Reviews for Good Bugs for Your Garden

The average rating for Good Bugs for Your Garden based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-14 00:00:00 Diana Gail Noble This is the only time of year I even think about being outside and doing gardeny things, and only because it isn't sunny and 97F at present. This book's illustrations are very cute, as befits good little buddy bugs and a few stinkers.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-17 00:00:00 Chad Landen A healthy garden is a balanced ecosystem. The more good bugs you have, the less bad bugs you'll have - and then you won't have to use any pesticides. Loved the illustrations! This book will be useful for my kids too, as they will be helping me be sleuths in our garden this year to try and attract as many beneficial insects as possible to our brand new garden plot. I'll be using this book with them to help identify the bugs we find. As a general rule it seems the best things to attract good bugs are: 1.) Avoiding monoculture (planting lots of one thing) as this makes your garden vulnerable. 2.) You want to be intermixing annual and perennial plantings. Surround and intersperse veggie plantings with perennial flowers and herbs. 3.) Keep things like wood mulch, stone paths, small water gardens to attract more variety of beneficial insects. 4.) Think flowers that have many small heads and produce a lot of nectar - like Cosmos, Dill, Cilantro, Sweet Asylum.