We often plant flowers with many things around us, but one thing is often overlooked, and that is garlic, a condiment in the kitchen. Garlic has a good bactericidal and insect-proof function, which can prevent and control diseases such as blackfly, scale insects and aphids, and can also drive away ants and butterflies.
Method for making kind of garlic water
1, buy some fresh garlic. It's fresh and juicy. It's the season. It's best to have a purple garlic, but you can do without dried garlic.
2. Peel the garlic, mash it with a knife, and then mash it into garlic. Inconvenient flower friends can chop directly with a knife, but not mash it.
3. Soak the mashed minced garlic in water, rinse the garlic jar with water and pour it into it. Don't waste it The ratio of adding water is 1:50, and two garlic heads are basically mixed with a pot of water.
4. Let it stand for 3 hours, then filter it at least twice, and put the garlic water into the watering can, which can be used to water the flowers.
How to use garlic water?
Garlic water has a good insecticidal effect on Chinese rose. You can spray it on the diseased leaves several times. If you have blackfly at home, you can spray it around the plants a few times, but the smell is a little strong. Open more windows for ventilation. Spray once every two days and spray for two or three times in a row, and you will see that there are obviously fewer bugs!
Don't throw away the filtered garlic residue and bury it directly in the flower soil, which can not only enrich the fertilizer, but also drive away the ants, nematodes and earthworms in the flowerpot, killing two birds with one stone. But don't put too much. Generally, a spoonful is enough for a pot of flowers.
You can also put garlic residue in a closed container for full fermentation. This fermentation process does not take a long time, usually takes half a month. But the smell is so bad that now I'm scattered directly in the soil.
A flower friend inserted a budding garlic in the rose pot at home. As a result, the rose and garlic seedlings grew together, but there were no bugs. Roses in other pots all have red spiders, which shows that garlic does have insect-proof effect, and its taste will make many insects disgusted.
Using garlic to prevent insects has a certain effect, but don't expect garlic to kill all pests. If there are many pests in the roses at home, it is better to use pesticides, pepper water and other methods in rotation.
Others say that garlic can prolong the flowering period of fresh cut flowers. Soak garlic paste in clear water for 12 hours, boil it in water, cool it, filter it to make garlic leaching solution, dilute it with water for 10 times, and then soak it in garlic leaching solution for 10 ~ 20 seconds to prolong the flowering period of flower arrangement.
I don't know if this method has any definite effect at present, but I just want to give you an idea. Interested flower friends can try it ~
Garlic can prevent insects not only for flowers and plants, but also for daily necessities, such as rice. Many people like to store grain, but rice and millet are prone to insects when stored for a long time. You can put a few cloves of garlic in a rice jar or other container for storing rice, and cover the container tightly to prevent insects from eating. But some people will mind the taste of garlic. You can try it if you don't mind!