Proper addition of baking soda to flower cultivation can also drive away pests.

We often rely on new and expensive gardening tools and pesticides to maintain potted plants, of course, in order to raise plants better, in fact, we should use inorganic and healthy methods to solve the problems of flower cultivation.

Baking soda can solve many flower-growing problems, and these 10 ways can help you grow plants better.

1. Fungicides

A mixture of 4 teaspoons of baking soda and 4 liters of water is very effective. Do you have a florist that sells homemade organic medicine? You can try it yourself, and then teach more flower friends, this method compared with other antiseptic agents, it basically has no chemicals.

Kill the cabbage beetle

Mix the same amount of baking soda and flour, the mixture is the powdered substance, and then sprinkle this powdered mixture on your plant (broccoli and cabbage is the most effective), which sounds incredible, but this mixture can kill cabbage worms. You don't have to do anything else, and of course this flower friend's secret recipe only works for this pest. (vegetable worms that eat leaves)

Third, wash hands

In gardening or other chores of life, what if you have so much sticky material and dirt on your hands that you can't wash them off? You can use a little baking soda and you will find that the dirt will fall off with a poke. Of course, wash your hands thoroughly afterwards to avoid irritation.

IV. The promoting effect of soil

Flowers such as begonia and hydrangea can thrive in neutral soil, while hydrangea flowers can change with the pH of the soil.

You can mix 1 teaspoon baking soda with 4 liters of water and use it on plants that like neutral soil. A little extra baking soda can help them grow better and expel more beautiful flowers!

(do not water more or frequently, usually a little before flowering. The ratio of baking soda to water is 1 to 5000.)

5. Kill slugs (slugs)

If slugs or snails often eat your plant stems and leaves, then you can use this very harmless method, with a little bit of baking soda, pour it where small pests are infested or are committing crimes. Baking soda will not harm plants, but not too much.

In fact, baking soda is a weak alkali substance, but a little bit will not affect the soil or plants at all, but will help plants to blossom better and kill more with one stone.

VI. Reduce the odor of composting

If you want foul-smelling compost, have you ever been fumigated when you retted? So you can improve it with baking soda, you can add baking soda to the compost, and after a while, you can clearly smell that the stench is slowly disappearing a lot.

This is because baking soda stops the growth of fungi, it is itself a "yeast", it certainly helps compost, of course it can not completely deodorize, but the effect is very good.

Keep potted plants fresh

Sometimes you find it difficult to keep the potted plants fresh, especially if you just bought them from a florist, you can add a thin layer of baking soda to the pot before transplanting it, which will help keep the potted plants fresh for longer.

(this method can also be used to keep fruits or vegetables fresh by soaking them for five minutes with baking soda mixed with 1: 1, 000 water, and then drying.)

8. Clean the basin

Those old flowerpots had better be disinfected before planting plants, otherwise they will carry some harmful bacteria, so you need very harmless sterilization methods.

You can rinse the basin first, then use a wet dishcloth, dip it with baking soda, wipe off the dirt and stains from the flowerpot with water, and sterilize it at the same time. Rinse clean when you want. Will you try such a harmless method?

9. Remove ants

The ant is a very abominable little guy. I didn't hate it before I didn't grow flowers, but after growing flowers, I saw that it often helped aphids harm my flowers and plants, and I still hated it very much.

If you can find the ant's nest, it's best to make the baking soda muddy, pour it into the nest, and half an hour later, pour some vinegar in it, so you can get rid of the ants very cleverly, isn't it great?

Test the acid and alkali level of the soil

First wet your basin soil, sprinkle a little bit of basil solution into the wet basin soil, and then you can test the acidity and basicity of the soil, soak a little soil in the water, and then use ph test paper to test the acidity and basicity of the water. A ph of 7 is neutral.

Popular science: baking soda is mainly composed of sodium bicarbonate, which can inhibit the growth of fungi and is used to make bread, something that can be eaten.