Got my first vegetables this week - green beans and lettuce. Major problems with bugs eating holes in my eggplant leaves. I’ve sprayed them (with a 1% solution of Neem oil and water with a little Dawn detergent and sprayed from a spray bottle).
My problem here is that I believe some of the Neem oil solution got on my green beans, making them sticky. Can they still be eaten? Wife has had them soaking all morning.
I have had no experience with neem oil. I use homemade pepper spray. I take an onion and several garlic cloves and put them in a qt. jar, and fill it up with boiling hot water, add some cayenne pepper. Let sit for 24 hrs or at least overnight, and strain. Then add a drop of Dishwashing liquid, and a few drops of olive oil.
Put it into a spray bottle and it kills bugs within seconds, if sprayed directly on them. Don’t spray the plants when the bees are likely to be out. Nothing harmful, if the produce is sprayed too.