According to the Master Gardeners, when you want to get rid of pests in the garden, you should use an IPM process. The idea is that you don't want to cause harm to the food you're growing, to the environment in which you and your pets live, or the non-targeted organisms. As a responsible organic gardener, you are supposed to have some tolerance for bugs. "Kill Em All" is frowned upon as a strategy. Instead, they suggest walking around with a flashlight at night and killing the individual bugs that are eating too much of your produce.
That's all well and good, and in spite of my upbringing (we fully embraced any and all insecticides and herbicides in my childhood home) I have accepted and have been practicing all of that. UP UNTIL THE THIRD TIME I GOT STUNG. Without going into gory and possibly inorganic detail, suffice it to say there are no more yellowjackets in our hugelkultur area.
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