Azaleas love left-over tea and tea leaves. So do houseplants such as philodendron and rubber plants.
Spread a thick layer of manure on the asparagus patch after the ground freezes in fall. It does double duty as winter protection and an early source of nutrients in spring.
A Long Island gardener smiles mischievously when you marvel at the size and beauty of his glorious roses. “Just don’t try to walk through that bed,” warns his son. “It squishes.” His secret? He visits fishing party boats as they return from salt water outings, and they gladly give him the entrails of fish caught and cleaned by paying customers. Area fish markets are equally obliging. He buries his scavenged treasure among the roses, and they thank him with giant blooms.
Fill a shaker with borax and sprinkle on soil next to beets (provides boron).
To provide magnesium for faster development of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, mix two tablespoons Epsom salts to one gallon of water. Apply one pint to each plant just as bloom begins.
Mix one-half cup Epsom, salts to one-half bushel wood ashes. Sprinkle around daffodils as they emerge from soil in spring. Adds potash, lime, magnesium.
Crushed egg shells mixed into soil around brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. ) provide extra calcium, which they need.
Sprinkle coffee grounds over carrot plantings to repel the root maggot or around evergreens as an eye-pleasing mulch.
Hold back on nitrogen-rich fertilizer late in the season. Overly rich growth makes plants more susceptible to frost.
Herbs like lime and gritty soil. If you live in an area where ground oyster shells are available, mix one handful into each planting hole for herbs.
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