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Alternative Pesticide Options for The Home Gardener

By:
Andrew Brischke
Bob Clotworthy
Jeff W. Schalau
Hattie Braun
Mike Wierda
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an ecosystem-based strategy that focuses on long-term management of pests or their damage through a combination of techniques such as biological controls, habitat manipulation, modification of cultural practices, use of resistant varieties, and chemical (UCIPM definition). Chemical controls are employed after other management techniques have proven ineffective and/ or significant crop damage continues to occur.
PDF icon AZ1765-2018
Keywords:
  • IPM
  • integrated pest management
  • biological controls
  • habitat manipulation
  • gardens
  • pest management
Publication Date:
May 2018
AZ1765-2018

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