organic garden spray

 

hi
I as wondering if anyone had a recipe for organic
garden spray.
I have beautiful organic vege garden beds but
the white butterfly are starting to come about.
hoping someone can help me
cheers
Nancy

 



There are a couple of ways to deal with them.
1) They are territorial and I have had good success rates by cutting out
fake cabbage butterflys from a 2 litre milk carton, utting a black dot on
then with texta and then putting them on sate sticks on the top of bamboo
canes amongst my crucifer plants.
2) catch a few of the moths (or later the catepillars) and mash them up,
leave to ferment for a couple of days, mix with water, then spray the plants
with the mix.

 



If the damage is caused by the grubs from the butterfly then BT (Dipel) will
deal with them.

David

 


For butterfly larvae, I'd have thought the bacterial spray Dipel
would be ideal. No chemicals, just a bacteria that makes these types
of caterpillars very sick. The same type of spray is marketed under
another brand name. Maybe someone can remind us?

Of course, a purist would make their own spray by crushing a handful
of the grubs, letting them marinate in their own juices for 3 or 4
days, then mascerating with water, filtering, and spraying over the
remaining plants. Let us know how it all works out. :-)
--
John Savage                (my news address is not valid for email)

 



It's also called BT (bacillus thuringiensis) and is sold under various brand
names apart from Dipel.


I fear this kind of spray appeals to the principles of sympathetic magic or
the assumption that an organism must be revolted by the juices of their
squashed brethren.

David