f you like to raise flowers in natural ways, you must understand the following 12 gardening functions of diatomite, which can reduce your troubles in raising flowers, kill insects and bacteria, reduce diseases and pests, and make raising flowers more interesting.

1. Kill mosquitoes

If there are no clean, rotten plants or ripe fruits in the environment where you plant plants, it is easy to breed mosquitoes or fruit flies. When raising flowers, if the environment is too humid or the soil often has too much water, it is easy to breed mosquitoes, and even small black flies will lay eggs in the soil. Diatomite can be used at this time.

Diatomite can keep the soil slightly dry, prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs in the soil, improve the humid environment, and play a good role in preventing mosquitoes, fruit flies and small black flies.

2. Prevent wasp invasion

When I was a child, I could see many wasps nesting under the eaves. Now I rarely see them. They are also the key to maintaining natural balance. They can eat pests in the yard, such as caterpillars or aphids. They are also beneficial insects. However, if you don't like them to stay in the yard, you can use diatomite, and you can sprinkle more diatomite on the places where wasps haunt, In this way, wasps will not approach, let alone build nests nearby.

3. Get rid of flies

It's very distressing that there are flies around the flowers. These small things will fly to your food and affect the health of plants. Of course, we should find ways to reduce the emergence of flies. If you don't want to use pesticides, you can use diatomite.

Diatomite can be used to drive away the flies in the yard. Moisture and smell are the factors that attract flies. Diatomite can make a dry environment and isolate the smell.

4. Get rid of little black fly

If potted plants are full of small black flies, it is a particularly distressing thing. It looks bad, and common pesticides can't remove their eggs. Small black flies will lay eggs under the soil. At this time, diatomite can be used and directly sprinkled on the soil to prevent spawning, kill the eggs in the soil and effectively prevent small black flies.

5. Prevent slug invasion

Slugs are slugs. They will eat the leaves of plants, especially in dark and humid places. They can sprinkle diatom powder around them. Of course, they should keep dry. If diatom powder is wet, it must be sprinkled again to have an effect.

6. Ant repellent

If you don't like ants around, you can use various methods. Ants are a plant that can raise aphids or scale insects. They are not friendly to friends who raise flowers.

Diatomite can be used, which is a natural harmless insect repellent. It can be sprinkled on the places where ants haunt to prevent ants from invading, and even on ant mounds.

7. Increase soil porosity

Diatomite itself has no nutrition, but it has a very good effect of retaining fertility, promoting the release of fertility, and can increase the porosity of soil. Diatomite is also a good granular stone. It can be mixed with potted soil when cultivating plants, which can improve drainage and increase air permeability.

8. Making flower specimens

For the brilliant flowers planted in the yard, if you want to better preserve the dried flowers, you can use diatom powder, which can help you preserve the dried flower specimens, including tulips, lilacs, iris and roses in spring.

9. Composting deodorization

Diatomite is a great horticultural soil. One of the most important things is to remove the toxic smell from the garden soil. In addition, if you like to make compost in the yard, but can't stand the odor generated by compost, diatomite can be used at this time. It can be mixed into compost to prevent odor and remove potential pests.

10. Aphid control

Aphids are the most common pests in the process of raising flowers. Most flowers can not avoid the scourge of aphids. They reproduce very quickly and have great destructive power.

Using diatom powder can effectively get rid of aphids. You can sprinkle diatom powder on the place where aphids appear, or sprinkle some every few days.

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11. Drive away rodents

Rodents, including rats and rabbits, will destroy plants and flowers in the yard. If you just want to drive them away or keep them away from plants and flowers, you can sprinkle lemon or mint essential oil around them and diatomite. It is a good absorbent.

12. Reduce ticks

Bright flowers can be seen in the yard in the muggy and warm environment in summer, but be careful of the small blood sucking creatures in the plant flowers. They are ticks. They will appear when lying on the grass or in the plant bushes in the backyard.

Tick bites can easily cause fever and other symptoms. To prevent tick infestation, sprinkle a circle of diatomite around the lawn and plants once a month.