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My Favorite Gardening TipsSawdust. I use sawdust from my husbands workshop to lay down in my vegetable garden to keep weeds down. It works very well. - Tip Winner Diana Jasa Newspaper. I use newspaper between rows in my vegetable garden to keep the weeds down. Usually buy the fall its mostly broken down and can be tilled into the garden before winter. It also helps to retain moisture and its a great recycling alternative. - Tip Winner Leea Calhoun Banana Peels. Don't discard your banana peels! Bury them a 10-15cm below the soil around your roses! They'll thank you with their beautiful blooms from your extra vitamins provided for them. - Tip Winner Terri Bayne Grass Clippings. Spread between your veggie rows to help keep in moisture and keep weeds & dust down. Magnesium. For faster development in tomatoes, eggplant & peppers; mix 2 tbsp. of Epsom salts to one gallon of water, apply one pint to each plant just as it begins to bloom. Wood Ashes. Will add the acid/alkaline to the soil that potatoes like. Coffee Grounds. Makes attractive mulch and when sprinkled over seed planting can help repel root maggot in carrots, radishes, etc. Lime. Use a little lime to mark each row before making the furrows for spinach, beets and lettuces. Calcium. Calcium, found in lime and thing s like crushed eggshells is beneficial to peas, beans, cabbage and turnips. Wax Paper. Placed under melons & squash helps keep worms from entering. Soak. Soak seeds-of beets, swiss chard and peas for 20 mins. before planting to hasten germination. (I do corn, beans & spinach too.) Cool Weather Crops. Peas, spinach, lettuce & onions can be seeded as soon as the ground can be worked. Peppers. Peppers prefer acidic soil; bury a few matches under each pepper plant when you set them out in the garden. (Roots not to touch the match heads). The sulfur increases soil acidity. Cucumbers. Sink an old tire in the ground and sow yours seeds in them. It holds the heat at night (and attracts it during the day). Cuc's like it hot! Onions. They say repel the cabbage butterflies and helps all member of the cabbage family. Plant some in your cabbage row. Chives. Chives are beneficial to fruit tree, tomatoes & carrots when planted near them. (But remember, chives are a perennial that will spread, so cut off those seed heads) Alliums. Like chives, garlic, leeks, onions & shallots, alliums are easy to grow and can help repel moles. Corn, Melons & Squash. Pumpkins & cucumbers like the shade from corn. In turn they protect the corn from climbing critters such as raccoons. Flax. Flax is a good companion to carrots & potatoes, improving growth & flavor. gardening press | where to buy | home | gardening tips | links If you can't find the information you need on our Web site please contact us at: PacketPal Email:
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