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    Genius Gardening Hacks: Tips and Fixes for the Creative Gardener: Easy-Growing Gardening, #10
    Genius Gardening Hacks: Tips and Fixes for the Creative Gardener: Easy-Growing Gardening, #10
    Genius Gardening Hacks: Tips and Fixes for the Creative Gardener: Easy-Growing Gardening, #10
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    Genius Gardening Hacks: Tips and Fixes for the Creative Gardener: Easy-Growing Gardening, #10

    By Rosefiend Cordell

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    Every seasoned gardener has a few tricks up their sleeves to make the work easier. They can improvise materials that get the job done in a way that's more sustainable for all. This book shares many gardening lifehacks that can make your work easier and your plants happier.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosefiend Publishing
    Release dateJul 24, 2020
    ISBN9781953196262
    Genius Gardening Hacks: Tips and Fixes for the Creative Gardener: Easy-Growing Gardening, #10
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    Rosefiend Cordell

    This is the gardening pen name for Melinda R. Cordell. Former city horticulturist, rose garden potentate, greenhouse manager, perennials factotum, landscape designer, and small-time naturalist. I've been working in horticulture in one way or another since 1989. These days I write gardening books because my body makes cartoon noises when I move, and I really like air-conditioning. Good times!

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      Genius Gardening Hacks - Rosefiend Cordell

      Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling

      PEST CONTROL FIXES

      For squash, zucchini, or other garden plants afflicted by cutworms or borers, wrap a little aluminum foil around the plant’s stem tightly enough to keep the pests out.

      Add two tablespoons of light cooking oil to every gallon of organic insect spray. This will help suffocate aphids and other insect pests that are hit with this spray. Note: Don’t spray oil mixes when it’s over 90 degrees outside, as this adversely affects plants.

      If you find slugs in your garden munching holes in your favorite plants, set out some saucers of beer for them. It might feel like you’re rewarding the slugs for their bad behavior. Au contraire. The slugs get drunk and fall into the beer and drown. You might have to go outside twice a day and pick up the slugs that haven’t drowned and toss them in a bucket of soapy water. Also, at the end of the day, you might dump the beer out so you don’t invite hordes of drunken raccoons into your yard.

      Japanese beetles can be knocked into a container of soapy water to kill them. Cover the Japanese beetles as they fall in because sometimes they fly away before they hit the water. If you have chickens, don’t add soap to the water – just collect the beetles, then pour the water and beetles into their water dish for them to snap up.

      Deter slugs and snails by laying coffee grounds around your plants. You can also pour out the coffee you didn’t drink around your soil. Snails and slugs avoid caffeinated soil, and a 1 to 2 percent caffeine solution will kill them. (Instant coffee contains .5 percent caffeine; brewed coffee contains more.) Slugs hit with caffeine fall to uncoordinated writhing before they perish.

      A third way to get slugs and snails is with chalk. Chalk pictures drawn on the sidewalk make slugs explode. Grab your kid’s sidewalk chalk, scribble all over a rock or a board, then put it under your hostas or cabbages where the slugs can crawl over it. Re-chalk everything each time it rains. Diatomaceous earth has the same effect on these and other critters.

      Old milk, in a 50/50 mild/water blend, makes an effective fungicide for roses.

      Charles Anctil, the late rosarian who I still miss, always sprayed his roses and plants with a blast of water from the hose to knock pests

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