Garlic for a home made brew to say goodbye to aphids and mites in our veggie garden:
Garlic For A Potion – #Inktober 18
If you want to try the potion too here’s the recipe:
- Chop up a bulb of garlic.
- Add 1 teaspoon of oil
- Cover and leave for 24 hours
- Add 1 teaspoon of liquid detergent to 1 cup of water
- Add water mix to the garlic mix and stir.
- Strain into a container and label – this is the concentrate.
- Add 1 teaspoon of the concentrate to a litre of water in a spray bottle.
- Spray the aphids / mites.
🙂
Helen
NB I found it hard not to add pen lines to the sketch – another challenge achieved!
Aphids and Mites are on borrowed time. A lovely still life, a bit Moet 🙂
Thanks G – more Moet than Monet I say! 😀
That’s a lovely drawing of garlic bulbs! Hubby usually uses insecticidal soap without the garlic and that seems to work, too. 🙂
Thanks for the compliment Teresa – and for the tip, Insecticide soap would have been easier! 🙂
Part of our reluctance to use garlic is because we don’t buy it, and we don’t want to use our delicious homegrown garlic on anything other than our food. 😉
I feel the same way about homegrown garlic! Have to admit I bought a bulb of garlic for the purpose – figured it might even work better than homegrown on the pests 😉
😀 You could be right about that!