The salt also creates anxiety for many a homeowner in the spring. They think their garages have a horrible toxic mold bloom.

Mould doesn’t like salt, sugar, acid, very dry or cold conditions, which is why a jar of strawberry jam or pickled onions will last a lot longer than fresh strawberries or onions. But it can ...

Meet slime mould, nature's supercomputer ... absorbing box dehumidifiers using water retaining granules, such as salt, rice, charcoal, coffee and chalk. Store them in an old lunchbox with ...