I Better Plant More Garlic

Oh garlic, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

From the book, Carrots Love Tomatoes, Secrets of Companion Plantiong for Successful Gardening, by Louise Riotte

"Garlic is an effective control for many insects. Try this recipe for garden use: Take three to four ounces of chopped garlic bulbs and soak in two tablespoons of mineral oil for a day. Add one pint of water in which one teaspoon of fish emulsion has been dissolved. Stir well. Strain the liquid and store in a glass or china container, as it reacts with metals. Dilute this, starting with one part to 20 parts of water, and use as a spray against your worst insect pests.

If sweet potatoes or other garden plants are attracting rabbit, try this spray. Rabbits dislike the smell of fish, too, so fish emulsion may help.

Garlic sprays are useful in controlling late blight on tomatoes and potatoes. Garlic is an effective destroyer of the diseases that damage stone fruits, cucumbers, radishes, spinach, beans, nuts, and tomatoes.

A garlic-based oil sprays on breeding ponds showed a 100 percent kill of mosquito larvae in a University of California experiment. Garlic cloves stored in grain are good again grain weevils.
Garlic grown in a circle around fruit trees is good against borers. It is beneficial to the growth of vetch and is protective planted with roses. All alliums, however, inhibit the growth of peas and beans. Plant garlic with tomatoes against red spider...."

All the alliums - garlic, onions, chives, and shallots - are beneficial to roses, protecting them against black spot, mildew, and aphids...

Garlic and onions are particularly beneficial to roses. In Bulgaria, where attar of roses is produced for perfumes, it is a common practice to inter plant them with roses since they cause the roses to produce a stronger perfume in larger quantities."

And here I thought garlic was only good for keeping the vampires away...