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Today we will look into some amazing Benefits of Neem oil in your garden, then its excellent
safety profile and then how to use neem oil in your garden with few effective formulae
or combinations.
Stay tuned..
Neem oil comes from the Neel plant also called Azadirachta indica plant, which is native
to the Indian subcontinent.
Both the seeds and fruits of the neem plant are pressed to get the vegetable oil we call
neem oil.
Firstly we shall start with the benefits of Neem oil in Gardening.
Its primary use in garden is due to its insecticide or pesticide action due to the compound Azadirachtin
in neem oil which kills pests in all their lifecyles like the adult or the larva stage.
It also believed to have antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal action.
Neem leaf paste was traditionally used for wound dressing in people and animals.
Neem leaf tea is used for stomach infections and neem leave are also used in chickenpox.
Well, Coming back to Garden benefits, its pesticidal action is used to eliminate the
following pests and diseases in plants and used as blanket treatment for the following
: 1.
Powdery mildew 2.
Caterpillars 3.
Aphids 4.
Mites 5.
Thrips 6.
Mealybugs 7.
Whiteflies 8.
Greenflies 9.
Grasshoppers 10.
Scale insects It also kills soil nematodes like root-knotters
but its does not affect earthworms and infact its beneficial to them.
Its also does not affect the beneficial pollinators like butter flies and honey bees.
Now before going into making our Formulations for use in garden, the safety profile of neem
oil.
It has few effects when concentrated form is ingested like stomach irritation and eye
irritation and contact dermatitis especially in children.
Otherwise it has an excellent safety profile and its completely biodegradable.
Now the Various Formulation of Neem Oil you can make at Home.
Before this, one concept you must remember before making formulations is : Because it�s
an oil, it doesn�t mix well with water and must be mixed with some kind of surfactant
to make it suitable for application in your garden.
Also make sure you do not spray neem oil during the sunlight � best to spray in evening
when the sun fades.
To start, all you need is the neem oil concentrate, which you can get from your local garden store
or even order online like the one am using here.
You can find the link to this in the video description.
1. Make your FOLIAR SPRAY FORMULATION: 1 litre Warm Water + 10 drops of liquid soap
like your handwash + 5 ml of Neem oil - to be mixed thoroughly before use and also perform
a PATCH TEST on your plant or leaf to see whether its burning the leaf after 24 hours.
This means you need to dilute it more.
Also make sure you spray the bottom of the leaves as well.
2.
You can also spray it on your soil to prevent harmful nematodes like root-knotter worms.
3.
Depending on the severity of pests, use it once a week or once every 15 days.
So, there we have it folks.
That was our episode on Neem oil and its benefits in garden.
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Happy Gardening!
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