Life hacking for garden and summer resident - a collection of 109
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CHECKED BY THE TIME OF GARDEN AND HOLIDAY TIPS AND TIPS
The wise advice of our grandparents to take care of the garden gradually sink into oblivion, and it’s a pity, because much of the experience gained is not only relevant, but also invaluable. We have collected the most interesting recommendations and invite you to check them in practice.
Healing plants are a gift of nature, which is simply a sin to neglect. At home, the easiest way is to make a tincture.
Useful weed, such as arnica (in the photo), should be crushed, dried, pounded in a mortar, poured with vodka in the ratio of 1: 5 and infused 2-3 for a week in a warm bright place, shaking regularly. Then strain the tincture and pour into small bottles of dark glass. Apply externally in the treatment of bruises and wound healing.
Coffee grounds should not be thrown away: due to its high nitrogen content and high acidity, it is an ideal fertilizer for plants that prefer acidic soil, such as rhododendrons (in the photo) or hydrangeas. Diluted in water is considered an excellent liquid fertilizer for ivy. Introduced in large quantities, the thick will make it possible to make a more loose heavy soil, improve the structure of sand, as well as compost. In addition, the coffee smell frightens off ants.
Perpetual Garden Work Calendar
Nature itself tells you when it is best to carry out this or that work. So, spring pruning of roses is better to be postponed until the beginning of flowering forsythia. When the heather blooms, the ideal moment comes to plant the snowdrop bulbs in the open ground and start gradually reducing fertilizer application to zero. When the red currant ripens and linden blossoms, you can plant garden strawberries, prune the box and sow early varieties of radishes. Opened violet buds? It's time to start planting carrots and parsley. Have earrings on maples? Sow beets. And it is best to plant potatoes when the birch leaves fully unfold.
Milk - a sure remedy against powdery mildew. Dilute it with 1: 8 water and spray diseased plants every 2 of the day.
If the aphid started up on a rose, you can overcome the attack by spraying the plants with diluted milk (2 tbsp. On 1 l of water) every 2 weeks of 8 throughout the season. This procedure will also help to get rid of black spot, from which the royal person often suffers.
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What will the weather be like?
The older generation determined this by observing the environment and the behavior of animals.
So, after a frosty winter, wait for a hot summer. If there is frost at night, snow will not fall during the day. Even pets give a hint: the cat curled up - to the cold, the dog rolls on the ground - to rain or snow.
Previously, weeds were successfully fought without chemicals: the wheat grass was pulled out, as soon as it reached the height of the palm - this weakens the roots of the plant for a long time. The growth of sleep was suppressed by a tight fit of nasturtium.
Clay pots, like the old ones, remain in favor - they serve for a long time and are suitable for reusable use. If, on the edge of the container, limescale forms, it can be removed with citric acid or acetic essence diluted in water 1:20. Immerse the pot in the solution overnight and the next day brush off the plaque.
The garden, as in ancient times, is the main attribute of the site, because vegetables grown here, unlike store vegetables, have excellent taste and environmental friendliness. And since the seeds can be of poor quality, they must be checked for germination before sowing: if they float on the surface of the water, feel free to throw it away, but if they go to the bottom - everything is in order. There is another secret: to speed up germination, large seeds with a thick skin, such as beans (pictured) or peas, on the eve of sowing, soak for a couple of hours in water.
Tips for planting and storing root vegetables
Many gardeners do not think their land without potatoes. What features of cultivation used by our grandparents?
Before planting, the tubers should be germinated in a bright cool room. If the planting material is sprinkled with water a week before planting, thin roots are formed at the base of the sprouts, due to which the tubers will root in the soil faster. When storing the potatoes, you should not dump them into a pile more than 80 cm high, otherwise the probability of rotting of the tubers will increase significantly.
Tubers of anemone tender are planted in open ground in September.
They settle down better in a new place and form roots more quickly if they are soaked on 24 in lukewarm water the day before. Then the tubers are planted in groups in humus-rich soil with good water permeability to a depth of 5-8. At the end of planting, you need to mulch the leaves or cover with spruce branches.
Wood ash for business use
Our ancestors used it as a fertilizer for good reason. Wood ash contains about 30 elements vital to plants, and all without exception. At the same time, the ash obtained from the burning of young trees and branches contains more potassium, old - more calcium. On average, under plants need to make 1-2 kg per 10 m2. It is desirable to do this in the fall on clay soils and in spring on sandy soils. In addition, ash makes the soil more friable and reduces its acidity.
Slugs are an insurmountable evil in any garden. Instead of using chemicals, you can get rid of them in a primitive but reliable way: put boards or wet strips of cardboard in the flower beds and collect slippery types throughout the day. An irresistible force of attraction for slugs (and removal from the beds) will also be a bunch of rye bran.
The older generation used peel of bananas in the rose garden. Dried and ground, it was embedded in the top layer of soil.
Today, such a peel is still used in the garden as a potassium-rich organic fertilizer that promotes leaf growth and the formation of plant flowers. Broth banana peel is also good as a liquid fertilizer for room "pets."
Garlic is useful not only for people - in the garden for the "toothy" there are also many "great things". Garlic infusion (100 g of freshly chopped garlic per 1 liter of water), in which the seeds are soaked for a couple of hours, will relieve the tomatoes of brown rot and ornamental plants of powdery mildew. In addition, garlic planted around a tree or in a flower bed will scare away voles.
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Eggshell as a fertilizer
Our grandmothers firmly believed that it was extremely useful for the garden and even used water after boiling eggs for watering. Eggshell is really good for feeding, since 95% consists of calcium carbonate that is well absorbed by plants and important for their development elements such as potassium, silicon, magnesium and phosphorus. However, for greater efficiency, the shells need to be dried and ground into flour, otherwise these useful substances of the plant will not be able to assimilate. It is important: to make calcium easier to “migrate” to the soil, it is advisable to ignite the shells in the oven before making it.
You need to make a 1-2 cup of crushed raw materials on 1 m2.
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Usually, to remove the dowel from the wall, I, like many others, screwed a screw into it and pulled it with pliers.
But one day nothing came of it.
Then I twisted the edge of a corkscrew with levers into the dowel and easily pulled out the fastener, as if it were a cork in a bottle. This method works not only with wooden plugs, but also with plastic and nylon dowels.