Salt And Sugar In The Country

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

You cannot do without these two simplest food representatives in your country kitchen. You cannot cook delicious dishes without salt and sugar - soups, main course, desserts, compote. Without them, preservation of food for the winter is not possible. But not every summer resident, amateur gardener, gardener knows that except in nutrition, salt and sugar can be used as fertilizer or pesticides. By the way, other food products have similar functions, such as garlic, kefir, mustard and many others. But here we will talk about the possibilities of using sugar and salt, so to speak, for other purposes

The use of salt in the garden and in the garden

Tomatoes often get sick with late blight. Fighting this disease is difficult, almost impossible, because gardeners try, at the first signs of late blight on tomatoes, to accelerate the ripening of fruits on the bushes. Usually, for this, the plants are fed with a mixture of potassium and phosphorus. But you can do with another simpler tool - saline.

You will need 100 grams of table salt per 1 liter of water. Stir the salt well in water and spray the green part of the tomatoes with the solution. From a strong saline solution, the greens will turn yellow, fall off, stop growing, and the plant will direct all the forces to the ripening of the fruit. Moreover, the salty solution in this case not only makes it possible for the fruits to ripen more quickly, but also protects the plant from further spread of the disease through it.

With poor beet development, table salt also helps. If you notice that the beets are very small, do not grow in breadth, they taste completely unsweetened, dissolve 50 grams of salt in one bucket of water. This solution will be a quality top dressing for root crops. True, you need to feed them beets in early June and only when several beet leaves appear on the plant. Pour the salt solution not under the root of the beet, but make a groove not far from its row (approximately at a distance of 10 cm), and you need to spill the solution into it.

To improve the condition of garden trees, to promote abundant fruiting, a better condition of fruits during ripening - in the spring, before the snow has melted, salt treatment of trees and shrubs should be carried out. To do this, table salt must be poured into the tree trunks.

If the onion rots, the onion fly is to blame for this problem. If you only notice that the onion feathers have turned yellow, treat the onion garden with table salt at the rate of 1 kg of salt per 10 sq. M. soil. Then you need to spill the treatment sites with water so that the salt reaches the root system of the plants and dissolves in the soil.

The use of sugar in the garden and in the garden

If a cabbage butterfly appears in the garden or in the garden, it must be urgently dealt with, since this harmful insect can destroy the entire crop at the root. In order to destroy it, you need to make bait for the butterfly.

A thick sugar syrup will serve as bait. It needs to be poured into dishes, a little yeast must be thrown into them. The saucers should be placed in the garden, in the garden, that is, where the butterfly was seen. They place the baits on high stands so that the butterfly smells the peculiar aroma of the fermentation of the product.

Butterflies flock to bait such as flies for honey and, accordingly, are tied with wings and legs in thick syrup, unable to fly away.

Wasps cause a lot of trouble for working gardeners. For them, you can also prepare a sweet trap, as for cabbages. To do this, sugar is dissolved in equal proportions in water, the syrup is poured into saucers and placed in places where wasps accumulate or near their permanent habitats. The action of the syrup is the same as in the recipe above.

To prolong the freshness of plants and flowers cut in the garden, stir in a liter of water 2-3 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of vinegar and put a bouquet in the resulting solution.

The development of the root system of plants can be stimulated in the following way. Pour 2 liters of hot water into a 3-5 liter container. Add a pinch of yeast and a tablespoon of sugar there. Stir the contents, place the container (it is best to use a three or five liter glass jar) in a warm place for a week so that it ferments well there. Then 200 ml of such a ready-made yeast solution must be dissolved in 10 liters of water and fed with the solution of the plant in the garden.