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First and foremost, I always repeat these lines: Please avoid the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers which have a lot of hazardous effects on humans and animals. That’s the main reason, why we promote the use of natural agents or organic pesticides and fertilizers in this gardening website.
What is Asafoetida?
Asafoetida, also known as hing, is a common flavoring agent found in most kitchens. It’s actually dried latex or gum exuded from the rhizome or tap root of Ferula Asafoetida plants.
What is the Scientific Basis of its use in gardening and Farming?
First of all, let’s look into its composition. Typical asafoetida contains about 40–64% resin, 25% endogenous gum, 10–17% volatile oil, and 1.5–10% ash. The resin portion and the volatile oil portion contains a lot of strong compounds that are responsible for its pungent odor and its beneficial properties. Apart from it’s medicinal properties, Asafoetida has some amazing uses in gardening and farming as a pesticide to control many pests and insects including termites, also to repel rodents and animals from your garden or farm, and also to treat some plant diseases like leaf curl virus or leaf curl disease which otherwise has absolutely no treatment. We will look into how to use Asafoetida for each of these problems.
How to use Asafoetida to treat Leaf Curl Disease?
Take one liter of sour butter milk. You can also take 500 ml, if you have fewer plants.
Add one teaspoon or about 5 gms of Asafoetida powder to it and mix well.
Let it stay for 1 or 2 hours.
Sieve this solution using a fine cloth to avoid spray bottle clogging.
Spray this thoroughly over the affected plant including the underside of the leaves.
Repeat this every 3 days for 3 – 4 times. Leaf curl disease which is common in pepper and tomato plants will be completely cured by this treatment most of the times.
How to use Asafoetida to Repel Insects and Termites?
Take 50 gms of Asafoetida – raw cake form is better.
Put this in a piece of cotton cloth and make a small sac like this.
Hang this over the tree or plant where you want to repel unwanted insects including termites. The disagreeable odour repels termites and other insects.
How to use Asafoetida to Repel Unwanted Animals and Rodents?
Sometimes these rodents and other animals including our pets like cats and dogs create havoc in our gardens. Most of these animals hate the strong pungent smell of asafoetida. To make it effective you need to use a lot of Asafoetida wrapped up in cotton cloth to repel these animals. Perhaps about 100 gms of Asafoetida may help protect and area of about 1 to 2 square meters. It may not be so much cost effective, but it depends on the intensity of your problem.
How to Use Asafoetida as an Organic Fertilizer and Why?
Using Asafoetida as a liquid fertilizer is said to boost plant immune system and protect it from various diseases in the long run.
How to use Asafoetida as an Organic Pesticide?
Asafoetida alone may not be effective to control common pests in our gardens like Aphids, mealybugs, whiteflies, thrips, mites and so on. But mixing this with other ingredients can make it a powerful natural pesticide to control these pests.
Neem oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the Miracle Tree – that’s the Neem Tree. The botanical name of neem tree is Azadirachta indica. Azadirachtin and Nimbin found in neem oil are the two major compounds responsible for its antibacterial and antifungal actions.
This neem tree is native to the Indian subcontinent and can be easily grown at home gardening level even in large containers.
Before we discuss on which Neem oil you should purchase for best efficacy in gardening, we will list out the best uses of neem oil for your plants and gardening.
Now, we will discuss the most important aspect of this video, based on which the quality, composition and efficacy of neem oil depends – that’s the method of extraction of neem oil from seeds.
There are three methods:
Heat pressing method – as the name implies, its using heat for crushing or pressing the seeds to extract oil.
Solvent extraction means using a solvent like alcohol is used to extract neem oil. This solvent extracted neem oil usually has a low price, because it is turbid and contains a significant amount of water and metals with low content of the important compounds namely azhadiractin and nimbin.
Heat extracted neem oil also has moderate loss of the useful compounds and less effective.
Whereas the Cold pressed Neem oil extracted without applying any heat, is the best and effective source for neem oil. So, when you are purchasing from a local garden store or online, make sure you check the method of extraction mentioned on the bottle or product description. You can purchase cold pressed neem oil here.
How to use Neem oil properly for the best effects?
Before I start with the neem oil recipes for plants, the safety profile of neem oil. It has few effects when concentrated form is ingested like stomach irritation causing gastritis and vomiting. Then Eye irritation and contact dermatitis can develop on contact specially in children. Otherwise it has an excellent safety profile and its completely biodegradable.
Now the recipe for Neem Oil you can make at Home.
Before this, few important points you must remember:
To Make the best broad spectrum PESTICIDE FOLIAR SPRAY FORMULATION for 1 litre:
Take 1 litre Warm Water and add 10 drops of liquid soap like your handwash or
even some shampoo. Then you add 5 ml to
10 ml of Neem oil into this. 5 ml if you want to spray as a maintenance
pesticide spray for your garden where you do not have much pests.
10 ml if you have lot of pests on your plants.
Mixing this thoroughly before use is very important.
Perform a PATCH TEST to know how strong it is. This means you Just spray this
on one or two leaves and then wait for a couple of hours to see if the leaf is
wilting or burning due to too much concentration of neem oil. If you pass the
patch test, you can spray it on your whole garden safely. Patch test may be
important for newbie gardeners or if you have purchased a new brand of neem oil
from some company for the first time.
Also make sure you spray the underside of the leaves as well.
Happy Gardening!
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