Keep Pests Away
If you are growing a garden, the last thing you want is for common pests to ruin your hard work. Fortunately, raccoons, deer, moles, mice, rabbits, and other animals despise the smell of vinegar. You can use that to your advantage. Simply soak a few rags in apple cider vinegar and place them around the garden. This will prevent animals from creeping into the vegetable patch. Plus, you don’t have to worry about the vinegar negatively affecting your plants. Re-soak the rags every week during the growing season.
Apple cider vinegar also works against the destructive Japanese beetle. Use one part ACV, one teaspoon dish soap, and three parts water in a spray bottle. Spray the mixture on your garden plants. This will keep beetles and other pests that eat leaves at bay.
Additionally, apple cider vinegar repels snails and slugs. However, it will take a bit more effort. You will need to either seek out the pests at night when they move around, or you can trick them to coming out in the daylight. Prop a board up in the garden to create a shaded spot, where the snails and slugs will gather. Once they have congregated, you can spray them with apple cider vinegar. They will dissolve the same way they would when doused in salt.
Just keep in mind that undiluted apple cider vinegar should never be sprayed directly on your plants, because it will cause the sun to burn them.
