10 Gardening Tips & Ideas every gardener should know & 10 Vegetable Gardening Mistakes and How to avoid them
10 tips, ideas and hacks every gardener should know. These gardening tricks might surprise you and help you not only to grow the best plants in your garden, but also save you a lot of money. Here is the set of tips:
1. Beneficial bacteria: Fish emulsion and seaweed fertilizer have a lot of beneficial microbes which can be added to your soil
2. Seed viability: A quick trick to check seed viability without sowing seeds
3. EZ Pot Holes – Never use a drill to punch holes in a container, there is a much easier way to do this!
4. Aspirin – Learn why Aspirin is such a powerhouse!
5. Eggshells – What do they have to do with gardening? And how you can use a BlendTec blender to make eggshell meal out of eggshells
6. Epsom Salt – Why epsom salt is so beneficial for growing the best tomatoes, peppers and eggplants
7. EZ Stakes – Build a stake in 5 minutes with minimal materials using this technique
8. Whiter Cauliflowers – How to get the perfect head of cauliflower
9. Isopropyl Alcohol – Discover the magic of rubbing alcohol and its use in the garden
10. Faster composting – Your scraps and leaves composting too slowly? Check out our tips for the fastest composting process
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See the top 10 gardening mistakes all gardeners make and how to correct them. This episode focuses on vegetable gardening. Here are the top 10 problems and how to correct them:
1. Soil preparation and nutrients – Plants need water, sunlight and nutrition to grow. Make sure you are providing all these to your vetetable plants. This advice will let you grow plants to their full potential.
2. Letting plants go root bound – Never let your plants go root bound. Inspect your plants every 2-3 years and repot them if necessary. Prune the roots, use a new potting mix and water well!
3. Calcium deficiency in peppers and eggplants – Blossom end rot is a common problem with tomatoes and peppers. By adding a calcium rich fertilizer, you can avoid blossom end rot in these vegetables
4. Feeding high nitrogen to edible roots – Root plants like radisha nd carrots must not be fed high nitrogen fertilizers. Doing so will result in a lot of foliage but no roots.
5. Over watering – Stop watering onions 2-3 weeks before harvest. If you over water onions whent hey are forming bulbs, the skin will start rotting
6. Harvesting prematurely – wait for the plant to finish its life before harvesting. With premature harvests, the plant has not grown to its full potential
7. Cauliflower problems – Cauliflower suffers from 2 problems – insect damage and buttoning. Insect problems like aphids can be avoided by spraying the plant with soapy water on the first sign of seeing insects. Buttoning can be avoided by planting in cooler weather and avoiding high nitrogen fertilizers
8. Not providing sunlight for plants – Always grow plants in sunlight. Most vegetable plants need 6-8 hours of sunlight
9. Planting in the incorrect season – Plant crops in the right season. Cool season vegetables do not grow well in hot weather and vice versa. Make sure you follow our video guides to know which season to plant your veggies.
10. Not buying seeds from a trusted source – Always buy seeds from a trusted source to avoid being cheated or get something else than what you ordered.
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