Adding black strap molasses to your garden is good for it. It feeds all the microbes in your soil. If you’re applying any kind of organic fertilizer, sugar will give your existing microbes the food they need to get them moving so that they’ll start breaking down that new fertilizer, making it available for plants.

Just a heads up...Wal-Mart online had 2 bottles of the orange oil for around $25. Amazon was like $43

6:00 recipe starts. Thanks for posting this!

Toms videos are the most informative videos on the inter webs

I watched every minute of this video and so glad I did!!! Tons of helpful tips and extra little tidbits that are so helpful to know! Appreciate all your hard work on making these videos!! Peace and love 💗

Can the solution be used for white fuzz under leaves? Thank you for the great tips! from making to cleaning the spray bottle. Just found your channel and love it! Are you a scientist? Everything is so well thought out and analyzed.The pigs (?) in the background look so happy wagging their tails. Abundance and radiance to you and your family!

Awesome vids and info thanks.

Great info! I will try this!

I'm so glad I found your channel bro. thx.

Great recipes. Love your channel.

The molasses will do two things - it will feed the probiotics in your compost tea/organic fertilizer and release release the nutrients in the molasses to make the bioavailable - i.e., it won't be sugar for long but, rather, just the nutrients that are released from it and probably increases the population of specific, "bug-killer" probiotics. If you're afraid of the sugar, just let it sit and ferment a bit before you use it. Also - if you want a SUPER simple shield to control spraying? One of those "pop up" baby sun shades for cars, covered with a piece of cotton, like a piece of an old t-shirt or jeans or something. You can add a loop and twist/fold it up and hang it off your belt, whip it out, flip it open and hold it behind what you're spraying to protect whatever's behind it, whether it's another plant or the side of the house or a white-washed fence or whatever. And the pop-ups usually come 4 to a package and run 5 to 10 bucks, so you can use different colored t-shirts for the different sprays so you don't get some sort of frankenstein mixture soaked into one shield. Just use the color you've designated for whatever you're spraying. When they get ratty, take off the fabric and bury them in your "long-haul" compost pile and replace it with a "new" piece of fabric. Also great for misting houseplants. [I have my houseplant shield covered with a chamois which will last forever as I only mist the foliage with water - then just hang it up to dry] Also, standard spray nozzles - like high quality professional nozzles - usually come pretty cheap, 6 to a pack, with the hoses and not only fit pop bottles but also isopropyl alcohol AND the dark brown, non-reactive, hydrogen peroxide bottles. Tubes are perfect length for the bigger quart-size bottles. The nozzles are pretty standard and would probably fit just about any standard neck bottle.

Excellent video, thank you.

Loved this! So much good info. Thank you, I am going to try this for sure.

Thank you 🙏 I’m keeping notes as I’m planning to start my planting by March zone 9a

I think the effect he is speaking about in reference to mixing orange oil and Castile soap is emulsification. The soap helps the oil mix with the water and the other ingredients instead of just rising to the top of the mixture.

Just listened and subbed. Great presentation. Greg Chaney in coastal N.C

Extremely in depth video loaded with very beneficial information…thanking you for all of the time and energy to create and share…filled with real and safe products …I’m a subscriber…stay blessed

Wish you’d do more videos!!!

Great video thanks

I just mixed up a batch last night and tested it on slugs, cabbage worms and flea beetles. It took them out so fast! An amazing concoction! Thank you so much for sharing! I also experimented drenching a dock leaf and where the liquid collected it did burn the leaf a bit. But I drenched it. I may cut back a bit on the orange oil. Either way...amazing!

Thank you so much for sharing. I recently started making my cleaning products and really appreciate your knowledge and enjoying your videos.

Hi Thom! I've been making comfrey salve for quite a few years now. I really like your method and that you make it that the actual plant remains in the brew. I use olive oil blitz in wiz banger then I put in a mason jar then let it marinate for at least a month. Thanks for sharing your recipe.😊

Thanky

This video came just in time as I'd found out about Orange oil for fire ants and my bottles of two brands of orange oil arrived the other day and I've not yet used them. Now I know how to mix them with other ingredients to mitigate damage to plants with bug issues I might spray with it. Thanks! BTW, an easier way to figure the rough cost if you are going to use 12 quart bottles of your "pesticide" solution, is to see it is the same as 3 gallons which would require 6 ounces of Orange Oil or less than 1/5 quart of the oil which if using the expensive brand would be around $6 worth of orange oil used to make one years supply.

M. cho and the Son Jadam her gardening method Its WORKS I’m in zone 5 in Québec big nice fruit and vege

I will totally have to make this and add it to my zombie killing arsenal. Thanks for the recipe. This gal is armed and dangerous, zombies beware!! I also have to comment on those happytailwagging pigs behind you, they distracted me a bit, lol. What breed of pigs do you keep and do you breed your own? Just curious. I have a few myself. Besides that, you cracked me up with the Dr. Castile soap comment. I was just thinking that the other day when I found a bottle of Dr. Jacobs, lol. Vitacost has the Dr. Woods for 10.99 a quart currently and they often give you a 15% discount (put it in the cart and wait a day or so and they send you the discount thing in your email).

I trust ya brother, hoo-rah!

Them look like some happy pig😂 thank you for your content I have become an active watcher in the last few days. Happy gardening

Interesting video, thanks for sharing. I ordered the ingredients today so I will be ready for spring. One question, what part does the compost tea play?

Garrett juice, yeah !!!

Hi Thom, I am following your channel from Germany. Like, what you do. And your style. Understand orange oil as insecticide and soap as wetting agent. Why compostea and molasses? Would be happy about an answer. /peter

Do you find it hurting the earth worms? For instance the liquid that runs off the leaves into the dirt. Or when you wash it off the plant after a few days. We have crazy amounts of squash beetles on our pumpkin and squash plants. We don’t use pesticides or any sprays like that. It’s so over used in our area that you find pesticides in our tapwater. My wife has been taking a very small hand torch to burn them. It only takes a second and they pop. Gives her a little satisfaction in the battle against them. But very time consuming. I can see squirting them to be a better way. Anyways... just curious about the worms if you find a reduction in their numbers. Thanks!

Scientific term for female squash bug = Gal 😍

You can listen to Garrett on his web site, And listen to the programs you have missed.

I wonder if the orange oil and soap works like a replacement for JWA from JADAM they do seem to simulate the same function.

Ok, just got the Jadam book. There seems to be a contradiction. They say don’t use brown sugar or molasses because it will acidify the soil but I watched many videos even Chris Trump and they add a ton of brown sugar into IMO. Which is sprayed on the soil at different dilutions for foliar spray. Do you have an explanation for that?

Would this also work for earwigs?

Pig tails are funny lol. It's basically a bacon fan.

Can any vegetable oil work instead of orange oil? Neem oil works, so I am wondering if any oil would work?

😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣am cracking up over the two legged zombies

Can u spray the fruit itself. If u spray the fruit can u still consume the fruit such as a tomato?

Do you have natural solution for Fruit flies ?

Have you looked into the pesticide options in the JADAM organic farming book? There is quite a number of options depending upon your circumstances.

Does it kill the squash bug eggs?

Wonder if it would kill scorpions. I have a scorpion problem here in central TX.

Hopefully you might give me a bit of advice. Will rabbit urine work as a compost tea? Love your channel

i am going to do the recipe to try it on ants...they bite hard and specially my dogs when the go out and they do not know where they stand....tired of them as well...

What do you do for grasshoppers

Will this Kill my Honey bee's if I spray it at night after they are in the hives?

Will it work for bed bugs?

question....how long the gallon of insecticide will keep or last..

use baby soap brother,,,,,,no detergents in that,,,,