Diatomaceous Earth - Stop using your bug man and no more chemical sprays!

Here is a photo of a geat product called "Diatomaceous Earth". You use this instead of your toxic bug sprays for in and outside of your home. If there is one thing that you could change to help yourself as well as your loved ones live happier and healthier lives, it would be to stop using harmful & toxic chemical products for your home!

It's easy and a lot less expensive then your bug man. How it works is that insects walk across it and/or injest it. DE acts like tiny razor blades so when a bug, say a cricket or scorpion, walks along a pathway coated with DE, the DE will cut the exoskeleton and the insect will  dry out and die. An added benefit to using DE is that unlike your bug man's chemical sprays, insects willnot becomeimmune to DE since it is  a mechanical killer! Safe and effective...you can't beat that!

The way I use it is inside a turkey baster and puff it onto the surface where I want it applied. This method  actually puts a  little too much DE on the ground so I will be changing soon to a  sock filled with DE. The sock filled with DE is a good way to apply DE because you simply smush the sock against a wall or whatever and just enough DE to kill some insects will come out. Remeber however, even though this is a natural product it will still kill beneficial bugs, so use it sparingly.

Seeing the benefits of going organic

I am seeing so much more life around the house since changing over to organic. It really makes a lot of sense to me now. I feel almost angry when thinking about all the synthetic chemicals I have used over the years. I am so thankful that I have discovered this old/new tome way of life!

I believe it is now my & our responsibility as organic practitioners to spread the word about how fun, easy and beneficial organic gardening and landscape care can be! Every time I find myself at one of these large home improvement stores in the garden section, I am asked if I need help with finding anything. If I ask a question about a insect, good insect or not, the first thing I am told about is a chemical "killer". I hope that one day this will change and I will be asked to verify the typ e of insect and given a few organic choices on how to deal with the problem, if it is a problem at all :)