What kinds of herbal sprays can I put on veggies to remove pests?

Im starting a vegetable garden in huge pots.Im a bit weary about putting harmful pesticides on my veggies and wondered if there was a way I could use something safe to spray on my veggies--like warm vinegar. Something safe. FYI: I am growing Broccoli, Cucumbers,Romaine lettuce,Spinach and Spearmint. I just planted the seeds yesterday. OH!! And what is Sod? How is this different from top soil? Is it a fertilizer?





Im not sure if I planted this stuff the right way, but I just got top soil, put the seeds in the dirt, watered it and gave it moderate sunlight. I brought my veggies in cause I figured it is too cool to leave out at night.





Thanks!

What kinds of herbal sprays can I put on veggies to remove pests?
Try Ladybugs. They may be cute but they have a big appetite for veggie predators and will eat them all and hang around for when the relatives of those pests come along too. Save the chemicals for the ocean extinctions and contaminated water wells.
Reply:You'll want to find out what the pest is before you spray it. Different things work on different bugs. Not all bugs are bad. Sometimes you might see a green caterpillar munching away on the dill, but if you leave him alone, you'll have a nice butterfly and they really don't take very much dill. Bees are goos. Lacewings are good. Flowerflies are good. Wasps are good.





Use marigolds and other bug-repellant plants like lemon grass to help keep pests away.





Compost tea is a good spray. So is fish emulsion. They work by keeping the plants healthy in the first place. Sometimes you can use Neem as a last resport but follow the directions carefully.





Sod is grass that's already growing. You just put it on the ground where you want lawn.





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Reply:I use a tobacco tea in the last 10 years it cost me $10
Reply:Ive only ever had problems with aphids and whiteflys but you can spray a mix of white vinegar, garlic oil and dish soap. This will kind of melt the bugs, so you can actually watch it work.


Your best bet with your veggies is to stare them in your house on a window sill. You can get small peat pots at any Home Depot, then just trans plant them into a good potting soil. Miracle grow has a great soil with moisture pellets and fert already in it.
Reply:you don't need to spray anything on them. my uncle and aunt grow veggies in their backyard and they don't put anything on them





i believe sod is ready made grass that you buy so you just roll it out and just water it.
Reply:Broccoli get cabbage moths,they are a bright green Caterpillar,I would pick them off and feed them to my gold fish,he loved them and grew over a foot long.





Dill flower tops,break the top off and put it on your other plants,a lot of bugs don't like the smell of the dill an it is all natural.