Fork It! Try this Hack if Fido Keeps Peeing in your Prized Garden
Is your four-legged furry friend a little too interested in the rose bushes? Maybe they’re trying to eat the veggies you’ve been working so hard to grow? Whatever the case, sticking upside-down plastic forks around the area can deter your pets from coming near.
Of course, if your garden is visible to your neighbors than you may want to reconsider trying this little trick. The forks may be helpful, but maybe less aesthetic. But hey, you just have to ask yourself how important it is to keep those animals away from your prized plants. Don’t worry, there’s a much easier way to the situation.
Pour Some on the Ground for the Snail Homies
Looking for a natural and effective way to keep pests out of the garden? Next time your plants are plagued by slugs, poor some of your brewskie into a cup and stick it down in your soil near the affected plants. Snails are attracted to the yeast in the bubbly liquid, and they’ll crawl into the cup and drown before they eat your tomatoes.
Place the cup firmly in the soil but be sure to leave a good inch so as to not kill good organisms along with the slimy pests. You don’t want the good insects that eat the peskier pests to accidentally drown. And hey, at least the snails will die happy, right?
Paper Towels to Hydrate Plants
Here’s another trick for all of you city dwellers, or those of you living alone that may need to run out of town for a few days and you don’t have anyone near to help take care of your plants. All you need to pull this hack off is a glass and some paper towels.
Simply fill up as many glasses as necessary with water and twist up some paper towels, sticking one end in the glass of water and the other directly in the soil of your plants. Make sure they’re close enough that the paper towels won’t fall out or miss delivering the water directly to your plants. Fill up the glasses enough that that they will last for a while (at least ¾ of the way).
Hydrogen Peroxide for Root Rot
Everyone should have at least one bottle of hydrogen peroxide laying around the house, if not an entire case of it. This stuff has so many wonderful uses for around the home, it’s crazy. It can be used for everything from cleaning out wounds, to lifting stains from fabric, to boosting dish soap in dishwashing cycles. But it can also be used directly outside of the home, too – to prevent and cure root rot in your plants!
To prevent root rot in your garden, mix a solution of one-part hydrogen peroxide to 5 parts water (about 3-5% hydrogen peroxide only) and shake up in a water bottle. Then, insert a spray nozzle and spray the solution directly on to the roots of your plants once per day. Another good thing about this solution is it’s not harmful to other plants, so if you accidentally spray it on anything else in your garden, all is well.
Use Plastic Bottles to Keep Plants Hydrated
This tip is not only great for ensuring that your plants get enough water, but it’s also a terrific way to recycle and reuse old plastic bottles. Save up your old water or soda bottles and poke holes all over the entire area, aside from the neck. Holes should be about two inches apart.
After you’ve planted your bottles, each time you water your garden and/or fill them manually with the pot, the water in the bottles will empty slowly, keeping your plants consistently hydrated for a longer period of time. This is a great hack for someone who doesn’t get the chance to water their garden as much as they’d like.