How to garden organically
A ready-to-use, highly effective biological dust. Controls cabbage worm, grape leaf folder, hornworm, webworms, sod webworm and other chewing larvae. Apply when pests are first noticed and repeat as necessary. Organic insecticide for use on vegetables, fruits, grapes and berries. Thorough plant coverage is necessary for complete control.
I'm looking for the least toxic insecticide I can use on my lawn to prevent ticks. Is there anything that isn't toxic to humans, birds, or beneficial insects (e.g. lady bugs)? Maybe even something organic?
I called one of my local hardware stores, and all they carry is Durzban (chlorpyrifos), which I have found out is being phased out for residential use by the EPA. My other local hardware store only sells Sevin (carbaryl), which is apparently widely known (including admittance by Union Carbide) to kill "beneficials" including ladybugs & honeybees. It has even been accused of being linked with spina bifida & hydrocephalus… I'd almost rather take my chances with lyme desease…
So, bottom line:
Is there a fairly safe lawn insecticide I can use to prevent ticks on my (large) lawn?
If you are in a rural area, buy yourself some guinea chicks. They love to eat small bugs like ticks (but they can be quite a nuisance themselves). Otherwise, I'd live with the ticks. We understand the dangers of lyme disease, but who really knows the hazards of chemical insecticides? Wear avon skin-so-soft as tick repellant and check yourself regularly.
SKG Sangha won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007. TO find out more visit http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/skgsangha and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com
SKG Sangha has radically improved the lives of thousands of rural families in Karnataka, South India by supplying them with both dung based biogas plants for cooking and a specially designed unit that turns the slurry from the biogas plant into high quality fertiliser. The benefits of biogas are well known. It provides rural women with a cheap, reliable source of energy as well as reducing indoor air pollution and easing pressure on forest resources. Less well known is how turning the biogas residue into high quality fertiliser can increase crop yields and, more importantly, give rural women the chance to make a profit. The units supplied by SKG Sangha produce fertiliser simply by combining the slurry with straw and leaves and then adding worms which re-digest the mixture to produce vermicompost. This vermicompost improves the yields of family crops and the liquid output from the unit can be used as an organic pesticide. The growing demand in India for organic fertiliser means that women can earn as much from selling half the vermicompost they produce as the household earns from selling the crops they grow. Since 1993, SKG Sangha has installed over 43,000 biogas plants in the state of Karnataka alone.
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BELL PEPPERS
Being a staple in my house I was both fascinated and frightened to learn that the Bell Pepper is so toxic when grown conventionally, and when you go to go a regular grocery store…you’re not likely to find an organic offering. Yet peppers at FARMER’S MARKETS are cheap, cheap, cheap and pesticide free, free, free! Remember though, ORGANIC FOOD is more than just pesticide free—it’s a whole farming culture supporting the food, the farmers and the land…and it pretty much guarantees a superior crop so chew on that!
Go to organicatoz.com for recipes, info and yum!
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Made of ground pyrethrum flowers, Buhach powder is Mother Nature’s organic insecticide. Repels spiders, ants, fleas, roaches, flies and mosquitoes without harsh chemicals.