General Gardening Tips

Save all tubs and flower pots that come with your plants. First, you can always use them to start seeds next season (be sure to wash the flats to get rid of any disease.) Second, it may seem funny at first, but if you cut the bottom off the plastic pots and place them over the young transplants, you'll protect them from rabbits. Additionally, placing pots around ornamental grasses is a great way to keep smaller, lower blades of grass from rotting while in the ground. The tape created by the pot will keep the wires off the ground.

Here's a tip for coffee. Humans aren't the only ones getting a shot of espresso. Plants do that too! Caffeine and theophylline, two components of coffee, are common ingredients in expensive skin care products and key ingredients in asthma medications, but they also make great plant food. You can get it in the big bag and for free just by calling your local cafe.

Simply mix espresso into your existing soil every few months and watch your plants grow. Successful gardening means you don't always have to buy everything new, like pots or fertilizer. Look around to see what you already have and can reuse.

1.Borders

If you want to add a ground cover such as creeping thyme or tulips to your garden, this is a great way to start early and a great way to create an instant border without having to plant every flower. Measure the area you want to cover with ground cover. Suppose you want to create a border along an existing lawn 10 feet long. Cut newspaper (about 2 sheets) into strips 1 foot wide by 2 feet long. To cover 10 feet, you will need five of these foot strips. Place the cassava in a location that receives some sunlight but where the seeds won't be disturbed or hit by ray of light, such as a basement shelf near a window. Place trash bags on the shelves, then add strips of newspaper. The bands do not overlap.

Spread the seeds on newspaper as if you were sowing them in the ground. Spread a layer of tissue paper over each strip, then spray the towel, seeds, and newspaper with a water bottle. You want to saturate the towel and newspaper, but you don't want them to drip. The paper should never dry out (if sprayed immediately). Remove the paper towel when the seeds germinate (in about a week). After a few months, weather permitting, you can plant your newspaper strips, now full of seedlings, outside. First carefully lay out each strip of seedlings where it will be planted. Once you are happy with the arrangement, cover the bare areas of the newspaper with soil to hold the tape.

2.Late Autumn

In the fall, gardeners are usually in tears at the thought of parting with gardening duties. For a slightly later season, plant at the nearest gardening service and purchase California poppy, candytuft, blueberry, dianthus, phlox, cosmos, soap, spinach, larkspur, lilies, marigolds, snapdragon, garlic, and/or sweet pea seeds for what must be midway through this time of year.

These vigorous annuals can actually be planted in the fall and will bloom in the spring or summer!

Who wouldn't want instant flowering results in the garden? If you buy a plant, you want it to be everything it could be yesterday, okay. Nurseries know this and will pay a premium for larger plants. Not only is there demand, but the overhead of a mature plant is also higher than a new one (bigger container, more water, etc.), but if you're patient, buy the younger one. It will save you quite a bit of money and within a few months, given the right conditions and a miracle, your plant formerly known as mini will be growing, it will be a force to be reckoned with.

Fall is a great time of year to buy your seeds for sale as well as to plant end-of-year garden varieties in your garden. Take the time to plan your fall garden so you can enjoy the blooms at the end of the year.

3.Using The Internet

The Internet is a gardener's best friend You might be surprised to learn that your local nursery charges you a lot of money. Or you might be pleasantly surprised to find that your local nursery is a well-kept secret with great prices and inventory. The goal is to shop online and offline. Here's one reason: While researching growers or companies selling plants in her area, one of the gardeners we interviewed came across a nursery she had never heard of. I called and found they were selling direct to nurseries until June when they opened to the public, but since they were local they could search for 12 soybeans and buy whatever they wanted. She had a selection of flowers, colors, textures and rarities and didn't have to worry about which item to sell. Not only can you find great deals by searching, but you can also find new sources!

Plus, the internet is a great place to find ideas for next year's garden. You'll find plenty of ideas no matter what kind of garden you're planting. Check gardening forums to see what other gardeners around the country are doing. You just might find a great new garden idea that is sure to turn your yard into a neighborhood centerpiece.

4. More tips

Stones between the size of oranges and cantaloupes make excellent ornamental plants or garden borders, but if you want a lot, they can be expensive. If you live near a new building, whether it's a tall building or a new neighborhood, you're sure to find plenty of rock gardens to suit your garden. Be careful, construction sites can be dangerous. Don't forget to bring a cart with him so you can easily walk around the area and move your stones at the same time.

Here are tips on plants and seeds. Whether the plant is an annual, a perennial, or a shrub like an azalea, you should collect the seeds even if you don't plan to grow them. For what?

Since you can trade them for other seeds, grow the plants and sell them at the end of your driveway or at the Farmer's Market for some extra cash. You can even donate the seeds to local charities or animal shelters, which they can then resell at a fundraiser.

Gardening is about figuring out what works best for you and what doesn't. Take the time to jot down all your gardening ideas so you can read them over the winter months in preparation for the spring months. When spring rolls around, you'll be ready to buy the seeds and plants you need for your new garden plan.