Garden Spray
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Kirk’s will help keep pests out of your garden. For more than 100 years, southern gardeners have relied on Kirk’s Castile soap as an all-purpose fungicide and insecticide that won’t harm the environment. Dissolving this nontoxic soap in water is a safe, effective way to get rid of fungi, aphids, mealy bugs, spider mites, and much more. Kirk’s recommends that you try a small test patch before use.
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ingredients
Kirk’s Coco Castile Soap (Original or Fragrance Free)
Water
directions
- Place Kirk’s Coco Castile Soap in wrapper on a concrete hard surface (like a sidewalk).
- Gently hammer the soap allowing it to crumble in the wrapper.
- Pour the hammered chunks in a wide mouth gallon container and fill it with hot water.
- Let it sit for a week.
- Run the mixture through your blender and dissolve any lumps.
- Pour the thick mixture back into the gallon container for storage where it will thicken.
- Dissolve one cup of soap concentrate in one gallon of warm water.
- Fill you garden sprayer and spray plants accordingly.
- This mixture will help you kill aphids, powdery mildew, suppress black spots and fungus.
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additional tips
Best to use when hot and humid.
Spray bushes till they are dripping.
Spray when you won’t be watering for a few days.
Blackspot lives in the undersides of the leaves so aim spray accordingly.
Kirk’s garden spray is a non-burning spray so experiment with stronger & weaker solutions.