Secrets Of Successful Gardening

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Each gardener has his own secrets of successful gardening. But sometimes even experienced gardeners forget about the simple but important rules for growing crops. We suggest remembering some of them

In order for the garden to be blooming and productive, it is necessary to provide it with proper care with the help of special gardening tools, fertilizers and adherence to useful rules. But sometimes important little things and tricks are forgotten. Let's recollect some of the practical tips:

1. It is necessary to control the number of slugs

Garden vegetation is constantly "attacked" by fungal diseases, harmful insects, and rodents. Slugs are one of the most common plant pests. There are various ways to drive them out of the garden. Below are just a few of the most effective methods:

* Slugs love the smell of beer, so it is enough to pour this drink into small containers and place it in the garden. This will be a great pest bait.

* Salt scattered on the surface of the earth scares away slugs. It is advisable to sprinkle salt away from the plants - it dries them and the soil.

* Vinegar helps to remove slugs from the garden. With its help, a solution is prepared for spraying plants (a quarter of a glass of 9% vinegar in a bucket of water). After spraying, the remnants of mucus also disappear.

* You can go for one more trick: smear the outside of the pots in which the flowers grow with petroleum jelly - the slugs will not be able to climb the sliding surface.

2. Properly use waste

Cut grass, kitchen waste, pieces of cardboard, straw should not be thrown away. This waste will make excellent compost. Six months is enough for it to ripen with regular stirring. It is advisable to place the compost heap in a sunny place and periodically add wood waste to it.

3. Apply eco-trays

It is economical and useful for the garden to use empty cardboard boxes for eggs and fruits for sowing crops and growing seedlings. When the seedlings grow up, they are planted together with the boxes in the soil. The paper takes several weeks to decompose. It is convenient and environmentally friendly.

4. Provide watering for plants during vacations

If it is not possible to water the plants daily, you can roll up a tea towel tightly, put one end of it in the soil, and the other in a container of water. This will keep the soil moist for several days. Instead of towels and napkins, it is more economical to use long and thin (no more than 3 cm wide) scraps of fabric. One end of them must be placed at the roots, and the other end must be lowered into a container of water, which must be kept just above the plant. This will allow the water to "flow" better along the fabric or napkin to the plant. But this method is more suitable for indoor flowers and plants in containers. For a vegetable garden, a drip irrigation system is suitable.

5. Propagate plants by cuttings

Many plants can be propagated by cuttings (daisies, pelargoniums, lavender, thyme, sage, rosemary, and others). They can be exchanged with neighbors or friends. This will save money on the purchase of seeds and seedlings.

6. Apply optimal DIY irrigation systems

It is not worth spending a lot of money to buy expensive irrigation systems. You can make effective watering systems for your plants yourself. For example, in any country house there is an old hose. Small holes (3-5 mm) are made in it every 30 cm and let it go through the garden with a snake. Then it remains to connect the hose to the tap and provide the plants with the necessary moisture and spot irrigation.

7. Use worn-out car tires

Old car tires can be used as pots for planting vegetables and flowers. It is not difficult to get such tires - they are thrown away by the owners of cars and garages. Tires are stacked 3-4 pieces on top of each other - an excellent container for plants is created, and, possibly, a round high bed. For decorative purposes, the tires can also be folded in a pyramid shape by painting them in the desired colors.

8. Make do-it-yourself watering cans

Allows you to save money and a homemade watering can. To make it, you need one 4 or 4-5 liter empty plastic canister, which usually has a handle. A needle or an awl is heated, and several holes are pierced in its cover. The container is filled with water and used like a regular watering can. Convenient and free!

9. Make markers for the beds

Popsicle sticks can have a second life. It is perfect for marking the places where plants are planted. This way you can teach your children to garden. It will be interesting for them to eat ice cream faster in order to free the stick first. On a stick, you can write the name of the planted plants with a marker.

10. Use old clothes for hanging baskets

Old clothes can always be used by a prudent owner. Shaggy fabric can be used as a lining in hanging baskets. The fabric, cut from old things in the shape of a basket, holds the soil well and does not allow mold to grow. Plants will grow and develop comfortably.

What useful little things do you use in gardening?