Cinnamon is a wonderful flavor addition to cookies, cakes, and a variety of other foods, but it's much more to gardeners. This versatile spice can be used to root cuttings, to prevent fungus from killing small seedlings, and even to keep pests away from your home. Once you learn how to use cinnamon powder for plant health, you'll think twice about resorting to harsh chemicals when gardening. We provide information on how to properly use cinnamon in the garden so that its superpowers can help you.
Cinnamon can be used for many practical uses in the garden. Although the spice compares to other natural home remedies you can use in your garden (like vinegaror baking powder), admittedly a bit expensive, there are many ways you can use it for your vegetables or flowers.
Cinnamon is an easy-to-find spice that can be purchased at almost any grocery store. The biggest benefit of cinnamonin the gardenis its accessibility. You don't have to live near a fancy garden store or order a product from a catalog and wait a few days to use it on your garden plants. You have everything you need right in your own kitchen.
Cinnamon saves seedlings
The term seedling death refers to a series of diseases that affect a seed or a seedling either before or after germination and lead to the death of the seedling. They can be caused by various fungi and soil conditions. Dusting the soil of seedlings with cinnamon can prevent dieback. This makes a lot of sense because the spice has antifungal properties. This also drives away the small fungus gnats that keep appearing near breeding boxes. Cinnamon kills the fungus they feed on.
Cinnamon in the garden as a rooting agent
If you have been spending money on products like rooting hormones, you can stop immediately. Cinnamon is to the rescue. It is just as useful as willow water or hormone root powder. A single application to the trunk when planting the cutting stimulates root growth at almostall plant speciesto. Give your cuttings a quick start with the help of cinnamon powder. Place a spoonful on a paper towel and roll the wet stem ends in the cinnamon. Plant the stems in fresh potting soil. The spice encourages the stem to produce more roots while helping to fight the fungus that causes damping disease.
Prevention of dampening disease, mold and mildew
Damping disease is caused by a variety of soil fungi. It occurs in cool, moist conditions. Dust cinnamon on the soil surface when seeds are planted to prevent damping disease from killing your plants. The spice is a good anti-fungal agent. It kills fungal spores in the soil and prevents them from infecting your plants.
You may need to reapply the cinnamon periodically until the plants are strong enough to outgrow the environmental problems. Start with sterile potting soil to prevent drying out. Allowing the soil surface to dry out between waterings and only watering from below can also help prevent mold and mildew. The spice can even be safely sprinkled on houseplants.
Get rid of rust with cinnamon
Cinnamon sprinkled on the soil at the time of sowing can prevent rust from attacking the new seedlings because it has an anti-fungal effect. The spice can be used as a preventative in the garden. It is most effective to give plants the best chance by maintaining good planting spacing and reducing conditions that favor the fungus, such as humidity and wet leaves.
To get rid of rust, you need to remove all rust-affected plants. they maynot be composted. Dispose of them outside your garden.
* Good gardening tip: Make an anti-fungal foliar spray to prevent the spread of rust, mildew and other fungal diseases.
Once you have removed the infected plants, you can treat the remaining plants with the cinnamon spray to prevent the rust from spreading to healthy plants. To make a foliar spray with cinnamon powder, brew a strong cinnamon tea and strain it through a cloth or fine sieve. Put the cinnamon tea in a spray bottle and spray the remaining plants. Be sure to reach the underside of the leaves too.
Cinnamon in the garden eliminates ants
Cinnamon is an effective remedy for eliminating and preventing a wide range of garden pests, especially ants. They arewidespread garden pests, both in the greenhouse and in the garden bed and even around houseplants. The spice helps deter ants and other tiny pests by creating a barrier that they are reluctant to overcome. To use cinnamon, it is enough to sprinkle a little of it in the area where ants are a problem.
You can use cinnamon both inside and outside your home. It's most effective indoors if you find the ants' entry point and then sprinkle a layer of cinnamon powder in the way. This won't kill the ants, but it will keep them from coming into the house.
Cinnamon deters furry pests
Dust the garden with cinnamon toannoying rodents, deter rabbits, squirrels, moles and other furry pests. The little animals are close enough to the ground that they get the cinnamon on their faces and inhale it as they walk through the spice. The powder irritates the animals' nasal and oral mucous membranes without causing permanent damage, but it does deter them from further visits.
Deterring flying mosquitoes
Cinnamon oil is known to deter flying insects such as mosquitoes. Sprinkling cinnamon powder in the garden can have the same effect.
