Let’s play fact or fiction when it comes to these common grow ‘hacks’, But Diapers!? Over the years we’ve heard so many ridiculous sounding plant hacks. From giving plants milk & cinnamon & coffee, to pee and banana peels to planting with nails and pennies. Even if they’re bullshit, there is something to learn from each of these. What’s real and what’s fake?

Talk to Your Plants – Talking to your plants does not only mean you’ll be talking to someone who actually listens; it will help your plants grow too. Numerous studies have shown that when plants are exposed to sound waves, they grow stronger stems. You can even take it up a notch and sing or play music to your plants.

Use Coffee Grounds – Old coffee grounds are particularly effective as plant boosters, thanks to their calcium, potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus content.

Banana peels and eggshells – K & Ca respectively. It’s interesting how they pull them up from the soil into the fruit, then go back into the soil again with the help of microbes

Ash from the fireplace – If you’ve got a log fire, wood burning stove or BBQ, then you can use the ash produced for your plants. Sprinkle a light layer of ash over your soil to offer potassium and calcium carbonate

Potassium is a metal

Calcium is a metal too

Give Your Plants Milk- Milk not only helps to combat powdery mildew but also provides extra nutrients. Dilute it with water and spray it onto your plants or around the roots. Some gardeners even inject it into the plant stems lactobacillus 

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Aspirin – Research has found that when water containing aspirin was sprayed onto seeds sown directly in the ground, there was 100 percent seed germination. Beds that didn’t receive it experienced spotty germination. To use it, simply add one-and-one-half aspirins to two gallons of water. Pour it into a spray bottle and then spray your plants every three weeks. It will help strengthen the immune system of your plants so that they can fight off disease. Salicylic acid is something that occurs naturally in plants but in very low amounts. That’s the same substance used to make aspirin, which may be why it not only helps to boost the immune system, but it can stimulate flowering.

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Pee in the Garden- Urine has a high nitrogen content which will help your plants grow lush, strong leaves. However, it’s best not to pee directly onto your plants since the salts in your urine may scorch them. One way to get around this is to collect your urine and dilute it with water before pouring it around the roots. When we eat food, our kidneys filter out excess nutrients that our body is unable to use, and these nutrients are then expelled from the body in our urine. Our urine contains significant levels of nitrogen, as well as phosphorus and potassium.

Use (Clean) Diapers in Your Potted Plants – The hydrogel in diapers will help the soil retain moisture. You can cut open the diapers, mix the gel with water and then mix this into your potting soil. Even easier is to simply pull off the outer layer and then place the diaper at the bottom of your container, with the absorbent side facing up, before adding soil.

Plant Pennies & nails – Many commercial fungicides contain copper as one of the main ingredients. A much cheaper way to kill fungal spores in the soil is to bury copper pennies, which will slowly release copper into the soil. Just make sure you choose pennies minted between 1942 and 1996, since they’re made of 98% copper. Rusty nails for iron.

Club Soda??? Hmmmm… What makes club soda more nutritious for plants than tap water? Carbonated water contains macronutrients, including carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, and sodium, all of which are beneficial for your greenery.

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