Tom, as I mentioned in my eamail, I use regular Miracle Grow potting soil for all my plants. I don't use pesticides other than som insecticidal soap. White flies are the worse!! Once I get them I can't seem to get rid of them. I loose stuff to bugs, rot, but sometimes I just get lucky! Go check out my picture tour.

The only recipe I know by "heart" is for Kirk's Castile Soap, and it is supposed to be good for many insects and for fungus, too. You simply dissolve 1 bar of the soap in a gallon of hot water. Let it cool and that's your concentrate. You can adjust the proportions of your mixture to suit your needs, but the general rule is 1 cup of the concentrate to 1 gallon of water.

I have to admit, I mixed up a batch of this last summer and then never used it. I'm going to dig it out and try it now, though, as I have some black spot on my OGR's. I've heard it is good for that.

Hope this helps!
Marcia

I use an old squirt bottle filled with water. Then put a squirt of lemon joy dishwashing liquid in it and shake - The kind of dishwashing liquid for doing dishes by hand, not the dishwasher kind. Insects don't like lemon. The thing is you have to keep doing it weekly or so. It works for some stuff. Something was eating my strawberry plants and that took care of it. But now they are blooming so I stopped because I didn't want to discourage the bees. And I see 1 plant is getting eaten. So I don't know - do I spray again??? I guess I will because you can't have strawberries without a plant.

I think it was white flies on my potatoes - I sprayed and I think it helped but I did it so late - who can tell the leaves are full of little holes. You have to get that stuff early and often.

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Somebody out there has or knows this recipe...I've got the Garlic Barrier, need the info on the hot pepper and the soap! Names, where to get and how to mix?