How to remove fleas in your garden
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Garden is the place you can enjoy relaxing among nature after stressful working hours. You may want to take care of plants, flowers or shaping the lawn. The thing is you may not have time for all those gardening tasks and your garden may go wild with high uncut grass, weeds, fallen leaves, rotten logs or debris scattering over the ground. This is the ideal habitat for harmful insects to thrive and one of the intruders that we are going to talk about here is flea. The dark brown tiny insect is a common parasite in dog or cat body. However, it is very likely that your garden is the source that condition flea growth before the parasite find way to cling to pet’s fur and suck blood. The question is: how to remove fleas in your garden. There are methods that you can select to remove fleas by yourself and we are going to discuss here.
Locating fleas in your garden
How to locate the places that fleas are hiding while the garden is large, but fleas are so tiny? One clue is watching for places that your pets frequent. Another way to locate fleas in your garden is walking while wearing white socks. There is a high chance that fleas will jump up to your leg and appear on the white socks. By this way, you can identify the areas that fleas are present.
Garden cleaning
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Fleas thrive in shady and moist environment. Therefore, if your garden is full of weeds, leaves, or debris, fleas will have so many rooms to grow. Should you want to remove fleas, you have got to clear their habitat or in other words clean up your garden. Start by mowing the lawn short enough to let sunlight reach the ground. Fleas hate sunlight and they will not be able to survive under direct sunshine. Next, pull up weeds, and collect fallen leaves. Dispose all the clustered leaves, logs or weeds or you can utilize them for compost making process. As long as the garden is clean and clear, fleas will have less space to develop.
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Using nematodes
Nematodes are microscopic roundworms that play the role of natural enemies to fleas and many other pests while doing no harm to plants, pets and human. Thus, in case your garden is invaded by fleas, have some nematodes in the garden. Nematodes act as parasites on fleas and they will eat up the host. Spray nematodes to the places that you suspect fleas to be there. Nematodes can hardly resist direct sunlight, but those well-lit areas are not habitat of fleas as well. This method is absolutely safe and effective in killing adult fleas, larvae and flea eggs altogether.
Flooding the garden
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Moisture is ideal for flea growth, but water will sweep away larvae and flea eggs. Flooding the areas that are mostly densely populated by fleas is effective to remove them. However, before trying to drown fleas by water, it is better to cut the grass or clear the surface so that fleas will have no place to hide.
Pesticides
Using chemical products to treat fleas should be the last resort, but if heavy infestation is detected, we still need to handle this way. Fleas spray and flea foggers are common products to treat fleas. You have got to read the manual carefully and protect yourselves with mask, gloves and clothes. Keep pets and children away from the treated area to prevent any harmful effect to them.
You can certainly get rid of fleas in your garden following tips listed above. If you have no time for that or the methods you try to apply fail, ask for professional help. You may have to pay for the service, but the result is ensured and fleas will get swept away. However, the key is you need to care for your garden on a regular basis so that fleas have no way back.
