It’s garden time! The call of springtime hits me every year in April and May and I begin to dream of things I could plant! Planting is the fun part! Maintaining those plants is the harder part. Here are a few quick gardening tips that are easy, affordable and useful.
Vitamins for the garden:
After steaming vegetables for mealtime, use the leftover water for your houseplants.
It’s full of vitamins that will make your plants flourish!
Drainage for plants:
Don’t discard shells after cracking nuts. They work really well in the bottom of flowerpots to create better drainage. God did provide everything for our needs didn’t He!
For tender rhubarb plants:
None of us like stringy, tough rhubarb! Try watering your rhubarb plants well a day or two before you pick your stalks. Even watching the timing of your cutting after a good rain storm will provide you with more tender stalks.
Every pretty picture looks better with a border around it. Your garden is no different.
Here is an edible border! Parsley makes a beautiful border around a flower garden or vegetable garden. It’s a convenient, practical way to have fresh parsley on hand for cooking and garnishes and it’s a conversation piece too!
Animal problems:
A simple solution to keeping dogs, cats and other animals out of your garden patch is to use mothballs! Use masking tape to reseal the opened end of small, empty vegetable cans and fill them about half full with mothballs. In the closed end of the cans, punch a few small holes, and then place the cans in your garden in different areas. The mothballs will last longer this way to help in keeping those unwanted, four-footed fellows out of your garden!
Happy Gardening!
2 comments:
Great ideas!
This was great! I didn't know some of these things. Thank you for sharing. Dianne
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