Vinegar has myriads of uses in the kitchen, but it can also do miracles in the garden! Look at these 12 amazing vinegar uses to know more.
The vinegar is a natural product and is useful for both the home and garden.
1. Clean Clay Pots
Clay pots help keep the soil cool inside the pot in the summer, prevents water from being trapped and their warm reddish color provide attractive look too. However, as they age, they absorb calcium, minerals, and salts from water and fertilizers all making them look ugly. If you want to bring them to their original glory– Use vinegar. Here is how to clean them with vinegar.
2. Remove weeds on walls and walkway
Using vinegar is a great way to eliminate weeds that pop up on the walls of your garden or from the crevices of the walkway. To kill them, simply spray the place with pure white vinegar.
3. Get rid of ants
Vinegar is very effective in getting rid of ants. To repel ants, mix equal amounts of water and vinegar (either white or apple cider) and spray the solution on the ant hills in your garden. In the home, look out for ant’s entry paths, counter tops, sink, and windows. The strong scent of vinegar will make the ants avoid the places sprayed with vinegar.
4. Keep away animals from garden
Many animals including common garden destroyers like rodents, moles, cats, dogs, rabbits, and deer loathe the strong scent of vinegar. You can keep out these unwanted visitors from the garden by soaking several old clothes in white vinegar and placing them on stakes around your garden where they usually come most.
Resoak the clothes about every 6-7 days regularly for better results.
5. Extend the life of cut flowers
You can use vinegar to extend the life of cut flowers: Add 2 tablespoons of vinegar and a teaspoon of sugar per liter of water.
6. Kill Weeds
If you want to get rid of those pesky plants in your garden that come out again & again: Use vinegar. Vinegar is a weed killer and can be used for effective weed control. Spraying it kill weeds within 2-3 days after application. Here is how to kill weeds using vinegar.
7. Vinegar garden insect spray
Vinegar is an effective solution for eliminating garden insects. To create a vinegar spray that works on garden insects, combine three parts water with one part vinegar in a spray bottle and add a teaspoon of dishwashing detergent. Shake the spray bottle to mix the contents thoroughly before use in the garden. Here is more on it.
8. Deter fruit flies
Save your fruit crops from the fruit flies, make a bait using vinegar. For this, you’ll need a cup of water, half a cup of apple cider vinegar, 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 tbsp of molasses. Mix it all together and put that solution in an empty container or tin can and hang it on affected fruit tree you’ll see how it will attract and trap them. The similar solution can be used for houseflies too.
9. Make acid-loving plants happy
Keep the acid-loving plants such as rhododendrons, gardenias or azaleas happy with vinegar. Although its effect is temporary, but you can give a quick acid boost to plants with vinegar. Mix cup of white vinegar to a gallon of water and water you acid loving plants with this solution.
10. Clean rust from garden tools
Vinegar can be used to make the garden tools rust free. Just spray or soak the tools in undiluted vinegar and leave them for a few minutes and then rinse and clean the tool.
You can also clean the birdbaths and birdhouses in your garden from vinegar!
11. Save plants from fungus
You can protect the plants suffering from fungus and mold; the vinegar fungicide recipe is simple and easy– Add 2 tsp of vinegar in brewed chamomile tea and spray this on the affected plants in your garden. It’s safe and organic!
12. Kill slugs and snails
Of many uses of vinegar, this one is getting popular among gardeners. You can kill snails and slugs with the help of vinegar. eHow has an informative article on this.
Also Read: Ways to Kill Slugs
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Very useful hints of vinegar I got some knowledge. Thanks a lot.
Great articles. Very helpful
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Awesome. Have to try these hints
An important hint
Great ideas. I got some ideas thanks
I am trying the vinegar ones today
Who knew such a natural way to solve so many problems…..thanks for sharing!
Simple ideas, but the “weed” that is shown in the picture is not a weed but a HERB. Dandelion is very rich iron and can be eaten fresh and in salads. (considering there is a great problem of anaemia amongst women in the world. Just make sure you don’t pick the leaves, where dogs passed by.
Also the main food for bees.
Just chiming in but I thought Milk Weed was the main food for bees to survive.
I’m from Texas and we have a lot of Milk Weed.
Agreed…..dandelions are so good for you! Don’t kill them.
Ive read that dandelion root can kill cancer cells. has anyone else heard of this?
Yes I heard about it also
Great info. Thank you. Dandelions are medicinal. Roots need to be dug out and are very deep. Also I am Greeck and we eat them as side dish. Boil in a little wayer, drain but keep the juice. Drink juice good for UTI etc. Sprinkle olive oil on greens and eat as side dish or main dish
Dandelions are the first flower to BLOOM in may areas and it is food source for bees which are in decline do not kill them if you care about pollination
I thought the same thing, but most people consider it a pest.
Yep, because that’s what we are taught by people that only care about artificial things.
Excellent to know these facts about vinegar. Iwill try almost all of them. Thanks.
Very useful for my garden, as I do not like using poison. Thank you for sharing!
Thanx for all ur tips I’m will try them 4 sure??
I had heard about some of these vinegar remedies before but never knew the exact amounts to use. Thanks.
Hi – Very interesting! I live in SC and we have fire ants. Does the vinegar work on their ant hills too?
Thanks I got a lot of knowledge about vinegar.
Thanks for the valuable knowledge about vinegar benifits in the garden.
Thank you for all the nice things that can be done with vinegar,I ‘ll keep it on mind for next spring.Happy Thanksgiving. Blessings
very usefull article thanks a lot
that’s terrible…kill life? who are we to kill any creature that uses our garden for home? gardens are supposed to be homes for them…that’s why i don’t see bees butterflies snails fireflies dragonflies and even birds…( i bring the fairest of them all as examples to impress you…) it’s a shame isn’t it?
I wonder if Vinegar words on imbeciles.
Well said!!!
Right
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They can have the rest of nature, but in my garden I am king and all except the pollinators will be destroyed with extreme prejudice.
Love love love that!!!!!!!!
Great article!!! SIMPLE mixtures with Numerous benefits!!! THANKS!!
I am amazed how vinegar can be used in so many different ways. I also use it for cleaning in my home. I have just planted some silver beet and something is eating it. Will try the vinegar spray. Thank you.
very interesting thank you, will try the rhododendrons tip, vinager is good for keeping spiders out side, spray around you windows, doors, steps , plints thanks again.
I have found that essential oil of peppermint is much more effective for keeping spiders outside and smells much better. 20 drops of peppermint oil to 1 cup of water with a drop or two of dish soap. Pour into a spray bottle and freshen up the entire house.
Thanks for sharing this type (vinager)of articles.
Does anyone know how to deter possums from the garden please
I mix equal parts vinegar and alcohol…pill bottles works great. Use mixture for skin irrations, for cleaning my cats ears, and my ears. Good for swimmers ear.
Thank you so much for the useful information.
Awesome information!! Keep the information coming!! You can count on Me….to use them all! Thanks a bunch!
Wow! I didn’t know that, thank you very much for your tip. I will do it on my garden.
Thank You Very Much
No! Not the dandelions! They are the first food for the bees in Spring. The roots are great to make a Gatorade substitute from. The leaves are great greens. And the flowers can be used to make wine!
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Please don’t kill dandy lions or other flowering weeds. They feed bees, since they’re one of the first things to bloom in the spring.
I completely agree with you.
I agree about the bees, however in certain communities where we live you can’t allow them to grow.
About ways to deter Slugs and snails instead of KILLING them.
Use crushed egg shells to keep them off
Plants,put around base of plant
Try where we live that would attract raccoons
Dry the egg shells first. then tere would be no attraction for the raccoons.
And I would only plant organic flowers, and no pesticides.
Thank you
All this information is very helpful. Will definitely being trying and uses these methods. Thank you for sharing this information!!!! Blessings all!!!!
Nice to know more about vinegar. I will definitely try these this summer. Thankyou
Thanks for sharing. Will definitely try in my garden.
Yes. Vinegar is good for good health. I drink 2 tspn of Apple Cidar vinegar diluted in a glass of room temperature water in the morning b4 breakfast to clean my system.
Use diluted vinegar to rinse my hair.
Use 1 part of vinegar on 3 part of water to
Steam clean my carpet n floor.
Do you spray it on your plants or around the plants
Thank you
This is brilliant advice! I don’t like using pesticides and chemicals on my garden so vinegar seems perfect! I had no idea I could clean my pots with it too!
Do you just spray it around to deter pests? I assume you don’t need to cover the entire garden?
Thanks,
Eric
If vinegar kills weeds wouldn’t it kill your tender plants?
Common spray nozzles fit perfectly on quart bottles!!!
Wonderful, yet please remember (especially for #6)…while dandelions might be classified as a weed, they are food for bees, edible for humans, and highly medicinal. Please don’t kill these important plants.
Good information for the home garden. As to the improving acidity, I think the soil pH should also be taken into account. May be much cheaper acids are also available.
Very very helpful
ann marie
thankyou so much for information cats using my lawn as their prefered toilet area are th bain of my gardening life,such a simple solution.
Great information to know. Thank you!
How can I deter badgers. Is vinegar any use!!
Great article! I didn’t know about several of these. It’s amazing how many usages vinegar has in gardening and in day-to-day activities.
Just a thought here , I Love my Worms and do anything and everything to encourage their presence in my garden jungle , vinager kills worms , if poured in the soil . Worms equal healthy thriving fertilized plants , yes they are the organic fertilizer , airate the soil and just make the soil perfect , careful pouring it in the soil
Careful pouring vinager in the soil , you will kill your amazing worm friends , and that would be tragic , as they perfectly fertilize and airate your soil