In addition to being able to make drastic changes to your living style at the drop of a dime, owning a home can also allow for property additions that normally aren't doable when renting. One of the biggest and most prominent additions that a homeowner can make to their existing home is to add a garden.
Gardens are great because they can essentially be used as a source of food and nutrition or way to pass time on beautiful sunny afternoons. But just like anything that is worth enjoying these days, there will always be problems to be dealt with.
An area that causes huge concern for most gardeners is pest control. Insects and bugs can cause major damage to a garden or home if they aren't dealt with in a timely manner. One way to deal with insects and bugs that is rapidly growing around the world is using organic pest control products.
Mark Ruben has been working for Nature's Best Pest Management for 16 years. The company started in 1978, and they have specialized in organic pest control for the past seven years. Ruben has worked with organic pest control for several years and understands why many consumers choose organic over other pest control options.
"Organic Pest control is a natural pest control," Ruben said. "It is the use of integrated pest management. It is not necessarily chemicals, but it is the use of an organic, natural, or biological product."
"It will resolve your pest problem without the use of synthetic inorganic chemicals," he added. "Synthetic inorganic chemicals are chemicals that are manufactured in a lab by chemical company. These chemicals are derived from synthetic petroleum products. It may be plastic or something of that nature."
Organic pest control sounds like something that a bunch of new-age SSS recently conjured up in their lab, but as Ruben states, ways of implementing organic pest control have been around for hundreds of years.
"It started over 100 years ago," he said. "Think about it. No one used chemicals to get rid of pests in ancient times or medieval times. They would use crop rotation. They would plant certain flowers that would repel certain insects in order to plant tomatoes, cabbage, or potatoes. In other words, they noticed that one plant repels the insects that eat another plant."
"Now, this has been going on long before synthetic chemicals," he added. "Synthetic chemicals became a way to increase crop yield. For each row of plants that were grown, the actual yield of fruit or vegetables from that acre could be magnified by using synthetic chemicals. Synthetic chemicals really came into existence because of this. However, the homeowner's pest controls do not use that much chemicals. It is the fruit, vegetable, and the other farmers that use most of the pesticides in this country. So, almost every produce we get, with the exception of the organic or home grown, has chemicals on it."
