The fight against powdery mildew and 3 more artful way to use baking soda in the garden

Malo who knows that the usual baking soda - a unique thing in life it is used everywhere: in the kitchen - is added to the pastries and helps to clean the soot from pots in the garden - is struggling with mildew and gives more than one useful the effect.

On the methods of application of soda in the garden - see this article.

1) Lovers of wine and grapes.

If your site is growing grapes (especially white), during the period of ripening berries advise you to spray the vines weak solution of soda in the following proportions:

• 75 grams of soda (about 3 tablespoons)
• 10 liters of clean cool water

What will it give?

Sodium carbonate solution protects the grapes from botrytis and increases the content of sugars in the berries, which is so important in the Russian context - the sun we have very little.

bonus:

• This same solution in the same proportion will help to save the fruit from the trees of caterpillars gnawing young leaves.

2) Control of powdery mildew.

BTo overcome mildew need already a fundamentally different solution with the addition of soda and other substances:

For spraying of cucumbers: 1 teaspoon baking soda per liter of water.

For gooseberries and currants: 1 st.l.sody, aspirin, 1 tsp dishwashing detergent, one tablespoon vegetable oil and 5 liters of water.

cabbage: To caterpillars not sgryzli cabbage leaves, they are recommended to sprinkle baking soda.

3) That leaves no yellowing.

1 tablespoon baking soda to 10 liters of water - the best means of watering cucumbers and prevent them yellowness.

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