Enjoy More of Your Home & Garden with Organic Pesticide

Organic Pesticide: Safe, Pure, Organic.

For all the benefits of long sultry summer days, there are a few thousand drawbacks – all the invading house and garden pests. Yes, as the days get warmer every creepy-crawlie known to man seems to come creeping out from the woodwork to take over your home and garden.

Whether it is an invasion of ants on your kitchen countertops, spider mites on your tomato plants or fleas on your four-legged friends you can bet there is a different commercially available pesticide to nuke them to kingdom come.

Chemical pesticides are essentially poisons designed to specifically kill or ward off the specific creature it targets. It would be possible to buy and use one toxic spray for cockroaches in your house, another for flying insects and yet another for treating animal bedding for fleas. Imagine the build-up of chemicals in your home and garden over a hot summer season.

It is better to look for organic pesticide alternatives that are easily available around the house or certified organic products sold commercially which include insecticide soap, neem spray, diatomaceous earth and natural oils.

Homemade Natural Pesticides
Garlic, for example is truly the gardener’s friend. It can be used as a spray to guard against insects, fungus, bacteria or mites or planted alongside other plants where its strong smell is known to deter moths, spider mites, aphids, borers and shootfly. Garlic is also effective when sprayed in ponds to kill off mosquito larvae.

Garlic, cucumber, mint, cinnamon, vinegar and lemons are all natural repellents for ants. Inside the house, you may want to use alone or in combination lemon rind, cinnamon and cucumber at the point of entry or in places along the ant pathways to deter and discourage them from settling in.

Commercially Available Organic Pesticides

Diatomaceous Earth may not be a substance that you happen to have lying about the house but it is an excellent organic pesticide which works on a wide variety of garden pests like aphids, ants and red spider mites as well as in the home to kill cockroaches, silverfish, bed bugs and house flies. It is safe to use both in vegetable patches and with pets to control fleas.

Diatomaceous earth is made from the fossilized bodies of tiny diatom organisms. To us, it looks like a fine powder but to insects the poswder is made up of countless razor-sharp edges which cuts and damages their exoskeleton. A good food grade Diatomaceous earth is made by St. Gabriel’s Organics.

Orange Guard works by dissolving the waxy coating on insects which causes them to suffocate. It is effective against spider mites, aphids and other destructive garden pests but it was originally designed as an ant repellent. It is a water-based insecticide made of products which are all certified as safe by the FDA and can be safely used indoors – even on kitchen counters.

EcoSmart offers a selection of organics pesticides for use in the home and in the garden and also as a repellent. Their Home Pest Control spray is said to kill and repel over 100 kinds of home pest and it is made up only of organic plant oils like clove, rosemary and peppermint so not only does it take care of your household pest problem, it also leaves your home smelling gorgeous into the bargain.