Making homemade pest control solutions

The organic pesticide page shows a number of links to websites, with "recipes" for making organic pesticides, and where to use them.

You'll find a selection of organic pesticide recipes here that cannot be found elsewhere, which have been found to be used effectively in East Uganda (each vegetable that the spray was used with was observed and is noted as a guide).

Animal Urine (Cow)

Urine helps in plant growth as well as being an organic pesticide. (Used with beans)

1. Add 1 litre to 2 litres of water.
2. Spray.

Ash

This recipe has been used successfully with cowpeas.

1. Add 1 tablespoons of kitchen ash to 1 tablespoon of paraffin.
2. Add this to 3 litres of soapy water.
3. Spray.

Black Jack

This recipe has been used successfully with beans.

1. Grind or crush dried black jack seeds.
2. Add 2 tablespoons of powder to 1 litre of hot water. Leave to soak.
3. Strain after a while.
4. Add 1 litre of soapy water and spray on leaves.

Melia

aka Chinaberry^WThis recipe has been used successfully with beans.

1. Pluck leaves.
2. Dry in shade.
3. Crush using crusher (or large stone).
4. Put in water for 24 hours. Add 3 tablespoons to 1 litre of water.
5. Strain the liquid and dilute it with a further 2 litres of water.
6. Spray on leaves for protection.

Milk

This recipe has been used successfully with tomatoes.

1. Add 1/4 litre of fresh milk to 2 litres of water.
2. Spray.

Neem

This recipe has been used successfully with cowpeas. Follow the same process as Melia above.

Tomato Leaves

This recipe has been used successfully with tomatoes. It uses the indigenous tomato leaves (which presumably have more stronger/appropriate insecticidal properties than normal tomato leaves).

1. Leave in shade 2-3 days to dry.
2. Crush.
3. Add 6 tablespoons of powder to 3 litres of spray.
4. Spray.

Tobacco

Materials needed:

• Dry tobacco leaves or fresh tobacco leaves
• A piece of brown soap
• 1 cigarette
• Water
• A mortar for pounding
• A basin for mixing
• An old cloth for filtering

Procedure:

1. Pound the dry leaves and fill 1 tumpeco with them.
2. Mix these pounded leaves with 6-8 tumpecos of water.
3. Add the content of one cigarette.
4. Cover and leave the mixture for 7 days, or heat until almost boiling.
5. Then add the equal amount of soapy water (i.e. 6-8 tumpecos).
6. Filter the solution with an old cloth and apply by spraying.

OR:

1. Pound the fresh leaves and fill 1 tumpeco with them.
2. Mix these pounded leaves with 4-5 tumpecos of water.
3. Cover and leave the mixture for 7 days, or heat until almost boiling.
4. Then add 5 times the amount of soapy water (i.e. 20-25 tumpecos).
5. Filter the solution with an old cloth and apply by spraying. Note that this is especially good against stem borers, mites, aphids, snails, beetles and worms.

External links

[1] Poster on How to Make an Organic Pesticide