All-natural spider repellent that works great! Here are two safe spider repellent recipes that will get rid of spiders in your house fast!
Tips for identifying, controlling, and getting rid of aphids in your garden from The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Essential oils that can help with those pesky bed bugs. You can use entirely natural methods to rid your living quarters and your belongings of bed bugs.
Here is how to get rid of bed bugs fast. I will share my real-life experience of how my mother used to remove those bed bugs from our house.
Tips for identifying, controlling, and getting rid of aphids in your garden from The Old Farmer's Almanac.
learn how to get rid of fungus gnats in houseplants with everyday household items like hydrogen peroxide, vinegar and cinnamon.
Whiteflies are frustrating, but you can get rid of them! Learn the best organic methods to kill them and prevent them from ever coming back.
When those annoying cabinet bugs invade your food, it's become a top priority to get rid of them fast to prevent them from spreading. The good news is you can tackle infestations yourself using regular household items.
Are you experiencing a bout of bed bugs? Bed bugs are surprisingly common, and luckily, there are lots of ways to treat an outbreak. Read our article to learn how to get rid of bed bugs with a bed bugs treatment - we're sharing 3 you can do yourself without calling in pest exterminators. Rid your home of bed bugs NOW!
Spider mites are very destructive houseplant pests and can multiply quickly. Here's how to get rid of them and prevent them from coming back.
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Completely get rid of Fungus Gnats with hydrogen peroxide. Try this easy, simple & effective way to prevent this pest from damaging indoor plants and seedlings.
Learn how to get rid of bugs on indoor plants naturally and effectively. Discover the best remedies, tips, and tricks to keep your plants healthy and bug-free.
Love bugs not so lovely. Their presence makes the atmosphere unpleasant and irksome. Thus follow some of the remedies to sort how to get rid of love bugs.
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Have you ever seen a centipede scurrying around your home or garden? These long, many-legged creatures are fascinating, but do you know what they eat?
I'm sharing how to get rid of tiny black bugs on tomato plants. What I use is simple, fast, and organic! The key point is ...
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Stink bug season is upon us folks and it’s time to seek out remedies before they overwhelm our homes. Stink bugs are insects that release a smelly odor when squashed or threatened. They are active in March, April, and September where you’ll find them outdoors laying their eggs and eating up your garden and sometimes...
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Spread the loveSo I’m going to make this short and sweet. If you collect house plants like I do, then you’ll propably get gnats at some point. Those annoying little creatures. Tiny little sneaky things. If you don’t get rid of them fast, they multiply SO FAST! They love the moist from your plants. Here i’m going to show you how to get rid of them with things you probably already have in your home. What you need water dish soap (any kind really) apple cider vinegar How to make your solution You’ll start by simply adding a drop (or 3) of dish soap into a bowl. plastic bowl or whatever you have handy. Next you’ll add some apple cider vinegar Last you’ll add the water I normally do about half water, half ACV. Then grab a plastic fork and mix it up a bit so it brings bubbles. Place the bowl or bowls in places where you see the gnats and where you keep plants. I’m not sure what attracts the gnats to this solution besides it being orange (they like orange) but it works like a charm. I didnt catch my gnats in time so I had so […]
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Roaches are terrible creatures and they can infest your home quickly. If you have ever had them, you know just how hard it is to get rid of them. While there are many bombs and
Are you fed up of those pesky pests around your house and have tried most of the store bought insect repellents? You can try out some of these natural homemade pest repellents to get rid of these troublesome insects! 1. Ant Spray: This method is beneficial in getting rid of ants as the soapy water …
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We call this our "practice" garden. It seems to take a lot of the pressure off when things don't go quite according to plan. We sort of got the idea from when we took the gardening class and the instructors said we should give it at least 2 years to feel like we had it figured out. During that time the ground will get prepared for best for growing and you'll learn how to take care of the plants and where the best placement is. I first posted about our garden in May and everything looks so small in those photos! Since that post we have had some some successes and some failures in growing items. Our jalapeno plant is by far the most productive plant we have. We have made several batches of pickled jalapenos from it. This blog uses affiliate links to help pay for the blog. If you click on the link and purchase and item I may receive a commission, but the price to you remains unchanged. One of our tomato plants never took off. It is still the same size as when we planted it. We thought it was going to die, but decided to just leave it. It made one flower that didn't turn into a tomato, but that is it. It's still the same size as it was when we planted it. The other tomato plant we planted however, has done really well. We've harvested a significant amount of tomatoes and continue to do so, although it's production is starting to slow. Today when I went out there I found some leaf-footed stink bugs on the plant: bad news. Fortunately they are easy to get rid of. Now, be careful as leaf-footed stink bugs look very similar to Assasin bugs, but there are some important differences. Leaf footed stink bugs typically travel in packs and they have black dots on them. Assassin bugs, on the other hand tend to hang out by themselves and have white dots on them. Assassin bugs are beneficial because they tend to eat the bugs you don't want in the garden rather than the garden itself . Fortunately they are easy to remove. Get a bowl of water large enough to fit under the plant and put some dish soap in the bowl. Then place the bowl under the area of the plant the that the leaf-footed stink bugs are and shake the plant. The leaf-footed stink bug's defense is to fall when they are scared so they will fall from the plant into the soapy water where they will die. It's probably the easiest bug removal method there is, certainly easier than caterpillars. Leaf-footed Stink Bugs on tomato plants Leaf-footed Stink Bugs in soapy water We had squash vine borer which killed our yellow crookneck squash and spaghetti squash, but we were able to get one squash off of each plant before they succumbed. We had another kind of squash that the vine borer appeared to have killed, but shortly after it re-rooted and has been making a ton of leaves, but still no squash. We're just letting it do it's thing and figure if nothing else it's helping grow a root system and recruiting good bacteria and nutrients to the soil. We planted eggplant later, after some items had already gotten started and one of the tomato plants grew so big that it blocks sunlight and water from one of the eggplant plants. The sheltered plant is quite a big smaller than it's two cousins we planted. However all of our eggplants have produced fruit. The eggplant Parmesan we made from the eggplant was probably the best we've ever made! Eggplant Our corn also did OK. I'm happy to report that each corn stock we planted produced an ear of corn. The stocks were plagued with bugs early on, but that cleared up and they grew well. We harvested all but 2 of the ears now. Some were more pollinated than others, and some were starting to be nibbled by bugs, but we grew them! We had two ears that were starting to get eaten so we harvested them. The others still have a little bit of growing to do. Corn Stalk Corn that bugs have gotten to One of the four rattlesnake beans struggled from the beginning, but we were able to harvest enough beans from the other 3 plants to make a side dish. Yep, that's what all our time and effort produced: a single side dish. That's why we keep calling it our practice garden. We did learn some lessons though that will help us next time. We should have planted it with a tomato cage from the beginning. We added the cage after they were already starting to climb and they all climbed up the same side of the cage rather than all around the cage. So our major lessons learned were to make sure we placed plants according to height so that they all get enough sun and water. We also learned we should plant multiples of plants, so we can at least get some product even if one dies or doesn't thrive. The Florida Panhandle area is wacky in terms of weather and growing seasons, we are just about ready to start preparing for our fall season. This fall season tends to be a very productive time. I can't wait to have all 4 garden beds planted with delicious food! Pin for later: Shared on Home Matters , Dishing It and Digging It
Garden pests and critters that eat away at your hard-earned vegetables and flowers can frustrate even the most patient of gardeners. The fact of the matter is, if you want a thriving garden, you need to learn how to effectively eliminate garden pests, even if the very thought of them makes you squirm!
If you have fruit flies and want them gone without using chemicals, you've come to the right place!
You open your trash bin, and instead of finding just garbage, you come face to face with a wriggling mass of maggots. It’s enough to make anyone’s skin crawl. Maggots, those squirming, small creatures, are the larvae of flies, and while they play a vital role in nature by breaking down decaying matter, having them ... Read more
Spread the loveSo I’m going to make this short and sweet. If you collect house plants like I do, then you’ll propably get gnats at some point. Those annoying little creatures. Tiny little sneaky things. If you don’t get rid of them fast, they multiply SO FAST! They love the moist from your plants. Here i’m going to show you how to get rid of them with things you probably already have in your home. What you need water dish soap (any kind really) apple cider vinegar How to make your solution You’ll start by simply adding a drop (or 3) of dish soap into a bowl. plastic bowl or whatever you have handy. Next you’ll add some apple cider vinegar Last you’ll add the water I normally do about half water, half ACV. Then grab a plastic fork and mix it up a bit so it brings bubbles. Place the bowl or bowls in places where you see the gnats and where you keep plants. I’m not sure what attracts the gnats to this solution besides it being orange (they like orange) but it works like a charm. I didnt catch my gnats in time so I had so […]
Mosquitoes making summer miserable? Use these 7 Natural Mosquito Repellent ideas to help you get rid of mosquitoes and enjoy being outside more...
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All-natural spider repellent that works great! Here are two safe spider repellent recipes that will get rid of spiders in your house fast!
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