Soapy Spray
Channel: LittleVeggiePatchCo
Date: 2016-11-02

Making homemade natural sprays for pest control to protect and clean your plants is a skill as ancient as gardening itself. Using simple combinations of basic household ingredients, you can concoct a spray to treat almost anything. Here are a few that you should definitely have in your repertoire.

You can end up spending a fortune buying the remedies to safeguard your plants. While readily available, organic sprays don’t come cheap - if you’re not careful, those $2 heads of lettuce have cost you $5 extra in protection money. It feels that in an age where we demand a readily available solution to everything, we are losing one of the vegetable gardener’s primary skills” that of resourcefulness.

Soapy Spray
One of the classic sprays in every gardeners toolkit, soapy spray is great for aphids, whitefly, thrip and caterpillars. Mix 1 tablespoon of biodegradable dishwashing liquid with 1 teaspoon of cooking oil in 1 litre of water. Spray over the foliage of plants, particularly on the underside of leave where the pests often live. This will keep for 1 month.