In ancient practices, certain Ayurvedic medicines called bhasmas or paks could only be made on the fire of cow dung cakes. During this time, cows were left free to roam in forest meadows where they ate sweet grass, gave nutritious milk and their dung fertilized the forest further. While the same might not hold true today, cow dung – when composted – makes great slow-release manure for your garden and backyard.
To reduce your garden’s carbon footprint, try organic pesticides… Be safe, be sure!
We all love our gardens and hate the pests. So here are five homemade pesticides that target only the bad bugs in our garden and are benign to all other life.
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Sometimes, when people dabble in gardening, they get frustrated all too quickly and quit altogether. If your garden is not looking quite as nicely as you’d like it to, or you’ve come across a problem you can’t seem to fix, don’t convince yourself that you haven’t been blessed with a green thumb just yet. Before you seek out a plethora of gardening chemicals, take a look around your house first.