Baking soda is useful for many purposes. House cleaning, teeth cleaning, carpet stains, odor control, and baking. But one use you may not be aware of is right in your vegetable garden. You will defiantly want to try this next time you plant your tomatoes.

As you begin planting your tomatoes, Sprinkle in a little baking soda before you put them in the soil. This amazing trick can prevent certain kinds of produce from tasting dull and gives tomatoes a boost of sweetness come time to harvest.

How does this work? Baking soda is not sweet to the taste? It is defiantly the chemistry that makes this work. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, this is a high alkaline this lowers the soil's acidity and impacts the nutrients being absorbed. As a result, the tomatoes produced by plants in the alkaline soil this will have less acidity and taste sweeter, making them an excellent addition to salads.

Sprinkling some on the soil keeps harmful insects, fungi, and even some small weeds. Just be careful to keep the baking soda in the dirt and not on the plants themselves to avoid damage or changing the soil chemistry for plants that prefer the acid, like peppers, carrots, and berries.