No need to worry about flower fertilizer and potting soil, just add a little sawdust and it's all solved

Anyone who has renovated their home should know that renovation always leaves some wood shavings behind, and friends who love growing flowers should definitely not miss out on them, because they have many uses in gardening!

1. The benefits of sawdust

Sawdust is a cheap soilless growing medium, lightweight, water-absorbing and breathable, and it plays a big role in growing flowers. For newly transplanted flowers and trees, especially flower seedlings sent by mail, the long time in transit causes severe water loss in the seedlings, leaving them wilted and on the verge of death. If they are planted at this point in nutrient soil with a high fertilizer content, the seedlings will be burned to death. If sawdust is used to plant the new seedlings, because sawdust is loose, breathable, heat-retaining and moisture-retaining, after a period of time new roots grow again from the old root sections of the dried-up root hairs, bringing the seedlings back from the brink and restoring their vitality.

2. Growing orchids with sawdust

Using sawdust to grow orchids can replace orchid soil. When growing orchids in the north, the soil is often on the alkaline side, which makes the orchids grow poorly. Comparing orchids grown in leaf mold with those grown in sawdust, the latter have larger pseudobulbs, plump and sturdy young shoots, and roots that are semi-transparent and creamy in appearance with no root rot, and they can even bloom with only two leaves, breaking the traditional belief that at least four leaves are needed before they can bloom. After some time in the pot, the sawdust rots and provides the orchids with enough nutrients; at the same time, sawdust is suitable for fungal growth, allowing the orchid fungi that live symbiotically with the orchid roots to grow well, so the orchid roots can remain in their best state for a long time.

3. Used as potting soil

Take fresh sawdust and put it into a plastic bag; then add an appropriate amount of cake fertilizer, and if you have chicken or rabbit manure, even better; add enough water, and rice-washing water is even better. Cover it or seal the bag opening, and place it in a warmer spot. After 1 to 2 months it will ferment and rot; let it ferment until it turns dark brown. Then air-dry it until half dry and mix it half and half with soil. Using it as potting soil to grow flowers and trees will let them grow with lush branches and verdant leaves, bright flowers and rich fragrance; using it as nutrient soil for raising flower seedlings gives it the wonderful function of promoting healthy and sturdy growth in the seedlings.

4. Used as a top dressing

For potted flowers currently being grown, you can also, when the potting soil is half dry, use a tool to loosen the potting soil, then place the sawdust mixture described above, adding a little more dry fertilizer, on the surface of the potting soil, then water thoroughly, and after a week gently turn the sawdust and potting soil so the two gradually blend together; after that you will find the potted flowers becoming more and more lush with branches and leaves.

5. Used as flower fertilizer

When repotting potted flowers and trees, mix sawdust with 1/3 fine coal cinders, then add a suitable amount of dry manure powder, and it can serve as nutrient soil for potted flowers. The root hairs damaged during repotting recover quickly, the root system easily absorbs the nutrients in the sawdust, and the flowers and trees grow vigorously again soon after repotting.

Don't you feel that sawdust actually has so many benefits in gardening? In fact, this method was also told to me by a gardening friend of mine. I regret that I used to just clean up all the sawdust as trash!