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30 Awesome Gardening Hacks – Epi-3018

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This is a topic we really have not dug into for a long time.  These are 30 of my best gardening hacks developed over almost 40 years of gardening.  Additionally we have a bonus 16 hacks provided by community members via Flote and MeWe.

Some of these you will have likely heard of or even used, but as much as we will cover “lightning round” style today I think everyone will come away with a few things they had never considered before and certainly a few that they can implement in the coming spring gardening season.

  • Some of my best gardening “hacks”
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    1. Water Plant Baskets for Hardening Off
    2. Store tools right in the garden
    3. Composting with wire fence rings
    4. Cover crop in winter
    5. 15 Minute Timer Wicking Beds
    6. Regrow produce – celery, box choi, green onions, living lettuce, watercress, carrot tops, root basil, baby beets
    7. Micro and Mini Green Houses – Video One – Video Two
    8. Old pots as plant protection
    9. Aspirin for Tomatoes and Beans
    10. Freeze Elderberries To Harvest Them
    11. Garden along natural often used pathways
    12. Coffee Grounds
    13. Peel and Stick Plant Prison
    14. Get free coffee grounds from Starbucks etc.
    15. Weed/comfrey tea for fertilizer
    16. Use seed spacing jigs
    17. Spot kill pests with soap or orange oil – 2.5 TBPS of dish soap to 1 gallon of water – 1-2 TBPS of orange oil plus dry mustard to the gallon for hard scale pests.
    18. Garlic Pepper Tea – link to recipe
    19. Cornmeal for disease control, composting and more – how to use it
    20. Water in the early morning if you can
    21. Pond plant fertilizer
    22. Use crushed not half egg shells, trust me
    23. Sand and mineral oil tool storage
    24. Direct compost under mulch
    25. Radish trap crops
    26. Seed organize by season and start method
    27. Grow Sorghum and Sunflower in your veggie garden
    28. Mulch like crazy and get almost free wood chips with 12 packs of beer
    29. Maximize the use of “eastern sun” in hot climates
    30. Over winter sweet potato as a house plant instead fo starting slips
    31. Bonus – Use my 7 part fertility program – link
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  • Hacks suggested by the audience
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    1. Transplant wild edibles – Christopher on MeWe
    2. Automate irrigation – Mike on MeWe
    3. Label, label, label – Andy on MeWe
    4. Use tarps not tilling – Dave on MeWe
    5. Local grocery store floral departments for free pots – Michael on MeWe
    6. Heavy duty office shredder for all paper and light cardboard to compost – Susan on MeWe
    7. Cattle panels and t-posts for trellises – Kate on MeWe & Belsnickle & Rsteva on Flote
    8. Mint prison pots – Eric on MeWe
    9. Make friends with livestock owners if you don’t have any for waste manure – Clyde on MeWe
    10. Mass planting madness – Miller on MeWe
    11. Raise meat and eggs and barter for veggies – Darby on MeWe & Jameson on Flote
    12. Tie into local wisdom, talk to older local gardeners and farmers – BendingReids on Flote
    13. Build a vortex tea brewer (50 gallon under 100 bucks to do) Scramblin on Flote
    14. Dance tulle as pest netting – Reset Remedy on Flote
    15. Diluted urine as fertilizer – Doctor Steve on Flote
    16. Chicken tunnels around garden permitters – Rsteva on Flote
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  • The real key is this is all mostly learned by experience, seeing a need and sharing information, get your hands dirty and you will learn.

 

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30 Awesome Gardening Hacks – Epi-3018 — 6 Comments

  1. FYI Jack, the average large commercial mulch truck bed is 12′ long x8’wide x6′ high =576 cubic feet
    one yard is 3x3x3 = 27 cubic feet so, those truck loads are about 20 yards not 4
    Just makes your point 500% better

  3. The truck box you showed is at least 10 yards. A tape measure will convince you that you are wrong. But, you are the host, and you get to make the rules and say what you want. I probably should not have disagreed in the first place.

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