Q&A for How to Make Garlic Garden Spray

Garlic is an appetite suppressant but it also helps boost your metabolism. So, it may help you lose weight.

You take 2 pureed garlic bulbs and add it to 1/2 cup of water. Mix them well and pour the mixture into a spray bottle.

Garlic repels both flying and crawling insects, making it a very effective, natural pest repellent.

You add minced cloves of garlic to mineral oil. After 24 hours of soaking, you remove the garlic pieces from the oil. Then, you take 2 cups of water and 1 teaspoon of fresh lemon juice and add it to the oil. Once this is done, you strain the liquid through a filter and add this to a spray bottle.

No. Fresh garlic contains alliinase enzymes. When the chopped garlic is soaked in water, as recommended, it will allow those enzymes to convert some of the garlic's allin into allicin. Both alliin and allicin are sulfur-compounds. These are removed in the drying and powdering process.

Castile soap, like Dr Bronner's Castile soap, is made of organic plant matter. I use it as a fungicide and for everyday wash use. It's biodegradable and pet safe.

Contact your local County Agent to see if you can obtain some bindweed mites. They have a program where they use them to eliminate bindweed. I understand the mites make the leaves curl up and the plants die.They say the mites won't hurt anything but the weed.

Use food grade diatomaceous earth as a dust all over their body, but be sure to cover their eyes and nostrils with a cloth.

Yes, mosquitoes are repelled by garlic. Spray it throughout the garden and in the corners, or in places where water may stand.

Yes, that will help.

While it won't seriously harm dogs, their eyes/skin can get irritated. You should keep your dog away from the plants you sprayed on.