I did not get it totally right but once I saw what happened I will never forget what I learned. My garden will thank me for ever.
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My last property was a date farm, farm house and I had a lot of land. The only "traditional" pests I had were ants who were attacking the seeds when I was direct sowing (I fixed this in the second season with borax and sugar) and a few birds which I fixed by just attaching some fabric to some bamboo steaks to cover the crops. The real issue came when we would forget the gate open and wild donkeys would Wonder on to the farm and eat all the strawberries and they devoured all our corn. My wife and I enjoy throwing corn on to the BBQ and I ordered 5 or 6 different varieties from MIgardener. We were about a 10 days away from harvesting and when I went for my morning inspection, all the corn beds had been decimated. We were heartbroken but laughed about it. I had so many issues with the property though. The soil quality was nonexistent. It was just soft sand with hard compaction and rocks below. Mix that with salty well water, I had the biggest fail in the first year, even after dumping tons of peat into the sand for water retention and a ton of organic compost and manure into the beds. It wasn't until our 3rd growing season that we got a half decent harvest. We just moved into a new house 6 months with a much smaller garden, I've put in four 18ft beds so far to grow a bunch of stuff. It was soft sand again but learning from the farm house, everything seems to be thriving so far. I had Leaf Miners for the first time. I didn't know what it was at first. I thought it was some mildew or sap that fell from our trees on to my seedling table. It wasn't until it was getting worse that I researched it and fixed it with some neem oil. To answer your point, I used to let things go thinking that nature would sort itself out but having lost 60 or 70% of a plants harvest to not doing stuff and plants not being happy, I've changed my approach and it seems to be working better.
When do you decide to treat for pests in your garden?