[www.keralites.net] Gardening Tricks

 

A well maintained garden not only adds to the charm of your home, but also helps you stay fitter. Gardening is a great stress-buster and is one the many things suggested for a healthy lifestyle. It helps you reduce osteoporosis risk while it also lowers your diabetes risk. The environmental benefits associated with gardening are too known to be mentioned, while if you're growing a vegetable garden, you'd certainly be having healthier organically grown veggies to eat. Here are some tricks you can do to improve your garden and cut down the cost involved in maintaining it. Use toilet paper rolls to make biodegradable planters Flickr   Growing Moss Graffiti is also quite easy. Greenprophet.com   Here's how you can cut succulent to begat more succulents. Succulentsandsunshine.com   Use a lemon rind or an eggshell to grow a seedling. Myromanapartment.com       Make a watering can with a gallon jug. Ajourneytoadream.blogspot.com   Even a shovel could be made out of a gallon jug. Afarmofyourhome.com   Here's how you can make a cool herb garden for your living room. Designfixation.blogspot.com   Use the leftover store-bought cuttings to plant basil. Thyme2gardennow.blogspot.com   You can plant celery as well. Heorganiclemon.com   Grow onions on your own Alternative-energy-gardning.blogspot.com   A hanging garden can be made out of shower caddies. Ikeahackers.net   Rakuten.com   Your shoe rack can be used to make a vertical herb garden.     http://www.ikeahackers.net/ Lifehacker.com   Make seed tapes out of toilet paper. Rage_/rage_   Leftover coffee grounds can keep critters away from ground, while it also enriches the soil. Maya Kovacheva Photography   You can use coffee filters to keep soil from leaking out of the pot's drainage. Savvysugar.com   Car wax can mend your tools like gardening shears. Thisoldhouse.com   Add baking soda to home-grown tomato plants and make the fruit less tart. Thegardeningcook.com   Keep your tools in building sand and keep them from rusting. Realsimple.com   Realsimple.com   Test your old seeds on paper before planting them. Fb-troublemakers.com   Diapers can be used to retain moisture in a planter. Make-it-do.com   Make-it-do.com   You can keep your hydrangeas perky with alum. Thehappierhomemaker.com   Ourfamilyworld.com   Vodka can be used to keep cut flower fresh for a longer time. Liquorlockerla.com   Use beer to kill slugs. Flickr   Use broken pots by turning them into plant markers. Wikihow.com   Even seed packets can be used to remember what you planted. Gardeners.com   Why buy a trellis when you can use zip ties and bamboo poles to make one? Apartmentfarm.wordpress.com   Plants can be swapped seasonally by planting them in their pots.

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