Simon Akeroyd on Instagram: "Keyhole gardening is a sustainable gardening technique that originates from Africa. It involves building a raised bed from any surrounding materials you can find. A compost is created in the centre which slowly leaches out its goodness and feeds and nourishes the surrounding impoverished soil. It’s called Keyhole Gardening because the raised bed is circular with a section cut out of it, leading to the centre. The shape resembles the shape of a keyhole. The section alllows you access to the compost heap."
Penny P. Weeks • Retired Life in our Country Garden on Instagram: "A Simple Trick to Keep Deer out of your Garden 🦌 I use fishing line to create an invisible barrier around the perimeter of my garden. 🌻 When deer walk into the fishing line they scurry away a bit confused by the invisible fence which means my flowers continue to flourish. I tried this last summer and it actually works! I was able to grow sunflowers without the pesky garden thieves snacking on them!!! 🌻🌻🌻 Cheers to retired life, and as always, happy gardening!!! X Penny"
Gardening With Mom on Instagram: "🥒 What Happens When You Bury a Cucumber Like This? Cut it in half, stick it to a tree, fill a cup with soil... and wait. You won’t believe the results! 🌱👀 #PlantingTips #CucumberExperiment #GardenHack #GrowYourOwn #HomeGardening #PlantPropagation #GreenThumb #ViralGardening #NatureTricks #SimpleGardenExperiments"
Michaela Shoebridge on Instagram: "When I shared this DIY water butt last year — with the rain chain, vintage pot, and tap — it stirred up so much controversy! Any of you remember? 🤭 It was a lot. My most-viewed Reel ever — over 83 million views! 🤯 So many of you said the tap should’ve been lower or that I should’ve put it on a pedestal, but honestly, I didn’t want to do that. 🤷🏼♀️ It works perfectly for me since I can just scoop water from the top if I need to, so I can access all the water, not just the bottom half. Plus, for those wondering, there’s a hidden drain underneath to handle any overflow, so it’s been super practical. And for mosquitoes? I just pop in a mosquito dunk, and it keeps them away. I love that this setup isn’t just functional, but also adds so much charm to the
Tasha Medve | 🌿sustainable living on Instagram: "Over the years I have played around with my designs, researched ideal bed sizes, widths and it all comes down to easy accesiblity and harvesting. Working with your space is ideal and you may adjust some of these rules 1. Having access to clean up the garden, bring soil and get as close to your beds with a wheelbarrow is ideal. 2. Building tall structures on the north sides of the garden for vertical growing is key to not shade other beds. Ideally plan this when you are in the building stages 3. 8x4 bed sizes is ideal because you can reach in the middle easily (standing in your garden is not ideal). You can get around your garden easily and allows a perfect amount of food in the bed with proper companion planting. Of course, work with
Jenna Meadows | Meadows Flower Farm on Instagram: "Ranunculus are cool weather loving, spring blooming beauties I start now in January in my zone 6a garden climate! Steps: 1) Soak corms in water: This hydrates them and in turn allows them to start growing quicker. 3-4 hours does the trick! Be careful not to leave them too long or they can rot. Once they look plump, you’re golden! 2) Keep the water flowing to add oxygen- these are living little plants that don’t appreciate sitting in stagnant water they are actively making dirty. A stream of water flowing works, or just change the water every hour. 3) Sprouting: I use trays to get them growing somewhere cool, but not freezing (my garage). After about 10-14 days they will start developing roots! Keep soil moist the whole time. After abo
Leanne Kilroy on Instagram: "THE BASIL TRICK 🌿 1. Never water the soil, only water the saucer 2. Always keep the saucer full 3. Never pluck, always trim the stem just above a leaf Some other helpful tips: 4. Use an XL saucer or bowl. It will drink what it needs! 5. Repotting into a bigger pot will mean a bigger basil! Use normal potting soil. You can split supermarket plants into multiple pots if you want. 6. This works best in the warmer months and indoors 7. Basil loves a sunny spot 🌞 8. Wait a month or so before you trim 9. Give it time - these plants are three months old 10. Once it’s big, trimming will keep your basil healthy and bushy. Trim off any flowers immediately! 11. I use terracotta pots and water impermeable saucers. Save this post for future reference and see my o
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Josh Gardens on Instagram: "What’s your deer fencing strategy?🦌 🌳 🍎 This old school hand built fence utilizes a double fence method where the deer will not jump because they can’t judge the distance. 📏 In fact, it only takes two, 4’ fences 4’ apart to deter deer. 🦌 They can jump high but not far and high at the same time. In addition, they have terrible depth perception which to us would look like covering one eye. 👀 Please share your deer stories around fencing and let’s see what everyone else is doing. #gardenlife #fencing #deer #doublefence # gardening #garden #gardentips #gardentip #gardening101 #tips #gardeningbasics #handmade #statepark #woodfence"
Breanna Ellis on Instagram: "Heres some more information on starting onions from seed! Ive started my onions from seed for 5 years and Ive found a few things I like to do to make planting go a bit smoother over the years! I personally like to start my onion seeds 10-12 weeks before my plant out date. WHICH IS NOW!! Im currently sitting 10 weeks out from 6 weeks before my last average frost. 6 weeks has worked really well for me in the past but Ive also planted closer to 4 weeks before my last average frost. Last year we had a fluke cold snap at the end of march but the onions did just fine with a bit of cover. Ill be continuing to watch the weather like normal and if we are staying cold I might hold off a week or two. You know how weird spring can be lol The latest Ive started my onion
Seb 💚 on Instagram: "👇 Pulling up plant roots is destroying your soil. It’s MUCH better for your soil to cut plants at the base and let them decompose naturally. Why? Beneficial bacteria in your soil actually form mutualistic relationships with your plant roots. Basically bacteria TRADE nutrients and minerals with your plants. This is why active healthy soil grows such beautiful plants without fertilizers or soil tests. The bacteria know what your plants want, and the plants trade carbon for the nutrients and minerals they need. Seriously. Plants and bacteria literally trade with each other. Plants can request specific nutrients and minerals and specific bacteria will come and fulfill the request. This sounds too good to be true? So bacteria like plant roots and want to stay n