home made pesticides

I am at it again! Planted three rose plants 2 1/2 months ago and they are blooming! :) Here's the rub! :( The petals have ragged holes in them and I saw a blackish beetle nestling comfortably on MY ROSE PLANTS! :( :( Any one have a home made pesticide concoction recipe? I do not want to use inorganics. Enviorment and others health! Drop me a line.

Cant give any one answer as I would need to know what the black beasty looked like, if it were what we call clipsheer with like nippers at its rear end, then you can either knock them off into a bucket of hot water, or stick a garden cane in the soil beside the shrub, put some straw or shreaded paper into a small flowerpot and sit it upside down on top of the cane, each morning you go out, they hide in the straw/paper, shake the pot and paper into a bucket and watch all the nippy things drown, or set fire to the paper in a large can, the other beasty that eats holes in the flowers/leaves is the adult Vine weevils, these are black, 6 legs and 2 tenticles/feelers on head, these eat leaves/flowers and the female lays eggs in the compost, these grubs hatch and start eating the roots in the soil, the grubs are cream/white with little dark head, always in a horse shoe shape, you have to just pick off the adults and squash them or stamp on them, the last one I know off, is the thrip, it is a fly, common name, thunder fly, 1/16thinch long, although a fly, they usually hop from plant to plant, eat any soft plant bits, they leave redish fluid which turns stick black, so you need to squash these if you can before they jump away, there will be other things I am sure, but these are the more common things, to just spray these off with the water jet, is hard as they just crawl off and go next door plant, wish I could help you more, but maybe someone else can help with the no chemical way, good luck, WeeNel.

WeeNel, you are just a classroom of information! :) Thanks!

I second that motion...good on you Wee Nell! I think you are wonderful!....

Gee thanks guy's I will have to get a handy man in to make my doors wider just to get my head through with comments like that, I must sound like a real know it all, but as I have been gardening for years and in various situations, you reach the point where you have either had the problems, made the problems or been asked about the problem, so it aint so much as cleaver, just learning as you go along, believe me, if any gardener ever tells you they know it all then the are greener than the plants they grow, we all learn as we gain more experience, hope the bugs have stopped eating, Happy Gardening, WeeNel.

home made pesticides? I was recently told to make a solution of vinegar and water.Not sure how true that is but it is way better than chemicals.

Vinegar is more often used as a weedkiller, not a pesticide so I wouldn't spray it on any plants you want to keep! Some of the more common home-made pesticides are you can use dilute dish soap to kill soft-bodied insects like aphids, and people also use baking soda or milk to treat fungus on plants.

I have heard about a few things. It sort of works for me.
You can use Neem concentrate and dilute it in water and spary it on the plant.
Another solution is to mix garlic and pepper in water and spray.

Good luck!