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• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings

Did you know that regular table vinegar can be used as an environmentally friendly herbicide, fungicide, and insecticide?

Steps

1. 1 Spray vinegar where needed. First, it will help those suffering from weeds and small insect pests. Cats will stay away from where the vinegar is sprayed. This will especially help those who have small children and a sandbox. The sand must be kept clean, and the cats persist in using the sandbox as a personal toilet. To fix this problem, simply spray vinegar around the edges of the sandbox, and remember to repeat this after rain.
2. 2 Corn cobs will help from the invasion of rabbits. Soak the corncobs in vinegar, keep them in the vinegar for a couple of hours, or overnight. Then spread the vinegar cobs along the border of the vegetable plantation you want to protect. Rabbits will avoid this place. Soak the ears in vinegar every 2 weeks.
3. 3 Spray vinegar on doorsteps to get rid of ants. Ant problems? Spray on the ants and they will avoid your home. It is very important to find the path along which they come to you. Spray vinegar on the doorsteps, repeat after 2 days to play it safe and make sure they are behind you.
4. 4 Use vinegar for an environmentally friendly insect control and more. Snails are doubly pests, they eat not only vegetables, especially lettuce, but also plants, such as hosts (ornamental rhizome plants). Vinegar acts like a poison on slugs. Snails can be fought in the same way. Just remember. Vinegar is not only an insecticide, but also a herbicide, it can also damage beneficial plants. For example, sage will die immediately if vinegar accidentally gets on it.
5. 5 Help your fruit trees. Are fruit trees suffering from fruit flies? Make deadly bait for them, which is very effective. Take 1 cup of water, half a cup of vinegar, a quarter cup of sugar, and 1 tablespoon of molasses. Mix. Take an empty can without a lid, make two holes opposite each other, screw a wire to the can, this will be a handle. Pour about an inch and a half of the mixture into the jar. Hang 2-3 such jars on each tree. Check the traps regularly and clean them if necessary.
6. 6 Disinfect your garden tools. After gardening, soak your tools (shovel, rake, hoe, scoop) in a bucket of vinegar (1: 1 vinegar and water) solution. This way, you sanitize your tools and cleanse them of pathogens that may be in the ground, and protect other parts of your garden from cross-contamination. In this case, vinegar acts as a fungicide.
7. 7 Vinegar also works as a fungicide to treat black spot and other fungal diseases in garden plants and roses. Take 2 tablespoons of vinegar, mix it with 4 liters of compost infusion. Spray the mixture onto the plants. For roses, use another solution, 3 tablespoons of vinegar, 4 liters of water, mix, spray on the roses. For powdery mildew, mix 2-3 tablespoons of vinegar and 4 liters of water, spray. This will help you control the situation.
8. 8 Increase the acidity of the soil. Some plants like azaleas, gardenias, and rhododendrons love acidic soil. If they don't bloom as well as they could. Acidify the soil. In areas with hard water, use a glass of vinegar for 4 liters of water. This will help the gland to free itself and penetrate the plants so that they grow better. If you have too much lime in your area, vinegar can neutralize it.
9. 9 Use vinegar for weed control. If the grass grows between the stone tiles on the garden path, or where it is difficult for you to weed, do not use herbicides, they can harm the environment. Use the eco-friendly option. Take 1 liter of hot water, add 2 tablespoons of salt, 5 tablespoons of vinegar. Mix, and while the solution is hot, water the unwanted plants and weeds.
10. 10 Improve seed germination. Did you know that seed germination can be improved with vinegar? This is especially true for hard-to-seed seeds such as asparagus and okra, moonflower and impomoea. Gently rub the seeds with two pieces of sandpaper. Mix 500 ml warm water, 125 ml vinegar, some dishwashing liquid and soak the seeds in this liquid overnight. Plant as usual the next day. Use the same method, but without the sandpaper, for nasturtiums, celery, beets, and parsnips.
11. 11 Do your hens and chickens peck each other? Stop it! Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to your chickens' drinking water and they will stop pecking!

Tips

• All of these tips will only work if you remember to re-spray the vinegar after rain.

Warnings

• • Remember that you are working with acid, so protect your eyes.