Premium pesticide for plants products can be hard on one’s budget and can prove to be financially costly. But there is always a solution as an alternative to every challenge. Plants are living organisms, which require them to be nurtured and well-maintained for their growth.
As a matter of fact, everything comes with a cost when it comes to growth and plants face some challenges when they are in their growth stage. The challenges can include weather conditions deteriorating the plants totally, but that is related to nature’s work. Excluding weather conditions, one of the major concerns for crop growth is the issue of insects and pest damage. Plants can get a mite infestation and the leaves will look horrible.
Hopefully, the pests and insects can be remedied with simple, yet effective DIY homemade pesticides for plants projects. Meanwhile, the crops can continue to grow at their pace by providing and boring its sweet fruits, just like the proverb says.
Here are some best DIY Pesticides for plants, which can be created easily with available content with convenient implementations.
Oil Spray
A simple ingredient-based spray with a highly optimal result. Oil Spray requires the following ingredients, vegetable oil, mild liquid soap, and water.
The combination of the mentioned ingredients is done through the mixing of one cup vegetable oil with one tablespoon mild liquid soap. This combination’s mixture is added to one quart of water.
It’s ready to go now. Spray the mixture on the plant and get the results. Additionally, the oil spray assists in smothering the insects on the plants.
Tomato Leaves Spray
Tomatoes and its leaves are always affordable and easily available, depending on time of year. What are you waiting for then? Grab it up and let’s see what it can do.
Creating Tomato Leaves spray pesticides for plants involves the procedure of soaking the tomato’s fresh leaves into a quart of water on a nightly basis. Strain it and start spraying.
Moreover, tomatoes’ leaves include solanine and tomatine by dealing with the pesticides available on any type of crop. Aside from that, a precaution must be noted for avoiding the use of a certain spray on eggplants, peppers, and potatoes except for normal crops. This precaution is due to the disease-sensitive issues spread plant to plant in a field. Also, be careful with the water since the leaves are mildly toxic to humans.
Garlic Repellent Spray
Garlic is significant for being used as a repellent, due to its natural insect repellent capabilities. It is used in various repellents for crawling and flying insects including pests.
For Garlic Repellent Spray, two bulbs of garlic, and a half cup of vegetable and liquid soap oil are required, provided that the garlic is in its organic state. Furthermore, the garlic bulbs are mixed with 1 cup of water overnight. The liquid from the mixture is strained out into a jar. The vegetable oil of half a cup and one teaspoon of liquid soap is added to the jar in the strained liquid. The following mixture is filled with more water. The repellent spray is prepared, requiring only a quart sprayer which is used for adding a cup of garlic repellent liquid from the jar into the quart sprayer. Time to implement the spray on the plant now.
Factually speaking, the repellent is proven to be quite good for cabbage worms, squash bugs, whiteflies, and other pests or insects, which deteriorates the growth of any crop.
Hot Pepper Repellent Spray
Hot pepper is a recommended substitute for signifying as a repellent due to its reaction to insects.
Creating a Hot Pepper Repellent spray requires dried chili powder and mild soap. Proceeding ahead, mix dried chili power of one tablespoon with one quart of water, including mild soap. Your Hot Pepper Repellent Spray is ready to be used.
Precautions to note, gloves are essential when using the spray and maintaining a distance between your eyes and the repellent spray, as chili is highly sensitive to the eyes, especially in relevant cases of pests where the chili ingredient is used a lot.
Final Thoughts on DIY Pesticides for Plants
In drawing a closer picture, pest management may be considered a tough job. At least we can try our best and use as much information ad possible by implementing it into our strategy. Just like the old saying says that, “great things happen to those who never stop believing, trying, and learning”. Also, by being grateful in the process towards the path of the strategy being planned out. Such DIY pesticides for plants can be easily implemented anywhere regardless of accessibility since most of the ingredients required for a certain pesticide are easily available and cheap. What matters the most is the process of continuing to keep trying and so things shall be sorted out with the best results and lead towards more growth.
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