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Have a truly green thumb in your garden when you use natural insecticides

Gardening and growing your own plants? It must be healthy, right? Possibly not if you're using chemical-based insecticides. If you're taking the trouble to do your own gardening, be sure you're doing it the healthy way by using natural and organic insecticides. Its really not hard or expensive!

Natural Insecticides You Probably Already Have In Your Home

Going organic and natural with your garden insect control doesn't have to be costly. Egg shell, liquid soap, garlic, red pepper flakes - all of these things can be used to naturally deter insects from your garden.
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How to make your own natural insecticide

Natural insecticide quick and easy

If you've got 1 bulb of garlic, 1 small onion, 1 tablespoon cayenne (red) pepper, liquid soap and water you can make this quick and easy natural insecticide.
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Ladybugs defending against bad bugs

When you're using good bugs like ladybugs against pest insects, its a good idea to know something about the beneficial insects you're using and their lifecycle. For instance, you don't want to kill off ladybug larvae - learn to identify them! Also, learn how to handle ladybugs that you order through the post.
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A green queen right here on Squidoo

An organic gardener right here in our own backyard!

While searching Squidoo for tips on organic gardening and natural pesticides, one name in particular kept coming up. If you're interested in natural gardening, you'll probably be interested in quite a few other lenses this lady has put together..

Other tips for organic gardening, right here on Squidoo

As a Chicago apartment dweller, the most I can do is dabble with container gardening on my patio. There are some other lensmasters here on Squidoo who know all the tricks to organic gardening though. Be sure to check out their lenses too!

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How does your garden grow?

Natural or chemically-based?

Do you use natural insecticides in your gardening or do you opt for store-bought chemical products? Are you just starting to use natural insecticides? Let us know here.

  • moneyloveandchange Feb 14, 2011 @ 7:32 am | delete
    I use only natural insecticides in my garden, but quite honestly, I haven't encountered too many pests yet!
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Oct 26, 2010 @ 7:45 pm | delete
    I am lensrolling this to Fruit Flies!
  • MeltedRachel Sep 30, 2010 @ 5:38 am | delete
    Awesome lens - thank you! I've just bought some soap nuts so I'm going to try to make a pesticide from those. I tried a dish detergent spray once but I made it with stuff that has antibacterial stuff in it - it didn't go down very well with the plants!
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