Keeping flowers with oranges: a joke or the real thing? Try it and you will know

Now is the perfect season for eating oranges. With their sweet-and-sour flesh and fresh fragrance, almost everyone loves them. I have a habit: the moment I get an orange, I cannot resist taking a sniff of its fresh scent first.

After eating the flesh, I do not throw away the peel either, because orange peel has many uses, such as removing odors, preventing motion sickness, treating chilblains and treating coughs. But what many people do not know is that orange peel can also be used to grow flowers, and the results are really quite good. Below, I will introduce several ways to use orange peel for growing flowers.

The first is to use orange peel to water flowers. First, wash the leftover orange peel clean to remove any chemical residue on it, then soak it in a container filled with clean water. After just one day of soaking, it can be used directly to water flowers, with no need to dilute it further. Pretty convenient, right? The principle is that orange peel contains acidic components, so the water it produces is acidic, and many flowering plants like acidic soil conditions, including jasmine and azaleas. This kind of soil helps them grow better.

The second is to wipe leaves with orange peel. Simply take the inner side of leftover orange peel and keep wiping the leaves of the plants. Not only can this make the leaves glossy as if waxed, but it can also prevent pests from bothering the leaves. You can also knead the orange peel and spray the juice directly onto the leaves, then gently wipe the leaves with a damp cloth. This can also achieve the effect of preventing pests.

The third is to juice orange peel and use it to water flowers. Just prepare a few more orange peels, wash them clean, put them in a juicer and blend them into fresh orange peel juice, then filter out the residue. The remaining liquid can be used directly to water flowers, and it can also keep some insects and ants from approaching the plants, thereby avoiding insect infestation.

The fourth is to use orange peel as fertilizer. First wash the orange peel clean, cut it into small pieces, then put it into a plastic bottle such as a drink bottle. Pour in an appropriate amount of water, enough to completely submerge the orange peel, then cover the bottle cap, but be sure not to screw it too tight. Leave a little gap for air to circulate, otherwise the plastic bottle can easily swell.

Then put the bottle outdoors in the sun. After two or three months, the decomposition will be complete. When you open the cap, the smell will be rather pungent. Before watering flowers, first dilute it with 50 times the amount of water, then use it to irrigate the plants. However, the interval between fertilizing this way should be longer, generally once a month is enough. Watering too much will instead affect the normal growth of the plants.

Have you learned the four methods above? Aren't they amazing? In fact, it is not only the orange that is a treasure from top to bottom. In daily life, many things can be used to grow flowers. As long as you are good at discovering them, you can find many little secrets for growing flowers.