Take the following steps to keep your plants healthy and pest-free this winter. Refer to the UC IPM Seasonal Landscape IPM Checklist for more monthly pest management to-dos for your region so you can prevent pests and their damage in the garden and landscape.
Here are some general pest tips for the month of December:
- Clean up fallen fruit and leaves to avoid harboring pests.
- Protect sensitive plants from frost or cold injury when freezing temperatures are predicted.
- Hose aphids off of sturdy plants or apply insecticidal oils and soaps....
- Author: Karey Windbiel-Rojas
![An assortment of traps and barriers are available at retail nursery and garden centers. [Photo by K. Windbiel-Rojas]](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests/blogfiles/23376small.jpg)
[From October 2013 issue of the Retail Nursery and Garden Center IPM News.]
Traps and physical barriers can be excellent tools for detecting, catching, or preventing pest invasions. Most retail nurseries and garden centers carry a variety of these types of tools, often displayed together with other products to help customers implement a multi-pronged IPM program to most effectively manage their pests.
Traps
Traps may be used to monitor or detect a pest population, to catch and identify the pest, to reduce local pest density, or more than...
