Neem oil how much per gallon

It also has insecticidal properties. Total application rate of neem oil is cups per square feet per year, which could be divided into small-dose, weekly sprayings or larger-dose, monthly sprayings. Lean to the lower end if your plants are small, like vegetables in spring. To mix, add the soap to the warm water first and then slowly stir in the neem oil. Per gallon of water, mix 0. Then, slowly pour in 4. This is similar to how a good salad dressing is made — the oil needs to be added slowly and mixed really well in order to emulsify it.

Then set the hose-end sprayer to setting 10 10 Tbsp of your mixture per gallon of water. If it pulls up too fast, you can go down to setting 5. Use your neem and water mixture within 8 hours because it will break down afterward. Then clean your sprayer immediately to keep it from clogging up with oil. When you spray the leaves, make sure that you also spray the undersides because insects like to hide there.

Remember that neem oil concentrate primarily works not by contact, but by disturbing the hormonal systems of insects, so it can take some time. If you want to learn more about organic pest control, check out this article. A few years ago, I decided to start selling the pure neem oil product I use myself in , I started selling the brand recommended by Michael Phillips. An ft. I have been hanging nylon stockings with dog hair around the property.

Will let you know how it does. Repeat after rain. We have a pretty bad nightly issue if I skip it after one rainfall. They avoid the smell like the plague!

Hope that helpsTerry. A friend of mine from Alabama in an area with a large population of deer, used old sweaty t-shirts that he peed on as well and hung them around his garden. He swore it worked. For the last few years I have been using Milorganite fertilizer around the perimeter of my garden and flower beds. It is a fertilizer for golf courses and NOT good for your garden itself but it creates a boundary around it.

The deer were coming into my rural yard and eating my tulips to the ground before they had a chance to bloom. Can you say angry? Since broadcasting the Milorganite around my flower beds all of my tulips and other flowers have not been eaten for lunch.

Good luck! We use an electric fence it keeps deer and bear away. One shock is all it takes, but each animal need a dose of v so it may take a little bit to get them all aware. Artificial Dead Dog Chick wire lying rased by 5 inches and flush with the ground but its a weed trap as well, not effective for besrs. They get use to everything but pain is always remembered. Rabbits will also damage the garden this requires a sold beefier.

Get the most volts you can. My friend placed tall posts around his garden and strung 3 to 4 rows of fish line at varying levels. That worked for him. Leave a space open to get in and out of for yourself!

We found that buying bars of Irish Spring soap, cut it into thin strips and toss this around the plants. For some reason, deer do not like the smell. It did work! There are spray deer repellent products on the market have the smell of predator urine. They are in a field of native plants and those plants are hosts to caterpillars that are needed to become pollinators and to feed birds. I can see more purpose in using it on squash and cukes and even brassicas and eggplants where the evolutionary relationship between plants and insects does not exist.

The mildew and pests on those plants would warrant its use. Surround has been the best things for controlling flea beetles and caterpillars on the fruit trees, eggplants and potatoes and when using it on the fruit trees not much of it falls on the surrounding plants as it is heavy and drops straight down with little overspray on a still afternoon.

Can you please tell me what trees you have and how you take care of them. I have a three year old dwarf orchard, that is niot doing well. Peaches, apples, pears,, plums , apricots. The apples all had coddling moths, despite bagging them. I thin all my fruit.

I use stone meal, EM, dr. Also can you tell me what plants for butterflies and beneficial insects you have, i have hysdops, foxglove, tansy, yarrow, dill, fennel. I have peach, apricot, plum, cherry, apple pear,quince, mulberry, persimmon.. I use the sprays that Michael Phillips recommends but not BT and probably not neem this next year. I have over 30 species of native plants on my half acre. Check Prairie Moon for a catalog or the website for flowering plants that you can use. Really good ones: Eupatorium perfoliatum boneset , Pycnanthemum mints , Agastache, Scrophularia marilandica, Asclepius milkweeds incarnata does not grow by rhizomes so is not aggressive but reseeds, helianthus sunflower family — growing the great gray stripe and teddy bears gives winter seeds to the birds, Solidago goldenrod monorails, bicolor — neither are aggressive but are great for attracting bees especially native ones.

For those I use Rosemary, mint, thyme, cilantro, alone or in combo. I use neem oil from Neemresource. Shoot for 85F water temp. High temps will destroy the azidirachtin, as you said. It will clump in cold water. Compost tea or other mixes can be used as a base as well as water. I always spray just before sunset to avoid burning the leaves. Light also destroys the goodies we are after. If mixed ahead of time, a few hours at most, keep out of the light.

Other than what drips off the plant I do not use this as a soil drench. It can be a bit hard on the micro herd. Neem cake is better in the soil.

I use this inside and out on plants and have been quite pest free since. My plants all love it. I only saw one tomato hornworm last summer, about an inch long. I think the neem gave him a belly ache. We had a bad infestation last summer and I saw a lot in the garden but they seemed to be mostly passing through. I also use neem cake from the same source, mixed into the soil. Great stuff for many reasons, fertilizer, soil conditioner, pesticide.

Worms love it! I mix neem cake, kelp meal, and EWC. Thanks so much for sharing Terry. All great info. Phil, thanks for the info on neem oil I had no idea. Their eggs are hard to squish too. Will neem oil help this? Any help with these dastardly demons would be greatly appreciated. I would use Surround starting early and keeping it up all season. For the squash vine borer I use BT on the stems.

Thanks Linda! Do I need to spray every day? You need to spray only the stems as that is where the moth lays its eggs that will bore into the stems. I believe it breaks down in the sun so I do it once a week and after a rain. I had no losses due to borers last year and far less squash bugs and cucumber striped beetles since using surround.

Squash bugs are on the list above. Neem oil can help somewhat if you smother the eggs but at that point, you may just want to squish the eggs. Thanks so much for this article, Phil. Hi Karen, spray the trunk and branches early this spring before they even start to hatch and then again on a regular schedule, including hatch. Let me know how it goes. Great info on neem oil! I will be trying it! Can you address the issue of moles? They are everywhere in our yard and garden! Are they a garden pest?

The tomato hornworm mentioned above is the larvae for the hawk or sphinx moth and is a magnificent creature so unless there is a big problem, I would leave them. They are also hosts for the beneficial parasitic wasps. Keep a volunteer tomato plant to move them to. And esp do not harm them when they have been parasitized. Moles mainly eat earthworms, grubs etc but burrow underground to do so.

They leave tons of unsightly mounds of soil piled up all over a lawn or garden.. Like deer, rabbits, squirrels, they are a pest in gardens! Could you please tell me if it is possible and useful to « paint » the trunk of a middle size mountain ash which I suspect is attacked by insects with pure neem oil? Many thanks for your answer. Cordialement, Jacqueline Woodward.

Maybe only for SO Carolina ha ha.!!! Purchase some 80lb monofilament fishing line and string it between trees or posts reasonable tight and your finished. Deer will not cross what they touch and cannot see. They may run through it and break it but likely will not feed.

Ihave lines strung all over and only one was broken in over two years. Worth a try!! Cheap too! Phil, I am using the fermented leaves of neem tree. How do you look at it?

For insect control, i found it satisfying though. What are your proportions, Jules? And would the leaves need to be fermented? I have powdered neem leaves and wonder if I could use that, plus the concentration if applicable. I am sorry Anne for very late reply. I am using 1 kilo of fresh neem leaves and soak them in 5 liters of water.

Soak them overnight, strain and use them as spray. When soaked for a longer period of time, say one week, I have to ferment them with 1 kilo of molasses 1 kilo neem: 1 Kilo molasses:5 liters water to eliminate that very strong odor.

Have tried using pulverized, dried neem leaves by just converting the equivalent amount of 1 kilo fresh neem leaves into pulverized, dried neem leaves. Still it is working. How much of a garden can you cover with that? And how long does it last? Thanks for the recipe, though. I have used an egg mixture — 4 eggs in half gallon of water. Put the eggs in a blender first and blend, mix with water shake well, use a hose end sprayer, go to work!

They are a Goliath in my small fruit tree orchard: so far, they have laughed at my organic attempts at control. Someone please give me the smooth stone organic solution that will knock them out. Yes, neem oil could be a help if you get started early in the season and spray it regularly on the trunk and leaves.

Definitely worth a try and let me know how it goes. Neem does harm beneficials…I do not recommend using neem outside because it kills bees and we keep them where we live. My advice, only use I side on plants…or research neem on beneficials. I learned the hard way by finding all the good bugs were dying! Are you using pure neem oil? Many neem oil products contain chemical pesticides that do indeed harm beneficials, but with pure neem oil, some beekeepers even spray it on the hives for mite control.

All that being said, if for some reason bees end up ingesting too much of it, it could be an issue. Thanks for sharing your experience here. We definitely want to think holistically about everything we spray and do in our gardens. Absolutely a great article. Neem oil has been a staple around my plants for years.

I used to only use it when I brought my plants indoors at the end of the season, but about 2 years ago started to use it around most of my garden as I noticed a large break out occurring. Keep up the great articles. Mix 1. Is there a brand you recommend i look for? I see so many but not sure if they are true pure cold press organic neem. Im in the US. Hi All, I am from India, is it i get this pure neem oil product in India?

Test on a small area first and give it a couple of days to make sure there are no negative consequences. I love it but can this be available in Malawi my home? If one in Malawi here knows where I can get it please tell me. What detergent can you use to emulsify the neem oil? Everything I can find has some ingredient that is not healthy. You want to use a liquid soap , not a detergent. Soaps are made from natural ingredients such as plant oils or acids derived from animal fat.

Detergents are synthetic — they have their uses but tend to be much harder on plants. I use Dr. Hello phil.. I want to use for my garden.. I recently purchased some neem oil from you. I mixed it exactly how you instructed. Sprayed ALL my vegetable leaves yesterday late evening and today all the leaves are brown on all the plants. Can you tell me more about how much you used, how diluted it was and how big the area was?

I mixed 1. I mixed the neem oil and soap in a jar first with water ten put in a 1 gallon hand pump sprayer filled rest with water to equal 1 gallon and sprayed all my plant leaves. Everything turned dark brown??? Are the plants dead???

I also sprayed late evening when the sun was not on the plants. The mixture is how you instructed on your website. It sounds like it was too much for the small area. I would use 1. Still, it sounds like an over-application. So how much do I mix in a 1 gallon round up sprayer? I have one just for the garden?? Should I leave the tomatoes? Also my bell peppers turned brown. They are about 2 feet tall? Should I just leave the other plants and see how they do?

Is dawn liquid soap OK to use? It can be quite hard on plants. A non-toxic soap is much more benign than a detergent like dawn.

For your small area, I would mix 2 teaspoons of neem oil into 2 quarts of water with a few drops of non-toxic liquid soap or insecticidal soap. Yes, I would leave the tomatoes and peppers for a week to see what happens.

You can certainly leave the tiny seedlings to see what happens, but I would also plant new ones. Create a personalised content profile.

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List of Partners vendors. Project Overview. Featured Video. Materials 1 to 2 tablespoons neem oil, pure or raw form, cold-pressed 1 gallon water 1 to 2 teaspoons mild dish detergent. Mix the Detergent and Water Neem oil will not readily combine with water and needs an emulsifying agent, like a mild dish detergent, to effectively mix the oil. Tip Diluted liquid soap works as a homemade garden pesticide. Related Topics. Garden Pests. Article Sources. The Spruce uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles.

Read our editorial process to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Show Full Article. Storage and Disposal. Pesticide Storage: Keep in original container. Store away from direct sunlight, feed, or foodstuffs. Keep container tightly sealed when not in use.

Keep from freezing. Do not reuse or refill this container. Place in trash or offer for recycling if available. If partly filled: Call your local solid waste agency for disposal instructions.

Never place unused product down any indoor or outdoor drain. Precautionary Statements. Causes moderate eye irritation. Harmful if absorbed through skin. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wash thoroughly with soap and water after handling and before eating, drinking, chewing gum, or using tobacco.

Remove and wash contaminated clothing before reuse. Remove contact lenses, if present, after the first 5 minutes, then continue rinsing eye. Call a poison control center or doctor for treatment advice. If on skin or clothing: Take off contaminated clothing.