10 Best Gardening Hacks

Finally moved into a house, very excited to have a ground to garden in this year! These tips were very helpful :)

I have a tip with toilet rolls. I cut them in 4 and use them to space my carrots. It is time consuming to plant one seed at a time but there is no thinning to do and it saves the seeds that otherwise would have been pulled out.

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Thank you :)

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try planting cuttings in sand and placing the pot in shallow water or put them direct into the edge of your fish pond, i`ve done a video on sand vs compost.

Tip 8
Tried it
Seeds expiration is last year which comes from the freebies (and the once I bought expiration is next year)

11 out of 30 seeds germinated

I ask all my Friends to share their egg shells as most folk bin them.I then crush them and add to my compost for some magic recycled calcium not to mention free coffee grounds from the local coffee shop.The garden loves it

It's nice when your raised beds are at least 2 ft tall. Then you don't have to crawl on your knees with knee pads! Makes weeding and harvesting a lot easier too!

Clever

Very good

Love the bucket of dry sand for tools tip!

Hello Ben. In your lost pruning shears video clip you sharpened the blade on the wrong side of the blade.

I keep a can of red spray paint to paint the tops of tool handles. Makes the much easier to see where I laid them in the yard.

Some great tips here, thank you

Thanks for the awesome tips and ideas 💡

Thank you so much!!!

All very excellent tips!!! Thank you ❤

I love it !🎉

I plant radish seed as markers for parsnips and long germination seeds and then they are up in less than a week and mark the row - plus if the radish pest dont get them too badly I can harvest them after the parsnips are up and thinned...Happy Gardening

Cut the top section off a 4 pint or 6pint plastic milk you then have a free container to plant into punch holes in the bottom of coarse.
You can make a compost scoop by cutting the bottom off a 2 pint plastic milk carton then shaping it perfect for filling you free pots

I drill lots of fine holes about 1 mm in the screw top of plastic milk cartons and use them with the carton full of water to water seedlings as it more gentle than a watering can and does not disturb seeds or seedings

I cut up plastic milk cartons for seed and plant labels the white ones are best but can use the opeque ones

Band aids. Can't tell you how many young plants I accidentally broke off or bent a critical stem that would have killed the plant. Patched up the stem with a band aid and good as new! Use brand name band aids as they are more water resistant.

Love the hose and croquet hoop trick!

i use the garage square foam pads rather then knee pads i have a 4 and can move around easy and same effect as knee pads. also keeps your knees off the damp soil

Keep a journal, jot down weather, sowing dates, when stuff germinates. Put down notes on what varieties were good or duds.

Put a small flower pot in top of watering can it prevents slugs snails mice etc climbing in. PS waiting for your book

If I need to enhance light for seedlings and don't have enough window sill room for a large reflective board, or a supply of spare old aluminium foil, I turn crisp packets inside out, rinse off the salt from the silvery side, then pop them over a couple of sticks poked into the dark side of the plantpot or seed tray. Flexible, lightweight and absolutely free. And you can recycle the packets once you have finished with them. Cheers.

That was a great video. 👍😁

I made the mistake of not starting nasturtiams first last year. Bugs ate all my first round of seedlings. Pill bugs too. I had to smash them and use sluggo plus. Diamatacous earth didn't really do it. They were everywhere. Now I'm gonna give a little sprinkle around my plants when I plant them and I started a bunch of nasturtiams early this year.

Investing in some drip tape and an a watering timer makes even a pretty large garden VERY manageable. You won't have to worry about forgetting to water the plants, nor burning them by watering at the wrong time.

Great Show Ben , I especially liked the crochet hoops , Cheers !

I have bright pink tool handles ideal for me being able to find them 😊

Great hacks…don’t mind if I do. 👍🏻
Just one hitch. Try as I might to root basil, mine just rot and never root. I do change the water frequently and I use a clear glass container. Have you a hint as to what might be hindering my efforts?

They make them with green handles so you will lose them and have to buy new ones.

You're so funny 😂 thank you for the tips.

I lost my best ever pruners while trying to cut back huge overgrown branches at a church on my street. I put them down & they disappeared. Probably into the huge pile of brush & limbs. I will put white tape on my next pair!

If you rake a large area consider a leaf blower of the appropriate size. I shred and bag all my leaves in the fall as soon as they fall and dry out.

I have learned not to give the plants away. They rarely appreciate it and it can even lead to bad feelings on rare occasions. If they cared they would grow their own.

Chuck Norris asks Ben how to be resourceful 💪

I love garden

Great video Ben. Thanks for sharing.

Like Diane, I store all my seed and growing info in a spreadsheet and add/subtract entries each year as needed so I have an annual record. Included are the seed packet info (source, sowing info for each season, # seeds left), transplanting, thinning, fertilizing, watering, pest/disease info relevant to my garden (when to add row covers, etc.), harvesting info (size, timing). These feed into another spreadhseet where I can show what's in each location by time (horiz axis) and see a snapshot of the entire year's crop layout by location (vert axis). It's a handy complement to the GrowVeg maps. Thank you so much for the wonderful videos, we always enjoy them.

For the seeds that you tested if they will germinate, can you just put the germinated seeds in the soil right after? Thanks

I cut toilet paper rolls in half and use them to Mark where I have seeds planted. I just pushed the toilet paper roll into the soil a little bit so it won't move, and plant the seed in the middle.

I have spray painted the handles of all my tools a vibrant turquoise so they are easy to find in the garden, but more importantly easier to spot when loaned out so things actually make it back to me.

I love your metal plant tags! My husband has started making me mini shepherd hooks in his blacksmith shop! But I was using pottery tags, but I like the duality the shiny metal tags would provide, as their flicker might scare off pests