Plant a garden of salad greens - Lettuce, parsley, chives, escarole, endive, kale, beets, broccoli, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, and turnips are wonderful winter garden vegetables. Start out small and monitor your garden daily. Keeping pests in check by hand removing will mean less spraying. Young plants need daily watering. Be sure to use either a hand held hose with a shut off nozzle or drip irrigation.
Pesticides can injure plants.
Even though pesticides are meant to help us control insects and diseases on our landscape plants they may be as damaging as the pest. Read the label carefully. Most manufacturers will warn of the damage to certain plants. The following list will help you be aware of some pesticides that are not compatible with certain plants. The most susceptible plants are anthurium, asparagus fern, croton, begonia, ti plant, neanthe bella palm, peperomia, schefflera, and pothos.