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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I just have a couple of ant traps in the kitchen - behind the front door and next to the leg of the built-in table extension that sticks out of the wall. I also have some plastic roach motels for "large" roaches under the kitchen sink, under the oven, and one behind the microwave on the counter. Haven't seen any roaches or ants in the house this past year.
We use LeeCo for pest control on the lawn, but he's not allowed to spray in my garden because I grow herbs in big planters that I use for cooking in there. My garden is 100% organic - I don't use any pesticides, and I only add a palmful of organic plant food (ground worm castings, chicken poop, and bone meal) when I do the initial planting of a new addition to the garden. I don't even water it after that. Nature does what it does, and if nature wants it to grow, it grows. If it dies, I replace it with something else.
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A few corrections. Cockroaches, in Florida they are called water bugs. In terms of large
cockroaches, the ones in New York, well the one in Florida, they are midgets.
In terms of organic, you home site was treated with insecticides before your home was built. Our soil is alkaline as is bone meal. There are or were phosphate mines around here. Your plants do not read and cannot tell the difference between organic and chemical fertilizers. I used to, at our previous, not Florida home, go fishing regularly.
I would come back with buckets of seaweed. I did catch plenty of fish. The seaweed along with tiny shrimp etc, after washing off the salt I would put in my garden. Plants would produce amazing quantities. Organic? Our house was treated with chlordane, years earlier and it is forever.