Home Gardening Tips: Making Natural Insecticides, Fertilizers and Pesticides: Insect Repelling and Plants Suggestion

If you are given a piece of land what will you do?You may set up a store for your business, start a hatchery to start your farm, make a tennis court and enjoy with friends and so forth. But if you love to have some ever youths as your neighbor, singing birds as your entertainer, a color band in your grasp and divine freshness all around you out of so many options you would not forget about developing a garden there. Gardening has been a respite for men in this bustling world now days as ever.

But we are in very competitive commercial world. Where is the piece of land for your garden? Investment without profit no more attracts the city dwelling modern men. A large proportion of us city dwellers don't have the luxury of a sprawling garden, but that should be no impediment to having plants inside our homes. So beauty loving people has find alternative gardening measure; gardening inside home-"Home Gardening”. 

Most important feature of this is besides beautifying and environmental benefits plants lend character to an otherwise droll setting.

Gardening in humid and tropical climates is an ordeal but once you get the hang of it you will see it more as an adventure and less as a chore. Not all plants are suited for indoor cultivation, but you can easily grow outdoor plants such as Cardinal lobelia, Hibiscus, Miscanthus cabaret, Canary reed-grass (ground-cover),New Zea-land flax, Kalanchoe (annual plant), Agave (for sandy well-drained soil) in a patch of land overlooking the patio, if you have one.

However, most of the tropical plants demand some extra care as they perish quite often if they don't find the congenial conditions in the garden. Therefore, gardener has to maintain some simple basic tricks.

Soil

The first obvious thing to focus is the soil quality and texture. Tropical plants require well-soaked soil, so select and prepare your soil so that can retain moisture for a long time after watering.

Fertilizer

Now you should consider fertilizers that you would use. For instance, applying a high rate of nitrogenous fertilizers is no good for the tropical flower plants as it’s a big obstacle for their growth. It hampers the blooming of the flowers but grows the leaves bigger quickly what you don't want. Potash and phosphorus rich fertilizer rather than nitrogenous chemical is more helpful and recommended. But use in minimum quantity so that plants growth doesn't hamper.

Sunlight and Hydration

In tropical region plants gets a lot of water from rain fall if planted in an open space. So it’s very important that you keep your plants hydrated regularly. You should water your plants once a day in the morning. But make sure water is not clogged in the pot for long time that will result into root rotten and plant died.

Plant can’t grow without sufficient sunlight. So plan your garden beside your window or somewhere sunlight enters for few hours a day.

Seasonal Management

Temperature is a major concern to determine whether your plants will wilt or thrive. Usually it is recommended to keep your plants outside in the loan or on the roof during the summer, and inside in the winter. Heating in the winter is an important consideration as frost will greatly lessen your plants growth. If you live in a colder part of the topography where it gets quite chilly in winter, use a heating source at your own discretion; by then you should have developed quite a green thumb.

Tips on Home Gardening

Home gardening requires consistent nurturing and maintenance. You have to love and care your plants.

How to Care:

Watering

The big question that always the home gardener asks is, “How much to water?". Too much water floods the plants and refrain them from absorbing the nutrients and minerals from the soil. Whereas insufficient water supply dehydrates plants and cause the branches to be limp and lifeless.

Here the most important fact to consider is the species of your plant. You can consult a experienced gardener or the vendor of the nursery from where you had managed your plant.

It is pivotal that the appropriate amounts are showered. The best practice is to water several times a day avoiding a deep watering once in the morning. If the condition is too humid and its a long hot summer you should sprinkle a little more water over the plant.

Use Salt

Mould of various genres, grass and uninvited moss, makes shelter in the nearby alleys or on your blooming plants in the outside garden. Instead of scrubbing them off or bending over to tug at the roots of these, use salt, sprinkle sodium chloride which is actually the table salt over the affected parts directly. Salt snatches away the vital force of this efficiently. Don’t over salt the area so that the soil gets salty when watered.

Prevent Mosquito

Keep in mind stagnant water and pot plants are a useful shelter of dengue and malaria bearing mosquitoes. Don’t let any water to get established in a place for long time .Use environment friendly insecticides and pesticides in the outer garden regularly and in the inner garden if needed.

Natural Fertilizer

Here are some homemade and natural fertilizers you can use:

Beer: Sprinkle on the plants to help better growth.

Wood Ash: Works both as insecticide and fertilizer

Coffee Grinds: Sprinkle near the plant and dig a little inside to enrich your soil.

Grass clippings/mulch: First dry the clippings in the sun and then apply on the soil surface.

See weed and water hyacinths: Apply directly on the soil.

Natural insecticides and pesticides

Soap Alcohol Spray

1/2 cup rubbing alcohol

1 quart liquid soap

Mix into a spray bottle. Apply in shades and leave 20minutes.Then spread water over the plant. It prevents aphids, mealy bugs, scale insects and white flies.

Chamomile Spray

1 cup chamomile leaves

3 cups of boiling water

Let them to come down to room temperature. Now mix with equal amount of water and spray. Its useful in preventing the damping off of seedlings and powdery mildew.

Soap Spray

This is useful against aphids and some caterpillars.

56 g of soap flakes or pure grated soap

5 L of warm water

Mix them and dissolve. Spray after cooled.

Sugar Spray

Dissolve 2kg of water or molasses in 10 kg warm water. Spray after cooling. Effective against nematodes.

Onion chilly Spray

Its lethal against any leaf-eating insects.

4 bird's eye chilies, chopped (or as hot as you can find)

4 large onions, chopped

2 bulbs garlic, chopped

2 L soapy water

Mix all in a container and leave 24 hours. Spray as usual and store up to 2weeks in sealed container in dark place.

Oil spray

1 kg soap

8 L oil

Dissolve the soap in oil. Mix with 20 time water and spray immediately after being cooled. Don’t try to store and only use in winter otherwise it will burn the leaves. Oil spray is effective against ants, aphids, leaf hoppers, squash bugs and white flies.

Mustard Spray

1 tablespoon ground mustard seeds

20 parts of water

Mix in a spray container and spray for good effect if your plant has scale.

Garlic Spray

90 g chopped garlic cloves

2 T mineral oil or liquid paraffin

15 g of pure soap or soap flakes

500 ml warm water.

Mix oil and garlic and leave 48 hours. Dissolve soap in warm water.Use 1 part mixture to 50 parts water and spray.It works against caterpillar and other insects.

Insect Repelling Plants

Pruning limbs and branches is necessary for a healthy growth and a less disease-prone garden. Air out plants stored within confinements at least once a week to filter out any germs, which might have been dwelling in them.

Consider planting insect repelling plants such as but not limited to-

Ants: penny royal, mint, tansy;

Aphids: chives, mints, garlic, coriander, anise;

Mice: onion;

Squash Bug: marigolds tansy, radish and nasturtium.

Spider Mites: Garlic

There are so many such plants who have own a chemical defense characteristic that keeps the insects away. So putting some of these between your other plants is really helpful.

So why waiting, star you home garden now. Please leave your comments and ideas here.