Question
how do you use sugar as fertilizer?  also, which herbs do you use for an insect free house?


Answer
Hi Candie;
Sugar doesn't fertilize.
what it does is nourish the beneficial microbes that DO enrich the soil.
Weeds don't thrive in rich soil, so they die out soon after they sprout.
A healthy enviornment for lawn critters like toads, lizards, grass snakes and beneficial insects, takes care of the harmful insects that invade your lawn.
chemicals CREATE problems, they don't cure them.
chemicals kill off the good as well as the bad, and for every harmful insect, there are hundreds of beneficial ones that feed on the harmful ones.
Baking soda is the best fungicide i have ever used, bar none.
I used to use chemicals, and constantly battled all the weed, insect and fungus problems, over and over.
It was a constant battle.
with an organic program, 90% of the problems, my beneficial critters take care of with no help from me, except providing a healthy enviornment for them to live in.

Inside;
I put a piece of rosemary about 1 inch long long on each pantry and cupboard shelf, a piece about 3 inches long under each appliance, and in each closet, in a corner.
anywhere roaches and insects can come in and/or hide.
Lavender repels house flies, is a wonderful relaxant, and a drop of lavender oil rubed between your hands and rubbed on a stufed toy given to a too tired to sleep baby, will help it relax and go to sleep in just a few minutes.
/The smell of lavender will also help you relax and drift off into a more relaxed sleep.
I grow lavender in a large container at each entrance to keep flies from coming in when the doors are opened, and it makes a lovely entrance plant.
It needs some sun though. It does well in full to partial sun.
Basil also repels insects.
I use a lot of basil in cooking, but don't use sprigs of it in the house like I do the lavender and rosemary.
Rosemary l;oves sun but will also take some shade.
In warmer climates it is evergreen.
I sprinkle cedar bark all over my yard to repel fleas and ticks. I have four dogs.
Cedar repels a ton of insects, including termites.
In spring when it is time for termites to swarm, I put a trail of cedar bark mulch about 2 or 3 inches wide and an inch or two high, all around the foundation of the house.
We never have termites. My neighbors do though, and most of them just will not go organic.
In the house I see no roaches, silverfish, earwigs, or spiders.
Those are all common to the area where I live.
I have millions of roaches in my soil in the yard. that is where they belong and prefer to be. They tunnel through the soil and aerate it, and they feed on harmful insects.
I am sure they are also on the food chain for my toads. lizards and grass snakes.
I buy lavender and cedar oil at health food stores, and sometimes online.
I paint a thin line of cedar oil along the clothes poles in my closets, and down the door sill and baseboards.
I use fresh sprigs of lavender and rosemary  thrown under my waterbed frame.
I put about 1/2 teaspoonful of lavender oil in about a half gallon of Epsom Salts and mix it well. You can color it with a few drops of food coloring. Makes great bath salts, for a relaxing and soothing bath.
I shop garage sales for pretty bottles and decanters. I pour the bath salts in them, and they look pretty on my vanity.
You can make bath salts by using your favorite cologne.
color it with a couple of drops of food coloring, in the color of your cologne. spray or pour some in the Epsom Salts and shake well. Use enough for a good strong smell of the scent you use. It will not be so strong when you use about a haf cup to a cup of it in your bath.
I use Amway LOC to make bubble bath.
It is gentle on your skin, and there is no bathtub rigg, EVER!
Pour sone of your cologne or a scented oil in a bottle of it to make scented bubble bath.
You cn make these luxury bath products for a fraction of the cost of buying them.
Put your cologne, lavender oil or other scented oil in a bottle of baby oil, and you have scented bath oil.
Better for your skin than mineral oil.
Scent baby powder too for bath powder.
I use baby powder, my Chloe' cologne and a few drops of food coloring. Put it in a bath powder box ( I bought the powders, then saved the empty boxes and refill them with my own homemade) I make lavender bath powder and Chloe' bath powder. color them with a couple drops of food coloring.
They will make a clump in the powder, so close the box tightly and shake the bejeebers out of it till it breaks up the clump and spreads the scent all through the powder.
when I have spray bottles of the scent, it is easier. I put about an inch of powder, spray it well, another layer of powder and so on til the box is full, then close it and shake.
The oils are very expensive fopr a tiny bottle, but you use only drops, so that tiny bottle lasts a long time.
Any more questions you may have, write any time. I love to share what I learn.
Charlotte