Cinnamon is a bark that has so many medicinal benefits, and it can be used to improve the taste of dishes. It can also play an important role in beauty products like lotions, perfumes, or even as kitchen decorations!
With all these various uses for cinnamon, you might want to keep some around your house.
Cinnamon in the garden can be used for so many things. It helps kill fungal infections, and protects seedlings while also healing wounds on plants! Cinnamon comes from a family of trees that work great with gardens too.
Here are 10 ways to use cinnamon around your yard this year:
1. Protect Your Seeds And Seedlings
Dampening off is a real threat to your seedlings and it can be caused by fungi or soil conditions. Here are some steps you should take to protect them:
- Sprinkle some spices like cinnamon in powder form on your seedlings. This will help to stop damping-off since it has antifungal properties.
- Cinnamon’s antifungal properties stop the growth of fungus gnats in seed trays.
- If you have a problem with ants or mosquitoes, cinnamon is an excellent solution. It protects your seedlings from being eaten by these pests and can be sprinkled on the soil around your plants to keep them away!
2. Get Rid Of Wild Mushrooms
Wild mushrooms are a pain to deal with. They can easily spread and cover your garden, killing it’s beautiful look in no time at all.
Unfortunately you may have to spend the entire day pulling these pesky things out of your mulch!
Luckily there is an easy way for getting rid them: Sprinkle cinnamon on top of all the soil around that mulch- this will stop their growth because they’re fungi like most wild mushrooms.
Gardeners everywhere rejoice now knowing how simple yet effective it is when dealing with those irritating pests once and for good!
3. A Cheap Rooting Hormones
Cutting propagation! This is a great way to get more plants for your garden. If you have good soil or are using quality potting mix, rooting hormones aren’t necessary but they’re recommended if the cuttings of certain plants need them to produce roots and leaves.
One such plant that requires this type of hormone is cinnamon bush (Cinnamomum zeylanicum). However some people claim it works just as well as growth hormones when dry cutting these types of bushes before applying them with cinnamon powder.
4. Keep Ants Away From Your Garden
Ants are notoriously difficult to deal with and can be a nuisance for people who like experimenting in the garden.
One way of getting rid of ants is by sprinkling cinnamon around your plants, where they will most likely find it trespassing on their turf; however this won’t kill them but instead make an unpleasant experience so that they’ll go elsewhere.
5. Heal Your Plants By Using Cinnamon
Your precious plants can be wounded by over-pruning or the slip of a weed whacker. These wounds are nothing to worry about, but sometimes they can be lethal and they catch fungal infections in no time.
To protect them from any kind of infection use cinnamon on your plant’s wound!
Cinnamon will help with healing these wounds as well as improving their health overall – which is good for you too because healthy gardens produce lots more food than unhealthy ones do!
6. Get Rid Of Furry Pests
Furry pests like rabbits, squirrels, and moles can make their way into the vegetable garden. They eat stuff and destroy bedding plants.
You might be able to get away with a fence around your garden; however these pesky creatures will likely find some other means of entry at some point or another!
The solution is simple: sprinkle cinnamon in row paths throughout the yard as well as on any really valuable plant beds that you want to protect from furry pest destruction for good measure- it’s not going to harm them but should give them an unpleasant mouthful of sinus irritation come next time they’re looking for food here!
7. Fight Fungal Infections
The fungus can disturb the growth of plants by infecting them. The fungus will kill your precious, lovely plants and destroy their beautiful lives!
But don’t worry because cinnamon has antifungal properties that prevent fungi from growing on those sweet little leaves or young stems. If you spot a bit of fungal activity happening to any part of your lovable plant, here are some steps for handling it:
- Take 2-3 tablespoons of powdered cinnamon and mix it in 1-2 quarters of warm water.
- Mix these two ingredients in a bottle of spray. Lit cinnamon sits in water for one night.
- After one night, strain it and use the water as an antifungal spray. Spray the water on affected areas of plants twice a week.
8. Get Rid Of Flying Bugs
You can get rid of those pesky bugs that fly around your house with cinnamon.
Sprinkle on some powdered cinnamon to create a natural barrier, or use it in an oil spray for more broad protection if you’re dealing with flying mosquitoes.
9. Keep Your Houseplants Healthy
Houseplants are susceptible to mold, mildew, and gnats. To protect them from fungus-related diseases you can sprinkle a few cinnamon on top of your potted plants.
Cinnamon has antifungal properties that keep these pesky pests away!
10. Grafting
Cinnamon can be used in many applications. Not only is it an excellent spice, but a powerful fungicide as well!
For cuttings that are being grafted or replanted you should dip them into powdered cinnamon before planting to protect the cutting from fungal infections and keep your new plant safe.