Without Killing the Environment Save Your Garden: Natural & Homemade Pesticides

Non-Chemical pesticides can be an excellent tool in your arsenal against insect pests, which turn your garden into beautiful flowers. Applying insecticides indiscriminately, especially harsh pesticides that affect even the beneficial insects, can have a detrimental effect on your local garden ecosystem. Before going all out with any pesticide or insecticide, be sure to do your homework and choose the option that is both most effective and least harmful to you and your garden.

Non-Chemical

The best pest management plan always starts with the preventative and other non-chemical Pesticide. Since healthy, happy plants are much more resilient to pests, always begin by choosing the right plants for the right places and caring them correctly.

• Garlic Liquid

Garlic is well-known for its pungent aroma, which is delectable to some and yet repellent to others, and it is this strong scent that comes into play when used as a natural pesticide. To make a basic garlic spray, take two whole bulbs and puree them in a blender or food processor with a small amount of water. Let the mixture sit overnight, then strain it into a quart jar, adding one-half cup of vegetable oil and enough water to fill the jar. To use this natural pesticide, use one cup of mixture with one quart of water and spray liberally on infested plants.

• Chili Liquid

Chile pepper spray is a great homemade, natural insect repellent that can be used for a variety of different pests. To make a basic chili spray from pepper powder, mix one tablespoon of chili powder with one quart of water and several drops of mild liquid soap. This natural pesticide can be used full-strength on the leaves of affected plants. To make chili spray from fresh chili peppers, blend or puree one-half cup of peppers with one cup of water, then add one quart of water and bring to a boil. Let sit until cooled, then strain out the chili material, then add several drops of liquid soap to it. Spray as desired.

• Tomato Leaf Liquid

To make tomato leaf spray for a natural pesticide, chop two cups of fresh tomato leaves (which can be taken from the bottom part of the plant) into one quart of water, and let steep overnight. Strain out the plant material and spray onto plant foliage.

Always remember, killing off all of the insects in your garden is not the desired result here, as any healthy ecosystem requires an abundance of beneficial insects, microbes, and fungi, both in the soil and on the plants themselves. So, use pesticide as you need.

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