Get it done yourself
Being organic isn’t just about the food you buy in the supermarket; you also have to think about the products you use in your own garden. It would be pretty hypocritical to spend a fortune on environmentally friendly carrots, only to get home from the supermarket and cover your lawn in chemical pesticides!
But unless we want to spend the entire summer weeding our lawns and flower beds, then we have to find some organic way to help keep our gardens neat, tidy and pest-free – and banish the chemistry set to self storage. Believe it or not, many of the most common bugs that can reduce a lush garden to shreds also have a strong aversion to many common kitchen ingredients! You can rustle up a natural pesticide in your own kitchen, safe in the knowledge that you won’t be doing the soil or the eco-system any harm.
Unsurprisingly, many of these natural pesticides feature garlic prominently. As anyone who has woken up next to their partner the night after he or she was tucking into pasta or pizza can tell you, garlic will drive even the most devoted lover away! So if pests like aphids have the choice of a garden that smells of garlic or your neighbour’s garden which only smells of, well, garden – no prizes for guessing which one they’ll pick to pig out on.
You can make your own garlic oil by crushing up cloves and soaking them in mineral oil, leaving them to soak overnight. Once you’ve mixed this concoction with distilled water, it can be put into any garden spray and used liberally, on plants, lawns and even tree branches; so long as you can reach them safely, of course…
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