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Podcast: Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening
Episode: Epsom Salts - Magic or Myth? - Ep. 206
Description: If you are in any gardening group, whether an in-person club or online, you likely see countless home remedies for everything that ails our plants. Gardeners tout everything as a miracle cure for something in the garden, from putting tums in the soil to burying fish, making weed killer out of vinegar and salt (please don’t) to using dawn dish soap as an insecticide (again, please don’t).
One that pops up over and over again is using Epsom salts, either sprinkled or added to the soil or used as a foliar spray when diluted in wate...