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Lavender improves a strawberry crop. Planting lavender in your strawberry bed will improve the crop.
- Thyme deters cabbage worms, mint deters cabbage moths, and basil deters mosquitoes.
- To prevent accumulating dirt under your fingernails while you work in the garden, draw your fingernails across a bar of soap .
- Paint the handles of your gardens tools a bright color to help you find them amongst your plants.
- Keep a box in your garden for easy tool storage.
- Train your melons, squash, and cucumbers onto a vertical trellis or fence.
- Milk jugs, soda bottles and other plastic containers make covers to place over your plants and protect them from frost.
- Water your garden in the early morning to conserve moisture loss .
- Add a few drops of food coloring to the bottom of your rain gauge. The level will be easily read the next time it rains.
- Prevent agressive plants from taking over your garden by planting them in a plastic container.
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Gardening Helpful Hints
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Gardening Helpful Hints Cut flowers from the garden in late evening or early morning to ensure freshness.
- Cut the stems under water on a diagonal. This will ensure the stem absorbs moisture.
- Add 2 tbsp vinegar and 3 tsp sugar to water to allow cut flowers to last longer
- Sprinkle 1 tbsp of Epsom salts around geraniums to make them bloom more often.
- Once a month dissolve an aspirin in a cup of tea and feed to plants to speed up growth.
- Use yogurt lid as a plant pot stand to protect furniture.
- Grow houseplants from avocado pits, orange pits, carrot tops, pineapple tops and tomatoes.
- Place a coffee filter in your pot before potting plants to prevent soil leakage.
- Use old ice cube trays to start plants
- Store flower bulbs in winter in old nylon stockings. Hang and allow the air to circulate around them.
- Use used nylons to stake up trees and tender plants.
There are always flowers…
Planting pairs for Spring Planting
It’s January and the snow is starting to come. Usually by December we’ve had a couple of months of snow but this year we have had an unusually green season. So I usually have cabin fever in January and I start dreaming about plants and gardening.
Listed below are planting pairs ( Plants that should be planted together to prevent bugs and disease).
