Ace the Garden Game With These Best Gardening Tips and Tricks
Love Gardening but afraid that you will mess it up again? Love tending your garden but at times it feels laborious? Then you are in the right place. In today's post, we will discuss the basic tips and tricks of gardening that everyone should know.
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We all know that gardening is a pretty rewarding hobby and also provides great satisfaction. Whether you are a black thumb or an expert gardener, we all need a little bit of extra help to get an edge over others. So, today we will discuss basic gardening tips and tricks that will help to ace the garden game. Without further ado, let's get started.
Here are some basic gardening tips and tricks for more effortless, efficient, and carefree gardening.
Dig right into it: With a slightly sharp tool, carefully dig up few inches of the topsoil. Slight digging of the topsoil allows loosening up of the soil. This improves the aeration rate that is the oxygen penetration capacity of the soil. This in turn immensely benefits the developing roots as they get better access to the diffused oxygen.
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Pinch that off: When you get a hang of Gardening, you start getting addicted to growing plants. So sometimes it becomes hard and undigestible when I recommend trimming. However regular trimming has immense benefits for overall growth and development of plants.
Depending upon the house plants or indoor plants you own, the trimming technique may vary. Let me explain by citing a few examples: If you are proud parents of indoor plants having long sturdy stem then trim them beneath the leaf node. This will initiate side growth. You can also use this trick on the plant which has not shown any new signs of growth for quite some time.
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Now if you are fond of long trailing plants and have house plants like Golden Pothos/ Money plant trim the ends. This will rewire the plant and the houseplant will divert its energy in forming lateral branches. Now reward yourself with a bushier and healthy plant.
Bonus tip: Don't throw away the recently trimmed branch of these house plants. Most of them can be easily propagated by these cuttings in water and soil.
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Climber Vegetables can also benefit from trimming. Basically vegetable plants like tomato or cucumber develop small suckers or side stem near leaf node. Here we need to do the trimming for the opposite reason: For getting faster growth and fruits on these plants, we need to maximize their verticle growth. So it becomes imperative to removes any side stems developing to encourage faster and better vertical growth.
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Trimming and removing the dangly dying yellow or brown leaves is also equally important. These will ensure that your houseplant invests the energy in healthy and growing leaves.
After you are done away with trimming and removing dead leaves save them and use them for making your compost. It is very easy to prepare compost from kitchen scraps and waste. This way you can be pretty sure that everything that goes into your garden or your houseplants is one hundred percent organic and safe. Plus you can save a couple of bucks on fertilizer.
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The When, Why and How of Watering:
Has it ever occurred to you why plants require water?
As we all must have read in our science textbooks that all living beings require water for growth and development. Our green friends are no exception.
House plants require water for a variety of functions: The most critical being:
1) To absorb all the essential nutrients and sugars from the soil via the root system and transport it to all the other parts of the plant.
2)You must have noticed that your houseplants start drooping if you forget to water them. Once you provide the water they stand tall and happy. So essentially, water helps plants stay tall and sturdy. Without water the house plants would fail to left it's own weight and starts drooping.
Now let's move on to the next important question: When to water your houseplants? Most people suggest that you should the houseplants in the evening. My experience suggests otherwise. According to my personal experience, the best time to water your houseplants is in the early morning. Watering in the evening can lead to waterlogging during long nights as the rate of evaporation is quite low at night. The next thing you see is your plant babies start drooping in the middle of the day as the rate of evaporation has increased.
So in my opinion the best time to water your plant babies in the early morning as it can reduce the chances of water stress during the day and waterlog during the night. See, doesn't it make sense now?
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Another important question is How to water the plants. If you have quite several houseplants or you are a proud owner of a small garden you should probably invest in a good watering can. If you are a beginner and want to ace the gardening game you can create a DIY watering can from plastic waste. Don't forget to create multiple holes in the cap of the bottle. You can also create a DIY self-watering watering can or a drip irrigation system from a milk jug. If you are in the habit of using a mug or tumbler for watering, always keep hands in between to save the delicate plant parts from the damage that can be impinged by forceful watering.
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Plant Fertilizers: As we human beings require food to satisfy our nutritional requirement and faster growth and development. So is the case for our green friends. The plants also require various macro and micronutrients for faster growth, flowering hand fruit production. Now, there are thousands of articles on the internet that state that you can directly bury the skins and scraps of vegetables like potatoes or even use banana peels for inducing flowering. But let me tell you a little secret that no one talks: Ferment the waste. Fill an airtight container with water and add banana peels. Let it soak and ferment for 24-48 hours. This will greatly increase the nutritional content. Make sure you use this solution after diluting it.
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So, that was all about the basic tips and tricks of gardening that everyone should know. Did you find it helpful? Do you have any questions? Do you have anything to add to the post? Please let us know in the comment section.
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