Step one: Take two whole garlic bulbs

Step two: Put the garlic bulbs into an old sock and crush them into a mush

Step three: Place the sock containing the mushed garlic into a saucepan with 1 litre of water and boil/simmer the contents of the saucepan for 15-20 minutes. It’s best to open your kitchen windows when simmering the garlic or use your BBQ outside, in the garden, to make the recipe!

Step four: Remove the saucepan from the heat and leave to cool. Once cooled, wring out the sock containing the garlic into the water in the saucepan

Step five: Throw away the sock containing the boiled, mashed-up garlic

Step six: Pour the contents of the saucepan into a screw top jar (this will allow the concoction to keep for up to a year)

Step seven: Measure out one tablespoon of the garlic concentrate from the jar into a litre of water

Step eight: Pour the diluted mixture into your garden sprayer

Step nine: Shake the sprayer to ensure the diluted mixture is well mixed. Spray your hostas every two weeks. If it rains wait until your plants are dry and then reapply. Spraying every two weeks will keep the slugs and snails away from your hostas.