Homemade Pest Control
Here are some homemade natural pesticide and fungicide recipes for safe natural pest control:
Repel everything from insects to rabbits, kill mold, fungus or mildew, and exterminate pests. All with natural alternatives to chemical pesticides.
Use garlic for gardening pest control, natural pesticide and insect repellent.
Homemade natural pesticide spray
Soak 3 to 4 ounces of chopped garlic bulbs in 2 tablespoons of mineral oil for one day. Dissolve 1 tsp of fish emulsion in a pint of water and add it to your solution.
Stir.
Strain liquid and store in a glass container - not metal!
Dilute 1 part solution to every 20 parts of water.
Kills aphids, mosquitoes, and onion flies.
Homemade pest control and natural insect repellent.
1. If you plant garlic with tomatoes, it will keep away red spider mites.
2. If you plant garlic around fruit trees, it will repel borers.
3. Spray garlic pesticide on sweet potatoes to repel rabbits.
4. Spray ponds with garlic-based oil to kill mosquitoes.
An insect repellent spray made of tomato leaves
Add four or five pints of water and 1 tablespoon of cornstarch to tomato leaves crushed in your vegetable juicer. Strain it. Keep the unused spray refrigerated. Works good on roses too.
Popular Botanical Pesticides
* Neem
* Rotenone
* Pyrethrin
* Sabadilla
Control Gardening Pest With Insecticidal Soap
Has value against flea beetles, aphids, mealybugs, spider mites, thrips, and whiteflies, sometimes caterpillars and leafhoppers. Combined with Rotenone, it is more effective. Insecticidal soap works only on direct contact; spray it right on the target. Combined with horticultural or botanical oils, insecticidal soap manages powdery mildew.
Use onion and Mint as bug repellent. Onion and mint are natural flea and beetle repellents.
by Sally Odum - Homemade Pest Control
