Hello Friends! Today am again back with some more useful gardening hacks and tips making
this Part 5 of our garden hacks and tips compilation video. If you have not watched the previous
parts, you can follow the playlist labelled Gardening Hacks from my channel home page
at youtube.com/gardentips. So Lets Begin!
1. Tobacco is an age-old natural organic pesticide for Aphids, Whiteflies, Spider mites, Leaf
miners and many other worms like slugs and caterpillars. If tobacco or tobacco leaves
are not available your can use this hack. If you are a smoker, or anyone in your family
or friends, You can make a Cheapest Tobacco Pesticide Spray for your plants from Left
over Cigarette Butts. To prepare this Nicotine Pesticide Spray, take half a cup of used cigarette
butts and add to one litre of water. Mix well and and crush if necessary and leave this
for one hour. Then strain out and discard the solid stuff. Take the liquid portion and
optionally add few drops of some dish wash liquid soap and also 1 teaspoon of garlic
paste into this to make it more potent. Then load into your spray bottle and use it on
the affected plants. Repeat after a week if necessary or use in conjunction with neem
oil spray alternately if you wish. One point to note is: Tobacco spray is natural but still
dangerous to beneficial insects of your garden.
2. Easy Compost Tea Spray for Your Plants: Add one or two handful of compost like vermicompost
or decomposed cowdung powder or both together per liter of water and allow it to brew for
3 days before use. Make sure your stir it deeply few times everyday to add oxygen in
it which is very important. Then finally strain out the liquid using a
cloth and your compost tea is ready. To use this as foliar spray and to water your plants
dilute it further like 1: 10 and use once every 15 days and spray in early morning hours
when the leaf stomata are open for best results.
3. Soaking flower bulbs in dilute compost tea before planting them speeds up germination
time by providing them extra energy boost from compost. Soak for max 6 to 12 hours,
not more than that.
4. Lighten up your pots by filling the bottoms with peanut shells and similar stuff like
this, specially if your pots are more deeper. You can make a partition to this layer and
the soil by placing a piece of cloth or even left over green net pieces and then pour your
potting soil. You can also use this stuff for mulching in summer to prevent moisture
evaporation.
5. Mulching with Sea shells: Specially if you are staying near a coastal areas, they
are easily available in plenty. These sea shells not only prevents weed growth and mulching
benefits but also provides slow releasing calcium source to the plant over a period
of time. This also gives an attractive look to your garden. But one point to remember
here is do not use colored or dyed sea shells for mulching.
6. Make a Vertical Garden and Save Space. Simplest of this is by using taut strings
on a wall and hang some vertical pots with hooks. If you do not have these pots, you
can also make your own using scrap like plastic bottles. You can also use your fence mesh
like this and hang pots to build a vertical garden.
7. Protect your plants from scorching summer heat. The best way to do this is use atleast
50 percent green shadenet. But if you do not have this, just use any large cloth or an
old bed spread and tie the corners with a string and cover the plants. This way your
can protect your plants from the noon sunlight which is really strong and bad and can burn
your plant foliage.
8. Keep your hand clean by using disposable surgical gloves for gardening. This is a cheap
use and throw alternative to garden gloves. I use these most of the times and this is
really helpful to me because this saves my time from cleaning the regular garden gloves
everytime after use. 9. No Wheelbarrow to move garden stuff? Do
not worry, the cheapest alternative is a large cloth or an old bed sheet. Just load on the
heavy objects and drag it along. Its actually a childs play as you see in the video.
10. Use an All in one All-purpose Mixed Fertilizer Recipe Powder to save time. This universal
fertilizer contains almost everything your plant needs to grow and produce flowers and
fruits. It�s a complete plant food to be used once every 15 days or a month depending
on your plant requirement. Watch complete video on how to make this from this endscreen
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