Certain animals are great to have in your garden because they actually help to keep other pests from getting into the vegetable patch. With aphids attacking beans, snails and slugs eating lettuce, and caterpillars eating cabbage it likely seems that the last thing that you would want to get into your garden is more wildlife, however, some wild creatures will actually help you out.
Most vegetable patches are not that natural as they are set up in a series of small rows that make it very hard for garden pests to steer away from. With so many buds and vegetables within their grasp, pests such as flies, aphids, and spiders will make a bee line to your garden on a yearly basis. Basically anything they can get their mouth onto they will.
Despite this fact there are pests that do play a very valuable role in garden life. For example, beetles, insects, and caterpillars all serve as food for hedgehogs, baby birds, newts, toads, and frogs. Therefore, the more of these animals you can get into your garden the less pests there will be to eat your vegetables.
Wasps are also a hated insect but in the vegetable patch they are a great ally as they eat aphids and caterpillars and take them home to give to their colonies. You can also place many different habitat stations around the garden plot to help lure the predator animals into the garden so that they can offer more protection to the plants in the garden.
While this will not help you get rid of all pests, it will mean that you can get rid of enough of them so that you can enjoy gardening once again. Putting a pond close to your garden will also help draw amphibians in that are valuable pest control agents.
