Making these powerful homemade insect sprays costs little in terms of cash and energy. But first, why should you make your sprays at home?
Let’s assume that you’ve cultivated your survival garden throughout the season, having put months of time & energy into plant planting and nurturing. But when it’s time to make a harvest, all you can lay hands on are the ruins left by insects who proved to be quicker harvesters.
Infuriating is the word, but nothing will bring back your grains, so it’s best to ensure this never happens. That’s by the way.
You can easily obtain insecticides at a store, but these are often too toxic (even to you) and will eventually be exhausted anyway. Besides, what’s bad with knowing the methods to make these sprays in case s**t hits the fan and you can’t get them anywhere?
It’s your duty to stay one step ahead always, no?
Powerful Homemade Insect Sprays
Olive Oil & Pure Soap
For clarity, pure soap is one that doesn’t contain any synthetic chemical, say bleach, moisturizers, detergents, or de-greasers. You can easily buy this by asking for it when you visit the local store.
To make, mix two tablespoonfuls of olive oil (or any available cooking oil) with five tablespoonfuls of pure soap in a gallon of water, and that’s all. This recipe is long-lasting, as it sticks on plant leaves for a long while.
Water & Pure Soap
This spray is very similar to the one above, but it isn’t as intense and is more suitable for sensitive plants like lettuce & other leafy crops.
To create, add 2.5 tablespoonful pure soap (liquid form, of course) to a gallon of water. Remember to keep away the oil in this recipe. This spray is easygoing, and your delicate plants are totally safe when it is used.
Tobacco & Water
Maybe this recipe is unusual due to tobacco use, but hey, we are making insect sprays, not cakes. When this spray is administered on plants, the leaves of that plant absorb nicotine and then wait. Any bug that eats these leaves will die because of the nicotine.
This is highly effective, but you should be careful too. If you have to spray edible plants, do so when the plant is still tender (young), so the nicotine is worn off before it is time to harvest.
To make, mix a cup of tobacco leaves with a gallon of water and boil for half an hour, after which you filter the solution and leave to cool off. For extra harshness, you can use some pure soap as well, but this may not be necessary.
Orange Peels
If ants are your problem, orange peels are the solution!
To make, gather some fresh orange peels and blend until they become a fine liquid. You may have to add water to ensure the blending is easy. Then, get out the liquid and wreak havoc on all anthills you can find around.
Concluding The Powerful Homemade Insect Sprays
It is clear that these above-mentioned powerful homemade insect sprays are very easy to make. Making these recipes will take very little time and very low costs. So, why not? Let’s hear from you: do these recipes work?
Donald S
Ty, time to get mixing
Donald S
Speaking of soaps, we have been stocking up on zone soap and fuels naphtha soap as my wife makes all of our laundry and dish soap from these. But there are some interesting qualities to each of these. The zote soap contains citronella a natural mosquito repellent great in the med kit, fels naptha soap breaks down the oils from the poison ivy, oaks and such give the area a scrub with that and it helps plus washing clothes in the laundry soap prevents picking up the oils from your clothes.
Donald S
Please spell correct my last post it is Zote soap and Fels naptha not zone soap and fuels naphtha oops darn spell correct
Prepper Bob
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