Market+Garden

Target plant:spring onions Main pests:fruit flies and baby purplish black bugs

how to remove fruit flies and baby purplish black bugs: Soapy water - use one to two tablespoons of liquid soap one per gallon.

Organic recipes to get rid of pest: 8 - 10 chillies finely sliced (name garlic chilli spray) 4 cloves garlic crushed and cut roughly 1 tablespoon of soap flakes ,1 liter of of boiling water combine in a glass jar and set aside for 24 hours.  strain and pour into a spray bottle use within 2 weeks.

To get rid of ants Fill a spray bottle with water, add 10-15 drops of peppermint essential oil. Spray the area you don't want the ants to cross and they won't, they hate the smell. ( can be harmful to cats)

Salt Spray disolve2 table spoons of salt in 4.5 litres of water carefully apply. very useful against red spiders and cabbage root flies

To get rid of aphids <span style="background-color: #b90ad8; color: #f685f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Mix the chopped peppers in the water and let it steep over night. Pour it into a spray bottle and apply to your plants regularly.
 * <span style="background-color: #b90ad8; color: #f685f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">1/2 a cup of hot peppers, chopped. Try Cayenne or Thai chillies, these are among the hottest peppers. The hotter the pepper, the more capsacin and the more capsacin and the more capsacin in the better it keeps the bugs away.
 * <span style="background-color: #b90ad8; color: #f685f3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">two cups of water