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Use Fresh Garlic as an Organic Pesticide

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garlic as pesticide

Garlic makes a great organic pesticide. Not only should you plant it among your other crops (either veggies or ornamentals), you can use it to make a foliar spray and apply directly to leaves, especially lettuces. This garlic spray works as a repellent, sending most pests scurrying away in a hurry.

How to Make Garlic Organic Pesticide Spray

You’ll need two ingredients:
1.5 cups of warm water
2 bulbs of garlic

Steps:
1. Blend them into liquefied slurry in your blender.
2. 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.

Use garlic pesticide to combat pests as varied as Japanese beetles, chinch bugs, slugs, grubs, snails, thrips, and grasshoppers. It can also repel larger pests like deer and rabbits.

To save time, double or triple the amounts in the recipe. If you don’t need all the garlic insecticide you’ve made at once, you can freeze it in quarter-cup portions.

Want to learn more about using garlic as an organic pesticide?

Here are more resources:
Less Toxic Insecticides from Clemson Cooperative Extension
Least Toxic and Organic Pesticides For Gardeners PDF from Oregon State University Extension Master Gardener Program
Homemade Organic Pesticide for Vegetables

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Comments

  1. Sankar says

    August 5, 2016 at 10:46 am

    Very usefull

    Reply
  2. James says

    March 28, 2017 at 12:36 am

    Will this garlic pesticide ward off butterflies from my cabbages and Kale?

    Reply
  3. Mario says

    September 16, 2017 at 6:43 am

    Any tips for getting rid of the small black ants that like plants?

    Reply
  4. Marlou L Vallin says

    December 14, 2020 at 4:17 am

    I want to use it for my mango fruits
    Hope it works

    Reply
  5. Janet says

    February 24, 2021 at 2:14 pm

    I wonder if it’ll keep rabbits and other critters from eating garden vegetables?

    Reply
    • Heather says

      April 25, 2022 at 1:28 am

      I have had success with using garlic to deter critters from eating my plants. I sprinkle some around my plants every year. I also like to use red pepper flakes

      Reply

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