DJ54
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I've also been experimenting with spraying beans & corn foilage, with hot pepper juice. I take 6-8 Jalepeno peppers, and put in a blender, and pretty well puree', then add water, and pulse the blender to mix it up. I get close to 4 cups of hot pepper juice. I then strain the juice and freeze in small gatorade bottles to preserve. I add one cup of the juice to 1-1/2 gallons of water in my hand sprayer + 2 tsp. of dish soap, and that also seems to keep the deer from chewing things up. It also works as a somewhat organic pesticide. It kept the Mexican Bean Beetles off the Roma's I planted, not so well on the silk worms on the corn. For a back-up, I used a spray containing Spinosad, which has been deemed organic.
I planted jalepeno's for next years juice spray, and have them in the freezer, and have been using a few along too. Been working so far..!!
I planted jalepeno's for next years juice spray, and have them in the freezer, and have been using a few along too. Been working so far..!!