Organic Homemade Pesticide Recipes And Tips

Organic homemade pesticide can be made from natural products such as vegetable or other plants and other natural materials. The simple thing, you can use the natural materials which are available around your home such as garlic, pepper etc. This kind of organic or natural pesticide can repel and even kill the pest.

Organic Homemade Pesticide Recipes

There are so many organic or natural pesticide recipes you'll find around the world. Below are 3 organic pesticide recipes that you can try to make it at your home.

Organic Homemade Pesticide Recipe No. 1

• Chopped hot peppers: 1/2 cup, hotter is better
• Water: 2 cups 
• Dish soap: 2 tablespoons 

Mix well the peppers and water and allow the mixture to sit overnight. Strain the mixture carefully since this will burn your skin. Mix the solution with dish soap. Pour this organic homemade pesticide into a sprayer bottle and use it to repel the bugs on your plants. 

Organic Homemade Pesticide Recipe No. 2

• Garlic: 1 head.
• Dish soap liquid: 1 tablespoon
• Mineral oil: 2 tablespoons, you can replace mineral oil with vegetable oil if you don’t have mineral oil.
• Water: 2 cups.

Peel the garlic and puree the garlic along with the water and oil. Leave it to sit overnight. After that, strain the mixture and add the dish soap, mix well. Pour the organic homemade pesticide into a sprayer bottle and use it when the plants are under insects attack.

Organic Homemade Pesticide Recipe No. 3

• Vegetable oil: 1 tablespoon.
• Baking soda: 2 tablespoons.
• Dish soap liquid or murphy oil: 1 teaspoon.
• Water: 2 quarts.

Mix well all above ingredients. Pour the organic homemade pesticide into a sprayer bottle. Use this mixture to repel the bugs on your plant.

Just like chemical pesticides, this organic pesticides will kill any insect or bug that comes in contact with your plants, whether a beneficial insect or a pest insect. So be careful to use the pesticides even you use this organic or natural pesticides.

You should pay attention some factors before you make and use above organic homemade pesticides:

• Avoid using any dish soap that contains bleach property. This bleach property can harm your plants.
• You need to test a small portion contact with your plant and make sure that the organic homemade pesticides you made will not harm your plant. 
• Like other pesticides, do not apply the organic homemade pesticides on your plant in a bright or hot sunny day. This sunlight will promote burning of the plants that already contacted with pesticides.

So there are some organic homemade pesticide recipes and tips or precautions before use the natural or organic pesticides into your plants.

Reference: gardeningknowhow.com; photo credit: garden.lovetoknow.com