Make a brew of elderberry leaves and spray as an insecticide. All parts of the elderberry, except the flowers and the cooked berries, are toxic. The larvae of the Monarch butterfly feed on milkweed. Plant some in the back of your garden. Dress up summer salads with flowers calendula, violets, nasturtium, johnny jump-ups, roses, squash blossoms, and borage.
Most plants do better with light, regular applications of fertilizer.
Feed roses twice a month annuals every ten days with foliar spray. Do not fertilize when temperature is over 80 degrees. July Fertilize roses until the first of August. Pinch back chrysanthemums until mid-July. Tea leaves act as an insecticide in the soil.