My Upside-Down Tomatoes Are Unmolested, Thanks To Repell-em!
Posted in Repell-em tablecloth, environmentally safe products, Unique gift, Recyclable, Garden, Repell-em trash bags, green marketing, Do It Yourself, Product info, Blogroll, Outdoors, Safety, Helpful Hints, Food Safety, Repell-em
I showed you my pest-free tomato garden last Friday. Today, I’m going to show you how I grow tomatoes on my deck - upside-down.
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 Repell-em to take care of any and all mites, fungi, and living pestiferous things of every kind.
Here’s a picture of the upside-down tomato. 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.
Here’s a close-up of the upside-down tomato. Here, you can plainly see the strip of red Repell-em that I wrapped around the top of the bucket. Not only is that little strip of Repell-em 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 Repell-em products. The wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets are held at bay, but the honeybees don’t seem to mind Repell-em 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 mind, which is: wrap strips of Repell-em around them and watch your vegetables and flowers flourish!
Tags: Sphere ItBuy Repell-em Garbage Bags and keep the animals away!
Related Posts:
August 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am
[…] you know all about my upside-down tomatoes that were doing so well, all wrapped in Repell-em strips and hanging on my […]
August 18th, 2008 at 12:05 am
[…] deck, I have not noticed a single mosquito, gnat, or insect of any kind. That’s because my upside-down tomatoes have Repell-em strips on them, and also because I have a Repell-em tablecloth on my deck […]