Have a look at the most comprehensive list of Epsom Salt Uses In Garden and try this miracle product today!

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Epsom Salt Uses In Garden

1. Get Sweeter Fruits

Apply Epsom salt 1 tablespoon per sq ft of fruit trees and shrubs to boost chlorophyll levels inside plant cells, which means improved photosynthesis, stronger growth of the plant, sweeter fruits, and increase productivity.

Fruit trees like citrus, apples, peaches, pomegranate, and plums perk up after application of Epsom salt.

2. Help Plants Absorb More Nutrients

If you use Epsom salt as fertilizer, your plants will receive all of the required nutrients adequately. Why? The Epsom salt contains magnesium, a mineral that enhances the absorption of basic nutrients needed by plants to grow, such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur.

3. Avoid Transplanting Shock

Help plants to overcome transplant shocks when you plant them into a garden or change their pots, add a tablespoon of Epsom salt to the soil, then once again add a layer of soil before placing the plant so that root does not come in direct contact with the salt.

4. Have Juiciest and Healthy Tomatoes!

Tomatoes suffer from magnesium deficiency, especially when grown in pots. To resolve this, dissolve 2 tablespoons of Epsom salt in 1 gallon of water and apply this solution every two weeks to your tomato plants.

Also Read: Using Epsom Salt for Tomatoes

5. Eliminate Yellowing Leaves

The leaves of plants and trees turn yellow due to magnesium deficiency as it is an essential component in the production of chlorophyll, to counter this, add a tablespoon of Epsom salt around the base of your plant per 12 inches of its height, once a month until it starts to look green again.

Also Read: Plant Deficiency Symptoms and How to Identify Them

6. Prevent Leaf Curling

Sometimes due to magnesium deficiency, leaves may curl inward or upward. In such case, the application of Epsom salt around the base of the plant helps a lot.

Alternately, for quick absorption, you can also mix 2 tablespoons of Epsom salt in a gallon of water and spray directly on the foliage.

7. Increase the Production of Peppers

Give a boost to your pepper plants by adding 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt every week, especially at the time of flowering and fruiting to increase the production of peppers.

8. Make Roses Bloom Better

Adding Epsom salt helps in the production of chlorophyll, which favors the bushier growth of the roses. Also, its addition encourages more blooms. Feed rose bushes with Epsom salt at the time of planting and again at the first sign of new growth.

Application of Epsom salt when the plant is flowering is also helpful. You can also soak bare root roses in water that contains dissolved Epsom salt before planting.

9. Get Rid of Weeds

If you want to get rid of weeds in your garden but don’t want to use herbicides. Use Epsom salt. Instead, mix 1 liter of vinegar with 2 tablespoons dish soap and 4 tablespoons of Epsom salts.

Stir everything well and pour this into a spray bottle. Spray this solution on weeds. Make sure you don’t spray this on other garden plants.

10. Lawn Fertilizer

Magnesium contained in Epsom salt is beneficial to the lawn! Sprinkle 5 cups of Epsom salts per 100 m 2 of lawn, apply it with a spreader or spray it by diluting in water to get a lush green lawn.

11. Removing Tree Stumps

Drill a few holes in the tree trunk and fill each hole with Epsom salt. Then pour the water into the holes. The trunk should begin to decompose within a few weeks.

12. Care for Potted Plants

Potted plants become magnesium deficient more quickly than plants grown on the ground. Therefore, add 2 tablespoons of Epsom salt to 1 gallon of water and feed this solution once a month to your container plants. Water until it starts to flow out from the bottom of the pot.

13. Healthy and Beautiful Shrubs and Trees

Epsom salt can keep shrubs and trees healthy and in bloom. Work one tablespoon Epsom salt for shrubs, and two tablespoons for trees in nine square feet area around the root zone.

14. Kill Pests Naturally

Use Epsom salt to dehydrate snails, slugs, and pests. It will not only kill them but also give a boost to the roots and flowers in the process.

Mix one cup of Epsom salt with 4-5 gallons of water and spray on the foliage as general pest control. While for snails and slugs, sprinkle some dry Epsom salt around the base of plants in your garden.

15. Heal Your Houseplants

Epsom salts are good for your container houseplants, as they are known for their ability to help promote nutrient intake. Add 1-2 tablespoons of Epsom salt with 1-2 gallons of water and spray onto leaves and not roots to enable maximum absorption.

16. Neutralizes Soil pH level

Epsom salt, when added to the soil, helps in reducing the pH value and makes it more acidic in time. While if the soil is acidic in nature, then you should not use this salt in your garden as it will only make it only worsen your troubles.

17. Prevents Palm trees from Getting Frizzle Top

If it looks like your palm trees are having a frizzle top that looks like bad hair with light green or yellow leaves, then apply Epsom salt at the tree’s base, spray some on the leaves and the crown with a liquid mix of 1 tablespoon of the salt in a gallon of water.

18. Makes Plants Greener

One of the main components of Epsom salt is magnesium, which is known to make plants grow greener as it is useful in the production of chlorophyll that determines the color of leaves. Also, chlorophyll is essential for photosynthesis that helps the plant to build energy and food for itself.

19. Care for Azaleas and Rhododendron

The supplement of sulfate from the salt helps to stop any yellowing of rhododendron and azaleas and promotes more buds. You can sprinkle to cover the root area with one tablespoon of salt per 9-10 sq feet to aid the growth.

20. Helps Remove a Splinter

Most gardeners know how difficult it is to avoid getting a splinter while gardening even after wearing gloves and it can be a painful experience. This salt can help you if you soak the affected area with a mix of 1-2 tablespoons dissolved in a cup of water.

The Epsom salt solution will help draw out the splinter on its own by increasing the skin’s osmotic pressure.

  • Joanne
  • June 18, 2016 At 4:14 am
  • This is great information. I never knew about Epsom salt uses for plants, I only knew it can take aches and soreness away. Thank you for sharing this!
  • Reply
  • mlg
  • June 21, 2016 At 9:09 pm
  • Is Epson salts good for cucumber plants. I have them growing in pots this year and they are struggling
  • Reply
  • Brenda Lovell
  • June 24, 2016 At 9:36 am
  • How do I apply it to the pepper plant? Mixed with water? If so, in what ratio?
  • Reply
  • Georgie Klaustermeier
  • April 11, 2021 At 6:16 am
    1. To increase the production of peppers
  • Give a boost to your pepper plants by adding 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt every week, especially at the time of flowering and fruiting to increase the production of peppers.
  • Reply
  • gafurr
  • June 27, 2016 At 8:33 pm
  • Is Epson salts good for cucumber plants
  • Reply
  • Aliyah
  • July 3, 2016 At 10:39 pm
  • Great article! Very helpful!! I tried thes Epsom salts a while back on my Boston fern and it bloomed beautifully. Can I also use Epsom salts on my succulents??
  • Reply
  • Steveo
  • January 29, 2017 At 4:01 pm
  • I’m starting to implement Epsom salt into my indoor and outdoor plants. Thanks for sharing the additional benefits for Epsom salt. Who knew?
  • Reply
  • Harpreet singh
  • February 25, 2017 At 2:04 am
  • I use your said formula it’s amazing l love it & introduce to my friends
  • Reply
  • Linda
  • May 18, 2017 At 8:42 pm
  • Can this be used on squash? If so, what ratio.
  • Reply
  • Sharon
  • July 1, 2017 At 4:23 pm
  • Love this information, and I will be trying this on my inside plants soon.
  • Reply
  • Elaine
  • February 21, 2018 At 10:23 pm
  • Thank U so much! I will buy Epson Salt the very next time I go out and start it on my Variegated Ginger plants. They need it and I did not know what to do. Then on to the rest of my plants.
  • Reply
  • Wyatt Twitchell
  • May 20, 2018 At 3:13 am
  • Every time I eat a banana I put the skin on my rose bushes… They 💘 it and bloom like no other. Also I feed them once a week with fish emulsion. You can see a change in less than a day! Mix1 Tbs fish emulsion per gallon of water…
  • ..
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  • Wyatt Twitchell
  • May 20, 2018 At 3:15 am
  • You can get fish emulsion at WALMART. Beware it has an awful smell for a few hours after applied.
  • Reply
  • Patricia johnson
  • July 8, 2018 At 9:23 pm
  • I’m going to try on my path weeds and Epsom salts in my plum tree, will let you know how it goes
  • Reply
  • Gigi Kay
  • July 9, 2018 At 1:27 am
  • Would anyone know which kind of vinegar this article is referring to remove weeds… apple cider or white?
  • Reply
  • Lynda Obremski
  • June 9, 2019 At 4:47 am
  • White distilled
  • Reply
  • Monica Mthenjane
  • July 17, 2018 At 3:13 pm
  • I am so great full about the information the Epsom salt use it for washing the sores on your skin they quickly dry heal. I now going to use it to my garden.
  • Reply
  • Judy Chernoski
  • August 5, 2018 At 5:13 pm
  • I am in a wheelchair and have to pay somebody to get my weeds (I got a bunch) out of my yard. I am going to get somebody to go to Walmart and get what I need to kill my weeds. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE HINT.
  • Reply
  • Yoli
  • July 5, 2020 At 4:48 am
  • Your awesome..my leaves were turn yellow ..now that I have given epson salt to my baby blood orange tree its a beautiful dark..Does anyone know when your baby tree needs a bigger pot?
  • Reply
  • Wumi
  • May 23, 2022 At 12:03 pm
  • Thank you so much. This is awesome information. I am going to try in my garden.
  • Reply

This is great information. I never knew about Epsom salt uses for plants, I only knew it can take aches and soreness away. Thank you for sharing this!

Is Epson salts good for cucumber plants. I have them growing in pots this year and they are struggling

  • Georgie Klaustermeier
  • April 11, 2021 At 6:16 am
    1. To increase the production of peppers
  • Give a boost to your pepper plants by adding 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt every week, especially at the time of flowering and fruiting to increase the production of peppers.
  • Reply

How do I apply it to the pepper plant? Mixed with water? If so, in what ratio?

  1. To increase the production of peppers

Give a boost to your pepper plants by adding 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt every week, especially at the time of flowering and fruiting to increase the production of peppers.

Is Epson salts good for cucumber plants

Great article! Very helpful!! I tried thes Epsom salts a while back on my Boston fern and it bloomed beautifully. Can I also use Epsom salts on my succulents??

I’m starting to implement Epsom salt into my indoor and outdoor plants. Thanks for sharing the additional benefits for Epsom salt. Who knew?

I use your said formula it’s amazing l love it & introduce to my friends

Can this be used on squash? If so, what ratio.

Love this information, and I will be trying this on my inside plants soon.

Thank U so much! I will buy Epson Salt the very next time I go out and start it on my Variegated Ginger plants. They need it and I did not know what to do. Then on to the rest of my plants.

Every time I eat a banana I put the skin on my rose bushes… They 💘 it and bloom like no other. Also I feed them once a week with fish emulsion. You can see a change in less than a day! Mix1 Tbs fish emulsion per gallon of water… ..

You can get fish emulsion at WALMART. Beware it has an awful smell for a few hours after applied.

I’m going to try on my path weeds and Epsom salts in my plum tree, will let you know how it goes

  • Lynda Obremski
  • June 9, 2019 At 4:47 am
  • White distilled
  • Reply

Would anyone know which kind of vinegar this article is referring to remove weeds… apple cider or white?

White distilled

I am so great full about the information the Epsom salt use it for washing the sores on your skin they quickly dry heal. I now going to use it to my garden.

I am in a wheelchair and have to pay somebody to get my weeds (I got a bunch) out of my yard. I am going to get somebody to go to Walmart and get what I need to kill my weeds. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE HINT.

Your awesome..my leaves were turn yellow ..now that I have given epson salt to my baby blood orange tree its a beautiful dark..Does anyone know when your baby tree needs a bigger pot?

Thank you so much. This is awesome information. I am going to try in my garden.

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