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This Weeks 5 Expert Gardening Tips, Ideas, and Projects that Everyone Should Know
Modified: Feb 12, 2023 by Vanessa Beaty · This post may contain affiliate links · 26 Comments
We’re right in the middle of spring, the perfect time to start planting flowers, vegetables, herbs, and more!
Gardening season is upon us and it’s in full swing.
Whether you are brand new to gardening or you have a veteran green thumb, you know that gardening is a rewarding way to spend more time outdoors—or make the most of your indoor space!
While gardening is fun, it can also be very challenging. It’s a subtle art and science since many plants require delicately balanced conditions in order to thrive.
These gardening tips and tricks are easy and affordable, and will help you to get the best results this year!
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Make a drip feeder using an old soda bottle.
Have plants (especially vegetables) that do better if the moisture is delivered at their roots instead of from overhead? One cheap and simple way to make a drip feeder which you can place underground next to your plant is by using an old plastic soda bottle.
Just puncture some holes in it (a barbeque skewer works great), and then plant it next to the young plant.
The bottle will enable a slow release of water near the roots. This method prevents fungus and also reduces problems with leaves.
Check out the source for detailed, in-depth instructions. Later on we’ll share some more ideas which are similar to this one and which are great for other applications.
DIY Instructions and Project Credit: Thegardeningcook
Pot-in-a-pot.
The pot-in-a-pot method is one which you can use to solve a whole lot of gardening problems.
This page over on Florida Friendly Plants lists 20 different reasons to consider it. It’s excellent for flexible gardening (you can move things around with ease, without upsetting the plants nearly as much—great if you are experimenting with light conditions and such), and perfect if you have sand, coral rock, or encroaching roots in your garden.
Those are just a few reasons to try it.
Check out the page linked above to get started, and then have a look at this updated post, which will teach you even more about the pot-in-a-pot method. This really is one of the simplest and most ingenious gardening ideas I think I’ve ever seen!
DIY Instructions and Project Credit: Floridafriendlyplants
Water your tomatoes the right way.
Tomatoes can be tough to grow in dry climates, and watering them with an overhead sprinkler isn’t always best for their leaves.
The solution? Believe it or not, all you really need is a garbage can with a few holes drilled in it and a couple shovels full of compost.
Check out pictures and the method here, and try it out for yourself. Those tomato plants look awesome. Great results!
DIY Instructions and Project Credit: Hometalk.com
Propagate roses with cuttings—and grow roses in potatoes.
One of the easiest ways to grow roses is by taking cuttings.
This page will teach you the basics, and also a cool and very odd trick involving roses in potatoes.
That’s right, you can grow roses … in potatoes. You stick the rose cutting into a potato, and then push both into the ground.
The potato keeps your cuttings moist while roots are developing.
DIY Instructions and Project Credit: Amateurgardening
Make molded concrete planters.
Remember the concrete block raised garden from earlier?
Here is another similar idea, only this time, you are starting from scratch! That’s right, no concrete blocks, just concrete.
This is an immensely cool and creative project where you create the concrete planters from scratch using plastic containers as molds. The finished results look just awesome!
I actually love the fact that they’re a little rough around the edges. They look almost like something you’d find at an archaeological dig a thousand years in the future.
DIY Instructions and Project Credit: Radmegan
