Organic Recipes for Pest Control - Non Toxic Garden Care

Are you looking for some organic recipes for pest control?

If you have a garden, you have pests - they seem to go hand in hand. With so many people today worried about the environment and what we are feeding our families, more and more are turning to organic recipes for everything, from shampoo to pest control.

While there are some fabulous organic shampoo recipes out there, we are going to focus on pest control for this article. Going organic is easier than it sounds, and much better for the environment, not to mention your plants. This article will help get you started with some simple and easy organic recipes for pest control.

Aphids

All of us have heard of aphids, but do you know what they actually are? Aphids are tiny, harmless looking creatures, but they are far from harmless. Aphids can destroy your garden in an amazingly short period of time. To help make your garden aphid free, one of the easiest and most organic methods possible is to introduce some ladybugs to your garden. Ladybugs are natural predators of aphids. If you have trouble finding a few friendly ladybugs to give you a hand, here is one of the organic recipes for pest control to help rid your garden of aphids:

• Mix 1/2 cup of hot chopped peppers like Thai chilies or Cayenne with 2 cups of water.
  
  
• Keep the chopped peppers in water overnight. Pour the water in a spray bottle and apply it on your aphid affected plants regularly to help keep your garden aphid free.

Nematodes

Nematodes are tiny parasitic worms living in the soil. If you have ever noticed that your tomato plants in the garden have yellow leaves falling off regularly, your plants are most likely being attacked by nematodes. Keeping your garden free from these pests is easy using the following recipe, the next of the organic recipes for pest control presented here:

• Mix 3 tbsp of molasses with 4 cups of water until well blended. Pour the mixture in a spray bottle, shaking vigorously.
  
  
• Hint: Using warm water will help to dissolve molasses more quickly in the bottle.
  
  
• Spraying this solution on your garden soil will help to keep the nematodes away from your precious plants.

Fruit Flies

Fruit flies are teensy little pests that can do some severe damage to your fruit trees and plants. Most of us have been bedeviled by these little flies around our fruit bowl in the summer. Fruit flies are considered among the most annoying of garden pests because of their tiny size. The following organic recipe can help with keeping these bothersome flies at bay:

• Mix 2 tsp of basil oil with 2 cups of water and pour in a spray bottle.
  
  
• Shake the mixture vigorously before each use.
  
  
• If you are unable to find basil essential oil, you can substitute some ground basil and add a little oil to make a smooth paste.

Slugs

Next in this article on organic recipes for pest control, let us discuss slugs.

There is nothing worse than going out to enjoy your garden in the early morning hours and seeing these fat little pests leaving a path of destruction behind as they slink away from your beloved garden. The following recipe, another of the organic recipes for pest control described here, should do wonders to help keep your garden slug free:

• Fill a container, such as a washed out yogurt or cut down milk container, one quarter full with beer.
  
  
• Bury two thirds of the container in the ground with one third sticking out above ground.
  
  
• Check the container often, and change the container every other day, or sooner if too many slugs are taking the beer bait.
  
  
• Fact: The slugs are attracted to the fermented yeast in beer.

You are now armed with some quick and easy organic recipes for pest control to help make your garden a better place for you, your family, and the environment.

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