Gardening is certainly a fun and rewarding activity, but it hasn’t always been easy: it takes a lot of dedication and hard work to keep plants and flowers healthy. So here are 5 brilliant tips and tricks from Hometalk on YouTube to help you and offer solutions to some gardening inconveniences you may encounter.
Materials:
- Baby oil
- A long tube
- Bricks, rocks, mulch, etc.
- Coffee filter
- A large 2L plastic bottle
- Used coffee grounds
- Epsom salt
- A bucket with a handle
Directions:
#1: How to easily clean gardening tools
Your gardening tools can get rusty and filled with dirt, they can get hard to clean sometimes because there will be residue no matter how hard you clean. An easy method that you can try is by using baby oil, you will notice that the dirt will be cleaned right off.
#2: How to distribute fertilizer to hard-to-reach plants
If you have a lot of plants and they have already grown to the point where they can reach the ones in the back, then it would be difficult to add fertilizer to them. You can find a long hose that can reach that part, then point it down into the soil and start spraying the fertilizer right inside the hose and into the root system of the plant.
#3: Ideas for filling flower vases
Filling a large flower pot can be expensive and use up too much potting soil; instead, try filling it with other objects such as: bricks, rocks, plastic bottles, sticks, branches, mulch, leaves, recycled paper, magazines, pool noodles, straws and more. After adding the filling materials, place the potted flower on top, or cover the filling materials with potting soil and transplant the flower or plant.
#4: How to use a vase with holes in the bottom
If your jar has one or more holes in the bottom, take a coffee filter and place it well on the bottom. This way the soil will remain in the pot and the water will be able to pass and drain at the same time. You can now plant the plants or flowers as you normally would. When you remove recently purchased plants from their container, give them a little squeeze and they will come off more easily.
#5: DIY seedbed
Take a large 2 liter plastic bottle, cut off the base or bottom and place the top over the plant, as shown in the video. This will act as a terrarium and allow your seeds to be watered and grow automatically. Another tip is to use coffee grounds or Epsom salt as fertilizer for plants. It’s also best to keep all your gardening tools in a bucket, so you can easily carry them anywhere.