How to make a neem oil spray for pest control in your garden 

ha ha ha ha So I have to encourage the cat to appear more?

@@eliandkate Absolutely! A special fauna edition! i.e. how to keep a cat from sleeping on your newly sprouted seedlings. Hint - it involves bamboo sticks and old plant tags stuck in the ground at non-nap friendly angles :)

ha ha ha my issue is more that they eat everything! Keep watch and count how often you hear me yell at Penny (the small...'em... round one)

ha ha ha oh Paul, we're all getting old :D

😻 I’m glad it was helpful 😻

I had the very same problem when I first started. We’ll be back making videos after Christmas… gonna take you guys along in my seed sowing and have some grow along with Eli projects too… so I’ll see you for some onions next week 😃

ha ha ha admit it, you stayed for the cat didn't you? :D

Thank you! 😊

Absolutely baking today 🌞🌞🌞🌞

woohoo nice to have a local with us :D

She comes and sleeps in the greenhouse when I'm working there too :)

Ha ha ha yes. My wife can be a sneaky sod. It did make me laugh so much when I found it during the edit though 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Our pleasure! Glad it was useful. Are you hammered as badly as a standard garden?

@@eliandkate No not at all at the moment I think the worst thing is the leaf minor that drives me mad, I have neem oil never taken the top off so I'm prepared I need to get some pure soap, Take care.

go get 'em!

I'm making s fresh batch today

@@eliandkate I need to prepare some. I do appreciate all the explanations given in the video; it is extremey imortant to understand what ne is doing, why, and what the real expectations need to be. The kitty is a adorabe plus! 😻

I'm mixing up a fresh batch today... earwigs are eating my peppers :(

ha ha ha glad you enjoyed Parker being a diva

I have 1 question what type of soap do you use? Thanks.

Glad it was useful.

@motivatedstoner I only use the soap you see in the video. It's horticultural soap. I talk in length about why I use that soap in the insecticidal soap video. It's also the soap I have listed on my tools and gear page. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jEdjPpyNpHc.html

I think you covered so much and did it so well. Hopefully between us folk will have all the useful info they need. Thank you for the shout out too... very honoured. *first pump* larva and larvae :)

I imagine you're not sitting wrapped up against the cold the way we are 😀

hey Bexyboo88 yup, in the quantities we use as gardeners it's safe to spray fruit and veg. It absolutely stinks though, as I mentioned so you might want to give things a rinse before you use them, just for the smell if nothing else 😂 Make sure you do a test somewhere before spraying with abandon. There were a few folks who followed this video last year (and the insecticidal soap one) without checking the dilution and killed some of their plants. As with anything, be careful with your babies - you put all that effort into growing them.

Yay! Thank you! Glad you've enjoyed the mini series. You think Kate gave you a LOL... I found it when I was editing, almost spat tea out my nose!!! You know what I'm going to say about washing up liquid don't you........ it's up to you what you use, I can't tell you yay or nae. But what I will say is always do a we test first, that way you can judge things... :)

The Kitchen Garden with Eli & Kate 🤣🤣🤣 yes must have been a surprise for you! 🙈 yes did sort of expect that kind of response about the WupL 🤣 I’ll just hang on for the proper stuff to come 👌🏼 no point doing things in half measures! 🙈 would be good to see a mini vid of you using the neem oil 👌🏼☺️

ha ha ha. 5 seconds of me spraying it lol

I only make small batches as I’ve found it doesn’t last that long, I’ve never tried a gallon though

With a drench, I make a really diluted solution and water the plant with it as a normal watering. You need to do it 2 or 3 times to get to all the larva as they appear but it usually works not bad :D

@@eliandkate Thanks. Appreciate it.

@@eliandkate As I am new to gardening I was just wondering does this neem oil spray solution help to deter slugs and snails as well in potted outdoor plants such as avacado plants as here in London/ UK even now it rains and a lot at any other times throughout the year.

You can absolutely use it if you want. I just wanted to point out that all of these things can cause damage or kill plants. I talked about fairy liquid in a previous video about soap sprays and how it wasn’t a soap and was actually labelled as dangerous. So it’s just about making you aware of stuff so you can make your own decisions 😀

@@eliandkate thanks for info and getting back to me

😀 no probs 😀

I did but it wasnt really a solution for me. It rains constantly in Scotland, so I'd have to be out putting down fresh layers on a daily basis, which apart from being way out of what I can afford, is more time consuming than I can fit into my life. But that's the best bit about gardening I think. We can all have our gardens, growing what suits us and doing things in the way that suits us. Best hobby ever :)

It will deal with the larva if you make a regular drench out of it but it won’t affect the adult flies. For the flies you will want to go with sticky traps

ha ha ha yes I know I'm correct, that's why I said it 😂😂😂😂 So just how sunny if Falkirk just now? It's miserable and wet here :(

Smarty pants hahahaha

@@eliandkate The description sunny was slightly inaccurate here .... its brightish but jings its cold even for a big old Scotsman like me!!

:D are you doing the whole selling falkirk to the tourist with your misinformation thing? It's absolutely pishing doon here but not nearly as cold as yesterday. I think I'd rather have the cold though.

@@eliandkate yes misinformation to "the tourist" as you say is a by product of being cheery! I could do with the rain to get rid of the ice that we have. Hoping to have some decent weather soon so that I can pluck up enough energy to disinfect and clean the greenhouse .... ah jings happy days!!

Ha ha ha Kate would agree

Yup, absolutely. same rules apply though - be careful and test test test! 😀

@@eliandkate Many thanks, really love your channel, very informative and useful, well done!

Learning by experience sucks doesn't it.

Neem doesn’t keep Danny You need to make fresh batches frequently

@@eliandkate thx

That is Parker the bigger one of our two calico (tortoiseshell and white). The other one who appears in videos eating our plants is Penny. They are sisters.

For soft bodied insects like aphids, a soap solution works a treat (sprayed on the insects not the plants) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jEdjPpyNpHc.htmlsi=IAOWXBCt7YjTKSGw Strawberries 😁 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AQi3FuR9VQo.htmlsi=zWbNK1kd__hLJfaL

soap yes, but might be worth watching the video on soap sprays to get a bit of background

If you have a really bad infestation you might want to try a combination of the sticky traps for the adults and hydrogen peroxide solutions for the larva. I found this was the absolute best thing for the fungus gnats (if you've seen the video, you know I tested out various solutions over the last couple of years). Watering with a weak solution of hydrogen peroxided got rid of all my gnats indoors within a couple of weeks. I use neem oil for the garden and greenhouse rather than house plants

@@eliandkate I no longer have much issue inside since I did bottom watering for my indoor plants but now it’s more for the ones outside. So neemoil is not best recipe here? I did hydroperioxide a few weeks ago but it seems they still come back. How often should i repeat it?

I have to be honest in a garden rather than pots you'll struggle to control them. They'll come in from elsewhere as it's their natural environment. Lots of damp and rotting vegetation. I would be very hesitant at using drenches in an actual garden, you would be risking all the essential organism in your soil. You might just have to live with it.

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hmmmm ok not a simple one. Neem oil can stop the eggs from hatching if its sprayed directly onto the eggs. It can also kill larva if sprayed directly onto them and if they eat the plant that has been treated. However, it doesn't kill the flies unless again, sprayed directly onto them. As I always remind folk though, neem oil isn't like using a pesticide or insect spray, it doesn't kill things instantly, more that it disrupts their biology that eventually kills them. And please also remember not to just spray willy nilly, don't spray flowers and be careful of other insects. :D Soap sprays as well can help dealing with the eggs and larva, but again, don't go mad, spray with care.

@@eliandkate thanks for that Eli, it’s actually the larvae that’s the problem, they eat the leaves then pupate then lay their eggs in the soil under the plant and start over again! You’ve got to admire them 😂. I’ve actually replanted the bush this year in fresh soil so hopefully that may do it 🤞just wondered if I also drenched the soil with the neem it may help?

I was just about to day you could try soil drenches. 😀

@@eliandkate I’ll give that a go, I just want a raspberry 🙏

Hey Tom, no it doesn't work by detering things, as much as it stinks to me, it works by actually affecting the animals who ingest it biologically. It causes them to stop mating and loose their appetite, so reduces the numbers in the garden. In terms of deterrents, I've found that the majority of the gardener's tricks haven't worked for me. I've tried coffee grounds, eggshells, grit etc but none of them made any difference. On pots and containers I used copper tape (the good quality stuff) and found that has made a massive difference. The only down side was that it was great for containers but a bit useless if your plants were in the ground. But last weel I posted a video about copper rings (form a company called slugrings) and they have been brilliant. I've been using them for a bout a month now and they are definitely making a huge difference. Not sure if that would be something you'd consider useful ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rniKSLQHQTc.html

@@eliandkate I see thank you very much anyway though for sharing such wonderful, helpful and interesting videos for making and using natural plant pesticides in around the garden. Also your cats seem very cute. Very happy to see them very interactive, very much like our small dog's, always wanting attention, hahaha! 😁😎👍

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it mainly prevents wasps n fruit flies from laying larvea into fruits n veggies but doesnt kill pests..mybe reduce in numbers..it also used as natural fungicide

Still doesn't matter. What? Instead of 30sec you are going to get 45 before you have to shake again? After it separates its going to take the same amount of time lol

the soap in this type of mix is purely to help the oil and water combine

Glad I could help!

I have no idea Sajad. Maybe a good garden centre?

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Ok let's look at this 🙂 The first think is to remember you can't just copy someone else, all our situations are different so we need to be able to adapt recipes to suit our personal needs. It may be that you need to add a tiny bit more soap and shake for longer. The other thing, which I suspect might be the case, is that 8tsntoo cold. The oil solidifies when it's too cold. So maybe try making your solution up with warm water? I know mine can solidify by the time I'm finished spraying

@@eliandkate Thanks for replying. I made my batch with warm water and I did add abit more soap in and it made it stick onto the side of the bottle more. The neem oil seems to turn into a paste once I add in the soap and shake and just sticks onto the sides sometimes bits of the neem oil paste ends up in the water in clumps. I'm not sure why it does that.

I am absolutely stumped.... I've no idea why that would be happening. Sorry.

@@eliandkate no worries thank you for replying anyways :) I found your channel a few days ago and do love the content 👍🏼

I wonder if you might be able to get some help in the facebook group? There might be folk there from around your area who maybe buy or know the brand of neem oil you use and can enlighten us to why it turns to paste?

Will be a bit dependant on you. I generally use it if I have an issue and I’ll use it once maybe twice over a week

@@eliandkate Thank you 😊

No the studies have shown that the type of use we do in our gardens isn't harmful to pollinators or birds, or pets, us etc. Even if you get the oil on a flower head etc The worries have come from some folk who misunderstood the studies and put messages out on social media, which wet a bit crazy (I was actually chatting about this with another youtuber a few months ago and had to go research it hence I'm full of the info LOL). Basically, the active ingredient azadirachtin, in large doses (like industrial scale) potentially could be harmful if ingested, because of that, anyone company supplying it has to meet all the government regulations and get approval before they can sell it. Some of the research studies into neem for agriculture have been really interesting in the unexpected benefits that have been found, in certain circumstances. I always love that, when it makes you think woah... I wouldn't have thought of that, I wonder why that happened :) Anyways I'll stop now coz I know not everyone wants to go do their own research and read academic papers :D but in case you are bored. I really liked this article... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234645/

@@eliandkate brilliant news, I was going to buy some then got put off. Now I know more facts and I know how to use it, fantastic thanks.

how did you get on Alan?

@@eliandkate got all the gear but had not need to use it yet, probably because of the weather. No doubt will use it soon as the weather is picking up. Will let you know how I get on. On just put my tins outside yesterday.

This stuff is a contact spray oil coats soft body, over winter spray coats eggs , no harm to bees. Does nothing to hormones please stop false info , oil smothers breath parts of bug and coats body parts only .

Hey Dee, in the amounts we use in a garden then yes, although it tastes and smells absolutely disgusting, so you will want to wash anything of you've just sprayed it before harvest. It's a different story for large scale like agriculture though. Here in the UK the active ingredient of neem oil is controlled for pesticide use (why folk talk about it being banned in the UK), because when massively scaled up like that it can be detrimental. Like with everything you introduce to your garden, a but of common sense goes a long way. Don't spray it on flowers, try to avoid spraying beneficial insects etc. etc.

i read tht u should stop using neem oil two weeks b4 harvest to avoid the taste of neem in fruits n veggies

hmmm I can’t say specifically because obviously there will be loads of factors. But I have heard lawn care folk recommending using neem oil in a solution to water the lawn in order to deal with grubs so it may be worth trying a drench.

@@eliandkate Thank you for your reply.

sorry I can’t say. Neem might help if the bugs are eating the plant but without knowing more about what’s going on it’s hard to say

I have this problem or should I say my bay trees do. Have you finally managed find an effective solution? I am trying removing all the affected leaves and moving the plant to a new spot because I heard the pest overwinters in the soil around the plant. I'll see how they grow this year.

Omg no!!!! The smell.

Hey Amy welcome aboard and thoughtful feedback :D hmm I totally understand where you are coming from, if you are just looking to learn a thing quickly and get a job done then that's exactly what you are after. It's not what this channel is about though, here we focus more on the community of people who have come on this journey with me over the years and the social and informal chat style, so whether it's a full on "vlog" type video or a "let me share a thing I've learned", they are always geared towards that friendly and social interaction. Especially now that we're all locked down and online communities are much more important to some of us than ever before :D If you prefer the in and out, got what I need type channel you should try some of the video libraries companies have. I know we have a few in the UK run by gardening companies as a quick hot to guide section. Good luck :D