30/04/2021
Essential oils and benefits for plants in your garden 🌱 🐝 🌸
💚 Rosemary Essential Oil
This oil has a wonderful, woodsy scent and works well to help repel many pests in the garden. It has been shown to even repel the larvae itself.
Place a few drops right on a pot to keep the bugs from chewing up the leaves of your plants. Rosemary essential oil is also a butterfly attractor. They love it, so if you have a butterfly garden it can benefit you in this way as well.
💙 Peppermint Essential Oil
This oil has a sweeter scent and repels several garden pests like aphids, flies and beetles and even spiders can’t stand it! You can place peppermint oil around baseboards or in cupboards in your home to keep spiders away. I use it for ants too.
🤍 Melaleuca Essential Oil
This oil is great for dealing with anything that has to do with getting rid of fungus on your plants. You can make a spray with it to mist your plants and soil.
Use melaleuca essential oil on the stems more so than the leaves though, as it does cause the plants to be more sun-sensitive. So be aware that a thick application could cause burn on the leaves.
💜 Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender’s scent is another one butterflies love, so you can spray lavender oil near the plants to attract them. It will draw them in even more! Lavender essential oil also attracts bees, which we need for pollination. Place a drop or two on a cotton ball and place in pots or in the garden to attract them too.
🧡 Wild Orange Essential Oil
Orange oil has a really clean and sweet aroma that draws both bees and butterflies. You can make a blend of rosemary oil, lavender oil, wild orange oil in a spray bottle or combine a few drops of each on cotton balls to help attract them both.
🤎 Cinnamon Essential Oil
Cinnamon oil is one of the best essential oils for getting rid of weeds. Make a spray bottle with water and several drops of cinnamon essential oil and get to spraying those weeds!
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Essential oil recipes for your garden
🐜 Garden Insect Deterrent
✅ Add 10 drops of the following essential oils to a 100ml glass spray bottle: Rosemary oil, peppermint oil, clove oil and thyme oil.
✅ Fill the rest of the bottle with water and shake to mix.
✅ Apply anywhere you would like to get rid of insects.
🌱 Plant Fungus Suppressant
✅ In a 100ml glass spray bottle, combine water with 25 drops melaleuca essential oil.
✅ Spray on plants and soil to help keep away the fungal growth.
🐝 Pollinator Attractor Spray
✅ In a 100ml glass spray bottle, add 6 to 8 drops orange oil and top off with water.
✅ Shake to blend and spray on flower and buds to attract bees for pollination.
🍏 Fruit and Veggie Wash
✅ You can use either plain vinegar or apple cider vinegar to make a fruit and veggie wash.
✅ Add 6 to 8 drops of lemon essential oil or orange essential oil for extra cleaning power.
I hope you enjoyed this Essential Oils Information about use in your garden 🌱