Pest management for a healthy planet

If your garden is full of insects, that might not be such a bad thing.

Contra Costa Master Gardener Steve Griffin says the key to pest management for a healthy planet is to accept that you're going to have pests in your garden and work toward creating a balance -- some good, some bad bugs.

"Accept that no garden is perfect," Griffin told the group at Our Garden this week, "nor should it be."

Griffin is an advocate of sane pest control, which looks at the entire garden and prescribes actions that are ecologically safe. Here are some of his tips:

Live with it

Who's that creeping

Maybe it's you

Use your tools

Products for pest control. Use the least lethal and go organic when you can. Avoid over use. Joan Morris/Staff ( Joan Morris )

Let nature do the work

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