Hygiene Measures
Spider mites don’t like cleanliness, on the contrary, they prefer leaves filled with dust and under great water stress. When a plant is under water stress due to lack of moisture that gets prone to intruders.
In order to get rid of spider mite, it’s better that you keep cleaning your plant, especially the area under the leaves. And also keep watering your plants without fail because your plant needs to be well hydrated while they are struggling for their life. Applying a leave shiner can also be helpful.
Make An Unfavourable Atmosphere
You can make your plant safe from spider mites by making the situation unfavorable for them. For instance if they like the dry atmosphere you make it humid. They like it warm, you make it cold.
Using Plant-Based Miticides
You can also take help from some plant-based miticides. The following miticides are developed with collaboration of some nature and science.
- Neem oil is extracted from the fruit of the neem tree, It is extracted from an evergreen tree. The good thing about this oil is that it has many other benefits including repelling spider mites out from your plants. You just need to spray it regularly on your plants because it takes a while to kill these plant killers, but when it works it’s very effective. Don’t only protect your plant from spider mites but also other plant harming insects stay away with the help of this natural pest repellent.
- Cinnamon oil is another natural miticide. That can help you to kill the adult spider mites without harming animals, humans, and plants. You just need to spray it twice in a week and repeat this spray for almost 2 weeks and you can get rid of all the spider mites. But keep in mind that this nature’s pesticide is not going to work on eggs of spider mites. So you’ll have to make sure that either they can be removed by washing your plants. Or by continuing spray until our spider mites come out of the eggs and get killed by this natural pesticide.
- Rosemary oil is a natural miticide and you can safely use it in your kitchen garden plants. As you are going to use further in your kitchen as they are purely non toxic and have no health hazards. Rosemary oil should be used after diluting with water. This spray is going to kill all the spider mites and save your plants.
Herbal Tea Miticide To Get Rid Of Spider Mites
Herbal tea is also tried and tested in protecting your plants against spider mites. The recipe is very simple yet effective what you need is 2 tbsp Italian seasoning, 1 tbsp powdered cinnamon, 1 tbsp powdered cloves.
Now you need to add all these ingredients in water and bring it to a boil. Afterward, place a lid on the pan and wait until it’s lukewarm. Now you need to add some ground fresh garlic about 2 tbsp.
Afterward, when the mixture is cool you strain it and put it into a spray bottle, add a bit of dish soap as well. This amazing tea miticide is ready to use and rescue. You need to spray this mixture thrice in a week especially under the leaves, soon the plant will be free of those deadly spider bites.
Home Remedies For Removing Spider Mites
Do you know that you always don’t need to go out to the market and bring a miticide? You can even make use of some kitchen items and some medicine at home to bring the spider mites down.
- A mixture of rubbing alcohol and water can also bring relief to your plant when it is under attack. You can either wipe out the infected plants’ leaves with this mixture. Or you can spray it on the infected plants.
- Dilute this mixture according to your plant type. If it is a harder plant you can take 1ratio1 mixture and if it’s a delicate one it’s 3 Ratio water and 1 ratio alcohol will be good enough.
- Dish soap and Lukewarm water wash can also do wonders. After washing properly you need to continue this spray for a while as well true to keep the spider mites away.
One Step Counter Attack On Spider Mites
If you are thinking that you might don’t get time for regular spraying miticides to protect your plants. Here is another way which is a one time solution and quite effective as well.
This method may sound a bit scary to few gardeners but it works really well.Buy some predatory mites and that will be your counter-attack on the spider mites as these mighty mites will eat up all the spider mites. And It will save your plants from the brutal attack. You can hier some ladybugs and some mite eaters like lacewings who can do the job for you.
While using this mite eaters way out , keep in mind that you should avoid pesticides. As they can harm these little soldiers too which are fighting with spider mites on your behalf to protect your plant. If you still want to use any, use Rosemary as this replant doesn’t hurt the good insects or your guard mities.