Give your flowers a little sweet-and-sour water, and buds will burst out like crazy, working even better than fertilizer
?For gardening friends in the north, the most worrying thing is that the soil tends to be alkaline, so many southern flowers always fail to survive when they reach the north. Therefore, today Huahua has put together the most complete methods to easily turn your soil from alkaline to acidic, making your flowers bloom more and more brilliantly!
Tomatoes + rice washing water
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Everyone knows tomatoes taste sweet and sour, so they can be used to adjust the pH of soil. Hurry up and take a look with Huahua at how it is done!
How to use:
1. Chop the tomatoes into small pieces, then find a clean plastic bottle and put the chopped tomatoes into it.
2. Pour the rice washing water into the bottle, seal it, and put it in the sun to ferment. After about 3-5 days, let the bottle breathe a little. It only takes about 10-20 days for it to fully decompose.
3. Dilute the fully decomposed tomato rice washing water with clean water at a ratio of 1:10 and use it to water the flowers. It can not only make the soil weakly acidic, but also supplement nutrients, making your home's flowers grow more and more vigorously!
Lemon water
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Huahua basically cannot get used to lemons, because drinking them directly in water is just too sour, and adding rock sugar makes you worry about gaining weight. It is simply too much of a dilemma!
How to use:
1. Slice the lemons you bought and soak them in water to drink. Lemon water is most suitable for summer, as it clears heat and reduces internal fire!
2. After the lemon water has lost its flavor, take out the lemon slices and throw them directly into a large bucket of clean water, then let them sit at room temperature for 1-2 days.
3. After the second soaking, the acidity of the lemon slices has already greatly weakened. Using the soaked lemon water to water flowers can not only improve the phenomenon of alkaline soil, but also will not burn the roots. The operation is both simple and convenient!
Sulfur powder
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Some gardening friends also suggested to Huahua to solve this problem directly from the soil itself, which is to add a little sulfur powder to the soil.
How to use:
1. When newly mixing soil for flowers, first expose the soil to high heat in the sun for 1-2 days, or put it in a microwave and heat it for a few minutes, so as to kill some small insects and pathogens in the soil.
2. After the soil has been dried, mix sulfur powder into the soil. About 1-2 g of sulfur powder mixed into 1 L of soil is enough. Finally, stir it evenly.
3. Sulfur powder takes a long time to acidify, so the effect of sulfur powder in improving acidic soil is relatively slow, but it lasts a very long time. Moreover, sulfur powder also has an insecticidal effect. Mixing in a little each year when repotting is enough.
Rainwater
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If some gardening friends find the above operations too troublesome, then you might as well just use rainwater to water the flowers!
How to use:
1. Every time it rains, gardening friends can just put a basin or bucket outside to catch the rainwater. But if the environmental pollution in your area is relatively serious, then it is better not to use it.
2. Store the rainwater and use it each time you water the flowers. Rainwater not only contains a large amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and other substances, but is also weakly acidic, making it very suitable for growing flowers!
Citric acid
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Finally, Huahua will teach everyone one more good method, which is to use the citric acid commonly found at home for cleaning limescale. It can also achieve the effect of improving soil pH!
How to use:
1. For gardening friends in the north, add citric acid directly to water. If it is hard to control the amount, you can buy pH test paper and add a little citric acid to the water each time until the water quality stays at around 5.5.
2. Use the prepared citric acid water to directly water the flowers, and it can improve the phenomenon of alkaline soil, making your home's flowers grow more and more vigorously and burst into full bloom!
These little methods Huahua mentioned,
have all you gardening friends learned them?
Why not hurry up and try them yourself!
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