I know this cannot compete with AmandainVermont on gardening since she owns her own nursery business, but I found these in a little advertising that came with my Reminensce magazine. Feel free to add your own.
Sprinkle powdered detergent or ground cayenne pepper in the dirt around your sweet corn and it will keep the raccoons away.
After steaming vegetables, use the left over water for houseplants. It's full of vitamins that make plants flourish.
Dandlions will do a disapperaring act if you spray pure white vinegar where the roots were after pulling. Don't worry about the grass, it will grow back fast.
Use a sturdy old dinner fork for weeding the flower bed. The tines get under weed roots better than most tools. Also, use a grapefruit knife to cut dandelions from your lawn.
Put the "plastic peanuts" used for shipping packing in the bottom of your flower pots. They're light weight but still allow for drainage.
Your ferns will love it if you add eggshells to the water and let them soak for a short time before using it to water them. Whenever you use an egg, drop the shell in a container of water with a lid on it and save it unitl it's time to water the ferns.
Plants look a bit sickly? Give them some first aid! Try feeding them a small amount of Geritol regularly for about three months.
To help cut flowers last longer, apply hair spray.
To "silk" ears of corn, use a wet terry cloth washcloth. It does a great job of removing the silk and doesn't do any damage to the kernel.
Keep dogs and cats out of your flower beds with mothballs. Use masking tape to reseal the open end of small, empty vegetable cans and fill about half with mothballs. In the closed end of the cans, punch a few small holes, then place the cans in your gardens. The mothballs will last longer and the odor will keep animals away.
Put used coffee grounds around azaleas to give them the acidic soil they need.
Sprinkle powdered detergent or ground cayenne pepper in the dirt around your sweet corn and it will keep the raccoons away.
After steaming vegetables, use the left over water for houseplants. It's full of vitamins that make plants flourish.
Dandlions will do a disapperaring act if you spray pure white vinegar where the roots were after pulling. Don't worry about the grass, it will grow back fast.
Use a sturdy old dinner fork for weeding the flower bed. The tines get under weed roots better than most tools. Also, use a grapefruit knife to cut dandelions from your lawn.
Put the "plastic peanuts" used for shipping packing in the bottom of your flower pots. They're light weight but still allow for drainage.
Your ferns will love it if you add eggshells to the water and let them soak for a short time before using it to water them. Whenever you use an egg, drop the shell in a container of water with a lid on it and save it unitl it's time to water the ferns.
Plants look a bit sickly? Give them some first aid! Try feeding them a small amount of Geritol regularly for about three months.
To help cut flowers last longer, apply hair spray.
To "silk" ears of corn, use a wet terry cloth washcloth. It does a great job of removing the silk and doesn't do any damage to the kernel.
Keep dogs and cats out of your flower beds with mothballs. Use masking tape to reseal the open end of small, empty vegetable cans and fill about half with mothballs. In the closed end of the cans, punch a few small holes, then place the cans in your gardens. The mothballs will last longer and the odor will keep animals away.
Put used coffee grounds around azaleas to give them the acidic soil they need.
