Hydrogen Peroxide in the Garden and the Garden - Specifics of Application and Feedback

Cheap and popular hydrogen peroxide for a century reliably "prescribed" in home medicine kits. In its pure form and in combination with other chemical elements, it immediately became indispensable in everyday life.

The ability to kill pathogens has turned peroxide into a universal medical device: with its help, clean the wound of dirt or pus, stop bleeding. Whitening teeth and fabric products, lightening hair, removing stains, cleaning and disinfection of contaminated surfaces is far from a complete list of the possibilities of using this truly miraculous means in everyday life.

Of great importance is hydrogen peroxide for the garden and garden.

Hydrogen peroxide: the history of appearance, properties

The discoverer of hydrogen peroxide is Louis Jacques Tenar, who received it as a result of the action of sulfuric acid on barium peroxide. It happened in 1818 in France. After 55 years, the production of peroxide began in Germany. Over the past decade, the annual volume of industrial hydrogen peroxide production worldwide is more than 1 million tons.

Hydrogen peroxide (the simplest form of peroxides) is the scientific name of peroxide. The composition of the chemical formula is similar to water:

• The hydrogen peroxide is H2O2.
• Water is H2O.

Hydrogen peroxide and water consist of hydrogen and oxygen, but peroxide has an "extra" oxygen atom that is easily lost, acting as an oxidant and aerator.

In its pure form, it is a transparent liquid with the following properties:

• Color, taste, smell are absent.
• 1.5 times heavier than water.
• Excellent solvent.
• It dissolves with water, alcohol, ether.
• It freezes at -0.50C.
• Boils at + 670С.
• Decomposes under the influence of light, high temperature and alkali.
• It is nontoxic, but at high concentrations it causes burns of the mucous membrane, skin or respiratory tract.
• Concentrated solution is explosive.

The release standard is a solution of various concentrations (from 1% to 98%).

Panacea of the 21st century for a garden and a kitchen garden

In the garden, in the garden, hydrogen peroxide in the 21st century was used most widely. This is explained by the fact that, being a powerful oxidizer and possessing strong bactericidal properties killing pathogenic microorganisms, hydrogen peroxide is harmless to the environment, because it decomposes into hydrogen (H2) and atomic oxygen (O2).

Ecological harmlessness of hydrogen peroxide created from it an indispensable assistant in the garden area. In this case, its properties are important:

• Antibacterial;
• Ability to generate oxygen.

It should be remembered about safety measures: all work with hydrogen peroxide should be done with gloves and with fresh air, so as not to cause skin burns and respiratory tract damage.

Disinfection of greenhouses, containers for plants, tools

The use of hydrogen peroxide in the garden and vegetable garden begins with the processing of greenhouses, landing tanks, tools. In this case, the ability of hydrogen peroxide to affect bacteria, viruses and pathogenic fungi is used. This is especially important if the greenhouse, containers and tools are already in use.

To carry out disinfection, hydrogen peroxide (6-9%) is mixed with water in a ratio of 1: 1.

The containers and garden tools are thoroughly rinsed with the resulting solution, and then rinsed with clean water. The same solution is treated with internal and external surfaces of the greenhouse (doors, windows, ceiling, walls, floor), especially in hard-to-reach metas, as it is where malicious microorganisms accumulate.

An additional plus in this treatment is the ability of hydrogen peroxide to form a large amount of foam when interacting with putrefactive elements - this makes it possible to soften and separate from the surface contaminated pieces of earth and plant remains that are then more easily washed off with water.

Decontamination of soil

For the annual receipt of an abundant healthy crop, gardeners are advised to adhere to the crop rotation, and if there is such a possibility, then completely replace the soil in beds in open ground and in greenhouses.

This opportunity is not always, and it is connected with financial and labor costs. In this case, hydrogen peroxide comes to the aid of horticulturists: in the garden and in the garden, disinfect the soil immediately after harvest, in order to protect the soil and minimize the harm of pathogens remaining in the soil that adversely affect crop plants.

To this end, the following composition is used: 4-5 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide per 1 liter of water.

It is especially important to disinfect the soil, which will be used for seedling. Prepared soil is carefully spilled with 3-6% peroxide solution, cover with a film. This treatment destroys even the eggs of worms.

Disinfection of seeds, acceleration of their germination

The use of hydrogen peroxide in the garden and vegetable garden is of great importance in the presowing and sowing period. Seeds need to be disinfected before germination to kill pathogens, as well as inhibitors that inhibit germination.

Processing allows to soften the shell of seeds, accelerate their germination, to achieve full development of seedlings. You can do this in the following ways:

• For 5 minutes put in a peroxide solution (30 drops of 3% peroxide solution per 1 glass of water), then rinse thoroughly.
• For a period of 12 to 24 hours, soak seeds of long non-germinating crops in a 0.4% peroxide solution, then thoroughly dry the seeds.
• Moisten seeds that have just been sown with a spray of 1% peroxide solution.

In the latter case, not only the oxidation of the inhibitor occurs, but also the disinfection of the container.

Seedlings: watering and sprinkling

Hydrogen peroxide for seedlings is used for the purpose of active growth of the root system of seedlings, obtaining viable and yielding seedlings. Seedlings remain strong and healthy until diving.

The use of hydrogen peroxide for seedlings makes it possible to accelerate the development of roots and leaves, because the solution of water with the addition of hydrogen peroxide is similar in chemical composition to the rainwater most useful for plants. Atomic oxygen in such a solution destroys microbes, enriches the plants and soil with oxygen.

Top dressing

Not only watering the seedlings with hydrogen peroxide, but also using its solution for adult plants is an important factor for obtaining a good harvest and lush flowering plants. This is especially important for soil with a high clay content - in dense soil, the roots of the plant lack oxygen. In this case, a hydrogen peroxide solution (500 3% H2O2 + 4 L H2O) will help.

Protection, prevention

Hydrogen peroxide in the garden and vegetable garden can also be used as a protection of vegetable and garden crops from pests and fungal diseases that can kill both the crop and the plants themselves. Using a sprayer, plants infected, for example, with powdery mildew, are irrigated with such a composition: 3% peroxide (4 tbsp) + water (1/2 liter).

One of the terrible enemies of garden and garden crops is bacterial decay, affecting bulbs and tubers of plants and turning them into rotting gruel. Resist rot can be by spraying the diseased leaves and stems of the plant with a solution with the addition of peroxide. In addition, tubers and bulbs are recommended to soak in hydrogen peroxide solution before storing them.

Oxidizing ability of peroxide affects root rot and black stem, saving the plant from death.

For preventive treatment against aphids and scabs, you can prepare the following composition: 3% peroxide (50 ml) + water (900 ml) + alcohol (2 tbsp) + detergent (2-3 drops).

Influence of hydrogen peroxide on garden and vegetable crops

More and more widespread in the garden or in the garden hydrogen peroxide. In the 21st century, it turns into a kind of panacea for plants. In the garden and garden forums, heated discussions of supporters and opponents of the use of hydrogen peroxide. Gardeners and truck farmers distinguish the positive effects of peroxide:

• The application of peroxide saturates the soil with oxygen.
• Adding H2O2 to tap water removes chlorine, making water more useful for plants.
• Disinfection of soil, greenhouses and orchard and garden tools significantly reduces the risk of fungal diseases.
• Watering and spraying plants helps to protect flowers and vegetables from death and wilt caused by fungal diseases.

Not only the personal observations of many gardeners, but also the studies of American scientists show that presowing seed treatment and watering seedlings with hydrogen peroxide have a beneficial effect on the development of crops, stimulating their growth.

Thus, hydrogen peroxide is a kind of natural soil aerator, fungicide, pesticide.

Of course, to the widespread use of this folk remedy should be treated critically and carefully, because hydrogen peroxide in the garden and the garden, with its unused use and in high concentration, can even play the role of a herbicide that destroys cultivated plants.