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The DIY Garden Bug Spray Video with More Results

ByJami Boys

Our popular diy garden bug spray made mainly with garlic and mint gets it own video giving more details, showing how to make and use the spray, and how it worked on other plants.

DIY Garden Bug Spray That Really Works Video - An Oregon Cottage

You guys, I was so excited about how great the garlic-mint garden insect spray worked in our garden (and that I actually remembered to take pictures so I could share it with you), but I’m even more excited that you are finding it helpful, too!

It’s been shared thousands of times on social media and has been visited many thousands of times on the blog. I’m so happy that you found the results as amazing as I did and I can’t wait to hear about all your own experiments on the bad bugs in your gardens!

UPDATE: I’ve created an FAQ article that also includes reader results – you are going to want to see these testimonials, they’re amazing!

DIY Garden Bug Spray Video with Updates & More Results

In light of the popularity of the diy garden bug spray post, and wanting to you give a bit more information, Brian and I created a video for you that shows:

  1. How to make it and use it on the plants.
  2. How lush and beautiful our sprayed plants are now, a month after their last spraying.
  3. How it worked on a plant I sprayed in our vegetable garden, but didn’t blog about because it wasn’t a part of the “official experiment” – my beloved Emerite pole beans. If you’ve ever fought with spotted cucumber beetles, you’ll want to take a look at this!

So, we hope you enjoy this and that it helps you to be able to use it in your gardens!

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Since 2009 Jami Boys has helped readers live a simple homemade life through whole food recipes, easy organic gardening and preserving the harvest on An Oregon Cottage™. From baking bread to growing vegetables to preserving them, Jami shares the easiest ways to get things done.

She's been featured in Cottages and Bungalows, Old House Journal, and First for Women magazines as well as sites like Good Housekeeping, Huffington Post, and Apartment Therapy.

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  1. Hi Jami
    Would garlic powder work just as well as garlic cloves and less fiddlier. I have two basils in pots and they have had the life nibbled out of them. I want to try your pest remedy but other organic sites suggest using garlic powder with similar recipee for pest control
    Thank you
    Keena

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    1. You can try it, Keena, and see if it works. If it doesn’t, then go for the fresh cloves. I haven’t tried it since fresh garlic is so much more potent (scent-wise) than powdered and it’s the smell that deters the bugs.

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