Top 10 Free Vegetable Gardening Hacks

In this video I show you 10 Free Vegetable Gardening Hacks. There are many things around the house not intended for gardening but work just as good as expensive garden products you buy in the store.

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Table of Contents
00:18 – Toilet paper/paper towel tubes
01:05 – DIY slug control
01:32 – Garden uses for plastic bottles
02:27 – DIY plant tags
02:56 – How to space out small seeds
03:22 – “Bulk seeds” from the grocery store
03:43 – Pea trellises or pea stakes
04:01 – Use old sponges to maintain moisture in containers
04:19 – Put volunteer plants to work
04:38 – DIY anti fungal for plant cuttings
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Garden centers are full of helpful Garden gadgetry that can really make a dce in your wallet however with a little Ingenuity you can craft these things for free with things you have laying around the house I’m Brian with Next Level gardening welcome in this video I’m

Going to show you 10 of my favorite free Garden hacks let’s get right into it with the inside of paper towel or toilet paper rolls one popular way of doing it is cutting four slits and folding in the bottom so that you have a solid bottom

But you don’t really need to do that just grab a container that has drainage holes in the bottom and stack the toilet paper tubes side by side add your seed starting mix the seed starting mix that falls around the outside of the tubes will hold them in

Place this method is especially good for peas beans any legume even sweet pea flowers because they like long deep root systems once the plants are ready to transplant you can stick the entire toilet paper tube in the the ground and bury it it will disintegrate in no time

And there will be no transplant shock slugs can be huge problems in the garden especially with your spring lettuce if you have some old plywood laying around wet the ground with a hose and then lay the piece of wood right there on the ground overnight slugs will gather

Underneath you can go ahead and dispose of them in any way you see fit off to a good start let me know in the comments what your favorite free Garden hack is either one you learned from someone else or came up with on your own plastic is everywhere nowadays literally everywhere

You can reuse some of your plastic bottles in many different ways you can make a small Greenhouse for individual plants with a 2 L bottle just cut the bottom off and sit it over your plant you can go ahead and put a bamboo steak down through it and that will keep the

Bottle from blowing away for plants that need deep watering like tomatoes you can make your own own personal drip system poke a bunch of holes in the cap that will let the water flow out slowly cut the bottom off of the bottle and bury it next to your

Tomato fill it up with water and as the water seeps out the bottom it’s going to water those deep water roots that tomatoes have you can also put the bottom of the bottle back on to make sure that no dirt gets in there and clogs those holes plant tags are

Expensive and let’s face it we lose most of them before before the season’s over take any semi hard plastic container like yogurt or sour cream and cut them into plant tags you can also use old window blinds just cut them or break them to the desired size and these can

Be used over and over for years I used to have a set of metal ones that I made hundreds of markers out of that lasted a really really long time sometimes it’s hard to sew really small seeds like lettuce or carot carrots without having to thin out a bunch later take an Old

Spice bottle with a Shaker top put a couple tablespoons of sand into it along with the seeds from one seed packet and Shake It Up When you sprinkle the contents out it will naturally space the seeds Out Among the sand have you ever counted the number of seeds in any legume package

Like beans or peas there’s not all that many have you ever counted a bag of dried beans there’s a lot more you take out 20 which might be in a seed packet you’re not really going to miss that 20 but you basically have a free 20 seeds to

Plant or use the whole bag who am I to hold you back while we’re continuing the subject of peas twigs and small branches from any shrub at this time of year that you might be cutting back are great to help peas start to climb dwarf peas can

Actually live their entire life on some branches just like this no trellis needed anybody have an old stinky sponge place it in the bottom of a pot to cover the drainage hole then fill with potting soil as you water the pot the sponge soaks up the water and

Distributes it slowly as the soil in the pot dries out is it just me or do seeds germinate much better in the path than in actual beds rather than weeding it out and tossing it away anything that sell sewn just go ahead and dig it up

Out of the path and transfer it into a bed when you’re taking cuting from plants for propagation you might be tempted to use rooting hormone which isn’t cheap and honestly I don’t feel that it’s needed for most things what’s more important is keeping fungus off of your cuting so they don’t get disease

And rot away before they have time to root that’s where honey and cinnamon come in both have anti-fungal properties dip the ends of your cutting in either one of these before you put them in the pot and watch your success rate Skyrocket I hope you got something out

Of these top 10 free Garden hacks I would venture to bet you probably have the things laying around the house for 9 out of 10 maybe even 10 out of 10 if you want to know how to get free plants from the garden center take a look at this

Video right here I’ll see you next time