What kind of insects are you trying to kill? If your trying to get rid of Aphids, a mixture of water and dish soap works well.Just spray your Banana plant with this and it will kill them!!! Diana

I expect that Hanma has purchased a container of pure neem oil and not a product that is ready-to-use as an insecticide/fungicide. Such a formulation will not contain an emulsifier and something will have to be added so that the oil will mix with the water. And there's the problem. We don't know, without proper directions on a label, how much to mix with how much water and how much soap. All I could comment on is that this type of product won't make a solution in water. I wouldn't use it at all unless you can track down some directions.

Billie, fertilizers are generally highly corrosive. I remember that from all the cleaning I had to do with the fertilizer spreader on the farm so that it could get thru 11 months of sitting outside until the next season. I don't use MiracleGro on vegetables so mostly I just want that bright flower. Using MG is quite a distance from soil and tissue analysis and formulated mixes applied thru a greenhouse injector system. I do like to foliar feed, however, in the outdoor gardens. I've used liquid kelp in the greenhouse and was pleased with the results. Further, fish emulsion was a direction I was taking a few years ago in the veggies but I had so much trouble with applying the stuff with a hose-end sprayer - I gave up. It seemed like the only consistently successful approach I had was with a sprinkler can . . . too much bother. So I went to dry organic fertilizers instead. Asters and zinnias do well for us, year after year, and exceed the size claimed by the seed companies. These late season flowers seem especially benefited by MG. I suppose, I should include the dahlias in that group as well. I appreciate your comments on successful gardening without all the chemicals - and hope others have similar experiences. I've noted that potato beetles prefer the deadly nightshade and the spit bugs are all over the neighbor's alfalfa. Maybe it is just their poorer relatives that venture into the gardens and mess things up there. One insect I haven't had to worry about much is the mosquito. Because it is so windy in our larger garden, my claim is that they all blow into Montana. DigitS

We were eaten alive by the Zanzare Tigre (Tiger Mosquito) in Italy this summer...I had already decided to load up on Vicks....but I (egotistically) thought it was my own discovery....I am glad to read from some authority. Anyway 'Watch out tiger mosquitos this summer!!!' L.