Benefits of Corn Flour for Your Garden

6 Amazing Benefits of Corn Flour for Your Garden

Corn flour is beyond its uses in the kitchen. In general, this fine powder from corn is widely used for cooking, especially for making cakes. But corn flour can help with your gardening and many other home hacks. To repel garden pests, encourage seeds to grow faster, reduce water use, and improve sandy coastal soils ... this powder does an excellent job.

So, you know what this post is about, right? It shares 6 amazing uses of cornstarch for your garden. If you like natural and effective gardening tools, you should never miss this set. You can find cornmeal in any store, so use it in your garden whenever you need it. Do not wait any longer. Let's use it right for your garden!

1 Repel pests in the garden

Sprinkle a layer of cornflour on the leaves of your plants to help remove the worms. This non-toxic method makes it difficult for insects to crawl and crawl on stems and leaves.

2 Grow seeds fast

It is best to soak corn, tomato, or bean seeds in cornflour paste before planting. The cornflour solution keeps the seeds warm and helps them grow faster.

3 Reduce water use

If you add cornstarch to container plants, it will restore moisture and reduce frequent watering needs. Here's how to do it: Mix two tablespoons of cornstarch in a gallon bowl. For a five-gallon pot, add 1/4 cup cornflour.

4 Effective against ants

Corn flour is an excellent ant repellent. It attracts ants so they eat it, but cannot digest it and die slowly. In addition, the habit of ants taking their food back to their colony will ensure that the remaining ants are taken care of as well. But it is a slow process.

5 Improve sandy coastal soils

According to research from North Carolina State University of Agriculture and Technology, soil correction such as cornmeal, corn stalk and cotton diet can help improve soil structure and enhance root growth. As for cornstarch, it is highly resistant to dissolved organic carbon leakage and soil infiltration.

6 Control of nitrogen pollution

Too much urea added to your garden can pollute and damage natural resources. One of the simplest and most effective ways to deal with it is to use cornstarch. This will reduce reactive nitrogen pollution.

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