Our Top 5 Favorite Gardening Tips

At my house, we drink a lot of coffee. For a long time, I would just pitch the used coffee grounds until I realized all the uses for used coffee grounds. It can be used as a free fertilizer, it can give your acid loving plants a little boost, and it’s great for compost. For more information on how to use used coffee grounds, please see: 4 Ways to Reuse Coffee Grounds to Improve Your Garden.

One of my personal frustrations with gardening is how dirty my fingernails can get. HGTV provides us with an amazing tip and fixes the dirty nail problem. Before you head out into the garden, take a bar of soap and draw it across your fingernails. This way, you seal in the undersides of your nails. When you finish in the garden, take a nail brush and remove the soap from your fingernails to reveal clean fingernails.

Spaghetti really was the classic food of my childhood. Every Monday night, my mom would present us with a delicious plate of spaghetti. What I’ve learned now, is that there are a crazy amount of nutrients that the water has in it that the spaghetti was boiled in. The next time you or your mom makes spaghetti, hang on to that water and sprinkle it on your plants.

When you water your lawn, do it with intention. Make sure to saturate your lawn. You know it’s saturated when the water is soggy under your feet. The best time to water you lawn at dawn just as the sun is rising.

We love aeration tubes because they are a great way to keep your trees, shrubs, and plants alive. These tubes are a direct-to-root watering system proving oxygen, water, and nutrients to the root zone.