7 Homemade Plant Sprays For Your Outdoor Garden

Growing plants outdoors is growing in popularity.  More and more people are growing vegetables, fresh herbs, flowers, and even fruit trees these days.

What about growing plants inside?  That is also becoming more popular.

7 Homemade Plant Sprays For Your Outdoor Garden

Being around plants can help you concentrate.  According to studies, tasks performed while under the calming influence of nature are performed better and with greater accuracy, resulting in a higher quality result.

According to Ciphr.com here are a few ways having plants in an office can help a work environment:

Being outside in a natural environment improves your memory, concentration, and retention.  It increases your ability to concentrate better on the task at hand.

For a homemade insecticide for indoor plants check out:

7 Homemade Bug Sprays For Indoor Plants

If you are one of the many outdoor gardeners, pest control is one thing that is most certainly on your mind quite often.  When it comes to keeping your garden plants, vegetable home garden, and herbs healthy, you want to keep all those plant eating pests away.

However, using insecticides that contain harmful chemicals can be detrimental to your edible plants, and are most certainly harmful to the environment.  So instead, there are many natural home pesticides you can use instead. 

The good news is that these homemade plant sprays are not only easy to make, they are also cheaper and safer to use than the products you can buy in stores and garden centers.

The best way to make these natural plant pest sprays and homemade insecticides is to use natural ingredients (naturally :)) that you might just have lying around your house.  You will be surprised how garden pests will be repelled or killed by these safe and natural insect repellents.

Garlic

Garlic is known for its strong aroma which is delectable to some while repellent to others.  Its scent comes into play when you use it as a homemade insecticide for house plants and outdoor plants.  A single spray of this natural homemade insecticide is good to knock out insects in the garden.

For how to make homemade insecticide for houseplants and your outdoor plants with garlic, keep reading.

This Garlic homemade spray is effective as a foliar spray against:

• Aphids
• Colorado potato beetles
• Whiteflies
• Bean beetles
• Spider mites
• Cabbage worms
• Moths
• Ants
• Termites

What You Need To Make Garlic Oil Spray:

1 tablespoon full strength dish soap
2 tablespoons vegetable or mineral oil
1 garlic head
2 cups of water

What You Need To Do:

• Peel the garlic cloves. 
• Puree the cloves with oil and water. 
• Allow the mixture to sit overnight.
• The next day strain the mixture and add the mild liquid soap. 
• Mix thoroughly.
• Pour the natural bug repellent into a spray bottle. 
• Use this homemade insecticide for vegetables to get rid of those nasty pest infected areas in your garden.

Always test any solution, whether it’s a homemade insecticide for plants or store purchased before using it full on your plants.  You don’t want to have an adverse affect and/or hurt the plant.

Soapy Water

Soap spray is a very quick and easy homemade plant spray. and is the best homemade insecticide for vegetable gardens.

It’s effective for controlling these common pests:

• aphids
• squash bugs
• Japanese beetles
• cabbage moths
• mites
• beetles
• other small bugs.

What You Need:

1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon dish soap, ivory soap, or Murphy oil
2 tablespoons baking soda
2 quarts water

What You Need To Do:

1. Combine all the ingredients together.
2. Pour the effective insecticide into a spray bottle.
3. Spray the homemade insecticide recipe on the infected plants.  Use it as long as you can see the pests in your plants.

Always test any solution, homemade or store purchased before using it full on your plants.  You don’t want to have an adverse affect and/or hurt the plant.

Citrus Oil And Cayenne Pepper

This natural pesticide and pepper spray works best on small ants or fire ants.  Cayenne pepper contains capsaicin which repels spider mites and other insects on plants.

What You Need:

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
10 drops citrus essential oil
1 cup warm water

What You Need To Do:

1. In a mixing bowl, mix everything together.
2. Transfer the homemade insecticide spray to a spray bottle.  Before you use this safe homemade insecticide, shake well and spray on the affected area.

Always test any solution, homemade or store purchased before using it full on your plants.  You don’t want to have an adverse affect and/or hurt the plant.

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Salt

If you want to treat plants infested with spider mites, spray it with salt water.  Plus, the ingredients for this homemade insecticide for outdoor plants can easily be found in your kitchen.

What You Need:

2 tablespoons Himalayan Crystal salt
1-gallon warm water

What You Need To Do:

1. Mix salt and water.
2. Pour into a spray bottle.
3. Spray the mixture on the infected plants.

Always test any solution, homemade or store purchased before using it full on your plants.  You don’t want to have an adverse affect and/or hurt the plant.

Tomato

Tomato plants are part of the nightshade family which contains alkaloids or tomatine which is effective in controlling an aphid infestations and other insect pest problems.

Tomatine (sometimes called tomatin or lycopersicin) is a glycoalkaloid, found in the stems and leaves of tomato plants, and in the fruits at much lower concentrations. It has fungicidal, antimicrobial, and insecticidal properties.^[5] 

Chemically pure tomatine is a white crystalline solid at standard temperature and pressure.^[1][6] Tomatine, as well as the closely related aglycon (or aglycone) derivative tomatidine have been shown to have multiple health benefits.  Wikipedia

What You Need:

2 cups fresh tomato leaves
1 quart of water

What You Need To Do:

1. Chop the fresh tomato leaves into fine pieces.
2. Mix the chopped leaves with the water.  Let it steep overnight.
3. Strain out the plant material and pour into a spray bottle.
4.  Spray the homemade insecticide for aphids and other insects on the infected leaves of your plants.  Use this homemade insecticide for vegetable plants as long as you can see the pests in your plants.

Always test any solution, homemade or store purchased before using it full on your plants.  You don’t want to have an adverse affect and/or hurt the plant.

Orange Citrus Oil And Soap

This orange citrus oil and liquid castile soap mixture is effective in treating your plants against slugs.  You can also use this homemade insecticide for whiteflies or spray it in direct contact with roaches and ants.

What You Need:

3 tablespoons liquid organic Castile oil
1 ounce Orange oil
1 gallon of water

What You Need To Do:

1. In a mixing bowl, mix everything together.
2. Transfer the natural insect repellent in a spray bottle.
3. Before you use it, shake well and spray on the affected area.

Always test any solution, homemade or store purchased before using it full on your plants.  You don’t want to have an adverse affect and/or hurt the plant.

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Onion And Garlic Spray

Onion and garlic may not only be used when cooking — they are great for keeping insects away from your plants.  This natural bug spray can also hold it’s potency for one week when stored in the refrigerator.

What You Need:

1 garlic clove
1 medium-sized onion
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon liquid soap or a few drops of dish soap
1 quart water

What You Need To Do:

1. Mince the garlic and onion (you can use a food processor).  Add the mixture to the water.
2. Let the mixture steep for an hour then add the cayenne pepper and one teaspoon liquid soap.
3. Place the mixture in a spray bottle.  Spray plants with it especially on the bug-infested area. And that’s how you make homemade insecticide for plants.

Always test any solution, homemade or store purchased before using it full on your plants.  You don’t want to have an adverse affect and/or hurt the plant.

Using these homemade plant sprays will help keep the insects away while still being safe enough to be used often.

Do you know other easy Homemade bug spray recipes to make your own pesticides?  Leave them in the comments below.

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