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Posted on April 1, 2006 by Franklin Neave | Posted under Landscaping Gardening
Organic Lawn Care Recipes With Soap
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Here are just a few of those home made recipes 1. Recipe #11 can Campbell's Tomato Juice, 1/2 cup fabric Downy softener, -2 cups water, 2/3 cup orange juice, and � liquid dishwashing soap. Mix together than apply using hose sprayer.2 Recipe #2Use a tea fertilizer. Put five quarts of manure on a 3 foot square of burlap that will work as a strainer separating solids from liquids. Tie the four corners of the burlap together to form a bag and then put the bag in a 5-gallon bucket. Add three gallons of warm water and let steep in the sun for one week. You can then apply with your hose sprayer or by sprinkling onto your lawn.3. Recipe #3Mix 16 tablespoons of Epsom salts with 8 ounces of household ammonia, � cup liquid dishwashing soap, and then water. Evenly spray across your lawn.4. Recipe #4Mix one can of beer, one can of Pepsi, 1 cup ammonia, � liquid dishwashing soap, and 1 cup of Epsom salts which will help aerate the ground and allow it to breathe better. The ammonia will kill any bacteria and fungus found in the ground. T5. Recipe #5Mix 3 cups of water, 1 � cups of cheap beer, � liquid dishwashing soap 1 � cup Epson salts, and 1 cup ammonia. Mix it all up in a container and once well mixed you can pour it into your watering can and distribute it just as if you were watering your lawn.6. Recipe #6Mix one can of non diet pop, on can of cheap bear, � cup of ammonia, � cup of liquid dishwashing soap but no antibacterial soap, and � cup mouthwash. Then mix it all together and pour it into your hose fertilizer sprayer.7. Recipe #7Mix one can of coke, one can of beer, one cup apple juice, one cup lemon scented dishwashing liquid, one cup ammonia, and one cup all purpose plant food. Mix in a large bucket then pour one quart of the mix into a 20 gallon hose end sprayer. But if you would really not mess around making your own products up then there are plenty of organic products now available on the market. Products like organic fish powder, milogranite lawn fertilizer, chicken manure, sea soil, and a host of other products. What these products do is fertilizer without adding chemicals and takes care of insects and disease without adding toxicity. The result is you have to apply it less often, and you need to water less often, and you are doing your part to contribute to protecting the environment and all the living creatures in that environment. So the next time someone offers you lawn care recipes with soap don't laugh. There're some great ones out there! About The Author: Franklin Neave work in fertilizer producing industry for last 10 years. He has recently developed interest in writing and have expressed his experience on his website at http://www.fertilizerworld.com about different types of fertilizer and their benefits. |
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