Friday Finds: Funny & Useful Pinterest
First a couple of useful garden ideas from Pinterest to do with Cinnamon & Aspirin: #1) Shake cinnamon over seedlings to prevent damping off diseases, mold and fungus! I have a seed tray I'm sprouting seedlings in for my herb, veggie & flower garden right now and having seedlings die from mold on the damp dirt is a common problem---so I'm trying the cinnamon cure. My friend, Megan, says she always has mold/mildew problems in anything she pots and I said, "why not mix a little cinnamon into the soil mix?" #2) Two Aspirin in a spray bottle of water will prevent various mildew and fungus diseases common in the veggie and flower garden. But it must be used before the problem sets in as a preventive. But that is true even with commercial mildew treatments, too. Once a mildew is established, it can't really be stopped. I used this last year. I treat my Japanese Sky Pencils shrubs with it regularly because they can develop certain ...