Lots of other health benefits from garlic too not just blood pressure, and it has anti bacterial properties.
It is also a component of home made bug spray. Kills within seconds.
Excellent point— I too use a garlic/soap/hot pepper solution as a bug spray. Seems to help keep the ants away from the pepper blooms. Works on the lettuce leaves too—heck it seems like its a pre-picking marinade of sorts as a foliage spray. Not too heavy on the soap though....I’m also using blackboard white chalk powder on the bottom stems so the ants have a barrier they wont crossover and upwards.