Do you have a drawer full of corks? Feel free to use them. It is an excellent material that you can play with in all kinds of ways and garden and house plants will also appreciate it.
Have you been throwing cork plugs into the box for years, because they would be a shame and are about to be thrown away? You can use them in the garden and in various creative ways. Look!
How to use corks in the garden is also explained in this short post, where you can see how you can use it in 4 different ways. You will see that in this case it is not so much about the well-being of the plants as it is about simple tools that can come in handy in your garden. You can find this and other interesting posts on the Tasty Home YouTube channel.
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You can use cork in the garden and for indoor plants
Cork is an interesting and quite beautiful material that has a very wide range of uses. It is also a natural product, specifically the bark of the Amur cork tree or the cork oak. Cork has traditionally been used to close wine bottles since 1530, but it is also a nice and practical insulating material that is also flexible and light. For example, they are perfect for lining flower pots when you don’t want them to stand on the ground. You can completely isolate the flower pot from the ground with a layer of cut cork stoppers.
Since it is a completely natural material, if you use it in the garden, you do not have to worry about contaminating the soil even after its eventual decomposition. And with that we can begin.
Cork plugs that are broken, split in half or crumbling can be mixed into the soil or drainage of garden and house plants. Very small cork crumbs lighten the soil and contribute to improving its quality, mainly by supporting the growth of useful microorganisms.
The cork is full of suberin. Why is it cool?
Cork is almost half made up of suberin. This is a natural polymer that makes the cork very flexible. In addition, it is also a substance that repels pests. Suberin is hydrophobic and thanks to this the cork has very minimal absorbency, even though it is porous at first glance.
If you add it to the soil, it will float up with each watering because it is also light. And that suits us. Cork can serve as mulch. Since it also repels pests and its decomposition takes a very long time, by mixing crushed cork into the topmost layer of soil around the plants, you can also partially eliminate the presence of pests.
It is believed that snails and slugs are more bothered by the physical properties of cork and do not like to climb on it. However, ants are probably directly repelled by suberin, it will also bother aphids and whiteflies. Due to the fact that cork is hydrophobic, it also represents an inhospitable environment for fungi and mold.
However, even the whole corks have their charm, and as you could see in the post, you can also turn the corks into simple planters with the given name of each type of greenery.
Sources: microfluo.net, womanandhome.com
