A Guide on Organic Farming Pesticides
Are you aware that there are actually organic farming pesticides? Though organic farming doesn’t allow the use of chemical pesticides to protect crops from pests, organic farmers can instead opt to use pesticides made from organic sources. Organic farming pesticides, also known as green pesticides or ecological pesticides, are environmentally friendly and they have less impact on human and animal health, and the ecosystem. These organic farming pesticides can be actually made by the farmer. Here are a few examples of organic farming pesticides and how they can be acquired.
Perhaps one of the easiest to prepare form of organic farming pesticides is stale beer. Stale beer is an effective way to kill garden slugs. You can attract garden slugs with it by placing it in a shallow container. Attracted slugs then crawl into the container and are then drowned.
Chives are popular for its insect-repelling characteristics and they are often planted in gardens to deal with pests.
Chive extract is a form of organic farming pesticides that can be made by putting fresh leaves of it in water for 2 to 3 days. Then the leaves are strained from the mixture and soft soap is added.
Daffodil extract is also a form of organic farming pesticides that can be applied on crops to resist molds. To create it, you need to boil 30 grams of daffodils in 1 liter of water for 20 minutes. After that you have to leave it for a day before putting 1/100 brown soap and thinning the mixture with water.
One of organic farming pesticides that is useful against aphids and caterpillars is stinging nettle. To get its extract, you need to boil a bucket of stinging nettles in water for around 20 to 30 minutes. Sift the leaves and then let it stand for a day. After that, add soft soap at a density of 1/100 before thinning the mixture. The mixture can be further strengthened by adding brown sugar, brown soap, as well as milk. The mixture is then sprayed on the plants.
Creating organic farming pesticides is a very economical way of protecting your plants without using chemical pesticides that are dangerous to the environment and human health.
