7 kitchen products that can help your garden

If you’ve always wanted the garden of your dreams but had to limit yourself to artificial flowers because you were not blessed with ‘green fingers’, then read on!

You would be amazed to find that you already have everything you need in your kitchen.

Granny Mouse Country and Spa has shared some tried-and-tested tips and tricks to get your garden into tip-top shape.

1. Coffee

Coffee is great for giving you a boost – but it’s equally good for your plants.

Sprinkling leftover coffee onto your soil will help make it healthy and fertile, as well as making your tomatoes sweeter. This is because of the calcium, potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus content.

2. Baking soda

The alkalinity in baking soda helps with fungal growth in plants because it creates a hostile environment that prevents fungi from growing.

Just stir a teaspoon of baking soda into a litre of water and spray the leaves of your fungus-prone plants – including tomatoes and lilacs.

3. Vinegar
Vinegar is also safe and non-toxic solution for getting rid of algae.
Simply mix three parts water and one part vinegar, and spray. It will also effectively kill mould, weeds and other fungi.

4. Banana Peels

The phosphorous content in banana peels will enrich the soil and strengthen your plants. Cut up the peels and bury them in the soil when you plant tomatoes, roses or green peppers.

5. Tea

Tea is also beneficial for plants and will improve their vibrancy. If you already have a compost pile, brew it into a liquid solution bursting filled with beneficial micro-organisms.

Indoor plants that get a dose of tea seem to thrive, but remember not to add sugar and milk to the mix!

6. Soda water

Soda water is more nutritious than normal tap water because it contains beneficial elements such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorous, potassium, sulphur and sodium. The trick is to let the fizzy water go flat before pouring.

7. Egg shells

Egg shells are perfect for plants due to their rich calcium content. Start seedlings in eggshells that have been carefully halved and rinsed.

When the seedlings are big enough to be transplanted, plant them with the shell as it will bio-degrade over time.

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