Grow your garden love doing planting and maintaining your garden yourself. No doubt that a professional gardener knows all the nuts and bolts but there are a lot of things that you can do yourself in your cozy fresh gardens or lawns. Gardening apps may also be of good help for tech-savvy gardeners.
Refresh this summer in your gardens blooming breathtaking flowers and yummy veggies. Take help from these simple gardening tips and tricks given below. Sure, it will help!
1. Get Ready Your Shovel
A shovel is the most important tool without which you can do nothing productive in your gardens. It will be easier for you to keep it no-stick. Just try spraying silicone or Teflon lubricant on the Shovel so that moving soil will be a breeze. The soil will easily slip without any trouble.
2. What if You Don’t Have Space
Not to worry! Space issues can’t stop pursuing your passion for greenery. You can simply get started with container gardening wherever you want. This would also be helpful in the prevention of weeds and raising soil fertility. Initially, you may start with backyard container gardening than to bigger gardens.
3. Choose a Perfect Location
Some plants grow under the shade while some like to shine in the Sun and some are also which are both. Pay attention to which type of plants you have to take care of. The best idea is to keep the container on the wheels and put together the same type of plants in a single container. This will be easier for you to shift the plants according to need.
4. Get Started With Easy to Grow Plants
There are a variety of plants out there. Research well before you get started with just a random selection of plants. You should start with growing easy to grow plants that neither requires much technical knowledge nor too much effort to put in. Gardening experts usually advise beginning with planting tomatoes, onions, Basil, bush beans, etc. If you are a flower lover, Sunflowers, Dahlia’s, and Roses are great.
5. Water! Water! Water!
Water is not only a lifeline for us but for plants too. Pour enough water into the plants and spray on the leaves also. This will keep the leaves wet and soft. However, watering too much may also cause problems. Keep up the right balance.
6. Organic is Always the Best
While you are making a choice of soil, fertilizers, pest control, tilt yourself towards organic options. The taste and quality are the best in organic gardening. Chemically developed plants are weak and prone to so many diseases.
7. Keep Your Nails Clean
Soil deposition in the nails is the most common problem that we all face while dealing with plants. We have a solution! Draw your nails in the soap bar and then play with the soil in your garden. This will prevent the soil from entering the nails because of the already presence of soap. Eventually, you can wash your hands to get back your sparkling nails.
8. Install Storage Sheds for Storing Garden Tools
If you have a garden, then you definitely have garden tools and equipment. Having garden tools or long supplies in your house is quite upsetting. You need to install the steel sheds or storage sheds, steel garages in your garden because they increase your property value, this is the modern face of the backyard garden. These steel garages are affordable yet high-performing and visually appealing by accommodating outdoor garden goods, tools and other purposes.
9. Use Baking Soda in the Garden
I am sure, most of us have a container of baking soda in the kitchen. Here I am telling you the benefits of baking soda in your garden like testing your soil PH by using baking soda, the baking soda pesticide. Baking soda is pure sodium bicarbonate used mainly for cooking purposes, It should not be confused with either baking powder or washing soda. Washing soda is sodium carbonate and baking powder contains only about 30% baking soda plus other ingredients. Well, now let’s list out the baking soda benefits of garden.
First is Encourage flower blooming, it will not only encourage blooming but also take care of any fungal spores on the plant. Then next is use baking soda as a pesticide and fungicide, its treated almost all types of pests in your garden like the aphids, mealybugs, thrips, mites, whiteflies, worms, caterpillars, soil fungus and other plant fungi like powdery mildew and black spot rose disease. Kill cabbage worms, Drive away foul smell from your compost pile. These above are some of the benefits, my next blog. I will tell you all the hacks of baking soda for the garden.
10. DIY Felt Pots
Using Felt pots or call it smart pots, these DIY posts are a lifesaver especially, as an urban gardener. These pots are very lightweight and foldable containers to grow your plant in, and this is specially designed for an urban gardener that has a small space.
Another good reason why you like the felt pots is this because they prevent any water logging issues. The felt pots would effectively help to air purification, the roots by making sure that water doesn’t just stay soaked up soggy. You have found them to be remarkably useful, even compared to a 5-gallon bucket.
The best thing about felt pots, you can fold them down, so the edges of these pots are slightly folded down, and that’s because the sun comes in one direction. You can see the sun rays hit the canopy of the plant.
11. Gardening Without Gloves
Can you do gardening without gloves? Yes, you can. Do you know? Most people do not like to wear gloves while gardening. People love feeling the dirt on their hands, working with the plants as delicately as possible, and in fact, you do not even think. I don’t want to wear gloves, and I got my first pair of gloves that maybe a few years into my gardening life.
You can use the skin cream on one hand and not the other hand, what’s really cool about these skin creams. It not only protects from poisons, ivy and etc. It moisturizes your hand and you can just wipe it clean, it works like a virtual glove.
12. Cut Up Sponge for Self Watering
There are plants in your house that you always have to take care of. The problem is when you are going out for a few days. In this condition, you should do something that your plants are not short of water. Do one thing, and you can use an old sponge instead of putting gravel at the bottom of your container or pots.
Get standard DIY recommendation: try putting an old cut-up sponge. Now the reason why gravel does not work as well. People think it raises the bottom of your pot higher, it does drain out a little bit, but honestly, it doesn’t work as you feel for increasing drainage.
There are plenty of better ways to do that, now a sponge, on the other hand, does help you a lot because it’s going to soak up water. After that, it will release the water via capillary action, when the soil dries out enough to need the water. What you are doing is? you are turning a standard container into a DIY self-watering pot for your plants.
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