Looking for the best way to get rid of ticks in your yard without putting your family and pets at risk?
Keeping tick populations under control isn’t just about making your backyard more enjoyable – it’s one of the best ways to protect your family, pets, and even wildlife from the diseases these tiny pests can carry. The challenge is finding a solution that actually works without harming everything else in your landscape.
Many commercial tick sprays and pesticides can also kill bees, butterflies, ladybugs, and other beneficial insects. On top of that, they often require extra precautions to keep children and pets away until the chemicals have dried. The good news is there is an answer to get rid of ticks safely!
The Best Way To Get Rid Of Ticks
An All Natural Solution That Really Works!
One thing is certain – you don’t have to rely on harsh chemicals to stop ticks. That is because one of the safest and most effective ways to control them is with all-natural neem oil. When used properly, neem oil can dramatically reduce tick populations while remaining safe for people, pets, and the beneficial insects that help keep your flowerbeds, gardens, and landscape healthy.
When it comes to protecting plants from insects, disease and more, neem oil is a proven all star! This all natural liquid is made from pressing oil from the seeds of a neem tree. And does it ever have a long list of helpful qualities all over the landscape.
When sprayed on fruit trees, it can protect developing fruit from scab, leaf spot, fungus and more. It can also help to kill lawn grubs when applied to lawns. And when you take care of grubs, you eliminate ground moles too! See: How To Get Rid Of Grubs & Keep Ground Moles Away For Good!
The Power Of Neem Oil
But neem oil’s protective qualities don’t stop there. It’s also incredible for controlling aphids and whitefly infestations on flowers and vegetable plants. It also kills mosquitoes and fleas – all while being completely safe to use on plants and vegetables.
If that wasn’t enough, neem oil also eliminates young Japanese Beetles before they ever reach adulthood. And yes, you may have guessed by this point, it happens to kill ticks too. And quite amazingly well!
But here is the best new of all – even though neem oil can be detrimental to so many insects, it does not bother or harm bees and butterflies when applied correctly – which means you can keep important pollinators safe will taking care of ticks.
How Neem Oil Can Get Rid Of Ticks For Good
When neem oil is sprayed onto a tick, the oil blocks the insects ability to breathe. When that happens, the tick loses the ability to function. Within a short period, the tick dies. Neem oil also disrupts mating and reproduction, further disrupting the ability to populate.
The good news is that it is extremely easy to use. To control tick populations on lawns, simply mix one gallon of water with 6 tablespoons of neem oil. Affiliate Product Link: Nani’s Pure Neem Oil Concentrate
Applying The Spray
To help allow the spray to stick to grass and plants, add in a teaspoon of olive oil or vegetable oil to the mixture and shake well. This will help provide better coverage and better tick control.
The mixture can be applied directly to lawns using a a pump or backpack sprayer. Be sure to coat the surface of the lawn evenly. Not only will this application help to rid your lawn of ticks, but it can also eliminate grubs, Japanese beetle larva, mites, fleas and mosquitoes in the grass too.
As for protecting the pollinators, always spray early in the morning or late in the evening when butterflies and bees are rarely active. If neem oil is sprayed directly onto a butterfly or bee it can kill them. However, once it dries (which is quite fast) it will not harm them.
For best results, re-apply once a month throughout the spring, summer and early fall months. Getting a spring application on is great for helping to control mating and population booms. If you are not into mixing your own organic solution, there are also all-natural neem oil mixes on the market that are ready to spray.
Chickens Can Help Too!
Believe it or not, one of the best and most effective ways to eliminate ticks and clear them from your yard is with a small flock of backyard chickens!
We can speak to this fact from our own personal experience. When we started to build our first farm back in 2010, to say there was a tick problem would be the understatement of the year. In fact, you couldn’t walk ten feet in any direction without having one attaching to your clothing or arms.
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It was so bad in fact, that our then eleven year old son wouldn’t leave the comfort of a small trailer to step in the grass – mainly because he was not fond of ticks in the least!
If you happen to have chickens, allowing them to roam in your yard can put a serious dent in tick populations. They absolutely love them and in short order can almost eliminate them entirely. For us, within a year, we had zero ticks!
Here is to getting rid of ticks from your yard – and to keeping you, your family, and your pets safe! Happy Gardening – Jim & Mary.
The Farm @ Old World Garden
Jim and Mary Competti have been writing gardening, DIY and recipe articles and books for over 16 years from their 46 acre Ohio farm. The two are frequent speakers on all things gardening and love to travel in their spare time.
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