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EASY TLO FIXES FOR PEST PROBLEMS
The best fix is always not to have the problems to begin with. However, this is not a perfect
world and let's face it, shit happens.
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sure you or your friends/patients aren't poisoned.
Bugs and how to get rid of them:
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Spider Mites:
Safer's End All II, neem oil and liquid castile soap mixtures work well
against these suckers. Alternating every third time using the neem x liquid castile soap
works well in my experience using End All II the rest of the time. Shield your soil mix
with paper plates or saran wrap while dripping. Organocide is another option; however,
this stuff is beyond stinky, like dead fish stinky, so not really for use on an in-house
garden.
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Powdery Mildew:
Neem oil x liquid castle soap mixtures work well to remove the mil-
dew from your plants. However, you will need to be “addicted” to using this about every 2
weeks to keep it under control. Many times special tea recipes will work well when ap-
plied foliar style (sprayed on to the plant leaves). Get some high quality milk and dilute it
to 9:1 water/milk and spray it on the plants (foliar style). This often works very well. Ser-
enade is my old go-to method for fighting powdery mildew; it works very well, but it is
also pretty offensive smelling.
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Thrips:
Treat these like spider mites above. The big difference with thrips is with dili-
gence you can totally eradicate them, while spider mites are much harder (if not impos-
sible) to eradicate utterly with treatments of safe warfare.
Pest fixes that should NEVER be used in TLO:
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Hot Shots No Pest Strips:
Don't think for a second that these are even kind of alright to
hang in your gardens. You may as well be slowly spraying your plants with Raid or Black
Flag insecticides. Read the directions on these little poison bombs and you will see they
don't recommend it to hang where there are people or pets; now why do you suppose this
is? Smoking poisons that kill well is not a good idea.
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Avid and Floramite:
No friggin' way, not once, not ever! Anytime something says it is
meant for ornamental only, that is your warning that it is POISONOUS! Don't be a dead
dork!
