{"id":2566,"date":"2019-10-04T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-205\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T17:49:10","slug":"insect-pests-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/insect-pests-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"insect pests in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is it normal to have many different insect pests in one garden? Is it a sign that I am not taking care of my plants well? Everything looks fine except for one infestation after another!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As far as I am concerned it is perfectly normal to have all of these pests (because I also have many)! But some gardeners are more ruthless than I am. They would rip out the plants. Others would assault their garden with chemicals. I prefer the middle ground of tolerance of some damage and using low-toxic controls.<\/p>\n<p>The mantra these days is RIGHT PLANT RIGHT PLACE and HEALTHY SOIL = HEALTHY PLANTS. For further information (and support) go to the Seattle Public Utilities website, which has a number of great publications on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/utilities\/environment-and-conservation\/lawn-and-garden\/lawn-care\">Natural Lawn and Garden Care<\/a>.<br \/>\nThere are lots of links to browse.<\/p>\n<p>There is also information about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/util\/EnvironmentConservation\/MyLawnGarden\/PestWeedDiseaseControl\/index.htm\">Natural Pest, Weed, and Disease Control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other good resources are <a href=\"http:\/\/watoxics.org\/healthy-homes-gardens-1\/lawn-and-garden\">Toxic-Free Future<\/a> (formerly known as Washington Toxics Coalition) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pesticide.org\/pests_and_alternatives\">Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it normal to have many different insect pests in one garden? Is it a sign that I am not taking care of my plants well? Everything looks fine except for one infestation after another! As far as I am concerned it is perfectly normal to have all of these pests (because I also have many)! But some gardeners are more ruthless than I am. They would rip out the plants. Others would assault their garden with chemicals. I prefer&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/insect-pests-in-the-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">insect pests in the garden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[89,156],"class_list":["post-2566","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-insect-pests-control","keyword-integrated-pest-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/2566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}