Experienced gardeners know that even weeds can be useful. That's why they use some of the weeds to make natural fertilizers. They don't weed out some at all.
Not only nettles or celandine are called useful weeds. Even bitter wormwood can be useful.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", a scientist agronomist and landscape designer, told us how wormwood is useful in a plot.
The benefits of wormwood
1. Of all insect pests, ants like the smell of wormwood the least. This herb can be used wherever these hard workers appear.
They will even run away from home if you hang or place a couple of bunches of wormwood in the corners.
If you leave wormwood to grow in the trunk area under fruit trees or near berry bushes, you can scare away caterpillars and codling moths.
2. Of the larger pests, mice do not like the smell of wormwood. Therefore, it makes sense to leave wormwood to grow in the garden and keep dried bunches in the house, attic, cellar and outbuildings.
In autumn and winter, its smell will drive away rodents.
3. For the winter, wormwood is wrapped around the trunks of young trees. This way, you can protect the seedlings from hares and mice.
You can also use wormwood to make infusions and spray it on garden and vegetable crops.
This herb is also used in folk medicine.
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Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
