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TIPS ON GOING GREEN

NATURAL HERBICIDES

For cracks and crevices in your sidewalk try using vinegar and lemon juice .
 Its great for using in places where you have no plans for growing things in the near future.

 BUG PREVENTION

To prevent aphids on your flowers, spray water and 1 tbsp of dishwashing liquid on the plant.
Use a spray bottle the size of a normal sprayer that you can buy in the dollar store ...yea dollar stores

Slug Prevention

Coffee Grinds will help  or cracked egg shells  ...
and worms love the coffee grinds its natural aeration of our soil .....  A good thing

Pest Spray

1 cup grated castile soap
1 cup coarsely chopped tobacco leaves, fresh or cured
3 cups boiling water, divided
1 entiere bulb garlic, peeled and crushed or chopped

In a bowl, dissolve soap in 1 cup boiling water and set aside.   Take the remainder of the boiling water and along with tobacco leaves blend and let set for ten minutes.

Now add garlic and turn that into a smoothie   (yuck , doesn't that sound yummy)
Strain through cheese cloth and discard solid materials.
Add herbal liquid soap to mixture and pour into a spray bottle.

Spray the herbal liquid on insects at early morning and dusk for three days in a row.
This drives most bugs away and  they pack there little suit cases and move to your neighbors house ...It does not kill them,  apply as needed

Nothing like kicking out unwanted relatives hey!
Gee didn't that feel good!!!

Fungus and Mildew

1 bulb of garlic chopped
1 gallon of hot water

Place chopped garlic in the water and let steep for 24 hours.....
Strain.....
Spray on plants to eliminate fungus and mildew

CHAMOMILE TEA

Excellent cure against damping off and fungal diseases.  Make tea and use it to water your plants or spray infected foilage.

Don't drink too much of it while brewing. God forbid we all chill out some..
We couldn't have that in this hetic world now could we ?

Natural Fertlizer

Use compost to return needed bacteria, enzymes  and nutrients to the soil.  Include clover or nitrogen fixing plants in the lawn to make it self-fertilizing

How to build your own rain barrel coming soon