Why do you need potato starch in your garden: tricks that summer residents should know

This product, which no cook can do without, is an indispensable assistant for owners of country houses.

With the help of this cheap and accessible product, you can not only grow strong and high-quality seedlings, but also get a magnificent harvest.

In addition, starch helps to clean the compost pit from insect pests, improves the composition of the soil and is an excellent fertilizer for many garden plants.

Compost processing

Many dangerous and harmful insects use the compost pit as a shelter from frost and predators.

Typically, insects end up in the compost heap with new plant debris.

Some insect pests use compost for overwintering or as a shelter for egg laying and larvae.

Earwigs, ants, wireworms, weevils, and various pest beetles are frequent guests of the compost pit.

All these insects live and develop in compost, and with the onset of warm spring days they move from the compost pit to the vegetable garden and orchard.

Ants are especially dangerous, as these insects secrete substances that have a detrimental effect on those microorganisms that play a vital role in the process of decomposition of plant remains. Therefore, the presence of ants can significantly slow down the composting process.

In this case, when ants appear, you should immediately begin treating the compost pit with starch.

It should be noted that processing compost with starch does not require much time and effort, since all you need to do is pour a few tablespoons of potato starch into the compost pit.

Until recently, many summer residents cleaned their compost pits from insects using potato peelings, but this method has some disadvantages.

The biggest disadvantage is that potato peelings can introduce late blight and scab, as well as other dangerous diseases, into the compost.

For this reason, it is recommended to use potato starch rather than peelings to treat the compost pit.

Natural fertilizer

Starch has a positive effect on both the condition of the soil and the quality of plants.

For those who want to get a good harvest of tasty and sweet tomatoes, it is recommended to add 1 teaspoon of potato starch to each hole before planting tomato seedlings.

In order for the plants in the garden to be healthy and strong, it is advisable to water them with a nutrient mixture prepared from granulated sugar (3 tablespoons), potato starch (1 tablespoon) and water (10 l). The mixture must be thoroughly mixed and used to feed the plants.

The advantage of such a starch mixture is that it increases the germination and energy of seed germination, and also accelerates the development of plants, increasing their resistance to bacterial and fungal diseases.

It should also be noted that the starch mixture makes the soil more fertile, alive and loose, and increases its moisture and air permeability.

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