THE NATURAL GARDEN - ORGANIC PESTICIDES The average gardener's shed contains enough chemicals to kill his entire family several times over. These include products such as wood preservatives, fungicides and pesticides. There are alternative methods to controlling those terrible little pests. Essential oils can be "preventative medicine" for your garden. The following shows natural alternatives to chemical pesticides. INSECT REPELLENT PLANT ESSENTIAL OIL ants spearmint, tansy, spearmint, peppennint, pennyroyal, peppermint pennyroyal, garlic, citronella -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- aphids nasturtium, spearmint, spearmint, peppermint, stinging nettle, cedarwood, hyssop southernwood, garlic, potatoes, parsley, basil, horseradish -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bean beetle potatoes, thyme thyme, garlic, peppermint -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- black fly stinging nettle, basil, lavender, tagetes, tansy lavender -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cabbage root fly sage, rosemary, hyssop, peppermint, sage, thyme, peppermint, rosemary, hyssop, thyme celery, mint, wormwood, southernwood -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- carrot fly rosemary, chives, sage, tansy, rosemary, tagetes thyme, leeks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- caterpillars celery, cleric family, spearmint, pennyroyal, tomatoes peppermint -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cutworm oakleaf, bark thyme, sage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- eel worm marigold tagetes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- flea beetle wormwood, mint, lettuce peppermint, lemongrass, (black) spearmint, rue, lavender -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fleas lavender, mint lemongrass, citronella, pennyroyal, rue, tansy, lavender -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- flies rue, tansy, wormwood, rue, lavender, tomatoes citronella, peppermint, tansy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gnats pennyroyal tagetes, spearmint, citronella, patchouli -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- greenfly garlic lavender, tagetes, tansy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lice spearmint, pennyroyal, spearmint, peppermint, peppermint, nettle, basil cedarwood, pennyroyal, rue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- mosquitoes sassafras, pennyroyal, lavender, pennyroyal wormwood, southernwood, sassafras, citronella, rosemary, sage, santolina, lemongrass, tansy lavender, mint -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- moths wormwood, southernwood, spearmint, lavender, rosemary, sage, santolina, hyssop, citronella, lavender, mint, tansy peppermint -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nematodes marigolds tagetes, sage, citronella -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- plant lice stinging nettles rue, spearmint, peppermint -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- slugs garlic, chives, wormwood garlic, cedarwood, hyssop, sassafras, pine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- snails garlic cedarwood, sassafras, pine, garlic, patchouli -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ticks rue citronella, lemongrass, thyme, sage, pennyroyal, rue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- weevils garlic cedarwood,, rue, sandalwood, patchouli -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- white fly marigolds, tomatoes tagetes, tansy, lavender, sage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- woolly aphids nasturtium sandalwood, patchouli, pine --------------------------------------------------------------------------------