I have been doing a lot of reading about insecticides lately. I use only organic ones, but I've read that if you let your garden 'settle' for a while without any insecticides it will eventually self-regulate. Since insecticides kill both the unwanted bugs and the beneficial bugs, over time the beneficial bugs build up to the point where they are taking care of the unwanted bugs. In order for that to work, though, you have to have optimal garden conditions.
I'm wondering if anyone out there has actually let their garden self-regulate and had it work? Any comments on how/when you use insecticides? Any suggestions would be great...
I rarely used insecticides - only when desperate. Some summers I'd have great produce and other summers I didn't, so I don't know what the answer is!
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