Garlic Spray for Plants

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  Use a garlic spray recipe to keep damaging insects away from your plants. Although garlic is the main ingredient in these garden pest remedies, there are many different concoctions. Each one is the "best," according to the loyal user. You may want to try each, individually, and decide which one is most beneficial for your garden plants. An added bonus of garlic sprays, for those with four-legged pests, is that other animals will stay away from your garden area, as well.

3-in-1 Insect Spray

• A mixture of minced garlic and mineral oil is soaked together overnight. Dish soap and water are added to make a pint of the mixture. This is considered to be a concentrate. So, mix it in a reused food jar or pint canning jar. Cover it with the lid so you can store it with your garden supplies. When you are ready to spray, put 2 tbsp. of it into your spray bottle. Fill the bottle with water. Test it on a couple of leaves of each type of plant you are spraying. Check each plant the next day to make sure they have no adverse reactions to the garlic spray. If all is well, spray your plants about once a week.

Baking Soda Garlic Spray

• Besides baking and cleaning, baking soda can be used as a plant pesticide. Use just 1 tsp. of baking soda, with 10 cloves of minced garlic, to a pint of water. Spraying the plants with this garlic recipe will also protect your plants from fungus. Use the baking soda garlic spray about once a week or after it rains.

Hot Garlic Spray

• The combination of garlic, onion and jalapeno peppers make a plant spray that insects, pets and other animals don't like. The addition of 1 tsp. of Murphy's Oil Soap and 1 tsp. of vegetable oil, to the mixture, sticks the garlic spray to the plant. This makes for a longer lasting spray. Add the ingredients to a gallon of water. Of course, rain and over-head watering will wash it off plant leaves. So, just spray again after these events. Many plants rely on bees for pollination. Be careful not to spray the plants until the period of pollination is over.