Epsom Salt for Your Plants - Inside and Out
Did you know you could use Epsom salt for your outdoor plants and your houseplants? It says so right on the label!!
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Here are four different ways to use Epsom salt to give your plants a boost and one way to keep pests off of your hosta plants.
1: Tomato Plant Booster
Add two Tablespoons of Epsom salt to one gallon of water
Shake
Feed your plants every two weeks with this booster for bigger tomatoes.
2: Pepper Plant Booster
Add one Tablespoon of Epsom salt to one gallon of water.
Pour into a spray bottle.
Spray directly onto the plant every two weeks and you'll yield more peppers per plant.
3: Hosta Pest Remover
Combine one cup ammonia and one cup Listerine original mouthwash.
Add one cup Epsom salt and stir until salt is dissolved.
Add one cup lemon Ajax dish soap. DO NOT STIR IN.
Pour mixture into a spray bottle.
Spray hosta, wetting the leaves.
Repeat as often as necessary.
4: Indoor Plant Booster
Add two Tablesoons of Epsom salt to one gallon water
Water your houseplants once a month.
5: Give Transplanted Plants a Boost
Fill the planter pot with potting soil halfway to the rim.
Add a pinch or two of Epsom salt.
Combine salt into the soil. You don't want the plant to directly touch the salt.
Plant the new transplant as you normally would.
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Tonya on May 03, 2024
Jerry Baker might have a little more advice on his recipes, they really do work, most of them a multi-use, I especially like the cocktail that calls for a beer mixed in with ammonia, dish detergent, etc. I used it one year on pickling cucumbers and it gave me cucumbers all year, I could not give them away fast enough, but my horse, cows, donkey and goats were excited to see use coming with them.
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Lydia 5 days ago
What will help to keep squirrels from climbing my mango tree to get mangos. We have found when some are on the grown to put them in the drive way and they eat them there.
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Shelley Cain 2 days ago
Wrap the trunk with wide piece of sheet metal. Keeps them from climbing up the trunk.
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