Gardening tips for Buddys Friday

My Buddys Friday tips are being lifted straight out of this book, so thank you Pamela Donald for those and the 496 others which I have not listed below! The book itself I picked up this week in the charity shop for a mere £1.75 which going by the first 124 tips that I have read, I shall easily recoup by putting some of them into practice!

Number 1

Mend a garden hose with an off-cut of copper piping.

Cut out the damaged part, immerse the newly cut ends in hot water to stretch them and insert the piping to fil the gap. I can vouch for this working as we had to extend some piping and used a hose to do so, it was our neighbour who told us how to connect the copper pipe to the hose this way.

Number 2

Once your garden hose has too many holes in it to be repaired any more, add a few more holes and turn it into a sprinkler for the veggie patch.

Number 3

Banana skins baked in the oven and dug under the soil around rose beds add potassium rich goodness for vigourous growth.

Number 4

Save dried tea and coffee bags. Open them up and sprinkle them on the lawn or garden for an instant fertiliser.

Number 5

Water your hanging baskets by placing ice cubes on top of the soil. This stops them dripping everywhere!

Our roses have come up beautifully this year, not bad for a pair of 'sticks' which we picked up for a few pounds a couple of years ago! They smell lovely too when you are wrestling with they keys for the front door!

Off to the kitchen for a baking day today, take care all

Sarah x