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Technology & Science HOMEMADE ORGANIC PESTICIDE RECIPES AND NATURAL ARGUMENTS
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There are lots of organic pesticides now available at lawn and THE INDUSTRY'S
Sports garden centres, but many can be made easily at home. While POSITION
Diversions these natural mixtures are biodegradable, use them sparingly, PESTICIDE
since they will kill the good bugs such as spiders and ladybugs, ALTERNATIVES
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along with the bad ones.
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SERVICES » Boil 500 grams of rhubarb leaves in a few pints of water for
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suitable container. Add some dish detergent or soap flakes (not RELATED:
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Video contain high amounts of oxalic acid. If ingested, your
heart will stop and you will die. Dandelions: Time
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Pulverize in a blender a couple of whole cayenne peppers, a
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large onion and a whole bulb of garlic with a little water. Cover
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Spray daily on roses, azaleas, and vegetables to kill an
infestation of bugs. Don't throw away the mash; bury it among Bedbugs
the plants where insects occur.
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All-purpose weed killer when hotel
Boil a litre of water, add 2 tablespoons of salt and 5 tablespoons bedbugs bite
of vinegar. Pour directly on weeds on sidewalks, driveways, etc.
while still hot. Bugs crawling
back into
Animal repellent sprays Canadian beds
Cats: two parts cayeene power, three parts dry mustard
powder, five parts flour and add sufficient water. Bedbug
populations
Dogs: mix together one garlic, one medium onion, one litre creeping up again
water and 15 ml Tobasco sauce.
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Bedbugs
Problem Solution / Recipe
Bed bug control,
aphids, June beetles, Rhubarb Spray: steep 6 rhubarb Pest Management
fungus diseases leaves in 2.3 - 3.4 litres boiling water. Regulatory
Agency
chewing/sucking
Garlic Spray: steep 3 cloves of garlic, Bed bugs, BC
insects
1 medium onion and 1 tsp hot pepper Health Files
mildew, leaf spot,
in 1 litre water for 10 minutes; strain.
rust, spore disease
Bed bugs, City of
Toronto
Mullein Spray: steep 1 part mashed
white flies mullein (a common herb) leaves with Bed bug biology
five parts water. and management,
Harvard School of
Public Health
spider mites, cabbage Salt Solution: mix 28 grams table salt
worms in 4.5 litres of water
Bed bugs, Mayo
Clinic
Manure Tea: 1/2 a commercial bag of
potato blight, Black manure or 1 mesh onion bag full of MORE:
Spot, yellowing old manure and straw steeped in a
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water.
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HELPFUL PLANTS:
 Plant Companion Advantages

improves growth,
Basil Tomato flavour; repels flies and
mosquitoes

improves
Roses,
Garlic growth;deters
Raspberries
Japanese beetle

throughout
Lamb's Quarter garden, near trap for aphids
corn

Marigolds, esp. discourages Mexican

throughout
Mexican, African beetles, nematodes
garden
and French and other insects

improves health;
Cabbage,
Mint deters white cabbage
Tomato
moth

trap for aphids; deters

Radish,
squash bugs and
Nasturtium Cabbage and
striped pumpkin
other fruit trees
beetles

in perennial deters small animals

Wormwood
border and flea beetle

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