Need some quick gardening tips for a healthy garden? Look no further. You’ve planted an organic garden, but now you have pests that are eating at it! What do you do? Here are some easy and quick gardening tips that will allow you to have an abundant harvest without bugs and healthier than ever:
- Dr. Willard’s Water is a natural plant fertilizer and so much more. WHAT DOES IT DO FOR A GROWING PLANT? Well, just about everything, according to Doc Willard’s website. He says, “Folks who use it see more luxuriant growth, better resistance to drought and other stresses, healthier plants, and more productive plants. Farmers typically use an ounce of concentrate per ACRE (about 44,000 square feet) on typical field crops, and apply that only once or twice during the growing season. However, spraying or soaking the seeds that you are going to plant, not long before planting them, is certainly a good way to get them off to a very rapid start, and increase the germination rate. Also, in transplanting plants, giving the roots a good soaking with a “stronger” solution.”See this video that was featured on 60 Minutes. It is available directly or on Amazon. The pH of this water is 12.3. [Active Ingredients: CAW Micelle Water 99.3%, Sodium Metasilicate 87.5%, Sulfated Castor Oil 11.5%, CAW Micelle 0.39, Refined Lignite 0.23%, Calcium Chloride 0.4%,Magnesium Sulfate 0.4%.]
- Looking for an all natural insecticide spray and weed killer? Check out my post here.
- Epsom salt or Magnesium sulfate is an inorganic plant food and salt that contains magnesium, sulfur and oxygen. Epsom salt is a supplement that creates lush grasses and flowers,and healthy greenery. Epsom salt enhances fertilizer and the soil’s capabilities and composition. The sulfur is a key element and is critical to production of vitamins, amino acids and enzymes and gives vegetables their flavors.
- Neem oil can be used as a bio pesticide for organic farming. (See this study) It is an all natural vegetable oil that is pressed from the fruit and seed of the Neem tree, which is a type of evergreen tree. This formulation helps rid the garden or the home of these pests: ants, bedbugs, mealy bugs, aphids, cabbage worms, cockroaches, beet armyworm, thrips, whiteflies, mites, fungus gnats, beetles (crushed egg shells too!), moth larvae, mushroom flies, leafminers, caterpillars, flies, termites, snails, mosquitos, locust, nematodes and Japanese beetle. However, it has been reported that it does not harm: honeybees, ladybugs, butterflies, mammals or birds. (Not recommended for women trying to get pregnant according to some research)
- Got spiders? – Try peppermint oil and water in a spray, spiders hate it.
- How about fungus? – Researchers have discovered that the essential oil oregano is effective against fungus. It can be used in small amounts to prevent corn crops from fungal infections. The findings, which were published in the Journal of Food Science, a publication of the Institute of Food Technologists, in the article, titled “Natural Control of Corn Post harvest Fungi Aspergillus flavus and Penicillium sp. Using Essential Oils from Plants Grown in Argentina”
- Slugs…Yuck! How about a beautiful penny ball? Penny balls make hydrangeas blue and it repels slugs. They also hate onions, garlic and cayenne pepper. Put that slug-b-gone combo into a blender, strain the liquid and put into a spray bottle, and just spray!
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