There are a number of types of pests which attack our well cared plants, and there are a number of types of pesticides too available in the market for each and every type of pests. It’s easy too, just buy the desired pesticide, dilute it and spray it, see the result in just hours.

          But that is not the practice we are trying to explain here. We are looking for some healthy measure of organic farming, some healthy vegetables grown in our backyard free of poisonous pesticides.

          So now we will look into some of the natural ways to avoid pests and some organic ways to shoo them off and keep our plants healthy.

          There are a type of certain flies that come into our farms when our veggies start to flower for the first time. They can destroy our farm in days. There is a great homemade way of catching these type flies.

Here is how they are made.

·                   1 empty 2 litre plastic bottle

·                   1 banana peel

·                   1 cup sugar

·                  1 cup cider vinegar

          Place the banana peel into the empty 2 litre pop bottle. Using a funnel, add sugar and vinegar. Fill with warm water to where the neck of bottle begins to narrow. Place cap on bottle and shake to dissolve sugar. Hang with a wire around the neck of the bottle in trees around your place. The bottles will attract them inside. They sink and die. When the bottle is filled with flies take down from tree and discard.

There’s one more way of this :

Cut the bottle in two portion’s and use the same solution mentioned above, and hang them on trees or near your plants. (See the diagram) You can use small LED operated with batteries to attract flies which attract towards light.