Gardening Tips

Make Eggshell Seed Planters

Next time you’re making breakfast, hang onto those discarded eggshells. Clean them thoroughly, and then return the wider bottom halves of the shells to an empty carton. Fill them with a little potting soil and use them as makeshift seed planters. Once they’re ready to transplant, gently crush the eggshells and plant the seedlings in your garden. The crushed shells will then provide your plants with valuable minerals as they continue to grow.

Treat Your Soil with Coffee and Tea

If you have acid-loving plants in your garden such as azaleas, gardenias and rhododendrons, you can use leftover tea leaves and coffee grounds to adjust the PH of your soil. Just sprinkle about a quarter-inch of your leaves and/or grounds on the soil once a month to acidify the soil and keep your plants happy and healthy.

Turn a Shoe Organizer Into an Herb Garden

You can easily make a space-saving vertical herb garden out of a hanging cloth shoe organizer. Just hang the organizer over a wall or door outside and fill each container with potting soil. You can plant more herbs than you’ll know what to do without sacrificing valuable space in your flowerbeds.

Remove Salt Deposits With a Homemade Solution

If you notice salt deposits forming on clay pots, you can easily remove them with a simple solution of equal parts white vinegar, rubbing alcohol and water. Mix the three ingredients in a spray bottle, apply it to the pots and scrub them with a nylon brush. Once the pots are dry they’ll be clean and ready for plantings.

Indestructible weeds are a goner. Cut weed down as near to root as possible and pour salt on generously. This will drain all the moisture out. If it still persists cut the weed the same and pour neat bleach carefully on top but only enough to soak into the plant and nowhere else. Sorted!

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and so what if i use google sometimes you really are becoming a bore cosy if you cant add anything useful dont add anything not hard to comprehend surely?
<p id=”nolinklinebreak”>Gardening tips for April</p>
As the weather begins to get warmer, April is always a busy month in a gardeners calendar, with seeds to sow, lawns to mow, shrubs to trim and vegetable gardens to tend to.

Top Tips

• Now is the perfect time to get the lawnmower out and cut your grass for the first time this year. Cut grass with the lawn mower blades set high for the first few times, then use a good lawn feed and weed killer to help your lawn look its best. Also re-seed and re-turf any bald patches.
• Thin out herbaceous plants, prune spring flowering shrubs once flowering has finished and trim evergreen hedges and shrubs.
• In early April sow garden vegetables like potatoes, peas, broad beans, leeks, cauliflower, summer cabbage, brussel sprouts, onions, spinach, turnips, parsnips and lettuce outdoors or, if you leave it too late, young vegetable plants can be bought from garden centres. Other vegetables like cucumbers, courgettes and outdoor tomatoes can be sown under glass and runner beans can be started individually in 3 inch pots ready for planting in May.
• It’s also a good time to sow seeds of hardy annuals like nasturtium, calendula, lavatera and cornflowers.
• Sprinkle rose fertiliser around roses and begin to spray them to control pests and diseases.
• Feed all other plants in the garden using a slow-release fertiliser to improve plant flowering and growth.
• It’s also an ideal time to plant strawberry plants in your garden.

AngelBabe wrote:

thought this might be of use to someone and so what if i use google sometimes you really are becoming a bore cosy if you cant add anything useful dont add anything not hard to comprehend surely? <p id=”nolinklinebreak”>Gardening tips for April</p> As the weather begins to get warmer, April is always a busy month in a gardeners calendar, with seeds to sow, lawns to mow, shrubs to trim and vegetable gardens to tend to. Top Tips

• Now is the perfect time to get the lawnmower out and cut your grass for the first time this year. Cut grass with the lawn mower blades set high for the first few times, then use a good lawn feed and weed killer to help your lawn look its best. Also re-seed and re-turf any bald patches.
• Thin out herbaceous plants, prune spring flowering shrubs once flowering has finished and trim evergreen hedges and shrubs.
• In early April sow garden vegetables like potatoes, peas, broad beans, leeks, cauliflower, summer cabbage, brussel sprouts, onions, spinach, turnips, parsnips and lettuce outdoors or, if you leave it too late, young vegetable plants can be bought from garden centres. Other vegetables like cucumbers, courgettes and outdoor tomatoes can be sown under glass and runner beans can be started individually in 3 inch pots ready for planting in May.
• It’s also a good time to sow seeds of hardy annuals like nasturtium, calendula, lavatera and cornflowers.
• Sprinkle rose fertiliser around roses and begin to spray them to control pests and diseases.
• Feed all other plants in the garden using a slow-release fertiliser to improve plant flowering and growth.
• It’s also an ideal time to plant strawberry plants in your garden.

no you carry on angel,be my guest all im saying is a lot of people in here havent the attention span now to read half a book,they used to till tint appeared I have contributed to this thread many times,but I dont go all war and peace about it….,.no I like to think im more succint

as quick easy and get to the point

a bit like,no lets not go there.