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Environmentally Safe Gardening Solutions for Beautiful Yards and Gardens


Safe gardening solutions which protect your family and the environment can be fun to make and satisfying to use.

Pesticides and chemicals used in traditional gardening and lawn care present a huge toxic risk to children and pets who play outdoors, roll in the grass and are pound for pound more vulnerable than adults.

Chemical runoff from yards and driveways can enter ground water systems. Current water testing shows the presence of common household chemicals leaching into drinking water.

How do we maintain safe gardens and yards and the health of our families at the same time?


Many of us have that underlying desire to see our yards the showplace of the neighborhood. But if gardeners were aware of the negative effects their traditional techniques might be having, they would surely look for alternatives.

Well, here you go! Our favorite recipes for success!

Healthy Kids Need Great Nutrition!

Ladybugs are a garden's best friend!


Natural Recipes for Gorgeous Gardens!



Safe Gardening and Pests!

Does this scenario sound familiar to you?

You plant your favorite tender, little plant start with dreams of the gorgeous plant it is destined to become. You return to check on the tender little thing in the morning, and just like that, some pest or other has eaten it for breakfast!

It's infuriating, we all agree. So infuriating that we race to the garden shed, pull out the aerosol pesticide and spray the dickens out of everything left in the bed!

But wait! Before you are overcome with this temptation, as we all are from time to time, check out this recipe for success...

Pests hate this simple recipe! But you will love it!

Snails have families, too!

Insect Treatment - Use after 7:00 pm

  • 1 cup antiseptic mouthwash

  • 1 cup liquid soap

  • 1 cup chewing tobacco juice (just make a tea from chewing tobacco by steeping all night)

  • Hot sauce (3 or 4 ounces)

Mix it up and use with a sprayer (either a hand sprayer for small jobs or hose and sprayer for large areas)

This recipe works like a charm! And its fun to make!


You may not approve of this one, but it works!

Varmit Spray - for animal pests

  • 8 OZ. Murphy's Oil Soap (Thin with shampoo or liquid soap if its too thick)

  • 4 OZ. Castor Oil

  • 5 OZ. Hot Sauce

  • 1 TBLS. Alum in 1 C. of water

  • 1 C. or so of human urine (yes, you read correctly)

Use in a sprayer on the end of a hose. Spray all parts of shrubs and trees.


Ladybugs on parade!






For more great information on healthy gardening,
visit these great sites!


Organic Gardening and Homesteading! Organic gardening and homesteading tips and techniques to give you freedom and live a self-reliant life today. This site covers everything from caring for livestock to cooking healthy on a budget.


Check out The Nature Conservancy for great information on being an Everyday Environmentalist.

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