How to Get Rid of Spider Mites With Wood Ashes

Use a shovel to fill a bucket with a shovel or two of wood ashes from a wood stove or campfire. Do this outdoors because it will be messy. The ashes must be burnt wood ashes, which are a good source of potassium. Do not use ashes from painted or treated wood.

Add a few onion peelings or onion to the bucket and stir the mixture together if you would like an extra ingredient to make this tea even more potent and work better to kill the spider mites.

Fill the bucket with water by pouring it over the wood ashes. Let this sit for a couple days. You are making a tea that is going to help get rid of the spider mites that damage your beautiful roses and plants. This mixture will also deter slugs and snails.

Drain the water off of the wood ashes into another bucket after the three days have passed. This water is now a wood ash tea. Pour it around your roses, flowers, and plants and be sure to pour it over their leaves, also.

Repeat the application after each rain but never apply more than once a month to your plants, roses, and other flowers.