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Do you know that most of the Most Common Household Things can be used in the garden in a variety of ways to make it better? Let’s have a look at them!
Must you have cardboards and newspapers? You can use them to make pots for seedlings or in many ways.
From creating a water fountain to a bird feeder to self-watering pots, use your old wine bottles easily. If you want to know more uses, click here.
Have pennies? Use them to control tomato blight. Also, drop a penny into the vase as it’s made of copper, which is a known fungicide (especially the older one, made before 1982) as it helps in keeping your cut flowers fresh.
Have aspirin tablets? Use them in your garden to fight fungal diseases, propagate plants from cuttings successfully and quickly, and improve the productivity of your fruit trees.
As birds are scared of shiny, noisy things–tie a few strips of aluminum foil from the branches to save your fruit-bearing trees.
Certain spices are really useful in the garden, like cinnamon. It can protect plants from fungal diseases, help you deter ants, and propagate cuttings.
Turmeric has antiseptic properties, and it can be used as a pesticide to deter ants. Its ability to heal wounds is also well-known. Get more information on Turmeric uses in the garden here.
Used tea bags, tea leaves, and used coffee grounds are the perfect solutions for many of your problems in the yard.
Both improve soil texture, add nitrogen, and also provide phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and copper. Here’re amazing used coffee grounds and tea bags uses to find out.
Eggshells can boost the growth of the plants and can also make the size of the flowers bigger. Learn the eggshell tea recipe here.
Plastic bottles can be recycled into vertical planters and pots to grow shallow roots plants. You can also make self-watering containers.
Growing potatoes in burlap bags is popular, but you can use them to protect your plants in winter. Not only this, control weeds and create DIY crafts.
Plastic ziplock bags can be reused in the garden to grow plants, create pom-pom lights, and many more. You can also create self-watering plastic bag containers, tutorial here. You can also use plastic bottles. Click here to find out how.
Vinegar must be one of the most common ingredients in your kitchen, but it can also do wonders in the garden. Use it to clean the clay pots.
Remove weeds from crevices and other hard-to-reach areas or kill slugs and snails, there are countless uses. Find them out here!
Old chairs can add a whimsical touch to your garden if you create chair planters out of them.
Eat bananas, then save the peels as they’re a rich source of potassium and phosphorus. Send them into the compost bin or make a compost tea to feed your flowering annuals.
Spoons and forks are abundantly available at any home. You can use them to complete many DIY garden projects. To name a few – garden markers, hangers, sculptures.
Kitchen utensils like ricers, pots, scoops, pot lids, muffin tins, colanders, bowls, cheese grater, bottle caps, frying pans, and old whisks can be used in the garden successfully and easily.
To promote photosynthesis, cleaning the leaves of your houseplants is essential. A pinch of baking soda in a liter of water is required to remove dust and grease from leaves.
To have sweeter tomatoes, sprinkle a small amount of baking soda around the base of your tomato plant.
Leftovers and kitchen residues can be used in the garden. Used coffee grounds, citrus peels, eggshells, nutshell, and even paper towel rolls are useful.
Also, when you boil or steam vegetables, don’t pour the water down the drain. Pour it on your plants once it’s cooled down.
Milk can be used as an alternative disinfectant for cleaning tools to prevent virus transmission. It is proven! You can also use it as a fertilizer!
Vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and squashes get benefit from it and can be saved from blossom end because milk contains calcium.
If unused, old, broken teacups pilling up in your crockery unit, pick them up for good to create teacup gardens. Teacup fairy gardens or herb gardens are among the most popular ideas.
Ropes can be used for many garden and home improvement projects. Rope swings or rope-wrapped planters are all the rage!
Milk cartons and milk jugs can be repurposed for some really smart money-saving gardening ideas. Use them to propagate vegetable plants.
Boron deficiency is extremely common in plants; you can apply borax to cure it. Besides this, there’re other uses as well, which you can find out in our descriptive article here!
If hornets and wasps are regular visitors, make a wasp trap for them–place a bowl filled with coke at their favorite spot. These predator insects will attract it.
You can also trap the flies the same way. To kill slugs, pour coca-cola into 2-3 low bowls and place them overnight in the strategic areas of your garden.
You can also use these bottles as candle stands!
Egg cartons are common and come under easily available things in the home. Not only can you use them to propagate seeds, but also for making a bird feeder.
Use salt to kill weeds by boiling 1 quart of water, and dissolve 5 tablespoons of vinegar and 2 tablespoons of salt.
After mixing, pour this solution over the weeds between the cracks on sidewalks and driveways.
You’ll be surprised after finding out that sugar is very effective in the garden. Feed nectar-feeding creatures a clean sugar water solution (learn more here), cut flowers last longer, or create a natural trap for fruit flies and house flies.
Essential oils can do wonders in your garden. From repelling pests to attracting pollinators and boosting the immunity of your plants.
Jeans can be the best solution to give your flowers and garden a quirky look. You can put your old jeans to use as unique planters in the garden. Use them as pot covers, tool bags, grow bags, and plant stands.
If you are going on vacation, you can keep the plants well-watered. The answer is an old clean towel as they are very absorbent.
Lay them down and soak them with water. Then, place the plant pots on the top and watch the roots absorb all moisture from the wet towel.
Another common household item useful in the garden is an old broom handle. If you have heavy soil that can set hard during the hotter months, try pushing the handle’s end into the soil to crack the crust around the plant.
You can also use the broom handle to make seed holes or support vines.
You need rusty, old nails for this purpose instead of new, shiny ones. The rust can help release essential iron for acid-loving or ericaceous plants like rhododendrons and azaleas.
Tie some of the old prized CDs loosely to fences or trees and bamboo canes and watch the birds get frightened when the sunlight is reflected from the shiny CDs and startle them away.
You can keep squirrels at bay from your garden with soaps. The scent often irritates the squirrel and discourages them from loitering around.
Grate some soap and spread them into the planting hole and over the top.
Use mayonnaise to wipe over the surfaces of the plants with a kitchen roll for squeaky clean indoor plants. Take a small drop on the damp cloth and wipe the leaves.
Another smart hack to keep snails and slugs out of your containers and pots is to wrap up a length of copper tape around the container. It can give the snails and slugs a little electric shock if they begin to crawl across it.
Do not discard away old carpets right after the fantastic renovations. Instead, place it as a pond liner between the plastic liner and the bricks. You can also use them to suppress the growth of weeds.
Who does not have Tic Tac boxes lying somewhere in the house? So, once you empty the boxes, you can use the clean and dry tic tac boxes to store your seeds. Make sure you name the boxes while you keep the seeds.
Old and expired engine oil is often used to clean up greasy garden tools. Sink your garden tools for 10-15 minutes and then give them a nice scrub with a brush and see them sparkling. This will also help to keep the rust away.
Both toothpaste and toothbrushes have many practical uses in the garden. Use toothbrushes to clean up plants, containers, and vases.
Toothpaste can cure bee stings, keep pests at bay, and prevent poison ivy rashes.
Use bubble wraps to cover up containers during winter using twines to tie them up. This will save the roots from the danger of frost.
You can put any old colanders to use by making them into beautiful hanging flower planters. Even herbs can grow well in these.
If you are worried about the soil falling through the holes of your planters, you can place coffee filters to line the containers. This simple trick will help you from losing out on the soil every time you water your plants.
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