Did you know that herbal infusions and macerates can be used as natural gardening products? Let's see together which ones are most suitable and how they can help you care for the plants that grace your balcony or garden.

Herbal infusions for plant care

Herbal infusions are often used in do-it-yourself gardening as a natural and environmentally friendly remedy against plant pests and fungi. If your goal is to keep away, aphids, mites and other small pests that endanger your plants, and you prefer to use a do-it-yourself solution without impacting on the environment, you can use nettle, horsetail and tanacetum, which are useful for combating the proliferation of fungi on foliage and shoots and for keeping possible unwanted guests away from your plants without harming pollinators.

Infusions to be used to nourish and strengthen plants

Nettle and horsetail, as well as being useful for keeping plant pests at bay, can also be useful as natural fertilisers. Last but not least, chamomile is an excellent natural fertiliser that would also seem to help stimulate plant growth.

How to use infusions for gardening

You can use the listed infusions for the regular care of your plants, either by spraying them directly on the leaves or on the soil (or mixed with compost if your goal is to fertilise the soil that houses your plants). The ideal would be to use fresh leaves and flowers, but the dried version normally used in infusion will also work well, the proportions will of course change, the ratio of water to leaves, in the case of fresh leaves, must be one to ten, but if you use the dried preparations for infusion the proportion increases to 100-200 grams for every ten litres of water. You can prepare your natural gardening products by following the normal procedure used to prepare infusions and herbal teas, or in the form of a decoction, by boiling the chopped leaves for about 30 minutes. If the aim is mainly to keep pests away, it may be useful to macerate the leaves in your infusion.