Ronnie's Recipes

1. Cut open a milk container, fill with local organic :) beer and bury at garden edges as a predator feeding station!
A good one - one of my favorites. I can then walk out to the garden and drink some warm flat bug-laden beer whenever I want! It does work well.


2. Just a bit of Dr. Bronner's in water for aphids (too slippery for the little ones)
Cool.

3. Hot pepper and minced garlic in oil. Add to sprayer bottle for deterring rabbits and chipmunks.

And spray where? Base of plant? Perimeter? All of it!

Small, screen around plants is a good one. Cayenne around a perimeter works, too. Diatomaceous earth deters ants, as does boric acid (both white powders). Biodiesel, of course, works around perimeters, too, and is a good spot weed killer (as it biodegrades in 30 days or so). It sometimes need reapplication for burly weeds. Companion planting African Marigolds with plants, or again, around perimeters, is supposed to work. I have had mixed results with them, personally. And then there's basic stuff - sparkly stuff in the garden deters some birds.

The compost tea works well as pest deterrent, too. There's Serenade, for those with more money than time. Planting strawberries outside the garden gives the pests (which you know are coming) a diversion of sorts to a place outside the garden.