Technical advice and practical gardening

Over the years I have collected some of these tips from friends, magazines, online or at conferences. Here are some of them:

1. Turn a wooden tool with a long handle on a pole. Use contain a permanent marker or a wood stove to inch and foot marks on the handle. If you need to space the plant, and a measuring device at a distance.
2. To keep the chain and unravel hand when you need it to keep a ball of yarn in a small clay pot, pull the end of the rope through the drain hole and in the garden secure the boat to the car one on the head or on workstation.
3. If you do not wear gloves when working in the garden (as I often) in order to avoid the accumulation of dirt under the nails your nails into a bar of soap before. They seal the underside of the nail so that the dirt does not accumulate under. If done in the garden, use a nail brush to remove soap and nails are clean and.
4. To keep watermelons to rest on the ground and eventually the rot from moisture, place a cheap plastic screen to when the fruit of the size of your fist.
5. To find out more natural plant bookmarks summer look with a permanent marker writing names of plants on flat and bright faces and place near the base of the plants, stones ago.
6. The next time you boil or steam vegetables, do not pour water down the drain. Keep a bucket or watering can nearby and allow it to cool the water from vegetables. Use "green" water for potted patio. You will be surprised how the answer homegrown container.
7. Use tea and coffee grounds left to acidify the soil for acid-loving plants such as azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias, gardenias, hydrangeas and even blueberries. A thin layer of about a quarter inch applied once a month to keep the pH value of the soil on the acidic side.
8. The fastest way to dry herbs: leaves of newsprint was bag (black ink only) or paper in the food seat of the car, organize herbs in a single layer, then roll to close the windows and the doors. Your plants will dry quickly, and the advantage is your car smells good.
9. Cleaning a hummingbird feeder to fill it with hot water and breaking a tablet of denture cleaning. Let Fizz from the time indicated on the package, then rinse. Denture cleaning tablets are non-toxic and anti-bacterial solution to keep nearly perfect cleaning to healthy lobster!
10. Need a strong grid? Metal plate connected recycling old floors mattresses, beds or chairs. September 4 × 4! Contributions in the ground far enough apart for the bed frame in the middle. The metal frame is pre-drilled, it is so easy to fix with long stainless screws. Fix therefore 6-8 cm above the ground. Paint or not to your liking.

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