Garlic Wash - Any Ideas of Boiled/Chopped Garlic?

organic_wanabe

Don't know how many of you read the Greenfingered Moneysaving Thread but some of us have a snail/slug problem. One of the solutions suggested was to make a garlic wash by boiling up two chopped bulbs of garlic in water and then diluting to and use to water plants. Well I now have my garlic infusing in the water after boiling it last night. Just before I strain it I was wondering what I could possibly do with the garlic - apart from maybe tucking it around some plants as a further deterent! Any food uses/suggestions? I have already taken a little of the water and added it to a loaf of bread that I am making.

Penelope_Penguin

I'm sure you could chop up the garlic and add it to pasta sauce, casserole, or mash onto garlic bread. It would be delicious mashed with butter, nutmeg and pepper, and put on a baked potato. Having been boiled it will have a lovely subtle flavour.

Penny. x

darkblue_2

Melt some butter in a pan - mush up the garlic and add it to the butter.

Add some dried herbs and pour it in to ice cube trays.
Put it in the freezer and Viola - anytime you need garlic butter - it's there to be microwave defrosted and used.

organic_wanabe

Thanks guys - much better than putting around some plants. Also if the water adds a nice tang to my bread then I might freeze a little of that too for future use. Hopefully, it'll work to deter the snails/slugs and so I'll be making it regularly over the growing season.

belfastgirl23

I don't go on the greenfingered board so this is a really useful tip ... thanks

parsonswife8

I made my garlic wash today and have left the garlic along with the resultant water, in a 2 pt plastic milk bottle, in the fridge.
Hopefully it will make it more potent in the long run.
I will strain it as I use it.

pretz_2

u can also add the boiled garlic to mash as the flavour is so subtle it is very nice, it goes well with steamed fish and rosted toms
hth
pretz

organic_wanabe

Well the few teaspoons of the water that I added to my bread (8oz flour) gave it a lovely subtle taste. If I want it really garlicy I'll add more. Quite good if you are wanting to lose weight and not use butter because you still get the garlic flavour without the calories.

I will make some of the leftover garlic into garlic butter and keep some for adding to meals - I used some last night in my HM fritatta and it was lovely.

parsonswife8 it did occur to me that we are being told to dilute it quite a bit - one dessertspoon for a watering can full of water. I think I'll make it a little stronger! Especially as, when I went to put it into the outhouse last night (can't keep it in the fridge or DS will no doubt drink it by mistake!) I saw three slugs in a pot and I couldn't resist and so I opened the bottle and poured in some neat! So if the plants don't die or start growing like beanstalks then it should be OK!

parsonswife8

organic_wanabe wrote: »

Well the few teaspoons of the water that I added to my bread (8oz flour) gave it a lovely subtle taste. If I want it really garlicy I'll add more. Quite good if you are wanting to lose weight and not use butter because you still get the garlic flavour without the calories. I will make some of it into garlic butter and keep some for adding to meals - I used some last night in my HM fritatta and it was lovely.

parsonswife8 it did occur to me that we are being told to dilute it quite a bit - one dessertspoon for a watering can full of water. I think I'll make it a little stronger! Especially as, when I went to put it into the outhouse last night (can't keep it in the fridge or DS will no doubt drink it by mistake!) I saw three slugs in a pot and I couldn't resist and so I opened the bottle and poured in some neat! So if the plants don't die or start growing like beanstalks then it should be OK!

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We've had so much rain here in Kent that I haven't used my garlicwash yet, but I intend to shake the bottle, then strain and use about a tablespoon to a litre spray bottle and to spray it around the rim of the pots/containers as well as on the plants.
You can get 4 bulbs of garlic for about 60p at Aldi or lidl and I don't mind spending that as it's a lot cheaper then slug pellets.
It'll keep the vampires away too!