Keeping bugs and critters away naturally.

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Why spend big bucks on insecticides and put yourself, your family, and the environment in danger when you can use common household items and plants to do the job for you?

Plants such as tulips, mint, garlic and onions can ward off insects alleviating the need for chemicals.

To keep animals away, such as rabbits, sprinkle red cayenne pepper on the leaves. You can also use garlic placed around plants to keep these little pests away.

Moth balls placed around plants can also keep cats out that might otherwise use your flower beds for litter boxes.

The following are plants that deer wont touch. Foxglove, viburnum, rugosa roses and butterfly bush just to name a few. It is also said that hanging bars of soap or human hair in trees will deter these animals.

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This is great information flippinout, Thanks! For as long as I have been gardening, I had never heard of most of these remedies. The only one I knew was putting mothballs around to keep cats out. I love the fact that these can be planted in the garden, possibly making a border to protect the other plants.