I decided to collect all the tips for gardeners and gardeners, tricks or useful tips in one place. Many people think that the more experienced a gardener or gardener, the more he has a crop in the garden and the garden, and the less problems he has. This is not entirely true. Of course, experience is very important in our gardening business, but not only. It is important to be able to use knowledge. Many tips may seem strange, but rest assured, they really work! Several years of work in a summer cottage have changed my life a lot. Most importantly, they brought joy and satisfaction. And what inventors are my colleagues in the garden! I never cease to be surprised! I learned a lot from them and, hopefully, I will learn a lot. I am sure that there are a lot of tricks for gardeners and gardeners and the page with tips will be constantly updated.
1. Tops of tomatoes from pests
Cut the tops of tomatoes (stepsons, lower leaves) fill with water. Insist a day. It is possible to spray cruciferous (for example, cabbage, radish, radish, etc.) and pumpkin (cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins) from various pests with this composition. Another secret - if you let the tops sour, you get a great top dressing for any crops.
2. How to water onions sown with seeds so that it is healthy
The black onion should be watered not only with water, but alternately, then with a weak ash solution (1 glass of ash per bucket of water), then with a very weak solution of potassium permanganate - all pests disappear - the onion becomes strong, healthy.
3. How to keep carrots until spring?
Just leave one bed of carrots not dug. Carefully tear off the entire tops, pour a bed on the palm of the earth from above. In the spring, rake the ground - dig up the carrots. It will be fresh, juicy, tasty!
4. How to get rid of moles - country tricks and useful tips
- In mole passages pour balls of fresh goat or pork droppings, as well as pour brine from herring or a mixture of kerosene with water.
- Chopped cut gooseberry branches, bury them in the ground with manure.
- Stakes of bird cherry stick in mole heaps or near them.
- The noise from rattles (metal turntables) transmitted to the soil by the stick on which they are mounted will drive the moles away.
- Moles do not like the smell of onions and garlic. Cut them finely and place them in the mole passages. The more mole moves you fill with this mixture, the faster moles will leave your site.
5. Parsley shoots appear in three hours
Many of us grow greens to a table on a window or balcony. It is very convenient. Parsley seeds germinate very slowly, but there is one trick to “getting” them to germinate very quickly. Prepare a container of earth, moisten it, sprinkle the earth with quicklime three times every 10-15 minutes. Sow parsley seeds, previously soaked in milk. Seeds will sprout in three hours. The room should be warm, not lower than 20 ° C.
6. Iodine for the garden
a) If, when growing seedlings, pour tomatoes once with a weak iodine solution (one drop of iodine per three liters of water), flower brushes will form faster, will be more branched, the number of ovaries will increase. Fruits on such tomatoes will be 10-15% larger; they will ripen a few days earlier. When the seedlings are planted in the ground, then after two weeks you can again pour 1 liter of iodine water under each root under iodine water (three drops of iodine per bucket of water).
b) To protect strawberries from gray rot, it is useful to sprinkle bushes 2-3 times with iodine solution (10 ml per 10 l of water) with an interval of 10 days.
7. Pine needles in pest control
Pine needles can be effectively used in pest control of the garden. To do this, take 1 kg of needles in 5 liters of water, put in a dark place for a week. Stir the infusion daily in order to extract the necessary substances from pine needles. Then strain the infusion. Add water to the original volume before spraying. Adding 20 g of liquid soap to 5 liters of infusion increases its effectiveness. The infusion of pine needles should be used against aphids, torpedoes.
When you need to urgently prepare an infusion, you can take pine needles, pour them with boiling water in a ratio of 1: 1, insist for a day. Strain, add liquid soap - the drug is ready. Such a strong infusion should be diluted with water 1: 5 before use. The experience of gardeners has shown that spraying should be carried out closer to the evening. The effect increases many times.
According to the norms, the advice is this: on a currant bush - 1.5 l, on a gooseberry bush - 1 l, on a raspberry bush - 2 l, per square meter of strawberries - 0.2 l, on an adult tree - 10 l. Currants and gooseberries are sprayed at the very beginning of flowering, in order to prevent the appearance of moths. Repeat the operation with an interval of 5 days.
Infusion of pine needles helps strawberries against gray rot - this is very important for preserving the crop. Pine suppresses gray rot during ripening, so it’s nice to mulch the planting of strawberries with pine needles.
8. How to protect strawberries from birds
To preserve strawberries (strawberries) in the bird bed, immediately after flowering, spread various small objects painted in bright red color that look like ripe berries (for example, walnuts, round pebbles) between plants. By the time the berries ripen, curious birds will already understand that they have nothing to do here.
9. How to apply bird (chicken, pigeon) droppings?
It should be remembered that bird droppings are a very concentrated fertilizer, it is impossible to overestimate the doses of its use. When digging the soil per 1 square. m make 500 g of dry bird droppings. When plants are planted, it is introduced into the wells, nests no more than 8-10 g per plant. Liquid feeding is effective: fresh bird droppings are diluted with water in this ratio - if fresh bird droppings - then 1 kg per 10 liters of water, and if dry - then 1 kg per 20 liters of water.
As soon as the bird droppings get wet, it is well mixed and applied under the plants, without leaving for fermentation. A solution of bird droppings spend 2 liters per 1 square. m. After pouring the soil near the plant with this solution, you should fill it with a 1 cm layer of dry soil and pour it with clean water.
10. How to burn garbage in a summer house or land
Burning garden rubbish in spring or late autumn is a difficult task for many gardeners. Wet remnants do not want to flare up. In this difficult business ... a brick will help. Put it first in a dry place so that it dries well. Immerse the dry brick completely for three hours in kerosene. When it is soaked, wrap it in plastic wrap. Firstly, so that it doesn’t “aromatize” the air, and secondly, this way it will retain its combustible properties longer. When it is necessary to burn the garbage, it is placed inside the prepared heap and set on fire.
It burns long and evenly. To then extinguish the flame, a brick is pulled out of a fire with a stick, covered with a wet dense rag.
11. How to plant carrots without hassle?
Carrots have very small seeds. Sowing them is very inconvenient - sometimes a lot, then a little gets into the groove of the bed. There is an exit! Take a small medicine bottle. Make a small hole in the lid a little larger than a carrot seed. Pour the seeds into the bottle and, having closed the lid, sow on the bed like salt. Get a very economical option.
12. Sharpening a garden tool, secrets
We gardeners and gardeners need a good cutting tool: garden knives, shovels, secateurs, axes, choppers, plane cutters, saws. But, alas, very rarely now you can buy a quality tool. The choppers are quickly dull and serrated. Shovels bend and break. Our heavy chernozem is not all modern tools withstand. But these shortcomings are easily eliminated by treating them with a weak solution of sodium chloride.
Hardeners and a point of a cutting tool in a solution of table salt have been used by gardeners since ancient times. I learned about such a trick, about such a method of sharpening from my father.
The solution is prepared simply: 1 glass of water + 1 tablespoon of salt. Water temperature matters. If the tool is made of hard and brittle (brittle) steel, then it should be slightly warm - + 28-35 ° С. And if the steel is mild, then the water of the salt solution should be even warmer - + 35-40 ° C. Of course, the volume of the solution depends on the size of the tool that you will be preparing for sharpening. The tool must be completely immersed in water.
If you are going to harden a new tool with salt, then you must first grind it, and then put it in a saline solution for half an hour. After that, it can already be sharpened and directed completely. Rinse the tool periodically in salt water while sharpening. The father is sure that with such a sharpening the tool will not break - brittleness will disappear, hard steel will become more elastic. Moreover, this tool does not dull longer and does not grind as fast as when sharpening without using salt water.
13. Seed treatment before sowing
Processing seeds with hydrogen peroxide is not a completely new, but rather promising method of disinfecting and preparing seed material for sowing, especially in the absence of potassium permanganate, which is familiar to us, on sale. At the same time, hydrogen peroxide increases the sowing quality of seeds, plant immunity, growth and development rates, and the yield increases.
To increase sowing qualities and stimulate germination, the seeds are soaked in a 0.4% hydrogen peroxide solution for 12 hours, and difficult to germinate, for example, beet seeds, parsley - 24 hours.
For disinfection, the seed is treated in a 10% hydrogen peroxide solution for 20 minutes at a ratio of seed weight to solution 1: 1. Then the seeds are washed with water and dried to flowability, necessary for sowing.
Soaking seeds in a 0.4% hydrogen peroxide solution increases germination energy, accelerates emergence of seedlings by 2-4 days, increases productivity, and helps to reduce the nitrate content in products. Processing the seed with a 10% hydrogen peroxide solution reduces seed contamination with pathogens.
Do not be lazy! Treat and disinfect the seeds before sowing with hydrogen peroxide, and the result will not be long in coming.
14. How to protect trees in winter from hares and mice
It turns out that you can do without such time-consuming work as tying the stands of young trees with film, lapnik and other materials. The trick is that hares do not tolerate certain odors. For example, the smell of fish oil or stale fat. Lubricate one of these “drugs” trunks. There is another way: hang bags with mothballs on the lower branches of the tree.
15. Sweet pepper has stopped tying new fruits
How to “force” pepper to tie new fruits? Long time ago I read the answer to this question, but was in no hurry to publish it, since I myself forgot to follow it in practice. Often this happens (at least for me), it seems that you know something, but memory does not throw up an answer at the right time. And in the past year (in the summer of 2018), just such a situation happened with sweet pepper. It bloomed on time, the fruits started, but there were no new flowers. And I really saw that I could not see a large crop. Quite by chance, looking at my notes, I saw this advice and decided that it would not be worse than it is. All the same, there will be little pepper.
So the advice was that as soon as you saw that after the first ovaries of pepper new buds did not form, you should ruthlessly cut off all the ovaries. The practical experience of gardening experts assured that after such an operation the pepper will begin to bloom with renewed vigor and will yield a good harvest by the end of the garden season.
Ruthlessly breaking all the ovaries, as you might have guessed, I could not. A worm of doubt: how to cut it all off, suddenly there will be nothing at all, did not let me do this on all plants. I still left some of the peppers with ovaries untouched. So what? The advisers were right!
In 10-12 days, peppers with ragged fruits gave as many buds as I had before. Part of the ovaries and flowers fell, but a sufficient number of fruits ensued. These peppers did not stop flowering anymore. Ovaries formed regularly, the plants themselves became more powerful, branched than those that I regretted. I did not stay without a harvest! By the way, peppers left with their ovaries stood for a very long time without new ovaries. They appeared only closer to the fall, but did not have time to fully mature.
What country tricks do you know? What advice can you give colleagues, gardeners and gardeners?