Easy Gardening Tips for a Garden That Will Grow
Let’s talk about easy gardening tips. It’s time to start thinking about getting your garden planted, but where to start? You want to plant a garden, but first of all, you need to know what to plant and what to do to have a garden that will actually grow. We’ve had pretty good luck with pumpkins and snap peas but that’s about it. I’m thinking these great tips are going to help us have a garden that will grow this year! Awesome!
Easy Gardening Tips
1. First, you need to know when it’s safe to plant your garden. Check out this frost free date chart according to your region.
2. Use plastic forks to keep pets and animals from destroying your garden.
3. Use Epsom salts for your tomatoes, vegetable garden, and even flowers to give them healthy and magnesium rich soil.
4. Another great way to give your garden a boost is with ground up eggshells!
5 – 14. Sometimes the “Vintage” Tips are the best ones! These are some great natural ways to get your garden to thrive!
15 – 19. Do you make any of these mistakes? Here are 5 Gardener Mistakes to Avoid. Growing too many plants? Watering too much? Um, yeah that’s us!
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20 – 29. When you have weeds then use these 10 ways to keep those weeds OUT!
30. I love fresh carrots from the garden! If you want to grow carrots then you’ll learn all about how to grow them here!
31. You’re going to need a great way to mark the spots where you planted, therefore why not try these adorable rainbow garden markers?
32. If you want to grow watermelons but don’t have tons of room in your garden, then just train them to climb! You can use a trellis and support the watermelons in hammocks. An old T-shirt will work perfectly to support them on the trellis.
33 – 37. Kids love to dig in the dirt and watching their plants grow is a great learning activity. As a result, you will want to get your children involved. Then consider these 5 ideas on encouraging your child to help plant a garden
Easy Garden DIY Greenhouse
38. And if you’d like a greenhouse for that fabulous garden, here’s a great way to DIY out of an old trampoline frame! All for under $100! Very cool!
39. You can also use something like Syndey concrete sleepers to help your retaining walls hold their integrity, keeping your garden separate from the landscape and giving an aesthetic look that will otherwise be impossible.
I’d love to know your favorite tips for growing your garden! What will you be planting?
Mary says
Thanks for including my post in this AWESOME list! I’m honored!
Katie says
You’re very welcome! Thank you for the awesome post!
Yvonne says
The organization and other tips are great. Passing them on to my family.
Vic Nguyen says
Awesome tips! I think I will do it for my garden in Vietnam. Great article!
Agreenhand says
These tips are extremely useful! I try using eggshell to grow plants and the result is quite good! The plastic fork is also very good for protecting my garden out of my pets! Thanks for sharing your tips here!
Paul says
Some cool tips. Will try the eggshelll one for sure. My wife loves watermelons but not sure if they will grow in the UK!
Nehal S says
A pleasantly different list !!
Thanks for including all the links of your other articles and connecting the dots.
I have only used organic compost of leftover fruits and veggies. Never really tried eggshells before.
I am going to give it a shot now!!
Jason says
Awesome tips! I love watermelon. And like the idea of support the watermelons in hammocks. Thanks for sharing.
William Gabriel says
Great Tips! Learn many new things about gardening. specially the tips you share about kids fabulous. Thanks
Jack - ThePatioPro says
I’ve gotta try this with my kids next season, sounds immensely fun and it’s a beautiful learning experience. Thanks for the fantastic post Katie!
Nicolas Blair says
Thanks for sharing all these tips, Katie.
I appreciate your efforts of gathering all this informations.
Love from a loyal reader.
koneko says
Will try the eggshelll one for sure. Thanks for post 🙂
Sylvia says
I love the watermelon hammock idea! Finally I have a use for all those old t-shirts that don’t fit anymore lol. Thanks for all the tips!
Christopher says
The organization and other tips are great. Passing them on to my friends and family.
Charles Hover says
This is a good idea.
Steve says
I just put aspirin(non coated ones) in a spray bottle amd add water shake till they dissolve and spray on my plants. Bugs and rabbits stay away trust me I know
Head Gnome says
You can also spread around some coffee beans and it will keep away most pests
Karen Miller says
Some excellent ideas here, I really like the ones on the kids and the eggshell. Not sure we can grow watermelons in Canada, maybe indoors with a grow tent and lights but never seen it done yet.
Thanks for the article