Using baking soda for plants works amazingly well

Baking soda is practically a must-have cooking ingredient at home; you can't make bread, leaven steamed buns, and so on without it. But what many people don't know is that using baking soda to care for flowers works amazingly well too!

Use 1: Adjusting soil pH

Just as flowers like rhododendrons and gardenias prefer acidic soil, plants like hydrangeas, begonias and cacti prefer slightly alkaline soil. Baking soda is mildly alkaline, so it can be used to change the acidity or alkalinity of the soil.

How to do it:Put about one spoonful of baking soda into about 4L of clean water, mix thoroughly, then evenly spray the resulting solution on the soil surface.

Use 2: Preventing and controlling powdery mildew and more

Baking soda has a good sterilizing effect and can effectively suppress the activity of bacteria and fungi. Some netizens have tried it themselves: baking soda can do a great job of preventing flowers like roses, orchids and rhododendrons from being infected by powdery mildew and sooty mold.

How to do it:Mix a small amount of baking soda with clean water, then put it into a spray bottle and evenly spray the solution on the plant's leaves and stems; this can prevent flowers from being infected by pathogens.

Use 3: Removing the smell of flower fertilizer

Baking soda has another great use, and that is deodorizing. When making organic fertilizer at home or applying fertilizer to plants, this process inevitably produces a lot of unpleasant odors. In fact, a simple use of baking soda can easily eliminate these odors.

How to do it:Add two to three spoonfuls of baking soda to fermenting organic fertilizer and the odor of the fertilizer will gradually decrease, or when making fertilizer yourself, add some baking soda to the materials so that no odor can be smelled during fermentation.

Use 4: Cleaning dirt off flower pots

When caring for flowers, you inevitably have to repot the plants, and when cleaning the pots you've swapped out, some old dirt is always very hard to wash off cleanly. At times like this you can use baking soda to easily clean the flower pots.

How to do it:Mix some baking soda into clean water, stir evenly, then soak the flower pot in the baking soda solution and let it sit for about two to three hours. The baking soda can dissolve the dirt, and afterwards cleaning the flower pot becomes much easier.

Use 5: Driving away mosquitoes, ants and more

If you keep quite a few potted plants at home, they inevitably attract lots of mosquitoes, ants and so on, which is endlessly annoying. Using baking soda can easily drive these troublesome insects away.

How to do it:Pour baking soda powder into clean water and mix evenly, then spray the resulting solution around the potted plants, and also spray some baking soda solution into the gaps of doors and windows where mosquitoes, ants and so on can get in. In this way it can drive these insects away.

Use 6: Extending the flowering period of plants

Some netizens have tested it personally: baking soda really does have the effect of promoting plant flowering and extending the flowering period, and after using baking soda, the plant's flowers can also bloom even larger and more brilliantly colored.

How to do it:Mix one spoonful of baking soda with about 4000ml of clean water, then evenly spray the solution on the flowers; this can promote blooming and extend the flowering period.

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