10 Hacks for Your Garden

Regular watering cans can be too heavy for children, so make them their own using a milk jug.  Poke holes into the plastic lid and voila! Homemade watering can!

Wine bottles are great for extended watering while you’re away.  Just fill them up, turn them upside down and stick them into your containers. Your plants will drink as they need hydration.

If bad weather or harsh sunshine is a threat, cut the bottom off of a plastic milk jug to create a cheap miniature greenhouse for your seedlings.

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Don’t pour the leftover water down the drain after cooking rice or pasta.  Let it cool and use it to feed your plants and flowers.

Instead of ruining your fingernails in the garden, dig your fingertips into a bar of soap to create a clean barrier.  When you go to wash your hands, you’ll have clean nails.

Over-the-door cloth shoe racks can easily be hung outside, filled with potting soil, and used as an easy vertical garden.

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Builders’ sand poured into a container makes a great place to store your metal gardening tools.  The sand will keep your tools from rusting.

Using items already found around your home saves money and the environment.  Make your own biodegradable planters using halved eggshells or toilet paper rolls to go from trash to treasure!

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If you want to grow a lemon tree or a basil plant, don’t throw away the seeds from your iced tea, and save some of those basil cuttings from your last grocery trip.  Replanting saves you money and it’s fun!

If you’re a wine lover and a lover of all things green, combine your interests but hollowing out some leftover corks to create adorable succulent seedling pots.

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