Make Your Own Safe And Natural Insect Spray! Pesky aphids and those dreaded whiteflies don’t stand a chance! This is the time of year when insect outbreaks rear their ugly heads and start to invade our gardens. We’ve put way too much time and effort and sometimes money into growing our crops up to this point, losing them to these plant munchers is not an option.
Look, for most you guys, spraying your garden with systemic chemicals is not an option. Lingering poison on our food crops, in our soil, and then in our bodies is a non starter….no thank you! This solution is safe, natural, and it contains just 3 ingredients! Today I’ll show you how to make the simplest aphid and insect spray as well as tell you why it works and how to apply it!
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OMG! I'm getting Sotty Mold from the freaking bugs!
Love your videos. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Geoff for sharing this.
I am pretty particular of what I put on the garden which will eventually feed me and this solution is perfect and this is the right time of year especially since here on the west coast with our first heat wave. We have had so much rain and our plants are not quite used to a massive jump in temperature and lots of sun. I use a non-perfumed, natural soap from the Natural Section of the local grocer. I did not think of using vegetable oil until you mentioned it, this is a much cheaper solution than Neem oil.
Rosella
Kas- teel. Thanks for your recipe.
Bed bugs for plants
I used to use a combination of plant-based soap and pure lemon juice in equal parts (mix rate was 20:1 with water from the hose) and I would spray down all my vegetation (trees, ornamentals, hedges, flowers, fruits and veggies) once a week on the coolest part of the day (usually early evening). Kept buggies to a minimum whilst I fixed underlying problems (poor soil conditions, overcrowding, etc.) This will be a good 'spot' treatment. Thanks =)
I LOVE your videos but I have to disagree w/the option of using canola oil (for anything!) It comes from rapeseed oil, which is toxic. If livestock eat it, they die. We shouldn't be eating it, either!
Is neem oil a type of vegetable oil? That’s the only kind I’ve ever heard used in homemade sprays.
I will have to remember to wash this off. Now I just need something to get rid of these darn Japanese beetles.
Does this work for cucumber beetles I have an outbreak beyond control.
Geoff, We'll have to try this quite a few different plants are getting attacked by flea beatles.
I use 2 tbsp dish soap to 1 pint of water…works wonderfully!
Washing aphids off before applying the mix? What's the logic here? Seems like I would want to keep them clustered on the plant so the mix would kill them. I have stopped two early infestations of aphids this year. The first attack was on my seedlings as I was hardening them off. I used a mix of soap and water. The second attack was several weeks later on strawberries. I used hydrogen peroxide and water. Both mixes stopped the aphids without harming the plants. I haven't seen aphids again and it has been over a month since the last invasion.
I get those tiny white things eating my swiss chard. Giving this a try.
Hi,Can I use this recipe on my tomatoes plants?
Love your enthusiasm! Thank you for your guidance
Can I use dawn dish soap instead of Castile soaps
Perfect video Geoff and perfectly timed! I did spray down all of my garlic, tomatoes and runner beans with diluted dish soap but didn't know about the oil, so i will add that tomorrow to the bottle, hose them down and re apply.
Thanks for the tips!
Also, earlier today, i went in and pruned down more of the lower tomato leaves to allow more air flow as i noticed that some of the black aphids had crawled onto the leaves from the garlic. They wasn't pruned that long ago but the tomatoes sure have shot up during the hot weather here!
Like you say when you are growing so much it is hard to keep track of all of the things you need to do. I ended up pulling out the soft neck garlic and there were a few decent sized bulbs say about 5/9 that i planted. The 3 rows of hard neck garlic, doesn't seem as bad so i am just going to spray them to keep the aphid numbers down.
I have neem oil at home; but, have never used it. It's 100% virgin cold press. But, it seems to be tricky to use. I also have diatomaceous earth, which seems effective for some pests. But, my garden plot is at the downtown community garden and it is not easy for me to get there every single day.
When my parents let me put in a backyard garden way back in the late 60s to the 70s, I used water and dish soap; although, I don't think it really was soap. I think it was just dishwashing liquid, probably detergent. I never even thought of mixing cooking oil with it.
My first go to is hard water spray. Next, soap and peppermint oil.
But sometimes, I breakout the bad stuff.
Are the clusters of black bugs aphids?
Ive got advice, not for bugs but rather fungus. This year, every time my tomatoes got fungal infected leaves, I fully sprayed with clove/Rosemary water mixture every night, for a few days. Both times Id have new sets of leaves dying, every day soft brown spots moved up the plant until I sprayed, and it stops spread the same day. Spray front and backs of leaves, try not do wet flowers too much but a mist wont hurt. Only thing I noticed was one morning after spraying my tomato, a part of my raspberry that got residual mist had its natural powdery coating taken off the cane. Its fine but I’m sure its not good for it. As he says, test a bit on a small leaf/stem to see the plants reaction. Hope anyone who has these these fungal issues every year can benefit from this, cheers.
Thanks so much for the info , it helps me a lot .