Do you always admire your neighbor’s pristine garden. You might imagine that all your neighbors have some top-secret formula that keeps their grass and garden looking so much better than yours. The truth is there’s no secret to a beautiful garden. A little education is all you need to get better at gardening. Information about gardening is available online, in books and in magazines created for garden enthusiasts.
Starting off your garden with healthy soil can be the best defense against those pesky garden bugs. If you are producing healthy plants, they will be stronger and better able to resist bugs and diseases. If you want to get the best plants, begin with a soil that has hardly any chemicals, and that will bring salts.
Baking Soda
You do not need store-bought chemical treatments for plant mildew. Rather, you should mix a bit of baking soda with a small quantity of liquid soap in water. Once a week, spray this solution on your plants and your mildew should disappear in no time. Baking soda will bring no damage to your plants, and will treat the mildew in a gentle and efficient manner.
When winter comes around, save some plants by putting them in the house. You can save the ones you spent the most money on or the ones that are resistant. Dig carefully around the roots, then transfer the plant into a pot.
Try growing wheat grass or cat grass in the area of the plants your cat wants to eat. You can also try to offend the cats sense of smell with orange rinds or mothballs.
Coffee Grounds
Balance your alkaline soil with the acid found in used coffee grounds. Coffee grounds contain plenty of acid to get the soil back to a good balance. When you can eliminate excess alkaline from the soil, it makes what you are growing much healthier. This means your veggies will taste better, and your flowers will be more vibrant than ever.
The techniques discussed here have been pretty straight-forward and easy to follow. You just have to glean the knowledge and implement what you’ve learned. Analyze the response that your plants have to your horticulture methods carefully. If a method does not provide good results, try other methods. Be patient, and before long, your garden will be the envy of your neighbors.
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