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Home Creationism

For our garden I am trying to use natural products as much as possible, and hopefully move to totally organic gardening once I finish all the fertilizer that I have already purchased. One of the things we decided to try was lady bugs. They are supposed to eat up all the pests in your garden while leaving no trace of poison. A few weeks ago we let out 3000 lady bugs in the garden, and watched the little critters crawl around a few days. Indeed they killed off all the problem white flies and other bugs we had and our garden was pretty healthy.

What they are supposed to do is lay eggs in the surrounding area and hatch thus creating a healthy eco system. I am not sure if it's worked as I haven't seen any eggs or baby bugs yet and the white flies are back. I am thinking that we don't have the right plants to foster them sticking around, and living in a really woody and wild area, they may have settled somewhere else. I really loved watching them for a few days, so once I start my butterfly garden, I am going to put more lady bug friendly plants in the area and try again.