Safer Gardening Tips
Safer
Choices In The Garden:
From Jerry Baker
Rose
Bushes:
are
energized by feeding them rotten bananas! Just work the bananas, skin and all,
into the soil around the base of the plants. The potassium in the fruit and skin
will give your roses a power – packed boost.
Turf
Builder Tonic:
1
cup of shampoo
1
cup of ammonia
1
cup of cola (Non diet)
4tbsp.of
instant tea.
Combine
all ingredients in a 20 gallon hose-end sprayer and over spray your turf, water
as necessary, and you’ll have a wall-to-wall carpet of green!
1
cup of lemon-scented liquid dish soap
1
cup of antiseptic mouthwash
Combine
in a 20-gallon hose-end sprayer, and soak your entire yard (garden beds and
trees included) to the point of run-off. I’ve always said cleanliness is next
to godliness, and this tonic will “bless” you with no bugs!
Lawn
Freshener Tonic:
I
can of beer
1
cup of shampoo
½
cup of ammonia
½
cup of weak tea
Mix
all of the ingredients in your 20-gallon hose-end sprayer, apply to point of
run-off, and watch your lawn drink it up, the result? A green-up spurt like
you’ve never seen before!
1
can of non-diet cola
½
cup of liquid dish soap
½
cup of ammonia.
Put
all ingredients in a 20-gallon hose-end sprayer, and apply to point of run-off.
Stubborn
Weeds:
1
tbsp. Of vinegar
1
tbsp. of gin
1
tbsp. baby shampoo
1
quart warm water
Combine
all of the ingredients in a bucket; pour into a hand held sprayer. Drench the
weeds to the point of run-off. This tonic is safe around kids and pets in the
yard.
Gophers
and Moles:
1cup
of liquid dish soap
1-cup
castor oil
2tbsp.
of alum (dissolved in hot water)
Apply
this mixture with your 2- gallon hose-end sprayer… and no more pests!
Aeration
Tonic:
1
cup of liquid dish soap
1cup
of beer.
Put
both of these ingredients in a 20-gallon hose-end sprayer, filling the balance
of the sprayer jar with warm water. Apply liberally o the point of run-off, and
you have instant aeration!
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