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Such a background will attract many birds and other creatures seeking cover and food.
Annuals, which unlike perennials, bloom and die all in one season.
“Interspersed between vegetables, annuals serve as a natural barrier to the spread of diseases in certain crops. Others are natural repellents to insect pests that usually attack target vegetables,” says Kmst.
Some insect-repellent annual (lowers include the geranium, marigold and nasturtium.
Don’t overlook the potential to add a waterscape to your garden. Consider a small pond, perhaps even made of a fiberglass or galvanized aluminum tub about 20 inches deep and two feet in diameter, which can be used to grow waterlilies and lotuses and will attract birds, butterflies and other creatures.
“Naturally some backyard wildlife will become interested in this source of water,” including opposums or skunks. Don’t despair; delight in their visits, she says.
If larger animals are a problem — such as deer or woodchucks — the best solution is to fence them out, Kmst says.
But there are other, more “natural” alternative methods, such as placing mothballs around the garden to ward off raccoons, skunks and mice, or even bags of human hair placed two feel above ground at regular intervals to protect sweet potatoes, melons and cowpeas from deer.
How about a bat house? Who would want a bat house in the back yard?
Anyone who hates mosquitoes.
That single bat can consume several thousand mosquitoes and other bugs in one night. And bat dung is one of the richest sources of nitrogen and minerals that can be sow n into your garden.
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