Spruce Up Your Garden with Simple Household Products

Expensive gardening products can make your gardening experience much less desirable when you do not have the means to buy all the fancy goop to put into your garden. This article will show you how to use everyday household items to spruce up your garden.

Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh Longer

Bayer Asprin: If you want to keep your fresh cut flowers more beautiful longer, all you have to do is add two Bayer Aspirin tablets into the vase of water and fresh flowers. Let the aspirins dissolve and then stir around. You will notice how much longer your flowers will stay fresh.

Hydrogen Peroxide: When you change the water of your fresh cut flowers, add a capful of hydrogen peroxide. It will help to kill all of the bacteria that may be clogging the stems of your flowers. This formula helps the flowers from dying prematurely.

7-Up or Sprite: These tasty citrus drinks can be used instead of water in a vase for fresh cut flowers. Something about these sparkly drinks helps to keep the flowers fresher and more beautiful for a longer period of time.

Crayola Crayons: If you dip the end stem of a fresh cut flower into hot crayon wax to seal the bottom, your flowers will stay fresher longer. It is best to use a green crayon, especially with a clear vase.

Fertilizer

Epsom Salt: If you want better blossoms and deeper greening in your garden all you have to do is sprinkle one teaspoon of Epsom Salt evenly at the base of your plant. By adding Epsom Salt to your garden as a plant food it will help to enrich the color of your flowering plants and also helps prevent diseases from occurring amongst your plants.

Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats: The sugar from crunched up Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats adds nitrogen and the cereal adds potassium and other nutrients to your garden soil or planter mix.

Fungus

Clorox Bleach: Sometimes trees can grow weird fungus and kill the whole tree if not treated properly. Believe it or not Clorox Bleach can do more than whiten your clothes or kill germs, it has the ability to kill fungus in trees. All you have to do is pour one or two gallons of Clorox around the base of the tree and repeat this procedure every four months. Your tree should heal soon.

Grass

Morton Salt: If there is unwanted grass and weeds poking out in places you don't want them too, you can kill them by sprinkling Morton Salt on them.

Water Houseplants

Huggie's Diapers: They don't call Huggie's Diapers leak preventing for nothing. If you have household plants in hanging baskets, pots, or window boxes, all you have to do is remove the outside plastic cover from a Huggie's diaper and switch out some of the potting soil for the diaper stuffing. This will help to cut down on the frequency of having to water your plants because the gel capsules are able to hold and store water and plant food better. It also administers the water and food slowly to the plant.

Huggie's Pull-ups: Just like with small children, if you put a Pull-up on the bottom of you plant, you won't have it leaking. Put a pull up on the bottom of a leaky plant and then put that pot into a larger pot to cover up the diaper. This is the same concept as with a child.

Insecticide:

Listerine and Dawn Liquid Soap: If you want to get rid of nasty pests all you have to do is mix one teaspoon of Regular Flavor Listerine with one teaspoon of Dawn dishwashing soap in a quart spray bottle. You should spray your plants once every two weeks as an insecticide. You should really use this on fruit and vegetable plants.

Weeds:

Heinz White Vinegar: You can kill weeds by pouring vinegar on the weeds and the grass that may happen to grow in between cracks. This is a very environmentally safe and friendly way to get rid of weeds.

Spray 'N Wash: This stain remover has the ability to kill weeds without harming your plant's soil.

Worms

Maxwell House Coffee: If you want to breed worms, try using Maxwell House Coffee grounds in a worm bed to help with the worm breeding process.

I hope that God willing this article will be of some benefit to you.