I used to use a few inputs to my garden: some chicken shit to amend soil and feed new transplants; “Mykos,” a mychorrhizal fungal inoculate that you sprinkle on the roots of transplants. And I used to spray a little neem oil if I saw a bug infested plant or powder mildew - a habit I picked up farming weed in Northern California.
Neem oil is a broad spectrum fungicide and can eliminate and repel insects by disrupting the maturation process of the eggs. When my wife first got pregnant a few years ago I stopped spraying neem around the garden altogether.
Within 24 months the insect population balanced out naturally; predators like ladybugs, spiders, lizards and alligator lizards flourish, and so keep unwanted insect populations in check. Alligator lizards are naturally immune to black widow venom.
In addition, the natural mychorrhizal communities in the soil are stronger without having to absorb the neem oil, and I don’t think a fungal inoculant is needed or very helpful anymore.
Chicken shit is still great stuff though.
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