5. Use a penny to stop blight.
Supplies required: 4–6 cents
Making Cost: $0.04–$0.06*
The garden’s Grim Reaper is blight. It is a disease of the plants that makes your beautiful plants wither. Typically, blight is caused by rust, mildew, smut, and other fungi. According to an ancient gardening folktale, if you plant a penny the proper way, it can prevent blight.
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How to insert the penny is shown in a step-by-step visual guide available on Walden Effect. These pennies are especially effective in extremely acidic or alkaline soils since those types of soils cause the quantity of copper to decrease. Putting four or six pennies in the plant pot is another approach to ensuring that the copper in your soil is retained.