Whether you add it to cookies, cakes or other foods, the delightful smell and taste never fails to please a crowd!
But this amazing seasoning does not end there – gardeners use cinnamon too in order keep pests away from their home as well as prevent fungus from killing small seedlings.
After learning how useful this powder can be in your own backyard garden, chemicals will seem like an unnecessary expense when compared with what nature has already provided us with!
Benefits of using cinnamon in your garden
Research has shown that cinnamon is great for your plants! The most common uses of it are:
Cinnamon for pests
Whether you have a problem with ants in your home, or in your garden, cinnamon is a great deterrent. Ants hate the smell of cinnamon and will avoid walking wherever it has been sprinkled so this can be used as an effective pesticide to decrease summer ant problems.
You can also use cinnamon for pests both inside and outside your home by finding their entryway, then sprinkling powder on the path where they walk regularly. This won’t kill them but it will help keep them from coming into house.
Also, if you’re having issues with ants infesting children’s sandboxes, just mix some powdered cinnamon into the sand and you will see ants leaving the sand immediately.
Cinnamon as rooting agent
Cinnamon powder encourages the plant to produce more stems while preventing damping-off disease.
Cinnamon should be applied directly to cuttings when planting for a quick start with root growth, or pour cinnamon into paper towel and roll stem ends in the cinnamon before placing in soil.
Cinnamon fungicide control
Don’t let damping-off disease be a bore. Use cinnamon fungicide to get rid of the fungus that will kill your seedlings before they grow big and strong!
In fact, this natural remedy can work for other fungal problems too – like slime mold or deterring mushroom in planters.
Make a cinnamon spray with ingredients you already have at home: put some ground up cinnamon into warm water and allow it to sit overnight; strain out any solids using coffee filters (strain twice if needed); dump liquid solution into bottle; spritz stems afterwards, but do not spray on affected plants.