If you garden everyday, you might come across several small issues to which we sometimes have no solutions. The list below might help you in certain situations.
- If you wish to remove salt deposits that have formed on your clay pots, you could use a mixture of rubbing alcohol, white vinegar and water in equal parts. Let the pot soak the mixture briefly and then scrub it using a plastic brush. Let the pot dry completely before planting anything in it.
- Dirt and soil can often get under your fingernails while gardening. To prevent this, you can drive your nails across a piece of soap. This will ‘seal’ the undersides of your nails and prevent dirt accumulation. After gardening, you could just use a nailbrush to extract the soap and your nails would be instantly clean.
- If the line of your string trimmer is constantly jamming or breaking, you could consider treating it with some vegetable oil prior to installing it on the trimmer.
- You can turn your long-handled tools in measuring sticks. This would provide an additional benefit of using them and would serve as handy measuring instruments. Using a tape measure and a good permanent marker, you can draw inch or foot marks on the handles of your tool. This would be particularly useful when it comes to spacing plants a specific distance apart in order to ensure their proper growth.
- If you are often looking for garden twine, you could store a ball in a clay pot and hanging up and let the twine pass through the drainage hole. You would only have to pull the end when you need it.