Garden Tip: Kitchen Scraps for your Garden
Many have asked how you can use kitchen vegetable scraps to enhance your garden yield and prevent bugs from destroying your garden crops. Well, here is a short list of basics to help you obtain a better bounty in your garden.
1) Eggshells: After Sunday brunch take all your eggshells and rinse them off, then crumble them and spread them around the base of your tomato plants to prevent root rot and repel bugs.
2) Coffee grounds: Coffee grounds are a natural acidic fertilizer for plants such as roses, tomatoes, squash and some berry plants.
3) Hot Pepper Seeds: Ok this is going to be a strange concept, but trust me it works. Grind up any leftover seeds from, your hot peppers, even the ends you don't use in your recipe. Take a big bowl fill it with water, place your ground up leftovers and let them soak over night. Strain the mixture over another bowl, save the water and spray it on your garden plants to help prevent bugs like aphids and other vegetable eating bugs. This is an all natural way to get rid of bugs. You can also sprinkle dried pepper seeds you'd buy at the store around the perimeter of your garden to prevent chipmunks and other animals from harvesting your hard work.
4) Black Pepper: Having a problem with animals digging up your seedlings before they have a chance to grow, try sprinkling ground black pepper around the area of your seedlings. The black pepper deters animals from going near your seeds or seedlings.
5) Banana Peels: Everyone loves Banana's but what to do with the peels? How about cutting them up and sprinkling them around the base of your newly planted seedlings? This is a great potassium fertilizer that your plants will love you for in the growing weeks.
Many have asked how you can use kitchen vegetable scraps to enhance your garden yield and prevent bugs from destroying your garden crops. Well, here is a short list of basics to help you obtain a better bounty in your garden.
1) Eggshells: After Sunday brunch take all your eggshells and rinse them off, then crumble them and spread them around the base of your tomato plants to prevent root rot and repel bugs.
2) Coffee grounds: Coffee grounds are a natural acidic fertilizer for plants such as roses, tomatoes, squash and some berry plants.
3) Hot Pepper Seeds: Ok this is going to be a strange concept, but trust me it works. Grind up any leftover seeds from, your hot peppers, even the ends you don't use in your recipe. Take a big bowl fill it with water, place your ground up leftovers and let them soak over night. Strain the mixture over another bowl, save the water and spray it on your garden plants to help prevent bugs like aphids and other vegetable eating bugs. This is an all natural way to get rid of bugs. You can also sprinkle dried pepper seeds you'd buy at the store around the perimeter of your garden to prevent chipmunks and other animals from harvesting your hard work.
4) Black Pepper: Having a problem with animals digging up your seedlings before they have a chance to grow, try sprinkling ground black pepper around the area of your seedlings. The black pepper deters animals from going near your seeds or seedlings.
5) Banana Peels: Everyone loves Banana's but what to do with the peels? How about cutting them up and sprinkling them around the base of your newly planted seedlings? This is a great potassium fertilizer that your plants will love you for in the growing weeks.
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