Baking Soda Uses in the Garden – Trading a 50¢ Box of Baking Soda For a $5 Plant

Listen to your elders. We’ve all heard that phrase at one time or another, usually from someone with a few laugh lines around their eyes. When it comes to gardening, I’ve tried quite a few “old school” garden tips and tricks that were handed down from prior generations. One of my favorites is how to use common, inexpensive baking soda to sweeten garden soil and prevent plant disease.

Common baking soda is sodium (salt) bicarbonate for you chemistry majors out there. It comes from a mineral called natron and is found across the natural world in mineral springs. Baking soda …read more