How To Make Homemade Insecticide For Vegetable Farm

The homemade insecticide is a non-chemical type of pesticide used to control deleterious insect pests in the vegetable farms. The use of homemade pesticide greatly reduces the cost of vegetable production; they are cheap to make with readily available recipes. This makes the cost of vegetable production friendly and easy to bear.

Pest is any entity that can hinder the desired growth and development of any crop; examples are the weed, insects, rodents, microbes, even humans can also be classified as a pest. However, in this context, we are considering the insect pests; they are commonly controlled using insecticides.

You can make organic insecticides from household materials; they are as effective as the chemical insecticides and cheaply available.

Insect pests are major threats to crop production industries; they are capable of causing great economic damage in a vegetable farm. They are carriers of major disease in crop; examples are mealy bugs, whiteflies. They have modified mouthparts that allow them to feed on different types of vegetable in a garden.

Some defoliate crop leaves making it prone to airborne diseases; examples are the grasshopper and leaf beetles. Some feed on the sap juice of the plant thereby reducing the plant vigor, this type of insects are called the piercing and sucking insect examples are aphids, thrips etc.

What I would be revealing to you is how to make an organic homemade insecticide for your vegetable farm; it is organic and made from household materials, it is non-toxic pesticide and safe to use on any vegetable crop at any period.

This pesticide is cheap and interestingly, it does not have a recommended dosage, unlike the synthetic type which one must be cautious and follow the prescribed dosage strictly before applying. This homemade pesticide is easy to formulate.

The type of organic insecticide you are about to learn how to make can be used as both an insecticide and fungicide. The recipes of this homemade insecticide for plants are:

1. Liquid soap

2. Vegetable Oil.

3. Baking Soda

4. Water

You can see that this homemade insecticide recipe is cheap and readily available, now learn how to mix the aforementioned recipe to make your homemade insect spray for plants.

Aside from neem oil, this homemade insecticide is one of the effective organic farming pesticides. Spraying plants with dish soap alone is good for controlling fungi and flying insect pests; you can get rid of aphids with dish soap or soapy water. In fact, you can apply soapy water on plants to kill bugs.

How to mix the homemade insecticide recipe

Get one liter of water, preferably clean water, mix four (4) teaspoons of baking soda then mix two (2) tablespoons of the vegetable oil and two (2) tablespoons of the liquid soap. Shake this mixture together vigorously. Then your homemade organic insecticide is ready for use on your vegetable farm.

This pesticide should be applied early in the morning or late in the evening to enhance effectiveness. This homemade insecticide for the vegetable farm can be used on any type of vegetables, like cucumber, watermelon, celosia, and jute or Ewedu, etc.

This garden insecticide does not kill insects, this one of the advantages of using organic insecticides. Insects, aside from their destructive effects on crops, are the best agents of pollination, they also play a remarkable role in ensuring good yield in crop production, and hence they should be repelled and not impaired. This insecticide is a homemade insect repellent for vegetable farms.

If you have a tomato farm and often threatened with bugs; do not worry, as this is what to spray on tomatoes for bugs. It is an organic spray for vegetables plants with tomato inclusive.

This organic homemade insecticide is cost-effective, it is environmental-friendly and safe to use irrespecive of the time of harvest.

To make your production profitable, always find ways to reduce the cost of production. This homemade insecticide is one of the ways to reduce the cost of vegetable production.

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6 thoughts on “How To Make Homemade Insecticide For Vegetable Farm”

  1. Thanks for the information.
    I would like to ask if this homemade insecticide can be applied on beans to drive away pests.

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