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Homemade Insecticide?

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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.







How can I take plant cuttings when I move without taking the fire ants . I'm a very green/organic gardener.

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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.

What are the best organic tonics for growing tomatoes?

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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 –

I want to grow organic potatoes in a container garden?

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All of the books I have read, say that you MUST use certified seed potatoes. Is there any reason I shouldn't seed out some of the organic fingerling potatoes I already have? I can understand not using regular storebought potatoes, but shouldn't organic be okay? Same question about sweet potatoes. Any tips or advice will be appreciated!

If you are going to re sell them you probably need the certified seed potatoes….If not….I cut up the grocery store variety…and I don't use pesticides…so they are organic…cept from the eye of the potatoe it starts with…but after that all the growth is organic.

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