Spring Cleaning: make your own horticultural oil using ingredients from your kitchen!

DIY horticultural white oil: • White oil is great for cleaning plants, giving the leaves a nice natural shine, and even killing past! • It’s simple to make using ingredients from your kitchen. • You’ll need a mild vegetable oil like canola or sunflower, liquid soap preferably Castile. If you do not have Castile soap you can use a dish detergent that does not have any bleach or antibacterial ingredients. You’ll also need a measuring cup, and a bottle to store the oil. • Makes 2 cups of oil with one cup of liquid soap and shake well. The mixture will literally turned white as the soap emulsifies the oil. • This mixture is your concentrate which you will further dilute! • To use the oil, mix 1 tablespoon of concentrate into 1 L of water in a spray bottle. • simply spray the pla