We’ve written before about how everything from a paintbrush to a pot full of water can help you look after your garden.
And now, it seems a cup of chamomile tea may help those with seedlings and young plants.
It can save them from “damping off”, a wilting process which involves fungal pathogens like Pythium and Rhizoctonia. These can sometimes take out an entire tray of young plants in a matter of hours.
How does chamomile tea prevent “damping off”?
Chamomile oil has been found to have properties that could help to ward off unwanted fungi. And another paper found that the plant’s tea is antifungal too.
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