Summer residents are a resourceful bunch and are even ready to make a simple pest control product or something else out of toothpaste.
What can we say about the more practical baking soda, which gardeners keep in stock. Here are the purposes for which this powder is used in gardens.
1. Pest control
Compared to other chemical preparations intended to combat butterfly larvae, soda is not capable of causing so much harm to the crop. To spray the plantings, prepare a soda solution: 90 g of baking soda and 2 tbsp. laundry soap per 10 liters of water.
If you simply sprinkle soda around the beds, then after the rain there won’t be a single slug on them.
To drive ants out of the garden beds, their colonies are stirred up with a rod and then generously sprinkled with soda.
To combat aphids, prepare a solution: 5 tbsp. soda, 200 g of laundry soap, and mix all of this in 10 liters of water.
2. Prevention and treatment
For rot and fungus: dissolve 5 tbsp. of powder in 10 liters of water and use for spraying once every 10 days.
To prevent late blight, take 1 glass of soda per 10 liters of water and add laundry soap. Spray once every 2-2.5 weeks.
For powdery mildew, add 10 tablespoons of soda or 5 tablespoons of calcined soda to a bucket of water. For adhesion, use the same soap. Plants are treated once every 4-5 days.
3. Weeds
The solution is prepared from 4-5 spoons of powder per liter of water. Weeds are watered and after 3-4 weeks the treatment is repeated. But this method is not suitable for the garden - it alkalizes the soil.
