By now you might be able to guess I am anxious to get my vegetable garden going. I have been scouring the Internet and reading all my gardening books for all the best tips in growing a great vegetable garden. I figured as I am working on my garden I would share the information I found with all my gardening friends.
1. Save all your egg shells for your garden soil. What I do is crush the egg shells in to small bits and add it to my garden soil. This will give a boost to your vegetables. I also throw a handful into the holes where I am planting my tomato plants. This will help prevent blossom end rot.
2. Sprinkle a hand full of coffee grounds around your vegetables. The coffee will slowly release nitrogen which is very beneficial to your vegetable plants.
3. 1 tsp of Epsom salts and 4 cups of warm water sprayed on your plants will produce a boost in fruits in about ten days. Now this I have not tried. I have sprinkled Epsom salts on the soil around my plants. I will try this tip and see how it goes.
4. I found this on Pinterest. DIY plant food. I am going to try this.
Mix 1 cup coffee grounds, 2 crushed egg shells, 1/16 oz. ammonia, 1 cup water, 1/8 tsp Epsom salts. Stir well. Spoon this around the base of your flowering plants, except African Violets.
5. One last tip. I am planning to use this watering method with some of my vegetable plants. I found it on Pinterest of course.
1. Save all your egg shells for your garden soil. What I do is crush the egg shells in to small bits and add it to my garden soil. This will give a boost to your vegetables. I also throw a handful into the holes where I am planting my tomato plants. This will help prevent blossom end rot.
2. Sprinkle a hand full of coffee grounds around your vegetables. The coffee will slowly release nitrogen which is very beneficial to your vegetable plants.
3. 1 tsp of Epsom salts and 4 cups of warm water sprayed on your plants will produce a boost in fruits in about ten days. Now this I have not tried. I have sprinkled Epsom salts on the soil around my plants. I will try this tip and see how it goes.
4. I found this on Pinterest. DIY plant food. I am going to try this.
Mix 1 cup coffee grounds, 2 crushed egg shells, 1/16 oz. ammonia, 1 cup water, 1/8 tsp Epsom salts. Stir well. Spoon this around the base of your flowering plants, except African Violets.
5. One last tip. I am planning to use this watering method with some of my vegetable plants. I found it on Pinterest of course.
I hope you will be able to benefit from some of these gardening tips. If you have any great tips to share please leave them in a comment. Happy Gardening.
Thank you I think I will try a couple of them!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tips!
ReplyDeleteThe ammonia surprises me. Seems like that would hurt the plants or something? Interesting.
ReplyDeleteLisa, I thought the same thing until I looked it up and evidently most fertilizers contain a from of ammonia. Ammonia applied directly to the soil will react with CO2 to produce urea ((NH2)2CO) fertilizer. Although I do not think its organic after reading up on the subject so I will skip the ammonia in my garden.
DeleteI am for sure going to try the plant food. I try to grow my garden as organic as possible.
ReplyDeleteI have been over to Mini Farm Sustainability. They have a great blog.
Thanks for the tips!
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Very good ideas, Bonnie. We use the egg shells and coffee grounds.... IF you ever read about good ways to keep weeds out --other than mulch (which sorta works and sorta not), let me know...
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Betsy
Great tips! I don't have a garden, but the group home where my sons live has a huge garden that I help with. I will definitely pass on the tips!
ReplyDeleteGreat tips! I keep forgetting to save my egg shells. A tip I learned from my mom was to 'plant' banana peels around roses to give them a boost! Plus, I've found companion planting to be a great bug deterrent.
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