Pesticide Free Garden
Use of pesticides in your garden will harm the natural food web of your garden habitat. beneficial insects such as lacewings, ladybirds and hoverflies may be killed. Small birds, mammals and amphibians may eat the poisoned invertebrates and take a certain amount of poison into their own bodies which will build up over time. Garden pests are a vital part of the food chain, for example:
- adult hoverflies act as pollinators and many hoverfly larvae eat aphids
- great tits eat a wide variety of insects including insect larvae,caterpillars and aphids
- hedgehogs feed mainly on beetles, caterpillars, worms and slugs,
- frogs eat insects such as flies and moths, as well as snails, slugs and worms.
Pledge 1 - Pesticide Free Garden
Pledge to adopt alternative methods of controlling garden pests
Visit these sites for ideas and information.
Organic Pest Control - RSPB
A Guide to Gardening without Pesticides - Pesticide Action Network UK
Pledge to adopt alternative methods of controlling garden pests
Visit these sites for ideas and information.
Organic Pest Control - RSPB
A Guide to Gardening without Pesticides - Pesticide Action Network UK
Pledge 2 - Garden Organically
Look after your garden in as natural a way as possible, without the use of synthetic pesticides, weedkillers or synthetic fertilisers.
Try organic gardening - BBC Gardening Guide
Principles of Organic Gardening - Garden Organic
Look after your garden in as natural a way as possible, without the use of synthetic pesticides, weedkillers or synthetic fertilisers.
Try organic gardening - BBC Gardening Guide
Principles of Organic Gardening - Garden Organic
Useful Websites
A Directory of Beneficial Insects and Bugs in the Garden - UK Gardening
The Effects of Pesticides on our Wildlfe - Friends of the Earth
A Directory of Beneficial Insects and Bugs in the Garden - UK Gardening
The Effects of Pesticides on our Wildlfe - Friends of the Earth
