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An alternative to using chemicals in your garden PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Clive   
Saturday, 12 July 2008 18:26
spraying organic insecticideGrowing 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.

Ingredients...
  • 10 cloves of garlic
  • half a litre of olive oil (sunflower oil does not work)
  • half a litre of water
  • 9 litres of water.
fresh organic garlic cloves


  1. Put the garlic, half litre of olive oil and half litre of water in to a liquidizer and blend it until it's all chopped up and smooth.
  2. Leave it to stand overnight and in the morning liquidise it again just to make sure.
  3. Pour it into a 10 litre capacity pump up pressure sprayer and add 9 litres of water.
  4. Spray it on anything that has whitefly, blackfly, mildew or mould... NOT fruit and veg that you are about to harvest (otherwise it will taste of garlic.)

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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