers who only need to be exposed to clean up the right greenhouse pests afterwards.
Tips
Although it often seems to result in faster success in controlling your greenhouse pests when using chemical agents to combat insect invasion: Avoid using them as much as possible. Not only for the sake of the environment, but so that the rest of the plant population is not even infected by insecticides and possibly destroyed.