Make Your Own Pesticides at Home Safely

May 12th, 2011

 

Learn about using homemade organic pesticides. These are items that many people have right at home or that can be purchased cheaply.
Have you ever wanted to make your own organic pesticides? Well, here is your organic pesticide recipe book! You will find many solutions in this article that can help you keep those bugs out of your garden. You could use chemical pesticides that you see in your local hardware, but why when homemade organic choices are so much cheaper and easier to use? If you, like many gardeners today, you don’t want harmful chemicals anywhere near your plants. Try some of these unique recipes.

1. Tobacco or Nicotine Spray:
This is great for assisting with many different types of bugs, but especially caterpillars, aphids, and many types of worms.
What you need:
1 cup of tobacco
1 gallon of water
Put the tobacco into the container of water. Leave the mixture to set for approximately 24 hours. After it has stood for a day, check the color. It should be similar to the shade of weak tea. If it looks too dark, just add some more water until it looks right.
*WARNING: Don’t use this Mixture on peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, or any other member of the solanaceous family. Tobacco chemicals will kill these types of plants!