Here is your go-to homemade bug spray for your garden, to use on any unwanted pests. We recently used this spray on our grape and berry vines that were being eaten by the spotted lantern fly and Japanese beetles, which come around every June hence the name “June beetle”. I spray for these on the plants about every 3 days and noticed the population dropping off until it was virtulally gone.
I love this recipe because it uses an emulsifier such as Thieves cleaner which also repels bugs on it’s own, but if you don’t have that, you can replace it with witch hazel in this recipe.
Nontoxic Garden Spray
Ingredients
- 10 drops lemongrass
- 10 drops rosemary
- 10 drops peppermint
- 10 drops citronella
- one cap full thieves cleaner
- 16 ounce of water
Instructions
- Spray on plants about every 3 days until you notice the bug population decreasing and eventually gone.