Baking soda works wonders for growing flowers, saving you money on fertilizer

Besides the usual routines of planting and caring for flowers and plants, our everyday life experience also gives us plenty of help when it comes to growing flowers. Things like rice-washing water and beer can be used to water flowers, while Chinese herbal medicine residue and walnut shells can serve as fertilizer and growing medium, and so on. Making use of things readily available in daily life to help with our planting and care is a particularly good thing, and besides the ones introduced above, today we will also recommend a "miracle tool" that has remarkable effects when used for growing flowers. It is the baking soda we commonly use in daily life. Let's take a look below!

Baking soda has many benefits, especially for growing flowers:

Adjusting soil pH:

The first advantage baking soda offers for flower growing is that it can adjust the pH of the soil. Many people believe that making the soil acidic helps grow flowers, but you may not know that not all flowers like acid. For example, cacti and begonias do not like acid; they prefer soil that is slightly alkaline. This is especially true for "hydrangea": if you want it to bloom with red petals, the soil needs to be slightly alkaline. At this point the role of baking soda becomes apparent. Take a small amount of baking soda (about 50 grams) and mix it with about 4L of clean water. The resulting solution used to water flowers can effectively adjust the pH.

A rare deodorizer:

In home growing we often use some organic fertilizers or compost we make ourselves. These fertilizers work well and can make flowers bloom more beautifully, but on the other hand their smell is truly unbearable, especially when the air is not circulating. Using fertilizer will not only leave you plagued by the strange odor, but may also disturb your neighbors. Baking soda can effectively alleviate this problem. Adding some baking soda to compost can effectively remove the odor, and of course the fermentation speed will also be considerably faster!

A powerful tool for sterilization and pest control:

One of the great enemies in flower growing is all kinds of pests, such as the common ants, slugs, snails and red spider mites, and so on. Usually we use insecticides to deal with them, but insecticides may cause us some harm, especially when there are children or pets at home, when we must be extra careful. Baking soda can solve this problem. Sprinkle baking soda directly into the flower pot; after slugs and snails eat it, they will die from dehydration. Mix baking soda with powdered sugar and put it in the flower pot; when ants come out to feed, they will die from eating these mixtures, thereby achieving the effect of eliminating ants.

Of course, besides being used this way, we can also mix baking soda water and spray it on the leaves of potted plants, which can also effectively kill various pests that feed specifically on leaves, saving us the cost of pesticides and the safety risks.

An excellent hand at sterilization:

If we have pest control, how can we do without sterilization? Baking soda also performs well in this regard. Its method of use is similar to pest control, divided into the watering method and the spraying method. The former can act directly on the pathogens present in the soil, while the latter can target the leaves and create a sterile growing environment. If your potted plants are suffering from disease, then perhaps baking soda can help you!