What’s a good ant control that is safe and effective?
What’s a good ant control that is safe and effective? By safe I mean for my newborn non toxic, I just that there all over the house bed kitchen ect. Help! please!!
Believe it or not, bounty fresh dryer sheets. Lay them out & they will be qone & also at your qrocery store you can buy little ant traps & set them up where the ants are mostly. if has like bait in there & the ants qo in eat it & die. problem solved. i`m havinq an ant crisis too. outside i use warm soapy water.
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Home Living Garden Guide to Dealing With Those Pesky Weeds
This might seem hard to believe, but to some folk weeds are seen as being quite attractive to their garden. Weeds such dandelions, daisies and buttercups can look very humble and innocent. Don’t be fooled! Without a moments notice these weeds can take over your entire garden, smothering your the plants that you want to be growing in your outdoor living space.
Time to take control and kick mother nature’s ass!
Before I go any further, I must point out that I am not recommending using any chemicals or toxic weed killers. We just want to kill the weeds in our garden, not killing our environment, that would be kicking mother nature’s ass a bit too hard.
Weeds can be controlled both before and after they emerge from the ground. The most effective way of dealing with weeds that have emerged is using a bit of old fashioned elbow grease. Get down your knees and with a long handle tool with sharp prongs, grip the weeds and yank them right out from the ground, making sure you’ve taken out the root of your victim or else they will grow back. I know it will involve quite a lot of effort on your part and granted it may be not the best way to spend your weekends or days off, but this kind of manual labour is far more effective than spraying some weed killer down and waiting to see if takes effect. Believe me you’ll thank yourself later.
One last tip, keep your lawn fertilised as without the proper nutrients in the soil your grass won’t grow as it should and instead sprout big ugly deep rooted weeds…not good.
Once all this done, go out to your garden, sit back, relax and admire the work you’ve done. Well done!
Martin Tonner writes on gardening tips and advice. You can read more by visiting my website Home Living Garden at http://www.homelivinggarden.co.cc
Welll i have around a 40 g tank in my room.And i planted some lucky bamboo in it…Will it be toxic to my fish?i had the bamboo for a year now….or 2 not sure…So i didnt put fertilizer in it
I don’t think it will bother your fish unless it becomes waterlogged and dies. this would cause your ammonia levels to rise. If you have had it in your tank for that long than you are most likely caring for it properly and should be fine.
Fluoride has been a well known toxin for over 65 years. It has been used in water fluoridation pesticides fertilizer, green tea, pharmaceuticals like Prozac, dental rinses and mouthwash. We even receive it in dental treatments from our dentist.
Over the years physicians and scientists have become increasingly concerned about the government sanction use of fluoride in tap water.
Because, the level of water consumption between individuals will vary greatly; there is no way to control the dose. Furthermore, when we add to this our exposure from foods, toothpaste, medications and occupational hazards the accumulation of this substance in our bodies increases.
Warning Signs
Children are known to be more susceptible to its toxic effects. Once fluoridation began an increase in cases of children with dental fluorosis began to appear indicating overdose.
Fluorosis is distinguished by white spots and the pitting (staining and holes in the teeth).
Initially fluoride was believed to prevent tooth decay and strengthen teeth. It can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin and is most dangerous when ingested.
Today we know that it can be the culprit for a host of illnesses.
arthritis
add (attention deficit disorder)
osteosarcoma (bone cancer)
kidney disease
headaches
asthma
allergies
confusion
dementia
To make matters worse some municipalities treat water with aluminum sulfate and fluoride. These two substances combine in the blood to form aluminum fluoride increasing suspicions about its role as a contributing factor in Alzheimer’s disease.
Trouble On The Horizon
In recent years green tea has become popular because of its believed health benefits against diabetes, cancer, reducing cholesterol just to name a few.
Grown from the Camelia Sinensis plant, its leaves readily absorb fluoride from the soil. As mentioned earlier this toxin is found in fertilizer and pesticides (ex. DDT and Dursban). The probability that many green tea drinkers will be brewing it with fluoridated water can only increase the levels of toxicity in the body.
It is often imported so the levels of fluoride will vary from country to country depending on how it’s grown.
How many times have you purchased a tea and recall having seen fluoride or pesticides included in the list of ingredients?
How would you even know it was there unless you became aware though an independent source?
Should there be a product warning like on cigarettes and pharmaceuticals that this product contains fluoride and may be harmful to your health?
Finally
The body is an amazing instrument of endurance. But, how much can it take? It seems ready to bounce back after vigorous and long-term abuse; and in this we are lulled in to a false sense of security our Achilles’ heel.
I love Jalapeños and Chilies. I think they like sandy, dry soil so if I were to pot them separately with the appropriate type of soil would they grow well here? In the summer?
How do you “feed” them? I.e., I don’t want to use a chemical, toxic fertilizer.
Have fun. Where you are they will grow like weeds in common potting soil. Caution: don’t put them too close to each other or you may get a weird, bland hybrid pepper.
What is Fluoridation? Big Agra Fertilizer By-Product – Toxic Waste
Somebody sprayed a powerful herbicide within one foot of my tomato plant is it salvageable?
I planted it along the fence and the neighbor sprayed the border of his property. He’s not a gardener, and I’m very new to it. Everything else I’d planted was ornamental so he thought that was too. He just told me about it once he saw tomatoes growing on “that plant”. I didn’t know what they looked like either. Anyway it was this Roundup stuff meant mainly for pavement which he used on weeds growing up the fence. There is still an inch wide stripe of yellow/brown grass just to his side…I wish I used a raised bed. So is my tomato crop toxic death or what? I know even heavy duty pesticide sprayed on various seeds is considered “safe” as long as they are planted and not eaten. The application was about two months ago, within a week or so, before or after I planted for what its worth. We aren’t exactly sure. Thanks.
Roundup is a systemic weedkiller (glyphosate) so kills from the inside out, right down to the roots, so weeds can’t regrow.
In other words, it attacks any plants that it is applied to (like it has with his grass) but doesn’t “poison” the soil so you can happily replant there. If you already had plants there and it had attacked them you would have noticed within a matter of days. If you’ve seen no signs of trouble you’re fine.
Looks like he controlled his spraying with some accuracy but I’d suggest that’s a matter of luck! You might like to point out gently that he has to be very careful to ensure no spray drifts in the breeze in future onto plants he doesn’t want to kill . . . .
You may have seen the council bloke spraying along the kerb in the past, you’ll notice he holds the spray nozzle down low to the ground to avoid it drifting.
