Organic Pest Control For Cats, Squirrels, Dogs and Deer
At some point we all have a problem with insects in our gardens. But, most people feel some connection with nature when gardening, and while they want to eliminate those insects they do not want to harm the critters in doing so.
So what are some humane ways to get rid of garden bugs? Basically, you need to make them uncomfortable in some way, but not necessarily in a painful way. You might offend one of their senses, but at times doing so offends yours as well.
You can try repellents to scare garden bugs away, using scents from predators like fox urine, but that will only repel certain garden bugs, and the repellent can wash away in the rain.
You can try a repellent like pepper on the plant surface, but that means the deer or other animal would’ve really eaten some of your plants already.
Imagine which you might only stand guard at your garden with a simple garden hose with a sprayer attached, you might make certain of scaring off the most persistent of pests if your were to suddenly spray them for just a few seconds when they approached the garden. And if you were to routinely do so for a week or two, the pest would eventually get frustrated enough to move on. This would work with almost any pest, including deer, dogs, cats, skunks, herons, and even armadillos.
If you might only set this up to be automated, and to work both day and night it wold in fact be an organic pest control that would be an effective repellent for all sorts of garden insects. This is the basic idea behind the Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler system. This system has a motion detector built into a sprinkler head, that will automatically spray the intruding pest for just a few seconds, repelling your garden insects while doing them no harm.
So this theory to repel garden insects sounds deceptively simple, almost too good to work. Does it really work that well?