Repell-em Blog

For the past few summers, I’ve planted my tomatoes and peppers upside down and hung them from the deckposts.  I’m going to do it again this summer.

However, this summer, I’m not going to plant the tomatoes in those big bulky buckets.  Nor am I going to shell out the big bucks for one of those upside-down tomato kits.  I looked at one of those carefully in the store just today, and you know what it is?  It’s a big heavy plastic bag.

Well, I have a box of big heavy plastic bags, and mine are not only big and heavy; they’re 100% insect and animal-proof, completely biodegradable, and made of 100% natural ingredients as well!

I’m going to fill an Ecosmartplastics Repellem bag about half-full of potting soil in a month or so, and I’m going to tie it in a big knot.  I’m going to hang the dirt-filled bag over the plant hangar on the deckpost.  I’m going to make a little hole in the bottom of the bag and I’m going to plant a cherry tomato plant in the bag.  It will hang upside down on the deck, just outside the kitchen doors.  All summer long, whenever I need tomatoes for salad or just to snack on, all I have to do is open the kitchen door, take about three steps, and reach out my hand.  Not walk across the yard and bend down,  no no, just walk out the door a few steps and reach OUT.

I can eat my tomatoes right off the vine, without washing them, if I want to, and it will be safe because EcosmarPlastics and Repellem bags will keep the usual garden bugs, worms, and hungry animals away.  There will be no pesticides or poisons on my tomatoes.  Each little tomato will be perfect, because it will be untouched by insect or animal.  No turtles will take a bite.  No possums.  No raccoons.  No deer.

I can’t wait until it’s time!  I’m going to do this with all kinds of tomatoes and peppers, just like last summer, only I’m going to put ALL the plants in lovely red Ecosmartplastics Repellem bags.  My deck will look like Christmas and be like a fresh veggie buffet.

Think how nice this would be for people with small children!  Instead of snacking on candy or other sweets, or salty foods, just send the children out on the deck to help themselves to fresh, wholesome, nutritious vegetables.  Picking these themselves will become a family tradition!

The weather is still good enough on Columbus Day, in many areas, for a picnic, and when there is a picnic, there is a great need for some way to keep the insects at bay!  The best, easiest, greenest, and safest way to do this is to simply have a few EcoSmart Repellem products here and there.

With an EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth on the picnic table, there will be no flies, gnats, or mosquitoes.  Put an EcoSmart Repellem trash bag in the garbage can, and you won’t have to worry about the garbage in there attracting wasps, bees, hornets, or flies, either.  It’s awesome; you don’t have to use dangerous and smelly sprays, rub chemicals on skin, or wear a clunky bracelet around.  Just throw a tablecloth on the table, a trash bag in the trash can, and everybody is free to relax and enjoy each other’s company, and the food.

In peace.  Without having to slap at or wave away bugs.

With a few EcoSmart Repellem products around your picnic site, you won’t have to worry about animals approaching where your small children are playing, either.

Plus, EcoSmart Repellem products are absolutely safe around kids and food; there are NO harmful ingredients in Repellem - they’re made of 100% natural, completely recyclable ingredients.  Your food can touch a Repellem product and still be safe to eat.  Go ahead and lean on the tablecloth; Repellem won’t harm skin, either.

I went on a picnic today with my old high school girlfriends and our husbands.  Our state park shelter was open on two sides, and all around us were other shelters with large groups in them, too.

Funny thing, though. . . . all the other people in the park were slapping at mosquitoes and spraying smelly hazardous repellants on themselves and on their children.  Heaven only knows what their food tasted like after being so close to such strong-smelling stuff!

But in our park shelter, my friends and I were NOT slapping at mosquitoes.  We didn’t even have any ants!  There were no nasty odors from strong poisonous sprays at our picnic table.  The only time one of us got bitten was when a couple of the husbands walked across the parking lot to get something out of the car.

What was the difference between our picnic setup and everybody else’s?  Simple.  We had an EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth on our table, and two EcoSmart Repellem trash bags hanging off the ends of the unused table in our shelter.

And, we had no bugs.  Nope, not one.  I recommend EcoSmart Repellem products to all of you this summer, for your picnics, and for your general day-by-day living.  “No bugs” is nice, and extends to your home if you use EcoSmart Repellem products there, too.

I do.   Wouldn’t be without them!

I showed you my pest-free tomato garden and upside-down-tomatoes last July. Well, this year I’ve done it again!

You read it right. I grow upside-down tomato plants on my deck. AND, like the tomato garden in my back yard, my upside-down deck tomatoes are also completely pest-free.

NOTHING bothers them. No insects. No animals. I’m not going to spray or dust any of my plants with anything, either; I’m going to depend on EcoSmart Repellem to take care of any and all mites, fungi, and living pestiferous things of every kind.  The cats won’t even nibble on the leaves, with Repellem near them.

Here’s a picture of one of the upside-down tomatoes. This is a really fun project; I wasn’t sure it would work, but I found the idea on Steve Spangler’s blog and it looked like it would be both fun AND easy, and so far? BOTH! If you look closely at this picture, you can see the big tomato garden in the distance - see the red EcoSmart Repellem strips tied around each tomato cage?

Here’s a close-up of the upside-down tomato. Here, you can plainly see the strip of red EcoSmart Repellem that I wrapped around the top of the bucket. Not only is that little strip of Repellem keeping all the bugs and animals away from the tomato; it’s also keep the mites and flies away from the petunias - even when there’s standing water around them!

Item: honeybees are not affected by EcoSmart Repellem products. The wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets are held at bay, but the honeybees don’t seem to mind Repellem at all. This is, of course, a GOOD thing! We WANT the honeybees!

I suggest that you all do to your gardens - big gardens and the little deck and porch pots - what I did to mine, which is: wrap strips of EcoSmart Repellem around them and watch your vegetables and flowers flourish!

If you look closely at the tomato garden, you will also see a “scarecrow” made of a broomstick with a big piece of Repellem tablecloth on it.  When the wind blows, it flaps like a flag and scares the deer away, and when the wind is still, the EcoSmart Repellem itself keeps the deer away.  Whenever I use any EcoSmart Repellem product, it’s always a win-win situation.

I also have little EcoSmart Repellem strips tied around the base of all my knockout rosebushes.  I won’t have to buy any rose “dust” this year, because NOTHING will bother my roses OR their leaves now.  It’s wonderful.

EcoSmart Repellem products are just simply wonderful.

P.S.  By the way?  With EcoSmart Repellem on your upside-down tomatoes, you can eat them right off the vine without washing them first!  And is there anything better than a fresh, picked-off-the-vine, sun-warmed cherry tomato in the summertime?

EcoSmart Repellem tablecloths are IDEAL for those outdoor barbecues and picnics, whether you’re camping or just eating out on your own deck.  In case you haven’t noticed, the wasps are out in full force now, and so are the flies, gnats, ants, and all kinds of annoying, nasty little bugs.  Whenever you step outside, it’s almost as though you were a bug magnet!  And if you are trying to eat outside, well, bugs like to eat, too!  How annoying!

Unless, of course, you’ve got an EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth on your picnic table or deck table. With Repell-em at your picnic, you’ll be able to concentrate on the food and the company, and not have to worry about being annoyed and bitten. Don’t worry about the ingredients in Repell-em harming your kids or contaminating your food, either; Repell-em products are made of 100 natural ingredients and are absolutely harmless to people.

Your EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth will also keep the raccoons, possums, squirrels, and other animals away from your deck or picnic site.

You can use each EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth several times, too.  That’s green!

Remember this scene from last spring? I’m already planning to do it again!

And why would I go to all the time and bother of winding strips of EcoSmart Repellem around each and every tomato cage in my little railroad flat garden? The answer to THAT question is easy: because it works.

Not only does it work, it works beautifully! Last year, my tomatoes were 100% untouched by insects OR animals! No gnats.  None of those huge scary-looking tomato worms.  The deer behaved as if they couldn’t even SEE all those big red delicious tomatoes hanging there.  Raccoons?  Nope.  Possums?  Zilch.  Even the turtles, which can be a genuine pest, stayed out of the garden.

I can’t even imagine having a garden now, without EcoSmart Repellem.  Just think:  no dangerous chemicals!  No hazardous sprays or powders.  Nothing touching the vegetables or flowers that is in the least bit harmful!

You can even help yourself to a cherry tomato or raspberry and gobble it down, sun-warmed and fresher-then fresh, without a single worry about accidentally devouring an insect.  Your children can wander in the garden, as all children should, and you don’t have to worry about them touching dangerous powders or chemicals!  You can feed your family anything at all from your garden, without the slightest concern about chemicals!

It’s only just a few days now until time to put in that garden.  I’ve got my EcoSmart Repellem strips ready and waiting.

Do you?

My husband is a math teacher, and in his classroom,  he likes the look of large houseplants.  Unfortunately, on Monday of this week - the first day back from Christmas break - he noticed that his large houseplants were infested with gnats.  The janitors told him that if he didn’t take care of that, he’d have to bring the plants home.

He took a Repellem trash bag to school yesterday, cut it into strips, and tied a strip loosely around the stems of each plant.  By the end of the day, there were no more gnats.

The Repellem strips drove the gnats away in a matter of a few hours.  The gnats were gone.  GONE.

I wasn’t surprised.  Remember, I used Repellem in the garden all summer, and I had not a single insect of any kind in there.  Repellem even kept the deer away!

If you’ve got houseplants, you’re going to get gnats.  Well, you’re going to get gnats UNLESS you tie a Repellem strip around each stem.  If you do that, you won’t get gnats.  Or any other kind of insect, either!  People who love African violets also love Repellem products!  People with ferns, or geraniums, or various ivies, all love Repellem products.  No matter what kind of plant you’ve got, Repellem can keep it safe from insects.  Your pets won’t use your houseplants as a salad bar if you’ve got Repellem on them, either.

Remember, Repellem products are 100% natural.  They won’t hurt the plants; they won’t hurt the air in your home; they won’t hurt your pets; and they won’t harm your children.  There is nothing whatsoever in any Repellem product that constitutes a danger to your children, to your pets, to you, or to the environment.  100% natural, and 100% biodegradable, and 100% effective.

No other product compares to Repellem.  EcoSmart Plastics did a great job with it.

Don’t forget the Repellem Contest!  It’s still going on, and you’ve got until Valentine’s Day to enter!

You know, as I glanced out my patio doors at my trash bags which were waiting to be taken to the landfill, I realized that the Repellem bags are red, and the EcoSmart bags are green.  The sight made me think of Christmas.  Together, they represent the very best that a clean, green home can be.

Both bags are made of 100% natural ingredients, and both bags are completely biodegradable.  Both bags keep your home safe from insects and vermin, and neither bag, powerful as they are, is a safety threat to your children.  In fact, your children are SAFER in a home that uses EcoSmart and Repellem products.

I really like my neighbor’s Christmas use of her Repellem bags.

Do any of you have an interesting use for your Repellem products?  If you do, please let us know.  Your idea might be prize-worthy!

We here at EcoSmart love to give our commenters prizes.

Check out what The Compactor Guy has to say about Repellem trash bags!

The Compactor Guy and Terry Feinberg, the Repellem president, worked hard for three years to develop Repellem products, and if YOU use them, not only will you be able to sit out on your deck in any kind of climate, undisturbed by insects, and not only will you be able to set your trash outside the night before the garbage truck arrives early the next morning and not have to worry about neighborhood dogs, or possums, or raccoons, scattering your trash all over the road, you will also never have to worry about the problem the restaurant in the video, on the Compactor guy’s website, has to deal with.

It makes me want to pull my feet up off the floor and sit on them.  Ewwwwwww.

With Repellem products, there will be no rats.  No cockroaches.  No flies.  No gnats.

I’ve been using them myself, ever since I first heard of them, and I’m never turning back.  Repellem trash bags are simply the best.

The BEST.

Really.

Restaurant owners need not fear the ingredients in Repellem contaminating the food, either.  Repellem products are made from 100% natural ingredients, and are also 100% biodegradable.

Too bad that restaurant manager didn’t know about Repellem.   Repellem makes the whole world cleaner and greener!

You still love your cats even after you brought the new baby home; of course you do!  Your furry baby and your new baby seem to be getting along just fine, but you’re a little worried about putting the baby down on your carpet because, well, sometimes Kitty has fleas, and fleas love carpets.

There will be worries enough as your baby grows, but this one?  Repell-em can help with this one.

It’s easy!  Just use Repell-em products in your home!  Repell-em trash bags in all of your wastebaskets.  Repell-em tablecloths under the lovely embroidered tablecloth your grandmother made for you.  Pieces of Repell-em in the closets, and in your pantry, and under your cannister lids.  Toss a few pieces of Repell-em behind the sofa and chairs, and tape a piece under all the tables.  You’ll have to do this every month, fresh, but think of the benefits!

No bugs in your home!  NONE!  Even if Kitty is crawling with fleas, none of them will invade your carpets or your upholstery.  No fleas, no moths, no ants, no roaches, no crickets, no ladybug beetles. . . . your home will be cleaner than you ever dreamed it could be!  Best of all, Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients and are absolutely harmless to your baby!  Most “pesticides” are made of dangerous chemicals, but not Repell-em - it’s not a pesticide; it doesn’t KILL, it just REPEL!  There is nothing in any Repell-em product that you need worry about around your child.

Make your home greener and cleaner with Repell-em products!