Various means to keep pests out of your garden without compromising soil quality or the nutrition coming from your vegetables.
These deter rabbits and squirrels, some insects, and even deer.
Marigold - Annuals - The Home Depot
Great for deterring slugs and for the soil quality of your garden.
The Coffee Grounds
Great for slug deterrent, copper produces natural salts as it oxidizes.
Copper Mesh 20 ft. Roll for Rodent, Bird, and Slug Control - The Home Depot
A great deterrent for deer, rabbits, squirrels, and other four-footed pests.
Wire Fencing - The Home Depot
Great at repelling rabbits and squirrels, and good for the plants and soil. Reapplication is needed after rainfall.
Wellsley Farms Ground Cayenne Red Pepper, 17 oz.
The smell of this plant repels rabbits and squirrels, and makes great tea.
Peppermint Organic Seeds | Herb Garden | Organic Mint - Ferry-Morse
Repels rabbits, squirrels, and aphids, and can be used in cooking.
Grow Garlic Plants - Vegetable Seeds and Root - Burpee
These insects eat many other insects that are potentially harmful to your garden, such as aphids, flies, caterpillars, grasshoppers, mosquitoes, moths and more. You can attract them to your garden by planting dill, fennel, and marigolds.
Mantis
These helpful insects eat aphids, mites, mealybugs, and insect eggs. They can be attracted to your garden by planting dill, fennel, and marigolds.
Ladybugs
The favorite foods of the lacewing include thrips, aphids, caterpillars, mites, moth eggs, and mealybugs. They are attracted to plants like dill, fennel, and cilantro.
Lacewings
Attracts beneficial insects like lacewings and ladybugs. Also can be used in your cooking.
Dill Seeds - Grow Mammoth and Fernleaf Dill, Herb Seeds - Burpee
Attracts beneficial insects like ladybugs and praying mantises. Can be used for cooking as well.
Fennel Seeds - Burpee
Deters crawling insects and is good for your soil.
Diatomaceous Earth Food-Grade Supplement Powder for Humans ...
Repels raccoons, skunks, and snakes, and is good for soil quality.
Espoma 6.75 lb. Organic Garden Lime 100508617 - The Home Depot
These plants deter bedbugs, fleas, lice, roaches, ants, ticks, and spider mites.
Chrysanthemum Seeds and Plants | Vibrant Perennial Flowers for Fall
Rosemary doubles as an herb you can use in your kitchen, and it also deters beetles, cabbage moths and carrot flies.
Rosemary Organic Seeds | Herb Garden - Ferry-Morse
