What's up epic gardeners? Today on the epic gardening podcast. We're talking about

meme oil one of the weirder sounding pesticide and

We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna figure out exactly what neem oil is how it works and

Some of the benefits that make it a good choice

when you're looking to prevent pests in the garden.

The first question we have to ask, of course,

is what actually is Nemoil?

Well, it comes from the Azadirachta indica plant. I think I pronounce that correctly.

That's native to the Indian subcontinent.

So what they'll do is they'll take the seeds and fruits of this plant.

I'm just gonna call it a neem plant from now on and they press it to get a vegetable

oil that we end up calling neem oil.

But what actually makes neem oil so effective is a compound

within it that I'm going to start calling the secret weapon so this is asadiractin and depending on the way that the Nemo is extracted from the fruit and the seeds,

the Nemoil that you actually get can have anywhere from 300 to 2,500 parts per million of

as a durectan within the neem oil.

So it sort of does matter how the neem oil is extracted because that's going to affect how much of that active compound is within that oil. So when as a directon was first studied, researchers noticed that what it did is it caused desert

locusts to basically stop feeding, which meant that number one, plants would not

be damaged because the locusts weren't feeding on them, and then number two if a would not

be damaged because the locusts weren't feeding on them.

And then number two, if a locust is not feeding,

it is not going to live for very long.

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