Gardening can be a rewarding endeavor, but keeping your plants alive sometimes means doing a little crowd control! Conventional poisons can harm soil, children, and pets, so here are some natural solutions I found:
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Earwig Sauce Trap: 2 tbsp soy sauce ½ c cooking oil Shallow bowl/container Mix together, leave overnight. This catches earwigs, centipedes, ants, and cockroaches. Keep away from pets. |
Ant & Spider Spray: Water bottle Water 5-10 drops peppermint or cinnamon essential oil Mix and spray. I found that ants avoided places sprayed. |
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Ant Syrup: ½ c powdered sugar 3 tbsp borax Enough water to make a thick syrup Mix together, drop near ants. This killed some ants and the colony moved away. Keep away from pets & children. |
Boozy Slug Trap: Beer of choice Shallow bowl or container Leave bowl out overnight. Dispose of caught slugs/snails. |
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Plants/Herbs for pest control: Marigolds - Mosquitoes, aphids Nasturtiums - Aphids, beetles, squash bugs Basil & Lavender - House flies, mosquitoes Lemongrass, lemon balm, mint, rosemary - mosquitoes Thyme - whiteflies, cabbage loopers & maggots, corn earworms, hornworms Dill - aphids, squash bugs, spider mites, hornworms Fennel - slugs, aphids, snails Allium Family (chives/onions/leeks)- Slugs, aphids Borage - Hornworms, cabbage moths
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