Here are just a few simple homebrews you can make for your yard and garden. These are free of harmful pesticides.
For aphids and mites: Make a spray of one tablespoon dishwashing liquid in one gallon of water. Test the spray on a leaf or two. If no damage results, spray away. For an oil based spray: Mix one tablespoon dishwashing liquid to one cup of vegetable oil. Dilute by adding one or two teaspoons of the oil and soap mixture to one cup of water, and spray on buggy plants.
Cabbage worm: to repel; apply sour milk in the center of the cabbage head. To kill; dust with a mixture of one-half cup salt to one cup flour.
Corn earworm: Apply mineral oil with a dropper to the silk, just inside the tip of the ear of corn.
Garlic and hot pepper spray: Steep one-half teaspoon each of crushed garlic and crushed hot peppers in one gallon water for 10 to 24 hours. Use full strength on woody plants. Dilute 25% for annuals and vegetables. This spray repels many chewing and sucking insects.
To repel moles: Dump used cat litter into the mole's tunnel. They find it offensive, and will leave. Who wouldn't? DO NOT use this method near a food garden, as the litter can spread infections to humans.
To repel rabbits: Plant marigolds in the vegetable garden next to the lettuce and carrots.
To attract bugs that eat other insects: plant sweet alyssum, daisies, marigolds, sunflowers, parsley, fennel, or dill throughout your garden.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Homemade pesticides and natural repellants
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