Gardening goes beyond a leisure activity; it is an exciting task of making friends with the plants together with enhancing the beauty of your compound and even cheering up when you are stressed. But it is not only the newcomers who may experience a phase of being stuck and repeating the same operations in their gardens. For those who want to give a rebirth of their garden, let’s consider 5 unique tips that might have never crossed your mind. Here is how these tips are meant to provide a healthy and dynamic garden and ease your life.
1. Use Coffee Grounds for Better Soil
While take a cup of coffee in the morning is one of the sweetest things in life, it is important to know that your garden also needs it. The remains are also rich in nitrogen which is one of the most important nutrients required for plant growth. They also assist in structural modification of the soil and its pH level and this is advantageous as it favors the growth of plants such as roses, azaleas and blueberries.
How to Use Coffee Grounds in Your Garden:
- Sprinkle:
Sprinkle used coffee grounds at the base of your plants. It also contributes to the kinds of nutrients you are putting on the soil and can be useful in discouraging some pests that are known to mainly feed on plants such as slug and snails.
- Compost:
Composting: use coffee grounds as one of the ingredients. They disintegrate rather rapidly and I think give a rather well-proportioned assortment of nourishment.
- Mix:
Add coffee grounds to ordinary garden soil since it will help in the matter of drainage and water holding capacity of the garden soil.
However, do not overdo it as to when someone mentions the pie by name, do not reply immediately. That is why a thin layer of the coffee grounds is sufficient; the extra one may cause the excessive acidity of the soil.
2. Epsom Salt: The Secret to Greener Leaves
Epsom salt is one of the best-kept secrets of the gardeners. The soil is rich in magnesium and sulfate both of these are important to the growth of plants. It assists the plant in synthesizing chlorophyll, thus causing the output or color of their leaves to be greener. Sulfate on the other hand enhances nutrient absorption in the body a factor that makes this compound quite essential.
Using Epsom Salt in the Garden:
- Foliar Spray:
Epsom salt is simply magnesium sulphate and when diluted for gardening mix one tablespoon of the salt with a gallon of water. Apply it on your plants, once in two weeks for a marvelous and fresh green lawn.
- Soil Amendment:
When preparing the garden soil for planting, then ensure that you incorporate Epsom salt in the process. Bury it at about one tablespoon per the square footage of the soil.
This can help a lot and for tomatoes, peppers and roses it shall give a very big boost.
3. Banana Peels for Blooming Flowers
Banana peels are not wasted to throw away: here are seven surprising uses. They are rich in minerals such as potassium, phosphorus as well as calcium which play an important role in plant growth and development. They all aid in growth and development, but in different ways, potassium for instance strengthens stems and promotes flowering.
Ways to Use Banana Peels in Your Garden:
- Direct Planting:
Take banana peels and take a deep hole close to the plants base and bury it. They also aid in the decomposition which also provides nutrients for enhanced production of flowers.
- Compost:
Get rid of banana peels by composting them as they are rich in nutrients good for compost.
- Banana Tea:
Take banana peels and immerse them in water for a few days to prepare a ‘banana tea’ and give your plants a drink.
Though this hack is good for all plants, it has a special impact on the flowering plants such as roses, hibiscus and begonias.
4. Eggshells: A Natural Pest Repellent
You can use eggshells as one of the best sources of calcium for your soil besides which they are repellent to pests. Calcium is essential in controlling of blossom-end rot in some crops such as tomatoes and peppers. Furthermore, the crushed eggshells with rather jagged edges are useful in repelling such pests as slugs or snails.
How to Use Eggshells in Your Garden:
- Crushed Shells:
Take the eggshells and ground them manually and then spread them around the plants. It serves not only to fill calcium to the ground but also to prevent pests from appearing and developing in the garden.
- Soil Amendment:
Bury crushed eggshells deeply into the ground adding them to the garden soil you have prepared. In the process, they decompose and enhance the health of the soil.
The use of eggshells in gardening is an environmentally friendly method of pest control and it also helps to improve the health of plants.
5. Mulch with Newspaper for Weed Control
Thistles, that is, weeds, are a gardener’s worst nightmare. Though getting rid of weeds by mulching is known to work, you can go a step further by using the newspapers that are no longer useful. Newspapers work like a protective shield to weeds and deny them light which is essential in their growth.
How to Mulch with Newspaper:
- Layering:
Sprinkle few newspapers on the ground around the plants, preferably placing them overlaid slightly. Spread some compost over the newspaper in order to fix it in the ground to ensure that it is not moved by any force and also to beautify the garden.
- Watering:
Irrigate the area so as to ensure that the newspaper lays well with the soil and even decomposes.
Not only does this hack ensure that weeds are controlled, but it also ensures that there is no need to water the garden or plants very often.
Conclusion:
Indeed, Gardening does not have to be complex or even involve the purchase of expensive items. In this case, for example, it may be difficult to come up with ideas for a bed, table, and chair; but coffee grounds, a banana peel, or an eggshell – all these are possibilities that one often discards. So, the five useful gardening tips that were discussed above will help you improve the work of your garden, get more flowers and successfully fight with pests.
So, next time you’re in the kitchen, think twice before tossing out those banana peels or eggshells. Your garden will thank you!
Happy gardening!
