Top 7 Best Natural Pest Control Methods – Organic Pesticides

In today’s Article, I shall be listing the 7 best natural pest control methods for your plants and they are really very easy to implement and 100 percent safe and organic pest control methods. The last gardening hack will eliminate more than 80 percent pests in just one single shot, specially those resistant aphids, mealybugs,  spider mites, whiteflies and many other bugs in your garden.

Time-Saving Gardening Methods

The main idea behind these methods is to save a lot of time, and time is really precious!

Methods for Healthy and Vigorous Plants

Regularly adding organic composts like vermicompost, decomposed cow dung, or horse dung on the top layer of soil is the best way to develop strong and vigorous plants that can resist or withstand pest attacks. I also mix organic neem seed meal powder into the soil, which combats many pathogens and acts as a natural fertilizer with many micronutrients.

Pest-Repelling Plants

Keeping pest-repelling plants in your garden is an easy way to keep many pests away, including mosquitoes. You have to do this strategically—placing these insect-repelling plants near entrances and interspersed between your other plants that are more prone to pest attacks. There is a long list of such plants; I have listed out these names in these slides on the screen. This is taken from the Wikipedia website. CHECK HERE.

Trimming or Pruning

Trimming or pruning the affected leaves or branches is really important because it has two benefits: it reduces the load of pests to be eliminated by a pesticide and offers the benefits of pruning a plant, such as promoting more branching.

Hand Pick and Eliminate

Handpicking and eliminating is actually the best method to deal with some worms and insects like caterpillars, slugs, snails, and other leaf-eating worms.

Neem Oil Spray

Neem oil spray is by far the most widely accepted natural pesticide spray worldwide. When you have a lot of pests, spray your plants thoroughly once weekly or at least once in 15 days. Then use a maintenance or prophylactic dose of at least once a month if you have no pests in your garden. The formula is to add 5 ml of pure neem oil to 1 liter of water and some 10 drops of any liquid soap for the surfactant effect to coat the leaves. Do a patch test on a leaf and then spray the whole garden. WATCH a detailed video HERE.

My Cocktail Organic Pest Spray

If your plant’s pest load is too high, consider using a mixture of multiple natural oils and other substances to make a cocktail pesticide spray. I have discussed this recipe in detail in my video titled Universal Pesticide Recipe. You can check this VIDEO HERE. I use a mixture of clove oil, neem oil, and optionally eucalyptus oil, then add liquid soap. This is a really powerful organic pesticide solution. Again, always do a patch test on a leaf to check the result before applying it to the entire plant.

High-Pressure Water Spray

The best method of pest control, which can eliminate more than 80 percent of pests in one single shot, is using a high-pressure water spray in misting mode with your garden spray gun at the correct pressure. This method involves separating the pests from the plants without damaging them. I experimented with many methods and finally settled on this one because it saves a lot of time. You can connect a coiled hose with a multimode spray gun to a double-barreled self-priming 12V DC pump, which is available online as a car wash pump. This setup allows you to water the plants, spray pesticides, mist the plants, and water seedlings—all in one activity.

As you can see, I am spraying this in pressure mist mode on a plant loaded with mealybugs. With this pressure of fine misting, any pest will definitely dissociate from the plant, even from the underside of the leaves. After washing, you can then spray your regular pesticide.

For me, this is perfect so far, with the desired pressure and options to use it as a watering equipment, pest spraying, misting my plants, watering seedlings, and doing a lot of other stuff. It really saves me a lot of time.

So, there we have it folks, that was a brief on the best ways to control pests in your garden. Please give me a thumbs up if you liked this post. Also, tweet or share the video with your gardener friends. Comment below with any queries or feedback regarding this. Happy Gardening!

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Recommended Related Videos:

1. Cocktail Organic Pesticide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKJOEMtz9jQ
2. Neem Oil in Gardening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6TtdKGIE-0
3. Blog Article – https://www.mygardentips.com/top-7-best-natural-pest-control-methods-organic-pesticides/
4. Products Links: https://www.mygardentips.com/electric-pesticide-sprayer-with-pressure-washer-car-wash-pump/