Just take a handful of sugar and sprinkle it on your plants: a trick used by experienced gardeners

28.04.2024 21:06

By scattering regular sugar over the beds, you can bring great benefits to the plants.

How to use sugar in the garden, was explained by the expert of the online publication Belnovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .

Why sprinkle your garden with sugar

Sugar is an effective remedy against such a dangerous pest as nematodes.

You can simply sprinkle sugar evenly over the garden (a kilogram of sugar per 10 square meters of soil), or you can dissolve it in water in a 1:1 ratio and spray the resulting solution on the beds.

You can also use sugar to drive ants away from your garden plot.

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Dissolve half a cup of sugar and a tablespoon of borax in a cup of water, soak cotton wool in the resulting mixture, and spread it over the area.

Earlier, the expert told how to get rid of the cruciferous flea beetle.

Timur Khomichev Author: Timur Khomichev Internet resource editor

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert: Anastasia KovrizhnykhExpert / Belnovosti