Help! These pests!

[paperlady]

Our entire garden, tomatoes, peas, butterbeans, squash, okra, you name it, is infested with white flies this year. We have sprayed what county agent recommended (pymethrin and bifenthrin) and are still heavily infested. Any ideas? Please?

[LeeCee]

my husband who has a beautiful veg garden said to use insectasidal soap.you can buy it or make it. to make use water ,cooking oil and dish soap(not sure of amounts).spray it on plants until you don't see them.note this is all natural, my husband has organic garden. I don't know if it will help but it won't hurt to try.good luck! try spraying every few days and hope for the best! My husband's words!

[Ceashels]

I just watched a gardening program last night that recommends spraying the underside of leaves as that is where the insects tend to hide and nest.

[nvmommyx6]

The recipe for natural pesticide and fertilizing is as follows

1 part DAWN original dish soap
1 part beer
1 part miracle grow
1 part ammonia

use one of those miracle grow sprayers (the one with the bucket that hooks to the end of the hose)
equal parts of each ingredient once a week
Thats it...I have used this for a few years now, after having found my grandmothers secret!! It breaks down the miracle grow so the plants can absorb through both the root and the leaves, it also kills all bugs naturally and their larvae by surrounding them in a soap bubble (if you will) then they fill the bubble up with their feces and drown in it!! If heavily infested use once a week for 2 weeks then cut to once a month!
P.S. I live in a desert where nothing grows but sage brush and I have a beautiful lawn, garden and tree's that are bigger than my house and only 3 years old! And I don't have an issue with bugs!!
Happy gardening
Mommy