Friday, June 15, 2012

Home made Insectecide

I went out and sprayed all my plants, my flowers, vegetable beds and fruit trees. I used water with a little Ivory soap. This is a mix I have used for a long time. when I was younger with my first experience in gardening, my mother told me to throw out my dish water on my vegetable plants.

My mother always had the most beautiful roses. She told me that was because the soap in the water from the dish washing water killed the aphids. My mother was right 


4 cups of water 
2 Tablespoons of liquid Ivory dish soap


I am not sure if other dish soaps work, however Ivory is not harmful to the plant and works well to keep insects from destroying the plants. 


This all purpose pesticide disrupts the cell membranes of the insects and kills them by dehydration.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

So how does my garden grow????

It has been a month since I last posted about the garden. Its growing. I do not have any fatalities to report. However there have been some surprises.


The first surprise about a week into the new water system and the hose blows. Reality easy fix, just replace the hose with what should be a more sturdy hose.




Second surprise:    About June 6th the new hose spit. We had another gusher!!


We will try another solution BJ will put in a PVC pipe to the automatic system.


That should hold us for the rest to the summer.





My vegetable beds look good.

 The East Bed


The Maddi Bed

 The West bed.         












Lots of growth. Including for Maddi. Maddi liked the crackers.