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| My neighbor and talented landscape designer, ,Michael Brennan's garden June 2013. |
I received this information from Christina Campbell recently and wanted to share it with you.
Essential Oils are simple, organic options to use in the garden.
For plants infested with insects, use one of the following essential oils. Fill a mist spray bottle with 4 oz. of water, add the essential oils and mist the infested plant. Use as little as possible. Several applications, a few days apart, may be necessary:
- Spearmint: ants, aphids, caterpillars, black flea beetle, gnats, lice, moths, and plant lice.
- Peppermint: ants, aphids, bean beetle, cabbage root fly, caterpillars, black flee beetle, flies, lice, moths, and plant lice.
- Lemongrass: black flea beetle, fleas, mosquitoes, and ticks.
- Tansy: black fly, carrot fly, fleas, flies, greenfly, mosquitoes, and white fly.
- Hyssop: aphids, cabbage root fly, moths, and slugs.
- Thyme: bean beetle, cabbage root fly, cutworm, and ticks.
- Sage: cabbage root fly, cutworm, nematodes, ticks, and white fly.
- Rosemary: cabbage root fly and carrot fly.
- Patchouli: gnats, snails, weevils, and woolly aphids.
- Pine: slugs, snails, and woolly aphids.
- Sandalwood: weevils and woolly aphids.
- Purification: will not only help keep the bugs away, but when applied to a bite or sting, will neutralize the venom. Apply a drop of Purification to wasp, bee, and yellow jacket stings and mosquito bites,too.
A note on storing essential oil from Abundant Health:
We are frequently asked whether or not it is safe to use plastic bottles and containers to hold essential oils. Undiluted essential oils should not be stored in plastic containers, as some properties in many essential oils will break down the plastic, which can destroy the oil and often cause leakage. However, since our plastic bottles and containers are made of the highest grade of plastic, essential oils can be stored in our plastic bottles and containers for several months if the oils are diluted with a carrier oil.
For more information about the types of plastics our bottles and containers are made from, please click here.
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Better Health- Naturally!
