How to get rid of bugs that eat your garden with things found in your kitchen?
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Careful. The leaves really don't like the soap much more than the bugs do. Haven't tried vinegar, but I'm not willing to either.
I have had good luck ridding my place of gnats by placing a single drop of the dishsoap in a spray bottle with water and mixing. After watering the plants thoroughly with regular water, I sprayed the soil surface with the mix being careful to not expose the leaves. That worked. In a few cases where some leaves got exposed, the leaves died.
Hope this is helpful.
Most other thinsg in your kitchen will attract the bugs.
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Use normal everyday soap mixed with water.
Use normal everyday soap mixed with water.
Hit them up with a vinegar solution. Just mix 2 parts of vinegar with 8 parts water. Mix it up in a squirt bottle, and hit those leaves.
You can also do a lot of good by taking the time to actually look at the plants, and physically remove any bugs you see. Works especially well in the morning.
soap and water in a spray bottle use Ivory dishwasher soap i don't hurt the plant and keeps the bugs out
green soap (which clings to the leaves)with a tincture made with garlic and chillie peppers.
let it sit for a while untill it smells revolting .
then spray on the leaves,
organic ,nontoxic and cheap
a small text on bio pest control in general ,for your interest
IN AFRICA we had camelions in the kitchen to keep down the flies
In Mexico we got a sort of small lizard that lives on the wall ,and sit near the lamps ,and eat mosquitos all night,
in the mango orchards we release laboratory bred wasps to attack and kill the caterpillars that go for the mangos
there are small chickens, called a silky or bantom or chaparito which are all small chickens that do not scratch ,but run after ,jumping and walking insects,they take care of about 70 percent of all garden pests.
feasants,guinyfowel,partridge will do the same work
iguanas kill grashoppers and all kinds of flying insects
birds we also dont kill
when the passion fruit is ripe ,a little black caterpiller comes and wants to destroy them,luckely a little finch type bird turns up and eats the black caterpillars.
In Mexico we have let mazacoas,which are, python type snakes in to the garden to take care of the rats.
In Africa we released mole snakes into the garden and field to combat the plagues of Norwegian rats that were destroying the fields
ant eaters and armadillos take care of leafcutting ants that can destroy a large tree in a week.and eat beatles and such
potbelly pigs and deer and normal pigs are good in an orchard because they eat fallen rotting fruit which breeds a lot of small flies.
In our water reservoirs we put fish to eat the mosquito larvas.
I have bred tree frogs from eggs and released them in the garden to eat mosquitos and horse flies.
A good general book that has a wealth of info for gardeners is the Permaculture designers manual by Bill Mollison cost about 40 dollars.
and is the best all round book you can get.(tagiari publishing, tagariadmin@southcom.com.au)
Permaculture means permanent agriculture
a concept put forward by Bill Mollisson in the 60`s
Get a plain spray bottle, fill 3/4 full with water 1/4 full cayenne
pepper. Shake it up and spray on your leaves.Bugs will stop
eating away at your plants and this won't harm your plants or
the enviroment.