Soak 3 oz chopped garlic in 2 tsp of mineral oil for 24 hours.
Disolve 1/4 oz oil based soap( like palmolive) in a pint of water and
add this to the garlic mineral oil combination and stir well.
Strain the liquid through a fine gauze and store in glass or china container.
DO NOT USE METAL CONTAINER.
Dilute this solution using one part to 20 parts water to start.
Thereafter, one part solution to 100 parts water.
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Comments: 16
YUK!
I gotta try this.
you can acually buy a form of this at home depot....
but since I am growing garlic an such this year, I am gonna try making it...since its mostly water...and I hate paying for water!
I'm going to ask dad if he would plant some fruit trees down on the lower section of his property. Apple and damson plum trees. I think the deer will like it. And I know the bees will.
Wilka
yeah to the fruit trees...so...in a few years...we can do some canning and make some apple butter and plum butter....yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy
I know...LOL
I am also growing pyrethrum...which I will make a tea from and use as spray but also just allow to grow here.it spreads on the ground like a blanket, very nice low ground cover that you can walk on...
I spent last year buying organic spray at home depot...it worked pretty well...but making it is much more frugal...since most of the mixes are a good percent water...
(Anything I can use in place of the mineral oil? I never have that on hand).