Garlic makes for a great method of organic pest control. Not only should you plant it among your other crops (either veggies or ornamentals), you can use it to make a foliar spray that will send most pests scurrying away in a hurry. You’ll need two ingredients: 1.5 cups of water and two bulbs of garlic. Blend them into liquefied slurry in your blender, and then strain out any pieces of garlic that remain. This makes for enough concentrated insecticidal liquid for a gallon of the spray, which you can then put into a spray bottle and use to combat pests as varied as Japanese beetles, chinch bugs, slugs, grubs, snails, thrips, and grasshoppers. If you don’t need all the garlic insecticide you’ve made at once, you can freeze it in quarter-cup portions.
Here are a few products we sell that feature garlic as a major ingredient.
Natural Insecticide & Fungicide for Fruits, Vegetables
Organic Natural Mosquito Repellent
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