Bonide BND022 Pesticide Organic Gardening Reviews Summary

Effectiveness

Pros:

• "I highly recommend this fantastic product."
• "Neem Oil is the only way to go when you have pest or gray powder mold."
• "The stuff works well on my roses and other indoor as well as outdoor plants."
• "Kills so many things without really harming the bees or beneficial bugs like lady bugs and certain mites."
• "Resolved my aphid problem in just a couple applications, first indoor, then outdoor."
• "Neem immediately terminated the bugs, larvae, eggs and stopped my plants from being destroyed."
• "This product is amazing, I'm on my third bottle and still very happy about it. I love the fact that this product doesn't kill the bees."

Cons:

• "After using 3 bottles of this over multiple months, it did little to keep them away/kill them."
• "It killed one of my plants, wilted one plant and left brown spots on all the leaves."
• "It is ineffective because it's not killing the listed pests at all and it has hurt my plants."
• "The aphids were not controlled and the plants were eventually further damaged by the neem oil."
• "48 hours after using this whole bottle, MY ENTIRE cucumber area was covered in aphid eggs."
• "The bug problem didn't improve."
• "I just sprayed 1 can 128oz and 1 bottle 32oz on my Hoya plants, try to get rid of the aphids, but it didn’t work at all!"

Smell

Pros:

• "It does have a slight stinky smell but that is expected with Neem oil."
• "It works great on house plants for Mildew gnats The smell is terrible. But, when it dries You can’t really smell it."
• "Smells weird but at least it doesnt poison you when it gets on your skin."
• "The smell is terrible. But, when it dries You can’t really smell it."
• "Doesn’t smell too bad either."
• "The good thing is the smell doesn't linger."
• "It doesn't smell horribly but then again you should be smelling this thing when spraying."

Cons:

• "The smell is god awful."
• "This is the most horrible smell I've ever smelt. It's like pungent garlic mixed with vinegar sulfur."
• "It smells awful and like straight chemicals."
• "this stuff STINKS. It smells horrible."
• "It smells like sewage water when you spray it."
• "Smells so bad... It's like a dead animal or old dirty diaper with some musty earth scent."
• "Worst smell in the world -- goodness!! BLEAH!! YUCK! HORRID!!"

Packaging and Delivery

Pros:

• "So I bought this and it came intact. No spills, no damage to product."
• "It was wrapped when I received it to keep from leaking during shipping."
• "Shipping was extremely fast."

Cons:

• "Bottle was about 1/4 full when received and spilled all into the sealed bag it was in."
• "The product was divided into 2 parts - part liquid & part gel... it still doesn't spray right - it is all lumpy."
• "Product was defective... Company did not respond to requests for assistance."
• "The bottle and bag it was in arrived wet, and it then leaked all over my purse."
• "A half hour after spraying my indoor houseplants with this product I began puking non stop for the next 5 hours."
• "The product came with large lumps inside."
• "This inside of the bag that it came is was wet with the instruction manual on the product was wet also."

Sprayer Quality

Pros:

• "This spray helps to keep my produce free from bugs! Easy to use, just turn the knob and spray!"
• "You just shake and spray."
• "Sprayer functions well and has plenty of hose length from the sprayer to bottle."

Cons:

• "What is the point of selling a gallon of spray when your sprayer is the cheapest plastic known to man and breaks about ten squeezes in?"
• "Sprayer completely fell apart while spraying."
• "The spray on the bottle did not work... I contacted the manufacturer... waited a couple of weeks and heard nothing at all."
• "The sprayer nozzle literally fell apart."
• "The sprayer does not work."
• "Not sure if it’s just this bottle but it leaks everytime it is sprayed causing it to become a large mess."
• "The spray nozzle gets a bit painful to keep using with the same hand."

Customer Service

Pros:

• "Vendor promptly sent a replacement."

Cons:

• "Product was defective... Company did not respond to requests for assistance."
• "The spray on the bottle did not work... I contacted the manufacturer... waited a couple of weeks and heard nothing at all."
• "I paid for it, a month and half later still never received it."
• "Neem Oil works great! However, I have alerted the company, BONIDE, that there has been a failure to send along the sprayer with the 128 ounce jugs."