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Such miracles can cheap baking soda perform in the garden: Sprinkle it on the soil and the slugs will disappear, give it to geraniums and they will be beautiful! The dream of every gardener is to have a good harvest that stays fresh for a long time. Trying to protect the crop from pests we buy a lot of chemicals, and this is a big mistake.
Baking soda
Since chemicals are dangerous, some harmful substances also end up in the harvest. However, there is an alternative – use folk remedies. For example, baking soda.
Baking soda can be bought in any grocery store. Its range of uses is very wide: it can help in almost any situation.
Grapes
Let’s start with grapes. They are quite popular here and caring for them is simple: in spring you just need to prune them, tie them up and give them a little nourishment.
But there’s gray mold that often attacks them. This is where baking soda helps.
During berry ripening spray the vine with this solution: dissolve 75 g of baking soda in 10 liters of water. The plant will recover and the sugar content in the berries will increase. In a similar way you can treat fruit trees and fight leaf-eating caterpillars.
Shrubs
To treat shrubs you need to add a few additional ingredients. For gooseberries and currants this solution is more suitable: 1 tablespoon baking soda, 1 aspirin tablet, 1 teaspoon of any dishwashing liquid or liquid soap, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 4.5 liters of water.
Cucumbers
Baking soda will also help cucumbers. Often the leaves of young cucumbers turn yellow and the fruits stop growing. This is not premature wilting, but a sign of disease. Prepare a solution of 1 tablespoon of baking soda diluted in 10 liters of water and spray the cucumbers with it.
Cabbage
Baking soda also deals with powdery mildew, which often attacks cabbage. Dissolve one teaspoon of baking soda in a liter of warm water and spray the plant with the solution. You can do this every three weeks as a preventive measure, it won’t do any harm.
If cabbage is attacked by caterpillars, sprinkle the cabbage leaves with dry baking soda powder. The larvae will disappear immediately.
There is another proven method to help cabbage – valerian. Add a capsule of valerian officinalis to 3 liters of water and 1 tablespoon of liquid soap. Spray the cabbage pests with this solution. They will die and will no longer hinder the growth of the vegetables.
A month before harvest for storage, cabbage must be sprayed with ammonia. Prepare a solution from a bottle of ammonia (40 ml) diluted in a 5-liter bucket of water and add a few tablespoons of liquid soap. Treated cabbage will rot less and stored heads will last longer.
Vegetables from your own garden are a certainty, because we never know exactly how the vegetables on store shelves were treated. You can be sure that baking soda will never harm them.
