Pest Prevention Concentrate

Here’s a short and sweet recipe to help with pest control for garden and house plants. You can use this as a preventative spray as well as a bug and pest killer.

Ingredients:

1 cup Sunlight dish soap
1 TBS vegetable oil

Directions:

• Mix ingredients together then store in a plastic, airtight container.
• When you’re ready to spray your plants, take 1 to 2 teaspoons of the concentrate and mix with a quart of water. Pour into a spray bottle.
• Spray your plants making sure to get underneath the leaves as well as the flower buds and new shoots.
• In hot weather, repeat every third day (3 applications over 7 days).
• Warm to cool weather, spray once a week for 3 weeks.

I found this recipe in the book: The Joy of Planting
A Step-By-Step Guide To Creative Container Gardening
101 Recipes For Pots & Containers
Author: Arlette Laird

If you are interested in container gardening, I love this book and recommend it–especially for beginner gardeners. There are some gardening tips & tricks as well as 101 recipes for various container arrangements (you can get an idea of what’s offered here on this page). Nice to browse through and plan your Spring gardening activities on a cold winter’s day!

There’s also this Organic Insect Repellent For Plants you might be interested in.

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