It is fun to start a garden, and anyone with a green thumb knows how wonderful it is to grow a garden and see things bloom. But even if you’ve succeeded in growing a garden, there is always more to learn. Let this article provide you with some great gardening tips you can put to use today.
1. Get rid of salt deposits easily. To to this, just take some equal parts of rubbing alcohol, water and vinegar. Combine and put into a spray bottle. Spray the mixture on any pot with salt deposits and give it a good scrub. You’ll find the salt falls off nicely and your pot is resurrected for use. Just make sure it dries before putting anything in it.
2. Avoid getting too much dirt under your fingernails. An easy way to do that is to simply take a bar of soap and run it across your nails. The soap acts like a seal, allowing you to get soap under your nails instead of dirt. After your time in the garden, just use a nailbrush to help get the soap out, as the soap will wash away anyway and you’ll have clean hands.
3. Spray your string trimmer line with olive or vegetable oil. That way, it will be less likely to snap or jam as you trim.
4. You don’t need to go running to the toolshed every time you need to measure something. Anything with a long handle can be used to measure things. Use tape to mark different lengths, and mark it with a marker. Then, when you need to space your plants or simply measure a distance, your tool doubles as a measuring stick.
5. Use clay pots in order to protect your seedlings from sudden deep freezes and frosting. You can’t always know in advance when a freeze is coming on, so if you get that feeling, it’s great to know you can just run out and cover your young buds with a clay pot until temperatures rise again.
6. Mark your garden out. Just use stones around your property to write their names on. Put your marking stones along the perimeter of the garden so that you will remember what goes where.
7. Use leftover veggie juices to nourish your plants. When you cook vegetables in water, keep the water after cooking. Then use it to water your plants, and you will be surprised at how well they really respond to that veggie juice!
8. Take care of pests naturally with diatomaceous earth. Sometimes pest control methods can be toxic or you may worry that they are. Diatomaceous earth is a naturally occurring substance that can kill pests while not harming you nor your pets. Just sprinkle it about and protect your plants.
Gardening is an enjoyable hobby, and it is only made better when you find out new things you can experiment with. Let the tips laid out here truly help you to have an even better garden than you had before.
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