Having spent a great deal of my time working in garden centre advisory huts when I was younger, I have accumulated many unfamiliar feeding techniques, hints and tips on caring for plants with unusual objects. Over my lifetime I have catalogued them into my very own bible of hints and tips using household items to feed and care for your plants. This helps in a variety of different ways.
- Is a quirky way of looking after your plants and entertaining chat around the dinner table
- It’s saving you money because you are using standard household items
- It is recycling too which helps our Mother Earth
All these hints and tips are practical for your garden and plants.
Viagra
Believe it or not Viagra does have an active involvement with plants specifically if your blooms start to wilt. Picture this, a vase a wilting cut flowers drop in a standard Viagra tablet. Hey presto, it stiffens up your blooms a treat. Now it actually only needs 1 mg of an standard 50 mg tablet to do this but it does re-stiffen the blooms in a vase, believe it or not. Soluble aspirin acts in a similar way and also does the same job. If you’re got wilting blooms, a touch of Viagra or a tablet of Aspirin and it re-stiffens your blooms for another day or so.
Teabags
Teabags are great plant food; my favourite brew is PG tips! If you finish a cuppa tea and your tea pot has gone cold. You can use the tea from the pot to water into plants, it is a very good source of nitrogen, and it is also quite acidic. It is very good for those Azaleas on the windowsill.
Another option is to use teabags broken up in the bottom of hanging baskets, window boxes or containers. It is all a good source of food and of course it’s recycling too.
Teabags & Ralgex
Something different is the use of Ralgex and teabags. Perhaps you have difficulty with the neighbours’ cats coming into your garden to do its business and looking for a humane way of deterring them from coming in. Get hold of a teabag and a can of Ralgex/deepheat. It’s the spray you use when you have muscular problems usually around the back area that you spray on, you get that warm heat feeling but you get that smell that nobody wants to come within 100 yards of you. It works the same with plants.
Spray over the teabags and put them in the places where cats come into your garden. Maybe down by the shed, or a little spot at the end of the border or on the grass. The cats come, get a whiff of something that they don’t like, meow and off they go. It doesn’t harm the cats at all it just acts as a deterrent. Over time as the rain and the elements break it down, so you may need to redo it to keep that deterrent going. A week of treatment should help the situation.
Read some more of my light hearted tips.
Unusual Planting Techniques – Part 2 »
Unusual Planting Techniques – Part 3 »
Unusual Planting Techniques – Part 4 »
