NNEM: AN EDIBLE PESTICIDE!

摘要

One of the most wonderful things about owning a greenhouse is the incredible pleasure that comes from spending time with thriving plants that would never survive without the special attention and care they get from you. The downside of that joy, however, is the need to occasionally use pesticides in a closed-in spot where you're likely to be breathing almost as much of the spray as the bugs you're going after.If you're spraying neem, that's okay. Neem - Azadirachta indica - is the basis of an EPA-registered pesticide that's so safe it's been used as a medicinal herb for nearly 5,000 years. And if you own a greenhouse, you can grow your own neem. In its nativeIndia, Neem can become an enormous tree, up to 100 feet tall. In a greenhouse, Darticularly if you're growing neem to harvest eaves to mix your own spray, it's happy as a much smaller plant. We usually tell people that Neem trees are like goldfish - they'll only get as big as their pots allow. They're also super-easy to grow. They repel bugs on their own, and they're extremely xeric.