{"id":158,"date":"2019-05-12T12:39:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topkenya.com\/\/?p=158"},"modified":"2019-05-12T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T12:39:39","slug":"controlling-insects-organically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/12\/controlling-insects-organically\/","title":{"rendered":"CONTROLLING INSECTS ORGANICALLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a holistic approach in controlling pests and diseases in organic farming. Integrated pest management ( IPM ). We start by feeding the soil and the soil feeds the plants. A healthy crop will resist attack. Resistant varieties , time of planting , companion planting , encouraging beneficial insects such as lady birds and parasitoids ( wasps) , trap crops etc. After doing all good agricultural practices and one finds insects attack, then one can use organic concoctions made of chilli, neem tree, ashes garlic etc.<br \/>\nCrop rotation of different crop families must be followed. Soil health a must.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-159\" src=\"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190511-WA0006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The marigold (tegetes) is used to control pests such as white flies and nematodes.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190511-WA0006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topkenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190511-WA0006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/topkenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190511-WA0006-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/topkenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190511-WA0006.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a holistic approach in controlling pests and diseases in organic farming. Integrated pest management ( IPM ). We start by feeding the soil and the soil feeds the plants. A healthy crop will resist attack. Resistant varieties , time of planting , companion planting , encouraging beneficial insects such as lady birds and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/12\/controlling-insects-organically\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CONTROLLING INSECTS ORGANICALLY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}