[cripplecreek]

Diatomaceous earth (shell flour) is good too. I’ve got a bag of it that’s actually food grade. I give it to my dogs to prevent worms and dust my plants with it.

I’ve also heard that making tea from tomato plants is a good repellent.

[mylife]

I’m glad you roll your own.

[Finny]

Really,! Cool! Good gardening tips. I also confess ... all organic gardening for me, no pest repellents. The strongest is Murphy's Oil Soap, which cured a bad leaf curl on a nectarine tree, though it took it two seasons. But it worked.

Templates are always misleading. Demonizing something knee-jerk because some hippies go overboard with it, is kinda limiting. Some very wise conservatives I've known are pretty much 98% "organic" in a lot of ways.

[Squawk 8888]

Diatomaceous earth is also excellent for ridding one’s home of bedbugs. I first heard about it because I had the misfortune of living at a place last year that was infested.