Sow Your Seeds Neat And Quick
Let sowing seeds the hard way with adequate spacing, perfect depth, covering up, etc., be a thing of the past. Below are three amazing hacks to sow your seeds flawlessly without much effort –
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- Use a muffin tin to get evenly spaced and quick planting holes. Just push it onto the ground to make depressions of preferred depth, drop in your seeds, cover, and water.
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- Use toilet paper as an inexpensive alternative to seed tape. Take some toilet paper, roll it, mist it with water using a spray bottle, and place seeds in them at the perfect distance. Fold 1/3rd of the toilet paper and mist it again so that it sticks. Repeat with the other 1/3rd and mist again. Plant it up at the time or store it until a later date.
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- Press old wine cork onto each of your garden rake prongs, and then push it to dig holes of your preferred depth. Drop seeds, cover, water, and it’s done.
Use Plastic Forks To Protect Your Plants
If you are particularly worried about that stray cat, rabbit, or even just mice ruining your young addition to the garden, try out using plastic forks.
Stick some forks heads up in an area with young plants, and it will automatically deter them and most of the other small animals from entering that spot in your yard.
Strawbale For Fertilization
It is much harder to keep the garden soil in good health and ready for nourishing a new plant. And, while fertilizers are the eventual resort for most, straw bale also makes for a much better, cheap, and easy alternative for anyone willing to give something new a try.
Straw bales cost as little as $2, and as it decomposes, fill the soil up with all the necessary nutrients, not to mention how low-maintenance it is. Furthermore, the weed-proof and absorbent straw bales in the market require much less watering while successfully growing everything from tomatoes to strawberries.
Fun Outdoor Space DIY Ideas
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- Using glow in the dark paint and get yourself a couple of games like cornhole, hopscotch, ring toss, etc., painted right in your backyard for fun summer activities.
- Build a raised bed of stones to wash feet upon before entering the house.
- DIY bird nests as a fun summer activity and hang them on trees to add value and appeal.
- Get a giant concrete bowl and use it as a fire pit for a DIY backyard camping experience.
- Make your backyard look fantastic at night by adding light lamps and small LEDs. You could alternatively also use solar light for better results.
CONCLUSION
While the above are just a couple of backyard ideas and life hacks to try, know that there are limitless ways to add fun and efficiency to your personal green space. Give different things a try and see how you like them.
What’s more, you could also try giving these DIY hacks as tasks to the kids and make the summers all about activities and joy. Happy Scrolling!