It is possible to be successful at plant maintenance even without having a green thumb. In fact, some simple and effective grandmother’s advice can help you protect your plants from the parasites that attack them and thus promote healthy and vigorous growth. Find out why it is important to bury a copper coin in the soil of your plant.
To have leafy and vigorous plants, it is important to take care of them. Therefore, in addition to watering and fertilizing them, it is also important to protect them from attacks by parasitic insects such as aphids, ants or mealybugs. To do this, you can help yourself with a copper coin.
Why is it important to bury a copper coin in topsoil?
Copper coins. source: spm
Placing a copper coin in the soil of your plants can protect them from harmful pests that wreak havoc on them, such as slugs and slugs. Copper is also an effective repellent against these gastropods. Copper coins are also a very effective fungicide to protect plants from fungi that cause cryptogamic diseases and thus promote healthy and vigorous growth. Additionally, they can overcome the infestation of some insects. Keep in mind that you can use 50 cent coins to divert ants from their usual path and thus keep them away from your plants in the garden or vegetable garden.
Tips: To keep insects away from your plants, you can spray the foliage with a solution of baking soda, water, and vegetable oil, or spray a citrus infusion. Black soap diluted in water is also a good repellent for insects such as aphids or mites. You can also spread some coffee grounds at the base of your plants, or use a decoction of garlic or nettle manure which, in addition to being a good fertilizer, acts as a natural insect repellent.
What are the other uses of a copper coin?
Cut flowers in a vase. source: spm
In addition to using it to protect your plants from some pests and fungi, you can put a coin in a vase to prolong the life of your flowers . On the other hand, some grandma’s tricks can improve the quality of the water and therefore increase the life of the cut flowers. To do this, it is advisable to add a 5-cent copper coin to the water in the vase, and this as soon as you put your flowers in the vase for the first time. Copper has antioxidant and antifungal properties that limit the development of bacteria in the water, thus delaying the wilting of your flowers. Please note that it is advisable to also add a sugar cube with the coin. This way you will not only protect your flowers from bacteria, but you will also feed them. Also, do not hesitate to add the nutrient sachet that is offered with the flower bouquets to the mud water. This contains aspirin and saccharin and aims to provide the essential trace elements for the good conservation of flowers.
That said, copper coins not only help protect your plants from fungal attack and some pests, but they are also useful for making the flowers you carefully keep in a vase last a long time.