Welcome to Garden Pest Control - Your online guide to effectively control the disastrous pests in your garden!

Checklist for Working with a Garden Pest Control Company

1. Identify the pest and do some research about how to control those garden pests.
   
   
2. If you decide to hire a professional, obtain recommendations from neighbors, friends, or family about pest control services they have used.
   • Call at least three companies and consider their methods as well as their customer service policy.
   • Find out what types of services the company offers.
   • Find out if least-toxic alternatives are available to control the pest.
   • Make sure the company has the required licenses, certificates, and insurance.
     
     
3. Ask the company to inspect the site.
   
   
4. Review the solutions.
   
   • Consider long-term solutions to the problem.
   • Consider your chemical tolerance.
   • Ask how the pesticide will be applied and where.
   • Avoid companies that offer automatic monthly or quarterly sprays.
     
     
5. Review the contract
   
   
6. Stay in touch with the garden pest control company.
   • Verify that the company, as agreed in the contract, is monitoring pest populations.
   • Communicate to the company the levels of pests that are tolerable.
   • Inform the company of any changes in pest populations.
     
     
7. Do your part to help manage the pest.
   • Clean up food sources.
   • Fix plumbing leaks, or repair structures