How to bring beneficial insects into your garden
I love this product is because once planted and flowering, it attracts the good bugs and you have a colorful meadow in your backyard.
The seed selection attracts:
- lady-beetle and their larvae
- hover fly
- lacewing and eggs
- tiny wasps
The flowering seeds include:
- red clover
- lucerne
- sweet alice
- dill
- caraway
- coriander
- cosmos buckwheat
- baby’s breath
- marigold
- phacelia
- Queen Anne’s Lace
Five easy steps to have your meadow growing:
- prepare the area and water well
- broad cast the seeds
- cover lightly with seed mix
- pat down
- water with gentle pressure every day till established
Benefits to you having this meadow in your garden:
- the beneficial bugs help control aphids, scale, red spider mite, caterpillars and other pests
- no need to use poisons
- attractive flowers for the season
For more information on your Green Harvest good bug mix click this link
For additional information from Green Harvest on organic seeds click this link
To download your Low Budget Organic Gardening Ebook click this link
Other gardening pages of interest:
“Use a layer of compost to improve the moisture-holding capacity of your soil”
Good organic gardener – January/February issue