Make Your Own Nontoxic Pesticides
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Mix a few drops of liquid detergent, a couple of hot peppers or pepper sauce, and one chopped garlic clove with water in a handheld spray bottle and take aim at the insects.
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In a blender, puree three hot peppers, three white onions and one garlic bulb. (No need to peel anything.) Add 3 c. water to the mixture and soak overnight in a covered bowl. Strain with a cheesecloth and add enough water to the liquid solution to make 1 gallon of spray, for use in either a spray bottle or a 1-gallon garden sprayer for the whole garden.
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Mix 1 c. vegetable oil with 1 tbsp. liquid dishwashing soap. Add 1 1/2 tsp. for every cup of warm water to a handheld spray bottle, or add entire mixture to a 1-gallon garden sprayer and fill with water. Spray entire plant, including the undersides of leaves.
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Chop 10 to 15 garlic cloves into small pieces to soak in 1 pint mineral oil overnight. Strain and spray oil mixture directly on infestations.
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Capture and crush 1/2 c. of a single kind of insect. Add 2 c. water and strain. Mix 1/4 c. of the solution and a few drops of liquid soap to water in a spray bottle and target the insect's friends and relatives. Sounds gross, but this is a very effective species-specific control.
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How to Get Rid of Tomato Hornworms
Spray the affected plants with a strong stream of water, and then immediately take a look. You'll see the hornworms as they thrash around.
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Pick the hornworms off the plants and drop them in a bucket full of soapy water.
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Release some beneficial insects such as laceworms, ladybugs and trichogamma wasps, which attack hornworm eggs. To be effective, do this before the hornworms manage to establish control.
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Spray affected plants with natural insecticidal soap or with a tea made by infusing petunia leaves in water.
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Plant some dill to serve as hornworm traps. Hornworms love dill, and once they infest the plants, they can be easily destroyed.
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Sprinkle cornmeal around affected plants. Hornworms can't digest cornmeal, and the cornmeal will swell up and kill them.
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Till your garden immediately after harvest to destroy pupae in the soil. This can kill up to 90 percent of the pupae, because at this stage, the hornworm pupae are large and can be found near the top of the soil.
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