Growing vegetable plants in bulk can have its problems, with various bugs and beasties wanting to eat the bounty before you. A  trip to almost any garden centre or agricultural wholesaler will undoubtedly offer an arsenal of chemicals to make your plants grow bigger, better and healthier...But.... there is always an alternative and in many cases the organic treatments have been tried and tested for centuries. Garlic for example has more uses than just pan Andaluz (olive oil garlic toast..mmm) so here is an organic recipe that keeps the greenfly population down and also controls other basic plant afflictions.

We grow a lot of garlic and it is mainly for use as a natural remedy against mildew and blackspot on roses, peach leaf curl as well as mildew on tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers and beans etc...Also works as a general insecticide against whitefly and black fly on virtually any garden or house plant.

You can make this mix up in much smaller quantities if you don't have a 10 litre sprayer or a lot of plants to spray. Just reduce the amounts of all the ingredients equally.

Thanks to Iberian Endemics Garden Services for this recipe...

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