28 essential home gardening tips, all practical, no waffle

Sometimes in home gardening, if you haven't mastered the tips and methods, you often end up exhausted without getting the results you want. So today, the Courtyard Show editors have put together 28 practical home gardening tips for you, covering a wide range, from carrying and seedling raising to fertilizing, and they should help courtyard fans. After reading, your skills at growing flowers and vegetables are sure to improve greatly. Without further waffle, here comes the practical stuff!

1. To transport soil, fertilizer or seeds, please don't carry them on your back; find a tablecloth or something similar and drag it, which saves effort and is highly efficient.

2. If you want to weed, first water the soil wet; that way it will be much easier and more thorough.

3. If you don't know how good the seed quality is, you can test it with a wet wipe.

4. Before sowing, soak the seeds for at least 24 hours; they will sprout much faster. Remember to use warm water!

5. The cardboard tube from a used toilet paper roll in the bathroom can be used as a container for raising seedlings.

6. A pomelo peel or lemon peel is also an ideal seedling-raising container.

7. Growing potatoes in vertical containers saves a lot of space.

8. When planting tomatoes, sprinkling a little baking soda will have a good effect, but don't use too much.

9. Coffee grounds will supplement your plants with many necessary nutrients and can also keep the soil balanced.

10. Don't waste eggshells; they can supplement calcium for your plants and also reduce pests.

11. Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) is also a fertilizer that many plants like very much, especially tomatoes.

12. Broken flower pot shards can be made into exquisite plant markers.

13. While walking, you can pick up some cute little stones along the way; making them into plant markers is very creative.

14. Put a baby's diaper in the flower pot; it can both retain moisture and increase air permeability. Plants are babies too.

15. Use wire to make an inexpensive hanging flower pot for succulents; isn't it beautiful?

16. Sewing pocket-style containers makes seedling raising and planting look very neat.

17. Using paper napkins can save time and effort for those of you too lazy to water.

18. Waste beverage bottles can automatically retain moisture for your flower pots; remember not to make the holes too big when punching them.

19. Prune basil branches and propagate them in water in a cup.

20. Don't waste the celery heart; plant it and wait for another harvest.

21. There is also the onion heart, which can also be planted; water propagation works very well too.

22. When taking succulent cuttings, don't cut them too short, otherwise the survival rate will be very low.

23. When designing and arranging your courtyard landscape, don't only work on the ground; using moss to doodle small animals on the wall is more creative.

24. Place a coffee grounds filter paper at the bottom of your flower pot to prevent soil and water loss.

25. Drop a small amount of alcohol into the vase for cut flowers to keep them fresh longer.

26. Alum can also make flowers last longer without wilting.

27. Weave a square trellis from bamboo to let your climbing plants stretch out freely.

28. If you have too many seeds, you can find a photo album to store them by category for easy searching.