Successfully maintaining plants even without having a green thumb is possible. Indeed, some simple and effective grandmother’s tips can help you protect your plants from parasites that attack them and therefore promote their healthy and vigorous growth. Find out why it’s important to bury a copper coin in your plants’ potting soil.
To have lush and vigorous plants, it is important to take care of them. For this, in addition to watering and fertilizing them, it is also important to protect them from attacks by parasitic insects such as aphids, ants and even mealybugs. To do this, you can use a copper coin to help you.
Why is it important to bury a copper coin in plant soil?
Placing a copper coin in your plants’ potting soil can protect your plants from harmful pests such as slugs and snails. 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 their healthy and vigorous growth. In addition to this, they make it possible to overcome the infestation of certain insects. Note that you can use 50 cent coins to divert ants from their usual route and thus keep them away from your plants in the garden or vegetable patch.
Tips: To keep insects away from your plants, you can spray the foliage with a solution composed of baking soda, water and vegetable oil or spray a citrus infusion. Black soap diluted in water is also a good repellent against insects such as aphids or red spiders. You can also spread a little coffee grounds around the base of your plants, or use a garlic decoction or nettle manure which, in addition to being a good fertilizer, acts as a natural insect repellent.
What are other uses for a copper coin?
In addition to using it to protect your plants from certain pests and fungi, you can put a coin in a vase to extend the life of your flowers . On the other hand, some grandmother’s tips can improve water quality and therefore increase the lifespan of cut flowers. To do this, it is advisable to add a 5-cent copper coin to the vase water, as soon as you put your flowers in the vase for the first time. Copper has antioxidant and antifungal properties which help limit the development of bacteria in the water, and therefore delay the wilting of your flowers. Note that it is also advisable to add a cube of sugar with the coin. This way, you will not only protect your flowers from bacteria, but you will also nourish them. Moreover, do not hesitate to add the nutrient sachet offered with the bouquets of flowers, to the vase water. This contains aspirin and saccharin, and aims to provide trace nutrients essential for the proper preservation of flowers.
That said, copper coins not only help protect your plants from attacks by fungi and certain pests, but they are also useful in making the flowers you carefully keep in a vase last for a long time.
