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From making your own plant food to protecting plants from the elements, there are simple ways to achieve more in your garden with less.
Whether you want to make pots for seed sowing, get your shed in order or even concoct a batch of organic weedkiller, there are shortcuts to success.
In this short video we’ll share six handy horticultural hacks that will save you money, effort and time.
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another great video, I like the egg shell planters, I use toilet rolls already but had never thought of using egg shells. Bottles I use the bottoms for both covering seedlings & when not used for that they are good for cuttings, plus if you leave enough on the tops, you can use them as funnels etc. I use two as funnels from my greenhouse gutter into a hose into a water butt.
Appreciate the tips. Thx!
Vinegar, salt lemon juice? The lemon is just another acid like the vinegar and so it is not required. This sounds like one of those recipes from an American site – they often get their chemistry so wrong (or it is absent). I use a saturated salt solution. That is as much salt as will dissolve in water. It's very effective. Happy new year to you. I'm looking forward to more.
Grow VEG! Man I thought this was about something entirely different. My bad.
Thanks for these egg-citing tips!
While it's hard to pick a favorite GrowVeg video, this one is certainly among my favorites. I love the ideas and time- and money-savings hacks. Last fall, some of my tomatoes got off to a bit of a slow start. (Well, truthfully, I was slow in getting them planted out.) In any case, when we had our first unexpected cold snap in early fall, I still had tomato plants absolutely loaded with not-yet-ripe tomatoes, and I wasn't willing to just let them go. So, I bought two 20-foot sections of PVC pipe (3/4"), 4 2- to 3-foot pieces of rebar, and a huge roll of clear plastic. My husband and I hammered the rebar into the four corners of the bed in which the tomatoes were growing. We drilled a small hole completely through each 20-foot section of PVC right in the middle, crossed the two pieces of PVC perpendicular to each other (like an "X"), and then threaded a plastic zip-tie (or you could use a quite long nut and bolt) through the two PVC pipes to hold them together. We slipped the ends of the pipes over the rebar and draped the clear plastic sheeting over the joined pipes to make a fast and easy, makeshift greenhouse that could be taken down and reused again. After about 2 or 3 weeks, the tomatoes were finally ripe, and I made two large batches of marinara to use and share.
What a terrific idea for dealing with those plant labels.
Why the lemon juice as well as the vinegar?
Enjoying all your content. Thank you
My favourite is the plant label hack. Sheer genius x
Boiling water is great for weeds in pathways…just grab the kettle and pour. Be aware of your soil type, as some soils are quite alkaline, and the additional calcium from eggshells can actually bind up needed nutrients and cause chlorosis (yellowing of the leaves due to lack of iron).
Keep the lids for your cloches. Put them back on if there is going to be a frost overnight and remove in morning after frost clears.
How about copper pipes for slugs? 🙂
lol are you that stupid!
Oh these are wonderful ideas, thank you.
Thank you for really useful tips. I really liked your tips for growing seedlings in the eggshells! Take care.
I always lose my labels! Thanks for the idea!
How soon can you plant seedlings after using the organic weedkiller mixture?
Thank you!!!!
It has been shown that spent coffee grounds greatly inhibit growth of plants. We need to stop recommending them.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1618866716300103
if you are transplanting seedlings from a container with seedlings close together, use a spoon or pencil to wiggle them out while you slowly and carefully pull it out. when doing this hold the LEAF, if the leaf breaks it wont matter but if you break or bruise the stem then the plant might die.
square foot gardening is good because you can fit more in the garden.
no till/no dig gardening is also good as it doesn't bring weed seeds up.
you can fit more in if you grow vertically.
if you think about it, in your garden, you grow food, and you eat it. so there is less nutrient in the soil, even if you compost the peel/waste from the plant. so it is good to bring kitchen scarps from food that you bought from somewhere and compost them to make up for the nutrient you ate.
Hi, I was under the impression that I had to partially bury my homemade closhes (after seeing the tip somewhere else), so I pushed them a few cms under the soil. This doesn't seem like a good idea in hindsight, as when I took them off a whole bunch of soil came with it, disturbing the seedling. Looks like you just put yours on top, but doesn't the wind blow them off, then? Thanks so much.
I love all your ideas and tips, thank you. One question, please. Can I put liquidised veg straight on my soil without waiting for it to compost as such?
Excellent advice !! I have began trench composting. I have two used coffee cans in the kitchen for scraps. I then put it all thru food processor to help it break down faster before adding to the soil.
Love this!!
Hello
i use corys instead of eaggshells