Aromatic cinnamon’s use extends beyond delicious baked goods. Gardeners can use this common pantry ingredient to: deter ants, combat fungus, and root plant cuttings. While ants play a helpful role in nature, their bites and knack for marching away with seeds make them unwelcome garden guests. Cinnamon powder can repel and exterminate ants, but placement and concentration are factors. Apply generously wherever ants have made their home. Once the ants have left, it’s time to plant. Natural gardeners have used cinnamon to ward off fungus from seed to post-harvest production. Cinnamon is most commonly used to prevent “damping off." Damping off is a fungal condition caused by several different pathogens prevalent in wet, cool conditions, killing or weakening seeds and seedlings. Luckily, cinnamon is effective in killing these culprits. Simply work cinnamon into the planting medium before seeding. On older plants, use cinnamon spray to inhibit slime mold and de