Growing Outdoors directly in ground

Don't worry about bugs...........if you get a few and it is not an issue, predators will come and eat them within a week or two. Spray stuff and you get rid of the predators too, upsetting the natural balance, then when you do get bad bugs, they explode in numbers before predators arrive. I have been growing outdoors for 40 odd years and the amount of times I have had REAL issues with bugs, aphids mainly, can be counted on one hand. I do not classify a few bugs as an issue, I only am counting the times when bugs were in such numbers that they actually caused harm to the plants. Marigolds and other flowering annuals help attract predators and the predators keep the bad bugs under control if you don;'t start interfering by spraying crap everywhere. Rain on the other hand is an issue you can't control..........covering your plants with plastic sheets before it rains can help but is hard to do with big plants, so the best alternative is to plant strains that finish early or have a very short flowering cycle. Look at indica dominant strains, there flowering times can be as short as 6-7 weeks and hopefully they will be ready enough before the rains arrive.

Diatomaceous earth, sprinkle it on dry ground (once it’s wet it’s not effective) every so often, kills and repels bugs but is natural and safe!

Hi, I start outdoor grows every year and can give you the following tips. First, make a transparent cover for your plants to prevent the rain from hitting them too hard. Then, to combat aphids, ladybugs help as they eat the larvae and adult aphids. You can also make or buy a stinging nettle solution; this repels many insects and also serves as fertilizer. You can also use companion plants like marigolds; they attract insects, and you can remove them when they're full of bugs. For snails, you can use copper strips or beer traps; these attract the snails. After a few days, empty the traps and set up new ones. Buy predatory mites against thrips and spider mites and hang the bags on the plants. That covers the worst issues, and the rest can often be controlled by hand, like caterpillars, etc. But nature often takes care of these things itself. When there’s a balance, there’s no plague. Hope that helps. Good luck!

neem is hardly effective and DE once wet is not effective either. you'd have to re-apple DE to ground any time it got wet. inorganic / organic .. your plant has inorganic parats and needs so it's not good vs evil. As long as it breaks down quickly (half-life) and is not systemic (like eagle20, meaning once it absorbs into the plant it stays there in the same form,) then it'll be a good option to use regardless of the mostly irrelevant classification. More than a few people over the decades have been made sick or increased cancer rates just because some ignorant grower used eagle20, lol. Regardless of organic/inorganic, almost nothing is safe to spray on a flowering plant. What is safe for edibles is not necessarily safe for inhaling or extracts etc. if you have a heavy rainy season, i'd s uggest growing autoflowers (puked in my mouth a bit) and time them to avoid the wet season.