Homestead Tips: 70 Uses for Baking Soda

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Clean tree sap off a car with baking soda. Rub with baking soda on a damp sponge.

Melaine Ryther shares this helpful homestead list of 70 uses for baking soda.

A List of 70 Uses for Baking Soda

Garden and Garage

1.Make a non-toxic fungicide. Mix a solution of four teaspoons baking soda and one gallon of water. Spray on grapes and vines when fruit first appears. Spray once a week for two months, and after each rain. Can also be used on rosebushes against black spot fungus.

2. Rejuvenate the greenery. Mix together one teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon clear ammonia and one teaspoon Epsom salt in a gallon of water. Use about a quart of the solution on each rosebush-size shrub that’s lost its luster.

  • Published on Feb 1, 1997
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