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Garlic cloves
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2025 1:46 pm
by Matthew d
How long is recommended to leave them in the drinker before you throw them out
Re: Garlic cloves
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2025 2:25 pm
by Bowbroom
I used to prick the cloves with a needle put them in a bottle with a screw top fill with water leave for a couple of days and add 100 ml of the liquid to the drinkers
Re: Garlic cloves
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2025 5:25 pm
by Bowbroom
This is the recipe for Dave Allen’s Tonic
INGREDIANTS
4 bulbs of garlic (bulbs consisting of about 10 cloves) peel and crushed
4 lemons cut each into 4
3 desert spoons of Columbine tea
50ml aqueous iodine (Lugols available from chemist)
1/2 kilo brown sugar
METHOD
Boil 2 ltr water add lemons and simmer for 30 minutes
Add the Columbine tea and simmer for 10 minutes
Add the iodine and simmer for 10 minutes
Add sugar and simmer for 10 minutes
Turn off heat, cover and leave for 48 hours.
Remove lemon
Add garlic and stir well
Bottle and refrigerate for 7 days to let the garlic infuse with the mix
Shake well before use.
USEAGE
30ml to 5 ltr drinking water (100 birds) for 7 days straight then twice a week
jas.
Re: Garlic cloves
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2025 7:59 pm
by Winfort Lofts
Bowbroom wrote: Sat Sep 20, 2025 5:25 pm
This is the recipe for Dave Allen’s Tonic
INGREDIANTS
4 bulbs of garlic (bulbs consisting of about 10 cloves) peel and crushed
4 lemons cut each into 4
3 desert spoons of Columbine tea
50ml aqueous iodine (Lugols available from chemist)
1/2 kilo brown sugar
METHOD
Boil 2 ltr water add lemons and simmer for 30 minutes
Add the Columbine tea and simmer for 10 minutes
Add the iodine and simmer for 10 minutes
Add sugar and simmer for 10 minutes
Turn off heat, cover and leave for 48 hours.
Remove lemon
Add garlic and stir well
Bottle and refrigerate for 7 days to let the garlic infuse with the mix
Shake well before use.
USEAGE
30ml to 5 ltr drinking water (100 birds) for 7 days straight then twice a week
jas.
What would this be used for?
How long would the mixture keep for?
Re: Garlic cloves
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2025 8:33 pm
by Bowbroom
All season but also during the moult, it will keep for weeks. Word of warning, it smells pretty bad when you’re making it if you can do it outside or you’ll not be popular with the missus
It can be bought from Boddys already made