11 Gardening Secrets Found By Getting Dirty!

Do you spend a small fortune maintaining your garden? Gardening does not need to be as expensive or difficult as it seems. Sometimes you just have to get dirty and learn over time!

You can save money and boost the health and vitality of your plants. Follow a few simple insightful tips, use a few cheap home items, to grow beautiful and healthy plants in your garden.

Newspapers
#1 – Newspapers can make excellent mulch for your garden. Take old newspapers and lay them over the soil and add a little mulch on top.

They will help in suffocating weeds and also increase soil water retention capacity. This is also called “sheet mulching“.

#2 Ripen Tomatoes – You can also use newspapers to ripen your tomatoes.

Once your tomatoes are off the vine, wrap them up with a couple of newspaper sheets. Store them in a dark closet or cabinet inside an airtight container. They will ripen in a few days.

#3 – Remove Compost Odor – Take shredded, wet newspaper and it to your compost to get rid of the bad smell.

Ripped Bags
#4 Ripped Bags – Many items sold at home improvement stores are packed in bags. Once bagged get ripped, they make nothing but a mess. Often the “ripped” bags are sold at a discounted prices.

It’s a great way to get a bargain on mulch, peat moss, fertilizer or other products. The secret is… YOU MUST ASK.

Tea A Natural Plant Food
#5 – Tea Take your old tea bags, brew them again to make a natural plant food. For lush ferns and other plants that love acidic conditions such as hydrangeas, water them with the brewed tea.

#6 Add Tea To Soil – You can also boost the soil nutrient content by sprinkling used or fresh tea leaves around plants.

When you add a little mulch on top of the tea leaves and start watering the plants, they will start releasing nutrients into the soil.

Aluminum Foil
#7 Aluminum Foil Scare Away Birds – Aluminum foil can also be used to scare away birds that spoil your plants. Hang foil on the plants or string foil-wrapped sea shells from limbs to frighten bigger animals.

#8 Aluminum Foil To Repel Insects – Mixing strips of aluminum foil with light mulch can help repel bugs away from your plants. They also reflect light to the plants, thereby encouraging growth.

#9 Aluminum Foil To Remove Rust – Crumple up a generous amount aluminum foil.

Use it like a brush to remove rust on small tools like hand pruners and scissors. Add water to give some lubrication. Don’t believe it? Try it!

Banana Peels
#10 – Banana Peels To Control Aphids Keep your roses free from aphids by burying cut up banana peels around the base of the plant. Banana peels also help roses blooms!

#11 – Attract Butterflies – Use overripe bananas to attract useful insects to your garden by placing them:

On an elevated platform
Above head level
Away from the garden
They will attract beneficial butterflies but may also attract wasps and other insects

Salt
#12 – Control Slugs & Snails – Did you know that salt is a natural pest killer? You can kill slugs and snails by dousing them in a salt solution.

#13 – Weed Control – You can also inhibit the growth of weeds on walkway cracks by pouring a solution prepared using one cup of salt and two cups of water.

Garden centers bank on the lack of knowledge to make sales. They rarely share how to grow individual plants using inexpensive techniques.

They entice you with pretty packaged flowers after a long winter so that you fall into the temptation buying.

If you make use of the above items, you can save some bucks and reduce the items you’ll need at the garden center.. except for the ripped bags!

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