To prepare an effective homemade insecticide against aphids, you will need:

• 5 cloves of garlic
• a liter of water

In a bowl, let the garlic cloves macerate in the water for a whole day. Then pour the mixture into a saucepan, boil for 20 minutes and chill. Filter the solution and pour it into a spray bottle. Drizzle the garlic decoction over the infested plants. This insecticide can be applied up to twice a day, in order to improve the growth of your plants. It can also be used to eliminate mealybugs, caterpillars, ants or red spider mites.

What are some other tips for getting rid of plant aphids?

In addition to garlic decoction, you can use these tips to get rid of aphids naturally, without harming your plants.

Black soap is a natural and biodegradable soap, made from linseed or olive oil. This soap is very effective in the fight against aphids that plague your plants. To do this, dilute 75 ml of liquid black soap in one liter of water and pour the solution into a spray bottle. Then spray on the aphids. If you don’t have liquid black soap, you can dilute 20 g of black soap paste in warm water.

Coffee grounds have several benefits. Used in the garden to fertilize plants, it can also be used as a natural repellent. For good reason, it’s effective at repelling aphids, as well as ants and gastropods like slugs. To do this, simply scatter the coffee grounds at the foot of the infested plants. Keep in mind that it’s important to dry coffee grounds before use and spread them well around the plants. Renew as soon as it gets wet.

To get rid of pests, you can attract certain growing aids to your garden. The latter are living organisms, such as insects, that act as predators to eliminate plant pests. This is also the case with ladybugs. This beetle insect is, in fact, fond of aphids. To attract ladybugs, you can grow flowering plants like dandelion or daisies in your garden. Ladybugs feed on its pollen. You can also pile up dead leaves and small piles of branches in different places in the garden. This encourages ladybugs to overwinter in your garden. Do not remove these shelters until March.

Liquid manure is a natural product obtained by maceration, infusion, decoction or fermentation of plants. To protect your plants from green or black aphids, you can use fern manure. To do this, macerate 1 kg of eagle fern leaves in 10 liters of rainwater, in a covered container, which you will keep cool. Maceration can last up to ten days. During this period, be sure to stir the mixture once a day. Then filter your mixture and keep the manure fresh. To use your insecticide, dilute 10% fern manure in rainwater and spray on plants that have been attacked by aphids.

Thanks to these tips you can easily get rid of aphids that attack your plants, without using chemicals.