_Can coffee protect your garden from pests?
_Can coffee protect your garden from pests?
Fertilizer
Pest management by organic means is quickly becoming a hot topic for health minded gardeners. Although organic bug control is not as effective as chemical pest control, the benefits of using a natural pesticide over a chemical based pesticide are safer for the plants and for your crop production. Here are some home recipes for creating a healthy pesticide.
Organic
1) Tobacco or Nicotine Spray: This mixture is great for combating different styles of bugs, but especially caterpillars, aphids, and many types of those nasty worms. Tobacco/Nicotine spray can be a powerful neurotoxin that can quickly get rid of unwanted visitors. The downside is that Nicotine sprays are linked to the colony collapse crisis with honey bees, as well as your garden can quickly learn to smell like an ashtray.
The thing you need:
1 cup of tobacco
1 gallon of water
Put the tobacco to the container of water. Allow the mixture to set for approximately 24 hours. After it's got stood for a day, look into the color. It should be the shade of weak tea. When it is too dark, just dilute it with water until it's lighter.
*Warning: Don’t use this solution on peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, or another member of the solanaceous family. Tobacco chemicals can kill these kinds of plants!
2) Soap Spray:
An additional way to stop insects is with soapy water. That’s right, you can just use your old, dirty dishwater! Collect a number of the water in a pan and pour it in to a watering can as well as use a pitcher to pour it over the plants. This works very well on other hardy plants. Many bugs hate their lunch spoiled by a soapy aftertaste! For a stronger solution, mix 3 Tablespoons of liquid detergent right into a gallon of water, I prefer Dawn, but any is going to do. Use this weekly.
3) Alcohol Spray:
This spray is really great for houseplants. This especially works on meal bugs.
1/2 cup of alcohol, something cheap, or its a party foul
2-3 tablespoons of dry laundry soap
1 quart of hot water
Mix all ingredients and spray immediately. You don’t need to let this set, however, you can’t store it either. This solution must be made fresh for each and every use.
4) Salt Spray:
This option would be used for cabbage worms and spider mites.
2 tablespoons of salt
1 gallon water
Just mix and spray!
5) Garlic Spray:
The following is another the recipe to get a garlic spray that fights slugs too. Slugs mustn't like eating Italian. To make this smelly spray, use the following list of ingredients:
1 garlic bulb
1 quart water
1 medium onion
1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon liquid dish soap
Crush the garlic, mincing it fine. Add finely chopped onion towards the mixture, while adding all of those other ingredients except the soap. Wait an hour or so before adding the soap for the mixture. The spicy ingredients must sort of stew or steep, almost like tea. After an hour or so, add the soap and your non-toxic spray is able to use! This can be saved in the fridge for a week.
6) Dead Bug Spray:
Another way to beat the bug issue is by taking some dead carcasses of the insects and mixing them in water. Use one pint of water and 1/2 cup of slug carcasses. Although rather unpleasant, it really works. Would you want to be picnicking in this situation? Most of us wouldn’t. Here is how you make the insect carcass solution:
Blend the lake and insects until mixed well and then put into a plastic container or glass jar. To utilize this, pout into a sprayer and squirt a few drops on the affected plants. It is possible to freeze this mixture for storage.
*Beware: Don't use flies, ticks, fleas, or mosquitoes on this solution! These insects carry many communicable human diseases!
7) Spearmint-Hot Pepper-Horseradish Spray:
This works on many different kinds of bugs- too many to list!
1/2 cup of red pepper (hot)
water (read below)
1/2 cup of fresh spearmint
1/2 cup horseradish (root and instead gives off)
2 tablespoons of liquid detergent
1/2 cup green onion tops
8 ) The most popular natural insecticide: Coffee Spray
Many researchers have recorded the power of caffeine to discourage and kill insects. Caffeine contains stimulants called methylxanthines, which is a naturally occurring defense in plants. Caffeine energizes the nervous systems of insects and it has been proven to hinder behavior and growth in many insects and insect larvae. If The caffeine does not quickly lead to the insects death, additionally it is known to suppress the insects appetite, causing less damage.
Coffee sprays can be created by simply using cooled left-over coffee and diluting it towards the color of a weak tea. Spray on your own plants weekly to discourage insects.
*It should be noted that researchers suggest taking out the fallen leaves of plants that have high levels of caffeine as decomposition slows considerably and will not benefit the plant.
Obviously, using coffee grounds to secure your plants will increase the levels of caffeine the plant needs to improve its natural defense systems, and increase amounts of Nitrogen, Potassium and many trace elements in the process.
BeanToGreen is a unique, easy to use formula that includes recycled coffee grounds and nourishes your plants with everything they need to grow strong and beautifully.
Fertilizer
Pest management by organic means is quickly becoming a hot topic for health minded gardeners. Although organic bug control is not as effective as chemical pest control, the benefits of using a natural pesticide over a chemical based pesticide are safer for the plants and for your crop production. Here are some home recipes for creating a healthy pesticide.
Organic
1) Tobacco or Nicotine Spray: This mixture is great for combating different styles of bugs, but especially caterpillars, aphids, and many types of those nasty worms. Tobacco/Nicotine spray can be a powerful neurotoxin that can quickly get rid of unwanted visitors. The downside is that Nicotine sprays are linked to the colony collapse crisis with honey bees, as well as your garden can quickly learn to smell like an ashtray.
The thing you need:
1 cup of tobacco
1 gallon of water
Put the tobacco to the container of water. Allow the mixture to set for approximately 24 hours. After it's got stood for a day, look into the color. It should be the shade of weak tea. When it is too dark, just dilute it with water until it's lighter.
*Warning: Don’t use this solution on peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, or another member of the solanaceous family. Tobacco chemicals can kill these kinds of plants!
2) Soap Spray:
An additional way to stop insects is with soapy water. That’s right, you can just use your old, dirty dishwater! Collect a number of the water in a pan and pour it in to a watering can as well as use a pitcher to pour it over the plants. This works very well on other hardy plants. Many bugs hate their lunch spoiled by a soapy aftertaste! For a stronger solution, mix 3 Tablespoons of liquid detergent right into a gallon of water, I prefer Dawn, but any is going to do. Use this weekly.
3) Alcohol Spray:
This spray is really great for houseplants. This especially works on meal bugs.
1/2 cup of alcohol, something cheap, or its a party foul
2-3 tablespoons of dry laundry soap
1 quart of hot water
Mix all ingredients and spray immediately. You don’t need to let this set, however, you can’t store it either. This solution must be made fresh for each and every use.
4) Salt Spray:
This option would be used for cabbage worms and spider mites.
2 tablespoons of salt
1 gallon water
Just mix and spray!
5) Garlic Spray:
The following is another the recipe to get a garlic spray that fights slugs too. Slugs mustn't like eating Italian. To make this smelly spray, use the following list of ingredients:
1 garlic bulb
1 quart water
1 medium onion
1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon liquid dish soap
Crush the garlic, mincing it fine. Add finely chopped onion towards the mixture, while adding all of those other ingredients except the soap. Wait an hour or so before adding the soap for the mixture. The spicy ingredients must sort of stew or steep, almost like tea. After an hour or so, add the soap and your non-toxic spray is able to use! This can be saved in the fridge for a week.
6) Dead Bug Spray:
Another way to beat the bug issue is by taking some dead carcasses of the insects and mixing them in water. Use one pint of water and 1/2 cup of slug carcasses. Although rather unpleasant, it really works. Would you want to be picnicking in this situation? Most of us wouldn’t. Here is how you make the insect carcass solution:
Blend the lake and insects until mixed well and then put into a plastic container or glass jar. To utilize this, pout into a sprayer and squirt a few drops on the affected plants. It is possible to freeze this mixture for storage.
*Beware: Don't use flies, ticks, fleas, or mosquitoes on this solution! These insects carry many communicable human diseases!
7) Spearmint-Hot Pepper-Horseradish Spray:
This works on many different kinds of bugs- too many to list!
1/2 cup of red pepper (hot)
water (read below)
1/2 cup of fresh spearmint
1/2 cup horseradish (root and instead gives off)
2 tablespoons of liquid detergent
1/2 cup green onion tops
8 ) The most popular natural insecticide: Coffee Spray
Many researchers have recorded the power of caffeine to discourage and kill insects. Caffeine contains stimulants called methylxanthines, which is a naturally occurring defense in plants. Caffeine energizes the nervous systems of insects and it has been proven to hinder behavior and growth in many insects and insect larvae. If The caffeine does not quickly lead to the insects death, additionally it is known to suppress the insects appetite, causing less damage.
Coffee sprays can be created by simply using cooled left-over coffee and diluting it towards the color of a weak tea. Spray on your own plants weekly to discourage insects.
*It should be noted that researchers suggest taking out the fallen leaves of plants that have high levels of caffeine as decomposition slows considerably and will not benefit the plant.
Obviously, using coffee grounds to secure your plants will increase the levels of caffeine the plant needs to improve its natural defense systems, and increase amounts of Nitrogen, Potassium and many trace elements in the process.
BeanToGreen is a unique, easy to use formula that includes recycled coffee grounds and nourishes your plants with everything they need to grow strong and beautifully.