What are the wonderful uses of garlic in home gardening?
Elderly people all love to grow some plants, but actually there is another very useful thing for home gardening, and that is garlic! Garlic contains alliin, which is hydrolyzed by garlic alliinase into allicin. Used as a botanical pesticide in flower production, it has many effects, listed as follows:
1. Promote germination:
Peel and mash garlic, mix it with cool boiled water at a ratio of 1:3, and apply it to the sprouting buds of magnolia, osmanthus, camellia sasanqua, wintersweet and others; it can bring germination forward by 5-7 days. Applying it to cuts caused by pruning flowers can prevent the cuts from drying out and promote uniform sprouting.
2. Prevent and control rot:
After the rhizome parts of woody flowers such as redbud and forsythia dry out and rot, use a sharp knife to shave them flat, reaching deep into the xylem, and cut the healthy bark around the infected area into a smooth slope of 60°C, preferably exposing the yellow-green alternating cambium. Then rub the wound directly with a garlic clove and make it adhere with a layer of garlic mucus. Apply once every 7-10 days. This can play an anti-rot role, and the effect is better in summer.
3.Prevent and control aphids：
Crush garlic, add 1 part water and mix well, then add 50 parts water, stir evenly, and use immediately after mixing. Spraying evenly on the undersides of flower leaves can effectively prevent and control flower aphids. If an appropriate amount of soybean powder or washing powder and other adhesives is added, the effect is even better.
4.Anti-rot and freshness preservation：
After crushing garlic, soak it in clean water for 12 hours, then boil it together with the water, and filter after cooling to make garlic extract. Soak cut flowers in 10% garlic extract for 10-20 seconds to extend the vase life of the cut flowers.
In fact, garlic not only plays a very good role in flower cultivation; in recent years it has also been found to have remarkable effects in medical care and health preservation.
1、Bactericidal and anti-inflammatory: The allicin contained in garlic has broad-spectrum antibacterial effects. It has killing effects on many pathogenic microorganisms, including epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis virus, influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, hepatitis virus, Cryptococcus neoformans which can cause severe meningitis, Diplococcus pneumoniae, Candida, tubercle bacillus, typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli, amoeba, Trichomonas vaginalis, Rickettsia, Staphylococcus, dysentery bacillus, and Vibrio cholerae.
2、Prevent cancer: Garlic can block the synthesis of the carcinogen nitrosamine, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, and has a killing effect on cancer cells.
3、Prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: Scientists have another nickname for garlic: "vascular scavenger." Researchers found that people who eat garlic for a long time have much lighter deposits in the inner walls of blood vessels than those who do not eat it. 4.Promote hair growth: The volatile oil contained in garlic can accelerate the speed of blood flow to the sebaceous glands and hair follicles, thereby promoting hair growth, and it also has a therapeutic effect on baldness. Applying garlic paste to the scalp can improve hair growth and eliminate dandruff.
5、Enhance immune function: Animal experiments show that the fat-soluble volatile oil in garlic can significantly improve the phagocytic function of macrophages and has the effect of strengthening the immune system.
6、Anti-aging: Garlic contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, and has effects such as preventing vascular aging and immune decline.
7、Benefit the brain and improve intelligence: The components in garlic combine with vitamin B1 in the human body to produce "allicin amine," which can promote and give play to the role of vitamin B1, enhance carbohydrate oxidation, provide enough energy for brain cells, and make thinking agile.
The wonderful uses of garlic in home gardening
Elderly people all love to grow some plants, but actually there is another very useful thing for home gardening, and that is garlic! Garlic contains alliin, which is hydrolyzed by garlic alliinase into allicin. Used as a botanical pesticide in flower production, it has many effects, listed as follows:1. Promote germination:
Peel and mash garlic, mix it with cool boiled water at a ratio of 1:3, and apply it to the sprouting buds of magnolia, osmanthus, camellia sasanqua, wintersweet and others; it can bring germination forward by 5-7 days. Applying it to cuts caused by pruning flowers can prevent the cuts from drying out and promote uniform sprouting.
2. Prevent and control rot:
After the rhizome parts of woody flowers such as redbud and forsythia dry out and rot, use a sharp knife to shave them flat, reaching deep into the xylem, and cut the healthy bark around the infected area into a smooth slope of 60°C, preferably exposing the yellow-green alternating cambium. Then rub the wound directly with a garlic clove and make it adhere with a layer of garlic mucus. Apply once every 7-10 days. This can play an anti-rot role, and the effect is better in summer.
3. Prevent and control aphids:
Crush garlic, add 1 part water and mix well, then add 50 parts water, stir evenly, and use immediately after mixing. Spraying evenly on the undersides of flower leaves can effectively prevent and control flower aphids. If an appropriate amount of soybean powder or washing powder and other adhesives is added, the effect is even better.
4. Anti-rot and freshness preservation:
After crushing garlic, soak it in clean water for 12 hours, then boil it together with the water, and filter after cooling to make garlic extract. Soak cut flowers in 10% garlic extract for 10-20 seconds to extend the vase life of the cut flowers.
The above is the introduction provided by Succulent Garden to everyone on the use of garlic in home gardening. We hope you can gain something after reading this article!