Become an organic gardener! Learn all about guano and organic gardening in this free video covering natural indoor and outdoor gardens.
Duration : 0:1:35
How to garden organically
by Tricia
Become an organic gardener! Learn all about guano and organic gardening in this free video covering natural indoor and outdoor gardens.
Duration : 0:1:35
by Tricia
I grow gigantic sunflowers, spinich and rhubarb in a small garden. As usual, bugs are eating away at the leaves. I live in the heat of Texas. I am looking to use an organic, homemade insecticide that will not go bad when I store it in the heat of my garage for the next season or the next season.
What have you all used? The easier the better.
For years I have used this recipe for organic insecticide.
1 gal. of warm water, 1 cup of instant coffee crystals, a squirt of dish soap(not detergent), several dashes of tobasco sauce.
Spray both sides of leaves, the stems and soil surrounding
plants. You can cut this recipe just as you would reduce any recipe. I store the left over in my basement in the winter, Refresh
it the next year with a little tobasco sauce. If you make kess than gal. you could just throw it awy nd start new in the Spring. Do Not
Use Instant Powder Coffee. Won't disolve well. The soap is a
surfacant which helps insecticide stick to the leaves. I think the
key may be the tobasco sauce. Good Luck.
by Tricia
I have treasured plants brought from the family home I sold a year ago. The plants have been thriving in the yard of the rent house I moved to but I discovered fire-ants all around. I want to take cuttings from when I move soon. . Any green ideas for organic gardening ?
try a solution of water (boiled) with one clove of garlic and some powdered cayenne pepper, then add a drop of dishsoap. This can be sprayed on your plants and will keep bugs off for a little while… worth a try.
by Tricia
I am a gardener the grows a wide variety of plants and vegetables. Where is a good department or any store that sells 100% organic plant seeds from tomatos to zucchinis
Wal mart,Home depot, and lowes all now has an organic seed display usually right by the regular seed selections
by Tricia
First : your plants must be put in a hole, big like 2 tennis balls full of home-compost – Cost = zero
Second : water-canned very often – Cost = zero
Third : "pruned" very often mainly in the development phase
the bottom of the unique central trunk must be
without any branch
All the leaves and branches that you cut are spread
at the bottom of the plants – Cost = zero
Fourth : nettles – harvest them – about big like two or three
buckets – then let them get rotten in a barrel with
some water – when it stinks it's good – cost=zero
Then pour some of the "nettle-juice" at tje bottom
of the tomato plants
Fifth : find copper wire – the kind you find after electricians
re-cable – cut it in one inch pieces
Pierce the bottom of the central branch with one
piece of copper-wire – cost =zero
Great gardenning is a good job for greedy people –