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10 Amazing Uses for Baking Soda in the Garden.

10 Amazing Uses for Baking Soda in the Garden.

Baking soda has dozens of uses around the home.

It's an inexpensive and healthy way to clean your kitchen and bathroom.

But what about using baking soda in the garden?

Do you know that it is also very useful for having a beautiful vegetable garden without parasites ?

Here are the top 10 amazing ways to use baking soda in the garden . Watch:

10 Amazing Uses for Baking Soda in the Garden.

Contents
  • 1. To test soil pH
  • 2. As a homemade plant fungicide
  • 3. To get rid of slugs
  • 4. For sweeter tomatoes
  • 5. To make bouquets last longer
  • 6. Against bad compost odors
  • 7. Against ants
  • 8. To hunt rabbits in the vegetable patch
  • 9. To get rid of cabbage worms
  • 10. To wash your hands
  • Where can I find baking soda?

1. To test soil pH

Dampen your soil with distilled water. Sprinkle a handful of baking soda on the wet floor.

If bubbles appear, chances are you have acidic soil , with a pH probably below 5.

2. As a homemade plant fungicide

Mix 5 tablespoons of baking soda with 5 liters of water. You get a homemade fungicide much cheaper than commercial ones.

In addition, you are sure that it contains no chemicals and no toxins like other industrial fungicides.

3. To get rid of slugs

If you want to get rid of slugs fast , sprinkle them directly with baking soda.

This will dry them out and they will die. If you just want to keep them away, check out our trick here to drive them away.

4. For sweeter tomatoes

You want to have sweeter tomatoes ? Sprinkle some baking soda around your tomato plants. Be careful not to put it on the plants.

Absorbed by the soil, the bicarbonate will decrease the acidity levels.

5. To make bouquets last longer

Do you have a bouquet of flowers? And you want it to last the longest possibly?

Mix some baking soda with water in the vase. And put your cut flowers in there. Check out the trick here.

6. Against bad compost odors

Composting is very practical and useful... But it doesn't always smell very good!

By pouring baking soda into your compost, you will get rid of bad smells easily and quickly.

7. Against ants

Mix, in equal parts, 1 part of sugar with 1 part of baking soda.

Make small heaps of this mixture on the places of passage of the ants.

The sugar will attract the ants. And when they eat the mixture, the baking soda will kill them . Check out the trick here.

If you just want to keep the ants away without killing them, here's the trick.

8. To hunt rabbits from the vegetable patch

To prevent rabbits to come and snack your vegetables , sprinkle baking soda around your vegetable patch.

You will see that they will immediately have much less appetite!

9. To get rid of cabbage worms

Mix equal parts baking soda, flour and a little earth.

Sprinkle this mixture on plants such as cabbage, broccoli, kale which tend to attract worms. This mixture will be fatal for them. .

And to prevent flies from laying their larvae at the feet of your cabbage, put cardboard around the cabbage.

10. To wash your hands

When you're done gardening, you can remove the dirt easily from your hands s by wetting them and rubbing them with baking soda. Check out the trick here.

Where to find baking soda?

You can find baking soda in DIY stores and organic stores or on the Internet.

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10 Amazing Uses for Baking Soda in the Garden.