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Karl

Just the day before yesterday I shared the benefits of using rice water for watering plants and rinsing your hair with it.

Guess what? Today my spouse offered me the rice water she used for washing the rice.

This is perfect for our Cape Jasmine, especially since I recently relocated it to a more protected area. It wasn’t growing well in a separate pot near our main entrance, as it got plagued and eaten by caterpillars last year and this year.

This has given me an extra incentive to take better care of the Cape Jasmine using the rice water.

Here is the picture of how our Cape Jasmine looks now. I know…very sad looking, right?

And here is a picture of how it’s supposed to look.

Fingers crossed that nature will do its magic and recover our Cape Jasmine into this lush shrub with white flowers that have a vanilla-like fragrance.

#CapeJasmine #RiceWaterCare #PlantCare

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