RECIPE #44 GARLIC OR CHIVE SPRAY                
Categories: Garden, Bugs                                    
                                                          
  Garlic or Chive Spray: 
        Soak 1/2C minced garlic, onion     
         or chives in 1 pint water for several hours or overnight.     
        Strain liquid through cheesecloth or fine sieve. Left     
        in, particles in the spray could clog sprayer...          
        Sounds like mine for garlic juice only they also use      
        onion or garlic... I use a mason jar and 2-3 cloves of    
        garlic instead... its just another variation in my       
        opinion.... 
Info from May\June organic gardening magazine:
        A group of California students testing homemade garlic      
        sprays found that cabbage moths, cabbage loopers,         
        mosquitoes, whiteflies and aphids were killed on           
        contact. Slugs, lygus bugs and hornworms died more        
        slowly. Colorado potato beetles, grasshoppers and sow     
        bugs were unaffected. The students made a concentrate     
        by soaking lots of minced garlic cloves in mineral oil    
        for 24 hours( some gardeners use olive oil), then         
        after a thorough straining, they mixed 2 teaspoons of     
        the oil into a pint of water with a few drops of dish     
        soap, stirred and strained it again. This mixture,        
        however, is still to strong for plants, so dilute it      
       once again putting 1 or 2 tablespoons into a pint of      
       water, and then spray that. Brain Heller, a garden in     
       Helmsburg, Ind., says that he makes a spray of 2          
       garlic cloves in a blender with 1/2 cup dried chiles      
       and a quart of water he whizzes it up strains and         
       sprays that on his roses to keep the Japanese beetles     
       away. Another makes a spray with 1/4 cup of powdered      
       garlic in a gallon of water and sprays that on his        
       blackberries to keep Japanese beetles away.               
                                                            
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