5 Easy Organic Ways to Keep Your Garden Pest Free

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When growing an organic garden, it's important to keep it free of harmful chemicals. Not only can the chemicals harm the garden, they can also harm beneficial insects and bugs that are helping your garden grow.  

You can stop pests from ruining your garden with these handy tips. Let Charlie Nardozzi show you how prevention, physical barriers, and organic sprays can keep your garden healthy. Video:

Homemade Mosquito Trap

Modern technology has brought us many benefits, including mosquito traps that cost hundreds of dollars, but sometimes we overlook simple solutions to difficult challenges such as mosquito control. When it comes to controlling pests, research tends to focus on chemicals or concepts that can be patented. Unless someone can make a profit from an idea, the public may never become aware of it.

HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP.

Items needed:

200 ml water
50 grams of brown sugar
1 gram of yeast
2-liter plastic bottle

Or US conversion:
1 cup of water
1/4 cup of brown sugar

HOW:
1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.
2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.
3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.
4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired.
5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are also drawn to the color black.)

Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control

Source: Grow Food, Not Lawns

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