It is possible to succeed in plant care even without having a green thumb. Indeed, a few simple and effective grandmother’s tips can help you protect your plants from pests that attack them and thus promote their healthy and vigorous growth. Find out why it is important to bury a copper coin in the soil of your plant.

To have leafy and vigorous plants, it is important to take care of them. To do this, in addition to watering and fertilizing them, it is also important to protect them from attacks by parasitic insects such as aphids, ants or mealybugs. To do this, you can help yourself with a copper coin.

Why is it important to bury a copper coin in topsoil?

Putting a copper coin in your plants’ soil can protect them    from harmful pests that devastate them,   such as slugs and snails. Copper is also an effective repellent against these gastropods. Copper coins are also a very effective fungicide   to protect plants from fungi   that cause cryptogamic diseases and thus promote healthy and vigorous growth. In addition to that, they can defeat the infestation of certain insects. Keep in mind that you can use 50 cent coins   to divert ants from their usual path   and thus keep them away from your plants in the garden or orchard.

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Tips: To keep insects away from your plants, you can spray the foliage with a solution of baking soda, water and vegetable oil   or spray a citrus infusion.  Black soap diluted in water is also a good repellent for insects such as aphids or red spiders. You can also sprinkle a little ground coffee at the base of your plants, or use a decoction of garlic or nettle manure which, in addition to being a good fertilizer, acts as a natural insect repellent   . 

What are other uses for a copper coin?

In addition to using it to protect your plants from certain pests and fungi, you can put a coin in a vase   to extend the life of  your flowers  .  On the other hand, some grandma’s tricks can improve water quality and therefore  increase the life of cut flowers.   To do this, it is advisable to add a 5-cent copper coin to the water in the vase, and this   as soon as you put your flowers in the vase for the first time.  Copper has antioxidant and antifungal properties that   limit the development of bacteria in the water,  and therefore delay the wilting of your flowers. Please note that it is also advisable to add a sugar cube with the coin. This way you will not only protect your flowers from bacteria, but   you will also nourish them.  Also, do not hesitate to add the nutrient sachet that is offered with the flower bouquets to the mud water. This contains aspirin and saccharin, and aims   to provide the essential trace foods for the good conservation of flowers.

That said, copper coins not only protect your plants from fungal attack and certain pests, but they are also useful for making the flowers you carefully keep in a vase last a long time.