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  1. I'm really good at gardening I planted tomatoes ? once and now I'm planting beans the beans started in a bag with a wet paper towel and it was hung up on the window but then once it grew a little I transferred it to a pot

  2. You can use old plastic bottles as a container to grow your seeds in before replanting (by cutting the bottle from top to bottom). Or, for bigger bottles (2 to 5 litres), you can cut them horizontally (bottle standing) and use both halves as mini greenhouses for your early plantations or slow-growing seeds 🙂

    Surround the foot of your plants with ashes to prevent slugs from coming to eat them.

  3. 1) Paint the masonry in and around your greenhouse black; it absorbs sunlight and releases the heat overnight keeping your greenhouse warmer.

    2) Sow clover in between vegetable rows and as a cover crop when you're not growing anything on a space. Clover fixes Nitrogen into the soil. Alder trees (Alnus glutinosa) also fix Nitrogen, so one or two planted around the garden will increase the fertility of a huge area of soil.

    3) Use pencil to label things, it can be left to the elements for decades without fading, rubbing or washing off.

    4) On average for every 1 slug you see, there will be 8 more underground.

    5) Bury logs in the subsoil or at the bottom of deep planters for a slow-rotting, abundant nutrient source that will last decades.

    6) Get ahead of global warming by planting cultivars of fruit trees from a few hundred miles south. For example if you live in Northern England, plant tree cultivars from Northern France. In 30 years they will be in their ideal climate.

    7) Soil is the most important part of your garden. Invest space in a good compost heap and "borrow" green waste from foolish neighbors who are happily throwing their soil nutrients away! Put everything plant-based in the compost and pee on it sometimes to catalyze the process.

    8) A fairly large compost heap can reach temperatures of 70°C inside. Run water pipes through to heat your greenhouse or even your house.

    9) Plastic pots can last forever and keep soil moist. Clay pots crack within 10 years due to frost weathering, and are porous so the soil in them dries out faster.

    10) Seaweed is an incredibly nutritious "green manure" that is freely abundant around the UK. Compost it then dig it into the soil to import tonnes of nutrients to your garden, you'll see an explosion of growth.

  4. David the Good (he's on You Tube) would pish posh the concept of not using dishwater that had washed dairy or meat stuff. He posits that why would you not? After all, you use bonemeal or calcium to augment soils. IT would just save $$.

    In a small garden, wide row planting is beneficial. I used The Joy of Gardening (it's really heavy handed on the Toro placements) which promotes using wide rows for plentiful harvests, reduced weeding and reduced watering. I've used it and wow! I got a lot of veg. He's really into complementary planting, composting, etc.

    This is all making me wish I lived in a place where I could even container plant.

  5. Hahaha – you "don't want water that has been used with dairy or meat in your soil" – really?!? I've yet to see plants that don't like growing in soil that has had dairy or meat decompose in it – that's what detritivores do – it's what makes rain-forests as lush and green as they are – decomposing animal matter of all sorts help feed the soil microbes and plants. 🙂 #correctlearningforlife

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