Benefits: Aphid control Pest Prevention Concentrate *First published February 1, 2008 and moved to this page for better organization Here’s a short and sweet recipe for both garden and houseplants. You can use this as a preventative spray as well as a bug and pest killer. 1 C. Sunlight d...
You don’t want to wipe out every aphid and bad bug in your garden. Otherwise your natural predators will go hunt somewhere else. Aphids only do a lot of damage when their are a LOT OF THEM. How to Control and Kill Aphids: Strong water spray will wash Aphids off your plant leaves an...
The Sprayer– A clean spray bottle (1 quart) or a garden sprayer will work. It really depends on how much you need to apply. DO NOT USE a weed-killer sprayer! The Insecticidal Soap Mix: Aim for 2% soap solution: For a 1 Gallon Solution: ...
Botanicals were used for control of agricultural pests in ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and India already two millennia ago (Isman2006). Still today, traditional pest control using botanicals for the protection of field crops or during storage is widespread and popular among subsistence and transiti...
soap also affects surface tension of spray mixture and should thus logically improve coverage and therefore efficacy of the active ingredient. Furthermore, enhanced extraction has also been reported using a surfactant (10 ml/l) for extraction of rotenoids from tephrosia plant material, indicating tha...