18 Gardening Tips That Will Simplify Your Life.

You are lucky enough to have a garden or vegetable patch at home ?

Then you know that having a green thumb is not always easy!

Fortunately, there are ingenious tricks to simplify your daily gardening.

We have selected the best ones for you to save you time and make your life easier.

Without further ado, here are the 18 gardening tips and tricks everyone should know . Watch:

Contents

• 1. Use a plastic bottle to water your plants on vacation
• 2. Put a baby diaper in the hanging flower pots to prevent water from leaking
• 3. Use a coffee filter to prevent soil from leaking out of your flower pots
• 4. Use eggshells to plant your seedlings
• 5. Use old ice cream cones as biodegradable planting pots
• 6. For tastier tomatoes, sprinkle baking soda around the plants
• 7. Sprinkle cinnamon around your seedlings to protect them from late blight
• 8. Use coffee grounds to keep slugs and other pests away from your plants
• 9. Use crushed eggshells to protect your vegetable garden from pests
• 10. Make mini greenhouses with plastic bottles
• 11. Turn an old plastic bottle into a watering can
• 12. To water your plants, reuse the vegetable cooking water
• 13. Use a blender to make liquid compost with kitchen scraps
• 14. Get rid of weeds with white vinegar
• 15. Make a seed ribbon out of toilet paper to space your plants like a pro
• 16. Make cheap little flowerpots out of plastic bottles
• 17. Make a vertical garden with a fabric shoe rack
• 18. Make great vegetable garden labels with old corks

1. Use a plastic bottle to water your plants during the holidays

Use a small drill or nail to drill 1-4 holes in the cap of a plastic water bottle.

Remember:the more holes there are and the wider they are, the faster the water will flow.

Then fill the bottle with water and replace the cap.

For larger plants use a large 2 liter bottle.

Quickly turn the water bottle upside down to bury it in your plant's soil.

If necessary, make a small pile of soil around the bottle to hold it upright.

And There you go ! Now the water will slowly drip from the plug, while you enjoy your vacation quietly.

Awesome, right? Check out the trick here.

2. Put a baby diaper in the hanging flower pots to prevent water from leaking

Often the water tends to flow through the soil and the basket of the hanging flowerpots.

To prevent water from leaking and also to keep the soil moist longer, put a simple baby diaper inside the pot. Discover the trick in n°8 here.

3. Use a coffee filter to prevent soil from leaking out of your flower pots

To prevent soil from escaping through the flower pots' drainage hole, cover the bottom with a simple coffee filter. Find out how here.

To discover: 10 Amazing Uses For Coffee Filters Around The Home.

4. Use eggshells to plant your seedlings

And once your seedlings are ready to plant, you can easily plant them with the shell :-)

Simply crush the shell so the roots can grow through.

And in addition, eggshells have a high calcium content, which will help your plant throughout its growth. The tutorial is here.

To discover: 10 Incredible Uses of Eggshells.

5. Use old ice cream cones as biodegradable planting pots

And as soon as the plant becomes too big for the cone, just put the whole thing directly in the ground.

Much better than buying those expensive biodegradable planting pots, don't you think?

6. For tastier tomatoes, sprinkle baking soda around the plants

Sprinkle simple baking soda directly on the soil and all around the tomato plant.

This will reduce the acidity of the tomatoes and produce sweeter, tastier fruit. Check out the trick here.

To discover: 13 Tricks To Grow More, Bigger, Tastier Tomatoes.

7. Sprinkle cinnamon around your seedlings to protect them from late blight

Thanks to its natural antifungal properties, cinnamon is an effective remedy not only on humans...

...but also to prevent fungi, such as mildew, from attacking your plants and seedlings.

8. Use coffee grounds to keep slugs and other pests away from your plants

Click here to discover all the surprising uses of coffee grounds.

9. Use crushed eggshells to protect your vegetable garden from pests

Make a small barrier of eggshells around your leafy plants.

Thanks to their sharp texture, the shells prevent slugs and snails from climbing on your plants. Click here to discover the trick.

To discover: 13 Natural Tricks Against Slugs That Really Work.

10. Make mini greenhouses with plastic bottles

Use large plastic bottles to protect your seedlings from freezing.

First remove the cap and cut off the bottom with a sharp knife.

Place the bottle above the plant, like a bell, and push it deep enough into the soil to keep it from moving.

Leave the spout open for ventilation and to water the plants.

Once the cold spells are over, carefully remove the mini greenhouse.

Click here for more great ways to reuse plastic bottles in your garden.

11. Turn an old plastic bottle into a watering can

All you need is an old plastic bottle and a needle to poke the holes in the cap. Watch the easy tutorial here.

12. To water your plants, reuse the vegetable cooking water

Just let the water cool down before watering your plants.

Find out how to reuse cooking water so you never waste it again.

13. Use a blender to make liquid compost with kitchen scraps

Put your leftovers in the blender with a little water to puree them.

This makes excellent liquid compost which you can then spread throughout the garden.

If necessary, add a little water and hoe the soil, to be sure that it absorbs all the nutrients from the compost.

To discover: How To Make A Compost Bin With Pallets In 10 Minutes.

14. Get rid of weeds with white vinegar

The higher the acidity of the vinegar, the faster it will act.

It is a 100% natural alternative with proven effectiveness for eliminating weeds from your garden. Find out how here.

15. Make a seed ribbon out of toilet paper to space your plants like a pro

With this trick, never again bother to buy seed ribbons that cost an arm!

All you need to space your seeds is toilet paper.

A ruler, a few strokes of the pen to indicate the space between the seeds... and you're done. Check out the easy tutorial here.

To "stick" your seeds on the toilet paper, use a paste made from flour and water (2 tablespoons of flour for 1 tablespoon of water)

Apply this "glue" to the toilet paper with a toothpick, then place the seeds on the glue.

Allow to dry before rolling the paper and carrying your homemade seed tape around the garden.

All you have to do is unroll the ribbon in the desired location and cover it with the right amount of potting soil (look at the seed packaging).

To discover: 13 Surprising Uses for Toilet Paper Rolls.

16. Make cheap little flowerpots out of plastic bottles

Simply cut off the bottom part of the bottle and you get cheap little flowerpots.

17. Make a vertical garden with a fabric shoe rack

Next time you're in a $2 one-price shop, buy one of these over-the-door fabric organizers.

But instead of storing your shoes in it, use it to make a beautiful vertical vegetable garden to plant aromatic herbs and some green leafy vegetables.

Use a sturdy bar and hooks to hang your hanging garden. Indeed, it will have to support the weight of the plants, the earth and the water.

Also consider drilling drainage holes in each pocket to allow water to drain.

To discover: Herbs:18 Clever Ways to Grow Them Indoors.

18. Make great vegetable garden labels with old corks

For this, all you need is a wooden pick and a cork from a bottle of wine or Champagne. Watch the trick here.

To discover: 17 Surprising Uses for Cork Stoppers.