Posted By RJ Gould on May 28, 2010
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I have to tell you about my Thieves Household Cleaner experience! I went out to my garden one day and to my utter dismay, found my beans absolutely COVERED with Japanese beetles….like there were TOO MANY TO COUNT!!!!! I ran back to my house, dumped some THC (Thieves Household Cleaner) (about ¼ cup) into a 32 oz spray bottle and added water and ran back out to start spraying. Well, after two quart bottles of the THC mixture and darkness falling, I determined I’d done all I could do. Next morning, I went out to check on things and …lo and behold….MANY, MANY, MANY DEAD BEETLES on the ground under the bean plants. Now I could actually count how many were still alive so I got me another spraybottle and sprayed the remaining beetles. When I found them on my blackberries and lounging around in the Marigold blossoms (!!), I decided I needed a bigger sprayer. I continue to spray my garden EVERY DAY with a generous amount of THC mixture; the plants look wonderful and I’m managing to stay ahead of the beetles. Love that THIEVES HOUSEHOLD CLEANER and all the other Thieves products!! ~ Abundant blessings, Elaine
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Since we are on the subject of Thieves, I have a great testimonial regarding the new Thieves Cleaner. I have four fuchsia “trees” next to thesidewalk leading up to my front door. About a month ago I noticed that them leaves were curling and the plants did not look healthy. I took a fewleaves to the nursery and they diagnosed it as “fuchsia mites” and recommended a chemical pesticide. They didn’t know of any natural remedies to this problem. Since I am an organic gardener, I just couldn’t bring myself to buy it. When I got home, I pruned the plants of the curled/diseased leaves then I took a sprayer bottle and filled it with about an inch of Thieves Cleaner and the rest with water. I shook it really well and sprayed it on the top and under the leaves of my fuchsia plants as directed by the nursery for the chemical pesticide. I did this three days in a row. A couple of days later I noticed that the plants were not only looking healthy again, but there was lots of new growth! I have not seen any more curled leaves on my plants and the plants look healthy again. ~ Blessings, Karen Jenkins-Green
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GARDEN BUGS:
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For plants infested with insects, use one of the following essential oils.
Fill a mist spray bottle with 4 oz. of water, add the essential oils and
mist the infested plant. Use as little as possible. Several applications, a
few days apart, may be necessary.
Spearmint: ants, aphids, caterpillars, black flea beetle,
gnats, lice, moths, and plant lice.
Peppermint: ants, aphids, bean beetle, cabbage root fly,
caterpillars, black flee beetle, flies, lice, moths, and plant lice.
Lemongrass: black flea beetle, fleas, mosquitoes, and ticks.
Tansy: black fly, carrot fly, fleas, flies, greenfly,
mosquitoes, and white fly.
Hyssop: aphids, cabbage root fly, moths, and slugs.
Thyme: bean beetle, cabbage root fly, cutworm, and ticks.
Sage: cabbage root fly, cutworm, nematodes, ticks, and white
fly.
Rosemary: cabbage root fly and carrot fly.
Patchouly: gnats, snails, weevils, and woolly aphids.
Pine: slugs, snails, and wooly aphids.
Sandalwood: weevils and wooly aphids.
Our all around favorite is Young Living’s Blend of Purification….we always
have it with us.
Purification: will not only help keep the bugs away, but when
applied to a bite or sting, will neutralize the venom. We have applied a
drop of Purification to wasp, bee, and yellow jacket stings and felt the
pain go away immediately and the swelling subside. The next day, there were
no traces of a sting. It works well for mosquito bites too.
Happy Gardening!
~RJ
Hi, I have a little secret. It’s just THIEVES Essential Oil Blend! I have recently given out my plant care tips to a lot of my clients who love to see my assorted
plants. Some have actually brought their plants in for me to nurse back to health. My brother has me come in and take care of his plants at his stores also.
the truth is I’m really not that diligent when it comes to my plants. They just look great because I use a lot of Thieves. I use Thieves straight out of the bottle on house plants that tend to get fungus or mold from my kids over-watering the plants. I used to use it watered down but this proved ineffective against hearty molds in a warm house in the winter. They flourish beautifully. I also use cinnamon powder (no sugar folks) mixed into thesoil with some cinnamon oil, thieves or clove oil with Purification around my rose bushes and my other outside plants to get rid of annoying insects and aphids that eat away at my plants. My roses and flowers are always hearty and pesticide free. I recently got a quote for $850 to get rid of my termites and property, well I just put 2 bottles of each of the following oils in a bottle of V6 and the termites are all dead and gone. I figured that this is costly to buy the oils but it beats having to pay some
exterminator to come and make my soil toxic. To me it was worth the shot. I’m glad I did it because I had the engineer come back to inspect for them
because I was refinancing and wanted another loan to fix my house and my home is termite and carpenter ant free now! I used 2 of each Abundance, Thieves, Clove, Cinnamon, Purification, Lemon, Lemongrass and a large bottle of V6. I put the whole thing in a larger bottle and I squirt it all around the perimeter of my house and doorstep or anywhere termites or carpenter ants would love to hide. I also keep a bottle hooked up to my hose to spray over the base of the property. I just have to upkeep it periodically and I’m all good!! I use a lot of Purification on my dogs to keep off all the ticks and fleas. It works on my cats too. ~ Have a fun, bug-less, pesticide free spring, Nina
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