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Hoya carnosa is an indoor vine. It takes many years for the vine to become rootbound enough to cause it to start blooming. Once it blooms from a flower stalk called a peduncle, it flushes, aka blooms, from that peduncle as long as it remains on the vine. The flowers have a powerful fragrance and a nectar on the petals that surpasses most sweet substances like honey or sugar in power. One tiny drop tastes like a teaspoon of sugar or syrup. I got the vine with just 3 leaves on it in 1986 and it did not bloom until 2001.
Pyrethrum or feverfew daisy. It is a pungent plant and the entire plant is both medicinal and an insecticide. It used to be used to reduce fevers in the old days. It is now used as a flea and insect killer. I make a spray of the fresh plant in a bottle with hot water and dish soap. I let it steep for a while then use it to kill ants and other bugs, including yellow jackets.
Pyrethrum or feverfew daisy. It is a pungent plant and the entire plant is both medicinal and an insecticide. It used to be used to reduce fevers in the old days. It is now used as a flea and insect killer. I make a spray of the fresh plant in a bottle with hot water and dish soap. I let it steep for a while then use it to kill ants and other bugs, including yellow jackets.
Cool. I've seen the pesticides derived from the plant but have never seen a picture of the plant. Do you use the whole plant? Or just part, flower or leaves?
Cool. I've seen the pesticides derived from the plant but have never seen a picture of the plant. Do you use the whole plant? Or just part, flower or leaves?
The entire plant. I just cut off a bunch of flowers or leaves, including the stem and steep it in water and soap. In the summer I keep a squeeze bottle with the mix in it on hand in my truck. I maintain gardens and encounter invasive ants, bugs and stinging insects all the time. I have used it to kill ant colonies, yellow jackets, aphids and every year in the spring I spray my apple trees before the flowers open. After that I just apply the liquid to the trunk of the tree and it keeps most of the ants off of it. The plant can be companion planted with roses and it makes them healthier, much like marigolds. Adding marigolds to the liquid mix makes it even more potent of an insect killer. A strong solution will kill ants on contact. It will kill bees too, so I keep it away from the flower buds. I use the same solution, but I add crushed garlic to it, and spray the trunk notches of cherry trees and it stops that nasty brown gooey sap that oozes out. I have been organic for over 20 years and have done all my own testing of different herbs. Garlic is an anti fungal and will kill mold on leaves and it is also a feeding deterrent for rabbits, deer, gophers, moles and bugs.
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