A Natural Pesticide

Don Allanach

For a few dollars you can make a natural pesticide at home. It’s again the time of year where all of us find our favourite pot plant or botanic garden being taken over and devoured by pesky insects. Before you uncap some awful toxic spray, try some of this mixture, it does work! (if you can handle the smell)

100 g fresh garlic, crushed and mixed with 10 mi natural paraffin oil. Soak for 48 hours. 2 30 g of pure soap, grated, and mixed with 500 mi of warm water. 3 Mix 1 and 2 together then you have 500 mi of concentrate. 4 Mix 100 mi of concentrate with 1000 mi of water and use as a spray. (It’s a good idea to use garlic oil extract in place of the fresh garlic. The small bits from the fresh garlic tend to block spray nonles). The cost for 10 litres of this mix is about five dollars.