You are getting more and more committed to your small vegetable or fruit garden investment or planting beautiful flowers, expecting rich harvests at the final point, as the weather gets warmer day by day.

However, with some of the diversities, these great expectations might fail, particularly with tomatoes. So, to prevent this fail, there are some steps you can follow, which we compiled here. Use baking soda around tomato plants and with many other things to get amazing results.

Plant tomatoes horizontally on the ground!

Tomatoes grow vertically, but an excellent trick is to grow them horizontally. Why? This helps the plant to develop a much more robust and broader root system.

Sprinkle baking soda around tomato plants on the ground

Baking soda for tomato plants is kind of a secret weapon to ensure that tomatoes grow well! When the plant has grown about 2.5 cm, sprinkle 4 teaspoons of bicarbonate around the plants, but be careful not to sprinkle on the plant. The process can be repeated for some time before the harvest. 

Baking soda will help in reducing the acidity of the soil, and the tomatoes will be tastier.

Other benefits of using baking soda with tomato plants

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Eliminate cabbage worms

If you have bothersome cabbage worms munching on your veggies, use this natural bicarb soda combination to get rid of them for good. Equal parts bicarb soda and ordinary flour are combined. Sprinkle on top of the plants.

Control and Get rid of Powdery mildew

Combine 1 tablespoon bicarb soda, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon liquid dishwashing detergent, and 4 liters of water in a mixing bowl. Fill a spray bottle halfway with the baking soda mixture and spray on plants once a week. Check for indications of fire since certain plants are susceptible.

Defer Crabgrass

Crabgrass is one of the worst lawn weeds on the planet, and it should be eradicated as soon as possible. Spray crabgrass with water and then sprinkle bicarb soda on it to destroy it. In a few days, crabgrass will be dead. However, avoid sprinkling bicarb soda on any other plants or grass.

Control Weeds

Pour a large quantity of bicarb soda into the crevices of pavement or garden stones to prevent weeds from sprouting. Small weeds will be killed, and new weeds will be discouraged from sprouting. Do this once or twice a month.

Get rid of Slugs

Sprinkle bicarbonate soda directly on slugs in the garden if you have a slug issue. They will be dried out as a result of this.

Make an organic pesticide that is both safe and effective

This non-toxic insecticide kills insects that are detrimental to plants, such as aphids while causing no damage to the environment. Combine one tablespoon bicarb soda, 12 tablespoon oil, and two liters of water in a mixing bowl. Spray the plants every few days until the pests are gone.

Keep flowers in good condition.

Fill the vase with water and one teaspoon of bicarb soda to extend the life of a fresh arrangement of flowers.

Treat the fungus that causes black spots.

Baking soda works as a natural fungicide. If you’ve ever had a tomato garden devastated by tomato blight, powdery mildew, or other fungal diseases, baking soda will bring you some relief.

Baking soda acts by upsetting ion balances inside fungal structures, allowing them to be kept under check.

Bicarbonate is best used as a preventive rather than a therapy since it is only helpful in limiting the spread of existing infection to healthy, uninfected plant tissues when used as a treatment.

Baking soda is also thought to help inhibit fungal diseases from blooming and producing spores, limiting how far the infection spreads throughout the garden.

This may help preserve other plants from the same illness, leaving the garden in better condition.

Combine four teaspoons of bicarb soda and four liters of water in a mixing bowl. At the first indication of the illness, spray on affected flowers.

How to get rid of the birds that are eating your tomatoes?

Even the birds in our gardens know how tasty the tomatoes are. To prevent them from eating tomatoes, leave a bowl of water next to the plant itself.

Plant overripe tomato again

Another great idea is to plant the overripe tomato.

Cut the tomatoes into slices and put them in the soil in a pot. Then add soil on top. It will take sporadically about 1-2 weeks to grow back, and then you can transplant the new plants.