Mix the ingredients in a container or put the alfalfa in a sock and let it steep. You can use it within 24 hours or let it sit for 4 or 5 days and really send your neighbours wild! It will be very smelly! Pour over the soil under plants. Some gardeners even pour it over their plants. The alfalfa left in the container can be put on the garden also.
To feed the microbes in the soil, add 1 tbsp of molasses to the mix.
Use a plastic gallon jug with the top portion cut off as a container. Allow the mixture to ferment in a worm place and then put it in the garden or hang from a branch. Beetles will find it irresistible.
Pour into a 10-gallon hose-end sprayer and apply to lawn. During high heat periods apply every three weeks. Your lawn will be sparkly clean, free of molds and pretty well free of insects, and nice and green.
Mix in a watering can and wet leaves. Use once a week. This mixture will not prevent powdery mildew but it will control it.
Mix one part milk to 9 parts water. Spray infected plants once a week. This mixture, like the baking soda mixture, changes the environment and discourages the mildew.
Mix equal parts of Canola oil and Molasses in a tuna can or jar lid. Place on the ground where earwigs have been feeding. The earwigs are attracted to the molasses and the oil coats their bodies so that they cannot breathe. The one drawback is that skunks really like the mixture, too. But I like to think the skunks are eating the earwigs along with the mixture. Sort of like dipping sauce!
Use pure soap, not detergent. Combine the ingredients in a bucket, mix and transfer to a spray bottle as needed. Good for soft-bodied insects such as aphids. The mixture must come in contact with the insect to be effective.
Spray on leaves in early spring. Be sure to wet the leaves well. (You can also spray on a winter day when the temperature is above freezing.) The spray will prevent the hatching of insect eggs. Dormant oil sprays are used on fruit trees and also on roses.
Use a small plastic container with a lid(like a sour cream container). Punch holes in the sides at the bottom so that ants can enter. Saturate cotton balls with the solution and place in the container. Put the container on the floor or ground where ants have been seen.
Take care with this solution. Borox is poisonous and can be harmful to small children and pets.
Mix a solution of 1 part ammonia to 10 parts water. Spray on the ground or over the crown of hostas just as the foliage starts to show. If the leaves are open, the solution will harm the hosta.