total convenience and flowers seven days milk:

I usually just use a very dilute soap spray to keep off most insects and hope for ladybugs for the aphids. I'd worry about pepper spray bothering the bees and other pollinators, and then we don't lose much to insects, or at least we haven't so far. The worst problems are all raccoons, squirrels (there are some very aggressive squirrels around here, believe it or not) and fungii.