Organic Garden

I am planting an organic garden! I am so excited! Is there a natural spray that I can use or make to keep bugs away?
I am having a very juicy day today.
So excited! Woo Hoo!

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Rather than spray and kill, why not consider get an organic order of life so the "good" bugs eat the ones that will be destroying your plants? A lot of bugs/insects are beneficial to plants as are certain plants planted together. A little research goes a long way.

Great! Will definitely research. :)

I just try to plant enough for all of us. The bugs are happy and so am I. :)

some mix cayene pepper in water to spray foilage with

ide go to www.motherearthnews.com for ideas

Great thank you! I am having a blast planting with my children! :)

Lady bugs eat the bad bugs. You can buy a pack at the local nursery. Keep them in the fridge and release them at dark time.

how are we to have butterflies if we kill the caterpillars? Plant enough for all.

Plant butterfly weed and mexican sunflower to bring in beneficial flyers. Marigolds and brassicas to deter certain nemetodes. Turn under your old brassica leaves into the soil. Especially around garlic to deter root knot nematodes Fennel draws beneficials. Mullein and tithonia torch or mexican sunflowers brings in hummingbirds, which themselves draw rodents (squirrels like hummer eggs and babies) which in turn draw coopers hawks, which keep rodents in check. Lots of cool things you can do with planting. Ladderbacks like mullein and they'll eat pests in your trees bark/cambium. Mullein also good for medicine cabinet.

beneficial Bugs- ladybugs, praying mantis, and others...

make a tea with onions and garlic (chop pieces and put in old panty hos or cheese cloth- I buy knee highs ) soak in gallon of water in sun [sun tea] and put in hose end sprayer attach hose and spray

add hot sauce and cayenne pepper and spray on greens and ground

I also sprinkle ashes from fireplace on the graound to discourage creepy crawlies...

you can also buy garlic spray to keep bugs away.