Gardening Tips

A good time to transplant seedlings is when it is raining. The air is ionised, fresh and clean, the water helps the seedlings get a good boost as they try to get used to their new environment outside.

Be warned that compost bags often hold weed seeds in them. So when you buy them the weed seeds in the bag will be weeds that will suddenly appear in your gardens.

If you have plants, trees, leaves etc that look like they may be diseased, please don’t put them in your compost, get rid of them elsewhere like at the local dump, because the disease will take over your dirt and affect all your plants.

A greenhouse will make it possible to plant seeds early and extend your gardening season.

If you can find a way to save rain water as this is far better for your plants than tap water. Often tap water has chemicals in them to keep the water clean and addictive’s like Fluoride. Saving rain water in barrels etc will give your plants the healthy water that they are used to and what is best for them.

An excellent way to catch slugs and snails is to from time to time get an outer leaf of a cabbage plant and leave it by your garden. You will often find that the snails and slugs will on that big leaf a few hours later and you can put them and the leaf in a bag and dump it far from home.

Some people put dirt in the oven and bake it at a high temperature to kill the weed seeds and then use this dirt to grow seedlings.
Start children off with something simple to grow like radishes. After the children have grown vegetables show them safe ways to prepare and eat them. So that they will see and enjoy the fruits of their efforts while appreciating the process that goes from seeds to something to eat that is tasty and healthy to eat.
If you use a weed trimmer that uses plastic blades you can find them rather frustrating when the trimmer blades fly off and get lost in the grass. I drilled some holes in the plastic disk and put bolts in the and then used them to hold the blades. Now the blades don’t fly off. Be careful and make sure that you use Spring Washers, locking nuts etc, to ensure that the nuts don’t come off and hurt you.
I also in and experiment cut other blades from a plastic bottle and it worked for a much longer time and cut lots of grass.

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