101 Gardening Secrets The Experts Never Tell You
Feb 24, 2014 16:01:04 GMT -5
Post by bloodbought on Feb 24, 2014 16:01:04 GMT -5
101 Gardening Secrets The Experts Never Tell You
Seed Starting, What To Do And Not To Do.
I like to use natural top soil to start my garden seedlings in. I usually don't use potting soil because it generally does not produce the results I want. I usually fill a large deep baking pan I have with top soil and bake it for thirty minutes at 350 degrees. This sanitizes the soil and makes sure that no weeds or grass come up in your soil. I usually start on this project in the winter and I fill up a couple of large plastic barrels with lids with the sanitized soil.
I fill my trays up with my potting soil and then I plant my seeds. After I have planted the seeds in the sanitized top soil I sprinkle the top of the soil with powdered cinnamon. This keeps away fungus that can cause damping off.
I cover each seedling with a clear plastic cup that I wash and reuse. This protects the seedling and keeps the moisture in. It also keeps away cold and wind. I do my seed starting on a screened in porch.
If you want to root a plant or cutting in water add a aspirin or two to the water. Buy a cheap bottle of aspirins and grind the aspirin up before you add it to the water. This will aid in water absorption and will help the cutting to start roots. You can often use this method to start cuttings putting out roots that would not do so otherwise.
If you plant your seeds outdoors sprinkle flavored powdered gelatin in the soil with the seeds. This will feed beneficial bacteria and provide needed nitrogen to your plants as they come up.
Transplanting Tomatoes Or Pepper Plants
When your planting any type of tomato or pepper plant pinch off all but the top leaves of the plant. Dig a hole deep enough to have the leaves left on the plant just above the surface of the ground when planted. Always add a cup of water to the prepared hole and then set the plant into the hole and put a tablespoon of powdered flavored gelatin in the hole as near to the roots of the plant as possible. A teaspoon of cinnamon also goes in the hole.
Then carefully fill the hole with dirt and pack the dirt down tight. The gelatin will feed and encourage helpful bacteria and the cinnamon will keep away fungus and cut worms. Try it this way and I promise you that you'll be rewarded with faster growing and healthier plants.
The Lint From Your Dryer
Instead of throwing away the lint your dryer filter collects save it in a tightly covered container and till it into your garden to help hold moisture in your garden.
You can shred your daily newspaper and add the shredded paper to your compost bin. It will help you to have healthy compost and it will help to retain moisture in your garden.
Left Over Apple Peelings, Banana Peelings Etc.
Take all of these peelings and vegetable scraps and run them through your food processor. Put the ground up vegetable scraps around tomatoes, peppers, egg plants, pumpkins and etc. to feed your growing plants. Peppers especially love this and will grow and produce bumper crops of peppers when you feed them this way.
Gardening Tips, Suggestions And Information
1. Never add mulch to plants your going to winter over until after the first frost has occurred. If you add it sooner you may be providing insects with warmth and shelter from the cold.
2. Plant the vegetables in your garden that your family likes to eat. Why plant asparagus if no one eats it.
3. The easiest plants to grow for the new gardener include beans, tomatoes, radishes, Swiss chard, peppers, corn, cucumbers, and potatoes. Anyone should be able to grow these very easy to grow vegetables.
4. If you want to harvest your vegetables in a hurry plant radishes, sweet peas, beans, squash, and cucumbers.
5. Plant your cucumbers so they can grow up a fence or trellis and you will grow far more cucumbers than if you try to plant them on the ground.
6. Plant pole beans around the base of a tee-pee bamboo frame and the pole bean plants will grow up the tee-pee frame and you can easily pick and enjoy your pole beans.
7. Be sure to use tomato cages or sturdy stakes to provide support for your tomato plants. If you don't provide support for your tomatoes your tomato plants won't produce nearly as many tomatoes and they may catch diseases.
8. Radishes, Swiss chard, beets, and carrots can be planted up to four weeks before the last frost. They are quite hardy.
9. Its important to plant varieties of vegetables that grow well in your area. Ask for instance what variety of radishes seem to do well in your area down at your local farm and garden center.
10. Always plant several marigolds around among your tomato plants to keep away garden pests. This works especially well with tomatoes and squash.
11. To always have gardening twine available in the garden put a ball of gardening twine in a clay flower pot with a hole in the bottom. Bring the end of the twine out the hole and turn the pot over. Put it in a convenient place in the garden and you'll always have gardening twine available when you need it.
12. Do you have a problem with aphids. Use a strong insecticidal soap to get rid of them.
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Seed Starting, What To Do And Not To Do.
I like to use natural top soil to start my garden seedlings in. I usually don't use potting soil because it generally does not produce the results I want. I usually fill a large deep baking pan I have with top soil and bake it for thirty minutes at 350 degrees. This sanitizes the soil and makes sure that no weeds or grass come up in your soil. I usually start on this project in the winter and I fill up a couple of large plastic barrels with lids with the sanitized soil.
I fill my trays up with my potting soil and then I plant my seeds. After I have planted the seeds in the sanitized top soil I sprinkle the top of the soil with powdered cinnamon. This keeps away fungus that can cause damping off.
I cover each seedling with a clear plastic cup that I wash and reuse. This protects the seedling and keeps the moisture in. It also keeps away cold and wind. I do my seed starting on a screened in porch.
If you want to root a plant or cutting in water add a aspirin or two to the water. Buy a cheap bottle of aspirins and grind the aspirin up before you add it to the water. This will aid in water absorption and will help the cutting to start roots. You can often use this method to start cuttings putting out roots that would not do so otherwise.
If you plant your seeds outdoors sprinkle flavored powdered gelatin in the soil with the seeds. This will feed beneficial bacteria and provide needed nitrogen to your plants as they come up.
Transplanting Tomatoes Or Pepper Plants
When your planting any type of tomato or pepper plant pinch off all but the top leaves of the plant. Dig a hole deep enough to have the leaves left on the plant just above the surface of the ground when planted. Always add a cup of water to the prepared hole and then set the plant into the hole and put a tablespoon of powdered flavored gelatin in the hole as near to the roots of the plant as possible. A teaspoon of cinnamon also goes in the hole.
Then carefully fill the hole with dirt and pack the dirt down tight. The gelatin will feed and encourage helpful bacteria and the cinnamon will keep away fungus and cut worms. Try it this way and I promise you that you'll be rewarded with faster growing and healthier plants.
The Lint From Your Dryer
Instead of throwing away the lint your dryer filter collects save it in a tightly covered container and till it into your garden to help hold moisture in your garden.
You can shred your daily newspaper and add the shredded paper to your compost bin. It will help you to have healthy compost and it will help to retain moisture in your garden.
Left Over Apple Peelings, Banana Peelings Etc.
Take all of these peelings and vegetable scraps and run them through your food processor. Put the ground up vegetable scraps around tomatoes, peppers, egg plants, pumpkins and etc. to feed your growing plants. Peppers especially love this and will grow and produce bumper crops of peppers when you feed them this way.
Gardening Tips, Suggestions And Information
1. Never add mulch to plants your going to winter over until after the first frost has occurred. If you add it sooner you may be providing insects with warmth and shelter from the cold.
2. Plant the vegetables in your garden that your family likes to eat. Why plant asparagus if no one eats it.
3. The easiest plants to grow for the new gardener include beans, tomatoes, radishes, Swiss chard, peppers, corn, cucumbers, and potatoes. Anyone should be able to grow these very easy to grow vegetables.
4. If you want to harvest your vegetables in a hurry plant radishes, sweet peas, beans, squash, and cucumbers.
5. Plant your cucumbers so they can grow up a fence or trellis and you will grow far more cucumbers than if you try to plant them on the ground.
6. Plant pole beans around the base of a tee-pee bamboo frame and the pole bean plants will grow up the tee-pee frame and you can easily pick and enjoy your pole beans.
7. Be sure to use tomato cages or sturdy stakes to provide support for your tomato plants. If you don't provide support for your tomatoes your tomato plants won't produce nearly as many tomatoes and they may catch diseases.
8. Radishes, Swiss chard, beets, and carrots can be planted up to four weeks before the last frost. They are quite hardy.
9. Its important to plant varieties of vegetables that grow well in your area. Ask for instance what variety of radishes seem to do well in your area down at your local farm and garden center.
10. Always plant several marigolds around among your tomato plants to keep away garden pests. This works especially well with tomatoes and squash.
11. To always have gardening twine available in the garden put a ball of gardening twine in a clay flower pot with a hole in the bottom. Bring the end of the twine out the hole and turn the pot over. Put it in a convenient place in the garden and you'll always have gardening twine available when you need it.
12. Do you have a problem with aphids. Use a strong insecticidal soap to get rid of them.
The rest of them are here.