I am growing a erb, vegetable, and fruit garden and I keep finding catipillars eating my vegetables. I keep finding them in my cucumbers, egg plant, corn, and tomatoes. How can I make some home made bug killer?
If you are growing cabbage, grow mint beside it. It will keep cabbage moths at bay. Same with tomatoes/peppers and marigolds against hornworms. Use white oil for mites, scale, aphids, and mealybugs.
You dont' even want particular cleansing soap. in basic terms make a answer of dish detergent to water, some million:10. do not use the extremely centred detergent. Any more advantageous than which will kill your vegetation besides because of the fact the bugs. This works nicely on wasps too.
To Make Wormwood Tea: For now and until you purchase that book, you can hand pick the caterpillars and drop them into a bucket of soapy water. If you really want to make a home remedy, you can use one that is effective on caterpillars called Wormwood Tea. But please read the article in the web site source first. Wormwood Tea: 8 ounces wormwood leaves 4 pints of water 1 teaspoon castile soap Effective against: Aphids, caterpillars, flea beetles and moths. Putting dried sprigs of wormwood in the garden along side carrots and onions will mask their scent, confusing insects in particular the carrot rust fly. The dried wormwood will not have the growth inhibiting effects of the fresh herb. The Great Green Book of Garden Secrets by Jerry Baker has a slightly different recipe, but the one above is just as effective.
Go to a bookstore and get the book called Jerry Baker's Garden Secrets.* My Husband and I are avid gardeners and my Husband has been making some of Jerry's *recipes* for decades. This book is loaded with all kinds of concoctions for different issues, and many of the things are from normal household products.
