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Home made garlic spray

RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
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Hi all

Boiled a garlic bulb in water, mashed it all up and it stank!

Strained it all and I have my concentrate, then the recipe said put 2 tablespoons in 5ltrs of water.

I had a 1ltr sprayer, so put a little bit in that, but it hardly smells at all.

Should I be smelling it it not?
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited May 2023
    A tablespoon is 15 ml so you'd want 6 ml (or a bit more than a teaspoonful which is 5 ml unless your teaspoons are tiny like ours) to 1 litre of water. I don't know whether the smell would be noticeable when diluted,
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Winston_The_Gravity_ManWinston_The_Gravity_Man Posts: 263
    How much water did the instructions say to boil the garlic bulb in, @RoddersUK ( Asks he, angling for the recipe >:) ) ?
    When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    1 bulb in 1ltr
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    JennyJ said:
    A tablespoon is 15 ml so you'd want 6 ml (or a bit more than a teaspoonful which is 5 ml unless your teaspoons are tiny like ours) to 1 litre of water. I don't know whether the smell would be noticeable when diluted,
    I guess to the little pests, its still strong to them!
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Yes I thought that, I can't remember ever reading about bugs' sense of smell, but it's likely they have good noses I s'poses. 😄
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Perhaps it's the taste that puts them off rather than the smell!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Here's the link to the Sienna Hosta brew.  https://www.siennahosta.co.uk/pages/garlic-wash-recipe

  • Winston_The_Gravity_ManWinston_The_Gravity_Man Posts: 263
    Thanks for that @RoddersUK :)

    Maybe use a bigger bulb ?  Or a different type of garlic ?

    It IS a recipe from someone who's actually used it, I take it ?  Not just from someone who's thought 'oh, that sounds like a good idea' ?  There are lots of culinary recipes like that in magazines .... you come to make them and suddenly it becomes obvious that they were compiled by journalists with no more idea how to cook than they know how to milk a camel (should that be on the Curmugeon's page I wonder ?).
    When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
  • CrankyYankeeCrankyYankee Posts: 504
    @Winston_The_Gravity_Man I've been using both homemade and commercial garlic sprays on my gardens for years to deter deer and it does work, but it needs to be reapplied after rain or heavy dew.  For the first day, the smell is usually very pungent but it does wear off, at least to our noses.
    I also use a garlic/rotten egg mixture (purchased, not homemade) to repel woodchucks.  Unfortunately, that one also repels me. :s
    New England, USA
    Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    The recipe I used is the one mentioned above by KT53
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