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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Organic Gardening Pest Control Plants

By Joy Jackson


If you are a fan of those refreshing plants and herbs, gardening in your personalized indoor can be a pleasure for you. It promotes responsibility and patience, and soothes the nerves. Organic gardening is even better also promotes strong healthy and a clean environment. However, with organic gardening comes the difficulty of pest control. Organic gardening pest control can be achieved, at least to some degree, with various plants. We will be discussing a few of these in the following article.

Some of the major requirements, tips, and tricks are provided here for your assistance.Even though they are considered to be weeds in some regions, they are extremely useful plants in the fight against pests, especially because you're not using any man-made insecticides in your organic garden. The tansy (Tanacetum Vulgare) is a great organic gardening pest control plant, used to repel ants and aphids. The plant has a camphor-like scent and its elegant leaves may be used to make tea. It carries yellow button-like flowers in the summer, which are remarkably simple, yet have an unexplainable charm.

You can use these indoor garden design pointers and modify them accordingly to suit your requirements.However, this characteristic of the tansy may not be such a bad thing, because you won't have to plant many in order to initialize organic gardening pest control in your garden. Instead, the plant will take care of that problem by itself, at least of most of the ants and aphids. It's likely that you'll want to have slightly too many tansies, instead of way too many ants and aphids. Tansies require slightly shaded spots and must be planted eighteen inches into the ground, in order to grow to their full potential.

Nonetheless, if your plant does show symptoms of disease that can't be contained, you must immediately separate the specific leaves, stems or the whole plant to save the rest of the indoor garden.It is a shrubby plant with grey-green leaves. The leaves are enjoyed by some for having a sweet and lemony scent, but to others its pungency is rather offensive. Medicinally, wormwood is used against tapeworms and for easing indigestion. The hardy evergreen that is the wormwood requires lots of sun, well-drained soil, and needs to be planted two to three feet into the ground.

Other than following these recommendations, you have to be watchful for all the needs of the plants like nurturing your pets. It has a highly distinctive tangy scent in flowers and foliage. The flowers are brilliant orange. A great range of garden varieties is available, including creams and yellows, and forms with extra large, double-flowers. It can be sown in autumn and spring, and will seed itself thereafter. Besides being a pest repellant, it is a medicinal and culinary plant. It requires light shade and needs to be planted eighteen inches into the ground.




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