Home/Garden made organic pesticides & fertilisers: what can I make?

[Samuel1988]

Morning all,

I came across something about utilising rhubarb leaves to make a organic pesticide & I was wondering what could I utilise in the garden/home (bonus points if it is part of a plant I can't eat e.g. the rhubarb leaves) for the purpose of producing a home made pesticide/fertiliser?

Have you got any tried & tested home made concuctions you use to control pests or feed your crops?

Many thanks,

Samuel

[Bill HH]

I have a nightmare problem with mildew, and use baking powder solution or sometimes diluted milk, they dont seem to cure it but they inhibit it if you use it early enough.

[starloc]

Cooking oil works for most things.....put a teaspoon of sunflower oil in a cup, tiny ( very tiny....) drop of washing up liquid, stir it round and add a drop of hot water, stir it up and then add it all to 1 Litre of water , give it a shake

Kills most insects , a lot of people do the same with mineral oil ( baby oil ) , all these wwork by suffocating pests and are usually included in real pesticides from shops

If you want real insecticide but natural change the oil for neem oil or n,limonene (distilled orange rind oil )

Cinamon works on many things as well, I tend to add it

diluted Milk powder ( better than normal milk ) works for mildew , actually works on downy and powdry mildew , in university tests full cream milk powder was more effective than many commercial products

Strange thing...( not a pesticide but still worth experimenting with..... ) is coconut milk , it contains natural growth hormones cytokinin that cause buds to grow, diluted into water it causes branches to form like a plant has been pruned if you spray a plant

[Thelma Sanders]

Lemon juice (PLJ) works to kill off Botrytis on tomatoes