Sure. As far as weeds goes, pulling them works wonders. Bug killers? Figure out how to get the neighborhood birds to eat 'em, i guess.
Past that, i think your querent is on his or her own, although i seriously doubt that i gave the sort of answer s/he was hoping to find. Then again, those are non-toxic....
Additional bug-killers: spiders, ladybugs, and bats. There's some towns in the midwest that set up huge "apartment buildings" for purple martins (a community-dwelling insect-eating bird), attempting to draw as many of them as possible in order to safely control insects. It's also possible to find instructions for building bat-houses online. Of course, it's entirely up to the critters to decide if such accommodations are acceptable, so there's no guarantee of success. Ladybugs, on the other hand, can be purchased at many garden shops and such. Of course, in an open garden, there's no way to keep them in a particular location... (There's no such problems inside a greenhouse, of course.)
The problem with "weed killers" is that the definition of a weed is subjective. Weed killers will almost certainly be harmful to many plants. This means that there has to be a selective process involved... the simplest of which is simply finding and pulling them yourself.
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Date: 2003-05-07 11:18 am (UTC)Past that, i think your querent is on his or her own, although i seriously doubt that i gave the sort of answer s/he was hoping to find. Then again, those are non-toxic....
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Date: 2003-05-07 02:59 pm (UTC)The problem with "weed killers" is that the definition of a weed is subjective. Weed killers will almost certainly be harmful to many plants. This means that there has to be a selective process involved... the simplest of which is simply finding and pulling them yourself.