What are some good enviromental safe pesticide recipes for plants and vegetables?
I feel your pain! We’re battling a particularly mean swarm of aphids on our tomatoes and peppers this year. Finally, I found something that seems to be working: basil. You can either plant it beside your plants, or what we did was plant them in separate pots, then move the pots around from plant to plant as needed for aphid control. Apparently, aphids hate basil more than any other plant. But, that’s really not a recipe, so on to your question: This was a simple, yet helpful, guide we found last year: http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/organic.html Five Must-Have Ingredients for the Organic Gardener’s Toolkit by Arzeena Hamir For any gardener who still hasn’t been convinced about the need to garden organically, here are some statistics that may help change your mind. In March of 2001, the American Cancer Society published a report linking the use of the herbicide glyphosate (commonly sold as Round-up) with a 27% inc
