Collect them as much as possible. In the spring they will come in handy in the garden, at home still

Vegetables full of nutritional values ​​that we use in the kitchen all year round are often closed in a fine, peeling “shell”. The shell protective layer usually ends up in a trash can or may be used in a home compost. However, it has been shown that older gardeners collect shells and use them for dozens of different ways. Here are some tips on what to do with the peel of garlic in the garden and home. From now on, do not throw them away, prepare your pocket and collect them hard and help you combat pests, keep carrots firm over the winter or increase… the beauty of orchids.

How to use garlic skins in the garden?

Ecological and responsible cultivation forces us to think about how to use all available raw materials after harvesting. The idea of ​​zero waste has its advantages and disadvantages, but it certainly allows us to manage more sensibly with what we collect from the garden beds – and thus discover valuable values ​​of products that we haven’t used yet.

Fortunately, thanks to our growing knowledge, what is truly valuable, returns to the garden, nourishes, protects and enriches it, instead of being fired. Moreover, quite a lot of vegetables and fruit residues are usable not only there, but also at home. One of the valuable waste I was throwing at the garden composter at best is the garlic peel. A neighbor suggested that I collect them into a bag, cotton net or for this purpose of the made basket and turn them into homemade nutrients for sensitive plants.

Garlic skins, more precisely the ingredients harvested in them, such as vegetable heads, show antibacterial and antifungal effects, as well as repels unpleasant pests. They are therefore a valuable source in the cultivation of various plants on open beds. Prepare a preventive spray based on garlic peel against fungal diseases:

• Add 2-3 heads of fresh garlic to the pot,
• Add 3 handfuls of collected garlic skins,
• Pour everything with water so that the pot is filled to 2/3 of its capacity,
• Garlic broth cook for 15 – 20 minutes,
• Allow the broth to stand for about 24 hours – it will cool thoroughly during this time and even more “sieves”.

Before first use, consider diluting the obtained decoction with distilled 1: 1 ratio. This plant protection preparation can be sprayed once a week by most plants on flower beds and plants planted in ornamental pots. In addition, after pouring into the convae, apply it under the species (locally, without soaking leaves), which are most susceptible to attack soil pests.

How to use garlic skins in the garden after harvesting? At this time, you will also use the skin conscientiously collected throughout the year. They are the ideal material for layering of root vegetables: carrots, parsley, beetroot or celery, stored through the winter either in simple ground kicks or in crates lined with straw.

Garlic skin – use in the home

The use of garlic skins is not limited to the garden. Even in the home they can bring a lot of use if you know what to use them for. Thanks to their strong antibacterial and antifungal properties, garlic peel and garlic alone are suitable for preparing spraying for moldy walls or molds that appear under the ceiling or corners around the windows.

To combat the occurrence of mold in the main corridor and bathroom, I used an aqueous solution after cooking garlic peel mixed with a glass of vinegar. In a small pot I prepared a supply of 4 handfuls of garlic peel. When it cools down, I drained the garlic water through a strainer into the bottle. I added the decoction with white vinegar, mixed gently (without shaking) and sprayed the mixture on dark spots visible on the wall surface.

A neighbor indicated that garlic decoction prepared from the skin is also suitable for destroying mold on soil in pots and for the disposal of pests in most of the infected houseplants. For example, if they appear earthworms, it is worth using a portion of the collected skin.

• Cook them in clean distilled water.
• All you have to do is put up to 2 large handfuls of crushed and pushed peel in your palms in a medium -sized pot, pour them in water and cook for about 10-15 minutes.
• Allow the broth to cool and use it to spray against unpleasant pests.

Have you successfully finished the invasion of miniature but extremely unpleasant pests of pot plants and have you collected garlic skins that you can use? The use of valuable household residues is not limited to the prevention of fungal diseases of pot plants or to combat fungal attack, although in both cases its use has many advantages.

There is another way to use garlic scales, which is recommended especially by lovers of very popular flowering species. If you have older orchids in your home flower collection in pots that still look very attractive, although they bloom less than before, give them a garlic conditioner based on the scales decoction. Water them every 2 to 3 weeks from bottom to top and reach from the root. It is said that it is an excellent recipe for stimulating home orchids to eject new buds and create even more beautiful, shaped and colorful crowns of flowers.