Ways to reduce the usage of insecticides?

Question

Does anyone know ways to redue the usage of insecticides or a site that will say anything?

Answer 1

I think the best way is to keep the place clean.

Answer 2

another way is to grow plants that are poisonous while growing.

genetically modified crops that make there own pesticides is an example.

quoina, grows a poisonous seed coating, so bugs cant eat it, it needs to be rinsed before it is safe to eat.

some versions of manioc are poisonous, nothing can eat it raw, it need processing before people can eat them.

Answer 3

You can try planting various kind of plant with different odour or smelly plant together in the same site

Answer 4

1.  Crop rotation

2.  Change perennial pastures (such as a Bermuda grass field) into a perennial pasture containing many species instead of just one species

3.  Break larger fields into smaller ones by planting trees and shrubs.  This will increase the bird population greatly which of course mostly feed on insects.

4.  Practice rotational grazing

5.  Free range chickens behind rotational grazing cattle

6.  Use natural instead of synthetic insecticides.

7.  In gardens you can companion plant to help shield your plants from insects

Answer 5

in farming procedures, you would notice when theres a weeds there is always an insects,so to avoid using pesticides you must prepare your land well clean

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Make plants that are naturally immune to bugs?

Answer 8

1.  Choose resistant varieties of plants.  Native plants that are tolerant of the local insect population are a good choice.  A rule in my garden/landscaping is that if a plant won't grow without pesticides, find one that will.

2.  Encourage natural predators (wasps, lightning bugs, predatious spidermites, ladybugs, etc.....)  Do this by spraying less pesticides, as the pesticide will kill everything not just what you are wanting killed.  The plant pests have a faster reproduction than the predators.  So when you spray and kill everything the noxious isects come back faster and now they don't have any predators to keep the population under control.

3.  Use alternate bug sprays.  Some pest can be washed off daily with a hard blast of water (aphids, spidermites)  I once had a bad spidermite infestation and kept blasting the mites off daily until a lightning bug population moved in and kept the spidermites under control.  Soapywater can be used to control some soft shelled insects (aphids)  Nicotine is also poisonous to bugs.  Soak chewing tobacco in water and use like an insecticide.

Answer 9

These three sites show ways of reducing the use of insecticides.

Other ways that organic farmers have eliminated the use of insecticides are the use of natural predators, effective use of crop rotations, and planting of companion crops to attract the insects off of their main crop.

Answer 10

Here's a web site that may help:

http://www.cdcg.org/goOrganic.html

I don't know what scale your are talking about.  I have just over 1.5 acres of land that I use, though most of it is just grass and weeds that I cut and call a lawn. (As dry as it's been this summer, I'm lucky to have weeds.)

I do grow a small raised bed garden with tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and green beans.  I use a compost as fertilizer which I make in a compost tumbler by mixing grass clippings, leaves, kitchen scraps (no meat or oily things), and rabbit manure from my pet bunnies.  As for controlling the bugs, I go out every morning and check for signs of pests like leaves with bits eaten, brown spots, wilted leaves, etc.  At the moment the deer in our area are starving as it hasn't rained in a while and nothing much is growing so they've started raiding my garden.  I put out some hay and water for them, but I think they prefer my tender green plants.  It's not their fault so, I'll just try other means to protect my plants from them.  I don't want to hurt them so I've rubbed hot pepper juice on the leaves they like best.  If this doesn't help, I'll probably make some homemade deer repellant to spray around.

Good luck.