Free Gardening Colouring pages will be developed to help children understand how garden pests are controlled by organic gardeners.
On this website you will find mention of a number of special personalities who are known to gardeners. Do you know who they following are and where they are found dining out?
Spidermite
Millipedes
Wireworms
Root Aphids
Flea beetle
White Fly
Codling Moth
Sawfly Caterpillar
Capsid Bugs
Black fly
The list above is a small sample of the approximately 45 different pests that attack the 15 different fruit and vegetables illustrated here in the green colouring pages. To check your answers have a look at the colouring pages.
Chemical warfare to control these pests is not the answer. Organic gardening has its own techniques that work.
It is planned to develop a number of colouring pages on pest control using organic thinking. Hopefully children will have fun colouring in the pages. Also parents will be helped to educate their children on how to control garden pests without resorting to the artificial chemical pesticides.
I am far from being an expert on how to control pests organically. However, I have been very fortunate to have met online Philip Turvil and he has kindly agreed to provide us with his vast knowledge and expertise. Philip is the ideal person to do this with the job title of Knowledge Development Officer at Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic gardening charity, where he’s responsible for horticultural content of the new Food Growing Manual for schools, part of the National Lottery funded Food for Life Partnership.
