Homemade Vegetable Garden Bug Killer

Save money and protect your vegetable garden by making homemade bug killer with items that you have in your pantry. Killing the insects with natural ingredients also prevents adding harmful chemical pesticides to the vegetables you grow. Natural insecticides include ingredients like soap, oil and herbs that work to control garden pests naturally. Oil smothers insects, the soap allows the solution to stick to the plants, while peppers make the vegetable plants undesirable to the insects.

1 cup vegetable oil

1 tbsp. liquid dish soap

Spray bottles

3 habanero peppers

Sauce pot

1 qt. water

Slotted spoon

2 tsp. liquid dish soap

Combine 1 cup of vegetable oil and 1 tbsp. of liquid dish soap in a spray bottle.

Add 2 cups of warm water to the spray bottle.

Shake the bottle to mix the ingredients.

Spray the solution onto the insects invading the vegetable plants. Continue to spray the solution weekly to kill the insects as needed.

Mine three habanero peppers. Place them in a sauce pot on the stove top.

Add 1 qt. of water to the sauce pot. Bring the solution to a boil.

Remove the saucepot from the stove top once the peppers boil for 1 minute.

Allow the peppers to steep for 24 hours in the water. Remove the peppers from the water with a slotted spoon.

Add 2 tsp. of liquid dish soap to the water. Pour the solution into the spray bottle. Spray the insects on the vegetable plants.

Always test the sprays on the small leaves of a plant to ensure that it will not harm it. If the plant wilts or burns within 48, then avoid using the spray.

Wear gloves when cutting habanero peppers to protect your skin from the juices.