A most effective home-made pesticide

In my last update of the Pests and Bugs post, I wrote that I would follow up with some more insecticidal soap recipes. I have meanwhile tested one against leafhoppers with pretty good results.
In this post, I share the insecticidal soap recipe and introduce a new pest: the leafhoppers - showing photos of them and the damage they wreak.

Pests and Bugs

Plants are prone to pests and bugs. A lot of the bugs are tiny and attach themselves to spots of the plant that make them not always directly detectable: plant crowns, underside of leaves.
Regular inspection of your plants in general and these spots in specific will allow you to control pests and bugs before they do any or much damage. Leaf discoloration, wilting, wrinkling, curling, and stunted growth at the tips are all signs of some infestation; so always watch out for these symptoms.
In this post I present the most common bugs and discuss my pest control methods, I do not use any chemical pesticides.