Does the thought of freshly baked sourdough get your taste buds tingling? It certainly does for us and, as it turns out, your plants might actually love the stuff as much as you do - in its pre-baked form, at least. According to experts, sourdough starter could be the organic fertilizer you've been searching for to nourish your garden and give your plants a boost, plus it can even keep unwanted pests at bay, too.
At this point, it feels like we've scoured garden centers for all the best plant foods on the market and tried every organic fertilizing trick under the sun, but it seems we didn't need to look any further than our kitchen cabinets after all. Sourdough starter - the yeasty, bubbly mixture full of live cultures that you add to your dough - contains loads of nutrients that benefit your plants, and it's a super cheap and easy fertilizing method to add to your gardening arsenal.
