19 Methods of Making Organic Insecticide for Garden at Home

The use of chemical insecticides often expensive and harmful to the environment, it is possible to treat plants organically without any chemical insecticides.

You might be wondering:

There are many effective insecticidal products present in nature. For example Lavender, citronella, tobacco dust, and many more which have repellent properties. Organic products such as coffee grounds, the nettle manure or comfrey manure both used as fertilizer and insecticide depending on the dosage used.

In this article, I will share with you some tips and 19 organic homemade insecticide spray recipes for your plants based on 100% natural household ingredients.

Pieces of Advice:

1. Store products in a cool and dark place. Use an opaque spray instead of a clear spray for better preservation.
2. Do not apply a product to the body without testing on a small area of the skin.
3. Be careful that you do not get in touch with essential oils on mucous membranes, eyes, or around the eyes.

How to make Natural Insect Repellent for Your Plants?

1.Baking Soda, Soap, and Oil

This homemade insecticide can be used in the garden to control garden pests such as aphids, mites (red spider mites) and also act as a good natural insect repellent against flies, mosquitoes, or the ants.

Items Required:

• Two tablespoons of black soap (Our pick: African Black Soap)
• One teaspoon of baking soda (Our pick: Arm & Hammer Baking Soda)
• Ten drops of lemongrass essential oil (Our pick: Artizen Lemon Essential Oil)
• Ten drops of essential oil of cloves (Our pick: Artizen Clove Essential Oil)

Procedure:

1. Pour these different ingredients into a manual vaporizer.
2. Fill the rest of the tank with water.
3. Mix vigorously before use.

It is recommended to apply earlier in the morning or evening but does not apply in direct sunlight.

2.Vinegar and Oil mixer as Insecticide

As you already know vinegar is a multi-purpose product. It is also used as a natural bug killer. You can use it to remove aphids, water bugs, palmetto bugs, spiders, fruit flies, and many other garden pests.

Items Required:

1. Vinegar (Our pick: 30% White Vinegar)
2. Bourbon geranium essential oil (Our pick: Plant Guru Bourbon geranium oil)
3. Tea tree essential oil (Our pick: Ola Prima Tea Tree Essential Oil)
4. Eucalyptus essential oil (Our pick: Ola Prima Eucalyptus Essential Oil)
5. Lemon essential oil (Our pick: Artizen Lemon Essential Oil)
6. The essential oil of lavender (Our pick: Ola Prima Lavender Essential Oil)
7. Sprouts of lavender
8. Verbena leaves

Procedure:

1. Boil lavender and verbena in a pan of hot water for about ten minutes.
2. Let infuse it into the pan and put a lid until the mixture cools.
3. Filter the juice with a strainer.
4. Pour 2-3 tablespoon of white vinegar into the juice.
5. Add five or ten drops of each oil.
6. Transfer the solution into the spray bottle.

3.Recycle Cigarette Butts As Anti-Aphid

Cigarette butts are used as preventive treatment. It applies directly to the foliage. Lets’s have a look at how to use it as an insecticide.

Procedure :

1. Fill half a plastic bottle of cigarette butts.
2. Add water to the neck and close the bottle for 24 hours.
3. Filter the mixture to harvest only the juice and apply it on your plant.

Remarks

1. To obtain a more concentrated product, let the mixture macerate for a week. The juice obtained is more powerful. It can be diluted with water and used several times.
2. It is also possible to harvest ashes from ashtrays, fireplaces or barbecues to mix with boiling water. Once the mixture has cooled, it is an excellent insecticide against aphids.

4.Lemongrass As Insect Repellent

Lemongrass is also a very strong insect repellent. To make this repellent you need to get about 50 gm of fresh lemongrass sprouts. The solution is applied directly to the foliage using a cotton pad. It is very effective to repel mosquitoes.

Procedure:

1. Slice the lemongrass stalks and place the pieces in a pan.
2. Cover with water and boil for about 10 minutes.
3. Let the mixture cool down and filter the juice with a strainer.
4. Spray the solution on insect affected areas of the plant.

5.Nettle Manure as an Insecticide

Nettle manure is another natural insecticide that also serves as a fertilizer. You can simply put the manure on the soil or can also spray on the foliage. 

How to make nettle manure?

1. 1.5 kg of chopped nettle leaves (choose young shoots).
2. Add 10 liters of water.
3. Let them macerate(at least 24 hours).
4. Filter the maceration.

Add 1 liter of manure into 10 liters of water and spray on your plant.

6.Diatomaceous Earth As a Natural Insecticide

Best D.E 

Diatomaceous earth(our pick: Safer 51703 Diatomaceous Earth) can also be used as a powerful natural insecticide. It is composed of more than 80% mineral silica. It is efficient, ecological, economical, and has no side effects.

The diatomaceous earth is applied to many pests and insects (ants, beetles, bedbugs, worms, fleas, mites, cockroaches, ticks). You can apply it directly on the ground. It dehydrates insects and kills.

7.Pyrethrum Insecticide

Pyrethrum is the best option for aphids and mites, whiteflies, thrips, and other insects. Pyrethrum is an ornamental flowering plant and it’s also used as a natural insecticide. Its leaves contain pyrethrins substance that causes paralysis of insects and mites quickly and effectively.

1. Do not hesitate to repeat the treatment because the pyrethrum deteriorates quickly in the light and dilutes with the rain.
2. But do not overdo because it is also effective against all useful insects (ladybugs, bees).

Our recommended best Pyrethrum Insecticide– Bonide (BND857) – Pyrethrin Garden Insect Spray

Some Natural Insecticides: Already Available In Your Home

Now we are going to introduce some organic product which is already available in your kitchen but you don’t know about the properties of the destruction of insects.

Yes, you read that right. Let’s get to the point-

1.Oil Spray Insecticide