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Garlic spray

Greetings from sunny New Zealand,
                                 I wonder if anyone could spare a moment
from shovelling snow and plotting doom on woodchucks to give me a bit of
advice on garlic spray.

I've just started using garlic spray in my greenhouse as an alternative to
pyrethrum spray which has worked well on our array of sap-sucking insects
but unfortunately also kills bees and is expensive.

Does anyone actually use garlic spray successfully? 

I've attached a recipe found in a magazine which I'm now spaying on
tomatoes, capsicum, cucumbers and eegplants. 

I would welcome any comments, suggestions, warnings or recipe
modifications.

Regards   Ian Gill 



The Garlic spray recipe...

Effective against: Aphids, wire worms, snails, codling moth caterpillars
and white-cabbage butterflies.

Chop three ounces of garlic bulbs and mix with two teaspoonful of liquid
paraffin.

Soak for 48 hours.

Add a pint of water - mix well with a quarter of an ounce of good oil-based
soap as a spreader.

Strain and store in a plastic container.

DILUTION: one percent.
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