Thanks Jenny. I just had a question which asked if you can use on vegetables and I checked, it says yes but also to avoid spraying on very hot days in case it makes plants turn yellow. We don’t have very hot days here but thought I’d mention it in case you do! 😁
Thanks SO much! You got such a wonderful, light energy. It's a pleasure to watch & listen to you. Keep sharing! Awesome news on the effect of the garlic water. I have some here since winter. I used it for to repel rodents in the attick. It partially worked but their stubborness won in the end 😄 Now I'm gonna use it on the slugs. They've close to demolished the Rhubarb plants... Thanks again for sharing. Sending you Blessings. Keep shining! 🌟
It's early October here in ireland. I'm trying to put my potted roses to bed in prep for winter. I've noticed a lot of greenfly .....not an infestation as such but my plants definitely have more of them than during the summer. I made a particularly pungent garlic/hot chilli powder /dish soap concoction today......just sprayed it on. I'll update you on my little experiment. Thanks a mill.
Ooh AM R thank you for letting me know, it has really worked for me in the past. Just one thing which my video didn’t mention, because I didn’t realise at the time, just that bees aren’t keen on the smell of garlic. You won’t be harming them, they’ll just stay away from your roses. But it’s getting to the end of the rose season now anyway so I think you’ve done a good thing trying the garlic wash out, do please let me know how it goes 🥰
Oh I so hope this works for me. Some of my dahlias have been completely destroyed by slugs, strangely enough the slugs have not touched my hostas this year. Thank you. 👌💕
Thank you for the update! I watched the previous vid … the problem I have is slugs get into the fine leaves of my Red hot pokers and pellets won’t work…. I’ve looked and expensive liquid deferents but now I’ve seen this it’ll be garlic wash… I think I’ve seen that you can dilute it 100ml to a ltr.. but can’t wait to use it. Thanks for posting it again🤓
Hello there and I feel for you with the slugs and snails, they’re my worst problem. Yes, please do dilute it more, it will still do the trick, and try to avoid watering your garden last thing at night as they love moist conditions and come out at night time. Better to do it in the morning, good luck. Happy Easter 🐣
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener yes...there's always someone we upset. Take for example the other day after i watched one of your latest vlogs about aphids on roses. Well( smarmy me but i really don't get them) However, i went out one morning with a bee friendly spray because i had noticed a few on one particular rose. I was just about to squirt it ( and you won't believe this 'cos i didn't) when a tiny bird( there's a few who live in my neighbours rafters) whizzed past my earhole almost saying" hey!! don't do that. It's my lunch". Well, it really happened. I didn't spray and i don't have aphids on my roses😵
Hi there. Just watched your update on garlic wash. When you showed the dahlias part, I noticed you had a red weed with a yellow flower. This is rampant and will swamp and overpower all your border plants. It's taken me a couple of years to severely reduce it in my late mother in law's garden. Just letting you know my experience. Xx ps. Thank you for the garlic wash tip. Ill be having a go at that. Xx
Hi there Keith and thanks for watching. This video was from 2020 so I had to rewatch it to see which weed you meant! And yes, I do have it popping up still and always pulling it out. I think it’s called Purple Oxalis. I do my best to keep on top of it. Good luck with the garlic wash if you try it, it’s really good. ❤️
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener will do. I took a screenie but didn't see how to post it. Lol. I'm growing a whole load of garlic this year but have some large bulbs in already. So looking forward to trying that. Ps. I found when using pellets, it killed the snails but attracted the flies. So didn't want to do that again. Lol👍👍
I can’t use the slug pellets Keith because one of my dogs eats them all, they’re not harmful to dogs or children but even so, I don’t want her eating them 😂 well done for growing all the garlic. That’s something I keep saying I’ll do but then always seem to forget 😊
I'm excited to try this, however, I have a question. I live in a temperature rainforest where there's A LOT of rain. Does this garlic wash still work even if it's raining a lot? My Dahlias have just popped up and I have them covered for now but need to find a solution for them since they'll be greeting bigger soon as well as the gladiolas that haven't emerged yet. Thank you and great video!!
Hi there Andy and thanks for watching. The garlic spray is really good as it deters the slugs and snails but doesn’t poison or kill them, which means they’re still available for predators such as birds to eat. It also helps with other things like powdery mildew. But the downside in your rainy climate is that the rain will wash it away, unfortunately the leaves don’t absorb it. But I think I’m right in thinking that it’s the younger stems of things like dahlias that the slugs and snails like, and once plants are older and more established they are not quite so appealing? So perhaps you could do a mixture of the spray plus keeping them covered and then fingers crossed your plants will be ok. I hope so. Do let me know how it goes 🤩🩵💜
Good morning Thomas and thank you for watching and so glad to hear I have helped. This garlic wash really does work for the slugs and snails on your hostas and other plants with the crunchy stems they adore so I hope you give it a try. Have a great day 💚☺️
Hi Mrs Enthusiastic, love the way you explain your video. i've been using copper strips and a battery to protect my ost precious and this is the best method i have seen for keeping our little greedy friends away. I am now gonna try the garlic wash but can you tell me how much to mix to water. keep up good work.
Hello Peter, well, this really does work but I must warn you it smells dreadful when you’re boiling it and you won’t be the most popular person in your house 🤣🤣 you can dilute it far more than I realised when I made the video (someone commented and told me) so just add loads of water and it will still work. Maybe three-quarters water to one-quarter mixture? Good luck and keep the windows open 🤣🤣🥰
I came late to this video, but I'm definitely gonna give it a whirl. It seems to me there is an army of slugs/snails waiting to march out at night to scoff my plants. Some plants I love but it's got to the stage where I am avoiding slug-loving plants. My Echineas have been ravaged by these little devils !! Janette, you are my saviour. ;-)
Hello Bruno and good luck with your garlic although I have to say that the whole house smells when you boil it 🤣🤣 and you might not be very popular 😂 and of course if it rains then you have to re-apply but I’m like you, beginning to avoid planting certain plants which I really like, which is no fun so it’s worth doing. Good luck 🤞
Gonna give this a go tomorrow ... leopard slugs on the osteospermum .... livid ... I've been pulling them off and dispatching them but they've taken it as a challenge. I drenched them in nematodes ... failed .... so garlic next and finally sluggo if that fails. But bait brings them in ... I don't wanna open a swanky new bar where they can eat salad and have a beer. So how did it do 2 years on?
Hello there Adam and I feel your pain! Slugs and snails oh my goodness they are my biggest problem here in my garden too, I’ve tried beer traps, copper rings too, they hate the garlic so this will work, they seem to like new plants with crunchy celery-like stems such as dahlias and hostas. Just make sure to spray at the end of the day when the bees have gone to bed because they don’t like garlic either, and of course the only other problem is if it rains you’ve got to keep doing it. But good luck and have a great week ♥️
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener OK... wow. We get our garlic from a farm shop so it's strong. Made the garlic liquor. Hair, clothes, sofa and walls reek of garlic. It was so strong I thought we had a gas leak 😳. So I've two spray bottles made up and a two litre bottle for refill because I took some of the cloves and blitzed them and added warm water to that to infuse in the 2 litre bottle. Bloody strong. The rest are scattered round the base of each plant osteos and dhalias. It's war. Our lawn is running about 2 to 30 slugs per square foot. Tiny things like a pea. It's like a scene from somw horror film. We feed a wild cat and her bowl is mounded with them or was. We bought a plastic beach shovel and for a year every nights I'd go out and scoop and sling. Same with snails. It's been very effective because the plastic shovel pings them over our hedge across a road and over the next hedge. But these small buggers ... impossible. Thought about strimming at night with a headtorch but dead slugs ... bring more cannible slugs. So ✋️ that's it. Off to buy more garlic now and can't wait till this evening ... its gonna be a bloodbath. x
😆😆😆 Adam, I pity them in your garden from now on, you certainly mean business. You scooped them every night for a year!! I scoop mine and throw them over the fence - not on my neighbour’s side 😆 but the side where all the trees are which is a public space. I do put salt on the slugs sometimes too, I know it’s cruel but it’s effective. Have you thought of that for all the little ones? Hope no-one is reading about our vicious onslaughts 😆 but our plants cost a lot of money!! Good luck and be careful what you step on 😆♥️🩷🙏🥴
I think it would probably work if you still boiled it, so it kind of infuses, but it’s so simple just boiling the actual bulbs and possibly a cheaper option.
I'm going to have a go at this today. Do you still get bee's visiting your garden as I've heard bee's don't like it as well. Don't want to put bee's off. Excellent Tube clip.
Hello Craig, I’ve just googled and it says bees are repulsed by the smell of garlic!! I did not know that!! Hmm, I have so many bees in my garden at the moment which I’m just loving so maybe it’s not a good idea to put this on anything with flowers.
Awsome cheers for the update; the Hostas look Gorgeous; just wondering if after spraying does the place stink of garlic? As we do sit and have our dinner outside in the garden and also dont want the neighbor's getting bothered by the smell or think there is a dead rat over the fence 😉😉
Haha!! It REALLY smells in the kitchen when doing the boiling, I cannot lie 🤣 but although the spray does smell when you use it, it’s not enough to linger throughout the garden so it won’t upset the neighbours 🤣🤣
I've watched this dozens of times, thank you! What's your experience with bees and butterflies? Don't you feel it repels them as well? The spray does work wonders against slugs, but it's not worth it if only I am around to enjoy them. I want to help my little mates!
Hi there Brngsh and thank you for watching so many times!! Butterflies don’t mind the garlic smell but bees aren’t attracted to it, but I still get them elsewhere in the garden so I think they just avoid that particular plant that has it on. I agree, I would much rather have all creatures, including slugs, if it meant I’d made the bees unhappy 🐝😊
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Thanks! This confirms what I'm seeing: less bees and only in corners where I haven't used the spray. They also seem to be in more of a hurry to leave. Most of my flowers are mixed, so I think I'm going to let my dahlias go.
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Right! I planted those before I got into gardening, so the rest I have is better. Yarrow, lavender, herbs, carnation. But I will still put some on my old Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam', it's never looked better, full with flowers even in half-shadow.
Hostas are great no holes roses too aphid free👍 However word of warning I sprayed my French Beans because of a bit of Blackfly result??? Killed them all. All the top leaves went yellow and the just wilted away 😢😢 Ive sowed more but l wont be picking any beans till October 😤
i read that market garlic sometimes carries garlic rust. i have a hunch that garlic sprays infect the garden bed with the rust fungus, which primarily affects garlics and onions. have you ever tried planting garlic cloves again where you've previously sprayed garlic?
Hi there Henry, I must admit I have never planted garlic cloves in my garden so I cannot unfortunately answer your question. I do know that many gardeners use garlic spray successfully and I’ve never heard of it causing garlic rust. I will certainly bear it in mind for the future but I don’t think we should be too concerned. Hope you’re having a great week 😊☀️
Well, the process of boiling the garlic should eliminate the risk of diseases, even spore mediated ones. While some pathogens can survive boiling temperatures, most cannot. I can not find any information about this particular pathogen (puccinia allii) but I'd say it's safe to assume boiling temperatures will kill potential spores. You can boil the garlic longer to lower the risk further.
Do you think just using (1) large garlic bulb to (1) liter (34 ounces) of water would be just as good as trying to dilute? I want it as potent as I can get it so do not want to water down too much. Thx!
Hello there Rhonda, yes I think that would work out really well. It really does work … however what I have since learned as this video is a few years old now, is that bees don’t like garlic so please wait until the end of the day when the bees have gone to bed before you spray and then they’ll be happy too 🐝😊♥️
I made up some garlic spray. I think my first batch was on the weak side but it seemed to work, My second batch was much stronger and the slug problem seems to be pretty much eliminated!
Oh brilliant news. You can dilute it far more than I did. I need to make some more up before they all start to appear. So glad it’s working for you and thanks for letting me know 😍
i read that market garlic sometimes carries garlic rust. i have a hunch that garlic sprays infect the garden bed with the rust fungus, which primarily affects garlics and onions. have you ever tried planting garlic cloves again where you've previously sprayed garlic?
Hi Jeanette I've just stumbled across your channel and I think it's great so you have a new subscriber!!! 😃 Tomorrow I am going to my local nursery to buy a Hosta which I am going to plant in a terracotta pot so today I have just 'cooked up' the recipe in your video you posted in May. When I moved to my house at the end of February I had a massive slug infestation which I have dealt with but ,as with any garden, there are always some slugs and snails lurking and waiting to feast 🙄 I am keeping my fingers crossed that the garlic wash works for me too🤞 - but I am going to add a few drops of washing up liquid to the mix as I believe that this will help it adhere to the leaves. I discovered the washing up liquid trick when making my own weedkiller with white vinegar, table salt and washing up liquid ... and it works!!! 👍 I was going to put the copper tape around the pot but am tempted to wait and see if the garlic wash works in it's own right first. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing your gardening tips 😊
Hi Sam, how lovely to have a new gardening friend 😍 thank you so much for subscribing. Goodness, you picked the hottest day to boil up garlic 🤣🤣 my husband hates it when I do that as it smells so strong. I must say, what a great idea to add the washing up liquid, that makes total sense. I will do that next time. Also, it’s funny you said about the weed killer solution because I have been looking for something to try because I have huge area of block paving out the front which I spray monthly and it is expensive buying the weed killer. So I’m going to try your idea!! Perhaps you can tell me the quantities to mix? I might even make a video and if I do I will mention your name and say it’s your suggestion 😁😁 just need to get the ingredients. Thanks so much for your lovely comments, I love reading everyone’s comments - brightens up my day 😍 take care xx
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Hiya Jeanette Yes - it was very potent 😃 - the saucepan's in the greenhouse now and I'm going to let it steep overnight as well and then strain it in the morning 🐌 The quantities I used for the weedkiller were 5 litres of white vinegar to which you add 1 cup (approx. 150g) of table salt - let the salt dissolve (which doesn't take long) - and then add a generous squeeze of washing up liquid. Pour it into your sprayer and, hey presto, you're good to go! I found that most of the weeds looked very sad withing just a few hours and they died off quite quickly. Here is a link to the white vinegar from Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00TZT6GQE/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1 This is for 20 litres and buying it in bulk makes it cost effective too ... and white vinegar has so many other uses as well! 😊
That’s amazing Sam, thank you so much!! With the garlic wash, you can dilute it much more than I realised, so add more water, and also don’t throw the boiled garlic cloves away, put them round the base of the plants too!! Right, going to order my supplies!! Thanks so much!!
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener You're welcome Jeanette - I hope you are as pleased with the weedkiller results as I was - let me know! It works out so much cheaper than Resolva!!! I am going to save the cloves and do exactly that - but as I'm only buying one plant tomorrow I might try freezing some for replenishing purposes 😀
Hi there Sonia, I’ve just googled this and quite a few sites say to spray on vegetables too to prevent a whole host of pests so I’m guessing it doesn’t affect the taste, it doesn’t say it would anywhere. So I’d do it. Or, you could plant actual garlic plants in amongst your vegetables too it says, but not near peas or potatoes. Hope that helps and thanks for watching 😊
Hi Kelsey, it’s certainly well worth a try, or maybe even the garlic paste you can buy? Maybe in hot water would be better so it can dissolve better, but obviously let it cool down before you spray it. Do let me know if it works for you 😊
Hello Pedro, sorry if my video was confusing for you. It was an update on a previous video on how to make garlic wash to ward off slugs and snails and I was just saying how effective it had been 😍
Thank you for sharing your results! I will definitely give this a try in my garden! 🌱
Thanks Jenny. I just had a question which asked if you can use on vegetables and I checked, it says yes but also to avoid spraying on very hot days in case it makes plants turn yellow. We don’t have very hot days here but thought I’d mention it in case you do! 😁
Thanks SO much! You got such a wonderful, light energy. It's a pleasure to watch & listen to you. Keep sharing!
Awesome news on the effect of the garlic water. I have some here since winter. I used it for to repel rodents in the attick. It partially worked but their stubborness won in the end 😄 Now I'm gonna use it on the slugs. They've close to demolished the Rhubarb plants... Thanks again for sharing. Sending you Blessings. Keep shining! 🌟
Hello Krisztina (what a beautiful name) and that’s such a lovely comment. I have to make some more garlic wash as I’m all out. It does work!!
Thank you for the update! 🎉
Good morning eivute3445 and so pleased to have helped! Hope you have a happy weekend in the garden 🥰
It's early October here in ireland. I'm trying to put my potted roses to bed in prep for winter. I've noticed a lot of greenfly .....not an infestation as such but my plants definitely have more of them than during the summer.
I made a particularly pungent garlic/hot chilli powder /dish soap concoction today......just sprayed it on. I'll update you on my little experiment. Thanks a mill.
Ooh AM R thank you for letting me know, it has really worked for me in the past. Just one thing which my video didn’t mention, because I didn’t realise at the time, just that bees aren’t keen on the smell of garlic. You won’t be harming them, they’ll just stay away from your roses. But it’s getting to the end of the rose season now anyway so I think you’ve done a good thing trying the garlic wash out, do please let me know how it goes 🥰
Nice one so simple and effective.
Hi there Ron, thank you. This really does work! 😊
Oh I so hope this works for me. Some of my dahlias have been completely destroyed by slugs, strangely enough the slugs have not touched my hostas this year. Thank you. 👌💕
Hi Mary, I hope so, only trouble is if it rains you have to re-apply. Good luck 😊
Thank you for the update! I watched the previous vid … the problem I have is slugs get into the fine leaves of my Red hot pokers and pellets won’t work…. I’ve looked and expensive liquid deferents but now I’ve seen this it’ll be garlic wash… I think I’ve seen that you can dilute it 100ml to a ltr.. but can’t wait to use it. Thanks for posting it again🤓
Hello there and I feel for you with the slugs and snails, they’re my worst problem. Yes, please do dilute it more, it will still do the trick, and try to avoid watering your garden last thing at night as they love moist conditions and come out at night time. Better to do it in the morning, good luck. Happy Easter 🐣
hi Janette
don't know how i missed this😢 must have been a dentist appointment😂 totally agree about the garlic wash❤
Hello! Yes, it does work. However … I found out since that bees hate garlic 🧄 so I never spray it until they’ve gone to bed 😊
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener yes...there's always someone we upset. Take for example the other day after i watched one of your latest vlogs about aphids on roses. Well( smarmy me but i really don't get them) However, i went out one morning with a bee friendly spray because i had noticed a few on one particular rose. I was just about to squirt it ( and you won't believe this 'cos i didn't) when a tiny bird( there's a few who live in my neighbours rafters) whizzed past my earhole almost saying" hey!! don't do that. It's my lunch". Well, it really happened. I didn't spray and i don't have aphids on my roses😵
Fabulous! I think if you can hold on long enough from spraying then the beneficial insects and birds will come along and do the job for you anyway 👍😍
Hi there. Just watched your update on garlic wash. When you showed the dahlias part, I noticed you had a red weed with a yellow flower. This is rampant and will swamp and overpower all your border plants. It's taken me a couple of years to severely reduce it in my late mother in law's garden. Just letting you know my experience. Xx ps. Thank you for the garlic wash tip. Ill be having a go at that. Xx
Hi there Keith and thanks for watching. This video was from 2020 so I had to rewatch it to see which weed you meant! And yes, I do have it popping up still and always pulling it out. I think it’s called Purple Oxalis. I do my best to keep on top of it. Good luck with the garlic wash if you try it, it’s really good. ❤️
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener will do. I took a screenie but didn't see how to post it. Lol. I'm growing a whole load of garlic this year but have some large bulbs in already. So looking forward to trying that. Ps. I found when using pellets, it killed the snails but attracted the flies. So didn't want to do that again. Lol👍👍
I can’t use the slug pellets Keith because one of my dogs eats them all, they’re not harmful to dogs or children but even so, I don’t want her eating them 😂 well done for growing all the garlic. That’s something I keep saying I’ll do but then always seem to forget 😊
I'm excited to try this, however, I have a question. I live in a temperature rainforest where there's A LOT of rain. Does this garlic wash still work even if it's raining a lot? My Dahlias have just popped up and I have them covered for now but need to find a solution for them since they'll be greeting bigger soon as well as the gladiolas that haven't emerged yet.
Thank you and great video!!
Hi there Andy and thanks for watching. The garlic spray is really good as it deters the slugs and snails but doesn’t poison or kill them, which means they’re still available for predators such as birds to eat. It also helps with other things like powdery mildew. But the downside in your rainy climate is that the rain will wash it away, unfortunately the leaves don’t absorb it. But I think I’m right in thinking that it’s the younger stems of things like dahlias that the slugs and snails like, and once plants are older and more established they are not quite so appealing? So perhaps you could do a mixture of the spray plus keeping them covered and then fingers crossed your plants will be ok. I hope so. Do let me know how it goes 🤩🩵💜
Thank you for the advice we are going to use the garlic wash 👌👍👏
Hi there Kevin, thanks for watching and I do hope I have helped! Happy weekend ☀️😊
I didnt no this till i watched a hosta video then found your video thank you ❤
Good morning Thomas and thank you for watching and so glad to hear I have helped. This garlic wash really does work for the slugs and snails on your hostas and other plants with the crunchy stems they adore so I hope you give it a try. Have a great day 💚☺️
Hi Mrs Enthusiastic, love the way you explain your video. i've been using copper strips and a battery to protect my ost precious and this is the best method i have seen for keeping our little greedy friends away. I am now gonna try the garlic wash but can you tell me how much to mix to water. keep up good work.
Hello Peter, well, this really does work but I must warn you it smells dreadful when you’re boiling it and you won’t be the most popular person in your house 🤣🤣 you can dilute it far more than I realised when I made the video (someone commented and told me) so just add loads of water and it will still work. Maybe three-quarters water to one-quarter mixture? Good luck and keep the windows open 🤣🤣🥰
@@TheEnthusiasticGardenerThank you and appreciated.
I came late to this video, but I'm definitely gonna give it a whirl.
It seems to me there is an army of slugs/snails waiting to march out at night to scoff my plants. Some plants I love but it's got to the stage where I am avoiding slug-loving plants.
My Echineas have been ravaged by these little devils !! Janette, you are my saviour. ;-)
Hello Bruno and good luck with your garlic although I have to say that the whole house smells when you boil it 🤣🤣 and you might not be very popular 😂 and of course if it rains then you have to re-apply but I’m like you, beginning to avoid planting certain plants which I really like, which is no fun so it’s worth doing. Good luck 🤞
Gonna give this a go tomorrow ... leopard slugs on the osteospermum .... livid ... I've been pulling them off and dispatching them but they've taken it as a challenge. I drenched them in nematodes ... failed .... so garlic next and finally sluggo if that fails. But bait brings them in ... I don't wanna open a swanky new bar where they can eat salad and have a beer. So how did it do 2 years on?
Hello there Adam and I feel your pain! Slugs and snails oh my goodness they are my biggest problem here in my garden too, I’ve tried beer traps, copper rings too, they hate the garlic so this will work, they seem to like new plants with crunchy celery-like stems such as dahlias and hostas. Just make sure to spray at the end of the day when the bees have gone to bed because they don’t like garlic either, and of course the only other problem is if it rains you’ve got to keep doing it. But good luck and have a great week ♥️
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener OK... wow. We get our garlic from a farm shop so it's strong. Made the garlic liquor. Hair, clothes, sofa and walls reek of garlic. It was so strong I thought we had a gas leak 😳. So I've two spray bottles made up and a two litre bottle for refill because I took some of the cloves and blitzed them and added warm water to that to infuse in the 2 litre bottle. Bloody strong. The rest are scattered round the base of each plant osteos and dhalias. It's war. Our lawn is running about 2 to 30 slugs per square foot. Tiny things like a pea. It's like a scene from somw horror film. We feed a wild cat and her bowl is mounded with them or was. We bought a plastic beach shovel and for a year every nights I'd go out and scoop and sling. Same with snails. It's been very effective because the plastic shovel pings them over our hedge across a road and over the next hedge. But these small buggers ... impossible. Thought about strimming at night with a headtorch but dead slugs ... bring more cannible slugs. So ✋️ that's it. Off to buy more garlic now and can't wait till this evening ... its gonna be a bloodbath. x
😆😆😆 Adam, I pity them in your garden from now on, you certainly mean business. You scooped them every night for a year!! I scoop mine and throw them over the fence - not on my neighbour’s side 😆 but the side where all the trees are which is a public space. I do put salt on the slugs sometimes too, I know it’s cruel but it’s effective. Have you thought of that for all the little ones? Hope no-one is reading about our vicious onslaughts 😆 but our plants cost a lot of money!! Good luck and be careful what you step on 😆♥️🩷🙏🥴
Thanks for that, trying the spray tonight, have you tried using easy garlic from a jar, just wondered if that would work?
I think it would probably work if you still boiled it, so it kind of infuses, but it’s so simple just boiling the actual bulbs and possibly a cheaper option.
It sounds fantastic, but what does your garden smell like after spraying everything?
Well it doesn’t smell in the garden … it certainly does in the kitchen though!! 😂💚🩵
You and your videos are breath of fresh air with the garlic maybe fill with water to the top of spray bottle ?? Thanks for your time 👍👍👍👍👍
Oh thank you so much. Yes, you are quite right. I do fill to the top now though. Glad you like my videos & thanks for watching 😁
I'm going to have a go at this today. Do you still get bee's visiting your garden as I've heard bee's don't like it as well. Don't want to put bee's off. Excellent Tube clip.
Hello Craig, I’ve just googled and it says bees are repulsed by the smell of garlic!! I did not know that!! Hmm, I have so many bees in my garden at the moment which I’m just loving so maybe it’s not a good idea to put this on anything with flowers.
Awsome cheers for the update; the Hostas look Gorgeous; just wondering if after spraying does the place stink of garlic? As we do sit and have our dinner outside in the garden and also dont want the neighbor's getting bothered by the smell or think there is a dead rat over the fence 😉😉
Haha!! It REALLY smells in the kitchen when doing the boiling, I cannot lie 🤣 but although the spray does smell when you use it, it’s not enough to linger throughout the garden so it won’t upset the neighbours 🤣🤣
I've watched this dozens of times, thank you! What's your experience with bees and butterflies? Don't you feel it repels them as well? The spray does work wonders against slugs, but it's not worth it if only I am around to enjoy them. I want to help my little mates!
Hi there Brngsh and thank you for watching so many times!! Butterflies don’t mind the garlic smell but bees aren’t attracted to it, but I still get them elsewhere in the garden so I think they just avoid that particular plant that has it on. I agree, I would much rather have all creatures, including slugs, if it meant I’d made the bees unhappy 🐝😊
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Thanks! This confirms what I'm seeing: less bees and only in corners where I haven't used the spray. They also seem to be in more of a hurry to leave. Most of my flowers are mixed, so I think I'm going to let my dahlias go.
Definitely worth considering what’s more important. I’m just trying to not plant what the slugs like to eat, let the bees win 😊
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Right! I planted those before I got into gardening, so the rest I have is better. Yarrow, lavender, herbs, carnation. But I will still put some on my old Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam', it's never looked better, full with flowers even in half-shadow.
@@brngsh5549 oh they are glorious!
Hostas are great no holes roses too aphid free👍 However word of warning I sprayed my French Beans because of a bit of Blackfly result??? Killed them all. All the top leaves went yellow and the just wilted away 😢😢 Ive sowed more but l wont be picking any beans till October 😤
Oh thank you so much for that good bit of advice 😁
i read that market garlic sometimes carries garlic rust. i have a hunch that garlic sprays infect the garden bed with the rust fungus, which primarily affects garlics and onions. have you ever tried planting garlic cloves again where you've previously sprayed garlic?
Hi there Henry, I must admit I have never planted garlic cloves in my garden so I cannot unfortunately answer your question. I do know that many gardeners use garlic spray successfully and I’ve never heard of it causing garlic rust. I will certainly bear it in mind for the future but I don’t think we should be too concerned. Hope you’re having a great week 😊☀️
Well, the process of boiling the garlic should eliminate the risk of diseases, even spore mediated ones. While some pathogens can survive boiling temperatures, most cannot. I can not find any information about this particular pathogen (puccinia allii) but I'd say it's safe to assume boiling temperatures will kill potential spores. You can boil the garlic longer to lower the risk further.
@Bolcjek thanks very much Bolcjek, that certainly makes perfect sense 👍😊😍
You've probably been asked but how often do you spray when it's dry?
Hi there Paula, I need to make another batch actually but i probably spray every few days. It really works 🥰
Do you think just using (1) large garlic bulb to (1) liter (34 ounces) of water would be just as good as trying to dilute? I want it as potent as I can get it so do not want to water down too much. Thx!
Hello there Rhonda, yes I think that would work out really well. It really does work … however what I have since learned as this video is a few years old now, is that bees don’t like garlic so please wait until the end of the day when the bees have gone to bed before you spray and then they’ll be happy too 🐝😊♥️
Lk 8 wow great information shared dear 👍 n loved ur 🌹🌹🌹 roses.
Thank you, the roses are beautiful this year xx
I made up some garlic spray. I think my first batch was on the weak side but it seemed to work, My second batch was much stronger and the slug problem seems to be pretty much eliminated!
Oh brilliant news. You can dilute it far more than I did. I need to make some more up before they all start to appear. So glad it’s working for you and thanks for letting me know 😍
i read that market garlic sometimes carries garlic rust. i have a hunch that garlic sprays infect the garden bed with the rust fungus, which primarily affects garlics and onions. have you ever tried planting garlic cloves again where you've previously sprayed garlic?
Hi Jeanette
I've just stumbled across your channel and I think it's great so you have a new subscriber!!! 😃
Tomorrow I am going to my local nursery to buy a Hosta which I am going to plant in a terracotta pot so today I have just 'cooked up' the recipe in your video you posted in May. When I moved to my house at the end of February I had a massive slug infestation which I have dealt with but ,as with any garden, there are always some slugs and snails lurking and waiting to feast 🙄
I am keeping my fingers crossed that the garlic wash works for me too🤞 - but I am going to add a few drops of washing up liquid to the mix as I believe that this will help it adhere to the leaves. I discovered the washing up liquid trick when making my own weedkiller with white vinegar, table salt and washing up liquid ... and it works!!! 👍
I was going to put the copper tape around the pot but am tempted to wait and see if the garlic wash works in it's own right first.
Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing your gardening tips 😊
Hi Sam, how lovely to have a new gardening friend 😍 thank you so much for subscribing. Goodness, you picked the hottest day to boil up garlic 🤣🤣 my husband hates it when I do that as it smells so strong. I must say, what a great idea to add the washing up liquid, that makes total sense. I will do that next time. Also, it’s funny you said about the weed killer solution because I have been looking for something to try because I have huge area of block paving out the front which I spray monthly and it is expensive buying the weed killer. So I’m going to try your idea!! Perhaps you can tell me the quantities to mix? I might even make a video and if I do I will mention your name and say it’s your suggestion 😁😁 just need to get the ingredients. Thanks so much for your lovely comments, I love reading everyone’s comments - brightens up my day 😍 take care xx
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Hiya Jeanette
Yes - it was very potent 😃 - the saucepan's in the greenhouse now and I'm going to let it steep overnight as well and then strain it in the morning 🐌
The quantities I used for the weedkiller were 5 litres of white vinegar to which you add 1 cup (approx. 150g) of table salt - let the salt dissolve (which doesn't take long) - and then add a generous squeeze of washing up liquid. Pour it into your sprayer and, hey presto, you're good to go! I found that most of the weeds looked very sad withing just a few hours and they died off quite quickly. Here is a link to the white vinegar from Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00TZT6GQE/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1
This is for 20 litres and buying it in bulk makes it cost effective too ... and white vinegar has so many other uses as well! 😊
That’s amazing Sam, thank you so much!! With the garlic wash, you can dilute it much more than I realised, so add more water, and also don’t throw the boiled garlic cloves away, put them round the base of the plants too!! Right, going to order my supplies!! Thanks so much!!
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You're welcome Jeanette - I hope you are as pleased with the weedkiller results as I was - let me know! It works out so much cheaper than Resolva!!!
I am going to save the cloves and do exactly that - but as I'm only buying one plant tomorrow I might try freezing some for replenishing purposes 😀
Great idea to freeze. You have the best ideas!! I think I will make a weed killer video 😁
Can it to be used on vege and fruit plants..will it affect flavour in any way!
Hi there Sonia, I’ve just googled this and quite a few sites say to spray on vegetables too to prevent a whole host of pests so I’m guessing it doesn’t affect the taste, it doesn’t say it would anywhere. So I’d do it. Or, you could plant actual garlic plants in amongst your vegetables too it says, but not near peas or potatoes. Hope that helps and thanks for watching 😊
Can I put garlic powder in water?
Hi Kelsey, it’s certainly well worth a try, or maybe even the garlic paste you can buy? Maybe in hot water would be better so it can dissolve better, but obviously let it cool down before you spray it. Do let me know if it works for you 😊
Beautiful sharing
Thank you so much 😊
Interesting 🤔 but how do you get the garlic 🧄 in that wee bottle ,asking for a friend
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Confused not knowing whst the subject she is talking about.
Hello Pedro, sorry if my video was confusing for you. It was an update on a previous video on how to make garlic wash to ward off slugs and snails and I was just saying how effective it had been 😍