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Garlic Spray for Garden Pests

Use this garlic spray to keep pests out of your garden. Make sure to only spray areas that you're having issues with so that other parts of the plant still attracts the friendly plants that are beneficial to your plants.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 day 45 minutes
Course Garden

Ingredients
  

  • 2 Garlic Heads
  • 1 cup Mint Leaves and Stems
  • 12 cups Water
  • 2 tsp Cayenne
  • 1 tsp Liquid Dish Soap
  • 1 tsp Neem Oil
  • 1 tbls Kelp

Instructions
 

  • Remove the garlic cloves from the root base, but don't worry about peeling each clove.
  • Put the whole garlic cloves and mint in a food processor and chop the ingredients for a second or two. You don't need to chop the ingredients too fine, just enough to get their flavors to infuse with the water.
  • Wait 10 minutes for the allicin in the garlic to reach its full potency. Seriously, you should do this with your cooking too to get the max health benefits out of your garlic. Science is so cool.
  • Open the food processor and add in a few cups of the water to make it easier to pour into a pot. Pour the slurry into a pot with the remaining water.
  • Bring the mix to a boil, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, in a small bowl mix together the cayenne, liquid soap, neem oil, and kelp.
  • Turn off the heat on the boiling mix, take off the lid, stir in the cayenne mix, re-cover, and let sit overnight.
  • The next day, place a bowl (with a lip for pouring) in your sink with a fine-mesh strainer over the bowl. Line the strainer with a cheesecloth. Mix the garlic slurry again and strain the mix into the bowl that is in the sink over the strainer and cheesecloth. Throw out the ingredients you strained away from the garlic liquid. If you see any pieces in the liquid, strain it again.
  • Funnel the garlic liquid into your garden sprayer and get ready for pest management!
  • Use the spray once a week to once a month on your infested plants. Try not to spray areas where there are no bad bugs so that the good bugs are still encouraged to come into the garden. Spray the upper and underside of the plant in the morning, evening, or cloudy day.

Notes

Read above for recipe tips, including the warning of the garlic spray potentially burning your eyes because of the cayenne.
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