Banana Peels And Tea Bags for Roses
Give your rose bushes your used tea bags and banana peels. They will love you for it. Also hydrangeas will love your water from when you boil potatoes. You can also use the potato peels at the bottom of your plants.
If you want to grow corn or tomatoes and a lot of them, go to the bait shop. Place 3 little fish about 2 inches below the plant. Cover them, plant your plant, sit back, and watch it grow. You will have more corn and tomatoes than you can use.
Sprinkle Used Coffee Grounds Around Plants
To keep your potted flowers and vegetables growing really well, take a plastic jug or bottle and fill it with water and add a few tablespoonfuls of used coffee grounds. Let this stand a few days then use it to water your plants every other time you water.
Gardening: Fertilize With Banana Peels
My grandmother always had the most beautiful gardens I had ever seen but she never used man made fertilizer. One day after breakfast, she was cutting up banana peels into small pieces and crushing egg shells into tiny pieces.
Using Epsom Salts to Green Up Lawn
How do I use Epsom salt to green up my lawn?
Homemade Vegetable Garden Fertilizer
What makes a good homemade plant fertilizer for my vegetable garden?
Recipe for Pond Plant Fertilizer
Does anybody have a good recipe for pond plant fertilizer? I think the necessary ingredients are nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous. I wonder what is in those tablets you can buy?
Making Dried Manure Pods for Fertilizing Garden
How do you make poop pods out of horse or cow manure to fertilize a garden or flower beds? The ingredients are mixed together and placed in a ceramic mold to dry and placed in garden, but what are all the ingredients that are mixed?
Fertilizing Transplanted Plants
I have a ton of transplanted plants and I am wondering what do I do to fertilize them. When? How often? What brand? I dug them up Saturday and planted most of them Sunday and will finish the rest by Wednesday.
Did I Over Fertilize My Morning Glory?
Will my morning glory planted in a large pot using Miracle Grow soil eventually produce flowers? I heard too much fertilizer will just produce big leaves. Did I make a mistake with the soil I used, the plant is rather large now and climbing well?
How does Epsom salt work on ferns?
Using Fertilizer on Sandy Loam Soil
Would triple 13 fertilizer be good to use in sandy loam soil for a vegetable garden?
Mother Nature's Best Fertilizers and Bug Repellents
Most of us are trying to live a more natural and healthy lifestyle by cutting out most of the chemicals in our lives. But a lot of us don't think about this when we are planning and maintaining our gardens and lawns.
Using Leftover Brewed Coffee on Plants
I have read about using coffee grounds and eggshells for plants, but can I use cooled coffee? I heard someone mention it at a greenhouse, but I don't know how much to use. I usually make 1 TB for 1 cup. Any recommendations?
Using Lava Sand for Flowers and Veggies
Is lava sand good for my flower beds and vegetable gardens?
Which Plants Benefit From Using Coffee Grounds?
Can I use coffee grounds on a princess flower? If I can, how much and how often?
Treating Tomato Plants with Magnesium
How soon after planting tomatoes can you give them magnesium?
How Do I Use Alpaca Manure in the Garden?
My neighbors have Alpacas and I was wondering how the quality of their manure compared to cow manure? Also, do you need to let it set for a time like you do with horse manure?
What Can I Do If I Over-fertilized My Plants?
Can anything be done to negate plants/tree being over-fertilized? All of the leaves are turning yellow and brown. I mixed my all-plant fertilizer too strong.
What is a Good Organic Fertilizer for Strawberries?
I'm growing 25 strawberry plants in containers. I am trying to grow them only using organic fertilizer. Can you suggest a good organic fertilizer? Right now my plants are lacking in growth and are pale green, not the pretty dark green that you see in pictures. Please help.
3 Ways to Use Wood Ashes in the Garden
As long as you follow a few simple precautions, wood ashes can be used to benefit the garden in three ways: as a fertilizer, as a soil amendment, or as an insect repellent.
Mother Nature's Best Fertilizers and Bug Repellents
Most of us are trying to live a more natural and healthy lifestyle by cutting out most of the chemicals in our lives. But a lot of us don't think about this when we are planning and maintaining our gardens and lawns.
Leaves are a type of free fertilizer, and yet we pay our cities to haul our free fertilizer away every fall, and then buy unnatural, non-organic chemicals, or organic fertilizers in the spring to replenish our lawns.
Using 'Kitchen Waste' To Fertilize Plants
I want to fertilize my plants with "kitchen waste" instead of chemicals. How do I use coffee grounds for hydrangeas if used grounds are not acidic enough?