Spring is coming soon! This means the plan for garden will begin! One part of great things you could save big is doing your own fruit and vegetable garden. Disagree with me? You'd be right too. But there are ways and if you find enjoyment in it. I've started on the compost back in September for over the winter - the neighbors bagged leaves, our fruits and vegetable scrappings, leftovers that aren't meat and milk.
My garden plan will involve flowers that attract bees and natural bug repellents. Did you know Thai lemon grass is a natural and effective mosquito repellent? Or that Marigolds plants help steer deer and rabbits away from your garden?
If you have slug problem like I do, watering in the morning will help reduce major slug damage. But not all... I find handpicking slugs are necessary in my case. I do find most of the slugs in weeds which made the picking easier. There are other recommendations: Small amount of beer in open lid cup to attract and drown the slugs. Seaweeds around the ground of the plant or Diatomaceous Earth are great against slugs. My favorite of all is overturned half cantalope left overnight, slugs hide in that and I throw it away afterward (but I've read raccoons eat cantalope, slug and all).
Or are you more curious to know more about natural repellents for indoors?
Flies - Make small crushed mints satchets in your home, or flypaper by soaking brown paper in a bowl of 1/4 cup syrup, 1 tbsp. granulated sugar and 1 tbsp. brown sugar mixture and dry overnight, and then hang with string or thread.
Internet research are one of the great tools for planning. My parents are another. Mother tells me the pepper spice packet from Pizza Hut grow into delicious peppers. That's going into my garden plan!
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