Substantial List of Organic Bug Control Remedies

List compiled by. Australian Organic Gardening. Posted on. Wake Up World.

NATURAL BUG SPRAY FROM ONION SCRAPS.

You can make your own natural bug spray from kitchen leftovers! When you have enough, position the onion pieces in a pail and fill with warm water. After one week, stress the onion bits out and store the onion water in spray bottles.

Bury the onion bits around plants that are susceptible to aphids, spiders and other bugs. Simply spray both house and garden plants with the water to combat aphids and insects. You can likewise blend your garlic trimmings in with the onion pieces, bugs hate garlic too!

TREAT FOR WHITE/BLACK AREA (mildew).
Add * 1 litre of FULL cream milk to an * 8 litre watering can, watered on Roses or mildew bring in plants, will kill white/black area.

SCALES.

Make the oil spray by blending 2 cups of vegetable oil with one cup of pure liquid soap, and blend it up until it turns white.

Water down one tablespoon of the emulsion to one litre of water and spray all impacted areas completely. Do this during moderate weather condition, since if it’s hot it may burn the plant’s leaves.

Honeydew also leads to sooty mould, a black dusty fungus that grows over the leaves and stems. Managing the scale will likewise get rid of the sooty mould.

If you only have a percentage of scale, scrape it off with a fingernail or toothbrush. Bigger infestations can be managed by spraying with an oil to suffocate them.

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Pour liquid into spray bottle. Spray a great mist on rose bushes, making sure to coat both tops and bottoms of leaves.

GARLIC SPRAY.

Slice 90 grams of garlic, cover with mineral oil let soak over night, stress, include 1 litre of soapy water and store in a glass container with a sealed lid. Dilute one part garlic to 50 parts water for usage in spraying.

ALUMINUM FOIL FOILS APHIDS.

Utilize an aluminum foil much around the base of plants such as tomatoes. The reflection puzzles the insects and drives them away.

GENERAL PESTICIDE.

Pour into a spray bottle and add the liquid soap and water. Pressure out pulp and spray onto plagued plants, making sure to coat both tops and bottoms of leaves.

VERSUS INSECT PESTS.

Soapy water (NOT cleaning agent). Attempt to discover one based on caustic potash, rather than caustic soda and mix well with water up until frothy (you’ll require more soap in difficult water areas).

Oil sprays suffocate bugs. Spray on cool days just.

Tomato leaf spray (really toxic). Cover leaves with cool, water and boil.

Pyrethrum spray. Cover a couple of tablespoons of flowers with inexpensive sherry, high overnight and mix with a litre of hot soapy water. Cool and usage within a couple of days as a basic insecticide.

Wormwood spray. Instill leaves in boiling water and leave for a couple of hours.

6. Chilli spray– equivalent volumes chilli and water combined and sprayed fresh onto caterpillars. (Prevent contact with eyes and skin.).

7. Lapsang Souchong tea– a strong brew (1 tbspn in a pot) discourages possums from nipping increased ideas.

8. Lots of other materials can be used to make insect sprays. Depending on what you have readily available, try -quassia, garlic, marigolds, melaleuca, parsnips, turnips, eucalyptus, larkspur, elder, white cedar (Melia azaderach) or rhubarb (Please note: larkspur, senior (other than for ripe berries) white cedar and rhubarb leaves are all extremely toxic to humans.).

AGAINST FUNGAL DISEASES.

The following plants apparently contain anti-bacterial or antifungal chemicals that you can extract via infusion to spray onto crops: Chamomile, chives, sheoak (Allocasuarina), elder, eucalyptus, garlic, horseradish, hyssop, melaleuca (tea-tree), neem (Azadirachta indica), nettle (Urtica dioica), and thyme.

ANTI FUNGALS.:

1. Milk spray: a 1:1 mix of milk and water supposedly controls black area on roses and fungal diseases on other plants.

2. Fresh urine (a healthy person’s urine is sterile).

3. Condy’s Crystals: 1gram/L of potassium permanganate. Use right away.

4. Washing soda: 110g dissolved in 5.5 L water. Add 56g soap and use instantly.

5. Bordeaux mixture: In a container entirely liquify 90g of copper sulphate in 6.5 L water. In another bucket, completely blend 125g brickies lime with 2.5 L water and stress into very first container. Mix well and utilize right away. 6. Cleaning sulphur.

BORDEAUX MIXTURE.

Mix 90g of copper sulphate (bluestone) with 4.5 litres of hot water in a non metallic container and leave overnight. Next day mix 125g slaked lime with 4.5 litres of cold water in a non metallic container. Bordeaux spray might clog nozzles.

OTHER BUG CONTROL HINTS.

1. Usage companion plants that mask the scent or look of desirable crops. Many highly aromatic plants contain chemicals designed to make them unappealing to bugs. Camphor, mints, fragrant pelargoniums, wormwood, southernwood, lavender, balm of Gilead, rosemary, sage and lots of other herbs have spicy/bitter scents instead of sweet ones. These herbs can puzzle insect insects by masking attractive aromas when actively growing among desirable crops.

Use companion plants that act as indication, trap or sacrifice crops. Some plants, consisting of nasturtium, mustard and Chinese cabbage, can be used as decoys so that pests assault them rather than your crop. Codling moth can likewise be reduced by banding trees with corrugated cardboard soaked in derris spray.

ORGANIC SPRAY. Quarter fill your spray bottle with vinegar, a teaspoon each of molasses (melt down in a cup of warm water) and liquid soap, top up with faucet water.

BUG JUICE.

Gather by hand the nuisance bug, bug, grub or snail from your garden. Location the bug( s) into a blender, cover with fresh water and switch on. DON’T FORGET THE COVER. Then stress, water down 1 part to 20 parts of water into a spray bottle. Spray the juice on the underside of the leaves as well as on top.

MILK.

Milk is efficient versus a series of mildews on peas, pumpkins and cucumber leaves. Use equivalent parts milk and water and spray every number of days till the mildew is under control. If the mildew is out of control get rid of the impacted leaves to prevent the mildew from spreading and do not water at night, try watering in the mornings.

MOLASSES SPRAY.

Molasses is an excellent deterrent sticky spray, suitable for cabbage moths and grubs on the Brassicas. Blend 1 tablespoon of molasses with 1 litre of hot water up until the colour of weak tea, then blend in one tea spoon of cleaning agent, which will help the molasses to stick to the leaves, spray top and under side of the leaves. You might likewise add vinegar to this brew to make it more potent.

VINEGAR SPRAY.

For cabbage moths and grubs on the Brassicas. Mix 1/4 vinegar with 3/4 of water, then blend in one tea spoon of detergent, which will assist the vinegar to stay with the grubs, bugs and leaves of the plant, spray top and under side of the leaves. You can likewise add molasses to this brew.

GREASE.

1 table spoon of dishwashing cleaning agent & & 1 cup of grease. Mix together and shop in an air tight bottle. When needed add 1 to 2 1/2 tea spoons of brew to 1 cup of water in a spray bottle, spray on plants covering all leaf and stem surfaces.

CHAMOMILE TEA.

Is a mild fungicide. Pour boiling water over a chamomile tea bag, leave to steep for 10 minutes, when cool usage as a spray.

PYRETHRUM.

( Harmless to people and animals) Two heaped tablespoon pyrethrum flowers, stand in one litre of hot soapy water for one hour, usage and pressure (the soap will help the spray to stick on the plants). Do not breathe in the fumes as they are hazardous.

CHILLI PEPPER.

Mix fresh chillies in water, include pure soap, stress and spray. Acts as a stomach toxin and can be utilized against caterpillars. Spray along ant tracks or kitchen racks as an ant repellent. Used by beekeepers to keep ants from hives.

WORMWOOD..

Water down 1 part brew 4 parts water, usage as a spray. Excellent aphid and fly spray.

RHUBARB..

A spray made from rhubarb leaves is safe to bees and breaks down quickly, however it is harmful to human beings, so be sure to keep it out of the reach of kids. Boil 1 kg of leaves in 3 litres of water for half an hour, strain, add some soap. Water down with equivalent parts of water before spraying.

VEGGIE OIL.

Spray recipe Mix 1 tablespoon of liquid soap with 1 cup of vegetable oil. Oil sprays can likewise cause burning if applied when shade temperatures exceed 29 degrees celcius or when applied within 4 weeks of a sulfur spray such as wettable sulfur or lime sulfur.

INSECTICIDAL POTASSIUM SOAP.

Insecticidal potassium soap has a high salt material which when sprayed on prone pests desiccates and kills them. Being a contact insecticide, the target bug need to come into direct contact with the spray, so great coverage is important for optimal results.

PURE SOAP.

Pure soap when blended with water can be utilized as a natural insecticide for the control of some sap-sucking bug pests, including aphids and mealy bugs. It is a contact insecticide and works by breaking down the insect’s exoskeleton, triggering it to die and dehydrate.

SULPHUR.

Sulfur is signed up as a protectant and erradicant fungicide for the control of powdery mildew on vegetables and ornamentals, rust on veggies and various fungal illness on stonefruit. Sulfur is also registered as an insecticide, for the control of termites on veggies and ornamentals, grape leaf rust mite and grape leaf blister mite on grapes and white louse scale, citrus rust mite and citrus bud mite on citrus. Sulfur must not be applied 21 days prior to or after an oil spray, in mix with an oil spray or when temperatures are anticipated to exceed 25 degrees celcius. Sulfur can be bought as ‘Sulfur spray’, ‘Dusting sulfur’, ‘Powdered sulfur’ or ‘Wettable sulfur’ and can be discovered in various other items in mix with ‘mancozeb’, ‘copper oxychloride’, ‘rotenone’ and ‘carbaryl’.

LIME SULPHUR.

Lime sulfur is signed up to manage grainy mildew on ornamentals and various illness on stonefruit and apples. It is likewise registered as an insecticide for the control of some scale and mite types on numerous fruit trees, ornamentals and tomatoes.Lime sulfur should not be applied when the air temperature level is over 32 degrees celsius, after a copper spray in the exact same season or within 2 weeks of an oil spray.

CONDIES CRYSTALS.( potassium permanganate).

Condies crystals can be blended with water and sprayed onto plant foliage to control powdery mildew. They may likewise be useful as a contact spray for the control of aphids and slugs.Condies crystal spray dish Mix 30g of condies crystals, 9L of warm water and 30 ml of petroleum oil. Spray pure.

MOLASSES Molasses spray can be used as a feeding deterrent for chewing pests such as caterpillars and grasshoppers.Molasses spray dish Mix 1 tablespoon of molasses and 5 g of pure soap flakes in 1 L of water. Apply pure as required.Molasses used to soil plagued with nematodes may minimize root galling and nematode reproduction. Molasses soil treatmentApply 38 ml of molasses per litre of water per square metre of soil weekly.

MILK Spraying equal parts complete cream milk and water every 2 days might help control the fungal illness powdery mildew. Grainy mildew can be an issue in pea, tomato, capsicum and cucurbit crops.

VINEGAR Vinegar spray might be beneficial in controlling caterpillars and sap-sucking pests such as stink aphids, mealybugs, and bugs. Vinegar spray recipe Mix 1 part vinegar with 3 parts water and include 5 g of pure soap flakes.

CHILLI SPRAY FOR APHIDS ON ROSES.

5 garlic cloves 3 hot chillies 2 litres of boiling water Steep over night. Use in all garden sprayers.

GARLIC SPRAY.

general bug deterrent 10 garlic cloves 5 little hot chillies 3 medium onions 1 litre of water.

Mix all components together, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.Let stand overnight then include 2 tbsp. of milk. Shop in labelled glass jars.Use by diluting 1 cup of the mix to 9 litres of water. Use in all garden sprayers.

TO REMOVE MILLIPEDES OR EARWIGS.

10 ml Eucalyptus Oil 10 ml Biodegradable Hair Shampoo 80 ml water Mix all components together and spray around on the ground at night.

POSSUM DETERRENT.

300 grams of Quassia Chips, (Surinam Tree:- wood, bark or root of this and other trees yielding bitter medicinal preparation) to 1 litre of water.

Boil chips for 5 minutes. Strain and collect water mixture. Spray on ground when cool.

SUFFOCATING SPRAYS.

Many little bugs, particularly thrips and aphids, can be suffocated by being sprayed with a weak service of water soluble glue. Fine clay blended with water tends however has a similar impact to obstruct spray nozzles.

LANTANA/WORMWOOD SPRAY.

Spray freely on impacted plants. A stronger spray can he made by substituting wormwood for lantana.

Please note100% natural sprays can be harmful, so LABEL well, and stay out of reach of children. Overuse of deterants can jepordise the natural balance, so utilize sprays of any sort, sparingly.