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These are my top 50 gardening ideas and garden hacks, tips, and tricks that will blow away your mind. After the success of my 101 gardening ideas and hacks four years ago, I present these fresh and new gardening hacks and tricks for home gardening – for beginners as well as experts in gardening hobby.
Guaranteed Rooting Trick
For faster and guaranteed rooting of stem or branch cuttings, take a small piece of fresh aloe vera leaf and insert the cutting into it and then plant into the soil. Roots grow as early as 10 days depending on the plant you choose.
- PROMOTES ROOTING: Rooting hormone grows new plants from cuttings.
- GROW CUTTINGS: Works with most popular home, garden and greenhouse varieties.
Candle Drop Gardening Ideas!
Seal the upper cut end of your plant stem or branch cutting using a few drops of candle wax. This helps prevent moisture evaporation and results in faster rooting.
No Browns for Composting?
Use a paper shredder and use the shredded paper and cardboard to add into your compost bin for faster and smell-free composting.
Easy Tomato Stakes
Tomato plants require support to avoid awkward bends and also to get the best yield. String Support your Tomato plants using a small piece of GI metal wire. Make it into a U-shaped loop and insert it near the roots. Tie one end of a string to this and the other end to some support at the top.
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Banana Peel Fertilizer for Flowering
To make banana peel tea, soak pieces of banana peels in water for 2 to 3 days. Dilute this liquid with water in a 1:5 ratio and water your plants to provide potassium to your plants which increases flowering in plants and also makes the flower size bigger.
Anti-Gravity Plant Support
While growing climber veggies, do not take them to a height above 6 feet, but instead support them in a slope-like fashion, like take it to a height and then slope the growing ends downwards to assist in the long-distance transport of water and nutrients for healthy growth. The arch-like trellis is the ideal support fence for growing climber or creeper veggies.
Hairs to Roots Gardening Ideas
Insert tomato seedlings as deep as possible to increase the density of roots formed from tiny hairy projections from tomato stems and this makes the plant stronger to produce the best yield.
Big Leaves
To get large-sized leaves in your money plant, use a moss stick or coir stick to anchor the aerial roots to it. Wet the moss stick whenever you water the money plant.
Onion + Aloe Vera Rooting Agent
Making a paste using onion and aloe vera gel and dipping the cuttings into it for a few minutes before planting in soil will help in faster and guaranteed rooting.
Spoon Transplant
To transplant your seedlings, use a spoon, dig out as much soil with it including the roots of the plant and hold the leaves of the plant and not the STEM to pull out, because this can squeeze and damage the water and food conducting tubes – xylem and phloem and the little plant may die.
Grow From Junk
Never throw away a pineapple crown, just remove the bottom leaves and keep the bottom inserted into a glass of water for a week and then transfer it to a container. It will bear fruits within a year.
Eggshell Water
One eggshell contains about 2gms of calcium. When you boil eggs, a small percentage of this calcium and phosphorous is released into the water. Do not throw away this water, but use it to water your plants that require a lot of calcium – like tomatoes and peppers as well as flowering plants.
Cello Tape Pest Trap
Wrap the cello tape in reverse on your fingers and use the sticky part to touch on leaves infested with pests like aphids, whiteflies, and mealybugs.
Clay Soil Hack
Remove Clayey or sticky soil from roots using this simple Hack: When you bring your plant from a nursery and start repotting, most often you find they have stuffed the plant in a clay-rich sticky soil. You can remove this soil without damaging the roots by soaking the root ball in water for a few minutes till this soil dissolves. Then you can repot this plant in a well-draining potting mix.
Root Teasing
Always loosen up or tease your roots before repotting into a new container.
Toilet Paper Cloning Hack
Use Aloe vera and Toilet paper to produce roots faster during air layering your favorite plant.
Aspirin Trick For Rooting
During conventional air layering to produce faster and better roots, use one tablet of aspirin 350mg per litre of water and add this water to your potting mix and then wrap it around the injured stem for faster and dense root formation.
Hydroponic Cloner
For faster rooting, make your own hydroponic plant cloner using a plastic bucket and an aquarium pump. Healthy roots develop within 8 days.
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Free Calcium
Egg shells easily dissolve in vinegar and release free calcium to your plants. Make egg shell powder and then add about a cup of vinegar to a cup of egg shell powder and stir nicely and leave it for an hour. Then dilute this to 1:100 or more to water your plants and treat acute calcium deficiencies which can produce blossom end rot disease in your fruits and veggies.
Simplest Plant Cloner
Use any container and place a couple of aquarium air stones to pump oxygen into the water. This helps in faster and guaranteed rooting of any plant cuttings in water.
Wheel-Barrow Gardening Ideas
No Wheelbarrow to move garden stuff? Do not worry, the cheapest alternative is a large cloth or an old bed sheet. Just load on the heavy objects and drag it along.
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Aspirin for Rooting
When you propagate cuttings in water, do not forget to add a small piece of Aspirin tablet into it for faster and stronger root development.
Seed Split Trick
Split the Cilantro or Coriander seeds before planting them the sandpaper method and apply gentle scraping pressure to split the seeds and do not crush or damage them using a heavy object like these. This helps to grow an enormous cilantro harvest.
Scrape and Sow
Use sandpaper to scrape the hard seed cover of certain seeds like apple, chickoo, and those with hard seed coats for faster seed germination.
Treat Leaf Curl Virus using Asafoetida
Take 500ml of sour buttermilk. Add one teaspoon or about 5gms of Asafoetida powder to it and mix well. Let it stay for 1 or 2 hours. Sieve this solution and spray thoroughly over the affected plant including the underside of the leaves. Repeat this every 3 days for 3 – 4 times to completely cure the leaf curl disease.
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Egg Shell Planters Gardening Ideas
You can use eggshells to sow seeds. To make drainage holes, scrape with sandpaper and use a thin drill bit to make a hole without breaking the shell.
Egg Trays
Cardboard egg trays can be used as seed germination trays. You can directly transplant the seedling along with the cardboard into the soil, as this is biodegradable.
Chalk Sticks
Chalk is chemically Calcium Carbonate. You can bury a chalk stick into the soil while planting your veggies. This really works wonders for plants like tomatoes, peppers, squashes, eggplants, and almost any vegetable plant.
Strong Roots
Strong roots mean a healthier plant with a better yield. In its early growth phase, adding a source of phosphorus like bone meal powder or organic rock phosphate powder will produce stronger roots and produce a better harvest.
Seed Viability Check
An easy method to check the viability of your larger seeds is to pour them into a bowl of water. If the seeds are floating, this means they are dry and not viable. Discard them and use only those seeds that sink to the bottom.
No Garden Gloves?
Scrape your nails into soap before working with your garden soil or potting mix. This helps in cleaning your hands easily later on and also the dirt won’t enter your nail beds.
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Repel Animals
A simple way to repel some animals like cats, dogs, and rabbits is to soak some pieces of cloth with vinegar and stuff them in some areas of your garden. These animals cannot withstand the smell of vinegar and may not return if you repeat this process for a few days. Similarly, using Asafoetida wrapped in a piece of cloth will deter these animals and certain insects.
Magnifying Lens
Use a magnifying glass to closely examine and diagnose your plant pests and insects to identify them and follow the treatment accordingly.
Tea Fertilizer
You can also use tea waste or coffee grounds on flowering plants as an organic fertilizer to boost blooms.
Tea Waste Compost
Add used tea waste or coffee grounds into your compost bin for faster composting because earthworms digest them very fast.
Seed Spacing Ideas
You can do perfect seed spacing for tiny seeds like spreading them apart in a row on toilet paper – for better visibility and even spacing and sowing. You can make seed tapes either in a row or a square or round seed board especially for carrot seeds for even spacing and better growth and ease of harvesting.
Over-Ripe is Bad!
Garden vegetables and fruits that become over-ripe are an easy target for pests. Remove them as soon as possible to avoid pest growth.
Faster Germination Trick
A simple hack for faster germination and healthy seedlings is to soak seeds in Epsom salt solution for a couple of hours before planting – like half a teaspoon of Epsom salt in 100 ml of water. You can also spray Epsom salt solution on your seeds and seedlings for a healthy outcome.
Pick Small Gardening Idea!
You can pick small seeds for sowing with a stick or toothpick dipped in water.
Acidify Soil
For acid-loving plants like rose, hibiscus, or hydrangeas, use 5gms of alum powder in 1 litre of water once every 15 days and this will boost flowering.
Soil PH Test Using Litmus Paper
Mix water and soil in a 1:1 ratio. Dip the litmus paper and match the color
with your color coding chart that came along with your litmus paper kit.
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A Rough Soil PH Test Method
Take a soil sample and pour some vinegar. If it fizzes and bubbles you have alkaline soil. What if the soil is acidic? Add baking soda one or two teaspoons and mix it with soil. Then wet the soil-baking soda mix with distilled water. If it fizzes and bubbles your soil is acidic, because the acidic content in soil reacts with a base or alkaline stuff like baking soda.
Free Bio Seed Pots
Never throw away the toilet paper cardboard roll. But use it to make seedling cups which are biodegradable and can be directly planted into soil without disturbing roots.
Paper Pots
You can also make seed pots by rolling newspaper and even this is biodegradable and similarly you can directly transplant with the pot into the soil or into a larger container.
Mosquito Repelling Plants
Growing plants like lemongrass, citronella, catnip, basil, marigolds, eucalyptus, and many other plants helps deter mosquitoes.
Turmeric Treatment
You can use turmeric powder from your kitchen to treat and prevent rose-dieback disease after pruning your rose bush.
Silica Gel Packets
Never throw away these tiny sachets, use them in your seed storage container as desiccants which increase your seed life and protect them from fungus. You can also use these to preserve and protect powdered gardening stuff like bone meal, fungicide powder, rooting hormone, etc. Just tape the sachet to the underside of the container lid and that’s it.
DIY Watering Can
Take the base of a soda bottle and place it around one end of a PVC pipe. Heat it up with a lighter. It should shrink and clamp around the open edge. No glue is needed. Use a pin and poke some holes in the bottle base. Next, cut the edge of the pipe at an angle using a saw blade. Next insert the pipe into the inlet and use some hot glue to hold it in place. Optionally, color it to get that beautiful look.
Mini Green House
Use plastic bins or containers as mini greenhouses or poly houses for faster seed germinations.
Do Not Kill
Avoid spraying a pesticide on the flowers. This is to avoid any harm to beneficial pollinator insects like butterflies and honey bees which are essential for pollination and fruit formation.
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