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These sustainable tricks to boost your gardening skills are simple, smart and proven by experts. It doesn’t matter whether you are skilled or not, that’s why these garden hacks make gardening more enjoyable.
Knowing small secrets about plant care and how to quickly propagate vegetables, flowers, and shrubs often makes your gardening friends ask, “How do your plants grow so fast and look so healthy?”
Without wasting much time let’s start with tried and true tips to boost plant growth. Let’s make this growing season productive with genius garden hacks.
1. Improve Plants Longevity
Before rain just about to come, in the spring season aerate your garden space. This treatment helps increase oxygen level of the soil and makes the soil more fertile. Let the holes fill themselves naturally. Now plantation will give you better results.
2. Use Coffee Grounds To Fertilize Soil
Filled with nitrogen coffee grounds improve the texture and fertility of the soil. Sprinkle around acid-loving plants like roses, tomatoes, and azaleas.
3. Place Egg Shells
If you are facing problems with slugs, just place broken egg shells around your plants. Slugs find it hard to crawl over the sharp edges of eggshells; their soft bodies eventually get punctured, which gets them killed.
4. Epsom Salt for Tomato Plants
Epsom salt contains magnesium and sulfate which are key ingredients for vegetable plant growth. Even flower plants like roses develop greener leaves and stronger blooms. Mix 1 tbsp in a gallon of water and spray the leaves.
5. Banana Peels for Instant Potassium Boost
Let banana peels dry then bury them in the soil close to the roots of the plants. The peels release potassium and phosphorus, encouraging vibrant and healthier fruits.
6. Make Your DIY Seed Pots
It’s better to use waste plastic bottles or containers, biodegradable egg cartons, egg shells or cardboard tubes to plant the seeds. Fill them with potting-mix and seeds, let them sprout. Once your seedlings are ready, transfer them into a pot or the ground, depending on the space you have.
7. Make Compost for Free
We all have empty plastic bottles of water or milk. Make holes around the bottle as shown in the image above. Now dig a hole the size of your container and bury it in the soil. You can add kitchen waste through the container’s opening—an easy and effortless way to make the soil more fertile.
8. Save Water And Use It
When washing or boiling your veggies, save that water and use it to water your plants. Wait! don’t just throw boiling water to your plants, let the water come to room temperature.
9. No Cost Pest Control Remedy
Struggling with mites, whiteflies, or aphids? The best solution is to mix 1 teaspoon of liquid dish soap into 4 cups of water. Then, gently sprinkle this solution over the tops of your plants.
10. Gardening Hacks for Small Spaces
Limited space? Grow easy plants and vines like beans, cucumbers, or even strawberries on trellises, ladders, or in hanging baskets to maximize yield without overcrowding.
11. Cinnamon for Plant Protection
Sprinkle cinnamon on seedlings to prevent fungus and damping-off disease. It also acts as a natural insect repellent for small pests.
12. Use Mulch to Lock in Moisture
Shredded leaves, wood chips, mulching with straw keeps soil cool and retains moisture. A clever garden hack during dry spells.
13. Soak Seeds Before Planting
Soaking seeds overnight in warm water softens their outer shell and speeds up germination—especially helpful for peas, beans, and other hard-coated seeds.
14. Water in the Morning
Always water your plants early in the day. It prevents fungal diseases, reduces evaporation, and gives your plants the moisture they need to face the sun’s heat.
15. Use Milk Jug To Water the Plants
Don’t spend money unnecessarily unless you find effective ways around you. For example milk jug, wash it properly, poke out some holes on the cap and there you go. DIY watering container ready.
I hope these garden hacks if applied properly will benefit you in your gardening journey.
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