The Clever Uses of Garlic in Fruit Production

According to experiments, using garlic as a pollution-free pesticide on fruit trees has many wonderful effects.

1. Promoting sprouting. Coating grape buds in plastic greenhouses with garlic juice can make them sprout 7-10 days earlier; coating the cut ends of grape branches can prevent the cut ends from drying out and can promote the buds below the wound to sprout evenly.

2. Preventing and treating rot. After apple trees, pear trees, etc. suffer from rot disease, scrape the diseased scar clean, down to the xylem. At the same time, cut the healthy bark around the diseased scar into a smooth 60-degree slope, then use a garlic clove to directly smear and rub the wound and attach a layer of garlic mucilage. Apply once more after 7 days, and the control effect can reach more than 90%.

3. Controlling aphids. Take 1 part garlic, crush it, add 1 part water and mix well, then add 50 parts water, and use it as soon as it is mixed. Spraying the prepared solution on the undersides of leaves can effectively control aphids on fruit trees. In addition, intercropping garlic in orchards can also greatly reduce the harm aphids cause to fruit trees.

4. Preservation and freshness retention. Crush garlic, soak it in water for 12 hours, then boil it together with the water, filter it after cooling, and it becomes garlic extract. After hawthorn is soaked in 10% garlic extract for 5-10 seconds, it can be stored at room temperature for about 200 days.