ORGANIC PESTICIDE TIPS

Use organic pesticides

You do not need to buy costly chemical fertilizer or pesticide sprays. Some good organic pesticides come straight from your kitchen cupboards.

This is a recipe for canola oil spray which suffocates soft body insects. Use one cup of canola oil and add to one gallon of water. Do not try to make it work better by using more canola oil, you could harm your plants.

Use baking soda as a fungicide by using 1 teaspoon of baking soda to 1/4 gal of water, add 1/4 teaspoon of canola oil to help the baking soda stay on the leaves,. spray all over your plants.

another good organic tip is if you have animals eating your plants, put some really hot peppers into your garlic spray, cut the hot peppers up finely and soak with your garlic overnight, again strain & mix with one gallon of water and spray all over your plants. Leave the seeds in when you add the hot peppers.

Place your pumpkins and other curcubits on a bed of sand, snails and slugs will not cross over the sand, this way you save on buying slug and snail bait. :o)

for scale, thrips, aphids and whitefly try using one part ammonia to seven parts water. spray all over your plants.

the greatest organic tip of them all. If you have powdery mildew on your curcubits, mix one part skim milk or nonfat milk to nine parts water and spray all over your plants. In New Zealand the growers are saving thousands of dollars each year with this recipe. It pays to use this recipe once a week as a preventative measure. Do not put more milk in this recipe than 1 in 9, or your plants will get a fungus.

to control aphids, scales, thrips and whitefly try using one cup of isopropyl alcohol to 1/4 gal of water, try on just one plant and see what your plant is like in two days, if ok spray all over your plants.

To kill flying insects use three to four tablespoons of ground cloves in one gallon of water, spray over your plants.

to help prevent the cabbage moth from laying their eggs on your cabbages use two cups of crushed tansy leaves, mix with four cups of water, soak overnight, strain, add 1/4 teaspoon of canola oil and spray all over your plants.

heres an easy tip, spray vinegar over and onto your weeds to eradicate them. I would use white vinegar in place of malt vinegar so you don't get that malty smell.

A dusting of boric acid can eliminate cockroaches, apply where they hang out, as always (keep out of the reach of pets or children) Most of these homemade recipes need to be applied fortnightly for the maximum affect.

Organic Pesticide Tips