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| 28 Apr 2007 12:37:39 am |
 Natural Pesticide: Garlic Oil - For most pests |
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This is a powerful spray, and will kill beneficials as well as pests(For most, including whitefly,aphids,cabbageworms and squashbugs) , although it doesn't seem to harm ladybugs.
Mince or chop finely, a few cloves of garlic, and soak in a couple of tablespoons veggie oil for a day or two.
Add garlic/oil to a pint of water with a few drops of dish soap in it,
then strain. This is quite a good concentrate you may keep in the fridge-
preferably in a glass jar.
To use, mix a tablespoon of this into a pint of water.
CAUTION: Spray on only a few leaves at first, and wait a couple of days to be sure there is no foliar damage. Once you ascertain the safety of the plants, go ahead and spray the plants well. |
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| 28 Apr 2007 12:34:44 am |
| Natural Pesticide: Tomato Leaf Anti-Aphid Spray |
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Itīs also for indirect earworm control.
Grab a couple of handfuls of tomato leaves from the bottom of your plants.
Chop the leaves into a couple of cups of water, and soak overnight
at room temp. In the morning, simply strain, add a couple more cups water, and spray the ugly little sap-suckers.
You may also attract Trichogramma wasps to your corn with this spray, which will be the best predator I know of for corn earworm. Simply spray the whole plant, and especially the forming ears. |
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| 28 Apr 2007 12:33:35 am |
| Natural Pesticide: Leaf Miner Spray |
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Itīs made with molasses- is also good foliar feed.
Simply mix one part molasses with 5 parts water, and spray it on.
This is also a great spray just to feed the beneficial soil critters, thus keeping your plants healthier, and less prone to pests in general. |
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| 17 Mar 2007 03:26:33 am |
| Ant Killer (safe for humans and other vertebrates) |
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1 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
2 T yeast
Mix together. Puddle mixture in lids (placed upside down with the goop in
the middle) and place the lids in the ant's paths. They will almost
literally toss down anything they are doing and flock to it. So many they
will eventually suck all the moisture out, I put out a couple drops of water
in the center to help them clean up. It may start to look white because
most of the molasses is gone, but that's ok, you really only wanted the
molasses to attack the ants anyway and once they've found it they have make
a trail to it. They take it back to the colony and feed the lovely sweet
nectar to everyone they see, even the queen. Put new solution out as needed
until they slow to a trickle or stop. You've then killed the whole colony.
But it will reinvigorate itself, so stay vigilant. Store excess in the
freezer.
I usually start with the ant killer in the house then move it slowly,
following their path, outside. And back to the source. Making short trips
for the hungry. 
I like that I could have a two year old pick it up and eat it and the worst
thing I'd have to think about is that ants walked on it or that perhaps they
ate an ant, which to me is not such a big deal.
*This part is graphic so those of you who don't want to know how it works
stop reading now*
Ants have exoskeletons, which don't allow them to belch, which is what we do
when we have too much CO2 in our bellies from the yeast growing on the
sugars. So, it crushes their little insides.but not until they are far, far
away and you don't have to clean up thousands of dead bodies. I like that
part best.
I told this at an organic gardening seminar and about made some "lovers of
all living things" faint. In the fight for food against ants, I consider
all options are on the table. I used to sit and watch ants for hours and
love the way they work together, but I've paid good money for these plants
and I expect to get food off them. |
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| 15 Mar 2007 10:46:16 pm |
| Weight Loss Recipe: Chicken Tikka |
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Long term weight loss isn't about hunger, misery and crash dieting. It's
a whole new way of learning to prepare nutritious food that your body
needs and enjoys. "Chicken Tikka" is one of a range of hunger fighting,
low fat recipes to assist you keep your weight under control. This
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