Here are some tips on gardening:
Mix together rubbing alcohol with an equal amount of white vinegar and water and place in a spray bottle in order to remove salt deposits from clay pots. Spray the mixture to the pot and scrub it, then allow to dry before using as a planter.
If you would like to keep from getting dirt under your nails while you are working in the garden, you can scrape them across the bar of soap so that the nail cannot fit anything else under it.
Treat the line on your string trimmer in order to prevent jamming or breaking.
Place a garden twine in the pot and pull the end of the twine down through the drainage hole and set the pot unpside down on the ground.
Create markers by writing names of plants of plants with a permanent marker on flat rocks of different sizes and put them near the base of a plant.
You can control aphids with a blast of water from a hose or with insecticidal soap. Or, you can wrap a piece of tape around your hand, sticky side out and pat the leaves of the plants. This will collect them and get them away from the plants.
Plants respond well to water used to boil or steam vegetables. Also, you can use left over tea or coffee grounds. Plants such as rhododendrons, camelias, azaleas and blueberries love them. Lightly sprinkle 1/4 of an inch once amonth which will help keep the pH of the soil on the acidic side.
Chamomile tea can be used to get the plants rid of fungus. The fungus often will attach a young seedlings very suddenly, but if you use the chamomile around the base once a week or use it as a foliar spray.
