These nine household items make great garden equipment

I remember that I had reached for the knife: I was trying to divide a group of irisees with rhizome so much that my shovel refused to cut through them. I thought from myself, “A dental knife would be correct cut through these” – and after a moment of reflection, cannot come with a reason that do not do so properly. And in the same way, a bread knife that did not see any action in the kitchen became one of my most valuable garden equipment.

The key to being skilled in the garden is to use the right tools for the job, and there is no rule that says that those devices will have to come from the garden center. If you identify a non-traditional device that can work, do not be afraid to claim, it usually stays from any part of the house and rejuvenates it in its garden.

Latter knife

When your shovel cannot be found through the roots, and a hori hori is very low, it is time to remove a long bread knife. I like the most about using bread knife that I can paste it correctly in the ground and use it like a saw on resistant root balls, rhizomes or roots. As long as you erase the knife, when you work with it, it should not be rust, and there should be a reliable tool in the yard.

PVC pipe

The PVC pipe is being used as a dibber.
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A conventional dibgler is a device that you use to make indentation in the soil, keeping seeds. Get out, a stick of PVC pipe talks almost the same. And if you incorrect a piece of PVC in the yard incorrectly, it will not crazy you in a way when I wrongly wrongly misunderstand my boxer. In fact, PVC is more effective than a dibgler when it comes time to leak, which you dig and Accuse Every few months so that the more part of the stem is underground. When you repeat them, you want a grip that is very narrow and 10 inches deep – and PVC gets work.

But PVC can do more. It is the perfect material for the manufacture of hoops for one Lower tunnel On your bed, and due to all the connectors and fittings for PVC, you can also make a small greenhouse from it.

Electrical tooth

When you are not going to find a method for better pollination than good ol ‘bees, there are examples where your plants need help. Sometimes, you do not have a lot of pollpers, and sometimes you are doing horticulture indoors. In those cases, you need an electric toothbrush, or uh, Something else that vibrates. Once the flowers of the plant are, and those flowers are open, you catch the vibrating tool against it, and you will see the air filling with pollen, such as yellow clouds. Some of that pollen will descend on flowers and pollination. I have found this method effective in my indoor gardens.

Copper penny

Copper penis is being used as a slug shield.
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To be about penis Decomination By US Mint, there is another way to use the people present here. if they were Was built before 1982, They are made of copper, and if one thing is hated, it is copper. This gives a blow to the slug, and they usually will not cross it. Sure, you can buy copper tape – or you can only glue the copper penny around your raised beds. I like epoxy for this, rather than hot glue, because the hot glue is just going to melt again in the summer.

Wire garbage compartment

The wire can occur as a cage of the garbage plant.
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Perhaps you do not have chickens that want to eat all your plants and instead are just working with average birds, racoon, mice and squirrels. In any case, a wire garbage can serve as an excellent cage for your plants, keeps the animals out while the plant becomes quite large to stand on its own. The dollar store is an excellent place to detect these gems, and when you do, hold a bunch of them.

Five gallon buckets and milk curtains

5 gallon buckets are being used for weed collection
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See, I am reassuring five gallon buckets – cheap that you find at the home depot – are unheard heroes of garden work. Always kill eight to 10 kicks around my yard. When I weeding, I look for a closest bucket to toss them. When I come into a tight squeeze, where my wheelbro cannot reach, a bucket is great for scooping and dumping. If I am running to get sand or soil for the garden, it is easy to toss a bunch of buckets behind the car, or if I am picking up a freebi plant from a neighbor, which I need something to ride to ride to plant it. Fill a bucket with water and immerse the whole plant in it Anti -waterYou can use buckets to mix soil modifications. If you drill holes in them, the bucket can make a decent planner. I have seen a driveway garden filled with tomatoes and chili in a five-gallon bucket.

In a similar vein, milk boxes are invaluable for garden storage, as water cannot pool in them. You can see everything stored in them at a glance, and they can stack. Being able to stack things in a garden is equivalent to a dress discovery, which has pockets: precious. But the best use of milk boxes is to use them to plant bulbs. Flowers farmers often use boxes that are sent to bulbs to plant bulbs of the year (which look like a milk crate), and once the cotton is filled with soil and starts flowering, you will not notice the crate.

Cardboard

Mulching cardboard sheet.
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In my neighborhood, large cardboard rarely takes it to the recycling station. This is quickly claimed for horticulture, as clean tape- and paint-free is the basis for cardboard SheetIf you want to kill your grass, drop the weeds down, and/or walkway in your garden, you start with a layer of cardboard. Whatever is under it, it will smooth, and as soon as the cardboard decomposes, add nitrogen to the soil. In a similar vein, cardboard can be brown in your manure bin, which should be balanced with green (grass clipping, leaves, stem, etc.).

You can also use cardboard in germination. Some seeds like carrots are a real bugger to sprout, and require frequent moisture, and not like the sun at this level. A sheet of cardboard above your carrot seeds will keep the soil moist and ensure the darkness. After one or two weeks, pick up the cardboard and check the germination. Once you see seedling, remove the cardboard.

Scissors

Cut sweet peas with a scissors.
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I have every pair of every pair (I lose them, somehow), but for some situations, something beats a pair of scissors. For delicate flowers such as sweet peas, trying to get a pair of prunters amid growing vines will harm more than good. I constantly need to cut myself out and cut out in summer, and pruners rarely give a clean cut.