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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
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