Natural Bug and insect repellent spray can be prepared easily by using some domestic ingredients from the kitchen. It is effective to repel aphids as well as many insects and pests. Let’s give a deep touch to this natural bug repellent and also discuss how we can make it!
Intro
Garden and natural vegetation are the habitats of insect pests, so they are part of every organic garden. Some factors can matter a lot in relation to their numbers. Make sure that the garden soil is healthy and as a result, the plant will definitely have good health, manage a good population of beneficial insects, crop rotation, and also use a companion planting system. It never means after all these requirements your garden will never get an insect infestation, so be careful and keep a deep eye on your garden.
Today, we are going to discuss our first strategy of defense against the critters crawling on our garden plants, it’s all about the use of natural bug repellent. Its working phenomenon is the same as the companion plants to repel insect pests. This spray is not involved in the killing of insects. It is just a sharp scented spray that masks the natural smell of the host plants. As the result, it confused pests so they fly away from the host plant and sit somewhere else!
It will be very good to use neem oil spray, insecticidal soap, Spinosad, and Bacillus thuringiensis, if you are not interested in natural pesticides. It is not possible that your garden is part of a natural environment and there are no insects. So, be aware and careful in terms of their control. Natural pest spray is just a gentle initial step to control insect pests, if there is a high infestation of pests you have to upgrade your tools and tricks to control them.
That’s going to work for many insects but if you wanted to get rid of mealybugs and other pests you can try some other natural ways.
How I Can Stop Bugs From Eating My Plants?
IPM (integrated pest management) is the natural technique to control insect pest infestation. We should believe to control the pests through proper management. This natural technique involves cultural, biological, chemical, and physical methods to protect the plant from chewing insects of plants. It’s not a single thing to do, but it involves many things to care about. Here we will discuss some important points about the control of pest infestation
Healthy soil
Healthy soil will make your plant powerful and a healthy plant will be safe from insects.
Crop Rotation
It will be difficult to manage in small gardens because of less space but mostly we don’t grow the same plant in the same place. Because some old insects will be there and if you will again grow some plants in that soil, there are high chances of insect attack from start.
Row Covers
Some sensitive plants will be safe from insects if you will cover them with nets. we also cover our different plant with nets that belongs to the brassica family.
Intercropping And Companion
If you have grown the same plants around each other like tomatoes plant, it can increase the danger. It will be better to grow your plants away from the same other and in this way insects will be confused to spot their favorite plants I mostly grow different flower plants around my vegetable plants, which is really helpful.
What are The Natural Bug Repellents For Plants?
We hope that this will be helpful to save your plants, we are recommending you to use different methods against bugs and insects, but you can try any suitable which is easily available for you:
Garlic
Garlic has a strong smell that works to prevent your plant from bugs and insects. Because of its hard smell insects don’t come near to it.
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Mint
As you know that mint or basil is having a beautiful smell and we recommend growing these weeds all around your plants because it prevents different pests and insects.
Peppers
Hot pepper will not prevent insects but it will kill them. if you don’t want to do this act, you can surely skip this. Pepper spray is really effective against insects but it will also affect different pollinates and beneficial insects. At first, try without pepper to prevent insects but if all those don’t work then you can go with pepper addition. As it’s harmful to different pollinators so never spray when the plant is flowering or you spot any pollinators over them.
Dish Wash Soap
It will also be helpful to add to your spray mixture and it will help to keep insects away for a long time.
Why Do I Have To Use These Ingredients As An Organic Control Against Insects?
All these things will work to make your plants safe from insects and bugs which harm your plants. It will work to hide the smell of your main plants and these insects will prevent them. It’s like you as an insect or bug and visiting a tea shop for a tea but as you enter the room and you got a bad smell, will you drink it? Surely no, these things will work the same for insects.
Read More: How To Get Rid Of Gnats Naturally
Which Of Bugs Will These Do Ingredients Repel?
All the insects which use this sense of smell will be away from your plants. Maybe some of the insects are not affected but this, but we have found it working for different insects like:
- Snails
- Slugs
- aphids
- spider mites
- whiteflies
- flea beetles
How To Make Natural Bug Repellent?
At first, you must have a better blender with a bottle that will be used for spray purposes:
- Use a blender and mix all the plants you are using which are mentioned
- Make it slurry
- Now Strain the mixture through any cloth
- If you are using hot pepper in it, make sure to wear gloves
- Now pick your spray bottle and add this mixture to it
- Add your dish wash drops to it
- Mix it very well and it’s ready to use
- This mixture can be used for 7 days
- Keep it in the fridge
How To Use These Insect repellents?
It’s easy to use these sprays, Fill up the spray bottle or add a shower in front of a bottle and fill it with insect repellents and gently spray it on your whole plant. Spray it on leaves, stems, and every part of the plant, you can repeat this process after every two or three days until your plant is safe.
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