There is a lot of work when you decide to start gardening. When you and your family are eating vegetables that come out of your garden, it makes it all worthwhile. There are a lot of very useful tips and hacks that we have discovered that help make gardening easier. Here are 15 gardening tips and hacks that are sure to help.
1. If you have a problem with slugs in your garden, put some cornmeal in a jar and lay it sideways. The slugs will eat the cornmeal and die.
2. Be sure that you add compost to your soil two to three weeks before you start planting.
3. Buckwheat is an excellent choice of a winter cover crop to help replenish the soil.
4. Wash your vegetables over your rain barrel so that you can reuse the water.
5. Add some crushed up eggshells in the bottom of the hole you dig out when planting vegetables such as peppers or tomatoes. These plants are more likely to become calcium deficient and the eggshells will prevent that.
6. If you are using containers to garden, you can add foam peanuts to the bottom of the pots to help with drainage.
7. Use coffee grounds to sprinkle near your plants to nourish the soil and keep any pests away. A plastic fork stuck in the soil upside down near seedlings keep birds from eating them. The day before planting seeds, soak them in warm water.
8. The top of a clear soda bottle can be placed over your young plants to serve as a mini-greenhouse.
9. If you want to speed up the germination process for your seeds, pre-sprout them. Use a cookie sheet and lay out a damp paper towel. In the middle of the paper towel, place the seeds. Fold both sides over the seeds. Place the folded paper towel in a plastic bag but keep the bag open. Check daily and be sure that the paper towel remains moist.
10. Use an empty soda bottle as a drip feeder by making about a dozen holes in it. Bury it in the soil with just the opening above ground. You can then fill it with water.
11. Cut a lemon in half and dig out the flesh, leaving on the skin. Poke a hole at the bottom and add soil for starting your seedlings. When it’s time to plant, simply plant the entire thing.
12. Tie an old pantyhose with a bar of soap in it to your outdoor faucet to quickly wash up when you are done working in the garden.
13. On the handle of your gardening tools, draw measuring lines with a permanent marker to space plants properly when planting.
14. If you use a sprinkler to water your garden, place a cup where it will get filled up. You can be sure that your plants are getting one inch of water necessary.
15. To keep bugs out of your garden, plant chives, onion, garlic and chrysanthemums.
Use these quick and easy gardening tips to help make gardening easier. You need all the help you can get to have the best garden possible.
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